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My body starts to melt

It was waiting for this miracle

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009

You've got the chance to express you

Here comes the imagination

Time, place

Truth and lies

Joy and sorrow

Kindness, hateness

Happiness, sadness

Smile, tears, friendship

Alone, together, birth

Death, sleep, fight

Space and oneself

In that promised place

I feel it once again

The spreading of a dream that's come true

I start running today too

Don't forget. Be sure to come.

For sure. That's a promise.

Episode 37: The Night of the Star Festival

That's pretty, 003.

I know, right? This is a Star Festival decoration.

I made it after the sample from this book.

It's lovely.

This is an Oriental-style tree, huh?

It says Orihime and Hikoboshi loved each other, but were separated,

though they're permitted to meet just once a year, by crossing the Milky Way,

and that day is today, Tanabata, the Star Festival.

Japan has some beautiful traditions, don't they?

Listen, Tanabata was originally from China

and came to Japan during the Heian Period.

The tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been part of

Chinese folklore for over 2,600 years.

I see. Pardon my ignorance.

Do you decorate trees like this in China too?

In China, bamboo is panda food.

Sorry, I didn't know.

Come to think of it, if the sky is clear tonight,

we'll be able to see the Epsilon Aquilids meteor shower.

Meteor shower?

A bunch of shooting stars.

Oh, shooting stars on the night of the star festival. How romantic!

I bet 009 will be watching them from somewhere, too.

Yes, you may be right.

I wonder where 009 is right now.

It's unusual for him to suddenly take off on his own.

Sometimes people need that once in a while.

Sometimes people need that once in a while.

It gives them a chance to reassess themselves.

You could probably stand to reassess yourself too.

You could probably stand to reassess yourself too.

Yes, that's... Shut up!

Cans Bottles

I got off at that station, as if something had lured me.

But I didn't have a reason to be there.

You've gotten so big.

Really big.

Um, have we met?

Oh, I've known you since you were this tall.

You shouldn't tease adults.

Hey, wait a second!

Hey!

Listen when someone's talking to you!

Talking about what?

Hang out with me today.

Are you trying to pick me up?

Pick you up?

Oh, like boy hunting?

Well, I guess you could call it that.

How old are you?

Do you live around here?

Where's your school?

Don't treat me like a child.

After all, you are a child.

Actually, I'm being pursued.

By two men in black.

Wherever I go, they stubbornly follow me.

If you're in danger, then you'd better get home.

Right?

Then will you walk me home?

Well...

That's okay. If there's an article about me in the paper tomorrow,

it won't be your fault.

So don't feel guilty about it.

Sugeno

All right, fine.

Where do you live?

Over there.

The other side of that mountain.

That's really far.

I suppose.

So your house is there?

No.

It's not?

But I have to go there. I made a promise.

It involves you, too.

The bus only comes here once an hour.

What's your name?

Would you call me Alice?

Alice? Is that your real name?

I want you to call me that.

See, I don't really like my real name.

Oh?

I'm

I know!

Joe. Joe Shimamura.

How did you know?

I told you. I've known you since you were yay-high.

Hey!

So how do you know my name?

Oh, I know everything about you, Joe.

So tell me how it is you know everything about me.

I can't say right now.

What's wrong?

It's hot!

Tajima Bread

Here you go.

Thank you.

Hey, Joe, do you have a girlfriend?

Do you? A girlfriend.

No...

You don't, do you?

Nope. I don't.

I know! I'll be your girlfriend, Joe!

Say cheese!

I'll get it.

Stop it! Leave me alone!

Alice!

Joe! Joe!

Let go of that girl!

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Then it's true.

Men in black are chasing you.

I never lie.

Who are they?

Why are they targeting you?

I don't know.

I don't know, but they're trying to get me to stop leaping.

Whenever I leap, those people always appear.

Leap? What do you mean by leaping?

Time. I leap through time.

You leap through time?

You mean time travel?

Yeah.

How? How do you leap through time?

When I leap, I just leap.

You're strong, huh, Joe?

You were really cool fighting those guys.

Well... Now look...

Come on! Let's walk!

Is the target trying to negotiate with that boy?

I don't know. But we can't make a move again as long as they're together.

Right.

Hey, you think I'm lying, aren't you?

You don't believe in time travel, think it's only something from sci-fi comics.

Well...

Shall I prove it to you?

It's my church.

What's this?

It's me!

Me back at the church.

When I was a kid!

Look at the photos carefully.

Do you believe me?

Who are you?

That doesn't matter.

I just came to keep a promise I made to you.

A promise?

What promise?!

A promise I made to you when we were both kids.

I promised to make your fondest wish come true.

I'll take you there.

I can't just leap anywhere.

I need something that connects this time and the other time.

Like early-blooming cherry blossoms

or a parent and child swans that have flown over from Siberia...

Something that can connect your time to that person's time only appears tonight.

Hey, what is it?

Keep quiet and watch.

It's starting!

Wow!

Hurry up! You have to make a wish!

Think about the person you most want to see!

It's okay. I'll get you there.

Alice?

Alice!

This is...

Bamboo leaves are rustling, rustling

Swaying close to the roof's edge,

The stars are twinkling, twinkling

Gold and silver grains of sand

Stars...

Stars...

Grant my wish.

Stars...

Stars...

Please grant my wish.

Wait!

Please let me meet my mother.

Thank you.

I just hope it gets there.

Your wish to the stars...

A shooting star!

Maybe this is the connection Alice was talking about.

Think about the person you most want to see!

I see. So that's what it is.

Mom...

Huh? Why am I crying?

We erased a few of that boy's memories to keep history from changing.

That includes the time travel and his memories of meeting you.

Oh. But even if you erase the memories, they're still written on the heart.

Bamboo leaves are rustling, rustling

Swaying close to the roof's edge,

The stars are twinkling, twinkling

Gold and silver grains of sand

I held my heart up high proudly

I held my heart up high proudly

There wasn't even a lingering trace of that scent

There wasn't even a lingering trace of that scent

Once again I'm dancing, arcing through the air

Once again I'm dancing, arcing through the air

I'm surprised by the meaning of the pain

Like the red light from a towering building at night

My blinking heart won't turn off

Now I'm starting from here again

Now I'm starting from here again

Along with a vow

There are things I don't want to forget and things that will be wiped away

There are things I don't want to forget and things that will be wiped away

My courage, one courage, a kind courage

My courage, one courage, a kind courage

I can see

Dancing you and me

They weren't destroyed.

The fearsome giant organization of evil.

In fact, if my hunch is right, the term organization doesn't fit.

Have they existed in the shadows since the dawn of humanity?

The nine warriors born from the cyborg project are my only hope.

Evil inadvertently created the power of justice.

Next time on Cyborg 009:

Episode 38: Black Ghost!