"I lift my eyes a little and look into the sky" "All I do is mutter every time" "I turn my back on this perfect everyday life" "Where am I supposed to go" "With you who are giving me a look like that?" "Shadows on back streets" "Hands of a clock" "Repaint the time that has been stopped puzzle pieces that don't fit" "Until the abandoned two reunite" "Something that has been lost" "Recover the last piece" "Let's start walking" "where did you go?" "Sato!" "Kobayashi..." "Maybe you don't remember me." "I was on the class committee and stuff." "the Class Rep?" "but I have something to talk to you about." "Any chance we could meet up?" "Meet up?" "I live over here now." "Can't we meet?" "We'll arrange a time and place by what works for you." "Would now be all right?" "Sure." "I just didn't want to be in my apartment. so I wanted to go where there were no computers." "Any excuse would do." "Welcome." "huh?" "Sato?" "it is you!" "Huh?" "2006)}Bazaar:10 Cafe: 6 Haunted House: 3" "Class Rep?" "!" "so I enrolled in a college here too." "well..." "I guess it's a volunteer kind of thing." "huh?" "you're heading committees?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "That's a harsh way to say it." "Sato?" "and that condescending attitude. but after a while I realized that was only your reaction to me." "didn't you?" "not really." "the way you talked did sort of rub me the wrong way." "as Class Rep." "that." "That's the same thing you said before." "I did?" "During the culture festival our last year in high school." "you're lazing around again!" "The culture festival is tomorrow!" "Do you realize that?" "Take things more seriously." "Darn it... straining yourself like that?" "What?" "You take everything so seriously. isn't it all just about your own ego?" "Did I say something like that?" "you did. after I graduated from high school and experienced a bunch of things." "Sato?" "but they wouldn't give me a clear answer." "did you get held back from graduation?" "Or are you still looking for work?" "I'd be better off if it were either of those." "Huh?" "What are you doing?" "Sato went off somewhere." "There's no reason to be so worried." "He has nowhere to go anyway." "He'll come home when he gets hungry." "But..." "If his foot slips from the cliff..." "Huh?" "What the heck are you talking about?" "Nothing." "Sato?" "I'm a NEET." "huh?" "It's not known what causes hikikomori." "I can't laugh at that." "Huh?" "would you like to meet a mentor of mine?" "A mentor?" "All of them are wonderful people. so that I could have my own words and not be swayed by the words of strangers or other people!" "Oh... each individual person has amazing potential!" "I'm positive even your hikikomori condition will be cured." "Your very life will change!" "This is perfect!" "I was just going to go see that mentor now!" "Sato." "Now?" "right?" "Since you're hikikomori and all..." "What sort of person is this mentor we're going to meet?" "let's see." "I guess he's someone who made his dreams come true." "His dreams?" "His name is Sagawa." "He's a legend." "He acquired a "supercar" in less than a year!" "A "supercar"?" "!" "What the hell kind of work is he doing? but it's work that really contributes to society!" "do you play online games and such?" "Huh?" "Why would you ask something like that?" "right?" "As if I'd ever play an online game again." "People who are into that world of bullshit are the dregs of humanity." "is it?" "That's where you're wrong." "just going out to shop late at night took all my effort." "that means now your symptoms have gotten better?" "How did you do it?" "H..." "How?" "Who can say?" "A lot has happened recently and it's because of that." "Hmm..." "That's right." "It's not because of her or anything." "How could it be?" "huh?" "We're almost there." "but just where are we going?" "Let's go." "Huh?" "Mr. Sagawa's home is a thirty-minute walk from here." "Thirty minutes?" "!" "Walk?" "!" "I can't see anything but pampas grass." "right?" "I'm not lying to you." "isn't it?" "The supercar." "but..." "Some... something's not right." "let's not stand around;" "let's go inside." "3109)}Mouseroad Susukigahara Merchandise Explanatory Meeting 3068)}Sagawa" "Hello?" "It's Kobayashi." "M..." "Mouseroad"?" "The company that produces superior merchandise that celebrities worldwide swear by!" "We are honored members of Mouseroad." "Is this by any chance..." "Ms. Kobayashi." "We..." "We're all set up." "Is that this Sagawa guy?" "it's not." "That's Kurokawa." "He's a normal member like me." "Mr. Sagawa went out for the closing after he finished the merchandise explanations." "94)}A life of wonder... 197)}Mouseroad Japan" "Come in." "Yay!" "that's good." "doesn't it?" "Class Rep?" "That's right." "It is safety that Mouseroad suggests to others!" "Our job is to provide products that everyone from allergy sufferers to children and the elderly can use with confidence. compared to commercially available products." "This time I'm going to explain about this household detergent made from 100% natural materials!" "Here we have prepared another company's synthetic detergent." "Let's try putting these two into separate containers of water." "Mr. Kurokawa!" "isn't it?" "That's right." "The other company's detergent has extra additives in it which make it this murky." "That's right." "The other company's detergent has extra additives in it which make it this murky." "Wow..." "I'm sure the difference will be very clear!" "Oh!" "There's no sound whatsoever from the commercial detergent!" "so it makes no sound! it's all meaningless!" "it's very clear that Mouseroad's product is superior!" "Would you look at that?" "That's really something!" "What do you know?" "Amazing!" "Bravo!" "I never would've dreamed our class rep would end up doing something like this. come on out!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "Sagawa!" "everyone!" "don't you want to try driving a "supercar"?" "Ooh..." "I made my dreams a reality with Mouseroad." "It's possible for you too! I recommend that by all means you take in the lecture that's coming up." "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Even though I put my lots in so my chances were up to more than 50%..." "You weren't able to draw a bonus?" "but..." "Sato!" "You're not going to take in the lecture?" "right?" "yes... so they can't do it for free." "But it's not much. it's work that's meaningful to society!" "right?" "don't you?" "!" "you move up the ladder." "right?" "uh-huh!" "This is..." "Huh?" "This is... right?" "so I watch a lot of television." "I happen to know that this kind of thing often makes for trouble." "What's wrong with it?" "It's not like it's illegal." "Screw you!" "Sato!" "Treating me like a sucker!" "Damn..." "Damn!" "Damn!" "Everyone I run into is just messing with me!" "Sato!" "listen to me." "Go back there!" "I'm not a sucker like the bunch that were in there!" "You're wrong." "That's not how it is." "I'm not wrong! right?" "right?" "Am I wrong?" "!" "you're right!" "Sato." "and pots and kettles too!" "So what's wrong with that?" "! and they've gotten me to buy a mountain of these products!" "right?" "!" "Don't get me involved!" "but..." "But I..." "I don't want to be the one who gets tricked by other people anymore!" "What?" "!" "Class Rep... my father keeled over." "Huh?" "I was forced to earn all I needed for my school and living expenses." "I couldn't be choosy about the work I did." "Class Rep..." "It was dressing up in costumes to sell jewelry. and I climbed all the way up to number one." "But I didn't ever even get paid properly for my work." "the owner took the money and ran." "All I could do was just resign myself to accepting it." "when I got invited into Mouseroad." "I ended up burdened with even more debt." "What about you?" "at the very bottom of society?" "right?" "Garbage... you suck..." "A failure as a human..." "Hikikomori loser!" "Sato?" "Sato?" "Everyone is using you. because people always need someone they feel confident looking down upon!" "253)\cH56CAF1}JAPAN 253)\cH56CAF1}SOCIAL-WITHDRAWAL" "253)\cH56CAF1}ASSOCIATION" "{\3cH7053B7\shad0\an8\cHBAEFFB}CONS{\alphaHFF}PIRACY" "{\3cH7053B7\shad0\cHBAEFFB\an8}CONSPIRACY" "Conspiracy..." "Conspiracy... right?" "despise or be despised." "It's a zero-sum game!" "we should side with the exploiters!" "Look down on the people around you! so you should just trade them for money and start over!" "That's what Mouseroad is for!" "Let's rise to the top together with Mouseroad!" "Sato!" "My dreams?" "Yes!" "There are no dreams that can't come true!" "A success story is waiting for you!" "You have to use everything for that purpose!" "{\an8\cHF9F94A\alphaH25}Yume to inbou no Dreams and conspiracies... {\an8\cHF9F94A\alphaH25}Yume to inbou no Dreams and conspiracies..." "That's right..." "You have to use everything you can use." "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Mouseroad!" "Sato!" "huh?" "How about just going on home?" "Hey-hey-hey-hey!" "I am a super supplier..." "Sato?" "I am a super supplier..." "Sato?" "I am an amazing success story..." "I am an amazing success story..." "Huh?" "what are you doing?" "That's my line." "What were you doing until this time of night?" "what's that?" "so I stocked up." "Products?" "You stocked up?" "Where did you get that kind of money?" "An acquaintance introduced me to loans!" "Loans?" "!" "there's no need to worry." "I'll be able to pay it back immediately." "My success story has just begun!" "can I talk to you a minute?" "Huh?" "About what?" "That wouldn't be a typical bad "multilevel marketing" scheme?" "Don't be stupid!" "How would I get sucked into..." "Sucked into... 94)}Episode 17" "222)}Welcome to Happiness!" "I got sucked in!" "Even if this world were going to end tomorrow" "Since it's you" "Would you take the curt attitude of that's okay with me"?" "There's no need to strain yourself" "Just sometimes would be fine" "So lift up your face and look this way" "Look at me" "Though it's a tiny world" "For some reason it's too big for these two hands" "Though it's an endless world" "For some reason it's too small for these two hands" "I want to laugh with you" "In the irritating morning light" "The cause of that is also starved brain matter!" "you know." ""Welcome to No Future!" "80)}Next Episode 223)}Welcome to No Future!"