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EPISODE 11
I think the temperature in here went down a little.
Mirei.
"Whatever you look at, it reminds you of something."
Whoever imprisoned us in here, it wasn't
Miho,
or a victim of Perfect,
or Mr. Hayashi, or Okazaki, or Miho's dad.
I was wrong about them all.
Because of that...
It's not your fault, Mirei.
I can't remember anything.
I can't remember anything anymore.
Mirei.
I was so afraid.
While staying here, I've been
so afraid.
That's why I kept saying, "Remember!"
The things Memi said...
That I look smart,
but I'm actually dumb.
She's exactly right.
I'm not smart at all.
In reality,
- I can't do anything. - That's not true.
Everyone knew that you were trying harder than everyone else.
Thank you, Mirei,
for bringing us this far.
We need your strength, Mirei.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
I'm better now.
Okay.
- A minute ago. - What?
We had Wi-Fi for a second, and I got a message.
It was a photo.
A message?
I don't recognize the number.
What is in the photo?
It's a photo of the ocean taken from inside a room.
There's a birdcage in the foreground.
And there's a photo in the photo frame placed on the windowsill.
It's of two girls holding hands.
I guess they're sisters.
Sisters?
Do you think the culprit was the one who sent me this photo?
But why send it only to me?
Sisters again.
Why are they all sisters?
Remember what Memi said?
She said maybe Miho has a sister.
Yes.
Like I said before,
Miho never told me about anything like that.
"An illegitimate child? That's just a gossip magazine rumor."
That's what I thought at first too.
Kumi,
you said that Miho had an argument with her dad, right?
She said that when she wasn't around, her dad was more at ease.
When Memi joked with Mr. Hayashi
that Miho's family had an illegitimate child,
he got angry with her.
Yes.
I wonder why Miho's dad came often to the school.
What?
She said he came to ask Mr. Hayashi for advice about his family life.
I wonder what he was asking about.
If she had a sister in the class,
then her father could be worried,
which would be reason for him to keep seeing Mr. Hayashi.
You mean, Miho has a sister?
Miho has a sister in the class.
Before her very eyes, her own sister got bullied.
So, she decided to get revenge on the people who did it.
But I didn't.
I didn't either.
Then...
Like Ayaka said,
these sisters are close,
but don't they seem to have sadness in their eyes?
Miho looked like that as well in the classroom.
I've been thinking
why the two of us are the only ones left.
We didn't bully Miho.
But I don't think we're the only members of Perfect
who didn't bully her.
Really?
They want us to realize that...
Mirei!
I first met Miho at the high school entrance ceremony.
I noticed her compelling eyes more than anything.
She had a kind of charisma, like an aura.
I neither hated nor liked her.
From the first time we met,
I knew she would be my rival.
I don't remember her well.
I was more focused on Kyoko, so I didn't pay Miho much attention.
She seemed a lot like me.
She was a princess.
It was my first time to meet her,
but it seemed like it wasn't the first time.
She was the type that looks you in the eye when she talks to you.
Even when I took my eyes away, she still looked me in the eyes.
One day, I realized that this is how she builds trust.
Miho was fashionable,
so she enjoyed talking about fashion and cosmetics,
and started going home with Mao.
She soon controlled the classroom.
When she suddenly invited me to a café, I thought it was awesome!
I thought I had entered the top clique at school!
When Miho got a boyfriend, she became really perky.
After summer vacation of our second year,
Miho started talking about cleaning up this rotten world.
Miho was childhood friends with Kumi,
but she started spending more time with us.
She liked the name Perfect Justice.
From that, it was easy to tell what kind of person she was.
She asked me to clean up this dirty world together with her.
At first, I had no idea what she meant.
But after listening to her talk about it, I became excited to do it.
Until then,
I thought I could never personally change the world.
It was really exhilarating!
I wonder why the members of Perfect was us 12.
I was a transfer student, so when she invited me to join Perfect,
Kumi seemed to wonder,
"Why a transfer student?"
Perfect punished lots of people.
I wonder what happened to the people who were posted on Perfect.
I was happy when Miho invited me to be friends with her.
I just did it without thinking.
Each person has a different opinion of what is right.
I couldn't believe
that our brand of justice was right for the world or that it was absolute.
It was Mr. Hayashi who got me thinking about right and wrong.
Mr. Hayashi was the one
who understood us best in the whole school.
I didn't like that he touched me. He smelled like my dad.
It was considered uncool to do what the teacher told us to.
He always played favorites with Miho.
I wonder why Miho's dad always came to see Mr. Hayashi.
I always thought Mr. Hayashi would cause some big problem.
I often asked Mr. Hayashi for advice...
about home and school.
About lots of things.
Is Okazaki really that cool?
To be honest, Miho, Mana, and Shiho have bad taste.
I think he's like my puppy.
I told Okazaki that I loved him, then he dumped me.
That's why I told Miho,
"Okazaki is an awful boyfriend.
You should dump him."
I wasn't really jealous.
I knew he was going after other girls.
I couldn't believe that Miho was in love with a guy like that.
On the day of the blackout, her boyfriend
committed a medical error and killed her best friend.
What's worse, he covered it up.
That's why you should never get a boyfriend.
It was the beginning of our senior year that Miho started changing.
One day, Miho started treating me like her slave.
Thanks to that, everyone used me.
When Miho told me to buy her some tea,
she said it was too hot.
- I couldn't believe she said that. - Something in Miho went haywire,
and Perfect started becoming extreme.
I became afraid.
That's why Kyoko and I distanced ourselves from Miho.
I think Kumi tried to convince Miho.
But Miho didn't stop.
That's why I started keeping my distance from Miho.
During the midterms, I cheated.
It was my chance to steal the top spot in the class from Mirei.
That is
when Miho saw me cheating.
I saw Miho and Sarina on the stairs next to the library.
At the top of the stairs, I dropped the frog toy that Miho hated.
It surprised Miho,
so she missed a step, and fell down the stairs.
It looked like she fell by herself.
I didn't imagine something like that would happen.
Miho never blamed anyone for that. Why?
Mei's eyes darted around, so I knew
she had done it.
Miho always asked me to push her wheelchair,
so I thought she knew it was me.
At first, everyone was sympathetic.
Mr. Hayashi told us to help her.
When I was going to push Miho's wheelchair,
she shouted, "Don't you dare!"
I wonder what it's like to lose the ability to walk.
Miho changed even more.
There wasn't anyone in our town who would oppose Miho's dad.
It was the same way in school.
I heard from Miho
that her dad's hobby was hunting.
Miho saw me and Ayaka kissing.
Without telling Ayaka, I tried to think of how to destroy Miho,
but couldn't think of anything.
That's when a lot of rumors spread about Miho's dad.
An illegitimate child. Corruption. Relations with underage girls.
I wasn't sure how to talk to Miho after that.
But I'm sure everyone was glad those rumors have spread.
After those things came out about Miho's dad, the atmosphere changed.
When I got to school, there were insults about Miho written on the blackboard.
I heard people laugh.
I thought, "It's okay to laugh at her."
When Miho came into the classroom in her wheelchair,
I opened the window without thinking.
From that day on, Miho was known as the Stinky Girl.
I turned a blind eye to the bullying of Miho.
I never bullied her.
But I did feel like she deserved it.
To be honest, I thought, "Yes!"
One time, I accidentally broke a glass bottle in front of Miho.
It wasn't on purpose.
Miho's textbooks and notebooks were passed around
during class every day.
I didn't have a choice. I blacked out her textbooks
and ripped up her notebooks.
I was a transfer student.
I was afraid that I would be the next target of bullying.
But I'll never forget the look in Miho's eyes at that time.
It was payback for all the awful things she had done to me.
That's all.
I think the girl closest to her started it.
I wonder why Kumi didn't stop the bullying.
She's really suspicious.
It was the person who hated Miho the most.
It had to be Mao.
Why Mao? They were as close as sisters.
I don't know who it was. It wasn't me or Kyoko.
I wonder if it was me.
Everyone is responsible.
Maybe it isn't a member of Perfect.
Whoever said they didn't bully her is
definitely the person behind the bullying.
I'm not sure why I bullied her.
There was the stuff about Okazaki.
Maybe it was a diversion.
Or because I was frustrated.
I can only blame the trend and atmosphere at that time.
We were probably frustrated about entrance exams too.
But that's still no reason to bully Miho.
I joined them because it seemed like it would be bad if I didn't.
Miho took a lot of things from me.
But, I think I took more than that from Miho.
My admiration and jealousy of Miho got all mixed up.
And then...
I was worried people wouldn't like me.
If the same thing happened again, I would definitely help Miho.
Everyone did it, so I did it too even though I didn't want to.
We used to get along so well.
I want to see Miho again.
Next time, I might become friends with Miho.
I want to compete with her fair and square for Okazaki.
I will start my life over again.
If Miho were alive...
I want to talk like we used to,
and laugh, and fight, and sometimes cry.
I've thought about Miho a lot.
What kind of girl was she? What was she feeling?
I want to do Perfect with Miho again.
I have some good memories, but I've had it with high school!
I wanted to talk more with Miho about what's right.
But first, I want to apologize.
Miho, I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
I apologize.
I'm sorry.
Miho, I'm sorry.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
Miho...
I'm sorry.
Miho...
Is that you?
Hey!
That's you, isn't it, Miho?
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