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Caramel Waffles
with Apples and Nuts

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Here are your caramel waffles
with apples and nuts!

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Wow! I've always wanted
to try this!

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Oh boy! This is amazing!

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Where do you think I should start?

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Where should I start?

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Should I take a picture?

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{\i1}First I was an extra.{\i0}
{\i1}Now I'm a substitute huh?{\i0}

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Okay! That's all she wrote!

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Do you like baking sweets?

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No I don't make them.

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So good!

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{\i1}She's such an amazing musician{\i0}
{\i1}but all she looks like now is an ordinary girl.{\i0}

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I thought it was just a prop
but you can really play it huh?

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That piano...

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What a happy piano.

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It's grinning
from ear to ear!

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It's a sad little piano.

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You should never put it near water
but they've decorated it with fresh flowers.

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I learned it in piano class!

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Megu that's awesome!

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That's Mozart huh?

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I learned this the other day.
But I still can't play it well.

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Is that right?
It's pretty hard huh?

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{\i1}She gets along with kids easily.{\i0}

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{\i1}I guess her mental age is low?{\i0}

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The boy over there plays really well

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so why don't we ask him to teach us?

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For real?

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Play for us!

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Show me how!

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No I-I don't
play piano anymore.

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Ouch!

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Don't disappoint children!

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Okay. Just a little.

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Yay!

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Three two—

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See what did I tell you?
It's a happy piano!

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Huh? Why are you stopping?

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You can't stop playing!

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You were so cool!

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Sorry. I'm really sorry.

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Oh boy I'm stuffed!

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I am one satisfied girl!

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Huh?

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It's a kitty!

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You like cats?

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I used to have a black cat
just like this one.

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You did?

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So you don't play the piano anymore?

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You knew about that?

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Winner of the Moriwaki
Students' Piano Competition.

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The youngest winner in history
of the Saiki Competition.

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Et cetera et cetera.

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Your playing style was accurate and
disciplined. A human metronome.

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You were a prodigy who performed
with an orchestra at eight.

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You've done your homework.

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It's common knowledge. There isn't a musician
of our generation who hasn't heard of you.

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You're who we look up to.

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Why did you quit playing?

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{\i1}Why?{\i0}

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I can't hear the sound
of the piano.

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How cliché is that right?

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But you were just playing at that café.

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I can hear it at first.

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But somewhere along the way.

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The more I concentrate.

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The more I get consumed
by my performance.

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The sounds I play...

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fade away from my reach tangling up
like flowers seized by the spring wind...

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and vanish.

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That's why you just—

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It doesn't affect me at all in my daily life.

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It's only the sound of my
own playing that I can't hear.

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It's a punishment.

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I can hear the sounds of
my fingers striking the keys

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and the sounds of the keys sinking.

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But I can't hear
the sound of my own playing.

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This has to be a punishment.

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Don't be such a baby!

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You're so negative!
Play even if you can't play!

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Have you tried playing with a stick
between your teeth like Beethoven?

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If you can't move your hands
then play with your feet!

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That's crazy!

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If you don't have enough fingers
then use your nose as well!

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Mozart?!

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Whether you're sad you're a mess
or you've hit rock bottom

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you still have to play!

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That's how people
like us survive.

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{\i1}People like us.{\i0}

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Yeah maybe
that's true for you.

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{\i1}Since she's in love{\i0}
{\i1}she sparkles like a star.{\i0}

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{\i1}What Watari says{\i0}
{\i1}kind of makes sense to me.{\i0}

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{\i1}You're in love with food{\i0}

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{\i1}you're in love with the violin{\i0}

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{\i1}you're in love with music.{\i0}

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{\i1}I guess that's why you sparkle.{\i0}

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{\i1}What do you call{\i0}
{\i1}this kind of feeling again?{\i0}

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{\i1}This is probably— yearning I bet.{\i0}

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I've made up my mind.

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I'm appointing you
as my accompanist.

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What?

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I was selected as the Audience Choice
so I'll be playing in the second round.

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You're my accompanist for that.

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Huh? Did you hear a word I said?

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I can't play all right?
I can't hear what I'm playing.

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Quit your whining. My mind's made up.
Just give in to your fate like a good boy.

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{\i1}You exist inside spring.{\i0}

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{\i1}You exist inside a spring{\i0}
{\i1}that can't be replaced.{\i0}

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I hereby appoint
Friend A as my accompanist.

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Morning Tsubaki!

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Morning!

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Come back here you!

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I said can't do it!

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Just shut up and be my accompanist!

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What the heck?

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{\i1}Ambushing me at this hour!{\i0}

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{\i1}For our set piece{\i0}

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{\i1}I decided on Saint-Saëns's{\i0}
{\i1}Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.{\i0}

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{\i1}I'll bring you the{\i0}
{\i1}sheet music tomorrow.{\i0}

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Home Economics Room

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Have Kousei play the accompaniment
for your violin?

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I got dumped by my accompanist
from the other day.

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He's insanely good
on the piano right?

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You knew about that?

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To anyone who plays music
he's a total celebrity.

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That's why I thought I'd ask him.

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You think I shouldn't?

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I'm totally psyched!

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{\i1}Did I just feel a chill?{\i0}

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I can't eat that much!

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- Huh? Classical music?
- They usually played pop.

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{\i1}Saint-Saëns's Introduction{\i0}
{\i1}and Rondo Capriccioso?{\i0}

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{\i1}Not only that but it's on repeat.{\i0}

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{\i1}What!?{\i0}

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Accompaniment accompaniment
accompaniment accompaniment—

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All right open up
your textbooks to page 17.

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What the heck is going on today?

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I know it's you Tsubaki!

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When did she do this?
Even my wallpaper's—

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Play the accompaniment!

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Play the accompaniment!

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Classical again?

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They've been playing
this same song for a week now!

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I just can't do it.

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It's tomorrow huh?

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I wonder if it'll be nice out?

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The way he's been acting
Kousei will bail for sure.

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I'm gonna drag him
there no matter what.

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But are you sure it's really okay?
To force him to accompany me?

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It's fine. With Kousei
you have to be this pushy.

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It's a good idea!
A good idea!

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I'm gonna make Watari help too.

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If it's for a girl—

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If it's for you Kao
no way will he say no.

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I'm so going to
make him play the piano!

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You really like Arima
don't you Tsubaki?

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It's not quite like that.

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To me Kousei is—

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{\i1}Even though I'm an only child it's like{\i0}
{\i1}having a high-maintenance big sister.{\i0}

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He's like a hopeless kid brother.

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To be honest it doesn't matter to me
whether Kousei plays the piano or not.

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The thing is though

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if he's gonna quit
I want him to quit on his own terms.

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It hurts to see him like this.

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Because right now
Kousei's only living his life halfway.

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Ever since that day—

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Ever since that day Kousei's
been trapped with nowhere to go.

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Time does stop doesn't it?

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So I want him to play the piano.

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I'm sure something
will change if he does.

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{\i1}Next stop{\i0}

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{\i1}Totsuhara University Hospital.{\i0}
{\i1}Totsuhara University Hospital.{\i0}

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Request Stop

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{\i1}We'll be making the next stop.{\i0}

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{\i1}We will now commence judging the second{\i0}
{\i1}round of preliminaries for the Violin Competition.{\i0}

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Towa Music Competition Committee Sponsor
Second Annual Towa Music Competition
Violin - Junior High Divison

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Wh-What...

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are you doing at school?

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Aren't the prelims today?

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What do you think you're doing?

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I came to get you!

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Hiding out in a place like this!
I looked all over for you so let's get going!

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I've been telling you all this time
I'm not gonna accompany you!

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What's that?

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People train to specialize in that.

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No way could I do it!

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Even if we went right now
I couldn't give a worthy performance.

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I can't... play the piano.

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{\i1}Once again I'm casting about{\i0}
{\i1}for a reason.{\i0}

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So what?

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It's not that you can't play.

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You just won't play.

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"I can't hear the sound of the piano."

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Using that as your excuse
you're just running away.

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I—

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I—

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I'm scared.

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{\i1}It's like I'm at the bottom{\i0}
{\i1}of a dark sea where I can't hear anything.{\i0}

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{\i1}There's no one there.{\i0}

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00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,880
{\i1}So dark. So dark.{\i0}

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Weren't you relieved
the moment you stopped being able to hear?

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You found yourself an excuse.
An excuse not to ever appear onstage again.

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After all you're no Beethoven.

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{\i1}Help me...{\i0}

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{\i1}I can't hear anything!{\i0}

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{\i1}Did his mind go blank?{\i0}

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{\i1}Why isn't he playing?{\i0}

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{\i1}Did he forget how to play?{\i0}

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{\i1}Someone...{\i0}

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00:18:00,580 --> 00:18:01,540
{\i1}I've never seen this happen before.{\i0}

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{\i1}Arima's self-destructed!{\i0}

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{\i1}Lucky break!{\i0}

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{\i1}It's over.{\i0}

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{\i1}...help me.{\i0}

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00:18:07,170 --> 00:18:08,960
{\i1}He cracked under the pressure.{\i0}

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{\i1}Mom!{\i0}

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{\i1}I'm going to be alone again{\i0}
{\i1}at the bottom of a dark sea.{\i0}

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But you have me.

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I know that you can't hear the sound of your
playing and that you haven't been playing.

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I know everything.

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But I want you.

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Just like you said we might not be able to
turn in a performance that we can live with.

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But we're going to play.

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So long as we have a chance to play
and an audience that will listen.

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Kousei!

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I'm going to play
with everything I've got.

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So that the people
who've heard me will never forget me.

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So that I can live
in their hearts forever.

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That's my reason for existing.

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I'm a musician just like you.

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So please.

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Please be my accompanist.

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What? Um—

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Please give me your support
just a tiny bit.

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I'm so close to losing
my heart right now. Please!

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{\i1}Watari was totally right.{\i0}

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{\i1}Whether or not it's impossible...{\i0}

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{\i1}the girl will let you know.{\i0}

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I'll do it. I'll be your accompanist.

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I'm not making any guarantees all right?

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Found ya!

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00:20:25,180 --> 00:20:28,060
What are you doing?
We've been looking for you!

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Don't you dare run away!
Not if you call yourself a man!

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If we make a run for it
we'll be there in 20 minutes!

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20 minutes? I won't be
able to play decently!

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Hey I've got an idea.

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Let's go!

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But will you be okay? What about practice?
Have you rehearsed together?

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No worries! We'll figure it out!
Because we rule!

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Don't underestimate us jocks!
I can make you time to rehearse!

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Wait shouldn't you guys be in school?
And whose bike is this?

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Don't sweat the small stuff!

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{\i1}The town that I live in{\i0}
{\i1}is starting to take on color.{\i0}

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Episode 3
Inside Spring

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Episode 4
The Journey