Have you ever seen it?
The far side of the moon?
The continuation of the dream you forgot about yesterday.
My possibilities.
Your possibilities.
The continuation of the dream you forgot about yesterday
The far side of the moon
Have you ever seen it?
Your possibilities
My possibilities
Koyomi Reverse
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Koyomi Reverse
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Koyomi Reverse
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Koyomi Reverse
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Koyomi Reverse
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Koyomi Reverse
Gaen Tooe.
Kanbaru Suruga's mother.
Gaen Izuko's elder sister.
The person who left Kanbaru Suruga the monkey's paw,
the sole person that the all-knowing Gaen Izuko reveres,
and a soul who has left this world.
Man, sorry about that.
Sorry for threatening you.
I had no idea you were Suruga's senpai. You should have said so sooner!
You said your name was Araragi-kun?
What's Suruga like at school?
She's an idiot, so she gets up to all kinds of idiocy, I'm sure.
Uh... I guess...
Damn, I'm impressed. You've got some kinda guts to stare like that.
Sexually frustrated, much?
N-No, you've got it wrong!
Your face—
I was looking at your face.
I-I was just thinking that you look a lot like Kanbaru.
Suruga takes after me, huh?
I see, so Suruga's breasts have grown as big as mine now, huh?
No, again, I mean your face...
Huh? There was something weird about that exchange.
She's talking like she didn't know that Kanbaru's breasts have gotten bigger.
Knowing and not knowing don't matter, Araragi-kun.
When the little sister says she knows everything
And the big sister says it doesn't matter
That's messed up in more ways than one.
The way Gaen-san described her sister is slowly coming back to me.
But this woman is pretty different from that.
Well you see, I was finally able to loosen up a little bit after I got married.
I met my man and changed. Simple as that.
I've chilled out, but at least I haven't gone silly like this premise. So don't judge me too hard, okay?
A lot can happen when you become an adult.
I see...
Huh?
"Silly premise"?
That was a funny line of mine from when I was with Hachikuji-oneesan.
I have no idea how Tooe-san would know about it.
What is this?
I'm starting to feel like she's seeing right through me.
W-What exactly do you know?
Like I said,
knowing and not knowing don't matter.
After all, even if you don't know about something, you can guess just about everything if you look at it.
She's one of those super-geniuses!
So basically, she didn't know anything when she walked into the bathroom,
but by observing me and my actions,
she got a basic idea of my situation without me saying anything?
What, you're staring again?
All right, I gotcha.
We can do it, so drop by my room later.
Don't tell Suruga, all right?
I said you were wrong!
I'm glad to see that you're living an interesting life.
Well, just like a lot can happen when you grow old, a lot can happen when you're still a kid too.
Just keep at it, young man.
That's a bit too vague to make for good advice.
Oh, you wanted advice?
Well yeah, I guess you would.
But you know, Araragi-kun,
I'm not the kind of person who should play the teacher.
There's a whole laundry list of reasons for that.
But considering your situation and what you did for Suruga,
I would like to help you out.
I don't think I should be getting that involved in this without being asked, though.
We were talking about knowing and not knowing earlier,
but it's never that simple, is it, Araragi-kun?
W-What?
Knowing and not knowing aren't the only states of knowledge.
My little sister pursued knowing by eliminating not knowing,
and your friend Hanekawa-san made both knowing and not knowing her tools,
but both of them are missing something important.
They're missing the fact that there are plenty of things you know that are wrong.
You can think you know something yet be mistaken.
That's why understanding is important.
You know Hanekawa?
I can't really say I know her. I just understand her a little bit.
What about you, Araragi-kun?
How well do you think you understand your friend?
Are you sure that you understand even the first thing about your friend overseas?
She just said "overseas,"
but that only applies to my world's Hanekawa.
I'm certain now.
This person, who knew nothing when she came into this room, now understands my situation completely.
You came here putting your faith in a silly superstition like that?
You've got a maiden's heart.
One of my students was like that.
He really liked superstitions and charms, or rather curses.
But you'd best give up on that idea.
This bathtub
is just a bathtub.
If something appears to be reflected here, that's just thanks to the feelings of the beholder.
I see.
But it would be cold-blooded of me to do nothing to help after hearing that whole story.
All right, Araragi-kun, I'll wash your back for you.
Come on, hurry up!
You don't get the chance to have a Gaen wash your back every day.
N-No, I'm fine! I already washed myself.
Don't worry about it.
I'm sure you weren't able to reach every bit of it.
I guess I can't tell you to relax and let me handle it, though.
I've never even washed my husband's back before, after all.
That's a first that you shouldn't give to someone you just met, ma'am.
You're not someone I've just met.
You've met my left hand, haven't you?
You still haven't told me that story, Araragi-kun.
Aren't you curious?
Why did I give a wish-granting monkey's paw to my own daughter—to Suruga?
Those are some nice muscles you've got there!
It sure is nice being young!
You've got my hands to yourself now,
but I imagine you're more interested in hearing about the monkey's hand. Right, Araragi-kun?
Y-Yeah.
Well,
I may be out of line saying this, but from my perspective,
from the perspective of my world and my values,
I don't know if having that monkey's paw left to her was a good thing for Kanbaru or not.
Well, it's not like I had a specific plan in leaving it to her.
I didn't do it to help her or harass her.
That's the mindset the other me would've had, too.
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It was my other side.
Another side of me, another side that attacks me.
That's what the Gaen family's been doing for generations.
We're specialists in monster creation.
Monster creation?
It's about how you face your other side.
It's your other side, but you can't let it be on the opposing side.
That's what I think.
It's about how you look at your own back.
Your back, huh?
If you want to look at your back,
you'll need a mirror unless you've got a really long neck.
Right.
In the end, a mirror is a tool to let you face yourself from different angles.
The Rainy Devil was my mirror.
But didn't you kill it by giving it that name?
Never mind facing it, you killed it.
Well, even though she's been taken in by the Kanbarus, Suruga still has the Gaen blood in her veins.
She'll one day have to face herself like my little sister and I did.
I guess maybe I hoped that it would be some small help to her.
In the end, the left hand is just a part of the Rainy Devil.
If it's not put to use, it'll just wither away.
Oh yeah, at some point Oshino—Oshino Meme—
was wondering where the rest of the Rainy Devil went.
Kanbaru only inherited the left hand, at least in my world.
They're scattered here and there.
As long as it's scattered, it's safe.
There might be trouble if it comes together, though.
The mummy is a part of me, after all.
Don't say something so alarming like it's nothing.
Hey, I know I'm talking it up, but it's just a mummy.
Something like an oddity's corpse.
It can't be poison or medicine. It'll only ever be a corpse.
Give Suruga a message from me when it seems like the right time.
There's no need to hold on to that thing all your life.
In the end, there was only one thing I wanted to tell you.
Don't end up like me.
"If you can't be medicine, then turn into poison.
Otherwise, you'd just be plain old water."
I raised her on stuff like that,
but I'm not sure if I ever made myself understood.
It may be that those words were really directed at myself as much as or more than her.
To her I was a parent, and to Izuko I was an older sister,
but to me, I was just a crybaby devil.
Just a weakling.
The only path I saw was getting rid of that demon,
but you chose to protect your other self, didn't you?
Then stick with that decision until the end.
Whether it's light or dark, there's no question that it's your partner.
Partner?
Naoetsu High
Are you actually kidding me I'll kill you you blockhead.
I can't believe you actually took a bath.
And with a widowed cougar to boot.
I'm not sure she counts as a widow.
If she was a ghost, then she didn't survive her husband.
So anyway, Ononoki-chan, I was planning on going to Naoetsu High, or rather Naoetsu High School next.
What do you think?
Well, there's nothing else to do if we don't have any other clues.
Though to be honest, I'm not thrilled with the idea of following advice from Gaen-san's sister.
It's not advice, I think.
She said that she wouldn't give any advice, so these markings must be a suggestion, or maybe a test.
Something like a hint that I can choose whether to use or not.
List the following characters in order of their breast sizes.
A. Oshino Ougi
B. Oshino Shinobu
C. Ononoki Yotsugi
D. Hachikuji Mayoi
You're saying "these markings," but you still haven't shown me the stigmata you're talking about.
What? You want to look at them?
All right, show me your back.
All right, buddy...
What? I don't understand the tone or content of that sentence.
There's nothing written.
Just some nice dorsal muscles.
I didn't need compliments on my muscles...
Seriously?
Seriously.
Impossible!
No, I swear they were there!
It was written on my back! "Naoetsu High" in katakana mirror writing!
Wow, you're desperate.
Desperate like a boy who lied about having a cute penpal and doesn't want to admit it.
We don't need an elementary school romantic comedy metaphor here! It wasn't a joke!
I'm telling the truth, Ononoki-chan!
Look at my eyes!
Are these the eyes of a liar?
I've never heard someone actually try that before.
This isn't a manga, so looking at your eyes isn't going to tell me anything.
It would just be a staring contest.
Look at my pupils!
You showing me your pupils is just making me more concerned.
I'm not an optometrist.
I wish she'd written it in kanji.
I don't even want to think about that!
Naoetsu High School
Hey, I know. I think we should split up.
While you're checking out Naoetsu High School,
I'll go another route.
Another route?
Yeah.
Well, I only just thought of it.
After desperately looking for some excuse to avoid going to Naoetsu High School on Gaen-san's sister's instructions,
I finally just thought of it.
If you're going that far, I don't think you're wary of her. I'm pretty sure you just hate her.
Are you that desperate to stay away from Naoetsu High School?
I'm going to try talking to Black Hanekawa.
Well, more like try to find her.
Why she saved you is a pretty big question after all,
so I want to clear that up.
Also, though I'm sure it will be pointless, I think I'll visit Shinobu again first.
That makes me a little uneasy.
Will you be okay?
I'll be fine. Didn't you see?
Shinobu's aura doesn't work very well on me.
Well, it'll be better than you going at least.
I might be able to get her to tell me the rest of what she wanted to tell you.
How well do you think that will go?
You said it was pointless, and earlier you said you didn't have any other ideas,
but if that seems more promising than Naoetsu High School, I'll—
No entry
Please don't forget that this is something I came up with to avoid going to Naoestu High School.
If you accompany me now, then I'll have to accompany you to Naoetsu High School in return, won't I?
So let's meet back here in about three hours and head to the Shrine of the Polar Snake.
Well, there shouldn't be any danger on my end,
but be careful, Ononoki-chan.
I think you'll be in more danger than me.
There probably won't be a fight scene,
but it's unlikely that you'll be able to follow Gaen-san's sister's instructions and get away scot-free.
Something will happen.
Then maybe I should head home and change into my uniform first.
I'd be safer impersonating a high school student.
However, I should have taken Ononoki's concerns more seriously. Given them more weight.
I had utterly failed to appreciate the terror of Gaen Tooe.
In following her instructions and heading to Naoetsu High School,
I would face the most hair-raising, dreadful experience of my life.
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However, it was not upon arriving at Naoetsu High School that I encountered that dread.
It was right before that.
Huh? Did I already get rid of it?
No, I couldn't have.
I see, I see, I see.
So that's how it is.
So this is how it is.
If this world isn't reversing people, but rather manifesting their other side,
and if, just as Hanekawa Tsubasa had turned into Black Hanekawa,
Araragi Koyomi had been living here as Oshino Ougi, then it's understandable that this could happen.
It's perfectly understandable that my boy's uniform would change into a girl's uniform.
It seems certain now that this world's Araragi Koyomi was Oshino Ougi.
STOP
Thinking about it from another perspective, that seems a little odd.
That's right, it's odd.
It's not a little odd, it's fairly odd.
It's weird.
Because I'm convinced that Ougi-chan is this world's Araragi Koyomi,
I accepted my uniform changing to a girl's.
No Further
Stop
But by that reasoning, all of my clothes have become girls' clothing now.
If all of my clothes had turned into girls' clothing from the start,
it stands to reason that I would have realized that after getting out of the bath yesterday.
Of course, it's probably unwise to expect much reason in this world,
and there are plenty of things that don't stand to reason about me having replaced Ougi-chan,
so it's probably pointless to focus on the details.
But I think that this detail might be worth a little thought.
Because it's reversed.
Basically, just as I'm influencing the world over time, the world is also starting to influence me.
I'm becoming Ougi-chan?
I will disappear.
Just as I lost my title when I graduated,
Student ID
Naoetsu Private High School
Student ID number
Araragi Koyomi Name
Date Issued
The above person is a student of this school
Naoetsu Private High School
Naoetsu
High School
VOID
Araragi Koyomi will disappear.
STOP
Hence the hair-raising dread.
STOP
Concerning the whereabouts of Ononoki Yotsugi at that moment,
Oshino Shinobu—
Oshino Shinobu
or rather, Oshino Shinoble—
Oshino Shinoble
Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade at her full strength, albeit her full human strength, had told her all she would,
and Ononoki was departing the castle.
However, it would seem that her audience had been fruitless.
Right then.
Unlimited Rulebook.
Cheers!
Impossible.
I thought I had exclusive rights to the little girl moniker this time.
Meow!
Me?
I'm Hanekawa Tsubasa!
Hachikuji-san. What's going on here?
Oh, that?
Hanekawa Tsubasa has several other sides, though maybe not as many as you.
To her, her self from her childhood is a full-fledged other side, and one that can be manifested.
On the other hand, that tiger hasn't shown up,
so she may have solved that issue for good.
Anyway, I assume it's safe to consider her a different version of Black Hanekawa, or rather Hanekawa Tsubasa.
Since I've been reeducated by Oni Onii-chan, I can't properly understand this world anymore.
Yeah, that's right.
Hanekawa Tsubasa was a textbook case of multiple personality disorder after all, unlike me.
I see.
You know, this seems like a pretty relaxed drinking party considering Oni Brother's situation.
Oh, it sounds like that's all been worked out now.
I just heard about it from Tsubasa-chan here.
That's why we're all here having a toast!
A toast!
Everyone was simply mistaken about just about everything.
Me, the rest of us, and of course Araragi Koyomi-kun as well.
And you too, maybe.
No, that's not right.
It might be better to say that this world itself is the product of a grand misunderstanding.
I don't really understand,
but is this guess accurate?
That you all are relaxing here, or rather letting loose here,
because this situation—this incident— has already ended?
More accurate would be "is apurroaching its end."
Though the one actually doing the apurroaching is Araragi-kun himself.
If you were to say that's all this was in the first place, that would be accurate.
The story of Araragi-kun realizing.
All we ever needed to do was wait for him to notice.
Notice?
Notice the existence of his partner.
When hiss partner accidentally got locked away, that messed everything up.
If she hadn't, this continuation of the end would have ended on day one.
And that's why I ended up pitter pattering all over the place to fix it.
Streeetch!
Naoetsu Private High School
The classroom where I had spent time with Senjougahara Hitagi and Hanekawa Tsubasa.
Does this mean this was a waste of time?
It's not like Tooe-san had specifically said that I would find something in a place that I knew well.
But when I factored in the fact that my instructions were to search for my partner,
I figured that she was hinting at looking in places that have some connection to me.
But in that case, I shouldn't bother with the classrooms that I used in my first and second years.
The classrooms that I left one and two years ago and have since been taken over by my underclassmen
are even less connected to me than this one.
I suddenly realized
that there was a classroom that I had a much stronger connection to than the one that I spent my third year in.
The classroom that I could call the reason that I ended up leading a not-so-splendid high school career—
the place where time had stopped.
Hey. You're awfully late.
I've been waiting here for ages,
Araragi-senpai.
If the world was going to end tomorrow,
What would we eat tonight?
We thought hard about those kinds of scenarios
And then laughed about it, didn't we?
I felt like there was a shining, precious memory right next to me
It's right there but I can't touch it
Like it's trapped in the mirror
I won't forget, I'll never forget
No matter how we met or how we parted
We'll walk away with each other's warmth at our back
I wish you only the best
Wherever we may be, the sky above us
Is the purest, purest azure blue