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Social Studies Prep Room

The maidens, who flock to Maria-sama's garden,

pass through the tall gates today yet again with innocent, angelic smiles.

Their pure hearts and bodies are clad in deep-colored uniforms.

So that the pleats of their skirts are not disturbed...

...and so that their white sailor collars are not set aflutter,

it is customary here to walk slowly and with decorum.

The Private Lillian Girls' Academy, a garden of maidens.

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

There are now 5 minutes left.

What? What shall we do?

Yes...

At this rate, the privilege will go to the Absentee Chance?

Yumi.

Y-Yes?

Stand up.

Pardon?

Just stand up.

Yumi-sama!

Toko-chan!

Yumi-sama,

please forgive me for the many times I have shown you rudeness!

What?

And having said that...

Might you not...

...make me your little sister?

In Search of You

It is now 4:40.

The search time is over,

so we ask that all students participating in the treasure hunt...

...gather in the inner courtyard.

Oh, um, you should all hurry outside as well.

It's over...

So we just need to take these?

Wait a minute. So we just need to take these?

Wait a minute.

I just want to check with you quickly,

but what do you intend to do with the red card?

What? Uh...

It belongs to Toko-chan, right?

But Rosa Chinensis...

I have no right to it.

Certainly, I told Yumi to stand up,

but it was Toko-chan who actually made Yumi come to her feet.

In that case, please give the red card to Matsudaira-san.

All right.

Toko-chan.

We will now announce the results!

As scheduled, after the hour of search time was up,

Mami-san announced what became of the cards.

Shimako-san's white card was hidden under a teacher's car,

and in the end, no one found it,

so it was determined that a correct answer...

...would be found from among the Absentee Chance forms.

Tanuma Chisato-san got the yellow card for the second year in a row...

...and Toko-chan was declared the winner of the red card.

Thanks for coming.

To all the students who did not find a card,

we passed out bite-sized chocolates as a prize for participation.

Thus, the Valentine's event,

the Treasure Hunt Competition of the Future Lady Roses...

...ended without mishap, but...

By the way, what's going on?

"What's going on?"

What happened after that?

With Toko-chan?

Yes.

She hasn't called you or discussed the date with you?

Oh, there haven't been any real developments.

I see.

Just you wait.

I'll run over and bring Toko-chan to you.

Wait!

But... my getting involved will only complicate things further, huh?

Yeah.

Um, about Toko...

It seems she is here at school, but I didn't see her in the classroom.

This has turned into quite a commotion, after all.

I ended up being besieged by everyone as well.

I guess it's become pretty big news.

Yes.

It might be better to quickly give the rosary to her...

...and officially become soeurs with her.

Oh...

I finally found you.

Good day.

I've been looking for you, Toko-chan.

I was peeking in on the Drama Club's rehearsal in the gymnasium...

...and they told me you'd probably be here.

This is about the date, right?

From the Valentine's event?

Yes, well...

How about Sunday the week after next?

That day would be fine.

Is there anywhere you want to go?

You're fine with any place I want to go?

Of course.

As long as we can get there and back in a day and within budget.

Here, these are the rules for the date.

The budget is 2000 yen per person...

When you consider the cost of lunch, you cannot go very far...

But if we can get there with our rail passes,

we can each enjoy a 2000 yen lunch.

Oh, that's true.

I need to talk to her properly.

To...

Toko-chan! To...

Toko-chan!

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm interrupting your conversation.

It must be cold out there.

If you would like, please come on inside.

Oh, no, I'm sorry for interrupting your club activities.

I'll be leaving shortly.

Really?

But you needn't be so concerned.

It's just the two of us here anyway.

Well, then...

Oh, okay...

Um, Yumi-sama?

What is it?

I would like to ask for your answer after the date...

What?

Oh...

Good day.

Good day.

I'm so glad.

Pardon?

I mean, you said it was a mystery tour...

...and wouldn't tell me where we were going.

I agonized a lot about what I should wear.

Then, shall we go?

Okay.

Huh?

W-What?

We will be taking a bus first.

We took the bus,

got off at a private rail line station,

and from there, we took a train and then transferred at another station.

Here you are.

Thank you.

The mystery tour that Toko-chan had planned out...

...took us farther and farther away from Tokyo.

But...

...during all this time,

Toko-chan remained quiet.

When I said I would take over the hospital business,

it delighted my grandfather very much.

What?

Though, that was a long time ago.

By hospital, you mean your grandfather's, right?

Yes. On my father's side.

But my father did not become a doctor,

even though he was the only child.

And that's why you said that?

It is a small hospital,

but it is beloved by the local people and the patients,

so I absolutely didn't want to see it closed down.

But my grandfather has stated he will retire in 3 years.

Then, what about the hospital?

It seems it will be left to the couple who is currently helping him.

No one had taken me seriously when I said I would take over the hospital.

In 3 years, I will barely have managed to graduate from high school...

...and I will still be far from getting my medical license.

I considered marrying a doctor, but they were against it.

They told me it was ridiculous to marry for the hospital.

I thought that they no longer needed me.

They had found an immediate replacement,

so I believed they no longer found me useful.

And so, I ran away from home.

Then, that day...

Yes.

I'm sorry, I don't really understand...

...why you're so intent on taking over the hospital.

Is it unfathomable for you?

Do you not trust the people who'll be taking over?

No, they are very good people.

Then...

The idea of becoming the Matsudaira family successor...

...had become the foundation of my life.

Why?

Little by little, I'm getting closer to Toko-chan.

What awaits me at the end of this journey...

...is sure to be Toko-chan's heart.

Yumi-sama! Yumi-sama!

Over here!

The Matsudaira Hospital at the Foot of the Mountains

They have a shuttle bus.

Since my grandfather's hospital is far from the train station.

Now, really! Take your shoes off.

Pulling out of the station, the bus left behind the populated area...

...and headed for country roads.

It's almost time for lunch.

If I take out the cost of the return trip,

I guess that leaves about 600 yen between us.

I wonder if there are any convenience stores near the hospital.

Are you hungry?

Oh, uh, well...

Please wait just a little longer.

What am I thinking at a time like this?

My mother is in this picture.

Is that her?

Yes, it is.

This is my mother.

The Matsudaira Hospital at the Foot of the Mountains

It's delicious.

I am so glad it is to your taste.

I see, the hospital's cafeteria!

Here, we can eat and stay within our budget.

Ah! Toko!

Grandfather!

I had heard that you were coming, but I was on a house call.

You're looking well.

So, you made trouble for your mom and dad by running away from home?

Good for you!

Oh, Grandfather, that was last year.

This is my grandfather.

This is Fukuzawa Yumi-sama, an upperclassman from my school.

It is nice to meet you.

Yumi-san, is it?

Might you be Sachiko-san's?

You know of her?

Yes, because Saiko-san often spoke of her to me.

Sachiko-sama's grandmother did?

I see, so you're Yumi-san!

I hope you will bear with Toko.

Please make sure you really put her through her paces.

Yes, sir.

Ah, Doctor.

Hello there, Hashimoto-san.

In the end, I was being small.

What do you mean?

Noriko once told me so, too.

That I could not see the larger picture, because I was in a small place.

Oh, Miss.

Hello, I didn't know you were here.

Hello.

Please make yourself at home.

Thank you very much.

So you come out this way often.

Yes.

How adorable.

Shall we go?

Sixteen years ago, there was a car accident.

It was on a gentle, downward-sloping curve.

A truck veered into the opposing lane and struck a passenger vehicle.

There was a young married couple in the passenger vehicle,

and they passed away due to the accident.

I do not know the exact location,

but I believe it was somewhere around here.

In the infant safety seat of the passenger vehicle,

there was a sleeping newborn baby.

That child alone survived unscathed.

About as old as the baby we saw earlier...

No, it was about a month after my birth,

so I must have been even smaller.

The sole, surviving baby...

That child was me.

I... lost my parents in one fell swoop...

That's enough already.

No, please listen.

Having lost my parents,

the only family I had was my elderly grandmother on my father's side.

And she was hospitalized here,

so she was hardly in a position to raise me...

...and it was determined that I would go to an orphanage.

But right before that happened,

the Matsudairas took me in and raised me.

And my Matsudaira mother is her.

And this...

This is the woman who gave birth to me...

Then...

I guess there are such things as coincidences.

The two were classmates in high school.

It is only recently that I learned this.

But I have known for quite some time that I am not the Matsudairas' child.

Overhearing the conversations of insensitive adults,

I had my suspicions.

Once I became somewhat wise to the ways of the world,

I only had to look at the family register to know.

My birth mother apparently performed with a small theatrical company.

When I learned of that, I even thought about quitting theatre.

But if I quit abruptly, I thought my parents might read too much into it.

I love my current parents very much.

But I have ended up hurting them.

We couldn't agree regarding the hospital and I yelled at them,

"So you don't need me anymore?!"

But until that moment, my parents hadn't even realized that I knew...

Why have you told me all this?

I want you to know everything about me, Yumi-sama.

This is what Kashiwagi-san was talking about...

Toko-chan's secret.

I used to hate you, Yumi-sama.

You were so sunny and artless and you had everything.

It was as though you had no dark, ugly side to you at all.

Please, I have as much of a dark, ugly side to me as anyone.

I know that now.

Oh, really.

I probably wanted to be like you.

But I could not be like you.

I even thought it would be better not to be around you anymore,

but even as I desperately put up walls,

you kept coming, tearing them all down.

Don't talk about me like I'm some giant monster.

But it's the truth.

In time, rumors even surfaced that I was a candidate for your little sister.

I continually did things that would make you hate me...

...and I believed I could never be your little sister.

But even as I desperately denied the possibility in my heart,

my feelings defied me and grew for you.

That was why I kept running away...

And yet, out of the blue, you asked me to be your little sister.

I'm sorry.

I hope you'll pour your heart out to me...

...about all the things you've kept silent about and bottled up inside.

I'll listen to you grumble for as long as you need.

Because we...

...are to become soeurs.

Once you get it all out of your system,

we'll next turn to filling that empty space with happy memories.

Just as I've done with Sachiko-sama.

Wait just a little longer.

Tomorrow, we'll go to school,

and then...

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