Me, me, me!
We gotta setup a refreshment stand!
Like I said, we're putting on a play!
We could sell muffins and tea.
It could have maids with crazy ears!
It'll be a tear-jerkin' musical! I'm the lead.
You on stage makes it an instant comedy.
Watch it!
Wait!
Group B's gotta do this together.
Alice Color.
Huh?
That's my name.
Oh, nice to meet you!
I'm Ai Astin.
So what's up?
Do you want me to save you, too?
What?
Of all the nerve!
I'll have you know I'm on the side that does the saving.
Yep!
I'm going to save the world!
That's what I wanted to hear.
At last we meet, Ai Astin.
Please, my God. Tell me, what should I do?
dareka ga sashinobeta te o furihodoite susumu
誰かが差し伸べた手を 振りほどいて進む
I break free of the hand someone reached out to me with.
"jiyuu na fujiyuu" habikoru basho de
『自由な不自由』 蔓延る場所で
"freely restrained" in an infested place.
nani ga ni owareru you ni ikiisogu mainichi
何がに追われるように 生き急ぐ毎日
I live every day as if I'm chased by something.
shinjitsuzuke ta shinjitsu mo wakara naku naru
信じ続けた真実も わからなくなる
I become even unable to believe the truth I kept believing.
nani ga hontou no shiawase nandarou
何が本当の幸せなんだろう
What is true happiness?
sono kotae o shiru mono nado koko ni wa inai
その答えを知る者など 此処には居ない
There isn't a single person here who knows the answer.
Where is my God?
arehate ta yume ga nemuru daichi de
荒れ果てた夢が 眠る大地で
My shattered dreams lie in the sleeping ground.
shinda you ni ikirunte boku ni wa dekinakute
死んだように生きるんて 僕には出来なくて
Living as if I'm dead is something I just can't do.
umarekaware ima hikari o hime shi
生まれ変われ 今 光を秘めし
I shall trust the light to the new truth, being reborn.
saigo no kibou soshite kiseki
最後の希望 そして奇跡
My final hope, and then a miracle,
mou ichido sekai ni kagayaki o hanate
もう一度世界に 輝きを放て
release once again radiance to this world.
I swear, I can't lose my place.
Now, it's time to birth.
Goran Academy I
Say, Ai.
Would you like to go to school?
School?
Sounds nice...
All of the elementary schools have already closed down.
And now we're losing the last of the middle schools.
In three years, the high schools will be gone as well.
When that happens,
you'll forever lose your chance of attending school.
To be honest,
I'm just about to ask an acquaintance to find a way to get you in one.
Ai?!
I reckon that vehicle came from Goran Academy.
It couldn't be!
This is serious!
Goran Academy took her?!
Ai Astin, you have my permission to enter our school.
Huh?
You are to reply with, "Yes ma'am!"
Uh, yes ma'am!
The "uh" was unnecessary.
Yes ma'am!
Much better.
My name is Mageta Hausend.
I serve as both an instructor as well as the Residence Hall Director here at Goran Academy.
Ai Astin.
I expect you to work diligently on your studies from this day forth.
C-Concentration camp?!
I don't buy that!
Well, perhaps concentration camp is a bit too strong of a term.
If we were to describe it more accurately,
it's a juvenile correctional facility.
But it's true that we're being forced to stay here against our will.
No way!
Are you sure there isn't some sort of misunderstanding?
No matter how you look at it, this is a typical school!
They sent a car to pick me up.
A somewhat strict teacher congratulated me for getting into this school...
...and even gave me a school uniform.
I've been wearing nothing but culottes up until now,
so this is somewhat new to me.
I was shown to the residence hall.
Then I went to my classroom and introduced myself to all of my classmates in Class Q.
I worked through what seemed to be a perfectly normal class.
I had a somewhat strange conversation with one of the boys.
And now that class is over, I'm on cleaning duty!
This sounds like the very image of normal school life to me.
Well...
Her lack of common sense is a scary.
Huh?
But my dead father said:
Well, just for the record,
schools are facilities where human society quarantines the troublesome children by age.
I remember him saying that.
Don't you think he was just being figurative?
Besides, didn't you find it the least bit strange the way they suddenly dragged you off like that?
Huh?
Well, Julie-san was just telling me about how I needed to go to school eventually,
so I figured this was the place.
Julie-san?
One of the people I'm travelling with.
You've been sold.
Huh?
That person must have sold you.
He'd never do that!
Julie-san may be lacking where it counts despite his strength,
but he is not the type of person who would do that!
I'm amazed!
You say that with such conviction.
Uh, well...
If this isn't a school, then I must have come here by mistake.
I'm sure Julie-san and Scar are worried about me.
I need to get out of here right away!
You can't.
Once you're in, you can never leave.
Eh? No way!
It's true.
No matter how desperately you wish to go home,
you'll never go back.
But I have an important dream to save the world!
If I'm stuck here, I won't be able to save the world!
Why are you dragging your feet?
Hurry off to the bath!
Great timing!
I'm not actually supposed to be here, so-
Okay, Mageta-sensei!
We're on our way!
Hurry and undress.
Huh?
Hurry it up!
Uh, um, I-
We only have so much time.
W-What's up with this?
Hmm.
To put it simply, Ai...
...you have super soft and shiny hair!
And your cheeks are so squishy!
Ai, you're so cute and tiny.
A village of deceased?
That's where I was raised.
So, you see, this is the first time I've ever seen this many living all at once.
And for the record, I'm half gravekeeper, half human!
I've never heard of a half before!
That must be the reason why they brought you here.
Why is that?
Ai, you don't even know that much?
You see, Goran Academy is...
...a facility meant to quarantine children with special powers from the outside world.
Special powers?
I am Volrath.
I possess a super strong grip.
I'm the big sister, Mimi.
I'm the middle child, Meme.
We aren't actually twins.
I'm the youngest, Momo.
Come again?
The youngest child, Momo, was the only one of us to pass away.
And a gravekeeper buried her.
But she's still alive inside of us.
So the two of us share a split personality!
And I'm Rune.
I can breathe under water.
H-Have you been under water this whole time?
Yep.
Everyone has gone through near-death experiences.
When we wished for something with all our might,
we awakened to these powers.
You wished with all of your might?
That's right.
How about you, Tanya?
What can you do?
I have spirit vision.
Spirit vision?
Well, you see, I am completely blind.
In place of vision, I obtained this power.
I am able to hear my environment and the objects around me.
What does that mean?
I imagine it's a bit hard to grasp,
but I hear colours and shapes as sounds.
The sound of the colour green,
the sound of a hexagon,
and even the sound of smoke.
Um, then do you hear me as a sound?
You make a truly wonderful sound.
You're a moonbow.
You make a sound like a rainbow made by the moon.
Do you follow?
Well...
You aren't as vibrant as the rainbows in the day.
You won't draw people's attention and make their eyes sparkle with excitement.
Unseen by others, you shine in the darkness of the night.
You're a somewhat lonesome rainbow.
That's the type of sound you make.
I sound like a rainbow at night...
W-What on Earth is that?!
A hole?
It's a hole.
Uh, yeah, I know that it's a hole.
Isn't this Alice-san?!
You are incorrigible, Alice-san!
First you gave this sense of mystique,
and then you suddenly burst into the girls bath!
N-No, wait!
You've got it wrong!
It's a misunderstanding!
A misunderstanding!
Hardy!
I can't believe you resorted to peeping when you have me!
Uh, no.
You see...
I'm shocked!
Even our cute and serious Gigi was in on this!
Gi, you're too young for such erotic naughtiness!
I said this is a misunderstanding!
A-And I happen to be 22!
My development merely stopped
while I was hibernating for all of those years!
At any rate, this is unforgivable!
It was outright cruel!
Unbelievable!
Repent for your sins!
Punish them! Make them pay!
Wait!
Escape?
Yeah, that's right.
We're breaking out of this concentration camp.
We connected this place to the residence hall's basement.
Um, did you dig the whole way here?
Yeah.
Oh, I get it!
You've got my darling, Hardy!
You've figured it out, Volrath!
Um, what are you talking about?
Hardy has the ability to eat inorganic matter and turn it into nutrients.
We'll dig while Hardy eats the dirt.
T-That's amazing!
We were trying to use explosives to open our tunnel to this waterway in one nice blast,
but we missed our mark.
These underground waterways are connected to the outside world.
If we can destroy this puppy, everyone here will be free!
But, Alice, didn't you just transfer here last week?
If you want to break out,
you shouldn't have transferred here in the first place.
It's not like I transferred here because I wanted to.
Why does this school force people to come here against their will?
Ever since people quit dying,
they quit giving birth to new children.
And that equals a decrease in the number of students, right?
But rumour has it that the government forks over a certain amount of money per student.
Which is why they're taking more students!
With that in mind, they probably won't let us go even after we grow up and become adults.
No way!
Don't give me, "No way!"
That's exactly why we're trying to break outta here.
In that case,
the whole lot of you don't have your act together, do you?
My ghost pulled a nasty prank.
Your ghost?
Hey, come out!
Dee!
You're here, aren't you?!
I'm sorry!
I had you go too heavy on the gunpowder.
Dee, why you-!
I figured the sooner you let the girls in on your escape plan, the better!
That goes double for Ai.
W-Who is that girl?
She can pass through solid objects?!
And float in the air?!
But she isn't a student here, is she?
Yo!
It's nice to meet you, students of Goran Academy.
Nice to meet you.
I am Dee Ensy Stratmitos.
A witch!
I really wish you wouldn't call me that.
At the very least, throw a "of the West" at the end.
Oh, I-I'm sorry.
A witch...
No, no!
I really hate it when people lump me together those malicious ones.
You see, I don't have a physical body, so can I pop up here and there,
regardless of the time or place!
And I softly whisper words of advice to the people I meet.
Advice?
Right.
It can be anything from tiny advice to monstrous advice.
I may tell a child where he left something...
...or lead a small nation to victory by telling them the enemy army's formation.
Sometimes I let the person clearly hear my voice,
while there are other times I whisper so they don't realise that I am manipulating them.
In a way, you could say that she is granting their wishes.
That's why people started to call her the Witch of the West.
Thank you for the additional explanation.
But my favourite name was when people used to call me Whisper a long time ago.
Whisper...
And what has brought that Whisper here?
I'm currently following Alice around.
And besides, Ai Astin is here.
M-Me?
You didn't notice, did you?
But I whispered something to you.
"Go to the clock tower during recess."
No.
I went because I wanted to see how it looked inside.
Honest!
I chose to go on my own, not because you whispered that!
You're so honest, Ai!
How lovely!
You see, I've been watching you for a while.
In fact, I've been observing you ever since you were in Ortus.
I've told Alice all about you.
What?!
So, um, Alice, what's this all about?
It's too soon to say.
That's right.
It's still too soon to say.
But you see, Ai, Alice and I...
...were destined to meet each other.
owaranai merodii o utaidashimashita.
終わらないメロディーを歌いだしました。
I started singing a neverending melody.
totemo daisuki de sukoshi setsunaku te
とても大好きで 少し切なくて
I liked it very much, yet it was a little lonely.
demo
でも
Still,
tomaru koto ga dekinakute kirai ni narimashita
止まることができなくて嫌いになりました
there was nothing I could do to stop it, and I came to hate it.
tatoe taisetsu na kimi no soba demo
たとえ大切な君のそばでも
Even if it was my precious place by your side.
Life on the planet
mieru keshiki wa
見える景色は
The scenery I can see,
onaji ni wa dekinai no desu
同じにはできないのです
shall never look the same again.
kokoro mo mirai mo egao mo
心も 未来も 笑顔も
Nor our hearts, future, or smiles.
sou mada mimu ai mo
そう まだ見む愛も
Yes, even this unseen love.
Sweet love in love world
You know what you wanna be
wakattenda
わかってんだ
I understand.
I can believe you tonight
You see what I want tonight
eien to hakanasato
永遠と 儚さと
Although eternal, it is still fleeting.
furueru yoru mo aru keredo
震える夜もあるけれど
But there are still nights I tremble at.
Stop it!
That's just how it is, right?
It's time.
Let's go.
Without you, I-
Buzzer Beater...
Are you confident that you can convince her?
The two of them are eloping out of love!
I'm not sure about my dream anymore...
Goran Academy II