Tomigai: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on."
Kaminagi: Cool. Who said it?
Tomigai: Shakespeare.
Kaminagi: It's from "A midsummer night's dream," isn't it? Mizuki, can you hang up that for me?
Mizuki: Sure thing! Hey, check it all these videos. Let's see what club used to film.
Tomigai: That sounds like fun!
Kaminagi: Come on! All you guys have been doing is goofing around! We don't have time for that!
Mizuki: It's not our fault there's so much neat stuff in the club's room?
Kaminagi: Sorry I brought you two in the cleaning duty. There's stuff here I'm going to need to use over the summer vacation. It's sort of pain in the butt, huh?
Tomigai: Anyway, shouldn't you hurry up and finalize the cast, so you know, who'll all be acting with?
Kaminagi: Yeah, you're right. I have to get this whole things shot during vacation. What am I gonna do?
Tomigai: Well, I think Sogoru would be good for it.
Mizuki: Good idea. Why not just swallow your pride already and ask him, Ryoko?
Kaminagi: Why would I ask him for help? Oh! "The Day the World We Knew Ended..." It's so... eerie. I can't... I can't stop watching. "ByTohru Kanou, 15th term," that'd make him a senior. Is he a hidden member?
Kyo: All right! I'm kicking ass, today! It's about time I broke me some speed records. Hey, how'd I look from out here? Could you see me okay?
Tomigai: Oh, sorry. I wasn't paying attention.
Kaminagi: Breaking records? Yeah, right. You must have water on the brain.
Mizuki: Hmm. Who are they fooling?
Kyo: That's how you feel? Well, maybe you would like to time me with a stopwatch and see just how fast I can go.
Kaminagi: Hey, we're not even in the swim club, remember? We're down here for a reason, and it doesn't involve watching you.
Tomigai: See, we're looking for someone to play the lead in our movie!
Kyo: Are you kidding? You still haven't found anyone to play the part?
Kaminagi: And whose stupid fault is that?!
Tomigai: We can't find just anyone to replace you, Sogoru!
Kyo: Ha, ha, yeah, I can see that!
Mizuki: There's a scene where your character leaps into the ocean to save the heroine! So we definitely need to use a guy who can swim!
Kyo: And you're here to beg me to reconsider, am I right? No can do. Afraid I've done my last kissing scene with Tomigai!
Kaminagi: That's right. Which is why we're waiting for Hayase, so we can ask him. And then, we'll go.
Shizuno: Hi there. Come to watch us?
Mizuki: Hi, Shizuno.
Tomigai: Ah, hi, what's up?
Kaminagi: Yeah, I hope it's no trouble.
Mizuki: I wonder who Shizuno is taking to the summer festival?
Kaminagi: Oh yeah, that's right around the corner again, huh.
Tomigai: It's on the night of this year's graduation, right?
Mizuki: I'll bet she's got a ton of festival invites already.
Kyo: You and I have always gone to the summer festival together, Kaminagi?
Kaminagi: Ah, huh?
Mizuki: Well, well. So, that's what's going on with you two.
Kaminagi: Oh,that was when we were little kids, you idiot!
Kyo: Oh, yeah. When I started going with Hayase and the guys in middle school, she swore she wouldn't go with me any more.
Mizuki: Is that so?
Kaminagi: Shut up!
Kawaguchi: Ushio! Lemme go, you idiot!
Ushio: C'mon, don't be shy. Go on!
Kyo: Kawaguchi...
Ushio: He came all the way here, but couldn't bring himself to go inside!
Kawaguchi: As if! I was just going to...
Ushio: What is it, Kawaguchi? You want in the swim club?
Kawaguchi: No way. I still can't forgive this jerk!
Kyo: I see.
Kaminagi: Um... Excuse me...
Kawaguchi: Huh?
Kaminagi: So, ah... the festival?
Kyo: Huh?
Kaminagi: Could I go with you this year? Kawaguchi, you too.
Mizuki: Oh, count me in!
Shizuno: You don't mind if I tag along as well, do you?
Ushio: Seriously?! All right! You are coming, right?
Kawaguchi: I guess...
Tomigai: Kaminagi, I've got it! Maybe you should have Kawaguchi play the lead in your movie?
Kawaguchi: Huh? Do what now?
Mizuki: That's right! Kawaguchi is a perfect replacement for Sogoru!
Kawaguchi: Sogoru's replacement?
Tomigai: Rah! Uh-oh...
Kawaguchi: Yeah! That'll be the day.
Tomigai: Oh, well...
Mizuki: Sorry.
Kyo: Forget it. I'll try to calm him down later.
Ushio: What's wrong with playing the lead in a movie? I can do it if you want me to?
Tomigai: Ushio, you're just sorta... I wonder what could be keeping Hayase.
Ushio: Oh, he said he'd be late because he was headed over the seniors' class again.
Mizuki: Seniors' class?
Ushio: Yeah. He's been dating a senior lately.
Girls: Isn't that Hayase, the freshmen? Someone told me he's dating Sachi. Really?! But I've never seen them together.
Ushio: He told me that something weird is going on. They've been in the same school since April, but he says he hasn't seen her once.
Kyo: Ah? Well that's...
Shizuno: His girlfriend's name? Do you know it?
Ushio: I figure it's Sachiko Tsumura.
Shizuno: I see.
Kaminagi: So, do you know her?
Shizuno: No.
Kaminagi: Oh! Shizuno, that reminds me. Is there a boy named Tohru Kanou in your class?
Shizuno: Huh? Why do you ask?
Kaminagi: I think he is a member of the video club. I wanted him to ask about the movie he made.
Shizuno: Well, Kanou's been out sick for a while now. But maybe he'll be well enough to come back next term.
Kaminagi: Oh, he's sick? That's too bad...
Kyo: Wait, they're Cerebrants who died in battle?!
Shizuno: Yes. Both Sachiko Tsumura and Tohru Kanou. They were our comrades in arms who fought along aside us.
Irie: We die in both worlds. But we have to be creative in how we integrate them here.
Kuroshio: They "die in accidents", "change schools" or "they're still here", but you never see them.
Kyo: So, you're saying... Hayase doesn't know the girl he's waiting for is dead?!
Minato: Look, it can't be helped. It's done to try in keep inconsistencies in the constructs to a minimum.
Kyo: Yeah, but sometimes...
Shima: Sometimes, one of you see through the facade and in the process a new Cerebrant is born.
Shizuno: And sometimes purposely done. I came here to awaken you.
Kyo: What are Cerebrants? Who are we? What are we doing here?
Shizuno: We are the ones who bear the burden of the truth.
Kuroshio: The truth is, even we don't understand the mechanism of awakening very well at all. My own take on it is we're chosen to be regulators or deputized if you will. It's up to us to maintain order here, keep construct, free of paradox.
Shima: And first among our duties is that we fight until we regain the real world.
Minato: I do wonder about Kaminagi...
Kyo: Huh?
Minato: What do you think?
Shima: Hmm...
Kyo: About what? What does Kaminagi have to do with this?
Shizuno: Don't you see it? She may be awakening.
Kyo: Huh?
Kaminagi: Hah... Why do I even bother? Hah... The morning she finds a rainbow huge shell, the girl meets a boy on the beach all alone. The boy lost his memory. Tabula rasa. The girl and boy lived together in her house. And eventually fell in love. But... All of this is make-believe. It isn't real. But if this isn't real, what is?
Dita: Tohru Kanou: Died in the first battle to capture Oscar. Sachiko Tsumura: Suffered data corruption in the same battle. Recovery impossible at this time.
Lu-Shen: I remember those two. They were fine soldiers both of them.
May-Yen: And you sent them to live in the Maihama server in the first place? How come?
Lemures: Too many deaths there would appear to be unnatural. In their case, neither of them had family to begin with.
May-Yu: So, you're saying you did it to minimize the effect?
Minato: More so than intended. The people around them never really noticed they were gone. They just slipped everyone's mind. Well, not everyone's mind. Ryoko Kaminagi never paid much attention to Tohru Kanou being gone before.
Shizuno: Is it possible? Did my coming to Maihama affect her?
Shima: Even if it has, perhaps we should welcome this unforeseen development.
Dita: Just before entering the Maihama server, Tohru Kanou was able to capture the real Maihama on camera.
Shima: It was the day the world ended.
Mizuki: Sorry I'm late!
Kaminagi: Sorry for calling you out of the blue.
Mizuki: It's fine! I was bored, anyway!
Kaminagi: Well, shall we go?
Kyo: Hey there! Morning!
Mizuki: Good morning! You practice on Sundays, too?
Kyo: Yup. So what are you guys up to?
Kaminagi: What do you care where we're going? Come on, let's go.
Mizuki: Oh, ah... See you! So, why are you scouting locations again?
Kaminagi: It's not just that. There's something else I have to do, also.
Mizuki: What is it?
Kaminagi: This is the place. What's fake in this world? And what's real? Anything?
Mizuki: What's the matter?
Kaminagi: Mm, nothing. I'm fine. Sorry I dragged you all over today.
Mizuki: Quit with the apologies. I told you it's fine.
Kaminagi: Mm-hmm.
Mizuki: How long are you gonna stay mad at him?
Kaminagi: Huh?
Mizuki: You and Sogoru.
Kaminagi: I wouldn't say that we're fighting.
Mizuki: Hey, you know I have a crush on Hayase, right?
Kaminagi: Yeah, I kinda figured.
Mizuki: It came as a shock to find that he had a girlfriend.
Kaminagi: Oh...
Mizuki: Even so, at the festival, I'm gonna tell him exactly how I feel. If I don't try, I'll never find out. You should face your feelings too.
Kaminagi: Mizuki...
Kaminagi: I get it. There are no people in this. His images of the world are more real than mine could ever be. So there's no point me even trying, is there? The boy, he was a deserter. He'd run away from the battlefield of a ruined world. But a transmission error had erased all his old memories. Luckily, they were stored within the rainbow huge shell. The boy needs to return to the war and rejoin his friends who are fighting. But if he leaves now, the memories he's made of this world will be erased. So he stores his memories in the rainbow huge shell, entrusts it to that girl, and makes his way back to the battlefield.
Kurashige: All right, that's it for the first semester. Try not to forget too much over summer break, okay?
Students: Yes, sir.
Kurashige: Hey, Sogoru! Keep up the good work and get the swim club up to five members!
Kyo: I'll try! It's finally, summer vacation! Now I can kick back and take a breather from all this.
Tomigai: From what?
Kyo: Ah, um, I mean, now I can concentrate completely on the swim club for a while.
Tomigai: Oh, I get it.
Kurashige: Huh... Now that the first semester's over, we can finally lay down our own burdens, huh?
Mizusawa: No kidding. I feel like we run the same gauntlet year after year.
Kurashige: Hm. Ms. Mizusawa, tonight's the summer festival.
Mizusawa: True.
Boys: Hey, let's get a super ball! Oh, that's lame!
Ushio: Hayase sure is taking his time.
Tomigai: Oh! Hayase! Hurry up, before all the good spots are taken!
Kyo: Okay, so this is everybody guys? Let's go in!
Shima: You don't have to. Wouldn't you rather go with them?
Minato: She wants to avoid acting as a catalyst, doesn't she?
Kaminagi: No way...
Kyo: Kaminagi? Is something wrong?
Kaminagi: Ah... No... Everything is fine.
Mizusawa: Aren't they beautiful?
Kurashige: Yeah. Bad luck, being on duty on a night like this. Or maybe not such bad luck... Nothing. Ha, ha, ha.
Kyo: We've been weird lately.
Kaminagi: Yeah...
Kyo: Yeah.
Kaminagi: You know my script?
Kyo: Ah huh.
Kaminagi: I rewrote it just now. The boy who went back in the battle in order to protect this world... He returned once the war was over. By then, it was decades in the future. There, on the shore, he found the rainbow huge shell that held all his memories of the girl. And then, as he gently cup the shell to his ear, he realized, the shell was broken. And he heard nothing. Nothing at all.
Kyo: The ending is kind of a downer?
Kaminagi: I know.
Kyo: Okay! I'll take the part!
Kaminagi: Huh?
Kyo: I'm really the perfect guy for the role, aren't I?
Kaminagi: Oh, Kyo!
Kyo: It could be fine. I'm here for you!
Shizuno: The final days of Arque's life are running out. They know, and yet, why do they both still smile? I couldn't. I could never face losing my one true love. Stop it, Chris! Do you think playing the martyr would make Arque happy? You can't go through with this! I know how hard death is to accept.
Next time, on Zegapain: "Lingering Illusions." My thoughts, never to be erased.
Tomigai: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on."
Kaminagi: Cool. Who said it?
Tomigai: Shakespeare.
Kaminagi: It's from "A midsummer night's dream," isn't it? Mizuki, can you hang up that for me?
Mizuki: Sure thing! Hey, check it all these videos. Let's see what club used to film.
Tomigai: That sounds like fun!
Kaminagi: Come on! All you guys have been doing is goofing around! We don't have time for that!
Mizuki: It's not our fault there's so much neat stuff in the club's room?
Kaminagi: Sorry I brought you two in the cleaning duty. There's stuff here I'm going to need to use over the summer vacation. It's sort of pain in the butt, huh?
Tomigai: Anyway, shouldn't you hurry up and finalize the cast, so you know, who'll all be acting with?
Kaminagi: Yeah, you're right. I have to get this whole things shot during vacation. What am I gonna do?
Tomigai: Well, I think Sogoru would be good for it.
Mizuki: Good idea. Why not just swallow your pride already and ask him, Ryoko?
Kaminagi: Why would I ask him for help? Oh! "The Day the World We Knew Ended..." It's so... eerie. I can't... I can't stop watching. "ByTohru Kanou, 15th term," that'd make him a senior. Is he a hidden member?
Kyo: All right! I'm kicking ass, today! It's about time I broke me some speed records. Hey, how'd I look from out here? Could you see me okay?
Tomigai: Oh, sorry. I wasn't paying attention.
Kaminagi: Breaking records? Yeah, right. You must have water on the brain.
Mizuki: Hmm. Who are they fooling?
Kyo: That's how you feel? Well, maybe you would like to time me with a stopwatch and see just how fast I can go.
Kaminagi: Hey, we're not even in the swim club, remember? We're down here for a reason, and it doesn't involve watching you.
Tomigai: See, we're looking for someone to play the lead in our movie!
Kyo: Are you kidding? You still haven't found anyone to play the part?
Kaminagi: And whose stupid fault is that?!
Tomigai: We can't find just anyone to replace you, Sogoru!
Kyo: Ha, ha, yeah, I can see that!
Mizuki: There's a scene where your character leaps into the ocean to save the heroine! So we definitely need to use a guy who can swim!
Kyo: And you're here to beg me to reconsider, am I right? No can do. Afraid I've done my last kissing scene with Tomigai!
Kaminagi: That's right. Which is why we're waiting for Hayase, so we can ask him. And then, we'll go.
Shizuno: Hi there. Come to watch us?
Mizuki: Hi, Shizuno.
Tomigai: Ah, hi, what's up?
Kaminagi: Yeah, I hope it's no trouble.
Mizuki: I wonder who Shizuno is taking to the summer festival?
Kaminagi: Oh yeah, that's right around the corner again, huh.
Tomigai: It's on the night of this year's graduation, right?
Mizuki: I'll bet she's got a ton of festival invites already.
Kyo: You and I have always gone to the summer festival together, Kaminagi?
Kaminagi: Ah, huh?
Mizuki: Well, well. So, that's what's going on with you two.
Kaminagi: Oh,that was when we were little kids, you idiot!
Kyo: Oh, yeah. When I started going with Hayase and the guys in middle school, she swore she wouldn't go with me any more.
Mizuki: Is that so?
Kaminagi: Shut up!
Kawaguchi: Ushio! Lemme go, you idiot!
Ushio: C'mon, don't be shy. Go on!
Kyo: Kawaguchi...
Ushio: He came all the way here, but couldn't bring himself to go inside!
Kawaguchi: As if! I was just going to...
Ushio: What is it, Kawaguchi? You want in the swim club?
Kawaguchi: No way. I still can't forgive this jerk!
Kyo: I see.
Kaminagi: Um... Excuse me...
Kawaguchi: Huh?
Kaminagi: So, ah... the festival?
Kyo: Huh?
Kaminagi: Could I go with you this year? Kawaguchi, you too.
Mizuki: Oh, count me in!
Shizuno: You don't mind if I tag along as well, do you?
Ushio: Seriously?! All right! You are coming, right?
Kawaguchi: I guess...
Tomigai: Kaminagi, I've got it! Maybe you should have Kawaguchi play the lead in your movie?
Kawaguchi: Huh? Do what now?
Mizuki: That's right! Kawaguchi is a perfect replacement for Sogoru!
Kawaguchi: Sogoru's replacement?
Tomigai: Rah! Uh-oh...
Kawaguchi: Yeah! That'll be the day.
Tomigai: Oh, well...
Mizuki: Sorry.
Kyo: Forget it. I'll try to calm him down later.
Ushio: What's wrong with playing the lead in a movie? I can do it if you want me to?
Tomigai: Ushio, you're just sorta... I wonder what could be keeping Hayase.
Ushio: Oh, he said he'd be late because he was headed over the seniors' class again.
Mizuki: Seniors' class?
Ushio: Yeah. He's been dating a senior lately.
Girls: Isn't that Hayase, the freshmen? Someone told me he's dating Sachi. Really?! But I've never seen them together.
Ushio: He told me that something weird is going on. They've been in the same school since April, but he says he hasn't seen her once.
Kyo: Ah? Well that's...
Shizuno: His girlfriend's name? Do you know it?
Ushio: I figure it's Sachiko Tsumura.
Shizuno: I see.
Kaminagi: So, do you know her?
Shizuno: No.
Kaminagi: Oh! Shizuno, that reminds me. Is there a boy named Tohru Kanou in your class?
Shizuno: Huh? Why do you ask?
Kaminagi: I think he is a member of the video club. I wanted him to ask about the movie he made.
Shizuno: Well, Kanou's been out sick for a while now. But maybe he'll be well enough to come back next term.
Kaminagi: Oh, he's sick? That's too bad...
Kyo: Wait, they're Cerebrants who died in battle?!
Shizuno: Yes. Both Sachiko Tsumura and Tohru Kanou. They were our comrades in arms who fought along aside us.
Irie: We die in both worlds. But we have to be creative in how we integrate them here.
Kuroshio: They "die in accidents", "change schools" or "they're still here", but you never see them.
Kyo: So, you're saying... Hayase doesn't know the girl he's waiting for is dead?!
Minato: Look, it can't be helped. It's done to try in keep inconsistencies in the constructs to a minimum.
Kyo: Yeah, but sometimes...
Shima: Sometimes, one of you see through the facade and in the process a new Cerebrant is born.
Shizuno: And sometimes purposely done. I came here to awaken you.
Kyo: What are Cerebrants? Who are we? What are we doing here?
Shizuno: We are the ones who bear the burden of the truth.
Kuroshio: The truth is, even we don't understand the mechanism of awakening very well at all. My own take on it is we're chosen to be regulators or deputized if you will. It's up to us to maintain order here, keep construct, free of paradox.
Shima: And first among our duties is that we fight until we regain the real world.
Minato: I do wonder about Kaminagi...
Kyo: Huh?
Minato: What do you think?
Shima: Hmm...
Kyo: About what? What does Kaminagi have to do with this?
Shizuno: Don't you see it? She may be awakening.
Kyo: Huh?
Kaminagi: Hah... Why do I even bother? Hah... The morning she finds a rainbow huge shell, the girl meets a boy on the beach all alone. The boy lost his memory. Tabula rasa. The girl and boy lived together in her house. And eventually fell in love. But... All of this is make-believe. It isn't real. But if this isn't real, what is?
Dita: Tohru Kanou: Died in the first battle to capture Oscar. Sachiko Tsumura: Suffered data corruption in the same battle. Recovery impossible at this time.
Lu-Shen: I remember those two. They were fine soldiers both of them.
May-Yen: And you sent them to live in the Maihama server in the first place? How come?
Lemures: Too many deaths there would appear to be unnatural. In their case, neither of them had family to begin with.
May-Yu: So, you're saying you did it to minimize the effect?
Minato: More so than intended. The people around them never really noticed they were gone. They just slipped everyone's mind. Well, not everyone's mind. Ryoko Kaminagi never paid much attention to Tohru Kanou being gone before.
Shizuno: Is it possible? Did my coming to Maihama affect her?
Shima: Even if it has, perhaps we should welcome this unforeseen development.
Dita: Just before entering the Maihama server, Tohru Kanou was able to capture the real Maihama on camera.
Shima: It was the day the world ended.
Mizuki: Sorry I'm late!
Kaminagi: Sorry for calling you out of the blue.
Mizuki: It's fine! I was bored, anyway!
Kaminagi: Well, shall we go?
Kyo: Hey there! Morning!
Mizuki: Good morning! You practice on Sundays, too?
Kyo: Yup. So what are you guys up to?
Kaminagi: What do you care where we're going? Come on, let's go.
Mizuki: Oh, ah... See you! So, why are you scouting locations again?
Kaminagi: It's not just that. There's something else I have to do, also.
Mizuki: What is it?
Kaminagi: This is the place. What's fake in this world? And what's real? Anything?
Mizuki: What's the matter?
Kaminagi: Mm, nothing. I'm fine. Sorry I dragged you all over today.
Mizuki: Quit with the apologies. I told you it's fine.
Kaminagi: Mm-hmm.
Mizuki: How long are you gonna stay mad at him?
Kaminagi: Huh?
Mizuki: You and Sogoru.
Kaminagi: I wouldn't say that we're fighting.
Mizuki: Hey, you know I have a crush on Hayase, right?
Kaminagi: Yeah, I kinda figured.
Mizuki: It came as a shock to find that he had a girlfriend.
Kaminagi: Oh...
Mizuki: Even so, at the festival, I'm gonna tell him exactly how I feel. If I don't try, I'll never find out. You should face your feelings too.
Kaminagi: Mizuki...
Kaminagi: I get it. There are no people in this. His images of the world are more real than mine could ever be. So there's no point me even trying, is there? The boy, he was a deserter. He'd run away from the battlefield of a ruined world. But a transmission error had erased all his old memories. Luckily, they were stored within the rainbow huge shell. The boy needs to return to the war and rejoin his friends who are fighting. But if he leaves now, the memories he's made of this world will be erased. So he stores his memories in the rainbow huge shell, entrusts it to that girl, and makes his way back to the battlefield.
Kurashige: All right, that's it for the first semester. Try not to forget too much over summer break, okay?
Students: Yes, sir.
Kurashige: Hey, Sogoru! Keep up the good work and get the swim club up to five members!
Kyo: I'll try! It's finally, summer vacation! Now I can kick back and take a breather from all this.
Tomigai: From what?
Kyo: Ah, um, I mean, now I can concentrate completely on the swim club for a while.
Tomigai: Oh, I get it.
Kurashige: Huh... Now that the first semester's over, we can finally lay down our own burdens, huh?
Mizusawa: No kidding. I feel like we run the same gauntlet year after year.
Kurashige: Hm. Ms. Mizusawa, tonight's the summer festival.
Mizusawa: True.
Boys: Hey, let's get a super ball! Oh, that's lame!
Ushio: Hayase sure is taking his time.
Tomigai: Oh! Hayase! Hurry up, before all the good spots are taken!
Kyo: Okay, so this is everybody guys? Let's go in!
Shima: You don't have to. Wouldn't you rather go with them?
Minato: She wants to avoid acting as a catalyst, doesn't she?
Kaminagi: No way...
Kyo: Kaminagi? Is something wrong?
Kaminagi: Ah... No... Everything is fine.
Mizusawa: Aren't they beautiful?
Kurashige: Yeah. Bad luck, being on duty on a night like this. Or maybe not such bad luck... Nothing. Ha, ha, ha.
Kyo: We've been weird lately.
Kaminagi: Yeah...
Kyo: Yeah.
Kaminagi: You know my script?
Kyo: Ah huh.
Kaminagi: I rewrote it just now. The boy who went back in the battle in order to protect this world... He returned once the war was over. By then, it was decades in the future. There, on the shore, he found the rainbow huge shell that held all his memories of the girl. And then, as he gently cup the shell to his ear, he realized, the shell was broken. And he heard nothing. Nothing at all.
Kyo: The ending is kind of a downer?
Kaminagi: I know.
Kyo: Okay! I'll take the part!
Kaminagi: Huh?
Kyo: I'm really the perfect guy for the role, aren't I?
Kaminagi: Oh, Kyo!
Kyo: It could be fine. I'm here for you!
Shizuno: The final days of Arque's life are running out. They know, and yet, why do they both still smile? I couldn't. I could never face losing my one true love. Stop it, Chris! Do you think playing the martyr would make Arque happy? You can't go through with this! I know how hard death is to accept.
Next time, on Zegapain: "Lingering Illusions." My thoughts, never to be erased.