"And that was the dream I had yesterday." "What a cute dream!" "Is that cute?" "Yes!" "Incredibly cute!" "Himawari-chan really is just the best!" "And that smile is just divine!" "And since there was an eggplant, it must be lucky!" "Ah, the old saying about one, Fuji, two, hawks, and three, eggplants?" "But isn't that only in regard to the first dream of the year?" "Is that so?" "Even so, I can understand about Fuji and the hawk because they're kind of celebratory, but..." "I wonder why an eggplant?" "I wonder." "Himawari-chan, what kind of dream did you have yesterday?" "It was a kind of scary dream." "In what way?" "It was similar to yours up until the middle, Watanuki-kun." "While walking through a pitch-black place, I could hear the sounds of footsteps, and when I sped up, the footsteps sped up too." "When I tried my hardest to shake them off, it was impossible." "Little by little, they got closer, and when I noticed them, there was a presence right behind me, then when I thought I was about to be caught I looked back, and..." "Oh, I have to head to the committee meeting!" "Sorry, right when we were in the middle of a story." "No, it's fine." "Oh!" "These." "I baked them yesterday." "They're Madeleines." "Ah, thank you!" "I'm so sorry for always being on the receiving end." "I'm the one who's just always making them on his own, anyway!" "Call this a thank you for letting me hear you speak about your dream." "Well then, I'll be off!" "Ah!" "Okay." "Have fun!" "{Itterashai...}" "Oh!" "Is it okay if I give Doumeki" "You don't have to!" "It's based on the fact that in olden times, it was hard to get good eggplants at the beginning of the harvest." "I see" "Wait!" "Why do I have to help you?" "You were the one who decided you'd help me instead of Kunogi." "That's because Himawari-chan said..." "Today I have to stay behind and make the committee printouts, but a relative is coming, so I should help out around the house too." "And since she was troubled," "I said "I'll do it!"" "Isn't that how you'd normally answer as a decent human being?" "But I had no idea it would be with you!" "If you play around, we won't be able to go home as quickly." "I'm not playing!" "I'm objecting!" "Wholeheartedly!" "Hey!" "Fold them more neatly, you klutz." "Stop being noisy." "But if I hadn't switched with her, that would have meant that Himawari-chan would have been alone with Doumeki." "Which means that I actually made a good decision!" "That's right, if during this sticky clichéd situation of an after-school committee something were to happen..." "No, there's no way that anything would happen between Himawari-chan and that guy!" "There isn't, but..." "Wait, that isn't... one of the ones I made?" "Can't you even identify something you made?" "There are times such that even when they know better, people cannot accept things!" "Why are you eating it?" "Kunogi gave them to me." "Even though I told her she didn't have to share them!" "Himawari-chan!" "That reminds me, my grandfather and a horse appeared in the dream I had yesterday." "I'm not listening!" "God, that asshole Doumeki." "He even went so far as to make me pour him some coffee!" "Someone... is following me." "Crap, it's a big one." "I haven't met a really dangerous one recently, so I let my guard down." "Crap!" "Crap!" "If it catches me," "I'll be eaten!" "Dou... me... ki?" "Dou... me... ki?" "Dou... me... ki?" "If someone rolls around on the ground in the middle of the road, they're going to get sat on." "Aren't you the one who is sitting on me, Yuuko-san?" "Huh, wasn't there a spirit and Doumeki on a horse?" "That was a dream." "You mean the thing that looked like it was going to eat me and Doumeki were both part of a dream?" "Then why am I lying on the ground here?" "No." "It's a fufilling dream." "A fulfilling dream is one that becomes real, right?" "That's right." "To be precise, a dream the same as the reality that follows it." "But I didn't have a dream about being chased by a spirit like that." "What about those other than yourself?" "Wasn't there anyone else who had dreams like that?" "Himawari-chan said something about having a dream where she was chased by something." "But that was Himawari-chan's dream, not mine." "Himawari-chan's dream became a fulfilling dream." "Why?" "Because you bought that dream from her, Watanuki." "I never gave Himawari-chan any money." "What about things other than money?" "Call this a thank you for letting me hear you talk about your dream." "Ah, those Madeleines." "That's right." "Watanuki, you bought a dream." "You heard the contents of the dream and paid the price for them, making it your own." "So, that dream became real." "So that dream where the spirit came chasing after me was Himawari-chan's, and the white horse and Doumeki was..." "Doumeki-kun's dream, right?" "In my dream last night, my grandfather and a horse appeared. {flaw!" "He had the madeleines before he told Watanuki about his dream." "Prepaid dream?" "}" "That was Doumeki's grandfather?" "It was a good thing you gave Madeleines to Doumeki too, wasn't it?" "It's not like I did it!" "Valuable dreams are normally the staple of dream buying, but it's rare for someone to buy a nightmare." "It's because I didn't know!" "If I did, then I wouldn't have bought a dream with something like that in it!" "That's true." "Oh yeah, that arrow, you've got to sell it. {Got to have it bought}" "Sell it to whom?" "The Dream Buyer." "Well then, I wonder where he is right now." "Let's have this arrow search for him." "That way, huh." "You can't go that way." "But the arrow is pointing this way." "Yes, that's why." "Over here." "Why through such a narrow place?" "Isn't this way much wider?" "We have to go through here." "Just now, I felt something weird." "This is another world, one different from our own." "That's why, look." "He's here." "What the heck is that?" "It's the Dream Buyer." "His business is buying dreams, raising them, and reselling them." "He buys dreams?" "Well, if it isn't Yuuko-han!" "It's been quite a while!" "An Osaka dialect?" "How's business been?" "I'd like to say it's been going steadily, but..." "But these days, there are very few people who have dreams of value." "So, I have no idea how it'll go!" "Mister, that... that... that... that... that... that..." "Mister, that... that... that... that... that... that..." "Mister, that... that... that... that... that... that..." "Mister, that... that... that... that... that... that..." "Mister, that... that... that... that... that... that..." "Mister, that... that... that... that... that... that..." "Here." "What a cute girl." "Wait, not that!" "That arrow!" "Is that your dream?" "Not exactly." "Please sell it to me." "Please sell me that piece of a dream." "That's the kind of valuable dream that's so rare lately." "Ah, I guess you can't sell it that easily." "Ah~Aumm." "Can't be helped!" "{what...}" "These are my super-specially-reserved valuable dreams, and two of them!" "Ah, but..." "Is this still not enough?" "Then three!" "Like I'm trying to say..." "A dream buyer of your caliber should be able to recognize the worth of this dream arrow." "If you let it go here, you might not get another chance to buy it!" "You corrupted merchant..." "Let's see..." "That one, and that one, and..." "That one." "Five all together!" "Those are the super special dreams I raised so carefully!" "That is exactly why they are a suitable price for this arrow." "Um..." "Take them, you robber!" "I just can't compare to you, Yuuko-han." "It was a good bargain, wasn't it?" "It definitely was, that's Yuuko-han for you." "You're truly a connoisseur. {definitely have the eye for these things.}" "It really is a great dream." "I can't help but look forward to raising it." "Since you are the one who is going to raise it," "I'm sure it will become an extremely valuable dream able to dispatch any nightmare or evil omen." "Even if you compliment me, you won't get anything more out of me." "Oh dear, what a shame." "I was able to come by this wonderful a dream too, so today was a great day!" "I'll close up shop and go celebrate at Kitsune Oden Noodle Shop." "What about you two?" "That's an incredibly gracious invitation, but it's almost time for the path between the different worlds to close." "Oh, if you don't hurry, you won't be able to get back." "Is the Kitsune Oden Noodle Shop the one that the father and son run?" "Ah, do you know it then, mister?" "I've eaten there before, and also there was the incident with the demon parade." "Ah, please give this to the son from that Oden shop." "Tell him it's thanks for saving me during the demon parade." "A person thanking a fox?" "Is it bad for me to do that?" "So the owner of a rare, valuable dream is also the owner of a rare heart." "It is now in my care." "I'll make sure that the Oden Shop's boy gets it, so please rest assured." "Ah, yes." "Well then, farewell." "Did I do something weird?" "You were praised." "What for?" "Well then, shall we go back to our world?" "Again through that space between the pole and fence?" "Nope, this time it's here." "That's impossible!" "For crying out loud, what a terrible experience." "Not even a cat could get through that." "Yuuko-san went off with two balloons herself, too." "Man, I'm tired." "Yuuko-san told me to make breakfast as well." "I'll just sleep now." "Doumeki..." "You're not him." "By any chance, are you Doumeki's grandfather?" "Is Shizuka hard to deal with?" "Shizuka?" "Oh, Doumeki's first name." "Well, I don't know if you could call him "hard to deal with," or if it's that I just don't understand him..." "He always has a terrible attitude, and even so, he always gets himself involved halfway through." "This eye, too..." "That is something Shizuka chose." "Even so..." "For someone to put himself in an unrecoverable situation for my sake..." "I don't like it." "Shizuka is tough." "After all, when he was young..." "That just now was..." "A dream." "But... why did I have a dream of Doumeki's grandfather?" "Ah, I remember him from when he saved me from the spirit this evening, and..." "That's not it." "You saw the dream that was inside this balloon." "What?" "The valuable dream inside this popped balloon was probably something Doumeki's grandfather sold to that Dream Buyer a long time ago." "For something that coincidental..." "In this world, there is no such things as coincidence." "All there is... is the Inevitable." "Then, the dream I saw just a moment ago..." "So, what kind of dream was it?" "He showed me a picture." "He said that Doumeki was quite tough, and he showed me a picture of a young girl wearing a kimono." "That was..." "That was probably Doumeki when he was young." "I knew it!" "That picture!" "Where is that picture?" "It's probably not here." "Did you take the picture in the dream?" "No, before that I woke up." "Then it's impossible." "Damn it all!" "But still, I now know Doumeki's embarrasing past." "He dressed up as a girl when he was young!" "I went to get some eggplants like Yuuko told me to!" "Welcome back, Mokona!" "Hey!" "It took me a little longer than expected, but let's have an eggplant banquet!" "That sounds great." "Eggplant Tempura{Age-nasu}, Eggplant Skewers{Nasu Dengaku} and Stewed Eggplant{Nasu no Nibitashi}!" "{English or Japanese?" "}" "Sake and more sake!" "Bring the sake!" "This will be a big job!" "Lots of banqueting!" "So my dream was about this..." "Sake!" "Lots of drinking!" "Eggplant!" "People who can really feel and see them must have it tough, huh?" "What do you like about Himawari-chan?" "It might be that when your emotions are strongly swayed, I'm able to see them too." "Your fate has now been linked to her." "What happens from now on is up to you." "I was told that it's not like I don't understand anything." "Next time on holic Kei:" "Kohane."