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Maria Watches Over Us

Spreading a blank map wide open Shiroi chizu ookiku hiroge

Let's go hide the treasure box Takara-bako kakushi ni ikou

No need for coats or even hats Kooto nante iranai boushi mo ne

Armed with just mechanical pencil lead Shaapen no shin dake haite

Round and round and round, Kururu kururu ku

Running through kakenukeru

Round and round and round, Kururu kururu ku

Our footprints mark the X ashiato wa batsu-jirushi da yo

Passing through the walls of the school Kousha no kabe tsuki-nuke

We can go anywhere, there will be a path there Dokonimo ikeru soko ni michi ga aru

The pleats of our skirts won't be disturbed Sukaato no hida midare-nai

If it's a secret journey Himitsu no tabi nara

Won't you...

...be my little sister?

Yumi-sama...

"Thank you very much."

"What a kind person you are, Yumi-sama."

Did you think I would say that?

I was unable to get Toko-chan to accept my rosary.

I confided this fact to my dear sister.

Being turned down once is nothing.

Hold your head high.

I will.

But...

...it does hurt, doesn't it?

Yes.

Um...

Would it be all right if I still cried a bit?

On the Other Side of the Clouded Glass

Here you are.

I am sorry for causing everyone concern.

It's nothing of great importance.

Yumi offered Toko-chan her rosary and...

...she was refused.

That is all.

It can't be true...

Noriko, be careful what you say.

Oh, pardon me.

By no means did I intend to imply that the Rosa Chinensis was lying.

I know.

But this is...

...the truth.

Perhaps it was not even worth informing everyone about it.

But you were all concerned for her already.

And I also wanted to ask a favor of everyone.

A favor?

I want you to leave the matter of Yumi and Toko-chan alone for a while.

Neither sympathizing with Yumi, nor finding fault with Toko-chan.

I would like for you to just watch over them from afar.

This is a problem between the two of them.

Naturally, I intend to do so as well.

Onee-sama...

If you, as her big sister, are going to do that,

how could we possibly meddle?

Is that understood?

So you have not given up then, Yumi-san?

It's so cold...

Why is it?

"Toko-chan is far more hurt over this than I am."

Somehow, I have a feeling that's the case...

3 Days Later

It was on this day that it happened.

Sachiko Ogasawara

Onee-sama!

You are cordially invited to a women-only New Year's party. When: January 2nd, Noon Where: Sachiko Ogasawara's residence What to Bring: sleepware, food, drinks permitted *This is planned for 2 days and 1 night, but you are free to arrive later or leave earlier.

You are cordially invited to a women-only New Year's party. When: January 2nd, Noon Where: Sachiko Ogasawara's residence What to Bring: sleepware, food, drinks permitted *This is planned for 2 days and 1 night, but you are free to arrive later or leave earlier. A New Year's party at Sachiko-sama's residence.

It says "women-only."

Thank you for the invitation, Onee-sama.

So you will come?

Of course, I will avail myself of your hospitality.

I already received permission from my parents...

...and Yoshino-san and Shimako-san called to confirm as well.

I see.

Yumi.

Yes?

I also sent out an invitation to Toko-chan.

I see.

I am sorry for deciding to do so at my own discretion without asking you.

Not at all.

She may not come.

Yes.

But I still sent it, thinking that would be fine.

I felt like if nothing is done,

Toko-chan will grow farther and farther apart from us at this rate.

Yes.

You're appalled, I'm sure.

For I told everyone to watch over you,

and here I am being the very first to meddle.

Are you clairvoyant? Reading my mind like that...

I am not clairvoyant.

But I am your big sister.

So I'm allowed.

Yes.

January 2nd

January 2nd See you later!

January 2nd

I wonder if Sayako Oba-sama will like these.

Good day, Yumi-sama.

Noriko-chan!

Happy New Year.

Yes, Happy New Year.

Yumi-sama, um...

What is it?

I feel so utterly horrible about this, Yumi-sama.

Bringing this up again is just a reiteration of "I'm sorry," but...

Is this about Toko-chan?

I had long hoped that Toko would become your little sister.

No, I had hoped that you would become Toko's big sister.

But I thought you felt nothing for Toko.

So I really disliked it when you would innocently pay attention to Toko.

I am sorry.

I see.

I see now that you were serious about Toko.

And yet...

Refusing an offer to become soeurs is neither a good thing nor a bad thing.

But I think being untrue to your feelings cannot be a good thing.

So you don't think that Toko-chan hates me...

Right.

Then I probably got something wrong.

Wrong?

Like the time or place or how she was feeling...

...or how I conveyed myself, I guess.

I'm sorry. Did you wait long?

No, we're the ones who arrived too early.

Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

Could it be that this is your first time together this year?

Yes, but what of it?

I'm sorry. I didn't realize.

I'll give you some privacy, so take all the time you want.

Why so solicitous at this late stage?

But...

Um, what about Rei-sama and Yoshino-sama?

They said they would go there directly.

Then, shall we get going as well?

We're here.

Wow! This is a park!

Welcome.

Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Now, come on in.

Rei and Yoshino are already here.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you for having us.

Let's see, what does that leave?

Oh, let me think...

Yoshino-san. Rei-sama.

Oh, Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Sayako Oba-sama, Yumi-san and the others are here!

Welcome. It is so good of you to come.

Yumi-chan, you remembered! I am so touched!

Well, then, I look forward to another year with you.

We look forward to it as well. We look forward to it as well.

The non-alcoholic is not so bad, is it?

Yes.

New Year's soup already?

Nothing wrong with that.

I've been helping out and I'm starving.

Thank you for the food!

Oh, it certainly looks delicious.

Right? Rei-chan made the broth for this.

I wonder what Toko-chan's doing right now.

That must be the sushi.

They always come on time.

I suppose there's no reason she would come...

Then, I will read them off.

"Longing for you..."

"...I spend whole nights lamenting..."

I have it!

I have it.

Mother of Michitsuna.

That is correct, Shimako-chan.

Then, here is the next one.

"The eight-fold cherry blossoms..."

Eight-fold... Eight-fold... "The eight-fold cherry blossoms..."

Eight-fold... Eight-fold...

Eight-fold... Eight-fold... "...from Nara's ancient capital..."

I have it. "...from Nara's ancient capital..."

What?! "...from Nara's ancient capital..."

"...from Nara's ancient capital..."

Ise no Taifu's poem. That is correct.

Then, here is the next one.

That was impressive, Shimako-chan.

No kidding.

You and Sachiko practically got all of them.

You did better than last year. You and Sachiko practically got all of them.

You did better than last year.

You did better than last year. I couldn't get any at all.

I couldn't get any at all.

Yes... I couldn't get any at all.

You seem to have a lot of poems by people who were consumed with grief.

How troubling.

Fortune telling using "One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each"?

I don't know about that.

If we were to try such a thing,

with someone like Shimako, who took so many cards,

it would be confusing with the range of emotions mixed in there.

Oh, Onee-sama.

Next, we have a human board game.

Human board game?

Yes.

Let us compete in teams, two to a team.

Would you be all right with determining teams by rose color?

Certainly...

Instead of game pieces, you move yourselves.

Each room has been given a name, so please follow the instructions there.

Then, let us begin.

All right.

There!

Three.

Three puts you in the Water Flea Room.

Water Flea?

Because, "the second-floor Japanese room," or some such,

would give Sachiko-san the advantage, right?

That is why.

You are so perceptive when it comes to things like this.

Let's go, Yoshino.

Yeah.

There!

Five puts you in the Hippopotamus Room.

Let us go.

Yes.

There!

You two are going to the Ribbonfish Room.

See you later.

"Peacock"...

This is not it, either.

Where's "Water Flea"?!

The Ostrich Room

The Ostrich Room "Ostrich"...

So, the number of spaces we advance is unrelated to how far the room is...

I found it, Onee-sama!

The Ribbonfish Room

The Ribbonfish Room It's the Ribbonfish Room.

What are we to do with these?

Yumi, take your clothes off.

What?!

No matter how you think about it,

this is an order to put on the kimono here.

B-But...

We have no time.

Even so, it doesn't have to be me...

Don't be silly!

Such unpleasant roles are precisely the roles little sisters undertake!

Besides, even if I were to do it,

only the color of my kimono would change, and it would be no fun to see.

What?

Now, have the good grace to take your clothes off!

What? P-P-Please... Please hold on a second, Onee-sama!

Please at least close the sliding door!

There are only women in this house.

Oh.

Dress your little sister in a long-sleeved kimono.

My! You look adorable, Yumi-chan!

Yeah! It looks really good on you!

Thank you.

So, all teams have completed their first set of instructions.

Let us move on.

The Hippopotamus Room

After that, the human board game went on,

and perhaps my struggling with the unfamiliar kimono sash paid off...

...as we completed numerous sets of instructions,

and we, the Rosa Chinensis Team, won.

Ostrich Room and we, the Rosa Chinensis Team, won.

and we, the Rosa Chinensis Team, won.

Goal and we, the Rosa Chinensis Team, won.

Oh!

Congratulations!

Aw! And we tried so hard!

I'm glad that everyone came for you. Aw! And we tried so hard!

I'm glad that everyone came for you.

Yes.

With it being January 2nd, I imagine they may have had other plans,

but they all made arrangements so that we could come together.

To cheer me up.

So you were aware of all that.

I'm proud of you.

I'm also aware that you are the one...

...who made this occasion possible...

...and I'm making sure to impress that fact upon my heart.

How silly of you.

You don't need to think of me.

I'm family, after all.

Yumi-san, Sayako Oba-sama said she'll make us matcha green tea later.

Let's be quick and clean things up.

Okay.

Give me all the trash.

What fun!

What fun!

This is delicious.

I am so happy.

But for some reason, I feel a cold breeze stealing into my heart...

That's probably because...

...you're storing your emotions in the wrong room.

Huh? Did I just say something?

Yes.

That you are happy, but a cold breeze is coming into your heart,

or something to that effect.

I must have it bad!

The two of you are right next to me...

...and I'm babbling my thoughts out loud!

It can't be helped.

Even when your "big sister's room" and your "friends' rooms" are full,

when another room is empty,

you might feel like you're missing something.

What "other room"?

Your "little sister's room."

There is no such room.

Not before now.

But you built a new room for Toko-chan, didn't you?

Recently.

You built the room in advance,

but you have no little sister to live there,

and that's why you have a draft blowing through your heart.

So it's only to be expected.

Just stand firm and say,

"That's just how it is. What's wrong with that?"

What a nice way to put it.

Shimako-san...

After all, as the one saying these words,

I'm also in the midst of building a new room myself.

I see...

A person's heart is a house, huh?

When I think of it that way, it's easy to understand.

And the room for my dear sister and I...

...is already filled to the point of bursting.

Now, we definitely have to write that up before going to sleep!

That?

"Upon the Long Night."

You write a palindrome poem that starts with "Upon the Long Night,"

and you sleep with it under your pillow.

It's a charm for making the first dream of the year a pleasant one.

I'm impressed that you remembered, Yumi.

Upon the long night, from the depths of sound slumber, all awaken now, the good fortune treasure ship, sounds so fine upon the waves.

Then I'm going to turn out the lights.

Good night. Good night.

She looks so adorable in her sleep.

I feel so much for her and she's just my friend's little sister.

If this were my own little sister...

My first dream of the year was...

...predictably, a dream about Toko-chan.

Toko-chan is in the room next to mine.

But there is a clouded pane of glass separating us.

I want to see Toko-chan's face...

Please, Toko-chan! Wipe it from your side, too!

Or this cloud won't clear away!

Yumi-san, what are you doing?

Oh, no, nothing.

Oh, look at this!

What did I do wrong? Oh, look at this!

What did I do wrong?

What can I do to make her understand?

Toko-chan, please!

Look this way!

Toko-chan...

Thank you very much for inviting us.

We had a lot of fun!

Please come again.

Good-bye.

Good-bye. Good-bye.

I want to see Toko-chan.

I want to make Toko-chan my little sister.

I want to know everything about Toko-chan.

Maybe I'll try dropping by Kashiwagi-san's place...

If I ask Kashiwagi-san, I may be able to learn more about Toko-chan.

But, Toko-chan may not be pleased if I do that.

In fact, she might close her heart to me even more.

I mustn't do such a thing.

That's not how a big sister behaves.

I'm not worthy of being called "Onee-sama."

Unable to do anything, the new school term started.

Toko-chan...

Good morning, Yumi-sama.

G-Good morning.

Toko-chan is smiling...

As if what happened last year...

As if what happened between us...

...never happened at all.

As if she's forgotten about it all.

A winterscape where even... Machi no irodori sae doko

...the town's colors seem forlorn somehow to naku samishige na fuyu no keshiki

I think of you, turning your back on me... Senaka mise kaketeitta

...and running off anata o omou

There's a clear square pane... Futari no aida ni wa

...between the two of us toumei na shikakkei

It's misted over right now... Ima wa kasunderu

...with the crystals of sighs tame-iki no kesshou de

Window glass, window glass Mado garasu mado garasu

It's clouded and I can't see you Kumottete anata ga mienai no

Even though I know that you're there Soko ni iru koto wa wakatteiru no ni

Are you smiling? Are you crying? Waratteru naiteru no

I don't even care if you're frowning, let me see you Shikamettsura demo ii kara misete

Wipe the glass from your side, too Sochira no hou kara mo garasu o fuite

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