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Thinking of it now...

...maybe that too was just a scene from a dream...

...but...

...surely... I did meet her.

That was supposed to be the road I always took to go home.

How long had that arrow under my feet been there... I wonder.

Straight ahead... my home...

but... one more road...

When I chose the way of the arrow with the big curve,

and turned at the end of it,

even though I had only walked for a little while,

there followed a row of houses that I had never seen before.

The rain became violent...

and as I was thinking of going back...

...suddenly I saw a girl beckoning me.

I could see her soft hair shining faintly by her shell-like earlobes.

Rain... rain...

...don't ever stop!

I was reflected in the round pupils of the little bird flying around the girl.

The small pulsation that was transmitted in its whole body, was melted by the sound of my heart.

That was a shelter from the rain that seemed to last forever... that seemed to last for an instant.

Just the two of us... without saying anything... only time went by...

But then the rain stopped.

Please come again.

If you keep this feather with you, we can surely meet again.

"I'll come again", I promised and left following the secret passage that looked like a cat-road.

However, the following day the loophole had disappeared.

I went back to that arrow and I tried looking for it, but no matter what, her house was nowhere to be found.

Although I looked for it without giving up, every single day, in the end I couldn't meet her again.

"I don't even know her name"... that's what I realized.

And then I grew into a young man,

I left my home town,

I became an adult,

I forgot about the girl without even realizing it.

I forgot about the girl without even realizing it.

And then, long long years flew away.

Half a century later, I returned to my home town.

I no longer know anyone here, and my old home no longer exists.

This must have been a printing factory in the old days.

Now it was replaced by a water bottling factory.

"Rainnote"

It's a water of a strange sound.

Well, well, is there something you need?

Sorry, but we don't sell in retail.

Besides, this has been a water bottling factory since a long long time ago. This is no longer the city you remember.

Reality is a dream... dream is a reality.

Before you lose your way in the odd roadway, hurry and go back!

Grandma, then I'll pay.

I can't accept money from the young lady.

Well, the young lady drinks weird things.

Be careful,

of the big boy that smells like the city.

Come, let's go!

I have always waited.

I tried so many times to come here!

I know. But still, I felt lonely.

You see I wanted to meet you so much!

I even dreamed of it!

But to be able to meet you again, and to come in this room... now I want to be here, with you, like this, forever.

Then you'll have to let the rainbow escape in the sky.

What is this?

Your dream.

Divided into four little pieces, it is locked firmly.

Don't say that. But I want you to understand.

Really l lov...

If your feelings for me are true, let me hear you prove it with your words.

Read your dream to me.

The thoughts that are spoken, turn into a song that makes this water quiver.

The tiny rainbow is listening. Each one of the seven colors.

If you sing correctly the song of the rainbow, the rainbow will return to the sky.

And then, if the rainbow returns to the sky,

me and you, we can be together forever.

But how?

I'll start talking first.

The first color of the rainbow, mine and yours, our red memories inside the dream.

That day, I met you again.

I was purifying myself there, in the clean waters, before crushing the flowers that are used for dye.

Throw it to me please... my red kimono!

It will get all wet!

It doesn't matter if it gets wet!

What were you doing there?

I was just being fascinated by you.

Now it's your turn.

My orange colored memories...

That day I was still looking for you.

Where are you wandering about again?

I heard rumors that you've been wandering in a scandalous neighborhood.

They say that they saw you with a woman who wore a red kimono and looked like a prostitute...

Don't tell me you are involved with a whore that has been washed away from the red-light district!

She's not like that!

So you're making excuses...

Stop it!

While I was cleaning up your room, I found a weird note.

To think it was a diary! I really don't get it!

I was writing about her.

Because I don't want to forget her.

What kind of stories are you making up?

Don't you interfere in my memories!

I did meet her...

I'm telling you... She really did exist.

Stop it! Let go!

I really, truly...

My mother...

It's ok, it's ok.

Next it's my turn to talk about my yellow memories.

That day, I was thinking of you again.

Come!

These dyes over there, they are mere child's play.

Just as I thought, your blood is the best for the kimono I dye!

Please stop! Because I am in love.

Really, that's enough.

Fall, peaceful, white silk gauze, suddenly a sound of a cloth.

Mean daughter!

Father, whenever you need beast-blood to dye, this daughter will bring plenty to you again.

Now it's my turn.

Green memories huh? I don't really get it anymore...

I'm doing this, but isn't this a dream too?

Let's continue tomorrow again.

Calm down. It's ok.

Let go of her hand!

Wait! Wait for me!

Don't!

You can't oppose this distortion of time by using force!

But quickly, the song of the next rainbow color!

That day I was fascinated by you again.

You were lovely, lovely,

a sea-serpent princess, washed away by the storm of the previous night...

...while looking for the treasure of the sea, the purple shells, you were washed ashore on a hill.

But still you...

...you can't live but in the bottom of the sea.

The purple shells.

If you have those, even a human child can reach the palace in the sea where I live.

I want to meet you... I want to meet you with all my heart.

I...

At last I discovered it!

The shell treasure that was so important to the princess!

Glittering remarkably in purple,

with the very... very important treasure in my chest, I enter the sea.

deeply... deeply...

I was easily lead into the sea.

At last I arrived at the sea palace.

But I was seized by the gatekeepers,

because I am a human. That was enough of a reason.

Why do you report to me right away?

Why, didn't you say that you would look for the treasure and bring it to me?

This one didn't have the treasure from the beginning.

He stinks of human and he painted some white shells with purple,

making it look like the real treasure with tricks and he shamelessly entered this place.

You are wrong! On my way here some ill-natured fish switched secretly the shell-treasure.

If that is the case, then explain to us the reason your shells look pure white?

He is an imposter, he brought fake stuff!

I am stunned that he is in love with the princess!

One cannot trust human beings.

I...

Come now princess, we shall return to the mansion.

Wait! Princess!

Be my words true or not, this...

My love! How awful!

Don't you like it? The dream that I saw, which is colored in blue and in the color of love.

My purple memory.

Thank you, I was brought back... but...

The rainbow in the glass, granted the wish for me.

But still. It was too sad...

The lovers ended separately, and the princess was left behind at the bottom of the sea.

After all, the two of them live in different worlds.

And I really searched very much to find you.

Although I looked for you day after day,

for so many years, surely the one that was left behind...

...was me.

That's true.

I am sorry.

Why do you apologize?

This is your cruel part. You promised we'd meet again

and you left me alone for decades. I don't mean anything to you.

In reality you don't even love me. If you hate me, you should say it clearly!

Must I really say it?

Did I hear that? After such a long time...

Well I don't believe that thing...

Troublesome child! Boys are really obstinate!

Oh! Stop that!

You are mine.

You are mine.

You are mine.

You are mine.

You are mine!

Who is it!? You!

You... green apparition!

Stop! No!

How awful... My little bird.

Even though this little bird was actually you...

I failed at telling my memories.

I can never meet with you again.

As I thought, I had lost the song of my youth.

I am no longer a boy.

But, that's right!

This feather, I always carried it carefully on me.

A dream?

I promised, that if you kept that feather, we could meet again.

You...

I don't care if this is a dream.

You don't have to cry anymore.

We are always together.

From now on... and until now surely.

Come, let's go.

Where to?

It doesn't matter where, as long as I am with you.