A: "Let's just ignore him and leave." B: "Let's try to talk to him again."
A: "Let's just ignore him and leave." B: "Let's try to talk to him again." [X]
YUKARI: "Excuse us?"
YUKARI: "We're sorry to disturb you, but we..."
YUKARI: (I don't think this is going anywhere...)
CHISATO: (No, keep trying! Just say whatever comes to your mind!)
A: "We're looking for our friend..." B: "Where are we?" C: "Chisato, can you take over?" D: "This is pointless. Let's go."
A: "We're looking for our friend..." [X] B: "Where are we?" C: "Chisato, can you take over?" D: "This is pointless. Let's go."
YUKARI: "Excuse me? We came here, because we're looking for our friend... Uh, have you perhaps seen anyone?"
YUKARI: "She has long, brown hair. And she has this cute and innocent look, but her personality is actually pretty ba--"
CHISATO: (Yukari!)
YUKARI: (What, I'm just telling the truth!)
YUKARI: "...?"
YUKARI: "......"
A: "Chisato, can you take over?" B: "Where are we?" C: "This is pointless. Let's go."
A: "Chisato, can you take over?" B: "Where are we?" [X] C: "This is pointless. Let's go."
YUKARI: "Uhm, pardon me, but... Where exactly are we?"
YUKARI: "It seems we have lost our way. Are these... the Katashiro Mountains?"
YUKARI: (See? This is definitely pointless. He isn't listening at all.)
CHISATO: (No, he is. Try talking some more to him, Yukari.)
A: "Chisato, can you take over?" B: "This is pointless. Let's go."
A: "Chisato, can you take over?" [X] B: "This is pointless. Let's go."
YUKARI: (Chisato, can you take over? I don't think he's going to respond to me.)
CHISATO: (Okay...)
CHISATO: "Excuse me..."
CHISATO: "That song you're playing... Is it a sepultural piece?"
YUKARI: (What are you asking? I don't even know what that means!)
CHISATO: (I think that the song he is playing is for the people that have passed away in these mountains. So...)
YUKARI: (In these mountains... That includes Sakura Himegami, right?)
CHISATO: (Yes...)
YUKARI: (Okay, go on!)
CHISATO: "If I could perhaps trouble you with a question..."
CHISATO: "It's about a girl that passed away in these mountains 30 years ago... Her name is Sakura Himegami..."
CHISATO: "Please, if you happen to know anything about her, could you tell us?"
CHISATO: "Our friend should be with her right now..."
CHISATO: "Can you tell us where we can find her?"
CHISATO: "... Actually, it's also fine, if you don't."
CHISATO: "Perhaps you're protecting her. In that case, it's enough, if you can just acknowledge that we are here!"
CHISATO: "That... is all I ask for..."
CHISATO: "Thank you..."
YUKARI: "What the... Chisato, what were you even talking about?!"
YUKARI: "I don't understand what happened!"
CHISATO: "Yukari, let's go. We should be able to get out of here and move forward now."
YUKARI: "What... Hey, wait!"
YUKARI: "That old man..."
CHISATO: "He is here to send off the deceased with his music, to help them move on."
YUKARI: "Move on? Where to?"
CHISATO: "To the same place that Mika is in now, probably."
CHISATO: "Yukari, let's hurry!"
YUKARI: "Got it!"
CHISATO: "......"
YUKARI: "What is it?"
CHISATO: "I feel somebody starting at us..."
YUKARI: "S-stop saying things like that!"
CHISATO: "Yukari, do you want to go back? Because that leads back to the shrine we just came from."
CHISATO: "Is that... an owl?"
YUKARI: "That's the first time I'm seeing a real one..."
CHISATO: "......"
CHISATO: "Ah...! Yukari! Quick, we need to follow it!"
YUKARI: "What...?! W-wait!"
CHISATO: "There..."
YUKARI: "......!!!"
YUKARI: "This place..."
CHISATO: "......"
SAKURA: "Mika..."
SAKURA: "Do you know what Hinashiro is?"
MIKA: "Hinashiro? That's the name of our school, right?" [Mika uses the spelling 雛城, which is also used for the name of their school and their town.]
SAKURA: "No, I'm talking about a different spelling. 'Hina' is the same [雛 = doll], but 'shiro' is the character that can mean «substitute» or «sacrifice» [代]."
SAKURA: "It refers to dolls."
MIKA: "Hmm..."
[The way she explained it, Hinashiro could be translated as "sacrificial dolls". She also used the term O-Hina-sama to refer to these dolls, which is a term that usually refers to one of the dolls of the Hina-matsuri, the annual Doll Festival in Japan.]
MIKA: "Now that you mention it, the first time I saw you here, you reminded me of something."
MIKA: "And now I know what. You remind me of an O-Hina-sama doll!"
MIKA: "It must be, because you're so perfectly beautiful. You even have such straight hair and all that... I guess, this is what some would call a full-blooded Japanese beauty."
SAKURA: "I wonder..."
SAKURA: "But, you know, Mika..."
SAKURA: "The purpose of an O-Hina-sama... was to absorb a girl's misfortune completely... and then be thrown into the river and carried away by it, so that the girl can grow up healthy and sound."
SAKURA: "In other words, it's a sacrifice offered up in exchange for a girl's good fortune and happiness."
MIKA: "......"
SAKURA: "It's a sad existence, don't you think?"
SAKURA: "To be washed away all alone..."
SAKURA: "And to remain alone forever wherever you get washed up..."
SAKURA: "The wind rises… We must try to live." [This is from a French poem by Paul Valéry. The novel she's been reading, «The Wind Rises», deals with this verse. In the novel, a woman is dying of tuberculosis and this verse gives her husband the strength to keep on living.]
SAKURA: "The meaning of these verses is that one should never give up on life."
SAKURA: "To always keep a positive outlook on life..."
SAKURA: "Despite being filled with sadness in the face of an inevitable death..."
SAKURA: "When I look at you, Mika..."
SAKURA: "You have such a positive, forward-looking attitude..."
SAKURA: "It's like your whole body is overflowing with a radiance of life..."
SAKURA: "That... is something we don't have..."
SAKURA: "A washed away doll lacks the radiance of life."
SAKURA: "Because it was not allowed to keep on living, no matter how much it wanted to."
SAKURA: "That's the reason why..."
SAKURA: "...we..."
SAKURA: "...brought you..."
MIKA: "Sakura..."
MIKA: "Are you saying, you're an O-Hina-sama, as well...?"
SAKURA: "The same goes for you, Mika."
MIKA: "Hmm...? I'm an O-Hina-sama, too...?"
SAKURA: "Yes..."
SAKURA: "And so..."
SAKURA: "We will always be together..."
SAKURA: "Just stay here, forever..."
YUKARI: "Where the hell... are we...?"
CHISATO: "I wonder..."
CHISATO: "It's so calm and peaceful here... It's like a cemetery..."
YUKARI: "Seriously, though, where on earth are we?"
YUKARI: "It was already fairly dark when we left school, wasn't it?"
YUKARI: "So why is it so bright here?"
CHISATO: "I don't know... But I think we're still in the mountains behind school."
CHISATO: "This place seems to be a bit different from what you can see from behind our school, but still..."
YUKARI: "Hmm..."
YUKARI: "Chisato?"
CHISATO: "......"
YUKARI: "Ah...!"
YUKARI: "What the hell..."
A: "I feel kind of sorry for them..." B: "What are these doing in a place like this..." C: "Let's try and pick them up..."
A: "I feel kind of sorry for them..." [X] B: "What are these doing in a place like this..." C: "Let's try and pick them up..."
YUKARI: "I feel... kind of sorry for them..."
CHISATO: "I know what you mean... But you shouldn't sympathise with them too much."
CHISATO: "The emotions of these little ones... Comforting them is beyond our power."
CHISATO: "Don't get too close to them, or you'll be swallowed up by their emotions yourself..."
CHISATO: "They will probably start talking... They'll open their mouth and tell you that they want to be with you forever..."
A: "But still..." B: "You're right, let's leave them and go on."
A: "But still..." B: "You're right, let's leave them and go on." [X]
YUKARI: "I see... I'm sorry."
CHISATO: "It's fine. Let's just... go on."
YUKARI: "Yeah..."
CHISATO: (I'm sorry...)
MIKA: "That place is really awesome!"
MIKA: "It's for members only, so you hardly get any weird customers or anything like that!"
MIKA: "Plus, the DJ is really conscious of the crowd and even takes requests. It's THE place, if you want to dance your heart out!"
MIKA: "You should go there with me some day, too!"
MIKA: "I can even introduce you to my friends, Yukari and Chisato!"
MIKA: "Yukari... and Chisato..."
SAKURA: "Mika?"
MIKA: "That reminds me... I was supposed to walk home with them today..."
MIKA: "Sakura, how long have I been here already?"
MIKA: "I... don't quite remember, but I feel like I came here without even telling them..."
MIKA: "They're going to get mad at me, if I don't contact them..."
MIKA: "I think she has constant calcium deficiency or something... Never eats at home and all that..." [Some people link calcium deficiency to mood disorders, which is probably what this refers to.]
SAKURA: "I see..."
SAKURA: "But... I want to learn even more about you, Mika!"
MIKA: "But..."
SAKURA: "Tell me more, Mika!"
SAKURA: "Go on!"
SAKURA: "I..."
SAKURA: "I want to know more about you!"
MIKA: "......"
CHISATO: "This... looks exactly like that shrine we saw in the mountains..."
YUKARI: "You think so? I think it just resembles it a bit. They all are built the same way, anyway, aren't they?"
YUKARI: "Plus, that one wasn't as run-down as this one."
CHISATO: "No... This is the same shrine!"
CHISATO: "Or at least... Its object of worship is the same... I think."
YUKARI: "......"
CHISATO: "Hey, Yukari. Won't you go inside with me?"
A: "Okay, let's check it out." B: "This is unrelated. Let's go on."