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[reporter] Just who was that gallant young man

who left without even giving his name?

-[student 1] A "Trash Eraser"… -[pops]

…for the world, and for the people.

[student 2] That's only something Nanmaru can do.

[anchor] The Gouger continues to strike.

What is all this commotion?

It has nothing to do with this man.

[Sachiko] I'm terribly sorry.

The whole town was lying.

-[applause] -Takashi. Stop with this Gouger nonsense.

[Yoriyuki] As of today, this sham seminar is finished.

[Nanmaru] Even compared to the other townspeople,

you're completely negative about it.

Why is that?

[Sachiko] I… came here to talk about it.

Previously on Land of Tanabata

Here.

Be careful, it's hot.

Tasty?

It's tasty.

Will you be able to sleep after this?

[young Sachiko] Yes.

[blows air]

Sachiko, does your back still hurt?

No, I'm fine now.

I'm sorry.

Why are you sorry, Mom?

[♪ theme music playing]

Land of Tanabata

[Sachiko] The scars on my back…

There are nine in total.

We, the branch families…

differ from the main family.

We might be inherently flawed.

This…

is my mother, Yukiko Higashimaru.

This is Yoriyuki.

Yoriyuki… Marukami.

[♪ melancholy music playing]

Back when Yoriyuki…

still looked like a normal person.

Like… a normal person?

I'm the only one that's left.

[birds chirping]

[♪ melancholy music continues playing]

-[sniffles] -[Sachiko] I believe…

-[breathing shakily] -…that my mother loved Yoriyuki.

But Marukami customs wouldn't allow it.

In accordance with the head family's rules,

my mother married my father, Kazuhiko.

[Kazuhiko in angry voice] It's too small!

You need to make it bigger.

Listen, you're going to be the heir to the Higashimaru family.

So reach Beyond the Window like you're worthy of that!

Those Within Reach do not cry!

Stop!

What?

I'm the head of the family!

[Sachiko] My father couldn't adapt to Marukami.

He began to discipline my brother extremely harshly.

-Our family started to become distorted. -Takashi, it's okay.

[sighs]

[Sachiko] Unable to watch any longer, my mother decided to rely on Yoriyuki.

[Yukiko] Yoriyuki…

Sir…

Listen, Takashi.

Being Within Reach is about reaching your hand Beyond the Window.

You reach out, grab a little bit of Beyond the Window and bring it back.

[young Takashi] Okay.

[Yoriyuki] Imagine you have another thumb

existing symmetrically to your thumb and the outside of your pinky finger.

Imagine yourself pressing those 12 fingers on one point.

Close your eyes and focus.

Takashi, open your eyes slowly.

You've got it.

[Sachiko] My brother became infatuated with Yoriyuki,

who started sending him to the main Marukami household

to be trained as a parishioner.

However…

That was Yukiko's boy.

She's sending him to Yoriyuki's place, isn't she?

[villager 1] They've always gotten on very well.

-[villager 2] You can say that again. -[villager 1 chuckles]

Fine, if this is how you want to do things.

There are about five of us, so let's play hide-and-seek.

Sounds good. Let's get the others too.

Yeah.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[pops]

[Sachiko] My brother, now Within Reach,

became increasingly arrogant.

He became attached to Yoriyuki, and my father continued to belittle him.

My brother took his anger out on me.

My mother…

My mother couldn't do a thing…

[Sachiko] I think

everyone was reaching their breaking point.

[gasping]

[breathing heavily]

Then, from around that time,

I began to see dreams.

[Kazuhiko in angry voice] Do it the way I told you!

[Takashi] It's wrong. Yoriyuki wouldn't say that.

[Kazuhiko] What?

You're telling me I'm wrong?

[Takashi] That's right. Your way is wrong.

[Kazuhiko] You useless brat!

You're probably that monster's child anyway.

[Takashi in angry voice] Don't speak like that about Yoriyuki!

-[pops] -[Kazuhiko groans]

[Kazuhiko screaming]

[panting]

[gurgling]

[chokes]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[breathing heavily]

-[Yukiko] Takashi… -[gasps]

[Takashi] Wait…

It wasn't me.

It wasn't me!

[breathing shakily]

[rustling]

[gasps]

[gasping]

[Yukiko] This was all…

my mistake.

Mom…

Leave!

From today, you're no longer a part of the Higashimaru family.

[breathes shakily]

[Takashi panting]

[inhales sharply]

[breathes heavily]

[Sachiko] Despite my mother's nursing,

my father passed away from the injury.

My mother became even more withdrawn.

[Sachiko's great-uncle] Listen carefully.

What happened

can never be revealed.

I will deal with the police and the hospital.

[Sachiko's great-uncle] All right.

I'll leave it with you.

[villagers murmuring]

[villager 1] Let's go.

[villager 2] Sachiko.

Sachiko?

I'm going… to the mountain.

Huh?

Bring Yoriyuki.

[Sachiko] Mom…

[♪ pensive music playing]

[Sachiko panting] I'm sorry.

I need a rest.

[Sachiko panting]

[Sachiko] Lately…

All the time lately…

I see nightmares.

Like I'm continuously falling somewhere.

Maybe…

Me too.

I sometimes see that same dream.

[Sachiko] Yoriyuki.

Sachi, if you see that nightmare again…

come find me.

[Sachiko] Then my mother…

left this world.

Mom…

Right after that,

Yoriyuki left Marukawa Town.

He said he was sure to be free of his dreams.

But he's a prisoner of his dreams even now.

After all, his dreams… are scarier than anybody else's.

What makes you say that?

The construction worker who was killed in Marukawa Town…

He tried to get rid of Mount Marukami.

But…

Yoriyuki couldn't forgive him for that.

Not only not forgive him…

When he found out…

he felt like he just had to do something.

Was he…

murdered by Yoriyuki Marukami?

Is that really what happened?

Only Yoriyuki can do something like that.

My brother couldn't.

My brother has always been pathetic,

just like his power.

He's always cared what people think.

He'll surely…

care for the rest of his life.

That's why he could never actually murder someone.

I should say all this one day…

[♪ somber music playing]

[inhales deeply]

Sachiko…

I…

I don't know what to say.

Nanmaru…

The good thing about you,

is that you don't think about things negatively.

So don't worry about it.

I always wanted to tell somebody.

But the truth is…

I…

All of us…

We can't live away from the village.

[sobs softly]

Sachiko…

[Nanmaru sniffling]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[♪ somber music continues playing]

[sobs, breathes shakily]

[sniffles]

[sniffling]

-[pops] -[crowd gasps]

[crowd screaming]

Can someone just disappear?

Surely not…

[footsteps approaching]

[Aki] Excuse me…

Excuse me.

Yes?

Where did you buy that?

What?

[blows air]

[slurping]

[slurping]

Are you a staff member from the seminar today?

That's right.

Did they finish questioning you?

They did.

[Aki] It takes an unnecessarily long time, doesn't it?

[Aki slurping]

[Sato] They don't always take a long time.

[Sato slurping]

[Aki] You seem to know a lot about police questioning.

[Aki slurping]

Well, I am a detective.

I thought you were a member of the Dimension Ball seminar.

Dimension?

Oh, you mean the magic?

-[sighs] -Well…

It's not magic.

What?

Nobody would believe me, but…

they really can…

make anything vanish.

New Skills Development Research Society

[indistinct chatter]

[student 1] How much for a microwave?

[student 2] Let's see, a microwave would be exactly 3,000 yen, I think.

-[student 1] That cheap? -[student 2] Yes.

[student 1] Okay, got it.

-"Clear energy with the soul's--" -[student 2] What about a dryer?

[student 1] A dryer? It depends on the type.

They start from 1,500 for small ones.

"Displaying this in your room will relax--"

Guys!

I know you've all been working hard to start the Trash Eraser…

Yes?

I was thinking, is it too late to stop?

Pull the plug…

-What? We're getting so many messages. -[student 1] No way.

[Nanmaru] Yeah, but…

I do know that. But…

What?

Nanmaru?

Don't tell me… Don't tell me…

that you're bored of your ability!

[Nanmaru] No, it's not that.

-It's not that, but… -[student 1] Then what?

It's just that…

I was wondering

if I should really use my ability so casually.

That's why.

-[nervous breathing] -[phone chiming]

-[student 2] Your ability… -[Nanmaru] Yeah.

-[student 2] Casually? -[Nanmaru] Yeah. So casually.

[student 2] If it wasn't casual, would it be fine?

[Nanmaru] Hang on, how should I explain this?

Out of office Masami Marukami

In office Sayuri Emi, Sakuragi, Tagaya

[knocks on door]

Sorry I'm late.

[door closes]

Sorry to keep calling you here, Nanmaru.

Not at all.

You're a lot closer to the people of Marukawa Town than we are.

I thought you might have some information.

[Nanmaru] Well, um…

I don't know anything special.

The thing is,

there's a lot that they don't share with people outside the town.

In Professor Marukami's letter,

he never touches upon those kinds of secrets either.

Like he completely belongs to that village now.

But is the Professor Marukami we know

the type of person who could keep

hard-earned research results to himself forever?

No. He never could.

Which means, as a village member, he can't tell secrets.

But he wants to share his research.

When I read the letter again, supposing that's how he felt,

I noticed two strange sentences.

Strange sentences?

The first one.

[Emi] "Since coming here, I've gotten into a good routine,

and I've become much healthier.

Although I'm not timing it with a clock,

it's so precise, it's as if the annual calendar

has been perfectly split according to the solar year."

See, doesn't the phrasing sound unnatural?

Do people normally say "solar year"?

[Tagaya] Maybe not…

[Emi] The second one.

"I realized that the order of the schedule for the annual festival

and the flag was reversed.

I mentioned it to the townspeople,

but they said it would be strange to change it after all this time,

so we'll continue as things are from next year too."

Makes no sense, does it?

Not at all.

First, regarding the solar year.

"Precision like that of a solar year, despite not measuring by a clock."

What made this click for me

were the dates of the old Tanabata festivals we looked up recently.

-[Sakuragi] Oh, yeah. -[keyboard keys clacking]

Even before the Western calendar came to Japan,

the festival dates were being aligned to it.

[♪ mysterious music playing]

When I looked up the festival dates at that time,

converting them to the Western calendar, they were mostly on June 18th or 19th,

with just one on June 17th.

That means three variations.

But if they already knew the Western calendar,

why not just standardize it to one date?

Exactly. That's a good point.

Which means, it wasn't the Western calendar.

It was the solar year!

How many days are in a year, exactly?

365 days.

-Incorrect. -Huh?

How many exactly?

Including leap years, it's 365.25 days.

Leap years occur once every 4 years,

10 times in 40 years, and how many times in 400 years?

-100! -[clicks tongue]

Incorrect.

-[Nanmaru] Huh? -[chuckles]

It's 97 times. Adjustments are made.

Therefore, to be precise…

[Emi] The correct number is 365.2425 days.

And for the solar year…

the correct number is 365.24219 days.

There's still an error even after adjustments.

[Tagaya] I get it.

The discrepancies that arose when adjusting for that error

led to three different festival start dates!

Precisely.

Then,

what do you think happens

in the seven-day period before and after June 18th,

when the festival is held?

[Tagaya] Uh…

The summer solstice.

-The summer solstice! -[Sakuragi] Ah…

In astronomy, the summer solstice doesn't refer to a date

like June 21st or 22nd, but rather, a specific moment.

Therefore,

the schedule for the age-old Marukami Village festival

includes the day of the summer solstice moment,

plus three days before and after, making it a seven-day event.

[students exclaiming]

Hang on, you've realized something amazing here.

Then what about the other sentence?

The festival schedule and flag being reversed…

[Tagaya] Right.

I have no idea.

-[Tagaya and Nanmaru] No way. -[Sakuragi chuckles]

-[Tagaya] I see. -You don't know, huh?

[Tagaya] Nanmaru, do you know what a summer solstice is?

Sure do. It's a bright day.

-The brightest of the year. -[Sakuragi] Are you sure?

[interviewer] Yoji Minamimaru…

Kanji Kentei,

pre-level two, huh.

That's right.

[interviewer] Are you sure about this? It's hard work.

In many ways, to tell the truth.

So it is hard work then?

[interviewer] Why did you decide to become a cleaner?

[Nanmaru] Hmm…

I feel like it relates to my ability.

-Ability? -[Nanmaru] Yeah.

Resume Yoji Minamimaru

[interviewer] Right…

Sure. Cleaning is the foundation of culture.

These days, culture essentially cleans up after civilization.

And there, a tremendous positive force emerges

to pull us back to zero from a filthy, highly negative state.

Do you get it?

Yeah… A positive force, right?

Oshita? What are you doing here?

Ah.

Just explaining the job.

Oh. [soft chuckle]

[soft chuckle]

-[Oshita] See you then. -Thank you.

[Oshita grunts]

[Oshita huffs]

[clerk] All right then.

Let's start the interview, shall we?

What? Then who was that just now?

Oshita, the part-timer?

Ah.

He's been with us for a while.

I heard he's been a part-timer ever since graduating from university.

[cleaner breathes heavily]

Here's to Nanmaru and his new life.

[all] Cheers!

[student 1] Cheers.

[indistinct chatter]

[delighted exhale]

I wouldn't call it a new life, but it looks like I'll manage to graduate.

-[student 2] Great. -That's good for now, isn't it?

I suppose so.

But once Nanmaru retires,

the New Skills Development Research Society

will start to lose its purpose.

That's true. The only person with a supernatural ability will be gone.

I enjoyed our experiments.

-Me too. -Right.

[student 3] So true.

[student 2] What should we do about the broadcast after Nanmaru retires?

That's a good question.

[student 3] We may as well switch to a ramen broadcast.

-[student 4] Ramen? -[student 5] Huh?

That has nothing to do with new skills. Who would do it?

-[student 1] Imamura. -[Imamura] Why me?

[student 2] No, wait, he has to take his glasses off when he eats ramen.

-[Imamura] Hey. -You've never seen him eat, have you?

[Imamura] You promised not to say.

-[student 3] Nobody wants to see it. -[Imamura] How can you say that?

-What a cruel thing to say. -[student 4] How dare you!

[student 3] Just once. Please take them off just once.

-Just once? -[student 3] Yeah.

-Awful. -[laughter]

-[Imamura] So cruel! -[pops]

Did something just flash?

You think so?

Never mind that, where's Aki? Is she not coming?

Well, I messaged her,

but she never messaged back.

-So she's finally had enough of us. -No way.

[sizzling]

What did you want to talk about?

I want your help.

My help?

The recent death in Marukawa Town,

and what happened at the seminar…

I think the same power is behind it all.

[exhales deeply]

I want to know the truth.

So work with me.

Play your cards right, and you could get a promotion.

I'm not exactly after a promotion.

-[Aki] This is cooked. -Ah.

[inhales sharply]

[gulping]

[Nanmaru exhales deeply]

[inhales deeply]

[exhales deeply]

Huh? Wait!

[grunting]

[Nanmaru breathes heavily]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[grunting]

[♪ light music playing]

[grunting continues]

[gasps]

Sachiko!

[Nanmaru] Sachiko!

[♪ light music continues playing]

Nanmaru!

[grunting]

[Sachiko] Don't come any closer!

[Nanmaru] What?

[Sachiko] You're about to go Beyond the Window!

It's fine.

I haven't got a job yet anyway.

[Sachiko] It's not about that!

[Nanmaru] The Window…

is opening…

[♪ suspenseful music playing]

-[screams] -[thuds]

[groans]

Ouch. [sucks teeth]

[pops]

Huh?

[car owner] My car…

[♪ low suspenseful music playing]

[pops]

Connection with Passenger Plane Disappearance

Luxury Liner Disappears, No Debris Found…

[Aki] Is this…

[Sato] A car, a boat,

a plane…

They keep getting bigger.

[car approaching]

[Aki gasps] He's here. Yoriyuki Marukami.

Investigating together with the police is so exciting.

-Come on, let's go. -No, we've done enough.

That's Takashi Higashimaru. It's all we needed to know.

We should notify the police.

They will handle the rest.

Sato, aren't you the police?

I'm not trying to arrest anybody.

Wait a second.

[phone keys clacking]

[Sato] Hello.

Oh, no. What?

[♪ suspenseful music playing]

[Yoriyuki] Takashi, the reason you can afford to be so carefree

is that you don't know about Beyond the Window.

[Takashi] Oh. You think so?

[Yoriyuki] But that's what also makes you free.

It's pitiful not to be free.

[Takashi] I think so.

So, what are we doing here today? This room is great though.

[Yoriyuki] Yeah. This place is good because the Window doesn't open here.

[♪ suspenseful music continues playing]

[footsteps in distance]

[grunts]

[footsteps approaching]

[♪ music stops]

[Aki sighs in relief]

[Sato sighs]

Why did you run off?

We've come this far. How can we leave without any evidence?

[shushes]

-[panting] -[footsteps approaching]

[body thuds]

[Takashi] Who's that old dude?

[Yoriyuki] The current Chief Cabinet Secretary, didn't you know?

[security guard] The Secretary has arrived.

He's heading inside now.

-[pops] -[all exclaim]

-Huh? -Chief Cabinet Secretary?

Chief Cabinet Secretary?

Why? Why did you do that?

[Yoriyuki] Apparently, he's weak on tax increases.

People's lives are so insignificant.

Why would someone as great as yourself

obey that old nuisance?

[Yoriyuki] There's somebody I can't forgive.

It has toyed with people,

trampled into their hearts, and now acts like it doesn't care.

Society falls into chaos as I struggle, yet it still doesn't care.

In other words,

no matter what happens, it won't come.

That's why I want to prove that the festivals are meaningless now.

I'm not sure I understand.

Then, is that why you made Mr. Yagihara disappear too?

[Yoriyuki] What? Was he your friend or something?

[Takashi] It's not that.

[Yoriyuki scoffs]

[Yoriyuki] It helped me to de-stress, like the Gouger for you.

To de-stress?

[door opens]

[♪ tense music playing]

[Takashi] Huh? It's that girl.

[Yoriyuki] What is it?

Nothing.

Nothing really.

[Yoriyuki] Let's go. We have another job today.

Okay.

[♪ suspenseful music playing]

I heard that

they ran away in the night because of declining profits.

[Nanmaru] Is that right?

Oh, sorry.

[Oshita] Woah. Look at this mess.

[Nanmaru] Yeah.

Guess there's nothing else for it.

Come on.

[phone ringing]

Hello. Oshita speaking.

Yes. Yes.

[Oshita] I see, I see.

Understood.

Well, looks like I need to head to another site.

[Oshita] Can you get started here?

Sure thing. I'll sort this out.

[Oshita] Okay.

[sighs]

Please handle with love and care

[♪ calm music playing]

[Nanmaru] All of this

must have been important to somebody.

Someone carefully crafted this…

used it with care,

and worked hard at their job.

But…

they failed,

and ended up having to run away in the night.

[Nanmaru] Please!

Fine.

I'll ask the management company.

[Oshita] We'll see if we can leave some

for the next person instead of discarding it.

Thank you!

What made you want to do that?

I just… kind of did.

[Oshita] I see. You just did, huh?

[Nanmaru] Yes.

I think I'll be able to get the credits I need.

[Oshita] Really?

-You'll be able to graduate? -[Nanmaru] Yes.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

So? What do you say to working full-time as a cleaner?

I'm still not sure.

Right. This kind of work can be hard. [soft chuckle]

It's just, how should I say this?

My world has expanded.

In working life,

there's so much wisdom, ingenuity, and thought

packed into places that we often overlook.

I've been made to realize that.

The history of battle

is about more than dirt or filth.

Negative forces are hidden within prosperity.

What I'm saying is,

arrogance, laziness, ignorance, and insensitivity

accumulate before our eyes like trash or dirt.

We have to counter these negative forces

with the positive power of cleaning.

Then we can finally move forward.

That's what culture is all about.

[Oshita chuckles softly]

Positive ingenuity…

That's really what it comes down to.

To utilize my ability,

I also need sufficient knowledge and ingenuity to match it.

Nanmaru.

You sometimes mention your ability.

What do you mean?

Oh, um… Well, you see…

[rustling]

Huh?

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[rustling continues]

[Oshita] The heck is that?

A ball of smog?

Your eyes…

You might want to close them.

[Oshita] What?

[loud pop]

[wind howling, gusting]

[♪ closing theme music playing]

Translated by Zak

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