Nijigahara Holograph
	 Chapter 11

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Voices: ...did you see the scars on his body?
	Marks from an accident?  It looks like more than just that...
	...so did you call the family?
	Mother answered, said she couldn't even be bothered to come in...
	My God!  Talk about irresponsible!
	Yeah, I think their family situation is sensitive, to say the least...
	Does the poor kid even know?
	Dunno...

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Sign: Clinic
	Internal, Respiratory
	Physiotherapy
	Outpatient

Doctor: Ah, hang on a second.
	You forgot this.
	You were clutching it when they brought you in.
	Must be important to you, right?

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Komatsuzaki: Not yet.
	It's not yet time for the awakening.
	And until then...

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Komatsuzaki: Goodbye.

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Freckled Man: This is actually my last day as a teacher.
	I'm being put in charge of one of my father's supermarkets.
	Mr. Kimura, I can see you've had a lot of trouble.
	You can't keep working the job you have now for long, can you?

Note: Diploma
	Kimura, Arie
	-tificate signifies that-
	-culum has been passed-
	-for the year.

Freckled Man: Would you like to take a job at my store?

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Freckled Man: There, there.
	It's times like these we need to give each other a helping hand.

Kimura: ...thank you.  Thank you.

Sakaki: Suzuki.
	Shall we go back to class?
	Attention students...
	As of the end of this period, our school year is over.
	Next semester, you will all be in 6th grade.

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Sakaki: As it happens, I will no longer be a teacher next year.

Blackboard: Congratulations!!

Sakaki: The two years I spent with you in 4th and 5th grade...
	Are very special memories for me.
	I'm sad that I won't be there to see you graduate,
	But I hope that you will all continue
	to live bright and enjoyable lives.

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Sakaki: Also...
	I must inform you that Suzuki will be transferring away.
	Come up to the front, Suzuki...

Blackboard: Congratulations!!

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How am I supposed to feel right now?

Blackboard: Congratulations!!

I'm empty.

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The sunset that day
was redder than usual.

Inside this box is a special magic that can make any wish come true, but only once.
If I wanted to,
I could even end the world, right now.

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This is my memory from when I was 10.
I don't even remember where that tin box is, much less what I did with it then.
The world certainly didn't come to an end,
and it's still just as unfair and wretched as it always was.

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But over time, I simply found that I had become an adult.
That's all there was to it.

My mother died when I was 18, and six months ago my father joined her.
On his deathbed in the hospital, he told me that I was the prior son of his previous wife.  Not his.

I came back to this town for the first time in 10 years,
as if guided here.

Chapter 11

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Driver: ...wow,
	you came from that far away?  Well, it takes all kinds.
	You know that place ain't no tourist spot?
	There's nothing there.  Just a tiny, boring town.

Suzuki: I've heard my birth mother's grave is there.

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Suzuki: ...hey, you...?

[Now I remember...]
[I gave the magic box to a grown-up; a stranger.]
[Just like this...]

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...that's right.

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I've seen this picture before.  Earlier than that.
My family and the red sun.
I was here.

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