"Oh?" "You can make potato croquet cream at home?" "Yeah, mayonnaise too." "Watanuki-kun, you really are amazing." "Nah, it's nothing." "Well, shall I teach you next time?" "Is it okay?" "Of course." "Thank you." "Ah, I'm so happy I could die!" "Teach Doumeki-kun too, okay?" "I doubt Doumeki will want to, will he?" "Really?" "But the more the merrier." "That's true..." "Well, I'm heading this way." "All right, see you tomorrow." "Get home safely, Watanuki-kun!" "Yeah." "See you!" "Ow." "Thanks for waiting!" "The sake and snacks are ready!" "{Booze maybe :" "D?" "}" "Thank you." "I got some good flounder today!" "The fishmonger recommended it, saying that the life was still oozing out of it!" "Ow!" "Ah, sorry." "Are you okay?" "I am.{she stresses that in opposition to Watanuki.}" "How about you, Watanuki?" "Are you all right?" "Ah, yes." "I'll clean it up immediately." "Please wait." "What's wrong?" "Ah, it's just..." "All of a sudden my little finger..." "Your little finger?" "It started hurting, and then..." "Did you do anything with that little finger?" "No, not that I can think of." "Really?" "I made a pinky-promise with Himawari-chan..." "I see." "So, the finger you made a pinky-promise with Himawari-chan with started hurting, and that's why you dropped it, right?" "I wonder." "Has anything else like that happened?" "But that was..." "It's a coincidence" "What a great moon." "Doumeki!" "No..." "You're his grandfather, right?" "No." "Haruka-san." "For you to have come this late at night, do you have some business at our temple?" "Ah, I wouldn't call it business..." "Shizuka is asleep." "Should I wake him?" "Ah, no, it's fine." "It's nothing big." "If it was nothing big, you wouldn't have come here "this way."" "If it's something that's hard to talk with Shizuka about, then how about telling me?" "Tell you, Haruka-san?" "Himawari-chan is..." "I see." "That must have put you in quite some trouble many times." "So, the house with the corpse in it when you went to gather water, why did you go in there?" "The cloth that the container was wrapped in went flying..." "Why?" "It got blown by the wind." "Just because of that?" "All of a sudden, my little finger started hurting." "The finger you made a pinky-promise with Himawari-chan with, right?" "I don't think that Himawari-chan is exactly your lady luck." "Himawari-chan is kind and cute..." "But when you start thinking back on it, after you'd been with Himawari-chan, bad things happened." "Not so much bad things as coincidences..." "Coincidences?" "Yuuko-san says there's no such thing as coincidence in this world; there's only the inevitable." "What do you think?" "When I first heard that, I thought there was no way it could be true." "For everything that happens to be inevitable, and for everything to have meaning..." "And now?" "Now, just a little..." "I've begun to think that maybe that's right." "However..." "Everything that happens has a meaning." "However, those who can notice it are rare, and to find meaning in everything that happens every day..." "Just thinking about it is enough to give you a headache." "However, if you realize that there might be a meaning behind something, then there is value in that realization itself." "I think there is meaning in questioning why something happens." "What do you think?" "In the realization?" "You've noticed while being led along by the multitude of occurrence, and that's why you can't return to the time when you hadn't noticed." "The rest is up to you to decide." "Stay together with Shizuka." "With Doumeki?" "Yes, without fail tomorrow, all right?" "Another dream?" "Morning!" "Morning!" "Morning, Watanuki!" "Where's Yuuko-san?" "Is she still asleep?" "The mistress has a few errands to take care of, and she's in the storehouse." "She said that since you have school, you should leave before her." "I see..." "Well then, breakfast..." "She said, "Make it!"" "Geez, I got it." "I'll make it." "Mokona's portion too!" "Don't forget the sake too!" "First thing in the morning?" "I wanted to talk to Yuuko-san about the dream I had last night." "Geez, because she told me to make breakfast, I did, but..." "For her to have not been there to sit down and eat!" "Yuuko-san is always so selfish!" "Kohane-chan, long time no see!" "What are you doing this early in the morning?" "I was waiting." "For me?" "Yeah, because I wanted to say thanks." "For what?" "For playing together with me the other day." "I had fun too!" "We should play together again!" "Oh, that's right, I made some choux cream today." "Won't you have some with me?" "I have to go back soon." "I see." "Well then, take this." "Is it okay?" "Of course!" "Thank you!" "Should I walk you back?" "It's fine." "All right, see you later." "Hm?" "Um..." "That little finger..." "Who did you make a pinky-promise with?" "Grandfather appeared in your dream again?" "You really are the spitting image of Haruka-san." "You're so similar that it always weirds me out because it seems like you're smoking." "It's true;" "I've heard that when he was younger, Grandfather looked just like me." "I said before!" "It's the other way around!" "You're the one who looks like him!" "Your grandfather passed away, right?" "When I was in the fifth year of primary school." "Then why is he appearing so young?" "Wait, more importantly, why is he appearing in my dreams?" "There might be some reason." "Grandfather didn't just perform exorcisms and make charms and wards, but it seems he had prophetic dreams too." "He really was a mysterious person, wasn't he?" "Haruka-san." "Speaking of which, he told me to stay with you today." "In last night's dream?" "Yeah." "Well, I don't want to anyway." "If it was Himawari-chan, then it would be a whole different story." "Oh yeah, the choux cream." "I met Kohane-chan on the way here and gave it to her." "So there's no dessert today." "No matter what face you pull, what isn't here isn't here!" "You glutton of a dictator!" "Wait until after I finish my club activities today." "Huh, why?" "I'm asking you why!" "Wait, no way..." "Because you can't get your choux cream today, you don't want me to make you something at your place, do you?" "!" "Hey!" "Geez, what a huge ego!" "If he's Doumeki-sama, then I'm Watanuki-sama-sama!" "Morning, Watanuki-kun!" "Himawari-chan." "That little finger..." "Who did you make a pinky-promise with?" "What's wrong?" "Are you feeling unwell?" "You look a little pale." "Ah, it's nothing..." "Sorry for worrying you." "Really?" "You're not pushing yourself, are you?" "Nah, I'm fine." "Come on, let's head to the classroom." "Ah, that's right." "I saw Kohane-chan this morning." "Ah, the spiritual seer?" "That's right, and then Doumeki-kun stared at me coldly because I gave Kohane-chan the choux cream." "Watanuki-kun!" "{dun dun dun!" "}" "It hurts!" "My whole body hurts!" "It won't move." "It hurts!" "It hurts!" "I can't move!" "Mom, Dad, where are you?" "It hurts!" "I'm scared!" "Dad!" "Mom!" "Mom..." "Dad..." "Dad..." "Mom..." "Wait!" "Dad, Mom!" "Don't go!" "I'm coming with you!" "I made it." "It was a good thing that I appeared to you as the same age as Shizuka is now." "That child cannot cross into dreams, however..." "If I hadn't looked like this, then I probably wouldn't have been able to stop you." "Now, they're calling you." "You have to go back." "I..." "You fell." "You fell from the second floor of the school, along with the window pane." "Doumeki-kun, who was right there at the scene, tried to call an ambulance immediately, but I asked him to bring you to the store using a messenger of mine." "There wasn't a moment to spare." "Really, if it had been any longer, it would have been too late." "However, there was someone who stopped you, right?" "All the way in a dream at the gates of the underworld." "And then," "Yuuko-san, you..." "Yes." "This is going to be expensive, isn't it?" "The compensation..." "I have already received it." "From the two of them." "Himawari-chan, why are you inside the shop?" "Because it was necessary for her to be." "I'm sorry," "I must have surprised you." "But it ended fine." "This time, maybe." "What's wrong, Watanuki-kun?" "No, nothing." "You can't return back to the time when you didn't notice." "I'm sorry." "It might anger you if I ask you this, but..." "There's something I've been thinking about." "It's not something that has to be said, but..." "If I keep it hidden, then it would feel like I was lying to you, Himawari-chan." "What is it?" "After being with you, Himawari-chan..." "It's just sometimes, but..." "Have bad things happened?" "Today, when I tapped you on the shoulder, the window pane your shoulder was leaning on slipped from the window frame, and then you fell." "Does that have anything to do with you, Himawari-chan?" "You finally realized?" "I was wondering when you'd say it, but it took you quite a long time, didn't it?" "Well then, take care." "Thank you for everything up until now." "I really am glad that I met you, Himawari-chan." "Both Doumeki-kun and Himawari-chan became customers of mine in order to have their wishes granted." "The ones who paid for the price of my wounds are..." "Next time, on holic Kei:" "Reality."