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Now, let us open the door

and start our adventure

Let us find the answer

leading to a true and just future

I want to do this, I want to do that

Enthralled by greed

I don't want this

,

I don't want that

,

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

I'm full of contradictions

When we are

all present

all present

When all our lies

are present

Now, let us open the door

and start our adventure

Let us find the answer

leading to a true and just future

Remember our boundless regret

Remember our boundless regret

with eyes averted

Hear the mistakes we amassed

with ears held

with ears held

with ears held

with ears held

Pray we don't do it again

Pray we don't do it again

Koyomi

Mountain

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Ougi, aren’t you going to tell me soon?

Why exactly are we trekking up this mountain?

Now, now, Araragi.

Haven’t I already explained that to you?

Had she?

She may have done so.

Surely I'd heard some sort of reason,

and I'm carelessly forgetting it...

Mountains are said to be the places where gods reside.

I consider it to be my 'main field', or something like that.

Mountains are, well, how should I put it,

somewhat similar to oddities.

So it’s my specialty, to put it shortly.

I understand why a shrine was placed on the summit, too.

Although, the Shrine of the Polar Snake and this mountain used to be completely unrelated.

They say that forcibly bringing together

unrelated things produces conflict, though, right?

Conflict?

Ah, please ignore that.

Regretably there were mistakes in the initial stages,

so now it's a matter which needs endlessly redoing.

Have people said that this shrine being built on the mountain a long time ago was a mistake?

I’m...

here to fix that mistake.

Is this it?

Yeah, it is.

That’s what Oshino told me to put here.

Well, just barely in this case, but

a tentative balance has been attained.

The ground's atmosphere feels refreshing too.

Refreshing, huh?

Yes.

To be able to call this a gathering place for 'bad things' became difficult at some point, at least.

Naturally, as on the last day of summer vacation,

Shinobu and I had completely 'refreshed’ this place.

Although, me coming here today could be another matter…

What are you doing, Ougi?

Like a monkey, or maybe a cat.

The snake god is a representative,

but are you aware of how snakes became deified here, though they are not on the level of gods?

How snakes were deified…

It’s not as if they serve any purpose to the lives of humans like cows or horses.

And they don’t live close either. There were more candidates, like bugs or worms.

Why do you think this is?

Why…

If I remember correctly,

That’s right.

Snakes are supposed to be symbols of immortality or rebirth, I think?

You’ve come up with the right answer all of a sudden.

Snakes shed their skin in order to grow, after all.

Thinking about the secretive nature of snakes,

it’s possible that the skin left behind is more noticeable than the snakes themselves.

Well, in an era when biology wasn't as advanced as now,

if you had managed to observe a snake shedding,

you’d want to start considering it sacred.

The problem right now is cleaning up the affairs of this shrine.

Cleaning up this Shrine of the Polar Snake, which over a thousand years ago

enshrined a snake that lived over a thousand years.

You could also say it’s cleaning up after my uncle.

What do you mean?

Haven't we already taken care of the situation where it could become a gathering place?

I’ll say this in a way that’s easy to understand.

My uncle, after the invasion of the typhoon named Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade

was successful in cleaning up

But I wonder, And I think my uncle was being naive here,

But it’s true that if another oddity on the level of Heart-Under-Blade visited,

there is no countermeasure for that, right?

Instead of just keeping the peace for the present,

I believe we should form a countermeasure for the gathering place itself for the next time.

Without a gathering place, there would be no place for the 'bad things’ to gather.

You said about how the shrine being on this mountain,

was a mistake in the early stages which set things off balance.

But it’s not something a high school girl like you can do something about now, right?

It’s not like we can just move the shrine somewhere else at this point.

Yes, that’s right.

Speaking of history, Araragi.

The truth is, this shrine, the Shrine of the Polar Snake, used to be in a completely different location.

Completely different?

Yes. At that point, even the name was different but for a certain reason,

it was transferred to this mountain.

It was placed here.

On the peak of this mountain,

the very place I’m standing on.

There was something I wanted you to think about, Araragi.

The shrine that was in another place, the former Shrine of the Polar Snake,

how did the people back then, that is, the shrine's officials,

manage to relocate to the peak of this mountain?

...is what I’m saying.

How…

Well, we’re talking about something that happened a while back, right?

In that case, maybe they took apart the building and moved it like that.

But, Araragi, it wasn’t as if taking the shrine apart made the parts any easier to carry.

After all,

the path we climbed up on didn’t exist in the past.

In that case…

Wouldn’t the usual way to be to open a path to carry the building materials?

It was a sacred mountain that was rather dignified. They couldn’t possibly perform such large-scale construction.

Of course, a minimum amount of construction is necessary to transfer the shrine to the peak

What, did they use some technique that isn’t part of this world?

Like some supernatural superpower, or a spiritual power,

like, something miraculous.

No, there was nothing of the sort.

It was simply the intelligence of humans.

If you ask me, it was a 'moving’ that was an extreme annoyance.

You could say that it’s because of it that I came here, and to this town.

Really, what exactly is a Polar Snake?

And now for the epilogue, or rather, the punch line.

That’s simple, Koyomi.

It’s an easy game.

An easy game…?

It seems like they didn’t do any large-scale construction like paving roads,

but from hearing what you said, Koyomi, they had to do a minimum amount, right?

Hm? Yeah…

So, the people doing the construction, the people who completed it…

On the peak, they had to clear away the land and make space to build the shrine, right?

Yup. Well, clearing land away to make space…

That would be considered the minimum amount of construction, right?

Right. So, they used the wood from the trees they cut down to build the shrine.

With that, they don’t need to carry any lumber up to the top of the mountain, right?

So they didn’t need to trail blaze a new path.

But, Sengoku. It’s supposed to be relocation, you know?

Not a new building… But 'moving’.

If they had used new wood and built a new shrine, wouldn’t it just be a completely different shrine?

Corpse…

I mean, bodies of worship, they’d probably take stuff like that with them.

But if you’re going to move anyway, wouldn’t you rather want to build a new shrine?

So they just shifted the building, switching it out, and kept only the name.

As long as the faith didn’t change.

No matter what else changed, at least that wouldn’t change.

No, what was important was the balance.

Enshrining a god on top of that mountain destroyed some kind of balance.

…By the way, I just thought of this from that quiz, Koyomi.

Er, it wasn’t supposed to be a quiz.

That shrine, even though it’s in ruins,

I wonder if it will ever be rebuilt.

Rebuilt…

But even so, what would happen to Ougi's so-called balance?

Without any visitors to the shrine.

To rebuild a shrine with no god.

If it was reformed, what sort of faith would be born there?

That was wrong.

It wouldn’t be born.

It would continue.

No matter what logic you apply,

no matter what theories you form.

Faith and oddities...

continue to exist.

It would be nice if they rebuilt it,

If they rebuilt the shrine, then I bet it would stop being a place for 'bad things’ to gather.

And then, Kuchinawa,

I mean, the snake god will probably return to the shrine, too.

Right, Koyomi?

Ah… Right.

It would be nice if that happened.

Good? Bad?

I had no way of knowing that.

In any case, at some point,

it was something that could destroy the balance of our town.

I had a bad premonition.

No, not a premonition, I felt that it was real.

That it wasn’t long until the day I would use the talisman given to me by Gaen Izuko.

Until the day I had no choice but to use it.

I kick a stone away to get rid of my worries,

I'm downplaying the flutter I feel this April.

We were happy children full of curiosity,

I was the one who pushed you forward,

from that day onward.

Let's escape our confines

and take our time along the way

Let's ride our bikes to far away

carrying our hopes and dreams in the basket

Is the future we heard so many rumors about,

A nice place to be?

Even if we ask our extending shadows about it,

we'll still be none the wiser

we'll still be none the wiser

we'll still be none the wiser