So this is a secret between just the two of us.
Okay?
This warmth!
No... this is the same feeling as Hanyuu's power...!
It's my mother... My mother holds the fragment!
Shall I let you in on a secret?
教えましょうか
Oshiemashou ka?
In return, promise me you won't tell anyone else
その代わり誰にも 言わない約束してね
Sono kawari dare ni mo iwanai yakusoku shite ne
Hold your little finger to mine and swear, lie and it's a thousand needles
指切りげんまん 嘘ついたら針千本
Yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara hari senbon
Take the convoluted story
折りたたまれたまま蠢いている物語を
Oritatamareta mama ugomeiteiru monogatari wo
spread it out and show it to me
広げて見せてよ
Hirogete misete yo
The past and the future are
過去も未来も
Kako mo mirai mo
a superscription of data
Super scription of data
Dice Killing Chapter
Episode 3
The fragment...!
It was inside of my mother!
In this world, my mother was the eighth generation - the reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama!
I... don't know what to do...
I don't know...
Long ago...
So long ago that even my memory falters upon recalling it...
Before I had come to be called Oyashiro-sama...
What are you talking about?
When I, or rather, when Oyashiro-sama decided to become a god, my daughter - your ancestor - was very sad.
That was because she knew that I, Oyashiro-sama, had decided to become a god because I harboured great malice for this world.
People sinned against each other, living in disgrace.
The depths of their disgrace evoked a sense of despair within me.
Therefore, I decided to take all of the sins of this world upon myself.
And thus, by having my life taken by another, I would carry these sins with me to another world.
I left the task of cleansing these sins to my daughter.
If I hadn't, she would have been ostracised as the child of a vicious god...
...and her heart would have been filled with malice, as well.
She did not desire this role, but she understood that it was her fate to accept it.
Even so, she said to me:
If this world is one where purity can only be attained via sacrifice, then I shall re-create it!
The ideal world you envisioned, one where everyone banded together to help each other...
I shall bring it to life upon this very land!
Then I shall believe in your words.
And I shall return again to this land when they are proven true.
My daughter cleansed this world's sins and ruled the village with the powers I left to her.
While ruling the village, she gave them guidelines as to how to conduct their affairs with regards to others,
and also inspired in them a fear of a vicious god's wrath if they were to waver from those teachings.
And so, the village returned to peace. However, I was yet unable to return.
My disdainful power was too great to accept their world.
However, this power could not last forever. My daughter knew it had its limits, also.
If, for eight generations in a row, the Furude family gave birth to daughters first,
I could then return to this world using the "key" provided by that miracle.
And, with your birth as the eighth generation, I was able to re-establish a point of contact with this world.
I had intended to occupy those thousands of years with with my hatred for this world...
But they had become nothing more than a punishment.
When your mother became pregnant, I prayed fervently that she would give birth to a daughter.
I understand what you mean. I feel as if you were the first person I ever saw, instead of my mother.
Since then, I have been living my life with you, my first friend in over a thousand years... and my daughter.
Then I encountered the dead-end of Showa 58 and I sinned once more.
I sinned by using my power to alter your fate!
You're telling me that, back in the very first world,
we should've accepted that it was my fate to have my chest torn open by Takano?!
I'm sure this sounds cruel to you, but that is what I have come to believe.
I should have lived wisely with you and welcomed the end that came, whatever its form might have been.
Stop this! You may derive satisfaction from this self-flagellation, but it holds none for me!
I thought we decided not to accept that fate! I thought we would fight for as long as it took to discover a better future!
Isn't that why we have travelled together for over a hundred years?!
I can't believe that you would say something like this after all we've been through!
Rika. Let us return to the main subject.
In this world, your mother is the eighth generation descendant of Oyashiro-sama.
That is why I cannot enter it.
And the fragment has become stuck inside of her...
Rika, you wanted my opinion on whether to kill your mother and return to your original world or to stay in this one.
Yes.
You are entrusting that decision to me.
And by entrusting it to me, you are also trying to shift the responsibility for it onto me.
But there is no meaning to a life which is chosen for you.
As one who has voyaged to many worlds and left her footprints outside of human realms,
it is your duty to take responsibility for your own decision.
Do so using your own strength, not something that is borrowed from me.
If I were to choose to live on here, what would happen to you?
Our long journey will end, according to the rules of that world.
In other words, the fact that you exist in that world and I do not will become reality.
So you'll disappear?! Are you okay with that?!
Rika, please stop using me as an excuse.
I'll aid you in your decision. Allow me to tell you what I know of that world.
What you know of this world?
Maebara
First, there is Maebara Keiichi, who taught us again and again that our fate can be defeated.
See ya!
In this world, he does not transfer to Hinamizawa.
He becomes somewhat depressed due to the stress of studying for exams,
but he never shoots a child with a toy gun as in our world.
He grew stronger, stared down that temptation, and managed to overcome his weakness.
In this world, Keiichi is now a person who can take pride in his strong will.
I see. Keiichi did not commit a sin, so he never moved to Hinamizawa.
It's the same for Ryuuguu Rena. Her parents' company didn't fail, so they didn't have to move to Ibaraki.
Her parents did not divorce and therefore, Rena did not feel responsible.
How is it?
Sonozaki Mion and Sonozaki Shion...
I know. If Satoshi is still alive, that means that they haven't sinned either, right?
Yes. Mion lives out her days while undergoing training to be the new head of the family.
Meanwhile, Shion does her best to help out from within the shadows at a faraway school, hoping not to become a hindrance.
The Houjou family does not become an enemy of the underworld and they are not ostracised.
Satoko does not sin by killing her parents and therefore is never afflicted with Hinamizawa Syndrome.
For both her and her family, this is an ideal world.
In other words, this is everyone's perfect world, right?
None of the people you have been involved with have committed any sin.
This is a beautifully pure and clean world...
Even Takano is without "sin". This world is untained.
An untainted world...
Yes. You have the option of choosing this world.
The dice of destiny have led you to what may be a vital chance after these hundreds of years of travelling!
A vital chance?
Yes, because there is also an option to return to your original world.
If you are to commit the ultimate sin by killing your own mother,
you will be making the choice to be exiled from this sinless paradise of your own volition.
Hanyuu, you said that you were killed by your own daughter, right?
Do you really think that I should repeat that action simply for the purpose of choosing my own life?
If I were your mother, I would say this:
My own life is less important than my daughter's happiness.
You can't be serious!
What about you?!
Did you ever pause to consider what your daughter must have felt about killing her own mother?
It's easy enough to die, but the killer has to bear that cross for the rest of their life!
Your descendants have borne that cross for these past thousand years!
You shouldn't have died! Shouldn't you have lived on and fought?!
Then, Rika! If you say that I should have continued living so that I could fight, what do you intend to do here and now?!
Will you accept the fact that you exist in this world and continue to live there?
And, by doing so, throw away the precious world that you finally found after those hundreds of years.
Or, perhaps you will cast aside the comforts of this world and return to your original one,
even if it means destroying this untainted world where everyone persists free of sin.
I thought long and hard about the way I was deciding to live my life.
My daughter did not make a hasty decision regarding that matter, either.
That was our battle, and I won't allow anyone to make light of it!
Finally, I have something very important to talk to you about.
This Kamunomikotonori that links us together will soon lose its power forever.
I cannot keep on affecting this world indefinitely.
Oh, and one more thing...
The fragment inside of your mother will lose its power for all eternity after tomorrow's sunset.
This does not mean that it will disappear, merely that you will forever lose your opportunity to re-attain it.
So I don't have the third option of delaying my choice.
No. You could escape, choosing to look away until the very end. Thus, you would remain in this world without making a decision.
However, if you do that... Your life will be quite different from one that you could have actively chosen.
Rika! Please don't run away!
No matter what your decision is, the world that you have fought to obtain will definitely be a wonderful place!
So, Rika, please do not to make the wrong choice by not fighting at all!
One cannot be satisfied by a decision one has made lightly.
Okay, Hanyuu! I'll try to fight... with this decision!
I've come to think of my life as something I could try over and over again, thanks to your power.
If I were to stumble, even just a little, it would be easy to just simply redo it.
This world has taught me how precious my life is.
I will weigh this decision carefully!
I will think long and hard and obtain a truly wonderful world!
So... thank you, Hanyuu.
Hanyuu...?
Say something...!
Hanyuu...
Rika-chan? Rika-chan?
Where am I?
Just a moment. Sensei! Sensei!
Rika-chan has regained consciousness, Sensei!
Sensei...?
I-Irie?
Thank goodness! Oh, thank goodness!
Is this the clinic?
Yes. You got into an accident and hit your head while returning to Hinamizawa with your friends...
...and you've been unconscious since then.
But I'm so relieved. Your friends have been really worried about you, too.
What about... my mother?
It looks like your memories are still a bit confused.
It's not uncommon when one has been unconscious for a long time.
Is she dead?
Yes. Since the Watanagashi two years ago...
I'll be right back.
Hanyuu? Are you there?
Hanyuu?
Oh, thank god. I feel so vulnerable when I wake up in a new world and you're not there.
I'm always by your side when you wake up.
Hanyuu... was that world... a dream?
Or, was it... real?
I'm not sure what you're talking about, Rika...
What was that world I was in until now?
A dream?
A dream.
I see... So, it really wasn't a dream...
So, I did that... to my own mother...
Rika. Calm down.
Look. Your friends came to see you.
Hanyuu?!
Rika?! Rikaaaaaa!
Welcome back, Rika-chan.
We knew that you'd come back to us.
Yeah! After all, miracles occur when we believe that they will!
We came to visit you every day, always believing that you would wake up afterwards!
Satoshi's... not here?
Nii-nii ran away from home and hasn't come back.
Rika, you're so forgetful.
Ah, I see. Indeed, her memories seem to be somewhat scrambled at the moment.
But it's just a temporary thing. It's the same as mumbling while you're half-asleep.
Like the director said, there's nothing to worry about.
That's right! I mean, you were a sleepy-head for almost an entire month!
It feels like I was dreaming for a month...
It was a very strange world.
It took place in Hinamizawa, but lots of things were different.
First, Keiichi wasn't there.
Hey, come on! Don't just leave me out like that!
Well, that's because it was a world where Keiichi wasn't involved in that toy gun incident.
A world where that incident you regret so much didn't happen.
But that's not all.
It was a world where Mion, Rena, and Satoko were all... very happy.
Irie Clinic
And I think that the reason why I am here now is because I chose this world over that one.
That's like the two sides of the River Styx, don't you think?
Sounds like a near-death experience to me.
You probably wouldn't have been able to return if you had chosen that other world.
Yeah...
That sounds like a very interesting world.
Thanks for making us happy, even if it was only a dream.
But, you know, if I were able to choose between those worlds,
I think that choosing this world would be the correct decision.
W-Why is that?
My mother's divorce was an unpleasant experience.
Because of it, my life changed in many ways...
But I learned a lot from it, too.
That's why I can accept my mother's divorce as one of life's trials now.
Well, they do say that trials and setbacks make you grow as a person.
Yeah. I get what Rena's saying.
That incident is the greatest regret of my life. It's something that I must never forget.
I'll regret it until the day I die.
Even so, like Rena said, I learned many things from that incident.
And, today, that incident is an important cornerstone in the foundation that is Maebara Keiichi!
I have to agree.
If Nii-nii had stuck around, I would have kept depending on him.
But now I'm able to hold my head high and await his return!
Do you really all think so?
All of you would truly reject the sinless, beautiful world I was so torn over?
Yeah. I think this world is far more precious.
Why do you say that?
Because we fought to obtain our future in this world!
We're nothing like the people in that other world.
Perhaps living without sin is a sin, in and of itself...
I don't think that's a sin. A flower raised in a greenhouse is still beautiful, even though it knows no adversity.
But a flower growing in the field that has braved wind, rain, cold, and heat possesses something more than just beauty.
I'm talking about nothing more than that brand of preciousness.
But if you had to choose between growing in a greenhouse or in a field...
Oh, now I understand! You've been making a mistake from the start, Rika-chan.
There's no point in comparing an impossible world to this one in the first place.
You're trying to think about it from the viewpoint of someone above the flower - someone greater than a human.
Someone greater than a human?
You'd have to be a god capable of travelling between the two worlds in order to debate which one was happier.
But a human like Rika-chan, while she may live in both worlds, cannot travel between them.
The Rika-chan in the field and the Rika-chan in the greenhouse both exist.
And I think that both of them are living proudly in their own worlds.
It'd be wrong if the one in the field says that it'd rather have been grown in the greenhouse.
We're all flowers. We do our best to grow regardless of where we take root and we all try to produce the best flower we can.
Not even a loser would see fit to babble about how it would have been better to have been born into a rich family!
If you have time for stuff like that, you should try to find a cheap supermarket and save some money instead, you know?
I know! I'll make it easier to understand by explaining it with a game.
Hey, Mii-chan, didn't you bring some candy today?
Yeah, I have some.
Here ya go.
Thanks.
All right, here's a present for you, Rika-chan!
Which hand do you think is better? Which one? Which one?
Then... I'll pick this "rock".
Okay. This one, right?
Congratulations.
Here you go. Say "ah"!
How is it?
It's great.
I'm really happy, because I picked the right choice out of the two.
It's the sweet taste of victory!
Hey, Rika-chan, why do you think you won?
What you're feeling right now is probably pretty close to what you were feeling before.
Comparing two different worlds isn't something that we humans are able to do.
It's up to the gods to fret over comparisons like that - not us.
There's only one world for us, and things in it are set up so that we can find happiness in it.
You were a god who could go between the two worlds in your dream, and therefore, you felt like that.
So, that's why you shouldn't worry about what's in the other hand.
What was that world I was in until now?
A dream?
A dream.
It wasn't a dream. However, now that I've made my choice, this world is reality and the other world has become a dream.
Only a superhuman existence, capable of seeing the contents of each box, can worry about which hand will bring a better future.
I stepped half-heartedly into the world of the gods, being a mere human.
And thus, I have been confused about some very important things.
It's time for me to give up being a witch...
I must return to being Furude Rika, rather than the witch Bernkastel...
Are you all right, Rika-chan?
So, in other words, I should be careful and not get into accidents!
Yeah, that's right!
That's right! From now on, don't mess around on your bike!
Yeah, that's definitely right.
Here we have a girl who can't even get that right going around acting like she's some sort of witch.
Nothing good will come of that!
If you were to lose your life again,
I think I could accept that fate.
Yeah. I think I'm okay with that, too.
Thank you.
Why are you thanking me?
Oh, for lots of reasons...
Good night, Rika. Sweet dreams... Please treasure this future that you've won.
Oh, yeah. Once I'm discharged, I think I'll visit my parents' grave.
I understand the meaning of having to kill my mother to return now.
Hinamizawa
I've always chosen this world...
...without feeling as if it were a sin to do so, and thus, I've continued to kill my mother over and over again.
You wanted to make me realise that, right?
You wanted to show me that fragment of sin that you felt within me...
The fact that I had stopped respecting my parents.
Rika... Thank you for realizing it.
Stop the Dam!
Defense Alliance
I think that the greatest sin that I felt within you has now finally been cleansed.
Oh?
It's all right, Rika.
Safety + is Number One
You haven't stained your hands with your mother's blood.
That was all just a dream that I gave you so that I could bully you a bit.
So when you wake up, I hope you'll have forgotten all about it.
Good night, Rika.
Dream of how you will live your life in this future.
I gently ended , to stop the pain...
痛くないように、やさしく危めた
itakunai you ni, yasashiku ayameta
Changing it into mere words, I forget the sadness...
言葉に置き換えて、悲しみを忘れて
kotoba ni okikaete, kanashimi wo wasurete
But, ah, what have I now lost?
あぁ、今、何を亡くしたのだろう？
aa, ima, nani wo nakushita no darou?
Pictured by the sounds of my sins,
罪という音の並びから 思い描かれた
tsumi to iu oto no narabi kara omoiegakareta
this never-to-be-redeemed dream of a memory
償うことも叶わない夢の記憶
tsugunau koto mo kanawanai yume no kioku
vanished from this world that I had always longed for...
望まれたこの世界から 消えてなくなった・・・
nozomareta kono sekai kara kietenakunatta...
I have always been saying a human prayer...
いつも既にかけている 人の祈り・・・
itsumo sudeni kaketeiru hito no inori...