End Story Ougi Formula
数学史上もっとも美しい式 をご存じだろうか?
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Do you know which mathematical equation is the most beautiful?
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イー ノ アイ パイ 上 プラス いち エクオール ゼロ
e to the power of i times pi plus one equals zero.
いわゆるオイラーの等式である
This is also called Euler's identity.
自然対数の底ｅと 円周率πと虚数ｉと １と０が
This is the epitome of elegance, combining the basis of the natural logarithm,
一つの式に贅肉なく あるべくしてあるように収まるこの等式は
the imaginary number i, the circumference ratio pi, and the integers one and zero.
もしもこの世に神様がいるとすれば
One might argue that this equation
その最有力の証拠物件としてあげられる一品だろう
is the most powerful possible evidence that God exists, creating it to impose order on reality.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
What's interesting— well, essentially, what's beautiful about it, is that this formula wasn't decided by us.
It's beautiful, but when you think about it, it's also frightening.
That said, Oshino Ougi,
とは言え忍野扇
あの転校生ならば オイラーの公式の美しさについてさえ ひょっとすると苦言(くげん)を呈(てい)することだろう
the transfer student, would have dark things to say even about the beauty of Euler's identity.
こんな風に
Like so:
ええ 確かに美しいですねえ 阿良々木先輩
Yes, it is undeniably beautiful, Araragi.
美しくて美しくて卒倒(そっとう)しちゃいそうです
I may just faint from its sheer beauty.
The most beautiful thing about it is that its solution is zero.
一番美しいのは 答が０になるってところです
とは言え 私なんかは 答が０になるんなら 取り立てて計算しなくてもいいって思いますけれどね
And it's my feeling that because the answer is zero, nobody needs to bother with it.
それを聞いてやっぱり僕は思うわけだ
And that's what makes me think...
忍野扇は忍野扇で 他に言い表しようがないのだと
The only way to describe her is by saying that Ougi is just Ougi.
彼女の前ではすべてが０
The world around her exists as a zero gradient.
彼女はどんならしからぬことをしても 彼女らしくなってしまうのだと
She assimilates everything.
というわけで今回は数学の物語だ
And so, this story is about mathematics.
お勉強をしよう
Let us study.
数学と言うと構えてしまう向きもあるかもしれないので 砕(くだ)いて算数の話と言い換えてもいい
If the idea of math fills you with apprehension, you might as well call it arithmetic instead.
いっそもっと端的(たんてき)に 数の話と言ってしまっても
Or, to make it even more simple, call it a story of numbers.
なにせこれは 数の多さで解(かい)が決まってしまう話
After all, as you'll soon see, the conclusion is driven by the largest number.
即(すなわ)ち多数決の話なのだから
It's a story where the majority rules.
多数決
Majority rule.
間違ったことでも真実にしてしまえる 唯一の方法
The the only way to turn even our mistakes into the truth.
幸せではなく示し合わせを追求する 積み木細工の方式
It does not pursue individual happiness, but only cohesion constructed from consent.
僕達の不等式
Our expression of inequality.
僕達の不当式
An expression of our inequality.
In equality
We are un
人類が本当の意味で発明したと言えるのは これくらいのものだろう
This is the only thing truly invented by mankind.
そしてこれは 人類史上もっとも醜(みにく)い式である
And this is also the ugliest expression in human history.
Now, let us open the door
and start our adventure
Let us find the answer
leading to a true and just future
I want to do this, I want to do that
Enslaved by greed
,
I don't want this
I don't want that
,
I'm full of contradictions
When we are
all present
When all our lies
are present
Now, let us open the door
and start our adventure
Let us find the answer
leading to a true and just future
See the destruction we wrought
as we looked away
Hear the mistakes we amassed
with ears held
Pray we don't do it again
Ougi Formula Part One
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If there's anyone out there who's experienced
もしも初対面の後輩と 謎めいた教室の中
二人きりで閉じこめられて 既に一時間が経過したという経験をお持ちの人がいるならば
being locked in a mysterious classroom alone with a younger girl they'd just met for more than an hour,
是非(ぜひ)ともアドバイスを求めたいところだった
I'd be really grateful for some advice right now.
駄目ですね 阿良々木先輩
I wouldn't get my hopes up, Araragi.
ああ 今のは阿良々木先輩が駄目ですねっていう意味じゃありませんよ?
With the door, I mean, not with me.
色々試してみましたけれど 大窓も高窓も やっぱりビクともしませんという意味です
I just meant that I already tried the windows and they didn't budge.
いや
Nah.
Given the circumstances, I don't think I could have misunderstood.
僕が駄目っていう意味だなんて誤解を とてもするような状況じゃないと思うけれど
僕のほうも駄目だよ
The doors won't budge either.
鍵がかかっているって風じゃなくて
But it doesn't feel locked.
なんだか 接着剤か何かで固定されているみたいな感じなんだが
More like glued shut.
Yes. Like I just said, the windows are shut tight.
ええ 前述の通り 窓もまるっきり微動だにしません
鍵について言いますと 備え付けられているクレセント錠 これは可動します
They can be unlocked by flipping the lock here.
However, the main window frame still just won't move.
ですが 肝心の窓枠のほうが可動しません
そう 接着剤か何かで固定されている"みたいな感じ" ですか
Yes, like it was glued shut.
All right.
しょうがない
外部からの助けを待とうぜ 扇ちゃん
Let's wait for help to arrive.
幸い 僕達がここにいることは 神原が知ってるわけだし
Thankfully Kanbaru knows that we're here.
どうですかねえ
About that...
人の助けを当てにしますねえ 阿良々木先輩
So you're counting on being saved by others?
人は一人で勝手に助かるだけ
People can only save themselves.
Y'know?
なのに
I'm sorry.
失礼
これは叔父さんの主義でした
That's my uncle's philosophy.
私にも阿良々木先輩にも無関係でしたね
It doesn't have anything to do with the two of us.
However, relying on your friends isn't such a bad thing, Araragi.
しかしそれはともかくとして 阿良々木先輩 仲間を頼るのは悪いことではありませんが
基本的には私達は 自力で脱出しようという試みを まだ放棄すべきではないと思いますよ
I just don't think we should abandon our hopes of escaping on our own yet.
Because...
なぜなら
時計の針は 僕達がこの教室に入ってきたあのときから 一分一秒分すらも 微動だにしていなかった
The hands of the clock did not advance by a single second since we entered the classroom.
電池切れ というわけでは もちろん ないんでしょうねえ
Surely the battery is not dead.
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ことの始まりは 僕が春休み 金髪金眼の吸血鬼に襲われてから ちょうど半年が経過した 十月下旬のある日のことだった
This story begins exactly half a year after I was bitten by a blonde, golden-eyed vampire during the last third of October.
Naoetsu High
やあ阿良々木先輩!
Hey, Araragi!
It's me, Kanbaru Suruga!
神原駿河だ!
一人か!
Are you alone?
一人だな!
You're alone!
実は阿良々木先輩に紹介したい子がいるのだ
You see, there is a girl I want to introduce to you!
Ain't she cute?!
可愛いだろう?
で あの子 なんなんだ?
So what's the deal with her?
僕に紹介したいって
This girl you want to introduce me to?
相談があると言うのだ 阿良々木先輩に だから会ってやって欲しいのだ
She said she wanted to talk to you and asked me to help her find you.
その相談っていうのは何だ?
She wanted to talk to me?
私も詳しくは聞いていないのだが
I dunno either,
怪異がらみの相談らしい
but apparently it's about oddities.
なんだか知っているみたいなんだ あの子
She seems to know a thing or two.
私の左手のことも知っていたし 阿良々木先輩の血のことも知っていた
She knew about my left arm and your blood too.
叔父さんに聞いた と言っている
She said her uncle told her.
叔父さん?
Her uncle?
あの子はこの間転校してきた一年生でな
She transferred into 10th grade a little while back.
なんと驚いたことに
And guess what?
忍野さんの姪っ子らしいのだ
She's apparently Oshino's niece!
名前を忍野扇と言う
She says her name is Oshino Ougi.
おかしいんですよね
It's strange, right?
Indeed.
おかしい
不思議なんです
It's mysterious, right?
不思議
Indeed.
つまり 怪しいんです
It's suspicious.
怪しくて...
Suspicious...
異なる
Divergent.
Stairway
Geology Room
Physics Experiments
Biology Experiments
Storage
Chemistry Experiments
Storage
Audiovisual Room
3rd Floor
おかしいんですよね
How odd.
Are you listening to me, Araragi?
あのう 聞いてくれてます? 阿良々木先輩
あ えっと...
Um...
校舎が多過ぎるとか そういうことかな?
You were talking about the number of school buildings?
全校生徒の人数を考えれば 一棟校舎が節約できるはずとか
How, considering the number of students, a single building would have been more economical?
全然違います
I was not.
愚か者ですかあなたは
Are you some kind of fool?
私が言っているのはここです
This is what I'm talking about.
どこ?
What?
Stairway
Geology Room
Physics Experiments
Biology Experiments
Storage
Chemistry Experiments
Storage
Audiovisual Room
3rd Floor
This.
間取りが変なんですよ
The floor plan is odd.
変と言うか 不自然ですかね
Odd—or perhaps unnatural.
ほら 真上と真下のフロアを見てください
Here, look at the floors right below and above.
それぞれちゃんと部屋があるでしょう?
Do you see the rooms at the end of the hall?
Audiovisual Room
だったら その真ん中にあたるここにも 一室 部屋がないとおかしいんですよ
Isn't it strange that there's not a room on the floor between the two?
おかしい
Huh...
But there is a room here on the third floor.
Audiovisual Room
でも この三階にもちゃんと部屋はあるじゃないか
視聴覚室が
It's the audiovisual room.
それは図面が間違っているんです
The plan is wrong there.
間違っていると言うか 一応
Or maybe not wrong, but...
現実に合わせて描きはしているんですけれど しかし実際の視聴覚室はこんなに長くありません
It does show the auditorium in the correct place, but the real audiovisual room is not as long.
Audiovisual Room
LL Classroom
周囲と比較すれば 一.五倍くらい 縦長に描かれていることに気付くでしょう?
You can see how, compared to the other room, it's about fifty percent longer, right?
Audiovisual Room
Teaching Materials
Audiovisual Room
Oh my, can it be that you don't trust me?
あれあれ? ひょっとして私をお疑いですか 阿良々木先輩
傷つくなあ 阿良々木先輩に疑われるだなんて
I am wounded.
Why would you do that?
いや 疑われて傷つくほど僕に好意を寄せてないだろ きみは
You couldn't possibly be so attached to me that my distrust would wound you.
いえいえお慕い申し上げておりますよ 私は簡単に騙される愚か者のことを
No, no, I am quite attracted...
To fools who are easily deceived.
ミステリー小説ならば こういう風に見取り図と実際が一致しない場合は 大抵の場合 そこには隠し部屋があるものなんですけれどね
If this were a mystery novel, then a sketch that does not conform to reality would indicate a hidden room.
But suppose
ただ もしもこれが
that oddities are involved in this.
何らかの怪異現象だった場合
被害が出る前に調査しておいたほうがいいんじゃないかと思いましてね
We should investigate it before anyone suffers.
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あれえ なんですかねえ この教室
Well, what is this classroom doing here?
私が図面作りのためにこの辺りを訪れた際には こんなのありませんでしたけれどねえ
Why, when I came over here to do my sketch, it wasn't here.
なーぞでーすねー
How profoundly strange.
Let us investigate.
とにかく... 中に這入ってみよう
And here we are.
で 今に至るというわけだが
どう思いますか? 阿良々木先輩
What do you think, Araragi?
Nothing much, to be honest.
どう思うって... まあ どうもこうも
だけど扇ちゃん これがもしも怪異現象なんだとして どういう怪異なんだ?
But what sort of oddity would produce this, Ougi?
さてね
I don't know.
I'm not privy to my uncle's arcane knowledge.
私は叔父さんと違って そういう古めかしい知識は持っていないほうでして
漫画や映画に出てくるようなメジャーな怪異しか知りません
I only know the major oddities that turn up in movies and comics.
Ougi
Koyomi
ただ阿良々木先輩
But there is one thing, Araragi,
これだけは言えます
that I can tell.
怪異にはそれにふさわしい理由がある ですよ
Oddities tend to have proportional reasons.
Closed
Which means, unraveling the reason why will lead us to our escape from here.
Closed
Which means, unraveling the reason why will lead us to our escape from here.
Closed
Which means, unraveling the reason why will lead us to our escape from here.
Closed
Which means, unraveling the reason why will lead us to our escape from here.
Closed
Which means, unraveling the reason why will lead us to our escape from here.
Closed
So, what reason would be behind us being locked in a classroom?
だとしても 教室から出られないという事態に どんな理由があるんだ?
時計が停まっているってことにも
Even the clock has stopped.
時計が停まっている時間がキーなんじゃありません? 案外
Perhaps the time it displays provides a clue.
だって あんなデタラメな時間を指し示しているのは やっぱり違和感でしょう?
Are you not perturbed by this random time?
午後六時と言えばこの高校の下校時刻ですね
Six o'clock in the afternoon is when the students go home at this high school.
生徒が教室から帰らなきゃいけない時間帯に むしろ生徒を教室に閉じ込めるという
At a time when the students are about to go home, they are instead locked inside the classroom.
この現象の意味は 何なのでしょう
What could be the meaning of this?
下校時刻なのに 帰さない...
They can't go home after school...
居残り授業ってことなんですかね
Perhaps it's a study session...
居残り...
Study session...
阿良々木先輩はありますか? 居残りの補習を受けた経験
Have you participated in a study session before, Araragi?
私はこれでもおつむの出来はいいほうでしてね あんまり身に覚えがないんですけれど
Y'see, I'm relatively smart, so I have no experience with them.
僕もあんまり...
Not really...
What? Really?
へえ そうなんですかあ
僕の場合 居残りや補習を言いつけられても 大抵サボってしまうから
Actually, I just tend to skip them if I'm asked to show up.
でも そう 去年や一昨年 特に一年生のときなんかは
Lately, but especially during 10th grade.
一年生のとき?
During 10th grade?
どうしました阿良々木先輩?
What's wrong, Araragi?
旗色が悪いですよ
This looks pretty bad.
じゃなくて 顔色が悪いですよ
I mean, you look pretty bad.
ん... そうか? ごめん
Really? Sorry...
あ ちょっと... 目眩(めまい)が
I'm a bit dizzy...
You don't need to apologize.
謝る必要はありませんよ
ぜーんぜん 謝らなくていいんです
Not at all.
Perhaps having to take care of your underclassman has finally fazed you.
きっと 頼りない後輩を前に気が張っているから お疲れになったんじゃないですか?
その辺の椅子に座ったらいかがです?
Why don't you sit on a chair somewhere?
Why did you sit there?
どうしてそこに座ったんです?
なんだ? どうしてと言われても...
What? Why do you ask?
扇ちゃんが勧めてくれたんじゃなかったっけ?
Didn't you ask me to sit down?
いえいえ ですから 教室の中にはいっぱい椅子があるというのに どうしてその席を選んだのかを訊いたんです
No, I asked you why you sat down on that chair specifically.
なんとなく
I felt like it.
なんとなく その席が座りやすかった?
Was that chair the easiest to reach?
座り心地が良さそうだった?
Did it look most inviting?
いや 座り心地なんて どの椅子も大して変わらないと思うけれど
No...
I think they're all more or less the same.
ただ その...
Just...
Just?
ただ その?
座り慣れている
I'm used to this one.
って気がして
I guess.
本当ですか?
Really?
え? 何? 何だって 扇ちゃん?
What did you say, Ougi?
Oh, I'm just cycling through all the possibilities.
いえ 可能性を総当たりしているだけですよ
ひとつの可能性として ひょっとすると阿良々木先輩は 昔 その椅子に座ったことがあるから
One of them being that you sat on that chair in the past and so chose it without hesitation.
いざ腰を落ち着けるとなったとき 迷わずその席を選んだってことはありません?
いやあ そりゃあ突飛(とっぴ)過ぎるぜ
Isn't that a little far-fetched?
ついさっきまで僕は こんな場所に教室があることも知らなかったし
I didn't even know there was a classroom here a little while ago.
私だって 初めてこの辺りに調査に来たときには こんな教室はなかったんです
This classroom wasn't here the first time I investigated the area.
だけど 阿良々木先輩と共に来たときにはこの教室が出現した
It appeared when I came here with you.
なら この教室が阿良々木先輩に関わっていると考えるのは 私にとってはまったく自然なことです
So it's reasonable for me to assume that this is connected to you.
そうなるのか
I suppose.
それに 言ってたじゃないですか 阿良々木先輩 なんだかこの窓からの景色には見覚えがある気がするって
And didn't you say the view from the window was familiar?
え? そんなこと言ったっけ?
I said that?
言いましたよ 教室に這入ったばかりの頃
Yes, when we entered the room.
まだ閉じこめられたことに気付く前にです
Before we realized we were locked up.
記憶にないけれど
I don't remember saying that...
まあ そこまではっきりと断言するのだから きっと言ったのだろう
But I guess I must have, considering her confidence.
確かに...
Yeah...
なんというか...
Now that I think about it...
記憶が 刺激され
It stimulates my memory...
Hello. What happened to you there, Araragi?
おやおや? どうしました 阿良々木先輩
何かを思いついたという風ではないですね
You look like you remembered something.
ひょっとして私 空気読めないこと言っちゃいました?
Did I say something that offended you?
思い出したくないことでも 思い出してしまいましたか?
Did you remember something you didn't want to?
いや そういうことじゃ ない
No, I didn't.
思い出したことなんてない
I remembered nothing.
そうだ 僕は何も思い出していない
Yes, I remembered nothing—
だって 忘れたことなんてないのだから
Because I never forgot anything.
I could never forget any of it.
あの出来事を 忘れられるはずがないのだから
Class 1-3 Araragi Koyomi
あれあれ? 阿良々木って書いてませんでした 今の教科書?
My, my, didn't that textbook have your name on it?
How odd. How strange.
おかしいなあ 不思議だなあ
どうしてだろう
Why, I wonder.
どうしてこの教室に 阿良々木先輩の教科書があるんだろう?
Why is your textbook in this room?
Ougi...
扇ちゃん...
きみ 何か知ってるの?
Do you know something?
私は何も知りませんよ
I know nothing.
You're the one who knows everything.
あなたが知っているんです
Ougi...
扇ちゃん...
何かその辺に 日付がわかるものはないかな
Do you see anything that shows today's date?
日付ですか?
The date?
今日が じゃなくて この教室が 何月何日かを知りたいんだ
What date is it today? In this classroom, I mean.
だったらそんなの 黒板に書いてあるじゃないですか
It says that right there on the blackboard.
ご覧くださいよ
Look.
There.
ほら
July 15th (Thu)
July 15th.
おっと 七月十五日だったんだ 今日
ではこう考えるのが妥当でしょうか?
Then how about this?
この教室で 七月十五日 木曜日の午後六時辺りに 何かがあった と
In this classroom, on July 15th, a Thursday, around six in the afternoon, something important happened.
July 15th (Thu)
それはきっと無念なことだったのでしょう
I expect that it led to lingering unhappiness.
その無念がこうして 怪異という形で結実したに違いありません
And perhaps, in turn, it manifested itself as an oddity.
あの教室 体育館に向き合った校舎の五階
The classroom was on the fifth floor of the building opposite the gym.
その真ん中にあった一年三組で 七月十五日の放課後に開かれた学級会
The room that my class, 1-3, held a class meeting in, on July 15th after school.
裁判とも言うべき学級会
We ought to call it a trial.
とある事件を巡って 僕達は互いに糾弾(きゅうだん)しあった
We had a certain matter to talk about, and blamed each other for it.
そして僕は 一年三組の阿良々木暦は 渦中の裁判の中心にいたのだ
And I, Araragi Koyomi of class 1-3, was at the center of the judicial maelstrom.
そうだよ
Yes.
あの日以来じゃないのか?
That was when it began.
僕があんなことを言い出し始めたのは
That was when I started believing it.
友達はいらない
"I don't need friends."
友達を作ると人間強度が下がるから
"You become less human when you make friends."
You used to often say that, no?
阿良々木先輩の口癖でしたよね
もっとも 羽川翼さんと縁があってからは 二度と言わなくなったそうですが
I believe it was Hanekawa Tsubasa who rid you of it.
いやあ 人との出会いによって 人っていうのは変わっていくものですね
Well, we are all changed by the people we meet.
Let me ask out of curiosity.
では 好奇心からお訊きしましょう
このクラスでは阿良々木先輩は どう変わったのでしょう?
How did this class change you?
一年三組の皆さんは あなたをどう変えたのでしょう?
How did class 1-3 change you?
僕を 変え...
Change me...
I'm told your personality changed significantly between middle and high school.
中学時代のあなたと高校時代のあなたでは だいぶ性格が変わったと聞いていますよ?
その原因は ひょっとして この教室にあるんじゃないですか?
Could the reason be found in this classroom?
何があったんです 阿良々木先輩
What happened, Araragi,
この教室で あの日 あのとき
in this classroom, on that day, at that time?
話してしまいましょうよ 阿良々木先輩
Talk to me, Araragi.
阿良々木暦
Araragi Koyomi.
話せば楽になりますよ
Talking about it will ease the pain.
どんなに嫌な思い出も 話してしまえばただの物語です
No matter how harsh the memory, it is only a story when told.
物語...
A story...
大丈夫 私が聞いてあげますから
Don't worry.
I'll listen to you faithfully.
私はこう見えて 結構話せる奴ですよ
Think what you will, but I am communicative.
出られないんだよ
We couldn't get out.
はい?
Excuse me?
出られないんだよ
We couldn't get out
犯人がわかるまでは
until we had found the culprit.
この教室からは 出してもらえないんだ
No one was allowed out of the classroom.
僕達がやったのは 僕達が僕達に強いたのは そういう学級会だった
The class meeting we ourselves held had that iron-clad rule.
信じられない話だけれど... 僕はそこで 議長を務めたりしたんだぜ
Believe it or not, I was the moderator.
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Two Years Ago
Private Naoetsu High School
彼女の名は老倉(おいくら)育(そだち)
Her name is Oikura Sodachi.
本人はオイラーと呼ばれたがっているけれど 実際にはハウマッチと呼ばれている
She wants to be called Euler, but most call her How Much.
名字由来のニックネームではあるのだろうが
Euler is, of course, based on phonetic similarity with Oikura,
他人を値踏みするような目で見る彼女には
but considering how calculating of a person she is,
存外 相応しいと僕は思う
I think it would have been unexpectedly fitting.
Oikura Sodachi
老倉委員長
Class president Oikura.
僕を呼んだのって お前?
It seems you called me here?
早く這入りなさい
Get in.
みんなあなたを待っているのよ
The others are waiting.
教室の中には 一年三組のメンバーが 一人も欠けることなく全員 勢揃いしていたのである
The classroom held every student, without exception, of class 1-3.
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はあ 全員 ですか フルメンバーということですね
Every single one?
You might say the whole cast was there.
今はこうして無人の教室ですが そのときは すべての席が埋まっていたというわけですか
So what looks like an empty classroom now had every seat filled back then.
なるほどなるほど
I see. I see.
光陰矢(こういんや)のごとし 十年一日(じゅうねんいちじつ)ですねえ
Time flies. It has been eons.
eons.
It has been eons.
Yeah. No, not eons. Only two years.
ああ... いや 十年じゃなくて二年だし
two years.
まあ 細かいことを言えば 老倉の奴は 教卓に立っていた
Anyway, to be specific, Oikura was at the front desk.
教卓の上にですか
Standing on the front desk?
老倉はそんな奇抜(きばつ)な委員長じゃねえよ
Oikura is not that eccentric.
さておき 教卓に立って あいつは宣言したわけだ
Anyway, she stood at the front desk, and spoke thus:
"では これから臨時学級会を開催します"
"Let us begin with this extraordinary class meeting."
でも不思議ですね
I have a question.
阿良々木先輩は その学級会が開催されることを 直前まで知らなかったんですよね?
You didn't know there would be a class meeting until you entered the classroom, right?
That was a simple transmission error.
それは単純な伝達ミス... だったらしい
その日のうちに クラスの全員に 連絡網というか...
Over the course of the day, information about the meeting was circulated through the grapevine.
折り畳まれた手紙とか メールとか そんなのが出回っていたらしいんだが
They passed around cell phone messages and folded paper.
それらが一通も 僕のところには届かなかったんだ
But they merely passed me by.
え? それって...
Does that mean...
今風に言うところの ぼっちって奴なんじゃ...
You were just as alone then as you are now?
You misunderstand.
やや誤解だ
She doesn't misunderstand entirely, though.
Araragi Koyomi - Loner
~
Ougi, this is the story of how someone without friends decided he needed no friends.
扇ちゃん これは友達がいなかった奴が 友達がいらなくなるまでの過程を語る物語なんだ
Then regain your composure and resume.
では姿勢を正して聞かせていただきましょう
その臨時学級会とやらの話を
Tell me of your class meeting.
学級会の 本日の議題を
Now, what was on the agenda?
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まずは老倉が こう切り出したんだ
Oikura opened with the following.
本日の議題は"犯人当て"です
The only item on today's agenda is finding the culprit.
犯人を特定するまで もしくは犯人が自ら名乗り出るまで 誰もこの教室から出しませんから
Until the culprit is determined or names himself, nobody is allowed out.
Don't test me.
そのおつもりで
僕は 戦場ヶ原ひたぎの席を確認した
I looked over at Senjougahara Hitagi's seat.
彼女はとても病弱で 一学期の半分も登校してきていないイメージがある
She was seen as being of such frail constitution that she missed half of the first term.
That she was in attendance was a sign of the gravity of the situation.
そんな彼女までこうして出席しているのだから かなり事態はシリアスだと思われる
The culprit...
犯人当て
穏やかではありませんね
That doesn't sound nice.
一体何があったんですか
Just what could have happened?
Class 1-3 Curriculum Schedule
期末試験が始まる 前日の放課後
On the day before our term finals, after school,
参加希望者を募って 教室で数学の勉強会があったんだ
there was a math study session here for anyone who was interested.
Term Final Exam Test Schedule
Health
Math
Japanese
IT
First Period
Second Period
July 8th (Thu)
July 9th (Fri)
(Modern, Classics)
Study Session Details
老倉は これに参加したらしいんだけど
Oikura was there too.
A study session, huh?
へえ 勉強会?
Class 1-3 Test Ranking
Rank
Name
Aggregate
Japanese
Math
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
English
But once the marks were out, there was a difference of twenty points average
でも 試験が終わった後 勉強会に参加した生徒と 不参加だった生徒との間には
平均して 20点ほど点数に開きがあった
between those who participated and those who didn't.
Aggregate
Japanese
Math
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
English
Oikura contended that such a large discrepancy meant foul play.
これはなんらかの不正行為があったと見るべきだ ってのが老倉の思潮だった
何者かが 職員室から数学の試験問題を入手し その試験の内容を 勉強会でさりげなく 反映させた
Someone obtained the exam questions from the staff room and brought up the test subjects in the study session.
Consequently, all those who participated got significantly higher marks.
だから勉強会に参加した生徒の成績が 総じて高くなった
神聖なる勉強会を
If there is someone here
そして不可侵の期末試験を汚した者がいるとすれば
who smeared the merits of our study session and violated the secrecy of the exam questions,
それは許されることではありません
they must be punished.
勉強会に欠席した生徒も 自分は無関係だなんて思わないでください
And those who didn't participate are not out of the woods.
これは私達 一年三組全体の問題です
This concerns the entirety of class 1-3.
繰り返しますが
Let me repeat.
犯人を特定するまで もしくは犯人が名乗り出るまで 誰もこの教室から出しませんから
Until the culprit is determined or names himself, nobody is allowed out.
そのおつもりで
Don't test me.
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となるとこのあと 老倉先輩は議長の座を 阿良々木先輩に譲り渡したということですか?
So I presume that Oikura relinquished the position to you after that.
学級会の議長は 阿良々木先輩が務めたという話でしたよね?
You did say that you were the moderator of the class meeting.
ああ そうだ
Yes.
そこで議長交代だ
I chaired the meeting from there.
Chair Araragi Koyomi
阿良々木先はどうして指名されたのでしょう?
Why did she pick you?
Class 1-3 Seating Chart
Kube Aizu
Sunahama Ruise
Oikura Sodachi
Koudou Sousho
Kijikiri Hoka
Mebe Miawa
Ashine Keiri
Fudou Shijima
勉強会に参加した生徒が 場を仕切るのがまずいってことはわかるよな?
Surely you understand that nobody who was at the study session could moderate.
Madomura Kabe
Marizumi Hyoui
Haga Roka
Ukitobi Kyuuse
Fuyunami Sakaatsu
Higuma Sekirou
Hayamachi Seiko
Nagagutsu Chouka
Fukadoo Shimono
かと言って 残りの誰でもいいってことにはならない
But you couldn't randomly pick any of the remaining kids either.
Arikure Biwa
Kikigoe Enji
Hishigata Jouro
Mizaki Meibi
Fukuishi Tenko
Shuui Tsuuma
Shinaniwa Ayazute
Daino Kiichigo
Kouma Okitada
なにせ 議題の中心にあるのは数学の試験だ
At the heart of all this was a math exam.
試験問題の検分に話が及ぶことは避けられない
It was quite possible that the investigation would concern the exam questions and their content.
That means someone with exceptionally bad marks in math couldn't be the chair either.
じゃあ 数学の成績が あまりよくなかった者には 任せられないってことになるだろう?
はあ まあ そうですかね
I suppose it does.
でも 勉強会を欠席 もとい 勉強会に不参加だった生徒の平均点は 参加者より20点も低かったんでしょう?
But those who did not take part in the study session scored twenty points less on average.
いるんですか? 不参加者の中に 勉強会参加者に匹敵する好成績高得点を収めた生徒が
Is there even someone among them who has marks on par with those from the study session?
いるよ そりゃあ
There was.
ただし 勉強会に参加していた生徒全員よりもいい点をとったのは
There was someone who scored better than anybody in the study session.
僕だけだった
And that was me.
What?
だから僕が 議長に選ばれたわけだ
That is why I was chosen as chair.
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１００点
Full marks.
Araragi Koyomi
１００点満点で１００点
One hundred points out of one hundred.
それが僕の 期末テストにおける数学の点数だった
That was my math score in the term finals.
Now, please proceed without further ado, Araragi.
さあ 迅速に進行してもらいましょうか 阿良々木
もう伝わったとは思けど 老倉委員長が僕を病的なまでに嫌っている理由は 僕が数学が得意だからだ
I believe I told you this, but the reason Oikura pathologically hates me is because I'm quite good at math.
Oikura Sodachi
自分がオイラーと呼んでもらえないのは 数学の点数において 己を上回る僕のせいだと 彼女は強く確信しているんだ
She is convinced that the reason nobody will call her Euler is because I get better marks than she does.
Oikura Sodachi
Araragi Koyomi
じゃあ... まずは
All right.
勉強会に参加していた皆さん 手をあげてください
Everyone who took part in the study session, please raise your hand.
その結果はっきりした 勉強会に参加していた生徒は 十九人だった
Nineteen people took part in the study session going by the count of their hands.
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へええ ではこれで 容疑者は十九人にまで絞られたというわけですね
So you narrowed down the suspects to one of those nineteen, huh?
わくわくするなあ
How tremendously exciting.
いや こんなことを言うのは不謹慎で謹慎処分ですかね うふふふ
Oh my, will I get detention now for being so tactless?
Let me spoil it now and tell you that the class meeting didn't uncover the culprit.
もうここで言ってしまうけれど 扇ちゃん この学級会で 犯人が判明したりはしないぞ
Huh?
険悪になるだけ険悪になって まあ ぐだぐだになって何もわからないまま終わる
It was a class meeting as stormy as any, and it ends with all of us none the wiser.
そして
And—
I see!
あ そっか!
私達がこの教室から脱出する方法がわかりましたよ 阿良々木先輩
Then I know what we need to do to leave this room, Araragi.
つまり私達は 二年前に未解決に終わったその事件を 今こそ解決することで ここから出られるんです
We'll be able to leave this room by solving the case that went unsolved two years ago.
どういう意味だい?
Explain.
"犯人を特定するまでこの教室から誰も出さない"と 老倉先輩は言ったんでしょう?
Oikura said she wouldn't let anybody out until the culprit was determined.
逆に言うと その事件の犯人を特定することで 私達はここから脱出できる
Conversely, that means that by finding out the culprit, one can leave the room.
そういうことでしょう?
Don't you agree?
This here is the shape assumed by the regret and guilt of all students in class 1-3.
当時の一年三組の皆さんの 心にあった無念がこうして 学校の隙間で形になったということでしょう
言うなら 学級会の幽霊ですねえ
Call it the ghost of your class meeting, if you want.
The ghost of our class meeting...
学級会の幽霊...
そんなわけのわからないものに 僕は囚(とら)われてしまったって言うのか?
And because of something so inexplicable, I'm locked up in here?
なんで僕が...
Why me?
さてね 案外 それを一番気に病んでいるのが 阿良々木先輩だから かもしれませんね
Perhaps because you're the one most haunted by it.
July 15th (Thu)
阿良々木先輩の人生は その日 一変したわけですからね
Your life was fundamentally changed on that day.
一変
Fundamentally...
あなたはその日以来 その事件について考えることを避けてきた
You avoided thinking about what happened that day.
忌避(きひ)してきた
You shirked it off.
忘れた日なんて一日もないけれど 考えた日は一日もない
There wasn't a day where you'd forgotten about it, but there also wasn't a day where you thought about it.
だけど遂(つい)に来たんですよ 過去と向き合う日が
But now it has finally arrived—the day of reckoning.
謎を解き明かすべきときが
The time to solve the mystery.
End Story Ougi Formula
Ashine Keiri
Igami Michisada
Oikura Sodachi
Kikigoe Enji
Kijikiri Hoka
Kube Aizu
Gekizaka Nageki
Koudou Sousho
Shuui Tsuuma
Shuzawa Juudo
Suuchi Kokushi
Daino Kiichigo
Nagagutsu Chouka
Haga Roka
Higuma Sekirou
Hishigata Jouro
Fudou Shijima
Madomura Kabe
Yoki Shoukei
End Story Ougi Formula
How did the class trial develop?
We wrote down the names of those nineteen.
Arikure Biwa
But then Arikure said that it wasn't necessarily one of those nineteen.
Class 1-3 Seating Chart
Kube Aizu
Sunahama Ruise
Oikura Sodachi
Koudou Sousho
Kijikiri Hoka
Mebe Miawa
Ashine Keiri
Fudou Shijima
Madomura Kabe
Marizumi Hyoui
Haga Roka
Ukitobi Kyuuse
Fuyunami Sakaatsu
Higuma Sekirou
Hayamachi Seiko
Nagagutsu Chouka
Fukadoo Shimono
Arikure Biwa
Kikigoe Enji
Hishigata Jouro
Mizaki Meibi
Fukuishi Tenko
Shuui Tsuuma
Shinaniwa Ayazute
Daino Kiichigo
Kouma Okitada
End Story Ougi Formula
It could have also been someone who did not take part, but got a high score anyway.
Mebe Miawa 95 Hayamachi Seiko 92 Senjougahara Hitagi 98 Kouma Okitada 99 Araragi Koyomi 100
And so, that means you wound up on the list of suspects too, Araragi.
Yes, I did.
And then?
Marizumi said that there was no proof such a study session existed to begin with.
Marizumi Hyoui
That's getting pretty fundamental.
Study Session Details
However, it was soon testified that the claimed study session existed.
Sunahama arrived early in school on the day of the exam because she was on day duty,
Sunahama Ruise
and was stuck with having to clean up after the study session from the day before.
Clean up?
The desks weren't lined up, there was stuff on the board, and she had to take out a trash can full of candy wrappers.
Our homeroom teacher, Tetsujou, helped her because she arrived early too.
Tetsujou Komichi
What else did they argue about?
Higuma said that someone must have spread example questions in the study session like those in the test.
Higuma Sekirou
He said the culprit could be found by following that train of thought.
I see. That's a good idea.
Oikura couldn't forgive that.
And so Oikura...
Oikura couldn't forgive that.
She was persistent about continuing this "figuring out the culprit" ordeal.
Oikura couldn't forgive that.
She was persistent about continuing this "figuring out the culprit" ordeal.
Oikura couldn't forgive that.
She was persistent about continuing this "figuring out the culprit" ordeal.
Oikura couldn't forgive that.
She was persistent about continuing this "figuring out the culprit" ordeal.
Then let's take a look at the exam problems in greater detail.
Let's establish just how much the exam and study session problems overlapped
based on the testimony of those present.
And then, we will determine the culprit.
I won't allow anyone out of the classroom until then.
And then, we will determine the culprit.
I won't allow anyone out of the classroom until then.
And then, we will determine the culprit.
I won't allow anyone out of the classroom until then.
And then, we will determine the culprit.
I won't allow anyone out of the classroom until then.
And then, we will determine the culprit.
I won't allow anyone out of the classroom until then.
End Story Ougi Formula
That sounds like endless, ugly arguments, and fruitless exchanges.
I can see you embracing a deep hatred for the human animal amid that chaos.
You're wrong.
Oh, my.
Ougi, what drove me to desperation was not the argument.
It was the conclusion.
We felt like we were on
the right track.
Nobody expected it would end the way it did.
We went astray during the final stretches of our pursuit of justice.
I lost sight of my moral compass in that instant.
The conclusion? But you said you didn't find the culprit.
I suppose it's a little anticlimactic as far as outcomes go,
but enough for despair?
We didn't find the culprit.
But that doesn't mean we didn't determine who it was.
Huh?
That's the reason for my despair.
Coming to a decision beyond one's knowledge.
That's what drove me to despair.
I don't need friends.
I see, I see, I see.
Then, Araragi,
would you please tell me the rest?
The bell was about to ring.
Surely the patience of those inside the classroom was being tested after two hours of discussion.
What conclusion did you reach when patience ran out?
What did it come to?
How extremely fascinating.
I am so curious.
How I wish everyone would have lived happily after overcoming all that endless, unruly garbage.
We didn't find happiness—
But then, just what did we find?
Ougi Formula Part Two
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This pisses me off.
Just make me the culprit and we can all go.
Saying that shit isn't gonna help.
You covering for someone?
You know the culprit?
Is there even a culprit to begin with?
That's the basis for this whole argument! Don't start again with that shit.
Is there even someone here capable of stealing from the staff room?
Taking the ethics out of the equation, who could physically do that?
No, I'm actually talking about who has the balls to do it.
Are you retarded?
How's that gonna help us?
You're all lying!
I can't stand this.
Don't the computers have the exam questions these days?
I'm sorry, but would you please raise your hand before you speak?
You don't have to break into the staff room. You can hack their computer.
I said this before, but I think Oikura explained the last question to us. Not that I remember perfectly.
Then don't say it.
You realize that's libel, right?
You've always been like this.
Please raise your hand.
Man, I want to go!
Just go on without me.
You can't go home.
They might make you the culprit if you leave.
I don't care.
Please calm down, everyone.
Collect yourselves.
I can't calm down!
If you want to speak, ra—
Look, Araragi got full marks.
The test clearly couldn't have been that hard.
All that stuff about cheating and crimes is nonsense.
Hey, Senjougahara, what do you think?
I don't know.
Do your duty, Araragi.
That's easy for you to say.
Why was there only a study session for math, anyway?
There was a history study session too.
Why didn't you invite me?
If you were the homeroom teacher and taught math and your students had bad grades,
you'd be in a bad position, right?
It's for staff room cred.
Earns you brownie points with the principal.
That's not the reason.
Math is the most beautiful of all academic pursuits.
You're the only one who thinks that.
What the hell is the beauty in that?
That's just what you tell yourself.
You don't understand the beauty of mathematics?
Please stop fighting.
We aren't fighting, man!
Alibi, my ass! You don't even know when the crime was!
This can't continue.
I can't control it.
Stop it, Oikura.
This is too much.
Stop this before things get worse.
You whine like a dog.
Giving up even though you had a higher score?
Yup, sure, I give up.
I can't do it.
Nobody goes home until the culprit is determined.
We can't do that.
They'll all go home when the bell rings.
You know that!
I forgot how fiery her hatred for me is.
I hate you.
You really need to do something to fix that part of you.
What?! Coming from you?!
Listen up!
I believe that we've had quite enough discussion.
We will now come to a decision.
We'll take a vote on who the criminal is.
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Oh, I see.
Then I trust a large section of the class colluded to turn you into the culprit, Araragi.
No.
Oikura was the only one who voted for me.
What?
Suspect number six collected the most votes,
that being Oikura Sodachi.
I cannot forget that look of sheer disgust.
I believe I was swept up by it.
She never came back to school, neither to exams nor to class.
I think she is still covered for in the attendance record of a senior class somewhere here.
But I don't know which one.
Ever since then, I skipped school even more than before.
I felt an unspecific but lasting guilt going to a school that Oikura did not attend.
And I also never again scored full marks in mathematics.
I believe you shoulder too much.
Didn't someone say that Oikura was the prime suspect?
Nobody told her to plan that meeting.
It was her own decision.
She would have no reason to do that as the culprit.
I can assert on that alone that it wasn't her.
I see.
Assert, huh?
Anyway.
I saw what was right being fabricated out of thin air, witnessed an utterly absurd conclusion,
and lost a piece of me there.
A bit of my sanity, perhaps.
The majority of students raised their hand without conspiring to,
without communicating with each other.
I saw truth being decided.
I saw justice being decided.
I have never been so shocked.
I lost sight of the truth there.
No.
I lost it entirely.
Up until that point, I believed something like truth or justice existed.
Before then, I understood that you couldn't always do what's right and just,
but...
acknowledge
If many people
something,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
acknowledge
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
If many people
acknowledge
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
If many people
something,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
I realized that it can just become
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
I realized that it can just become
true and just.
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
I realized that it can just become
true and just.
even if it's false,
cruel, or stupid,
I realized that it can just become
even if it's false,
I came to realize that truth can be mass-produced like toy cars.
The right number of people establishes what is true and just.
The majority can manufacture justice.
And so I chose isolation over desolation.
"I don't need friends."
"You become less human when you make friends."
That was my only choice to protect my own personal truth and justice.
Well, that took a long time.
That was the story of Araragi Koyomi.
Thank you for listening, Ougi.
You were right.
It wasn't a big deal in the end.
I feel better now.
That's a problem.
We're not ready to have you feel better just yet, Araragi.
If this story ends with Oikura not being the culprit, then we'll be stuck in this room.
We must determine the culprit to escape.
We must do what you couldn't that day, without resorting to majority rule,
but alone as individuals.
You said Oikura's grudge produced this classroom, right?
Then there's a certain logic to me being trapped here.
Oikura perhaps
still hasn't forgiven me?
Just like that day
Does she still hate me?
No, I believe she has forgotten you, to be honest.
So how do you explain this room?
Didn't I tell you?
Your own heart gave rise to this classroom.
That's how I'm defining it.
Regret gave rise to this room.
If you had found the correct culprit back then, Oikura Sodachi's life would not have imploded.
You would not have lost justice.
You regret that and created this room.
You've been in search of the truth and justice you lost ever since then.
You created this classroom to find it again.
I...
Is that possible?
Could I have made this room?
But oddities have proportional reasons.
If so, my own self is reason enough for this.
You want to redo the class meeting?
And, together, find the culprit? The real one?
Oh, no, we already know the real one.
You know the real culprit too.
You know who the real prime suspect should have been.
It was quite obvious from listening to you.
The reason your empathy for Oikura's situation is stronger than it has to be
is because subconsciously you know the real culprit.
You would not have told the story this way otherwise.
This way?
What is she talking about?
What does she know?
I know nothing.
You know everything.
Araragi Koyomi.
I...
Gather the suspects, says Sherlock Holmes.
Let me stand in for Mr. Holmes here.
Now, let us mourn the sorry fool Oikura Sodachi, who was struck down by her own deeds,
and solemnly find the culprit she was seeking.
Since we are about to, I must add this.
Exorcising oddities is similar to solving mysteries— the procedure is important.
Reader, you now have all the clues.
End Story Ougi Formula
The culprit is your teacher, Tetsujou Komichi.
Ought I say more?
Please.
Why do you think it was her?
When I asked you whether all seats were filled when you entered the classroom,
you specified that Oikura's was empty.
But that means someone was sitting in your chair.
Someone must have been sitting there.
Like your homeroom teacher.
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
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permitted to sit down by Oikura,
So, Araragi, it wasn't that you weren't
permitted to sit down by Oikura,
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
but perhaps you weren't able
to sit down in the first place.
But that's not enough to prove that she's the culprit.
As the meeting degenerated, someone said it, right?
The homeroom teacher of class 1-3 is also their math teacher.
She wouldn't need to have knowledge of the questions.
She writes them.
She can adjust the questions to match the study session.
Sunahama was on day duty the next day
and complained about having to clean up after everyone from the study session.
You said Tetsujou Komichi helped her.
What did she help her with?
Hey, Araragi, what was it again?
Throwing out the trash? Rearranging desks?
Not that!
Wiping the blackboard.
Of course, a lot is written on the blackboard and erased again.
It wasn't possible to deduce all the contents of the study session that way.
So she gleaned a part of the study session.
Yes.
(Wed)
And since she's the teacher, she can adjust the exam problems to match the contents of the study session.
(Thu)
(Wed)
(Thu)
She had a couple of hours.
It was probably only enough to change some of them.
Now, uh... The motive?
The motivation for the crime? Why did she do it?
You know that too, Ougi?
This is a pointless crime if a student were to blame.
If the entire class got good grades, their personal deviation from the average would decline.
Rank
Name
Aggregate
Japanese
Math
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
English
However, there is one person whose standing improves if the entire class receives good grades.
Class 1-3 Test Ranking
Aggregate
Japanese
Math
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
English
And that person is the math teacher.
Tetsujou Komichi
Their ability to teach would be rewarded.
Did I miss something?
No.
I see.
Then let's go home.
You can leave, Araragi.
I can leave?
Huh?
I thought it was a strange line.
What do you mean?
Oh, perhaps you don't know this.
Vampires need permission to enter rooms and buildings.
Right...
Can't say I've ever had to get it.
Well, Shinobu is pretty special.
Anyway, this was about not being able to leave instead of enter, so I wanted to reference it.
Just to put you at ease.
That made it sound like you imprisoned me here, Ougi.
Now that's not fair.
I would never imprison you.
Why would I do that?
You've been a prisoner of your past for two whole years.
Right?
Let me speculate.
I believe it is only natural that you felt betrayed when your teacher, a moral figurehead, cheated.
She then atoned by using her influence to keep Oikura from failing grades due to no attendance.
Atoned?
No. That's all self-serving.
She wants to believe she's a great human being.
What threw me into despair...
Now the next one.
Number six.
All who believe that I, Oikura Sodachi, am the culprit, please raise your hand.
What threw me into despair was that our teacher, Tetsujou Komichi, sitting among my classmates,
raised her hand without hesitation.
End Story Ougi Formula
The next day I went to the audiovisual room on a whim before going to my own classroom.
Or, well, to the space adjacent it.
Needless to say, there was no abandoned classroom there.
There was no dead space like in Ougi's notebook either.
There was just nothing there.
Not then, not now.
No hidden room, no secret, no investigation.
No disturbing truth.
No class meeting.
No majority vote.
It was all in the past and done with.
Tetsujou Komichi isn't in the staff room anymore.
That's not to say that she quit out of guilt or was sacked.
Tetsujou Komichi
Maternity Leave
She became pregnant and went on maternity leave.
Congratulations.
She is unlikely to return before I graduate.
I don't believe I'll ever see her again.
I feel nothing about that.
Besides, when I saw her raise her hand two years ago,
she stopped being a teacher or an adult to me.
Good morning, Araragi.
Oh, good morning, Hanekawa.
Bad timing.
What?
You shouldn't come into the classroom right now.
All right.
Araragi, you know how there's an empty seat in our class, right?
Yeah...
It's a spare, right?
What?
Is a ghost sitting there right now or what?
Just so you know, ghosts aren't enough to scare me anymore.
It wasn't a ghost was sitting there.
It was a person.
A classmate came back to school who hasn't been here in a long time.
Really now...?
So that desk—
It's theirs, right?
I didn't know we had another classmate.
So why shouldn't I come in?
Because it's Oikura.
Oikura Sodachi.
She spent those two years studying alone at home.
It's almost like she waited for Miss Tetsujou to leave.
You don't get along with her, right?
I hear your laughter near me
You were supposed to be there forever
I breathed onto the classroom window and wrote your name
only to panic and wipe it with my sleeve
I heard your voice from the hallway
and went home in hurry to hide my feelings
At some point I became unable
to talk to you normally
I can hear your laughter a ways away
You were supposed to be next to me forever
You knew how I felt
even when I said nothing
Now I know how important you were to me,
but we will never see each other again
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