YUKARI: "Excuse me? Where are--"
OLD MAN: "Welcome! Welcome!"
OLD MAN: "This is such a great town!"
OLD MAN: "My gout had been so bad, so painful... but it is finally gone."
OLD MAN: "It's all thanks to this town's warm twilight..."
OLD MAN: "I feel so happy."
OLD MAN: "I wonder why? I don't really know and I can barely remember anything, but... I am just so happy..."
OLD MAN: "I'll finally be crossing the bridge."
OLD MAN: "You should, too..."
OLD MAN: "You should hurry up and get ready to cross the bridge, as well..."
YUKARI: "......"
MIKA: "Yukari... Chisato..."
CHISATO: "Let's go, Yukari."
MIKA: "Hey, this is a church!"
YUKARI: "Really?"
MIKA: "Yeah, I feel like I... went to a kindergarten with a church like this. Probably..."
CHISATO: "Probably?"
MIKA: "I don't quite remember..."
MIKA: "But I also remember singing hymnals and all, so I guess I did go to a place that had a church?"
YUKARI: "You? Hymnals?!"
MIKA: "You don't believe me, do you?"
MIKA: "Fine. I'll sing one to you! Listen up!"
MIKA: "...... ...Huh?"
MIKA: "I can't remember..."
YUKARI: "More like, you didn't know one from the start?"
MIKA: "No, that's... not true... I... I think..."
CHISATO: "Yukari, we have to hurry, or things will end terrible for us..."
YUKARI: "Hurry? Where to? And why will things be terrible?"
CHISATO: "We won't be able to go back to our world... I think... Probably..."
YUKARI: "Our world... But, we don't even know where our world or where this world is... or where we are right now..."
MIKA: "I... kind of feel like I don't even care anymore."
MIKA: "It is actually pretty warm and pleasant here, don't you think?"
MIKA: "Maybe it isn't so bad here, after all?"
CHISATO: "No! Please! Don't let this town win you over!"
CHISATO: "Yukari, let's hurry!"
YUKARI: "But... where can we still go?"
CHISATO: "Let's just try this church!"
CHISATO: "Maybe someone's there that can help us!"
YUKARI: "There doesn't seem to be anyone here."
CHISATO: "But then why is there music?"
MIKA: "Hey, there should be a priest in here."
YUKARI: "But there's no sign of anyone."
YUKARI: "Are you sure it's not just empty?"
MIKA: "Let's go inside and check."
CHISATO: "All three of us?!"
MIKA: "Well, it's not like we're planning to make a confession, right? So who cares."
MIKA: "If someone's really in there, he might know a way out of this town."
YUKARI: "That's true."
MIKA: "Ugh, cramming in here with three people is not exactly the most comfortable ever..."
YUKARI: "And now what?"
MIKA: "We call for the priest."
MIKA: "Father?"
MIKA: "Please listen to the confession of us lost sheep..."
YUKARI: "Are you really sure there's anybody in here?"
CHISATO: "Shhh!"
PRIEST: "Welcome, my children."
PRIEST: "I shall listen to your confession. Please speak without reservation."
MIKA: "Uhm, father... Actually, we..."
MIKA: "We didn't really come here for a confession."
PRIEST: "You did not?"
MIKA: "Yes... The truth is..."
CHISATO: "There is something we would like to ask you."
PRIEST: "......"
PRIEST: "So you are troubled by something... Very well, we shall talk about it then."
PRIEST: "I will do my best to be of help to you, if I can."
A: "What exactly is this town?" B: "We've forgotten how to get home."
A: "What exactly is this town?" B: "We've forgotten how to get home." [X]
CHISATO: "The truth is, we have become lost and would like to leave this town as soon as possible."
CHISATO: "Do you happen to know of a way to do so, father?"
PRIEST: "A way to leave this town...?"
PRIEST: "The only way to leave this town is to cross the bridge."
PRIEST: "When the time comes, you too shall--"
YUKARI: "You don't understand! We want to leave this town without crossing that bridge!"
PRIEST: "......"
PRIEST: "That is a predicament."
PRIEST: "For there is but one exit to this town to begin with."
PRIEST: "And that is to cross that bridge when your time comes, after you have bathed in this town's twilight for long enough..."
PRIEST: "After all, that is the purpose of this town."
PRIEST: "So, by the very nature of this town's purpose, there are no people leaving the way they came."
YUKARI: "So what you're saying is... there is no other way?"
PRIEST: "I wonder... At least to the best of my knowledge there is none."
A: "We are slowly losing our memories." B: "What exactly is this town?"
A: "We are slowly losing our memories." [X] B: "What exactly is this town?"
CHISATO: "It seems we are slowly losing our memories."
CHISATO: "If this goes on, we will eventually not be able to remember anything anymore..."
CHISATO: "Is that this town's doing, as well?"
PRIEST: "Forgetfulness is a gentle and merciful thing."
PRIEST: "It means that God's blessing is nigh."
YUKARI: "God's blessing..."
YUKARI: "You mean we are about to die...?"
YUKARI: "No... I don't want to die!"
YUKARI: "I have so many things I don't want to forget!"
PRIEST: "To live simply means to accumulate memories that chain you down."
RIEST: "Some people, when suddenly cut from life, find it hard to let go of their treasured memories."
PRIEST: "But that is only, because they are still bound to their fleshly body."
PRIEST: "The path after one's death... It is a journey only for the clean and pure soul."
PRIEST: "Please be at ease and worry not."
PRIEST: "Just entrust yourself to this town and let it release your spirit..."
YUKARI: "You don't understand... We can't let that happen..."
YUKARI: "We're not actually dead! We're still alive!"
PRIEST: "You claim to be alive?"
PRIEST: "But it should not be possible for the living to come to this town."
PRIEST: "Many who died simply cannot accept their own death and thus--"
YUKARI: "No! That's not it!"
YUKARI: "We're different... We really ARE alive!"
PRIEST: "...... That is most curious."
PRIEST: "If what you claim is the truth and you ended up in this town, even though you are still alive, then there must be some sort of reason behind that."
PRIEST: "Something that caused you to accidentally come here..."
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "I can't remember... I can't remember, but... But..."
PRIEST: "......"
PRIEST: "Somehow or other, a strange fate seems to have brought you here."
PRIEST: "Hm. It is not entirely unthinkable that someone who got too close to the world of the dead..."
PRIEST: "...could get sucked into this town by some sort of stimulus or impulse."
PRIEST: "Have you ever, in some way or another, had contact with the world of the dead?"
PRIEST: "Is there anything you remember about the moment you came to this world? Or anything that could have caused you to end up here?"
YUKARI: "......"
A: "There was this distant thunder..." B: "There was this slide..." C: "I remember something about a little girl..."
A: "There was this distant thunder..." B: "There was this slide..." [X] C: "I remember something about a little girl..."
YUKARI: "We... slid down a slide on a playground."
PRIEST: "A slide?"
YUKARI: "Yes, we repeatedly went up and slid down."
PRIEST: "So, in a way, you went in circles several times in the same location."
PRIEST: "Perhaps you have opened the gates to this place in doing so."
PRIEST: "However, that in itself should not have been enough to actually bring you here."
PRIEST: "Was there anything else of interest?"
A: "We were looking for a little girl..." B: "We heard distant thunder..."
A: "We were looking for a little girl..." [X] B: "We heard distant thunder..."
YUKARI: "I just remembered..."
YUKARI: "We were looking for a little girl."
PRIEST: "And who is this little girl?"
YUKARI: "A girl I know. I don't remember her face or her name anymore, though..."
PRIEST: "Is she perhaps your younger sister?"
YUKARI: "I barely... remember, but... No..."
PRIEST: "It's possible that young children – by virtue of having been given life just fairly recently – can cross the border between life and death more easily."
PRIEST: "If there is some sort of strong bond that connects you and this little girl, then I suppose it is not impossible that she is the one that has accidentally lead all of you here."
YUKARI: "No, that can't be it... I barely knew her..."
YUKARI: "I don't even remember her name."
PRIEST: "I see..."
PRIEST: "Then... How about you yourself?"
PRIEST: "Did you feel lost in your life? Is there some kind of doubt towards the value of your own life that you carried within you?"
A: "That... might be the case..." B: "Not at all!"
A: "That... might be the case..." [X] B: "Not at all!"
YUKARI: "Maybe... Maybe I..."
PRIEST: "The thought seems to be familiar to you?"
PRIEST: "It may be that these feelings inside you have caused you to slip through the opened gate into this town."
YUKARI: "In other words, I'm the one who dragged Chisato and Mika into this?!"
PRIEST: "It cannot be denied that that might be the case."
YUKARI: "What... What should I do..."
PRIEST: "Not even I can give you a clear answer to that."
PRIEST: "This is an issue that comes from within you."
PRIEST: "You will need to solve whatever troubles you inside, in order to find the answer to that question."
YUKARI: "Are you kidding me... How am I supposed to do that, if I can barely remember anything at this point!"
PRIEST: "Unfortunately, that answer lies not within me."
PRIEST: "I'm afraid this is all I can tell you."
PRIEST: "You need to return to the town and find the answer yourself."
PRIEST: "But beware of one thing..."
PRIEST: "If you find yourself in front of a bridge, under no circumstances may you cross it!"
PRIEST: "Those who cross that bridge will not be able to ever return from the other side."
YUKARI: "......"
MIKA: "Yukari..."
YUKARI: "What is all this... What is going on here?"
YUKARI: "If this goes on... If we end up not being able to return..."
YUKARI: "It's my fault. It's all my fault, isn't it?"
YUKARI: "I'm sure it were my feelings that brought us here... It was me who dragged you into this."
CHISATO: "Yukari, calm down."
MIKA: "Yeah, what she said! None of us is blaming you for this!"
MIKA: "Actually, I don't even remember anymore why we ended up this way, anyway."
CHISATO: "...We need to continue, Yukari."
YUKARI: "Yes..."
YUKARI: "But now what?"
YUKARI: "How am I supposed to find an answer to anything, if I barely remember anything anymore?!"
CHISATO: "Please, stay calm."
CHISATO: "For now... let us look around and maybe we can find some clues."
CHISATO: "Just like the priest suggested..."
MIKA: "......"
MIKA: "Yukari... Chisato... Can you remember your family? Their faces?"
YUKARI: "......"
MIKA: "I forgot... I don't know what my big brother looked like anymore..."
MIKA: "Same goes for my mom and dad... Their faces are so blurry... so vague..."
CHISATO: "Yukari, we need to hurry..."
WIND CHIME PATH
MIKA: "Huh?"
MIKA: "This place..."
YUKARI: "Haven't we been here before?"
CHISATO: "......"
CHISATO: "Let's go..."
PATH WITH PRIVATE HOUSES
BACK ALLEY
YUKARI: "Hello?"
WORKER: "......"
CHISATO: "He's sleeping..."
WOODEN FENCE PATH
WOMAN: "Hey, ask me what my name is!"
YUKARI: "Huh...?"
WOMAN: "Hihi... I have no idea."
WOMAN: "Ask me how old I am!"
YUKARI: "Uhm..."
WOMAN: "Hihi... I have no idea."
WOMAN: "I have forgotten everything."
WOMAN: "I will cross the bridge."
WOMAN: "Will you cross the bridge, too?"
WOMAN: "Isn't it wonderful?"
WOMAN: "I feel like I'm melting in this twilight..."
YUKARI: "......"
MIKA: "Ah... Ah!"
MIKA: "How beautiful..."
CHISATO: "This sunset is so bright, it's somewhat frightening..."
MIKA: "It's kinda... warm..."
YUKARI: "It feels so good... It feels like I'm just melting..."
YUKARI: "What a beautiful sunset..."
MIKA: "Haaah... I have already completely forgotten what my parents look like!"
MIKA: "What an ungrateful daughter I am, huh!"
YUKARI: "I'd say that's something that was already true long before we came here."
MIKA: "Hahaha! But, you know... I still remember everything about you."
YUKARI: "Do you now? I must be quite important to you, huh."
MIKA: "Of course you are! There is no way I could ever forget you!"
MIKA: "Not when I'm so head-over-heels for you!"
CHISATO: "Oh? Was that perhaps... a confession? Yukari, what will you do?"
YUKARI: "Uh, well..."
YUKARI: "Thank you, Mika. I'm not forgetting you, either."
MIKA: "Hihi... It feels like we're about to enter lewd territory..."
YUKARI: "I'll just forget about that..."
YUKARI: "Chisato..."
CHISATO: "Hm?"
YUKARI: "Do you remember the song you taught me when we were children? The one you sing while drawing a picture."
CHISATO: "Ah, the one with Mr. Cook?"
YUKARI: "Yes. How did it go again?"
YUKARI: "Uhm..."
CHISATO: "Let's all sing it together."
YUKARI: "Okay!"
YUKARI: "There's a bridge down there..."
MIKA: "Wanna go check it out?"
YUKARI: "Yeah, maybe we can use it to get to the other side."
YUKARI: "Let's go."
CHISATO: "......"
YUKARI: "......"
YUKARI: "A bridge..."
CHISATO: "Yukari, no! Don't cross it!"
YUKARI: "Huh?"
CHISATO: "You cannot cross this bridge!"
CHISATO: "We... I remember..."
YUKARI: "......"
CHISATO: "Just vaguely, but... I remember..."
CHISATO: "We've been told... if we cross this bridge... then it's all over."
MIKA: "......"
MIKA: "Yeah, I kinda... remember that, too..."
CHISATO: "Yukari!"
YUKARI: "Chisato... What's wrong? This sunset is so beautiful..."
YUKARI: "If I go across this bridge, I'll be able to see it even better..."
CHISATO: "No... Yukari, come back!"
MIKA: "Yukari!"
CHISATO: "Yukari! Yukari! Come back!!"
A: "I want to see an even more beautiful sunset..." B: "Fine. I'm coming back."
A: "I want to see an even more beautiful sunset..." B: "Fine. I'm coming back." [X]
YUKARI: "Fine. I'm going back."
YUKARI: "Yes, I'm going back..."
CHISATO: "Yukari, no... Yukari~!!!"
CHISATO: "What should we do... She crossed it..."
MIKA: "Maybe we should follow h--"
CHISATO: "No! Do not cross this bridge at any cost!"
CHISATO: "We'll never come back!"
MIKA: "But... then what should we do?"
CHISATO: "Hm..."
CHISATO: "That priest... That priest in the church, maybe he will be able to help us once more."
CHISATO: "Let's return to that church, Mika."
CHISATO: "...Where was it again?"
MIKA: "I don't know... But I don't think it's anywhere near this place..."
CHISATO: "......"
CHISATO: "This train station... It says, it goes to Hinashiro! But it's the old spelling...* I wonder, if it'll bring us back to that town?" [*The one that was also brought up in Rumour 5.]
MIKA: "Wait... You're actually gonna board this thing?!"
CHISATO: "It might bring us back to that town. We have to try it!"
MIKA: "We have no idea, if that's true! Who knows where we'll end up!"
CHISATO: "We have no idea where anything leads, anyway!"
CHISATO: "But that town... I think it is our Hinashiro, after all."
CHISATO: "I'm getting on the train now."
MIKA: "Ah! Don't leave me here!"
MIKA: "Chisato, are you sure this will bring us back to that town?"
CHISATO: "No, I'm not..."
CHISATO: "But what's the alternative? Walk all the way? We don't even know, if we'd ever reach the town."
CHISATO: "So we just have to trust this works."
MIKA: "Dear God..."
MIKA: "We're back at the church..."
MIKA: "How did we even get here?"
CHISATO: "This town is very unstable."
CHISATO: "Let's hurry, Mika. The town might change faster than we know it."
CHISATO: "Father..."
PRIEST: "So you have returned..."
PRIEST: "Oh? But where is that young lady from before?"
CHISATO: "The bridge... She... Yukari crossed that bridge!"
CHISATO: "What can we do..."
PRIEST: "I see... It is just as I thought, then."
CHISATO: "What do you mean?"
PRIEST: "That young lady was a very sensitive and susceptible person."
PRIEST: "But due to that, she carried a very unstable part within herself."
CHISATO: "Then..."
PRIEST: "I'm afraid, it is very much true, that that young lady is the one who unintentionally brought you here to this town."
PRIEST: "But now that she has left, the reason that tied you to this town has disappeared. There is no reason for you to be bound by this place, anymore."
CHISATO: "But...! I need to help Yukari!"
PRIEST: "Please do not attempt this, as it is useless."
PRIEST: "She has crossed that bridge."
PRIEST: "Even though she belongs to the world of the living, she has crossed that bridge."
PRIEST: "Who knows what that will do to her..."
PRIEST: "But whatever that is, you cannot do anything for her anymore."
PRIEST: "She alone will have to deal with this."
CHISATO: "No! We can't just leave her behind like that!"
MIKA: "Father, please tell us, how we can save her!"
PRIEST: "......"
PRIEST: "It appears, she is blessed with truly wonderful friends..."
PRIEST: "If there is one thing that might save her, it is that fact in itself..."
CHISATO: "What...?"
MIKA: "Ah!"
CHISATO: "Father... Father!"
INAGAKI: "...so please give my regards to your mother."
CHISATO: "...?!"
INAGAKI: "Chisato Itsushima! Are you even listening?"
CHISATO: "Huh...? Uh... Yes...?"
INAGAKI: "You seemed to be absent-minded a lot during the last school term, as well, actually."
INAGAKI: "What is going on with you?"
INAGAKI: "Haven't your grades also gotten somewhat worse than during your first year at Hinashiro High School?"
INAGAKI: "That wouldn't happen to be due to the influence of a certain someone behind you?"
MIKA: "Wh... what?"
INAGAKI: "Mika Kishii, summer vacation or not, you should still act more responsible and not make merry all night!"
INAGAKI: "Especially since Miss Itsushima seems to be easily influenced by your lifestyle."
INAGAKI: "I do hope I won't see you loitering about in the city so late every day now."
MIKA: "Why did the priest turn into one of our teachers...?"
MIKA: "Chisato, what's going on here?"
MIKA: "Did we just wake up from a bad dream?"
CHISATO: "It seems, we've returned to our world..."
MIKA: "Then what about Yukari...? So that town and all that... it wasn't a dream?"
CHISATO: "Let us look for her..."
MIKA: "What?"
CHISATO: "I'm sure she'll come back..."
CHISATO: "And if she doesn't, then we'll go there once more and bring her back!"
CHISATO: "Let's go!"
MIKA: "Yes!"