Oshino Ougi's true identity is Araragi Koyomi.
Oshino Ougi is an apparition created by Araragi Koyomi.
Just as my older sister, Gaen Tooe, created an apparition called the Rainy Devil.
The unknown apparition created by Gaen Tooe was the materialization of her self-control.
Giving that quasi-darkness the form
of the western apparition known as the Rainy Devil, she settled the score.
You could say that Oshino Ougi
is your desire to criticize yourself.
Of course, that's not all she is.
It was last August.
The case where Hachikuji-chan was assaulted by the "darkness."
The first phase was when Koyomin learned about the "darkness" during that incident.
You learned of a phenomenon that corrects mistakes.
It tells you that what's forbidden is forbidden,
and what's wrong is wrong.
It judges things.
Now, the second phase was the confrontation with the first Apparition Killer.
< kai'i-goroshi >
During the first encounter,
Suruga's Rainy Devil left arm was hit by the first one's energy drain, yes?
Here, the undiluted essence of the "unknown" my older sister created combined with the first one.
Through Oshino Shinobu, you and he understand one another.
In fact, Shinobu-chan had eaten the first one.
Thanks to that food chain, a part of my sister's legacy flowed into you through Shinobu-chan.
This resulted in the birth of an "unknown"
in possession of all the apparitions in this town and their experiences.
BECAUSE OF ITS NATURE
AND HOW IT WAS CREATED,
OSHINO OUGI
IS ABLE TO WIELD HEART-UNDER-BLADE'S
PHYSICAL MATERIALIZATION SKILL,
AT THE VERY LEAST.
By the way, concerning the surname "Oshino," it originates from Oshino Shinobu.
The fact that I foolishly called myself that guy's little sister set a bad precedent.
However, what's distinct about Koyomin is that the apparition he created attacked him.
You've known since spring break, deep in your heart, that you're cheating.
You helped Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade out of sympathy,
and wanted to face the consequences.
You developed a friendship with Hanekawa Tsubasa,
but kept worrying about whether you deserved it, since you couldn't live up to her feelings.
You helped Senjougahara Hitagi with her long-term issues,
but kept thinking that dating her was "taking advantage of her weakness."
You respect Kanbaru Suruga,
but felt inferior because you couldn't live in her straightforward manner.
You saved Sengoku Nadeko,
but back then, it wasn't just Sengoku Nadeko that you really wanted to save.
You gradually reconciled with Oshino Shinobu,
but was that even allowed?
To begin with, isn't it unfair to freely use powers of immortality?
Shouldn't you have to face the consequences for it?
Aren't I... the worst kind of human imaginable?
The portion of your mind that criticizes itself manifested entirely in the form of Oshino Ougi,
the girl you could call Dark Koyomin.
That's why,
like the darkness, she took things one by one,
with the case of Oikura Sodachi as a springboard, and crushed them.
Oshino Meme and Kagenui Yozuru...
Them, and probably Kaiki Deishuu after he finished the case concerning Sengoku Nadeko.
Rest assured, Koyomin.
If you exterminate Oshino Ougi, you'll probably find them easily.
She still has things left undone.
Right. Araragi Tsukihi, your little sister.
The immortal apparition, the Shideno-bird.
It's impossible that part of you isn't wondering if it's okay for her to live, pretending to be human.
That's why I used her as a lure.
Yes, that's right. I have no evidence.
Everything I just said is speculation.
But you understand it, don't you?
You know Oshino Ougi's true identity better than anyone else.
That's why you have to be the one who reveals her true identity.
Go win in the battle against yourself.
It's rather simple, isn't it?
Killing yourself for the sake of others.
It's something you do every day.
It's Araragi Koyomi, the one you loathe the most.
So, go end it.
By your hands, you need to end it.
That's the end...
of your adolescence.
Hontou wa hajime kara subete wakatteita to
Truth is, I either know it all from the start
Subete ga owatte kara yatto wakaru itsumo
Or I figure it out once it's all over
Nazo wo tokiakasu kagi wa
The key to solve the riddle
ima mo sono te no naka
is right in the palm of your hand
Kimi no koto boku no koto sore wa watashi no koto
All about you, all about me, it's all about me
Kimi no mono boku no mono sore wa watashi no mono
All your things, all my things, they're all my things
Sou nanika wo hitotsu
In order to get something,
kanaeru tame niwa hora hitotsu
you have to give up something else
Akirame nakya ikenai koto
Then one more,
mou hitotsu mata hitotsu
then another one
Ikutsumo no moshimo no saki ni
Beyond the many "if 's,"
atta kamo shirenai mirai
there could be a different future
Hiroi atsume nagara kimi wo oikakeru
I'll gather one of each, and keep on chasing you
Nee? Kimi no koto boku no koto sore wa watashi no koto
Hey? All about you, all about me, it's all about me
Kimi no mono boku no mono sore wa watashi no mono
All your things, all my things, they're all my things
Hoka no dare mo shiranai
It's you who knows
Anata ga shitteiru
What no one else knows
Bokura no monogatari
That's our story
Shiranai kimi no koto
A story of the you I don't know
PART
THREE
Your true identity is...
me.
You are...
me.
Oshino Ougi is...
Araragi Koyomi.
Aw, that was rather quick.
The main act has already arrived?
Is it because of the severity of the lies I told, the sins I've committed?
To think I was trying to masquerade as such a thing...
I have to say, I must've been quite insane.
Didn't you know this was going to happen?
If you really are me,
the fact that I'd be waiting here,
the fact that I had already learned who you really are...
If you knew that, then why come?
Some times you have to fight, even if you know you're going to lose.
If I could say something akin to dying words,
I believe that, in my own way,
I was able to make Araragi Koyomi's adolescence more right,
even if I couldn't make it better.
If you're saying this is right,
then I don't need what's right.
Do you know how many problems you've caused, and for how many people?
If you're saying someone was harmed, then I'll say that they deserved it.
It's not that I've personally done anything.
In reality, you completely understand that as well, don't you?
That trouble, harm, and misfortune aren't things that are clear-cut.
So the right thing is clear-cut?
What's right, and what's wrong...
You can cut them apart?
Even if you can't decide what's right,
you can determine which side is right, can't you?
In Oikura Sodachi's case, I was wrong.
In Sengoku Nadeko's case, I was right.
In Teori Tadatsuru's case...
I guess we'll call that a draw.
I thought I could win it in a one-on-one fight.
CHALLENGE
So after all this, Ougi-chan, who was right, me or you?
As I'm the one disappearing like this, it means that you were right.
Congratulations,
Araragi-senpai.
Everything you've done till now hasn't been wrong. It was right.
This is the end of adolescence.
Or perhaps the end of a story?
Oh, that's not significant at all.
It's not the end of one's life,
and it's far from being the end of the world.
It's just the end of one of your many stories.
It's not even the final episode or anything.
I'm glad I could disappear like this before you graduated.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Farewell, Araragi-senpai.
Farewell, Ougi-chan.
Farewell, Oshino Ougi.
Farewell, my adolescence.
Forget it! I can't do it!
Araragi-senpai? Wh-What are...
What are you thinking?
You're not immortal,
but you're trying to save someone else.
In the end, that's how you are?
You'd throw away your life so easily for another's sake?
So you'd even save someone like me,
who did nothing but criticize you and make you suffer?
What good does it do if you die?
What's the point of saving me here?
You're wrong after all.
You're wrong as a person.
You're the absolute worst as a person.
I didn't...
save someone else.
Right now, I just saved myself.
Hitagi did.
Hanekawa did.
Shinobu did.
Ononoki-chan did.
Everyone saved me.
Not saving myself, the one everyone saved...
I can't allow such a thing to happen!
Oh boy...
I planned for this to be a solo suicide, but it ended up being a lovers' suicide, Araragi-senpai.
Let me make it clear, I'm not a young girl, you know?
That doesn't matter.
Either way, you're like a newborn baby, just born six months ago, right?
BABIES SHOULD BE PROTECTED LIKE THIS.
If you're saying what I've been doing until now wasn't wrong,
the fact that I'm doing this right now shouldn't be wrong, either.
I'm not wrong.
Right.
Just like you aren't wrong.
Really...
You're foolish.
Not quite.
I can't make fun of you as you finally fight for your own sake.
I respect you, Araragi-kun.
I win.
This is a joke.
Hanekawa-senpai really brought him here, all the way from Antarctica.
She's completely insane.
HITAGI, IF THAT'S THE CASE,
IT WASN'T
THIS IS A PEN,
THIS IS A PEN.
IT WAS
DÉPAYSEMENT.
COME TO THINK OF IT, OUGI
HAD BEEN ALARMED
BY HANEKAWA FROM THE START.
THE NAME
OUGI
WAS ACTUALLY
OUGI
BECAUSE
YOU ADDED "DOOR" TO "WINGS," WASN'T IT.
Araragi-kun.
You violently knocked down my cute little niece.
What are you planning to do?
Really, Araragi-kun, you sure are sassy.
Did something nice happen to you, or something?
You shouldn't be doing obscene things to your underclassman when you have a lover.
NIECE ?
THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.
IN REFERENCE TO
OUGI.
OSHINO MEME SAID SO.
Oshino Meme acknowledged Oshino Ougi as a relative.
What that signifies is the existence of Oshino Ougi.
She was no longer a fabrication or a lie.
THAT'S WHY—
THE "DARKNESS" DISAPPEARED.
You saved us, Oshino.
I didn't really save you or anything.
You just saved yourself on your own, Araragi-kun.
Well done.
Oshino Ougi became Oshino Ougi.
And thus, Araragi Koyomi's adolescence came to an end.
I had believed that not being concerned for myself was an act of loving others.
The days of kind deception, filled with a shallow, weak euphoria, have come to an end.
An epilogue.
MARCH 15TH
Nii-chan! It's morning, dammit!
If you don't get up, you'll be late!
Jeez!
By the way, Tsukihi-chan,
what were you wishing for?
I mean, about your hair.
I was actually wishing your exams would go well, and also a bit about Nadeko-chan.
As it was about my hair, I was wishing to god, if there is one.
< kami >
Anyway, onii-chan's entrance exams are over, and Nadeko has gotten better for now.
Maybe there is a god out there.
Yeah, as of yesterday.
Oh, nothing.
I see.
Nii-chan! Nii-chan!
Since I'm starting high school next month,
we won't be able to make out like we have been.
So let's have one last meal, feeding mouth-to-mouth!
And let's brush each others' teeth!
What you need to brush up is your intelligence.
Well, you know, Karen-chan.
Even after disbanding the Fire Sisters of Tsuganoki 2nd Middle School,
are you going to continue acting as a hero of justice?
I can't help it!
TO CORRECT HER, MAYBE SHE MEANT TO SAY,
"BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS!"
TO BE RIGHT, THAT IS.
Karen-chan, in your case, what did the "right thing" turn out to be?
Helping others!
I see.
Then why not start by helping yourself?
YOU TOO.
Hey, Hachikuji!
Please don't talk to me!
NAME
HACHIKUJI
MAYOI
GOD
I'm a god now!
If you insist on speaking to me,
then after two bows, two claps, and one bow,
Visitation
manners
ONE
BOW
TWO
CLAPS
TWO
BOWS
make a monetary offering,
and speak as if you're addressing a god.
Who would talk to someone like that?
I'll completely ignore you.
Araragi-san, are you heading to your graduation ceremony today?
Thank you for all your hard work.
Normally, I would attend the graduation ceremony and celebrate your achievement.
But if a god were to attend, the common people might start clamoring, so I'll be considerate.
Nobody will visit your shrine.
This town will end up without a god again!
Don't say that.
You can come by any time.
North Shirahebi Shrine is free to visit,
so really, come visit at any time.
Yeah, I'll visit any time.
To your home.
Yes, to my home!
Are you really okay with this, Shinobu-san?
Your desire to be sealed away within Koyomin's shadow again
is difficult for me to comprehend.
If there's any rationale behind this, I'd like to know what it is.
There is none.
Besides, my desire to once again be deemed harmless, as I'm tired of battle,
shouldn't be too difficult for a specialist to comprehend.
FROM A YOUNG GIRL TO A
PHANTOM WOMAN.
AND THEN, TO WISH TO RETURN
TO BEING A YOUNG GIRL ONCE AGAIN.
Of course, if my master, now that his vampiric nature has been successfully removed,
is unwilling to return once again to the state of being a quasi-human, quasi-vampire,
I shall withdraw my own desires.
After I heal his arm,
I'll retreat to a mountain somewhere and live a secluded life.
Like I'd let you.
The mountains don't have any Mister Donut stores,
Shinobu.
That's right.
If you die tomorrow,
I'm fine with my life ending tomorrow.
If you live through today,
I'll also choose to live through today.
If you die the day after tomorrow, I shall live for three days' time,
and tell a tale about you to someone.
I shall proudly recite the story of my master to anyone willing to listen.
GRADUATION
CEREMONY
GRADUATION
CEREMONY
Morning, Araragi-kun.
Morning, Hanekawa.
Why are you in the bicycle lot?
I was waiting for you, of course.
Because I have a lot of things to talk to you about.
I have to take off right after the graduation ceremony.
So, I thought this might be our only chance to talk.
Do you have to leave right away because of the flight you booked?
Actually...
In order to bring Oshino-san back from Antarctica,
I sold off a bit of my brain.
Sold off your brain?
What? That doesn't sound good.
I guess you call them "jet-setters"?
Well, I had to go that far in order to charter a fighter plane.
It's fine.
I sold it off to a relatively honest institution.
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Scary!
GRADUATION CEREMONY SITE
By the way, they think Kagenui-san is probably at the North Pole.
I see.
I had a hunch, so I chose the continent.
But even if I had gone to the North Pole, it still would've worked out.
Ononoki-chan wanted to go get her, but she declined,
saying she's busy with a familiar-sounding training ritual that involves fighting polar bears.
Then, what happened to Ononoki-chan?
What is she doing now?
She's still at my house.
That's...
Well, it's partly because Gaen-san and Oshino left so suddenly.
It looks like adults were busy in a lot of ways.
Adults?
But we're going to join them as of tomorrow.
Hitagi and I are still students.
You're the only one who's becoming an adult.
"Hitagi"?
I see, I see.
Something like that happened while I was gone?
Wait, wait, wait.
Don't jump to conclusions.
Perhaps things haven't gone as far as you think they have.
I'm glad, I'm glad.
Now, I can take off without worrying about a thing.
Morning, Araragi-kun.
You're not going to call him "Koyomi"?
Morning, Koyomi.
And welcome back, Tsubasa.
I'm back, Hitagi-chan.
THURSDAY MARCH 15TH
Koyomi, Kanbaru apparently prepared a present for us as a graduation gift.
Really? A present from Kanbaru...
That makes me nervous.
Well, she isn't one to prepare something strange for something like this.
I probed a bit, and it seems to be an ordinary flower bouquet.
Flowers, huh?
Off you go!
Yeah.
Pick up my diploma for me!
I'M ON MY WAY.
You haven't changed, Araragi-senpai.
No, I'm changing.
But no matter how much I change...
I'm still me.
Once upon a time, in a certain place, there was a weirdo named Araragi Koyomi.
And he's still around to this day.
And they all lived happily ever after.
I heard the story recited from the shadow running alongside me.
I was curious to see what happened next in the story.
OWARIMONOGATARI
END