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Dear Brother
A golden bowl, on the right hand
A silver bowl, on the left
Never equal without the other
Those two bowls in each of us;
Those two invisible bowls.
The golden bowl, filled with happiness
Shines with a warm radiance
The overflowing love I've felt since I met you
Couldn't possibly be held in the golden bowl
A golden rapture,
A silver sadness
Let us lay down everything that has passed
So that only you may be held, So that only love may be held,
Let us empty those twin bowls.
What would this be about?
You should know.
Indeed?
It was under this tree.
Yesterday, Rei waited for you right here!
And now she has fever because she was left in the rain!
Do you not care what happens to Rei?
It does not concern me.
Rei is...
Rei is your younger sister!
Episode 13 A Tale of Double Suicide.
Who's there?
Please wait.
I haven't finished speaking.
I don't need to listen to things like this.
- Rei is... - Did she ask you to do this?
Right... She's not the kind to ask people to do this sort of thing.
Anyways, this does not concern a complete stranger like you.
Even if you think you are her friend, or whatever else you may think.
Well then.
Younger sister?
Lady Saint-Just is Lady Miya's younger sister?
How is that...
How?
Brother
Chigusa-cho 1-17-15 Maison d'Etoile 507
An ice-cold, mirror-filled room.
The power's cut off in the kitchen.
Lady Saint-Just...
That was Lady Saint-Just's room.
Alone in the room,
alone in the world.
Brother
The sandwiches that I had left in front of the door
were still right there.
Just let me know whether you're home or not,
or at least that you hear the ringing phone.
I won't intrude further than that into your world.
All I want is for you to open your door with your own hands
and say "Hey", with a smiling face,
from your unfathomably dark world,
from a world all your own.
I heard today that you are Lady Fukiko's little sister.
The fact that you two are sister with different surnames,
whatever that may mean, however that happend,
but rather than that, I prefer to think about
how you're doing now,
or whether you've eaten properly or not,
or whether your fever's subsided or not.
Those are my only concerns.
"Rei is..."
"Rei is your younger sister!"
I've been looking for you, Rei!
You can't do things like this -- you still have a fever!
Leave me alone.
Let's go home. You've got to stay in bed.
Did you go to the elm tree for me?
Yeah.
She was there waiting for me, right?
Yeah.
Did you properly explain why I wasn't able to continue waiting?
That's quite enough, Rei. Why do you go to such lengths?
Oh, hello?
Uh... Asaka... Lady Saint-Just?!
Are you feeling better? Are you ok?
What about a meal?
I was thinking of making some soup for her now.
Prince Kaoru!
Thank goodness... You're in Lady Saint-Just's room.
Thank goodness...
Lady Saint-Just wasn't alone!
She's sleeping right now.
Still a little feverish, but you don't have to worry.
I'll come over there now!
Hey, hey, what time do you think it is?
It's too late for a 1st year High School student
to be out.
I'll go to the store now and buy a lot of appetizing food.
No, no. I'm hanging up.
What does Lady Saint-Just like?
What? I wonder...
Speaking of which, I've never seen Rei
eating something with an appetite.
I'm coming anyway!
I'd like to take a shower.
No, your fever's still pretty high.
What's wrong, Rei?
Rei!
Rei!
If I could just
wash everything away!
I'm cold.
Obviously.
Excuse me. I bought this.
Would you like some coffee? I'll make some for you.
Can you help her get dressed first?
Huh?
In the end, Lady Saint-Just didn't open her eyes even once
during the time I was with her.
Here's fine.
I can grab a taxi right at the highway up ahead.
Is it really fine?
You're going to school after pulling an all-nighter.
It's really fine. I'm used to pulling all-nighters.
- Let's wait for her. - What?
By the time she has finally exhausted her last willpower.
Rei will definitely divulge her anguish
honestly to somebody.
In order to win.
No matter what happens,
when she finally decides to live, through all her torments.
Whether I can remain her true friend or not,
depends on whether I can wait for that time or not.
But, our hands are so full even just with that.
Well then, take care.
I will.
Brother,
Prince Kaoru and Lady Saint-Just,
the bond that connects those two so firmly
is that what they call 'friendship'?
If so,
It's so incredibly different from what I share with Tomoko.
We are much more selfish,
and we believe that friendship is a privilege
to not make others wait.
We're only a year apart in age,
but it's unbelievable that she is so much more
lenient, affectionate, and open-minded towards others.
Or
Could there be something which is not simply a friendship
but something much deeper?
For instance, could there be some 'destiny'
between those two?
Oh, the sun is shining so brightly, the glades are so green in May, the birds dance, blossoms flow like glittering wave... They make me sing in joy... Alas, the irony of fate... Mortals call it 'test', the exams inevitable.
Tomoko, the afternoon classes will starting soon, so you should finish your meal.
I'm done. It's so depressing that I've lost all my appetite.
Is what I wanted to say, but... I guess it's stamina first if I am to fight on!
I'm an optimist, after all!
But how nice to be a Sorority Member.
Unlike lowly people like me, you're so relaxed.
My, I'm not that relaxed myself!
I know all about the study group.
Don't the seniors train you in detail, with past exam papers?
That's true, but it's not that detailed...
Please, Nanako... We're friends, aren't we?
Show me the proof of our friendship!
Proof?
Can I borrow your review notes? I'll copy them and return them right away.
Oh, Mariko, I'm depending on you too!
After lunch, in the afternoon,
strange rumours started going around.
One was about how, in the morning,
you could hear the piano playing in the empty music room.
The other is about how for the entire 2nd period, from the north teachers' staircases,
you could hear endless footsteps going up and down.
Is that really true?
But the third rumour made even my heart skip a beat.
It said that from the elm tree in the courtyard
an unearthly low and sad cry
reached the furthest library on the wind
and students there could hear it.
You call the agent which oxidizes other substances
an 'oxidizer'.
An oxidizer oxidizes other substances and is resolved.
So you can say it is easily reducted.
What?
You don't know anything, do you, Nanako?
Such rumours always circulate everytime the exam period nears.
Everytime the exam period nears?
Yes. Everyone is unusually nervous, right?
They create both truth and falsity to ease their own nervousness.
Hmm, that's understandable.
Let's say it's the tradition of Seiran Academy.
Last year's rumours were even scarier than this year's.
First, that they actually saw someone playing the piano in the music room.
And it will inflate to how it wasn't 'someone', but two people.
One of them a woman masquerading in a white male tuxedo,
And the other, a girl in hakama.
Everyday after school, those two people,
hand in hand,
goes up and down the north teachers' stairs endlessly,
in the midst of the evening glow.
And, they say those two are actually our seniors from long, long time ago,
two girls who fell in hopeless love with each other.
So it came to one rainy day, under the elm tree,
the two lovers slashed one another's wrists...
So the ghosts of those two curiously appear every exam period.
It's more beautiful than scary, isn't it?
So there was such legend in that elm tree...
- Why? -Huh?
Why did they have to die?
I don't know
But I'm sure they were happy.
To be able to die with the one you love...
What's that... That's just too deep of a tale...
Come, Nanako, let's go to the Sorority House.
The study group is starting soon.
Yeah...
I'll go on ahead. Tomoko, see you tomorrow!
Yeah, good luck! And don't forget the notes!
What's wrong, Nanako?
No, nothing...
- You didn't get sleep, did you? - What?
All right. Good luck at the study group.
Bye!
Bye, Tomoko!
Tomoko, that girl...
It's coming from the music room...
What seems to be the problem?
Everyone, please go ahead to the Sorority House.
I will join afterwards.
There's no mistake, this piece!
Lady Saint-Just...
Hello.
Hello. So you were here, after all.
How are you feeling?
I kept waiting.
I kept waiting... under the elm tree!
I heard you caught a fever? That's not good.
My, you're still feverish.
Please go home to your own place. You shouldn't strain yourself.
Oh... Ok.
Lady Saint-Just!
Lady Saint-Just!
Lady Saint-Just!
Lady Saint-Just!
She's here! Lady Saint-Just is here for sure!
Lady Saint-Just!
Lady Fukiko...
What?
I was waiting. Always. Always.
I knew you were going to keep your promise.
Oh, Lady Fukiko...
No! I'm...
You said to me one time,
that we should die together.
Lady Saint-Just...
That we should die together.
She's lost her mind, Lady Saint-Just...
Brother!
I dreamt an awesome dream last Sunday
But when it saw you,
Surprised, the dream just flew away
I would never lose
So just for you
I have rushed and tried so hard
This feeling of love, staying in my heart
bewildered by the mischievous fairies' game
dances to and fro, always capricious