YUKARI: "Hasegawa residence. Hello?"
GIRL: "Hello? Ah, Shizuka, is that you?"
YUKARI: "What?"
YUKARI: "Uh, no, this is Yukari Hasegawa."
VARIOUS GIRLS' VOICES: «No way! What the hell kind of name is that? What an embarrassing name! Sounds so stupid! Bye, bye!»
YUKARI: "... Kids these days! What a bunch of rude brats!"
YUKARI: "Hasegawa residence. Hello?"
VOICE: "Ah, hello, this is the home delivery service!"
VOICE: "I came to deliver a package at around 2 p.m., but unfortunately no one was home at that time. Would it be fine, if I tried again now?"
YUKARI: "Sure, that's fine."
YUKARI: "How long would it take you to get here?"
VOICE: "Hm, let's see... From my current location I'd say it takes about 15 minutes."
VOICE: "It's a package with refrigerated goods, so it would be great, if I could deliver it today."
VOICE: "Okay, then. I'll head there straight away."
YUKARI: "Understood."
VOICE: "Alright, goodbye!"
YUKARI: (What's taking him so long...? That deliveryman said he'd be here in about 15 minutes.)
YUKARI: (I'm pretty sure, a lot more than that has passed by now.)
YUKARI: "Huh...?"
YUKARI: (The clock has stopped again...)
CHISATO: "Hello, this is Chisato Itsushima. Can I speak to Yukari Hasegawa?"
YUKARI: "Chisato, it's me!"
CHISATO: "Ah, Yukari? Are you alright? Did you get any strange phone calls?"
YUKARI: "No, I'm fine. Just had a call from the home delivery service, and a call from some annoying brats who'd dialed the wrong number."
CHISATO: "I see... That's a relief."
YUKARI: "I'm telling you, you're worrying too much."
CHISATO: "Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case. What Mika said was true after all."
CHISATO: "Since long ago, many cases of the deceased trying to contact the living have apparently been documented..."
CHISATO: "For example, a letter from someone already deceased would arrive. Haven't you heard of stories like that yourself?"
YUKARI: "Even if that were true... There isn't anyone among the people I know who recently passed away!"
CHISATO: "Try to think carefully..."
CHISATO: "It's highly unusual that a deceased would try to contact you, who has no relationship to you whatsoever."
CHISATO: "Usually, such contact comes from someone who had a positive attachment to you."
CHISATO: "But that person's strong attachment to you also means that they don't want to be separated from you. And so..."
A: "Enough!" B: "And so... what?"
A: "Enough!" B: "And so... what?" [X]
YUKARI: "So... what?"
CHISATO: "So they come to take you with them."
YUKARI: "Well, then I just shouldn't pick up the phone, right?"
CHISATO: "... No matter who you are, being outright ignored never feels good, does it?"
CHISATO: "And the dead are particularly prone to being overcome and controlled by a single emotion. You should not cause that emotion to become a negative one."
YUKARI: "......"
CHISATO: "At any rate, I'll do some more research and get back to you, okay?"
CHISATO: "There should be a way out of your predicament..."
YUKARI: "Thanks..."
YUKARI: "But what am I supposed to..."
CHISATO: "I'll call you back, once I know that. Until then, please take care."
CHISATO: "Because... if you got one message from a deceased, then that means the passage to their realm has been opened."
CHISATO: "But it's not a given that all incoming phone calls from the other side will be... benign."
CHISATO: "If you have a bad feeling about a phone call, then you'd better not answer it, okay?"
YUKARI: "Okay..."
YUKARI: "... But how am I supposed to tell which one is dangerous and which one isn't..."
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "Well, first of all I should do something about the clock again."
YUKARI: (I hope I still have some spare batteries.)
YUKARI: (But even if I do, first I need to know what time it actually is...)
[Sorry, I didn't mean to examine that again.]
YUKARI: "Let's see..."
A: Was it 177? B: I should try calling Chisato again. C: It's 117, isn't it?
A: Was it 177? B: I should try calling Chisato again. C: It's 117, isn't it? [X]
ANNOUNCER: "At the next sound it will be exactly midnight."
YUKARI: "What the...!"
YUKARI: "I can't fix the clock like this..."
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "Hello? Hasegawa residence speaking."
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "Something's happening..."
YUKARI: "This is definitely strange..."
YUKARI: (That's right! I got Aramata's phone number from Mika!)
YUKARI: (That old guy might know something...)
YUKARI: (Where did I put that number again...)
YUKARI: "I usually keep stuff like that around here..."
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "There it is!"
YUKARI: "Yep, this is the right one!"
YUKARI: "With this I can call that old guy..."
YUKARI: "Hello... Is this Heibonsha?"
YUKARI: "Uhm... Is Aramata... Ah, yes, please."
YUKARI: "Hello? Uh... Ehm... My name is Yukari Hasegawa."
YUKARI: "I'm, uh, Mika Kishii's..."
ARAMATA: "Ah, you are the one Mika is always talking about."
ARAMATA: "I have heard a lot about you."
YUKARI: "Uh, yeah, nice to meet you..."
ARAMATA: "So, what did you call me for?""
YUKARI: "Ah, yes, actually..."
A: "Is it true that you can get phone calls from the dead?" B: "I'm getting weird phone calls." C: "My clock is broken."
A: "Is it true that you can get phone calls from the dead?" [X] B: "I'm getting weird phone calls." C: "My clock is broken."
YUKARI: "Uhm... Last night I received a strange phone call... The person on the other end kept saying nothing but 'Hey...'."
YUKARI: "When I mentioned this the next day, Mika claimed that it must have been a phone call from a deceased person and that that person would come and take me with them, if I don't answer the phone again..."
YUKARI: "Does something like that actually exist?"
ARAMATA: "Hmmm... I'm not that familiar with the basis of this rumour."
ARAMATA: "But there are well-known variations of the dead contacting the living."
ARAMATA: "For instance, legends where a dead person sent a letter or something similar have been told since long ago."
YUKARI: "So... It's true?"
ARAMATA: "I suppose you could say... the possibility exists?"
ARAMATA: "If that phone call you received last night truly came from a deceased, then I think you should be careful."
ARAMATA: "You should consider the possibility that due to that contact last night, the line of your house might have been opened up to the spirit world..."
A: "What kind of calls will I receive?!" B: "This is a waste of time!" C: "The spirit world...?"
A: "What kind of calls will I receive?!" B: "This is a waste of time!" C: "The spirit world...?" [X]
YUKARI: "The spirit world...? What exactly do you mean?"
ARAMATA: "The first phone call might have acted like a trigger that caused your telephone line to connect to the other side, the spirit world..."
ARAMATA: "Which means you may get phone calls from not just that one deceased person, but from all kinds of people from the other side..."
YUKARI: "Wait, so now all the phone calls I get will be from dead people!?"
ARAMATA: "Ahaha, of course not. This call of yours got through to me just fine, did it not?"
ARAMATA: "The border between this world and the other side really isn't as clear-cut as you think."
ARAMATA: "That is to say: If your telephone line truly has entered a connection with the spirit world, then it is one of rather unstable nature."
ARAMATA: "It would be quite likely that the connection to the spirit world and the actual telephone lines of our world could overlap in such a situation."
YUKARI: "But... Why is this even happening..."
ARAMATA: "A good question, yes. I would assume that somebody's strong «emotion» has caused this change to the line of your house.
YUKARI: "Somebody's emotion...?"
ARAMATA: "Exactly. Somebody must have strong feelings for you that caused this."
ARAMATA: "Most phenomena involving ghosts work this way."
ARAMATA: "They can be thought of as the manifestation of somebody's strong emotion that has crossed the border between our world and the world of the dead."
YUKARI: "So you're saying someone is bearing a grudge against me?"
YUKARI: "I didn't even do anything!"
ARAMATA: "Oh, no, strong emotions are not limited to grudges, hatred and the like!"
ARAMATA: "Let me give you an example of..."
YUKARI: "Hm? Hello...?"
YUKARI: "Hello?"
YUKARI: "Are you still there?!"
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "I got disconnected..."
A: I'll try calling somewhere else. B: Enough of this...
A: I'll try 119. [Fire and ambulance.] B: I'll try 110. [Police.]
A: I'll try 119. [Fire and ambulance.] [X] B: I'll try 110. [Police.]
GIRL: "Hello, this is Alice."
YUKARI: "What..."
ALICE: "And who are you?"
ALICE: "Daddy is still in the study room."
ALICE: "No..."
ALICE: "I cannot go back home."
YUKARI: "......"
ALICE: "The hole is long and dark and has no end."
ALICE: "We were solving riddles."
ALICE: "But the king got one wrong."
ALICE: "And... off came the head."
ALICE: "The result was... death!"
ALICE: "Death!"
[I have no idea what that was all about... It might be a reference to Alice in Wonderland. But still... Why, though?
YUKARI: "......"
A: That's enough... B: I'll try 110. [Police.]
A: That's enough... B: I'll try 110. [Police.] [X]
VOICE: "Winter was coming to an end."
VOICE: "During one of the last snowfalls, that occasionally formed as if they were rebelling against the approaching spring, Ayako gazed at the snowflakes falling from the sky with a strange feeling."
VOICE: "The snowflakes would often dance upwards, stand still, then get hit by the wind and flutter around again, before eventually reaching the ground. The sight of this made Ayako lose all sense of time."
VOICE: "She remembered the time when the first cherry blossoms had started to bloom."
VOICE: "She recalled the sight of the city that she had looked down upon from the train's window on her first day of commuting to work. It had shocked her, how – for lack of a better word – expressionless the city looked. It had felt like the city rejected her, towering before her like a being that tried to display its power."
VOICE: "The news she had gotten from Masahito that spring..."
YUKARI: "I'm... pretty sure I didn't dial the wrong number..."
A: I'll try 119 once more. [Fire and ambulance.] B: I'll try 110 once more. [Police.] C: I've had enough.
A: I'll try 119 once more. [Fire and ambulance.] [X] B: I'll try 110 once more. [Police.] C: I've had enough.
VOICE: "You are calling outside our business hours. Please try again tomorrow. Thank you for your call."
YUKARI: (What the... Since when does 119 have business hours...) VOICE: "You are calling outside our business hours. Please try again tomorrow. Thank you for your call."
YUKARI: "What the hell is going on..."
A: I've had enough. B: Try 110 again. [Police.]
A: I've had enough. [X] B: Try 110 again. [Police.]
YUKARI: "It's no use..."
YUKARI: "No matter what I dial, I don't get properly connected..."
YUKARI: (What should I do...)