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No.6, Ep. 3- Life and Death · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle, probably, and I'm back. I
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Speaker 1: know it doesn't seem like it's been a long time
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Speaker 1: to you, but for me, between recording episodes two and
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Speaker 1: three was a really long time. How long? I actually
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Speaker 1: don't know because I wasn't paying attention. I just know
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Speaker 1: it was a long time. I just haven't had like
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Speaker 1: a ton of time to just sit down and actually
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Speaker 1: record this episode. So it's a little weird because I
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Speaker 1: started writing the notes for episode four already before recording this,
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Speaker 1: and I don't like doing that because I get kind
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Speaker 1: of confused, but whatever. It's going to be fine. Everything's
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Speaker 1: fine or something. I don't know. So yeah, again, I'm
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Speaker 1: still a little bit in the past for you. You know,
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Speaker 1: everything's already like moving into October, and we're already partially
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Speaker 1: almost halfway all the way sometime through October, and I'm
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Speaker 1: here sitting at the end of September just going like,
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Speaker 1: must be nice. I don't know why it would be nice,
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Speaker 1: but I hope it's nice. I hope October is going super,
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Speaker 1: super good. But it means I don't have a lot
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Speaker 1: to tell you because it's happened so long ago. So
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Speaker 1: for a second there, I had this whole big section
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Speaker 1: in here that I just cut out because I got really, really,
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Speaker 1: really embarrassed about it. So I'm just going to say
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Speaker 1: it again, apparently, but with less content. Basically, I accidentally
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Speaker 1: ended up reading or I'm in the middle of reading
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Speaker 1: this really intense Banana Fish fanfic on, you know, Archive
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Speaker 1: of Our Own, AO3 or whatever people call it. And
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Speaker 1: it's like destroying my life. And I just needed to
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Speaker 1: tell somebody that. It's not like I'm not telling people,
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Speaker 1: but I have to be really careful what I say
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Speaker 1: because it's just horrible, like totally horrible and takes place
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Speaker 1: in the past and shit's real bad. And yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: like it's keeping me up at night and making me
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Speaker 1: like rock and stare off into space and stuff. So
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to tell you for some reason, but
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Speaker 1: I'm not even going to tell you what it's called
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Speaker 1: because I feel so embarrassed about all of this. But
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Speaker 1: if you want to read a really, really fucked up
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Speaker 1: Banana Fish fanfic, fucking email me and we'll talk about it. Otherwise, yeah,
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Speaker 1: no more talking about that. Let's talk about number six,
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Speaker 1: episode three, because that's what we want to discuss because
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Speaker 1: that's why we're here probably. So episode three is called
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Speaker 1: Life and Death. which sounds like it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a really dire, important episode. I feel like they might
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Speaker 1: be overselling it a little bit, but let's see. If
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Speaker 1: you remember from last episode, at the very end, Shion
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Speaker 1: and Nezumi had emerged from the sewers, which looked way
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Speaker 1: too clean. And Shion had caught a glimpse of the
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Speaker 1: skyline with the slums and then industrial shit behind it
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Speaker 1: and then the giant wall. And Nezumi said something like,
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Speaker 1: what did he say? Welcome to reality. And that was it.
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Speaker 1: So we start, actually, we start almost exactly there. So
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Speaker 1: good job. I like when we can just pick up
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Speaker 1: on things. So the episode starts with us fading into
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Speaker 1: like a wasteland with like rubble. And I don't know,
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Speaker 1: there's like structures. And I can't really tell what they are.
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Speaker 1: I think maybe they're like chimneys kind of like sticking
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Speaker 1: up out of the rubble, which would make sense because
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Speaker 1: that happens sometimes. And you know why it happens? because
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Speaker 1: so like you have a house with a chimney, obviously,
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Speaker 1: if you don't have a house with a chimney, this
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Speaker 1: doesn't work. But if you have especially an older house
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Speaker 1: with a chimney, the chimney is not connected to the
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Speaker 1: house's foundation. Chimneys typically have their own foundations. So if
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Speaker 1: a house falls down, that doesn't necessarily mean that the
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Speaker 1: chimney will fall down. And if the chimney starts to
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Speaker 1: look like it's going to fall down, The house will
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Speaker 1: not save it. That's not how you fix a chimney.
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Speaker 1: You don't just tie it to the house. You have
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Speaker 1: to fix the footing. Please. You have no idea how
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Speaker 1: many chimneys I've seen that I'm scared of that they're
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Speaker 1: going to fall down on the house or on like
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Speaker 1: the sidewalk or something. So, you know, if you have
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Speaker 1: a chimney in a place where you live, please take
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Speaker 1: a second. And I'll actually stop here for a second.
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Speaker 1: Go outside. Look at the chimney. Really good. And I
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Speaker 1: want to know. Does it look straight to you? Does
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Speaker 1: it look okay? Is it leaning slightly? If it's leaning,
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Speaker 1: oh my God, you need to call someone right now.
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Speaker 1: If it's not, high five. Yeah, so I'll wait. Are
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Speaker 1: you done? Okay, cool. So how was it? You can
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Speaker 1: actually write to me if you want and tell me
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Speaker 1: about your chimney. I am so odd. but I would
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Speaker 1: love to know about your chimney. You could send me
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Speaker 1: pictures of your chimney and I could tell you what's
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Speaker 1: wrong with it. That would be so much fun. I
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Speaker 1: don't know why that would be fun, but oh my God,
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Speaker 1: let's get back on track. So chimneys are sticking up
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Speaker 1: out of the ground and it's night now. I believe
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Speaker 1: the sun was going down in the last episode. So
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Speaker 1: that makes sense. We get a shot of stairs leading
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Speaker 1: down to what I guess is probably a basement, like
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Speaker 1: under a destroyed house. At the bottom of the stairs,
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Speaker 1: there's an arched entryway and it takes them into a
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Speaker 1: long brick hallway with lots of doors like on either side.
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Speaker 1: And it's very dimly lit. This is interesting because this
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Speaker 1: is not what it looks like in the manga or
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Speaker 1: in the light novel. Nezumi does not just have a
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Speaker 1: regular door as far as I'm aware. Or at least
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Speaker 1: his door is behind something. It's like a there's like
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Speaker 1: a secret passage, which is pretty cool. But there's not
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Speaker 1: one here for some reason. Anyway, we go from that
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Speaker 1: hallway to just Shion looking at bookshelves. He gasps. I
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Speaker 1: guess they're in a room now. And he's like, are
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Speaker 1: these all filled with books? He looks around at the many,
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Speaker 1: many bookshelves like they're, you know, pretty much against every
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Speaker 1: wall and probably like standing in between walls and shit.
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Speaker 1: And he hears a squeak and turns. He sees a
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Speaker 1: white mouse sitting on a red book, like near an,
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Speaker 1: like a lantern, maybe like an oil type lantern that's
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Speaker 1: on a table. The mouse squeaks again and it hops
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Speaker 1: off the book and we see that the book is Macbeth.
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Speaker 1: So I'll just stop there and say, huh, if Macbeth exists,
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Speaker 1: it means that this is set in our world. So
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Speaker 1: I assume this is just very, very far in the future. Okay,
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Speaker 1: now we know. Shion walks over to the table and
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Speaker 1: picks up the book and we get a better shot
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Speaker 1: of the room it's lit by two lanterns and aside
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Speaker 1: from just like shelves and shelves of books there is
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Speaker 1: a kind of like a couch a table in front
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Speaker 1: of it an upright piano like some boxes just kind
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Speaker 1: of in a stack on the floor and we see
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Speaker 1: that one of them's filled with like what looked like
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Speaker 1: scrolls the walls are concrete and there are like papers
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Speaker 1: taped to them like We can't see what they say
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Speaker 1: or anything, but they obviously say something. Shion opens Macbeth
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Speaker 1: and he like flips to the middle of it, which
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Speaker 1: is not how you read a book. Just kind of
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Speaker 1: looks at it. The mouse climbs onto Shion's shoulder and
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Speaker 1: it squeaks again because it's trying to talk to him.
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Speaker 1: And Shion like looks at it and smiles and is like,
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Speaker 1: do you want me to read to you? I don't
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Speaker 1: know if the mouse understands. But if it does, I
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Speaker 1: would hope you would teach it to read too. The
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Speaker 1: mouse squeaks like maybe yes. And Shion begins, here's the
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Speaker 1: smell of the blood still. We see books on the shelves,
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Speaker 1: the camera is panning across them, and we get some titles, Othello,
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Speaker 1: The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Divine Comedy.
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Speaker 1: So again, this is probably the future, I guess, because
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Speaker 1: this is definitely our timeline. We cut to the piano
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Speaker 1: again for a second, and Shion continues, all the perfumes
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Speaker 1: in Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh,
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Speaker 1: what a sigh is there. We cut back to the
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Speaker 1: papers on the wall and we see that there's sheet music. Yay!
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Speaker 1: Shion continues. The heart is surely charged. Nezumi is now
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Speaker 1: standing in the doorway with a towel over his head
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Speaker 1: and not wearing a shirt. And he says, an almost
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Speaker 1: charmingly monotonous way of reading you have. Shion looks over.
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Speaker 1: Nezumi continues. You're going to make Macbeth cry. Shion looks
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Speaker 1: at the mouse and like taps it on the nose
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Speaker 1: and says, is your name Macbeth? Aw, come on, you
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Speaker 1: saw the title of the book? Nezumi walks past him
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Speaker 1: and he's like, it's the title of that book. Do
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Speaker 1: you not know Shakespeare either? Shion frowns, a little embarrassed.
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Speaker 1: He probably should be. And Nezumi sits down on the bed,
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Speaker 1: drying his hair with the towel. Shion says, I was
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Speaker 1: never encouraged to pursue artistic influence. Nezumi's like, yeah, okay.
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Speaker 1: Shion bends forward to set the book down and then
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Speaker 1: stops abruptly. And we flash to a really bright image
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Speaker 1: of him, like super young, sitting in his mom's lap
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Speaker 1: on a bench, holding a book. It's a big sakura
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Speaker 1: tree in the background. And we hear him say, but
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid, mom used to read to me.
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Speaker 1: We cut to a page of the book that they're
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Speaker 1: reading and it has like a picture in it. And
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Speaker 1: I won't tell you what the picture is because he's
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Speaker 1: going to explain it. Shion continues. Yeah, there was a
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Speaker 1: statue of a prince erected in a city and a
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Speaker 1: swallow was nearby. The book closes. We see the cover
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Speaker 1: is The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde.
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Speaker 1: Nezumi says, The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. He likes reading, huh?
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Speaker 1: He stands and extends his left arm upwards. and puts
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Speaker 1: his right hand to his chest, and very dramatically says,
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Speaker 1: to those in despair, I give my ruby. He puts
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Speaker 1: his hands over his face. My sapphire! He hugs himself.
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Speaker 1: My gold leaf! Sheehan stares at him like what the
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Speaker 1: fuck is happening and he makes some like little noises
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Speaker 1: and nezumi now straightens up and laughs we're seeing him
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Speaker 1: from behind and we can see because he's not wearing
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Speaker 1: a shirt the scars on his back which are pretty
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Speaker 1: big he starts to put his hair up he continues
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Speaker 1: It's a story about the hypocrisy and self-satisfaction of humans
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Speaker 1: that know not of true sorrow. He smirks. It's perfectly
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Speaker 1: suited for you. Jerk. Then we go to the opening theme. Yay.
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Speaker 1: But that was a really shitty thing to say. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'll talk about it later, I think. Back from the opening,
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Speaker 1: we see a room that seems like it's probably a bathroom?
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Speaker 1: It has a tiled floor, but there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of missing tiles. The walls are concrete because it's a basement,
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Speaker 1: but they have like a brick backsplash, you know, coming
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Speaker 1: up halfway. It has like two huge tubs in it.
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Speaker 1: They're kind of like those built-in tubs, you know, like
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Speaker 1: they're part of the floor. I guess they're made out
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Speaker 1: of the same tile. You know what I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: or something? And they are both huge. And one of
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Speaker 1: them has water in it because it's a tub. And
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Speaker 1: the other one just has like rubble and stuff. Like
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Off to the side, there's a wood
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Speaker 1: stove water heater that seems to be supplying the tub
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Speaker 1: directly with hot water, which is pretty cool, actually. Shion
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Speaker 1: pops out of the water in the tub that has
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Speaker 1: water in it and sighs. His eyes are closed. We
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Speaker 1: flash to some shots of the desolation outside and then
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Speaker 1: back to him and then to a black spot on
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Speaker 1: his neck. Um, fuck. We hear Nezumi say, you want
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Speaker 1: to contact your mom? Shion is standing in the room.
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Speaker 1: Nezumi is lying on the bed with a book. I
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Speaker 1: cannot read what the title says. Shion's like, she's probably worried.
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Speaker 1: Nezumi looks back at the book and is like, you're
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Speaker 1: going to be crushed. Shion says, huh? Nezumi is still
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Speaker 1: looking at the book, by the way, not paying much
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Speaker 1: attention to Shion and says, memories, attachments, regret. He flips
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Speaker 1: the pages. If you're carrying such worthless things around, they'll
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Speaker 1: crush you eventually. Your mom's no different. toss her aside. Dude,
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Speaker 1: that's just not accurate. Whatever. Shion's like, why would you?
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Speaker 1: Nezumi cuts him off. Because it's dangerous. We cut to
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Speaker 1: a flashback of when, you know, Shion had thrown his
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Speaker 1: wrist cuff off and it's like sailing through the air
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Speaker 1: in slow motion. Nezumi continues, you threw away your number
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Speaker 1: six ID because it was dangerous. We cut to Shion looking,
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Speaker 1: you know, justifiably a little upset and then We see
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Speaker 1: the book that Nezumi's reading in the foreground, and I
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Speaker 1: can see that the title is All's Well That Ends Well,
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Speaker 1: so I guess it's a Shakespeare play. Nezumi continues, the
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Speaker 1: feelings you hold for someone are the same. They imprison you,
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Speaker 1: bind you, trip you up. Shion looks down. That's why
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Speaker 1: you say to toss them aside? Nezumi's like, exactly. Shion
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Speaker 1: looks back up at him, frustrated, and he says, then
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Speaker 1: what about you? Exactly! Um, he sounds like he's kind
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Speaker 1: of a hypocrite, right? Nezumi's like, me? Shion says. You
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Speaker 1: risked danger in order to save me, right? What you're
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Speaker 1: saying and what you do are different. Yeah. Nezumi shuts
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Speaker 1: the book abruptly and Shion steps back. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: he's got an anger issue. Nezumi's like, you really have
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Speaker 1: a terrible personality. We're focused on Shion's profile right now,
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Speaker 1: so we can't see Nezumi. But we do hear rustling.
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Speaker 1: Shion looks up, like maybe Nezumi's standing now. and Nezumi
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Speaker 1: grabs him by the collar and pulls him up. You
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Speaker 1: saved my life, so I return the favor. That's all
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Speaker 1: it was. Shion looks kind of frustrated or hurt, and
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Speaker 1: then suddenly his eyes widen and he gasps. Oh, it's true.
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Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, huh? Shion says. You really did get taller
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Speaker 1: than me. Nezumi releases Shion. Jeez. He walks back towards
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Speaker 1: the bed. Do something about that airhead of yours. Shion
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Speaker 1: looks confused. This is a whole weird situation. So I
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Speaker 1: understand Nezumi's, yeah, yeah. Trying to kind of intimidate someone
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Speaker 1: and they're just like, oh, you really are taller than me.
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Speaker 1: I don't have anything going on in my brain. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: A black mouse like comes and sits on Shion's shoulder
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Speaker 1: and squeaks at him. And Shion looks at it and
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Speaker 1: smiles and says, did you tell Nezumi I was in danger?
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Speaker 1: He pets its head. Thank you. The mouse squeaks. Nezumi,
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Speaker 1: who's sitting on the bed again, lifts up a different
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Speaker 1: black mouse and says, that's what this guy's for. He's
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Speaker 1: got a number of internal sensors. It's like a little
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Speaker 1: robot mouse. Remember I said that there was a mouse
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Speaker 1: that had like red eyes, but it didn't look right? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's this mouse. Little red eyes and not real, but
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Speaker 1: basically looks real. Nezumi continues, he can even walk around
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Speaker 1: the city to a certain extent. Shion bends down to
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Speaker 1: look and says, he's a robot? Wow, he seems so alive.
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Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, He was only keeping an eye on you
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Speaker 1: on the side. Yeah, I think that was his main job,
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Speaker 1: but whatever. I've been using this little guy this whole
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Speaker 1: time to search for number six's Achilles tendon. Shion looks up.
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Speaker 1: Achilles tendon? He gasps and stands. Nezumi, you've been watching
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Speaker 1: number six this whole time. Have you noticed anything strange?
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Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, strange? Shion says, for instance, something to do
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Speaker 1: with a wasp or something like that? Nezumi's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: that's more your field of study. He puts the mouse
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Speaker 1: down and is about to lie down, I think, but
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Speaker 1: then he turns back. Hey, Shion, what's wrong? Shion's like, what?
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Speaker 1: Nezumi says, your hands. Shion lifts his hands and his
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Speaker 1: palms have black spots all over them. He begins to shake.
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Speaker 1: What the fuck is this? He gasps, reaches for his
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Speaker 1: neck and gasps again. I assume he can feel that
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Speaker 1: spot on his neck now. He lowers his hands, eyes wide, sweating,
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Speaker 1: and he closes his eyes. And then he just starts
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Speaker 1: like screaming, like full on screaming with his hand on
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Speaker 1: his neck. He backs up into a bookshelf, the books fall,
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Speaker 1: and he collapses onto the floor. Nezumi's like, Shion! He
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Speaker 1: bends over and puts his hand on Shion's thigh. Hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? Shion! Shion is on his side now
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Speaker 1: on the ground, shaking his Hands on his neck still.
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Speaker 1: He says, my neck. Nezumi's like, your neck? He looks
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Speaker 1: at it, you know, sees the black spot thing and gasps. That's,
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Speaker 1: Shion says, right there. Cut it out, please. Nezumi's like,
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Speaker 1: I don't have any anesthetic. Shion says, I don't need it. Hurry.
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Speaker 1: We cut to the ground as the box hits the
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Speaker 1: floor and the black mouse is running in circles near
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Speaker 1: Nezumi's feet, which we can see. And another box falls
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Speaker 1: on the ground and we hear Nezumi say, There it is.
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Speaker 1: We cut to a first aid kit being opened on
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Speaker 1: the bed. Shion is now, you know, laying on his
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Speaker 1: stomach on the bed with Nezumi kneeling on the bed
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Speaker 1: next to him, getting something out of the first aid kit.
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Speaker 1: He says, wait a sec, I'll cut it out right away.
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Speaker 1: Shion this entire time has just been crying out in pain,
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Speaker 1: by the way. His fists are tight and his teeth
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Speaker 1: are clenched. And slowly he starts to sink into the mattress.
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Speaker 1: Like all the way in to the mattress. We see
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Speaker 1: his naked body floating through like a reddish yellow swirly place.
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Speaker 1: He starts to like free fall in keyframes. We cut
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Speaker 1: to his profile on a bright red background as something
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Speaker 1: spears like right through his head. At this point, in reality,
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Speaker 1: his body jolts, causing Nezumi to like freak out a
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Speaker 1: little and pull back. Shion grabs his head and curls
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Speaker 1: up and just starts screaming again. This is really bad.
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Speaker 1: And he is just writhing and screaming again. Nezumi looks worried. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But then he raises the scalpel, determined to cut this
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Speaker 1: whatever the hell it is out of him. He puts
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Speaker 1: his hand on Shion's head and says, Shion, hold it together.
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Speaker 1: I don't really know if that helps someone who is
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Speaker 1: screaming and writhing in pain, but you're trying. We cut
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Speaker 1: to a close-up shot of just Shion's eye. It's closed
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Speaker 1: as it pops open. Blackness consuming the skin around it.
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Speaker 1: We see him on a red background screaming in pain
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Speaker 1: as the black travels down through his naked form. I
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Speaker 1: guess this is in the kind of dream hallucination he's having.
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Speaker 1: In reality, Nezumi is using his leg and hand to
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Speaker 1: hold down Shion's leg and arm. And they look real veiny.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Shion's not Nezumi's. As he like just twitches and,
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Speaker 1: you know, basically convulses. We see a pink line traveling
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Speaker 1: down his arm like it's like a thick, maybe like
18:45
Speaker 1: the width of a thumb line. It's just like traveling
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Speaker 1: down his arm and onto his hand. We see a
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Speaker 1: pink line now forming on Shion's cheek, which is also
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Speaker 1: kind of veiny. Shion blinks his eyes open and there
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Speaker 1: are tears in his eyes. And he says, Nezumi, that's enough.
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Speaker 1: Nezumi's like, what? Shion says, just kill me. Nezumi's like,
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Speaker 1: fuck that. Don't cause someone all this trouble and then
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Speaker 1: die without a fight. Shion looks unmistakably horrible. And he's
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Speaker 1: clenching his teeth now, trying not to cry, getting annoyed
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Speaker 1: that Nezumi doesn't want to die. Nezumi says, Shion, you
19:25
Speaker 1: get it, right? Your mother would cry. Hey, we're going
19:28
Speaker 1: to use that now? I thought we have to get
19:30
Speaker 1: rid of attachments. Shion kind of gulps and closes his eyes.
19:35
Speaker 1: We get a flashback of Karin at the bakery and
19:38
Speaker 1: we hear Nezumi say, is it okay for you to
19:40
Speaker 1: cause your mother such sadness? And what would that girl do?
19:43
Speaker 1: The one named Safu or whatever. We see some shots
19:46
Speaker 1: of Safu. Nezumi continues, have you forgotten your promise to
19:50
Speaker 1: meet again two years from now? Even though you're completely clueless,
19:54
Speaker 1: even though you don't know a thing about sex, books,
19:56
Speaker 1: or fighting, you're okay with not living? Shion! Tears stream
20:00
Speaker 1: across the bridge of Shion's nose. His eyes are closed tightly.
20:04
Speaker 1: Nezumi continues. Open your eyes. Shion makes a fist. and slowly,
20:10
Speaker 1: still whimpering, opens his eyes. Nezumi raises the scalpel again.
20:15
Speaker 1: That's it, my clever one. I'm proud of you. Um, yeah,
20:20
Speaker 1: I loved his voice actor there. That was great. We
20:25
Speaker 1: see the blade as it cuts across the black spot
20:28
Speaker 1: on Shion's neck. We get a shot of Nezumi looking
20:32
Speaker 1: at something, I guess the spot on his neck, but
20:34
Speaker 1: we can't see what's going on, which was very frustrating
20:37
Speaker 1: to me. It's just like a shot of His face
20:39
Speaker 1: and stuff. We cut to the lantern and then to
20:43
Speaker 1: the three mice watching. Again, not seeing the actions that
20:45
Speaker 1: are taking place. We hear Shion's intermittent gasping. We cut
20:50
Speaker 1: now to Nezumi's hand as he puts the scalpel back
20:52
Speaker 1: into the case. Yeah, it's clean. I guess he washed
20:56
Speaker 1: it already. He pulls out the tweezers. There's a squelching
21:01
Speaker 1: noise as Nezumi probably pulls it out. But again, we're
21:04
Speaker 1: only seeing his face. Thanks. He lifts it. into view
21:08
Speaker 1: so like the camera can see it now. And it
21:11
Speaker 1: looks like a black larva thing, maybe. Nezumi looks at it,
21:16
Speaker 1: looks like he's pretty disgusted, and he puts it down
21:19
Speaker 1: and we fade to black. Next thing we see is
21:23
Speaker 1: Shion laying in the bed on his back. We can't
21:27
Speaker 1: see his eyes, but he's probably asleep, I would assume.
21:31
Speaker 1: His neck is wrapped in gauze and Nezumi puts a
21:34
Speaker 1: blanket over him, smiling like really sweetly, and he picks
21:38
Speaker 1: up the plate with the black larva on it and
21:42
Speaker 1: exhales shakily. We cut to some yellow weeds in a
21:45
Speaker 1: crack in some stone blowing in the breeze. Nezumi walks
21:49
Speaker 1: out through the rubble. He stops and he looks up
21:52
Speaker 1: at the giant wall beyond the slums in the industrial
21:55
Speaker 1: area and he says, just what is happening over there?
22:00
Speaker 1: Then he smiles. Just you wait, number six. I'll cut
22:05
Speaker 1: out the source of your disease. I think that was
22:08
Speaker 1: a threat. Now we go to very normal looking buildings
22:12
Speaker 1: that I think is an airport. It is. There's a
22:15
Speaker 1: plane flying. On it, Saffu is sitting totally alone like
22:19
Speaker 1: it looks like no one else is on this plane,
22:21
Speaker 1: which is weird. Maybe people don't travel between cities very much. Anyway,
22:25
Speaker 1: she's sitting there and we hear her grandma say, what's wrong?
22:28
Speaker 1: You look so depressed. We cut to her grandma and
22:31
Speaker 1: her in this field of like many, many different colored flowers,
22:35
Speaker 1: all kind of in sections. It's very beautiful. Her grandma continues.
22:40
Speaker 1: Are you not happy about studying abroad? Safu just looks
22:43
Speaker 1: at the ground. Her grandma turns her motorized wheelchair towards Safu.
22:48
Speaker 1: Is it about Shion? Safu gasps and looks at her.
22:52
Speaker 1: Her grandma chuckles. It'll be fine. Two years will pass
22:55
Speaker 1: before you know it. Okay, this was prior to, I guess,
22:58
Speaker 1: everyone finding out that, you know, he was arrested. Safu
23:02
Speaker 1: looks kind of worried for a second, and then she says, Grandma?
23:06
Speaker 1: Her grandma's like, Plus, I've made so many friends. We
23:11
Speaker 1: pan up and see that there's a large round building
23:13
Speaker 1: past the fields of flowers. Her grandma continues, The Twilight
23:17
Speaker 1: House really is a wonderful place. Yay! That's something good
23:22
Speaker 1: at least. Her grandma holds out one of her knitting
23:25
Speaker 1: needles to Safu and continues, so you go study. Don't
23:30
Speaker 1: worry about a thing. We get to Safu and see
23:33
Speaker 1: that her hands are curled around the knitting needle and
23:36
Speaker 1: we hear her grandma say, no matter how far apart
23:39
Speaker 1: we are, we're connected by our feelings. Safu looks up.
23:43
Speaker 1: It seems like she's, you know, got her confidence back. Okay,
23:47
Speaker 1: let me just stop there and say, what the fuck, grandma? Like,
23:51
Speaker 1: it's a nice gesture to give your your grandchild one
23:54
Speaker 1: of your knitting needles, but she likes to knit, right?
23:57
Speaker 1: So that makes me uncomfortable that she'd be like, oh,
24:00
Speaker 1: it's cool. You just have one of the things that
24:02
Speaker 1: I use to make the things that make me feel
24:04
Speaker 1: like I'm a productive member of society. I don't know.
24:08
Speaker 1: But then again, I'm sure she can get other knitting needles.
24:10
Speaker 1: I'm sure she's not condemned to a life of just
24:13
Speaker 1: one knitting needle now. So maybe it's a really sweet gesture.
24:16
Speaker 1: It is. It is. I'm just being weird. We cut
24:19
Speaker 1: to the wasteland at night. It's partly cloudy, lots of stars.
24:23
Speaker 1: And then to a table with a lantern on it.
24:26
Speaker 1: We hear rustling and then walking and legs approach the table.
24:30
Speaker 1: We hear Shion say, water. We see the lantern lift
24:33
Speaker 1: up off the table and the legs walk off. We
24:37
Speaker 1: cut to a cracked mirror on the wall. Shion passes
24:40
Speaker 1: by it and he's behind the camera. So we only
24:44
Speaker 1: see his reflection as he does. And after he passes,
24:48
Speaker 1: he stops and walks back to the mirror. He sees
24:51
Speaker 1: his reflection now and gasps. His hair is totally white.
24:55
Speaker 1: And he says, no way. We get a close-up of
24:58
Speaker 1: the reflection of his face. His eyes look panicked. And
25:02
Speaker 1: then we hear a crash and the light goes out.
25:05
Speaker 1: Did you just ruin the lantern? There's a stripe across
25:08
Speaker 1: his cheek too, and he touches it. He says, what
25:12
Speaker 1: the hell happened? He gasps and backs away from the
25:15
Speaker 1: mirror and begins to take off his shirt. We cut
25:17
Speaker 1: to the broken lantern on the floor as he breathes heavily,
25:20
Speaker 1: just trying to get off his shirt and having trouble.
25:23
Speaker 1: And then we see bandages fall to the floor. We
25:26
Speaker 1: pan up on Shion and he's standing there just wearing
25:30
Speaker 1: his underwear, which is black boxer briefs. Now you know.
25:34
Speaker 1: The pink line snakes all the way around his leg
25:37
Speaker 1: and then up his torso and then around his neck
25:41
Speaker 1: and then onto his left cheek. He just kind of
25:43
Speaker 1: freezes there in panic. And we hear Nezumi say, you're
25:47
Speaker 1: waking up for the first time in three days. Shion
25:50
Speaker 1: gasps and turns. Nezumi is standing in the doorway. He's
25:53
Speaker 1: holding like a package or like a brown bag or something.
25:56
Speaker 1: And he continues. The imprint only affected your skin. It
25:59
Speaker 1: wasn't brought on by vein swelling. That's good, right? I
26:03
Speaker 1: have no idea what that means or why you'd know that.
26:06
Speaker 1: We see Shion's feet lean forward and then his knees
26:09
Speaker 1: hit the ground hard. He wraps his arms tightly around
26:12
Speaker 1: his chest and he says, I don't want this. Why
26:16
Speaker 1: did this happen to me? Nezumi walks over. It's actually
26:21
Speaker 1: quite alluring, you know. Shion continues. I don't want this.
26:25
Speaker 1: I don't want this. Nezumi's like, just think of it
26:29
Speaker 1: as a medal honoring your survival. Shion's like, it's payment.
26:34
Speaker 1: He's still hugging himself tightly and his eyes are closed.
26:38
Speaker 1: Yamase-san died while I lived. This is payment for that.
26:42
Speaker 1: Nezumi is silent for a second and then he kneels
26:45
Speaker 1: next to Shion. Raise your head. He waits for him
26:48
Speaker 1: to do that, but he doesn't. Stop staring at the
26:51
Speaker 1: floor and look at me. Shion just kind of shakes
26:54
Speaker 1: and shrinks a little bit more. Nezumi grabs Shion by
26:57
Speaker 1: the chin. Come on. Forces him to look at him.
27:00
Speaker 1: I don't like that. Shion, are you having regrets? Shion's like,
27:05
Speaker 1: about what? Nezumi says, the fact that you survived. Shion
27:10
Speaker 1: makes kind of a pained expression. We see that he's
27:12
Speaker 1: got like these intense dark bags under his eyes and
27:15
Speaker 1: he just looks away. Nezumi continues. Are you thinking that
27:19
Speaker 1: if you have to look like this that you'd be
27:20
Speaker 1: better off dead? Answer me, Shion! There's a long pause.
27:25
Speaker 1: Shion finally says, Nezumi, I want to go on living.
27:31
Speaker 1: Nezumi stands. That's good enough. In this world, the winners
27:37
Speaker 1: are those who survive. He walks over to a lantern
27:39
Speaker 1: that's on some boxes. Don't go feeling guilty because you're alive.
27:44
Speaker 1: He strikes a match on the sole of his boot,
27:46
Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. If you have that much time
27:48
Speaker 1: on your hands, he lights the lantern. Keep yourself alive
27:51
Speaker 1: one day at a time, so you can remember those
27:54
Speaker 1: who died. That's quite enough. Yeah, you're really giving me
27:58
Speaker 1: conflicting information, Nezumi. Shion stares at him, looking kind of worried,
28:03
Speaker 1: and a white mouse climbs onto Nezumi's shoulder, stands up
28:06
Speaker 1: and squeaks. Nezumi turns his head to it, and the
28:09
Speaker 1: mouse squeaks some more, and Nezumi nods to the mouse.
28:13
Speaker 1: He turns to Shion. He said we should eat something. Really?
28:17
Speaker 1: He lifts up the paper bag that he was holding.
28:19
Speaker 1: Can you stomach anything? Shion's stomach grumbles and he looks
28:23
Speaker 1: ashamed and blushes because I don't know why that happens
28:26
Speaker 1: in anime so much. Nezumi chuckles. We cut to a
28:31
Speaker 1: stew or soup. It's like things, but you can't tell
28:34
Speaker 1: what the things are in like a white base being
28:37
Speaker 1: mixed in a pot. Nezumi is stirring, obviously, and Shion
28:41
Speaker 1: looks over and is like, what kind of soup is it?
28:44
Speaker 1: Nezumi says, Macbeth soup. Shion's like, what's that? We cut
28:49
Speaker 1: to a low shot of Nezumi stirring, looking evil. And
28:53
Speaker 1: he says, eyeball of newt, frog's fingers, and bat wings
28:58
Speaker 1: all boiled together in a pot. Shion's like, if that's
29:03
Speaker 1: what's in it, I'll pass. Oh, come on. It's probably great.
29:07
Speaker 1: We see that they're sitting on the couch and Nezumi
29:10
Speaker 1: begins to ladle the soup into a bowl. I'm only kidding.
29:12
Speaker 1: He holds it off to Shion. Relax and eat up.
29:15
Speaker 1: Xian takes the bowl and brings it to his mouth.
29:18
Speaker 1: He sets it down after, you know, sipping some of
29:21
Speaker 1: it and says, it's delicious. We cut to just the
29:24
Speaker 1: bowl and we fade to black. I believe this is
29:28
Speaker 1: the commercial break. And then fade back into a plate
29:31
Speaker 1: with a hand holding it and a dead black pupil
29:35
Speaker 1: on it. It was kind of a nice transition. We
29:38
Speaker 1: hear Shion say, it's in the pupil stage. That's what
29:41
Speaker 1: I said. He's the one holding the plate. Most likely
29:44
Speaker 1: a wasp. Nezumi says, you can tell? We get a
29:49
Speaker 1: flashback to a very horrified Shion. And Shion says, I
29:54
Speaker 1: saw a wasp emerge from Yamase-san's neck. Nezumi's like, A
29:58
Speaker 1: wasp that acts as a parasite within the human body, huh?
30:02
Speaker 1: By the way, when exactly were you implanted with that egg?
30:06
Speaker 1: Shion shakes his head. I don't know. He looks back
30:09
Speaker 1: at it. It definitely implants the egg without the host noticing,
30:12
Speaker 1: then grows rapidly. You cut to a flashback of Yamase dying.
30:16
Speaker 1: Shion continues. Then, after excreting some sort of substance, it
30:21
Speaker 1: tries to kill the host. He furrows his brow. And
30:24
Speaker 1: then Nezumi just starts to laugh. Shion looks over at
30:28
Speaker 1: him surprised. Nezumi? Nezumi falls back on the bed laughing,
30:33
Speaker 1: one of his hands on his head. He kind of
30:35
Speaker 1: turns to the side and then just continues to laugh
30:38
Speaker 1: until water is splashed onto his face. He sits up. Idiot,
30:43
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I'm completely soaked now. Shion is
30:46
Speaker 1: holding like a pitcher and he says, well, I thought
30:49
Speaker 1: you'd gone hysterical or something. Nezumi stands. Why would you
30:54
Speaker 1: even think that? Shion's like, But you just started laughing
30:58
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Nezumi sighs and sits back down on
31:01
Speaker 1: the bed. I was laughing because what you were saying
31:04
Speaker 1: was funny. Shion's like, it's funny? Nezumi says, come on.
31:11
Speaker 1: That thing was developed by number six. We cut to
31:14
Speaker 1: a shot of the city from, you know, high up
31:17
Speaker 1: with the Moondrop building like right in front. The sky
31:19
Speaker 1: is gray and there's like some kind of glitchiness to
31:22
Speaker 1: it or like little black dots happening. We hear Nezumi say,
31:26
Speaker 1: there's a mysterious man-eating wasp flying around a brand new city.
31:30
Speaker 1: A red filter slowly kind of forms across the image.
31:34
Speaker 1: Nezumi says, it's hilarious. Shion's like, it's not something you
31:39
Speaker 1: should laugh about. More people will die. Nezumi's like, it's hilarious.
31:45
Speaker 1: Shion gasps and flinches. Nezumi continues, let me tell you
31:49
Speaker 1: something about that city. It won't accept anyone who doesn't
31:52
Speaker 1: comply with complete obedience. He smirks. That's what happened to you, right?
31:56
Speaker 1: We get a flashback to Shion swearing his loyalty to
31:59
Speaker 1: an unchanging city from the last episode. Lots of flashbacks.
32:02
Speaker 1: It's too early for all these flashbacks. We get a
32:05
Speaker 1: shot of Nezumi framed by the light of the lantern.
32:08
Speaker 1: It's pretty nice. And he says, it won't allow any
32:11
Speaker 1: foreign substance. Those who disobey or contradict its philosophy. We
32:16
Speaker 1: flashback to Nezumi being shot from episode one. So yeah,
32:19
Speaker 1: really stretching that animation budget here. We only see one
32:22
Speaker 1: of Nezumi's eyes now. The other side is blocked by
32:25
Speaker 1: the fire of the lantern. Really cool. And his eye
32:28
Speaker 1: narrows and he says, the city was established with that intention.
32:32
Speaker 1: Shion's like, but Nezumi continues. And you're one of those
32:36
Speaker 1: foreign substances, Shion. Shion gasps. I am? Um, what? Of
32:41
Speaker 1: course you are. Nezumi's like, definitely. We flash back to
32:46
Speaker 1: Shion patching up Nezumi from episode one. And we hear
32:49
Speaker 1: Nezumi say, you sheltered a V.C., Held suspicion of data manipulation.
32:55
Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of flashbacks from episodes one and two.
32:57
Speaker 1: Somewhere in your heart, you felt deceit. We flash back
33:00
Speaker 1: to him screaming on the balcony. Nezumi continues. And that's
33:05
Speaker 1: why you were forced to disappear. Shion looks sad, like
33:09
Speaker 1: he didn't know this for some reason. Nezumi lies on
33:12
Speaker 1: his back and opens a book. Right now, the city
33:14
Speaker 1: is trying to devour its population with man-eating wasps. Serves
33:18
Speaker 1: him right. Shion's like, then we have to do something.
33:22
Speaker 1: Nezumi smirks. That's impossible. Shion slumps over and stares at
33:27
Speaker 1: the floor, then gasps and straightens up. I survived! He
33:31
Speaker 1: looks at his hands. I might have developed a resistance
33:34
Speaker 1: to the wasp's toxin. He curls his hands into fists.
33:39
Speaker 1: If that's the case, we should be able to make
33:41
Speaker 1: a serum for my blood. I mean, that would be
33:45
Speaker 1: really complicated. Nezumi's like, what an idiot. You think they'll
33:49
Speaker 1: believe you? Shion says. Then what should we do? Nezumi's like,
33:54
Speaker 1: let it be. He flips the pages in his book.
33:58
Speaker 1: Just watch the city destroy itself from the best seats
34:01
Speaker 1: in the house. Shion's like, Nezumi! Nezumi sits up. Whoa, wait,
34:06
Speaker 1: don't throw water at me again. Shion is not holding
34:09
Speaker 1: a pitcher or anything, but he says, do you think
34:11
Speaker 1: the west block is safe? He puts one of his
34:14
Speaker 1: hands on his chest. You're human too. Even here we
34:18
Speaker 1: might be killed by those parasitic wasps. Nezumi chuckles. The
34:22
Speaker 1: people in the city don't even think of us as
34:24
Speaker 1: human beings. Shion gasps. Why? I don't know. Nezumi continues.
34:29
Speaker 1: We're in the garbage dump of the holy city. Number
34:33
Speaker 1: six has prospered by tossing every bit of pollution out here. Also,
34:38
Speaker 1: this is just my intuition, but I think those monsters
34:40
Speaker 1: only choose their hosts from those within the walls. Shion gasps.
34:45
Speaker 1: He's kind of like receding into the background now, like
34:47
Speaker 1: looking scared, like he's getting smaller as just everything else
34:50
Speaker 1: stays the same size. You know, his world is collapsing
34:53
Speaker 1: around him, basically. Nezumi continues. You never hear of people
34:56
Speaker 1: dying from them here. I mean, I think it's pretty new,
34:59
Speaker 1: but whatever. In other words, wouldn't that be because there
35:01
Speaker 1: are no hosts? No prey? Shion's like, that's... Nezumi has
35:06
Speaker 1: the black mouse in his hand now. On the other hand...
35:09
Speaker 1: There have been several reports of people suffering mysterious accidental
35:14
Speaker 1: deaths within number six. Shion is still receding into the
35:18
Speaker 1: background and he's very small now. And also he's got
35:21
Speaker 1: like a nice red overlay over him because he's freaking out.
35:26
Speaker 1: Nezumi laughs. Our monster is quite the gourmet. Shion sits
35:31
Speaker 1: down on the couch and there's just silence for a
35:33
Speaker 1: while as he just stares at the floor. I mean, yeah,
35:37
Speaker 1: this is bad. Eventually, Nezumi sighs and stands and he says,
35:41
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to torture you. Uh, really?
35:45
Speaker 1: He pulls up a chair like right in front of
35:48
Speaker 1: Shion and sits down and puts his hand on Shion's head.
35:52
Speaker 1: You were one of those people within the walls, weren't you?
35:55
Speaker 1: Shion's like, all this talk about inside and outside doesn't
35:59
Speaker 1: make any sense to me. Nezumi says, of course it doesn't.
36:03
Speaker 1: Because you never even try to understand. I don't think
36:07
Speaker 1: that's fair. Shion looks up at him. Nezumi runs his
36:10
Speaker 1: hand through Shion's hair, kind of down the side of
36:12
Speaker 1: his face, and continues, an entire populace that never doubts
36:17
Speaker 1: the information they're given. An ignorant, arrogant, blessed populace. He
36:23
Speaker 1: smiles in this way that's kind of like kind, but
36:26
Speaker 1: in the most patronizing way. But it's all so sad.
36:32
Speaker 1: Here you are, having fallen from your place there. He
36:36
Speaker 1: touches the red mark on Shion's cheek. Shion looks like
36:41
Speaker 1: a fucking disaster. And he continues. And number six won't
36:45
Speaker 1: give you the chance to crawl back. Fuck, dude! Shion
36:51
Speaker 1: looks a little more deflated now. He says, Nezumi? Nezumi's like, huh?
36:57
Speaker 1: Shion stands. I want to know the truth. What the
37:00
Speaker 1: truth is and what's happening to the world I live in.
37:02
Speaker 1: I want to know its true form. Nezumi stares at
37:06
Speaker 1: him for a second and then smiles. It's amazing how
37:09
Speaker 1: you can give such embarrassing speeches. He stands. Come with me.
37:15
Speaker 1: We cut to the sky. The moon is full and
37:17
Speaker 1: bright and it's partly cloudy still. We see them walking
37:21
Speaker 1: down a dirt slope with, you know, tons of rubble
37:23
Speaker 1: and rocks on it. Shion is trailing significantly behind Nezumi
37:27
Speaker 1: because of course he is. And he says, Nezumi, where
37:31
Speaker 1: are we going? Nezumi's like, a hotel. Shion says, a hotel?
37:36
Speaker 1: He stops walking and he makes like a little sound
37:39
Speaker 1: and we see that there's a dead wasp on the
37:41
Speaker 1: ground and Shion picks it up and starts to examine it.
37:44
Speaker 1: Nezumi at this point stops and turns back. That's just
37:47
Speaker 1: a normal paper wasp. He is too far away to
37:50
Speaker 1: know that, but I'm assuming he just saw it when
37:53
Speaker 1: he was walking down this area or something? Shion very
37:56
Speaker 1: quietly says, spring. Nezumi's like, huh? Shion says, spring. If
38:01
Speaker 1: we wait until winter, the wasps will go into hibernation.
38:05
Speaker 1: Even the parasitic wasp eggs that have been planted inside
38:08
Speaker 1: people will probably pass through the winter without developing. Then,
38:12
Speaker 1: if spring comes, when they grow and move around, they'll
38:15
Speaker 1: all break free at once. Fuck. Nezumi whistles. That sounds great.
38:22
Speaker 1: A total spring festival. What's it called again? The thing
38:25
Speaker 1: commemorating number six's founding? Shion says. The holy day. Nezumi
38:30
Speaker 1: turns to look at the wall in the distance and
38:33
Speaker 1: he spreads his arms out wide. The holy day! He's
38:36
Speaker 1: kind of like pantomiming with his arms and very, very overdramatic.
38:41
Speaker 1: Right in the middle of the festival, the man-eating wasps
38:44
Speaker 1: will eat their way out of the human bastards and
38:47
Speaker 1: the area will be enveloped with agonizing screams. He starts
38:51
Speaker 1: to laugh. This kid! Shion stares at him like, what
38:56
Speaker 1: the fuck, dude? I thought you just apologized to me.
38:59
Speaker 1: Nezumi continues. Now that's something worth seeing. Shion looks down
39:03
Speaker 1: at the wasp again, and Nezumi starts to walk off.
39:06
Speaker 1: Shion's like, Nezumi? Nezumi is still walking. Huh? Shion says.
39:11
Speaker 1: Why do you hate number six? Nezumi stops again. Shion stands. Why?
39:17
Speaker 1: Nezumi just starts to walk off again. Shion kind of gasps,
39:21
Speaker 1: but then follows. We go to a shot of a city.
39:24
Speaker 1: It's like large, kind of pieced together looking buildings and...
39:29
Speaker 1: in the middle, there's like this stone building part that's
39:34
Speaker 1: like at least five stories tall. And it's basically flanked
39:37
Speaker 1: by wooden piecemeal building, kind of. And there's a sign
39:43
Speaker 1: on the middle piece that says Inukashi, which means dog lender,
39:48
Speaker 1: by the way. It's important that you know that. We
39:52
Speaker 1: hear Nezumi say, we're here. We cut to an above
39:55
Speaker 1: shot of Nezumi and Shion walking into a very dark lobby.
40:00
Speaker 1: There's a desk on the left and some wood boards
40:03
Speaker 1: are just hanging out on the right. And there appears
40:06
Speaker 1: to be a balcony kind of like overhanging from the
40:08
Speaker 1: second floor. Shion's like, this was a hotel? He's kind
40:13
Speaker 1: of looking around. Nezumi says, it still is. Shion's like, what?
40:19
Speaker 1: They stop suddenly and Nezumi looks kind of like he's
40:22
Speaker 1: bracing himself. And Shion looks kind of surprised because there's
40:26
Speaker 1: a growl. Dogs just kind of like start emerging from
40:29
Speaker 1: any area they could have been behind, like chairs and
40:32
Speaker 1: shit and all that stuff. And they look really fucking pissed.
40:36
Speaker 1: Shion steps back and is like, dogs? More dogs come
40:40
Speaker 1: out from the shadows behind him. And Shion turns quickly.
40:44
Speaker 1: He's surrounded now. And he says... What is this place?
40:47
Speaker 1: A den of wild dogs? Shion and Nezumi are standing
40:50
Speaker 1: back to back now, and Nezumi pulls a knife out
40:53
Speaker 1: of his pocket dramatically. The dogs begin to encircle them, snarling.
40:58
Speaker 1: At this point, one of them comes right up to Shion,
41:01
Speaker 1: baring its teeth. Shion steps back slightly and gasps, but
41:05
Speaker 1: he just stares at the dog with some, you know,
41:07
Speaker 1: resolve in his eyes, and the dog continues to snarl
41:10
Speaker 1: for a little while, but then it stops, and it
41:13
Speaker 1: kind of just whines. And then it sits and starts
41:16
Speaker 1: to wag its tail. Shion kneels down and the dog
41:19
Speaker 1: jumps on him and just starts licking his face. He laughs.
41:23
Speaker 1: Nezumi turns and gasps. And he really doesn't look happy
41:26
Speaker 1: about this, which I thought was shitty. And at this point,
41:29
Speaker 1: all the other dogs just like sit down and relax.
41:31
Speaker 1: Everything's good now. Shion says, looks like I passed the interview, huh?
41:36
Speaker 1: Nezumi just kind of goes, we then hear laughter far
41:39
Speaker 1: off in the distance. And a voice says, welcome, my guests.
41:44
Speaker 1: It is a person, a woman, with long dark brown
41:48
Speaker 1: hair and tan skin standing at the railing on the
41:52
Speaker 1: second floor holding a lantern. She says, put that dangerous
41:57
Speaker 1: thing away, Nezumi. Nezumi puts his knife away and says,
42:00
Speaker 1: that's only because you have such a nice manner of
42:02
Speaker 1: greeting people. Shion's like, who's that? Nezumi says, Inukashi. Inukashi
42:09
Speaker 1: smiles whitely. We cut to a beat up hallway with
42:12
Speaker 1: stained red or pink carpet and like cracked walls and
42:17
Speaker 1: like lots of wooden doors lining it. They walk around
42:20
Speaker 1: the corner into view of the shot and Inukashi is leading.
42:23
Speaker 1: Shion is like a few paces behind them and he's
42:26
Speaker 1: like looking around and there's a room with a door
42:28
Speaker 1: open that's like filthy and decrepit in there. And there's
42:32
Speaker 1: a homeless man sleeping on the floor in it. And
42:34
Speaker 1: he's like spooning a dog. The dog is the little spoon,
42:37
Speaker 1: I think. Whatever. He's spooning this dog. Yeah. We hear
42:41
Speaker 1: Nezumi say, where's the information I requested? Inukashi's like, I'm
42:46
Speaker 1: sure you understand I need payment first. They pass another
42:49
Speaker 1: room where the door is open for some reason and
42:52
Speaker 1: there's a guy in there with two dogs sleeping on
42:54
Speaker 1: the floor with him. That's even better. Shion stops and
42:59
Speaker 1: looks in and then runs to catch up with them.
43:01
Speaker 1: Shion says, who are all the people in these rooms?
43:04
Speaker 1: It's a hotel, Shion. Inukashi's like, they're paying customers, of course.
43:09
Speaker 1: I give these restless birds a place to rest for cheap,
43:13
Speaker 1: Shion says. What about the dogs? Inukashi's like, I'm renting
43:17
Speaker 1: them out for heating. Keeps people from dying from the cold.
43:21
Speaker 1: Shion's like, so that's where the name comes from. We
43:24
Speaker 1: get an overhead shot of the hotel and we can
43:26
Speaker 1: see that it goes like all the way around the block.
43:28
Speaker 1: Like it makes almost a square. There's like an open
43:30
Speaker 1: part at the back. Inside, kind of in the courtyard area,
43:34
Speaker 1: there's like a pond maybe or something with a tree
43:38
Speaker 1: in the middle. I couldn't really tell. And then we
43:40
Speaker 1: see a light come on in the last window on
43:43
Speaker 1: the second floor, like all the way on the right side.
43:47
Speaker 1: We see Shion's back as he walks across the room
43:50
Speaker 1: and we hear Inukashi say, Nezumi, while examining your request,
43:54
Speaker 1: I ran into many interesting things. Shion looks over at her.
43:59
Speaker 1: They're in a kind of small room with torn red
44:03
Speaker 1: patterned wallpaper and boxes all over the floor. And it's
44:06
Speaker 1: got like really nice wood trim details. Inukashi holds up
44:10
Speaker 1: a strip of paper with something written on it. Very small.
44:14
Speaker 1: And says, I'll have to ask you for a little extra.
44:16
Speaker 1: Shion swipes the paper out of her hands, which is weird.
44:19
Speaker 1: And she's like, what? He starts to examine it. Inukashi's like,
44:23
Speaker 1: what do you think you're doing? Shion says, it's my mom.
44:27
Speaker 1: The paper? Inukashi's like, huh? Shion continues, this is my
44:32
Speaker 1: mom's handwriting. We see the writing on the paper, which
44:35
Speaker 1: is in Japanese, but it says like, if I'm remembering correctly,
44:40
Speaker 1: it says something like Latch Building 1300. It's like an address, basically,
44:45
Speaker 1: and it has a person's name on it. Shion says, Nozomi,
44:49
Speaker 1: did you contact my mother for me? Huh? Nozomi's like,
44:54
Speaker 1: it wasn't me. One of our little friends went there
44:56
Speaker 1: on a whim. aww, you jerk. Shion smiles. Thank you.
45:02
Speaker 1: Nezumi looks away and kind of sighs. And Shion's like, wait,
45:05
Speaker 1: if we could contact my mom, then we could, we
45:08
Speaker 1: could notify everyone of the parasitic wasps. We cut to
45:11
Speaker 1: Nezumi's eyes as he stares really coldly at Shion. And
45:15
Speaker 1: Inukashi's like, parasitic wasps? Shion continues, that's it. We can
45:20
Speaker 1: contact the hygiene management bureau. He walks over and puts
45:24
Speaker 1: his hands on Inukashi's shoulders for some reason. And she's
45:26
Speaker 1: like real weirded out and also much shorter than him.
45:29
Speaker 1: He continues. Even if it takes time, if we have
45:32
Speaker 1: patience and convince them. Inukashi's like, uh, sure. Shion releases
45:39
Speaker 1: Inukashi and, you know, makes his hands into fists. We
45:41
Speaker 1: even have a sample of the pupa. And more than anything,
45:44
Speaker 1: I survived it. Inukashi is just standing there like, what
45:48
Speaker 1: the fuck's happening? Shion continues. If we can come up
45:51
Speaker 1: with some kind of plan before next spring, number six
45:53
Speaker 1: can be... We hear Nezumi cut in. Shion. Shion stops.
45:59
Speaker 1: Nezumi starts to walk over to him. If upon finding
46:01
Speaker 1: out the truth, you still intend to protect number six.
46:04
Speaker 1: Shion kind of gasps. When the time comes, you too.
46:08
Speaker 1: There's a pause as he stops walking. We'll be my enemy.
46:12
Speaker 1: Shion's eyes widen and he gasps again. They stare at
46:15
Speaker 1: each other and then we fade to black. And that's it.
46:18
Speaker 1: Then we go to the ending. And then that's it. Yay. Okay.
46:23
Speaker 1: So closing thoughts. I have a lot of thoughts. So
46:25
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to parse them and make sure
46:27
Speaker 1: that they make sense. So starting with this last scene,
46:30
Speaker 1: basically everything this episode goes totally differently than it goes
46:34
Speaker 1: in the manga and the light novel. The manga basically
46:36
Speaker 1: follows the light novel. Just kind of everything is less, obviously.
46:41
Speaker 1: But this stuff doesn't happen right here. in the manga
46:45
Speaker 1: slash light novel it happens in the next day but
46:48
Speaker 1: whatever it doesn't actually matter but I did want to
46:50
Speaker 1: point out so when Nezumi communicated with his mom according
46:55
Speaker 1: to the other you know the source materials Nezumi had
46:59
Speaker 1: to go back through the sewers to I guess get
47:02
Speaker 1: that mouse to spot where he could communicate with Shion's
47:06
Speaker 1: mom so Shion is like what the fuck dude like
47:09
Speaker 1: this dude actually he risked his life again just to
47:12
Speaker 1: communicate with his mom kind of furthering the thing where
47:15
Speaker 1: Nezumi's actions are not matching his words, which is something
47:19
Speaker 1: we're doing a lot in this episode, where everything he
47:22
Speaker 1: says is just the opposite of what he's doing. He's
47:25
Speaker 1: telling Shion he needs to let go of attachments and
47:28
Speaker 1: all this shit, and he has been monitoring Shion for
47:31
Speaker 1: years because he is very much attached to him. And actually,
47:37
Speaker 1: I mean, it's making things harder for him. So maybe
47:41
Speaker 1: he knows... that he is the problem. Maybe he's doing the, like,
47:47
Speaker 1: don't do what I do, do as I say thing,
47:49
Speaker 1: because I know I'm stupid thing. Trying to save Shion
47:53
Speaker 1: the grief of what it feels like to care about people.
47:57
Speaker 1: But it's stupid because you need to care about people.
47:59
Speaker 1: And then, of course, he's like, don't die, because what
48:02
Speaker 1: about your mom? It's like, well, if he didn't care
48:04
Speaker 1: about his mom, that wouldn't work, right? So lots of
48:07
Speaker 1: contradictions here, which are all fine and good. So, yeah,
48:11
Speaker 1: there's that shit going on. The whole thing with Shion
48:15
Speaker 1: getting white hair and, you know, the little weird tattoo
48:18
Speaker 1: mark pink thing was really interesting to me. Well, first
48:22
Speaker 1: of all, like I'm not a huge fan of like
48:24
Speaker 1: the trope where the character's hair color changes suddenly, basically
48:28
Speaker 1: because I just it just can't happen. Your hair just
48:30
Speaker 1: can't change colors right now. I mean, could it change
48:33
Speaker 1: color over time? Sure. And he went through just an
48:36
Speaker 1: incredible amount of stress. So it could totally start growing
48:39
Speaker 1: in white, but it's not going to suddenly just be white.
48:41
Speaker 1: I kind of hate that. But besides that, in the anime,
48:46
Speaker 1: the process seemed less horrible, obviously, than it was in
48:50
Speaker 1: the light novel series. And in the light novel, Shion
48:54
Speaker 1: is kind of like in and out of consciousness for
48:56
Speaker 1: like a long time. And Nezumi is like trying to
48:59
Speaker 1: get him to drink water so he doesn't die. And
49:01
Speaker 1: Shion just remembers how good that water tasted. And it's
49:05
Speaker 1: just nice. It's cool. And it's interesting. And we kind
49:08
Speaker 1: of just lose all of that in the anime. I mean,
49:10
Speaker 1: they did say it's been three days since he got
49:12
Speaker 1: out of bed. But even with all the screaming and
49:15
Speaker 1: the crying and everything that Xian was doing, it kind
49:17
Speaker 1: of lost some of the urgency or severity of what
49:24
Speaker 1: was going on. And that's kind of sad. I mean,
49:26
Speaker 1: it still was pretty bad. He still almost died, I guess. So, yeah.
49:33
Speaker 1: But with that all said... The part where he notices
49:36
Speaker 1: how he looks is different in the other two versions
49:39
Speaker 1: of this. The other two versions, you know, he wakes up,
49:43
Speaker 1: Nezumi's not around, and he just goes outside and he
49:47
Speaker 1: runs into some kids who just scream when they see
49:51
Speaker 1: him and shout like snake. And he's just like, what
49:54
Speaker 1: the fuck? And then that's how he finds out, which
49:56
Speaker 1: is harder to do in anime. It's harder to get
49:59
Speaker 1: him outside without showing us him, you know? you know,
50:03
Speaker 1: have to be like in first person perspective or we'd
50:05
Speaker 1: have to just see his legs or something, which is doable,
50:08
Speaker 1: but they just went the easier route, which is, I mean,
50:10
Speaker 1: it's what it is. It's what it is. But my
50:13
Speaker 1: problem with this in particular is I just felt like
50:17
Speaker 1: in the anime that Shion, I mean, he was upset
50:21
Speaker 1: because he like survived and Yama Seisan didn't survive and
50:23
Speaker 1: shit like that. But I felt like he was really
50:25
Speaker 1: upset about the way that he looked. I felt like
50:28
Speaker 1: that was like, oh shit, I'm just ugly now or something.
50:31
Speaker 1: And now I want to die. And I mean, it's
50:34
Speaker 1: not exactly that, but that's what it felt like to me.
50:37
Speaker 1: Like that was the big deal. Like, oh shit, my
50:39
Speaker 1: looks have changed. Like fucking, I don't know, man. I
50:43
Speaker 1: get it. I get like you have an identity and
50:45
Speaker 1: you have a sense of self and you want to
50:46
Speaker 1: be your version of yourself. And it's startling when suddenly
50:50
Speaker 1: you have white hair and like a really interesting scar.
50:54
Speaker 1: But like, I just felt like it was too much.
50:56
Speaker 1: I mean, he's out of it. He's been, you know,
50:59
Speaker 1: in bed for three days. So I got to give
51:01
Speaker 1: him a little credit. But I just felt like in
51:03
Speaker 1: the light novel and in the manga, like it didn't
51:06
Speaker 1: feel like that was the crushing part that his appearance
51:09
Speaker 1: had changed. It just felt like the entire situation was crushing. So, yeah.
51:14
Speaker 1: So I felt like his I want to live in
51:16
Speaker 1: the Manga and light novel were, I don't know, I
51:19
Speaker 1: just liked them better. But whatever. So that's what we
51:23
Speaker 1: got going on. The other thing I wanted to talk
51:25
Speaker 1: about when I'm not comparing this to other source material,
51:29
Speaker 1: and this is something that I have a problem with,
51:32
Speaker 1: is fucking Nezumi is kind of an asshole. Like, listen,
51:36
Speaker 1: I get that the city is bad and we haven't
51:38
Speaker 1: seen the depths of how bad the city is yet.
51:41
Speaker 1: So maybe you won't agree with me in the future.
51:45
Speaker 1: Maybe I won't agree with this take. when we get
51:48
Speaker 1: further on, because it's been a while. But he really
51:51
Speaker 1: hates number six. But he hates number six the way
51:54
Speaker 1: you don't want people to hate something, which is he
51:57
Speaker 1: just hates it as an entity and everything inside it.
52:01
Speaker 1: The people in number six don't know this is happening.
52:05
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't understand what's going on outside of
52:07
Speaker 1: the walls, as far as I can tell. So, like,
52:10
Speaker 1: I get it. You hate them because they're ignorant people.
52:14
Speaker 1: And they haven't made an effort to figure out what
52:17
Speaker 1: the real world is like. But the thing is, they
52:20
Speaker 1: have a government force feeding them just total lies. And
52:24
Speaker 1: they have no reason to believe that it's not true.
52:27
Speaker 1: You know, their society is basically perfect. There's not a
52:30
Speaker 1: lot of reason to question. So I don't think it's
52:33
Speaker 1: fair to blame them for not doing their due diligence
52:36
Speaker 1: on what the world is like. There's nothing there to
52:39
Speaker 1: show them. So I'm not a huge fan of his
52:43
Speaker 1: take on number six. basically. I mean, yeah, fuck the government.
52:47
Speaker 1: They seem like they're pieces of shit. But Shion's family
52:50
Speaker 1: is there. His mom is there. Asafu is there on
52:53
Speaker 1: and off. I mean, she's in another city right now.
52:55
Speaker 1: But like, you can't talk about this around him and
52:58
Speaker 1: laugh about it. Like, this isn't going to destroy everything
53:02
Speaker 1: he's ever known and all the people he's ever known.
53:04
Speaker 1: It's really just absolutely shitty and totally like off the charts,
53:09
Speaker 1: poor emotional IQ, basically. And the fact that he did
53:13
Speaker 1: it once and then he couldn't stop himself when he
53:16
Speaker 1: was outside from doing it again and being so overdramatic.
53:20
Speaker 1: He's like, like play acting all of this out, which
53:24
Speaker 1: we'll get to in the next episode why he's like that.
53:26
Speaker 1: But it's so, what's that word? Disrespectful. It's so fucking
53:34
Speaker 1: disrespectful to Shion. And also just these like digs about like, oh,
53:38
Speaker 1: you know, you lost your place and Like, he gets
53:41
Speaker 1: Glee out of Shion's misery, which Shion doesn't seem to
53:45
Speaker 1: be too miserable most of the time. But still, the
53:47
Speaker 1: idea that Shion doesn't have that anymore, that he's going
53:50
Speaker 1: to have to struggle down in the fucking shit with Nezumi, like,
53:54
Speaker 1: makes him happy. And that sucks. Because if you care
54:00
Speaker 1: about someone... You don't want them to have bad things
54:04
Speaker 1: happen to them. Even if you have bad things happen
54:06
Speaker 1: to you, you should not want someone you care about
54:10
Speaker 1: to have to struggle and just go through tremendous pain.
54:16
Speaker 1: And if you do, I don't think you're a good person. Sorry. So, yeah.
54:21
Speaker 1: So I'm talking so much. Another thing is when we
54:27
Speaker 1: met Inukashi, you know, dog lender, just a couple minutes ago,
54:31
Speaker 1: I said that they were a woman. Yeah, so I
54:36
Speaker 1: felt like it was necessary to say what I saw.
54:39
Speaker 1: This person, I mean, they have long hair. They just
54:43
Speaker 1: look like they look like a woman. Like a kind
54:45
Speaker 1: of short, girlish, definitely not like, you know, feminine. But
54:51
Speaker 1: they look like a woman and their voice sounds like
54:54
Speaker 1: it's a female voice. I don't know what Inukashi's gender is. actually.
55:02
Speaker 1: But I do know I'm not supposed to know that
55:05
Speaker 1: they are a woman or, you know, assigned female at birth.
55:08
Speaker 1: And I just think that's weird because you can get
55:11
Speaker 1: away with that in the light novel, no problem, because
55:14
Speaker 1: you can't see the person. But in the anime, and
55:17
Speaker 1: to a lesser extent, also in the manga, this person
55:20
Speaker 1: looks like they are a woman. So you're probably not
55:23
Speaker 1: supposed to know that yet. I'm not supposed to know
55:25
Speaker 1: that yet. But there's no way neither of us would
55:28
Speaker 1: know that. I knew it the first time I watched it.
55:30
Speaker 1: So I didn't want to say, oh, this guy, because
55:32
Speaker 1: it's very clearly not supposed to be a guy. I mean,
55:37
Speaker 1: maybe supposed to be, but not well enough that I
55:39
Speaker 1: would believe it. Yeah. And that's all I have to
55:43
Speaker 1: say this week, I think. Yeah. Yeah. So that's it.
55:50
Speaker 1: Just fair warning. Next week, episode four is my like,
55:54
Speaker 1: I have so many things about that episode that like
55:58
Speaker 1: I am really angry about. So it's going to be
56:01
Speaker 1: a lot, guys, maybe. Or maybe I'll just be in
56:04
Speaker 1: a really bad mood when I record it and then
56:05
Speaker 1: I won't. But I think it's going to be long.
56:09
Speaker 1: And if you watch the fourth episode before, you know,
56:12
Speaker 1: listening to my podcast, which you might, you should probably
56:15
Speaker 1: know what the things that are going to piss me
56:17
Speaker 1: off are. Because there are things that, like, you should,
56:19
Speaker 1: at this point, I feel like you should just know, like, oh,
56:21
Speaker 1: Michelle is really going to hate that. So, yeah, that's
56:26
Speaker 1: what's happening. I'm excited for next week. And I'm going
56:29
Speaker 1: to go... Be a person still, I hope. I'm not
56:35
Speaker 1: really sure I'm a person. But if I am, I'm
56:37
Speaker 1: going to continue, at least for a little while. And
56:40
Speaker 1: I hope you have a really good whatever. And I
56:43
Speaker 1: will see you next time if you choose to continue
56:48
Speaker 1: doing this shit with me. Which you don't have to.
56:52
Speaker 1: I get it. All right. See ya. But if you're
56:57
Speaker 1: still here, yep. I don't know. I'll see you next time. Later, weebs.