My name is actually Yokote Suzu!
Yokote...
Suzu?
BY THE WAY, WHAT ARE YOUR NAMES!?
NAMES?
Y-Yuzuki Yuuna.
Fuyou Lilienthal Yuuna.
YUUNA! YUUNA!!
Yikes, what is wrong with her?
Yuzuki-kun, I'm scared...
It was true... I didn't believe my ears when Ninomiya-san told me about you,
but you actually are a Yuuna! And there's TWO of you!
I've finally met a Yuuna!
I've found a path towards Takashima Yuuna-sama!
Hero History Revelations: Fuyou Yuuna becomes a storyteller.
Episode 3:
You really tricked me there!
You two are NOTHING like Takashima Yuuna-sama! Not even close!
This udon is awesome!
You're no better with your hopelessly halfhearted "Suzuki Yuuna" alias!
You fraud! Liar!
Good udon!
You two are pretty similar.
I'm nothing like this faker!
Seriously, you mashed up Suzu from Yokote Suzu and your admiration for Takashima Yuuna into...
Suzuki Yuuna? For real? Could you be any more hilariously haphazard?
All of my account names on games and social media have been Suzuki Yuuna since forever,
got a problem with that?
You two are the ones who don't resemble Takashima-sama at all despite your names!
Takashima-sama's graceful personality, innocent smile.
radiant charisma - you have NONE of those!
As if you've met Takashima Yuuna in person!
I know more about Takashima-sama than anyone else!
Would you two cut it out?
Stop making noise in the restaurant, you're ruining it to other customers.
Thanks for the food.
Guess neither of us got what we were expecting to.
Well, I'm leaving then, doesn't look like we have anything else to talk about.
Okay...
There she goes.
Sorry about that, Yuzuki-kun.
This is all on me and my shoddy research.
Yokote-san is a real character, isn't she.
She has... pretty strong feelings about Takashima Yuuna, huh.
You're right.
I'm following her on a microblog site, and...
Well, take a look.
Nothing but Takashima Yuuna here.
Mhm.
"Made a scrapbook from newspaper articles on Takashima Yuuna",
"Recorded all the scenes from a historical TV show that had Takashima Yuuna",
"Made a doujinshi of Takashima Yuuna",
"Takashima Yuuna da best!",
"I stan Takashima Yuuna", and so on.
She's a Takashima Yuuna fanatic, and a hardcore one at that.
Are fans of the old-era Heroes similar to those people obsessed with Sengoku-period warlords?
I mean, you saw how excited she was when she thought we had a link to Takashima Yuuna.
Still...
Yokote Suzu, was it?
What's wrong?
There's something I'm curious about.
A few days later, in the evening.
A call? Oh, it's Lily.
Hello?
YUZUKI-KUN!
Ugh, don't shout in my ear!
New info!
What is it?
Yokote Suzu's mother was one of the refugees
that came to Shikoku following the 7/30 disaster!
What, really?
I'm close to certain.
I've looked into it from all sorts of angles.
How did you even learn that...
Your investigative skills scare me...
Huh?
What now?
Hey, what's wrong?
I just felt someone outside my window...
No, I've got to be imagining it.
My apartment is on the sixth floor...
Uesato-sama...?
N-N-N-No no no, t-t-that's i-impossible!
Utterly unimaginable, absolutely absurd!
I'm just kidding, it must be the wind.
Anyway, about Yokote.
You're right...
I see you're curious too, Yuzuki-kun.
Yokote Suzu is in the same circumstances as the two of us.
Child of a refugee from outside Shikoku, huh.
My mother and your father, also refugees, are both gone now.
We can't ask them what the situation outside of Shikoku was back then.
However, Yokote-kun's mother is alive and well.
I want to learn more from the Yokotes, mother and daughter both.
Let's meet up with Yokote-kun again!
You're right.
By the way...
The presence outside keeps bothering me, so can I sleep at your place tonight...?
Sleep on your own.
Yuzuki-kun!
I've found you, Yokote Suzu-kun!
You two again?
Yeah, Ninomiya-san said you come to this coast often after school.
Glad we could find you.
What is it this time?
Your mother came to Shikoku as a refugee during the old era, didn't she?
How did you find out?
That's a secret.
We are the Hero Club.
We record and preserve the truths of the old world.
We would like to hear from your mother what exactly happened back then.
Hero Club...?
What a joke.
I don't know what this is about, but it won't work.
Why?
My mother doesn't talk about what happened then. She won't tell me either.
Hey, can you see the bridge there, across the sea?
The Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge, right?
Yes.
Part of the Shimanami Expressway, which connected Shikoku and Honshu in the Christian Era.
In the summer of 2015, Mom crossed this bridge and came to Shikoku.
When I was younger, she would often come here and look at this bridge.
Whenever we came to see the bridge, Mom was always nicer than usual.
She'd buy all my favourite sweets.
That's why I still like that bridge.
But what does it hold for Mom...?
I think something must've happened there, in the past.
To be honest, I want to hear more stories from Mom.
But...
Leave it to us, then!
With my incredible interrogation skills, we'll shatter the silence your mother holds about the tales of that time!
How exactly?
Eh?
How exactly are you going to do that?
Uh...
She didn't actually think of anything, did she.
Time-out!
I'll prepare a plan!
Yuzuki-kun, come over here!
Now...
Yuzuki-kun, what do we do!?
Take responsibility for your own words!
Help me think, please!
Let's see...
How about...
Uh, what's wrong?
Yokote-kun.
Get ready to witness me at full power.
Full power?
Go for it, Lily.
Suzu-onee-chan! I want to hear stories of the old era!
What happened when you were evacuating to Shikoku?
Come on, Suzu-onee-chan, tell me!
A cute little girl begging with puppy eyes!
This is... pretty powerful!
Who's a little girl!?
This is so embarrassing, I haven't done something like this since my debut role!
So, Yokote-kun?
With my acting skills and cuteness, even your mother won't be able to resist!
Not a chance.
Eeh?
Takashima-sama is cuteness personified, manifestation of an angel. You can't hold a candle to her.
That's not nearly enough to convince me.
We're not trying to convince you here...
And I don't think Lily loses to Takashima Yuuna in the cuteness department.
Not that I know.
Yuzuki-kun!
Don't cling to me! Get off!
Anyway, let's re-plan this!
This time I was in charge of the plan.
What's the idea now?
I really don't feel like doing this...
If this succeeds, you owe me a 1000 yen!
Hey, Suzu.
Eh, what? You're acting like a hottie now?
Shut that noisy mouth, would you?
She grabbed my chin! My fantasies are turning real!
Just listen to what I'm telling you.
Tell me what happened back then, in 2015.
If you're a good, honest girl, I might reward you.
YOU PASS!
That was fast!
What the hell am I even doing...
Yokote-kun, I already knew your tastes from your social media posts.
You're not only a Takashima Yuuna freak,
you also love shoujo manga and dating sims!
Taking down someone you know the weak point of is exceptionally easy.
We're not trying to convince Yokote, though...
Not bad. I've lost to your passion.
The two of you should be able to make my mother talk!
Yeah, leave it to us!
Should she...?
Just getting to Ehime takes a ton of time.
The scenery outside the window has gotten pretty dark, too.
You know, we've managed to convince Yokote, but can we actually get anything out of her mother?
Even if we can't, just meeting her will be valuable enough.
Yokote-kun is weird in some ways, but not twisted.
She's living head held up high.
I think it's because her mother is also living her life as an upstanding person.
Yeah, you might be right.
The reason she doesn't want to talk about 2015
is probably because it was hard on her.
But she must've gotten over it emotionally.
I think it should be worth talking to someone like that.
The next day me and Lily met up with Yokote Suzu's mother.
Suzu's mother- Yokote Matsuri - was surprisingly friendly and cheerful,
and even told us about a lot of what happened near the end of the old era.
The shocking thing is, she apparently crossed over to Shikoku together with Takashima Yuuna herself.
When Matsuri-san talked, there was no hesitation in her words.
It was a familiar tone of voice.
A familiar expression.
Uesato Hinata-sama had them too.
The marks of a person who went through it all, yet can live looking forward.
Alright, I'm done writing down what Yokote Matsuri-san told us yesterday.
Wow, you missed almost nothing she said.
How'd you remember it all?
Easy as pie.
Karasuma Kumiko being there was a bit of a surprise.
But they're both really smart.
Karasuma-san and Matsuri-san both omitted the important parts when talking.
I think the biggest thing we've learned was the origin of your name, Yuzuki-kun.
Who even is that Karasuma person?
Takashima Yuuna's Miko, right?
She had this sense of presence...
She's surrounded by all sorts of legends.
Like that she was the best fighter of all the Mikos and subjugated a hundred priests disobeying Uesato-sama with her bare fists...
Or that she, despite being a Miko, was stronger than any of the Heroes
Yeah, no way that's true.
YUUNA! A DISCOVERY!
Don't scare me!
Wait, Yokote-kun?
Why are you in our school?
I came here! All the way from Ehime!
Kanonji is pretty far away.
Sure is.
Yuzuki-san, Fuyou-san! Thanks for yesterday!
I'm so relieved that I finally got to hear Mom tell those stories!
I can't believe Mom came to Shikoku after she was saved by Takashima-sama!
That's a whole new piece of info about Takashima-sama!
You're making a pretty creepy face right now...
Yuzuki-kun, she's scaring me!
Yokote, you're scaring Lily, so can you act normal again?
My bad, my bad. I always lose my head when it comes to Takashima-sama.
This girl is dangerous...
I have a request for the two of you.
A request?
Let me into the Hero Club!