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00:01My piece of shit little brother sent me this
00:06Woah!
00:07I'm so tired
00:09If you're a problem, give me a voice
00:12Missed by my hand
00:20Missed by me
00:23I'm so tired
00:26We can't catch you
00:29We got more of my hands
00:31You'll never stand up
00:34There's always light
00:36It's my heart
00:37But it's your head
00:39Oh
01:09Something must be up if he's texting me an oddball question
01:38like that out of the blue what's your little brother like anyway let me dig up a pic right
01:43quick oh here's one my mom sent from new year's and that's it remember it's about how to use the
01:50ingredients here are today's recipes remember it's about how you use the ingredients here are
01:55today's recipes of course i asked him why he wanted to know such a thing good afternoon
02:02excuse the intrusion so glad you're here it seems he was hanging out at a female friend's house and
02:08female friend huh but not his girlfriend my brother's love life is kind of all over the place
02:13i see i guess that must not be genetic cheer up pal your old buddy mogura's rooting for you
02:20okay shut up we all appreciate you being so nice to armia i know we fuss over her an awful lot but
02:28we really love our adorable little girl we're glad she has a friend yeah of course
02:32i mean they were kind of weird but the family seemed cheerful and super friendly
02:38you staying for dinner you bet i am looks great thank you
02:44take a seat whoops we need one more chair mia think you can grab one okay
02:54thank you for the meal anyway that's when it happened yeah really you know everybody says weird little
03:05neko zuku can actually see spirits oh i forgot to ask earlier mom but when are we going to visit
03:11uncle i'm not sure so would you like seconds i'd love some you're far too generous
03:16everything was delicious guess we should go and do some homework huh yeah sure such good students
03:25we're gonna watch some tv in the other room
03:28not a single word about the creepy doll
03:41and so he asked me what's up and you're positive he's okay like those weirdos aren't going to
03:47sacrifice him to some ancient deity are they word to the wise if they invite him to a festival way out
03:53in the woods he can't go yeah i thought the whole thing smelled pretty sus but as it turns out there's
03:59a lot more to the story i laughed so hard i almost beat my pants didn't you think it was hilarious
04:04oh yeah i thought it was an absolute riot her family's probably from out in the boonies and it's
04:09just some weird local custom not finding anything like that but country folks have a different way of
04:14doing a lot of things right sorry for staying so late nothing to worry about
04:32something wrong did you see a bug when i was a kid i smacked my head really hard on a dresser and hurt
04:40myself a forehead wound so it bled like crazy but that was actually the first time my parents paid
04:48attention to me since my brother was born so it kind of made me happy but like super guilty too
04:55i think i'll be okay now but umiharu is crying so you should go and check on him
05:01i thought saying something like that would be the only way to make them accept me
05:04when's the last time you were here maki been a while new year's people who go to college where
05:16their parents live but choose to live alone are either independent hate commuting or just have
05:21an awkward relationship with their fan don't remember asking for your take on it you should
05:26tell your bro that i used to go to your school and everyone says i can see spirits or something
05:30we don't want to have to come up with some elaborate story you can say little yai here
05:35introduced us i found that people lower their guard when there's a young lady involved
05:40you are really good at manipulation tactics plus it's obvious to everyone that you're way more at
05:46ease with her around it's extremely important to do things with other people that's why people always
05:51say things like there's strength in numbers i'm pretty sure that having her around that day
05:56must have played an important role when you tried to help me
05:58i mean you did want to impress her am i right
06:03if you'd been all by yourself you would have freaked out and lost track of me
06:14hey mom hey dad big bruce here and he brought his girlfriend it's not like that
06:19she's nice you certainly took your sweet time making that observation tell me why wrong answer could cost
06:33your life well because you look nice and tiny but exactly what way am i tiny huh i want to know what
06:40you're talking about so uh see something weird oh yeah come on in
06:50well do you want to tell us a little bit about this mia chick got a good picture in here those two the
06:57red panda bros she's got to be in a couple of these which one is she yeah here she is
07:04i don't think i should be looking at this one man but i have to ask were you trying to style it to
07:12look like an old adult videotape or truck stop magazine centerfold spread i can't help it me
07:17it's just too sexy for regular pics oh yeah because of the boobs that is like the only thing you care
07:23about right i mean pretty much they're most important just to some people uh but you know
07:31ah whatever it is what it is sorry for being that way anyhow i was into this freshman girl named
07:37inu kai but not since i saw her with neko zuku that is one creepy little dude i hate to say it magi
07:44but your little brother's a tool yup anyway kiyoshiro is in the same class as you right i guess it is
07:50a small world after all let's get on topic do you actually think of mia as a person or just some
07:55big floating pair of breasts to lust over do you really think that she'd want us to see her racy
07:59boudoir photographs like that she told me that she likes being looked at and it gets her excited
08:04so yeah probably i mean she sends them to me to look at well then i guess you two are perfect for
08:10each other but dude her messages are insane the rest of them are her spamming me non-stop with just
08:15like i miss you sounds kind of unhinged to me so what do i do
08:20don't ask me she might end up stabbing you but that would be your own fault
08:28you're practically begging for it what's with that face
08:31you ever gonna get serious or what yeah my bad come to think of it i never introduced myself
08:37name's magi umeharu i guess i never asked you what your given name is kuriaki never would have
08:45guessed it we've got kuriaki the older brother and umeharu the younger one so chestnuts and fall plums
08:52and spring i'm guessing you were born in fall and spring yep you got it hold on a sec you're older
08:58than yaiko aren't you but if you guys are in the same college class does that mean you didn't get into
09:03school on your first try so who cares you're pretty sharp aren't you oh i don't know mocha drops all
09:10these observations at once like some kind of two-bit fortune teller trying to win the trust of his mark
09:17big bro here told me about what happened but there's some stuff i want to ask you hey man don't call me
09:22that yeah okay it shook me up pretty good so i'd love to talk with someone start by telling me about the
09:28doll was it an expensive decorative collector's thing or like a kid's toy seemed like a toy to me
09:35just a regular old baby doll that you would find in a store was it new nah looked pretty old kind
09:41of beat up like it had been played with for years tell me this did you see any kind of altar setup
09:47inside the home yeah i did see something like that did you happen to notice any photographs of a girl that
09:54wasn't mia either on the altar itself or in any of the common areas now that you mention it i had
10:01thought there were more pictures of mia from when she was little although good afternoon excuse the
10:07intrusion the photo in the entryway might have been a family of four i'll bet what's going on ears the
10:17spirits the girl in the photo and the doll was most likely hers a strong possibility she's mia's sister
10:24my first guess was that the doll was cursed but in this case i'm beginning to believe that it could
10:29be the only thing currently keeping the family together her spirits inhabiting the doll they
10:34treasure so in a way it's like she never left kind of the opposite of scary isn't it
10:42why do folks get so freaked out about dolls in the first place you never hear about scary stuffed
10:47animals but human dolls are a different story there's just something that inherently fascinates us i guess
10:54of course originally dolls were meant to serve as stand-ins to take on our suffering that's where
10:59hina dolls came from and cursed straw dolls were to take the place of the victim anyway since people
11:05think of dolls as substitutes for humans they're often thought of as also having minds of their
11:09own so people get scared of course some of them do have scary faces for whatever reason okay but why
11:17did my brother start seeing spirits all of a sudden you and your brother see them both of you
11:22probably always had the potential to seeing is noticing if a spirit popped up in a big shibuya
11:28crowd people wouldn't clock it as such
11:34put that same spirit in a graveyard and people might say they saw it
11:38sometimes people notice them because they're in a situation or state of mind that makes them look for
11:42something out of the ordinary the girl in the photo was young but the spirit seemed to be about
11:46the same age as mia now she was kind of pretty it's possible that she's synced up with mia because
11:54of a strong attachment to her she wants to be like her from what you've said the family is close and
12:00overly dotings this kind of thing makes sense added some tragedy and something is bound to break
12:06they're all desperately trying to preserve the life they knew
12:11and what's more though i hate to point it out but it seems to me there's a clear difference between
12:16the sisters honestly the doll itself might be the least interesting thing about this
12:22take mia for example she's a good girl in front of her parents but she's clearly starving for approval
12:27the spirit is so stuck to her that it synced itself with her and the family seems overly smiley and
12:34weirdly close we're seeing some major cracks in the perfect family facade
12:43so if we look deep down inside especially into mia's mind what do you think we'll find
12:50if you really want to go there ask mia for the truth but be prepared it's probably gonna upset her
12:57so if you don't want to get more involved don't ask especially with a spirit in the mix
13:03though you probably could get away with just asking her about the doll
13:07despite everything i said 99 times out of 100 the doll's a fairly straightforward coping mechanism
13:13asking her about it won't make her think you're crazy because there's nothing weird about noticing
13:17something weird that's a valid point
13:20i'll talk to her i don't want to hurt her but honesty is really important i can't keep pretending
13:30that i never noticed anything and i'm wondering if there's something i can do besides the ladies just
13:35naturally want to tell me things this looks less like my old room and more like a glorified storage
13:42closet don't mind if i do i'm happy to hear from you but this is unexpected oh is this about the doll
13:53sorry i probably should have explained you're fine i hope i'm not bothering you i wasn't sure if i
13:58should ask i get it it's creepy sometimes i forget it's weird i'm sorry what do you know she's totally
14:06cool with talking about it the truth is that was my older sister's doll the weird guy was right you
14:12mean the girl from the photo on the altar yep wasn't she adorable her name's maya ma is in hemp and ya
14:18matches the end of my name mia and maya an accident took her life when she was eight i was seven at
14:25the time everyone thought she was the cutest little thing it's true she was a real beauty yeah unlike
14:31yours truly you really shouldn't say such ridiculous things i think you're equally pretty we both know
14:38i'm hideous uh maybe we should change the subject i know tell me about your sister whatever you want
14:46really i don't mind at all that's just the sort of thing that could fester if you don't let it out
14:50so go ahead try me i loved my sister dearly siblings born a year apart tend to fight but she was always
15:00so sweet to me my parents were devastated after the accident my mother had an especially hard time
15:07getting past it i wish she was still with us but secretly there's some part of me that can't help
15:15thinking it all worked out for the best sometimes i wonder if my parents wouldn't love me as much
15:22if i had my perfect sister to compete with and if she were alive i wouldn't even want to introduce you
15:29to my family you'd probably meet her and fall in love with her instead all the girls want you i don't
15:36know how to catch your interest except by sexualizing myself but then i hate myself for stooping that low
15:43i'm sorry i said that you must think i'm pathetic
15:48actually i'm not thinking anything close to that but i am wondering where all these self-esteem issues
15:53are coming from that's a good question i guess it all comes down to this one moment
16:00what do you think we'll find why did it have to be the cute sister that's what i overheard my uncle
16:06say after maya died why did it have to be the cute sister why did it have to be the cute sister
16:25that same uncle he's very sick we don't think he's going to make it that's right you said something
16:32about visiting him when we were hanging out yeah my whole family visits him regularly including me
16:40but it makes me feel like a monster that i'm not actually sad inside i genuinely want to be there
16:46for him and my family i hate that i'm like this until my mom stops obsessing over that doll i have to do
16:55my part and act like a good little doll too that's too big of a burden for anyone to bear all by
17:03themselves honestly i think you should just lay the doll to rest oh hold on a sec what's the matter
17:10mom what do you mean it was on the chair this morning oh sorry apparently my mom's having a little
17:17panic attack because she can't find the doll i'll call you back later okay the doll's missing where's
17:25your uncle now at new yatsume hospital wait who's this new yatsume hospital so just a short trek west
17:32of here moguna hey who was that is he going to the hospital why this is getting freaky i'm gonna go too
17:40let's go though i have no idea how he's going to make it there without being able to map it
17:44he's managed to survive this long without a cell phone so he probably has the whole city's layout
17:49memorized sounds like him come to think of it i guess he did brag about knowing the phone numbers
17:54from most of the nearby shops like some kind of ancient power but it also functions as an annoying
18:00back in my day brag he's stupid fast we better hurry all right let's bounce so you heard our
18:07whole conversation huh yeah pretty much i'm sorry that was rude to be fair mogura's the one who's
18:13actively eavesdropping i don't get it was mia's sister's spirit watching over her out of concern
18:18or something i don't know i guess if i were dead i'd be worried if my sis turned out like that no one's
18:23arguing that relatives can't be shockingly insensitive with the things they say sometimes but still
18:30well care to share the female perspective i'm not sure i can explain it i have this feeling i can't
18:35shake in the pit of my stomach if i had to put it into words this feels like a deeper issue if i were
18:42mia's sister i imagine it would take something powerful to keep me tethered to this world could
18:48it be really something as simple as wanting to watch over her
18:59mia oh wow it's really you you're visiting my dreams as the girl you would have grown into
19:07we always knew you would have become a lovely young lady you have no idea how sad mia and your family
19:13were and that includes me too but now i must cross over and join you
19:28i can finally take your hand
19:30i've waited so long for this moment you piece of shit
19:39mogana we finally caught up to you now tell us what's going on your uncle's life isn't grave danger
19:46but i'm also worried about her older sister
19:51thoughtless words transformed my precious sister into a living corpse
19:55your cruelty caused her to downward spiral i felt so sorry for her and there was nothing i could do to
20:00help i can't leave this world because my hatred for you binds me here
20:08i have waited for this back when you were healthy no amount of yelling or hitting you seemed to work
20:15but it turns out i was affecting you all this time you have grown weaker and weaker by the gear
20:21that's what has allowed me to drag you closer and closer now i finally have the power i need to hurt you
20:26for what you've done to her what are you talking about i don't understand why you're so upset
20:31what's wrong with you cheer up maya you shouldn't say such nasty things to your poor uncle or you'll
20:37ruin that pretty face of yours but now why don't you show me that contagious smile don't keep me waiting
20:44every word you say pisses me off what's wrong with you hasn't anyone ever told you that you shouldn't
20:50speak unless you're prepared to face the consequences of your words this is what happens when you're so
20:56awful you should have kept your mouth shut if you couldn't handle it cockroach shit is worth more than
21:01you i should cram your mouth full of sharp rocks and sew it shut you're all bored to tears by the stupid
21:08stories and unfunny jokes you would tell you're the one who made every new year sound bearable we were all
21:13just humoring you because you were so old and pathetic don't tell me you did it no
21:22what a fitting end for someone like you losing your life at the hands of the niece who was nothing
21:26but a pretty little doll to you you're finally the life of the party this is the most interesting
21:33you've been since the day you were born in the end you put a huge smile on my face
21:37i'm sorry mia this is for you it's not much but the very least i can do is shorten the scumbag's life
21:48how's this humiliating mortifying does it feel unfair
22:07you
22:37Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
22:43飛んで待っていこうぜ
22:455と6と3まで
22:47全部寄らせてちまったもんね
22:50その先へ張っていこうぜ
22:52世界ない問いにだって
22:54目を逸らさずにいたい
22:57それだけ
22:58決まっていこうぜ
23:00一切が最初まで
23:01全部ぶち抜いちまったもんね
23:04みんなながら
23:06打っていこうぜ
23:07動海 焦燥糧だって 手を離さずにいたいから
23:13Ah つまんねえ
23:16anderenばかりの体験を 余り進路にさ
23:21やるせねえ
23:24祈りばかり飛び交う この町の坂
23:31僕自身の mileage
23:33You
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