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[Kouichi walks up the stairs to the 3-3 classroom , he hears footsteps behind him. Yukari Sakuragi appears behind him with an bloodstained umbrella and her neck pierced]

Yukari Sakuragi:
It's your fault. [Kouichi runs into the classroom, at the entry appears Ikuo Takabayashi, pressing his chest with his hand]

Ikuo Takabayashi:
It's your fault! [Kouichi stumbles, behind him appears the Professor Kubodera with his neck shredded and gushing blood in spurts]

Professor Kubodera:
It's your fault! [Kouichi scared, opens the classroom door, when Kouichi opens the door, he finds to Sanae Mizuno face down on a stretcher, she gets up showing her face disfigured by the falling into the elevator]

Sanae Mizuno:
It's your fault! [Falling from the ceiling, Kouichi observes to Junta Nakao, who has deep cuts on his face and his right arm cut off]

Junta Nakao:
It's your fault! [Kouichi wakes up from the nightmare]

[first lines]

Yumi Ogura:
[Voice Over] I heard that Nakao was beaten by a motorboat.

Aya Ayano:
[Voice Over] Then it's a lie that people will not die if they leave Yomiyama!

Yumi Ogura:
[Voice Over] Yes, I think so.

Aya Ayano:
[Voice Over] So, We have no place to escape? What should we do?

Yumi Ogura:
[Voice Over] Hey, we still go to school trip?

Aya Ayano:
[Voice Over] No way! there's no point in going on a school trip during the summer if this is happening.

Yumi Ogura:
[Voice Over] It would be safer to stay locked in the house.

Aya Ayano:
[Voice Over] Maybe. Why is this happening to us? It's unfair.

Yumi Ogura:
[Voice Over] Yes, If only the transferred student had not spoken with Misaki...

Naoya Teshigawara:
In the Classroom? [he covers his mouth] Really?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
That's what Matsunaga said.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
He should refer to the 3-3 Classroom in the old building.

Naoya Teshigawara:
But what he hid there? [Kouichi can not answer] Well, well, at least we have a place... [He takes out his cell phone]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Wait. Just don't tell anyone else.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Why not?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
If Nakao had not gone to the beach, he probably would not have died.

Naoya Teshigawara:
But...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I don't want to involve anyone else. I don't want anyone else death. We should not tell Akazawa or the countermeasures committee yet. If we find something, and if we need their help in that moment, then we will.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Keeping his cell] It makes sense. I don't want to see Akazawa death.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Hey, Misaki?

Mei Misaki:
Yes?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[after two seconds of silence] No, it's nothing. I will tell you when I'm sure.

Mei Misaki:
Ok.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
How did Nakao feel that day?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
He was so dizzy from the trip, and he vomited a lot.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Anything else?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Well...

Mei Misaki:
He could not swim well.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
I see... Maybe that's what happened!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What do you mean?

Chibiki Tatsuji:
I talked to Mr. Ohba, a police detective, about what happened. And he had a nagging suspicion... that Nakao may have been dead before the motorboat would have beaten him. [Kouichi is surprised] The condition in his head when he died was inconsistent with the moment of the collision with the motorboat. The Bruising caused by the hit was already there before.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You mean, before he went to the beach?

Chibiki Tatsuji:
[Nodding] According to his family, that morning they heard a noise on the stairs. When they went to check, they just saw him going to the door.

Mei Misaki:
Then he must have beaten his head.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Most likely.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Shocked] So, The event that led to his death happened in Yomiyama?

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Very likely. When he left Yomiyama, without going to the hospital to check his head, his death was assured.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Holding the tangle of tape taken from the audio cassette] You must be joking!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
We couldn't hear the important part!

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Hopeless] What should we do?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
All we have to do is fix the tape.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[to Mochizuki] Can this be fixed?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
I think it's possible.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Handing the tape tangle] Great! It's up to you! We need to hear the rest!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Is okay leave that with you?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
I'll do my best.

[last lines]

Yumi Ogura:
Brother! [She sees that a truck carrying an excavator crashed into her house, the excavator arm entered through the window of the upstairs bedroom, crushing his brother who was there surfing the internet, only a bloodstained hand holding the computer mouse is seen]

Yuuya Mochizuki:
So, when we should go to the old building?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Can't we go now?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
I have plans with my family this afternoon. Tomorrow will be better.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, what about before the first hour in the morning?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Come on, everything but the morning!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, What about noon?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Many club members will be at that time. And considering that the second floor is blocked.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, At night?

Naoya Teshigawara:
It's hard to find things in the night!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Well, At three o'clock .

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Raising his thumb] Ok

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Fine for me.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Mochizuki, The art club gather at that building, right?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Yes

Naoya Teshigawara:
Any member of the club comes during the summer holidays?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
No, never.

Naoya Teshigawara:
So, Can we meet at the club room?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Sure. I have a key and no one will ask me why I'm there.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Teshigawara,

[Looking at the colorful Hawaiian shirt he wears]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Please don't come dressed like that.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Eh? Why not?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You will be spotted.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Looking at his colorful Hawaiian shirt] That's the price of fashion!

Yuuya Mochizuki, Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yeah, right.

Aya Ayano:
But if you're Kouichi and Teshi. What are the idiots club doing in school?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Nothing special.

Naoya Teshigawara:
We will meet with Mochizuki. Are you here for club things?

Aya Ayano:
We wanted to see Professor Chibiki for something.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
In the Auxiliar Library?

Aya Ayano:
No, not for that. Professor Chibiki is the drama club advisor.

Naoya Teshigawara:
No way. The man in black?

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[Naoya plays the tape] Um... My... my name is Katsumi Matsunaga. I am a third year student, class three, 1983. [Kouichi grasps] When I finish of record this tape, I plan to hide it somewhere in the classroom. If you are listening to this tape, it's likely that you're also in the class three. I wonder how you will go... You may also be terrified by this nonsense disaster that I... us... Forget it. [Aya Ayano leaves the house with her parents, she says goodbye to the house] I have two reasons for recording this tape: One is to confess a sin. My sin. I want to tell someone what I did, I need someone to listen. The other is to advise something... something about that extra student mixed in the class, and the calamity that happens as a result. There is a way to stop it, in other words... Actually I should start from the beginning.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[On tape, Remembering the events in 1983] Our class went on a trip. We all start on August 8 for three days and three nights. Our research advisor Professor Koga, had suggested we visit a local sanctuary. There is an old temple in this village called the Yomiyama Shrine. He said that if we all plead there, he was sure that the curse would be lifted. There were twenty-two students in total, me included. Only the half believed him. The second day, we went up the mountain to visit the shrine. The shrine was a very old and shabby place, as if it had been abandoned by the world. Despite of carrying the town name, it seemed that no one had maintained at all. So we decided to clean the place while we were there.

[after cleaning the place, the 1983 class pray]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
At that time, we were hoping that maybe we could lift the curse. And after praying, our teacher confidently declared: "Now everything will be alright" But it was not. It would not be so easy.

[the skies cloud over and starts to rain]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
As soon as we left the temple, suddenly clear skies clouded over and it began to rain, with lightning and everything. As we hurried down the mountain, the first victim was a boy named Hamaguchi.

[Students slowly down the road, one of them carrying an umbrella]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
He was a bit silly. He was the one who brought an umbrella and used it while we were on a mountain, in a lightning storm... he was walking in front of me, when...

[lightning strikes the boy with umbrella, the boy falls dead]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
For a second, my vision went white and I heard a great explosion. Hamaguchi was hit by lightning. I still remember the smell of his burning skin... Anyway; we all walked in panic and ran leaving Hamaguchi behind, desperate to get out of the mountain as fast as possible. But moments later we started running blindly through the rain...

[a girl slips and falls off a cliff]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
A girl named Hoshikawa...

[1998, a truck carrying a excavator starts rolling on a steep street to a house at the end of the street]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
She slipped and fell from a high and steep hill. All we could do was ask for help to get to the lower part of the mountain. Pray in the shrine, had no effect.

[Kouichi appears resigned]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Now this is the important part. After finally we reached the lower part of the mountain, was there when it happened. And in saying that I mean... I...

[long silence]

[first lines]

Mei Misaki:
[Friday, May 1, 1998. Mei Misaki was elected to become the nonexistent student] I don't want to... If I said that, then you didn't do that?

Professor Kubodera:
Of course you have all the right to refuse. However, if the disaster begins...

Mei Misaki:
Fine, I will.

Yukari Sakuragi:
Ehh... What will the teachers do outside of class three?

Professor Kubodera:
They will cooperate to the extent of their abilities. However, you should not discuss this matter with anyone outside the class.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Not even with our family?

Professor Kubodera:
The rules say we should not talk about it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But... If that rule is so important, why they didn't tell me that before?

Mei Misaki:
You've already spoken to me. that made it difficult for them to address the issue.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Hey, there's something else I want to ask: Is there any reason why your desk is the only old in the class?

Mei Misaki:
It's part of the rules. I guess it must have some purpose to complete the spell.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Are you always like...?

Mei Misaki:
Like what?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
The way you talk to your mother. Almost I would say you are two strangers under one roof.

Mei Misaki:
We have always treated like that each other. How is your family?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I have no mother. She died when I was born.

Mei Misaki:
I see. Well, this is normal with my mother. I'm just one of her dolls.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But... You're her daughter, you're her flesh and blood.

Mei Misaki:
I may be her flesh and blood, but I'm not real.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So... Now I know the class three secret... But... How can you accept that they are using you to complete the spell?

Mei Misaki:
There is no other way. Just only I could be. If it had not been me, I should have done like everyone else and treat another person as if he did not exist. It is better that I'm the one that is ignored.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Thank you. Be careful back to your home.

Mei Misaki:
I'll be fine. [Taking off her patch] I showed you this once, right? [Kouichi nods] I lost my left eye when I was four. Was due to a malignant tumor. I woke up one day and the eye was gone. My mother told me that an artificial eye would not be attractive, so she made one special for me.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You don't need to hide it. Misaki, I think your eye is beautiful.

Mei Misaki:
They said I almost died during surgery. I can remember vaguely what happened then. Do you think that is possible?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You mean near-death experiences?

Mei Misaki:
Death is not friendly, is dark, black on where you look at it, you're all alone.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
All alone.

Mei Misaki:
Yes, but is no different when you're alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we're all alone. I am alone, my mother is alone, and you are alone. Misaki was alone too. [Kouichi and Mei are looking face to face] From tomorrow, we will deserve each other.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Uh, oh, yes...

Mei Misaki:
[Shaking hands with Kouichi] Nice to meet you, Sakakibara.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Monday, June 8, 1998. After daydreaming that he was dancing with Mei in front of the class] I have to control myself...

Chibiki Tatsuji:
[Arriving to the library] Oh, you two are here?

Mei Misaki:
Now we are two people that don't exist.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
I see... Now do you understand the situation, Sakakibara?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Most, but still find it hard to believe.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
I understand, but it's true. This phenomenon is really happening in this town, in this school.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
I can't understand the logic behind that, I simply gave up. Only one way seems to be effective against this phenomenon: To deny the existence of someone in the class.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
And how probable is that it works?

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Fifty-fifty. Some years it works, others fail. In some years there is a clear reason to fail, others are unknown.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
That's terrible.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
This is no a curse. There is no evil. occurs naturally as a typhoon or an earthquake.

Mei Misaki:
Does Professor Mikami was a teacher in charge of class three in 1996?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Looking at the yearbook] Oh, you're right.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
She already went through a lot... and make her the assistant professor again...

Chibiki Tatsuji:
That's all for today.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Just one more thing, was in 1983, fifteen years ago, when the phenomenon was stopped?

Chibiki Tatsuji:
1983? I think so.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I thought so...

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Oh, yes. That was the year of Reiko. You mean Ritsuko was in Yomiyama then?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes, she came here to have me, and stay with her family.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Then she died in this town... I see.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why they decided to make two people did not exist?

Mei Misaki:
Probably they thought that the spell would not work if they say you now that you must start to ingore me.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So by having a second person cease to exist, could they make stronger the spell?

Mei Misaki:
Right. It also saved them to explain you the problem on me. It's quite logical.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But it's a spell, right? All this for a spell?

Mei Misaki:
Well, they're desperated. When they take into consideration that some of them may be the next, then take it seriously. Do you think they are being unreasonable?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Of course!

Mei Misaki:
There are no guarantees. But if there is an opportunity to help us all avoid the curse, is not that good? It's sad when people die.

[last lines]

Professor Kubodera:
[Monday, July 13, 1998. Coming to the 3-3 classroom quite disoriented] Good morning, class. [Putting his bag on the stand] Today I apologize to all of you... I have to... I did my best that you could graduate safely in the spring. I did everything... I could to make that happen... [Opening his briefcase] But whatever happens from now, you must to handle it on your own. [Looking for something in his briefcase] Once it starts, I... I don't know if fight hard can be useful for you. I don't know... You can't expect me to... But I think... it's useless to talk about that now. [Desperated, he takes out a large knife from his bag in front of his students]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Friday, May 1, 1998, after Izumi, Tomohiko and Yukari came from Visiting to Kouichi in the hospital] I thought it would not happen this year. In the opening ceremony, we had the perfect number of desktops.

Izumi Akazawa:
But we stayed with a desk less when the new student came.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Can it begin a month later?

Tomohiko Kazami:
Maybe yes, so...

Naoya Teshigawara:
By the way, You checked him, right? How was he?

Izumi Akazawa:
I don't think it's him.

Naoya Teshigawara:
How do you know that?

Izumi Akazawa:
He never lived in Yomiyama, he has no brothers. and he doesn't have the cold hands, but...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I saw the phrase "Who is the dead one?" written in your desk. Did you write it?

Mei Misaki:
Yes I know I'm not dead. so I wanted to ask who it was.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Can You notice that?

Mei Misaki:
Well...

[In that time, Kirika, Mei's mother, arrives at the room]

Yukiyo ' Kirika' Misaki:
Welcome. Sorry for the way I look.

[to Mei, in a cold way]

Yukiyo ' Kirika' Misaki:
Is he a friend from class? Or the art club?

Mei Misaki:
[In a cold way] He is also a client of the gallery below. Seems to enjoy it a lot.

Yukiyo ' Kirika' Misaki:
[Ignoring them] Oh, really? Seems unusual for a boy. Do you like dolls?.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Actually, I...

Mei Misaki:
[Interrupting him] I think it's time to go, Sakakibara.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Talking to his father by phone] Hello?

Yosuke Sakakibara:
Damn, India is really hot!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Come on...

Yosuke Sakakibara:
Hey, what do you mean?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
If you're worried about my health, I'm fine. Hey, Mom ever told you about her experiences in middle school?

Yosuke Sakakibara:
Huh? What for?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Mom was in the third class from year three, right? Anything comes to mind?

Yosuke Sakakibara:
Hmmm... No

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Nothing?

Yosuke Sakakibara:
Well, I remember she told me a few things... Ah yes, Ritsuko was in class three... Anyway, how does it feel come back after a year and half away from Yomiyama?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
A year and a half? It's the first time I come here since I started middle school.

Yosuke Sakakibara:
Huh? No, I'm sure that... [sound of static interference] Oh, yes... Yes, you're right... I... confused... [the call is cut off]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Placing the tape in the recorder] Well, I'll play it.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Now, this is the important part. Right after we got to the bottom of the mountain, was there when that happened. And for that, I mean...

[the young Matsunaga is fighting with another boy next to a tree]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
It happened in the woods outside the inn. I had a discussion with a guy named *click*, we ended up fighting. And then... And then...

[the boy lies on the ground with a wound on his face]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Next thing I knew was that he was no longer moving. When I saw more closely, I saw went through him a branch. *click* was dead.

[the young Matsunaga desperately runs through the woods]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Terrified, I returned to my room at the inn. It was decided that we would stay one more night. The police came to ask about the thunderbolt and the girl who fell. They asked many questions, but I could not say anything about *click*. I did not sleep that night. I was sure someone was going to find the corpse of *click* and they all would scare. but in the morning, there were no signs that this happened. So I went back and searched the woods myself.

[Young Matsunaga returns to the tree and nobody is there]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
But... he was not there. He had vanished without trace. I was so impressed... I asked the others what had happened to *click*. But they all looked at me like I was crazy. "Who is he?" They said, "Don't know anyone by that name." Said. Even they said they only had nineteen people, not twenty. That's when I realized... The guy I killed, had been the extra student all the time. I know without a doubt that I killed to *click*. Nothing will change that fact. That's why I decided to come clean here. This is my confession. It's been two weeks since the trip, and just Me, the only person involved in his death, reminds to *click*. But I have a feeling it's only a matter of time. That is why, while my memory is still clear, I want to tell you the truth, and how to stop the calamity. Listen: Send the dead where they belong, send the dead to death. this is how you can stop the calamity once it starts.

Mei Misaki:
[after hearing the tape] We could not hear his name.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So it means that the has been altered?

Mei Misaki:
Probably.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Then, it must be real.

Mei Misaki:
There would be no reason to alter something fake.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Well, we don't need the name. The important thing is how to stop the calamity.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
They say there is no way to distinguish the dead from the living.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
And they don't know they're dead.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Is there any way to realize that?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
It seems that there is not.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Matsunaga's case was a coincidence.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Don't you believe that the extra one is here at this inn, right? [Everyone looks at each other uncomfortably silent]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Let's say we find out who he is, and then what? Are we supposed to... kill him?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Well, we...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Interrupting him] Would you be able to kill one of your classmates?

Izumi Akazawa:
[In the dining room] Can I say something, Miss Mikami? [rising from her chair] As we are all gathered here, there's something I'd like to say right?

Professor Mikami:
Eh, sure. Go ahead, Akazawa.

Izumi Akazawa:
[to everyone at the room] Since May, we have not been through nothing but disgrace. just the last month, until Professor Kubodera became a victim. To begin, I would like to apologize for my great ineptitude as Countermeasures leader. [Leans to apologize] Furthermore, although it remains unclear whether this trip lead us to a resolution, I honestly believe that you. [to Mei] Mei Misaki, you carry a level of responsibility for what we are going through. [They all nod]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Quietly] But why? [Akazawa thunders her teeth]

Izumi Akazawa:
If Misaki had maintained her role as a nonexistent student, I believe that no one would have died.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Protesting] Wait, what happened was inevitable. She could do nothing...

Izumi Akazawa:
[to Naoya] Really? If she had been strict in avoiding all contact with Sakakibara, countermeasures would have worked.

Naoya Teshigawara:
But...

Izumi Akazawa:
[Interrupting him] I think the main reason it failed was Misaki.

Naoya Teshigawara:
What do you expect her to do now?

Izumi Akazawa:
That she apologizes. We have yet to hear an apology from her. However, Misaki, at the time that we allowed you to exist again, you continued as if nothing had happened.

Mei Misaki:
Is useless. [Rising from her chair] Does to apologize would it help? If so, I will.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Misaki, you have nothing to apologize for.

Mei Misaki:
[She leans over to apologize] Apologies, is my fault.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Protesting] Is not your fault!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Seeing Chibiki leaving with the student with asthma attack] Are you okay?

Professor Mikami:
I'm not the person for whom you should be worrying about.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Maybe we should not go to the mountain tomorrow.

Professor Mikami:
Maybe not.

Mei Misaki:
Sakakibara...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes?

Mei Misaki:
Thank you for that you did a moment ago.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Eh?

Mei Misaki:
You defended me in the dining room.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Oh, that. It was nothing. Was not just me. Teshigawara and Mochizuki too...

Mei Misaki:
[Interrupting him] Thanks [Getting closer to Kouichi] Could you come to see me later? I have my own room, and... I want to see the picture.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So that was what you were doing?

Mei Misaki:
I had made a promise to her.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Then, you were sisters, not cousins.

Mei Misaki:
Yes.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
That's why you told me, "That already has begun".

Mei Misaki:
So, You remember that? Yes.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why don't you tell it me on that day?

Mei Misaki:
I... I just... I don't want to believe it. I didn't want to believe that Misaki had died because of that crazy curse. That's why... I could only call her my cousin.

[first lines]

Manabu Maejima:
[Voice over] Did you hear about Ayano? She was trying to escape right?.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] I think so

Manabu Maejima:
[Voice over] Do you think she died because she tried to escape?

Student Girl:
[Voice over] I don't know

Manabu Maejima:
[Voice over] Ogura's brother died the same day, right?

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Yes.

Manabu Maejima:
[Voice over] Had not he locked himself in his house?

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Yes.

Manabu Maejima:
[Voice over] You know, I heard something about the school trip. Apparently has some significance.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Significance? You mean, ask for help from the gods? I heard that the class was saved by doing so.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Do you have the tape?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Yes

Naoya Teshigawara:
Have you heard it?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
No yet. I fear to hear it alone.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
When we met for the first time in the hospital, Were you bringing a doll to your cousin, after she died?

Mei Misaki:
Does it seem strange?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Eh...

Mei Misaki:
It's a bit complicated... I usually don't like to talk about it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Could you tell me?

Mei Misaki:
Okay... The real name of my mother, Kirika, is Yukiyo. And Misaki's mother is Mitsuyo. They are twins, almost identical. when they grew up, they got married and Mitsuyo became a mother.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Of your cousin Misaki?

Mei Misaki:
And another. She had twins.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Twins?

Mei Misaki:
A year later, Yukiyo also got pregnant. But her baby never born

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You mentioned that before.

Mei Misaki:
Yukiyo was attacked by so much pain that she nearly had a meltdown. To make things worse, the Fujioka Family, where the twins were born, was in financial trouble. The Misaki Family on the other hand, needed something to calm the Yukiyo's heart. It was a win-win situation.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You mean that...

Mei Misaki:
They gave me to her. I think they gave them to me, instead of Misaki, because of my name.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Your name?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
If the Misaki family, had adopted a daughter named Misaki, she would have called Misaki Misaki.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What is your main reason?

Mei Misaki:
It's...

[Rising from her chair]

Mei Misaki:
This eye.

[taking off her eyepatch]

Mei Misaki:
This doll's eye tells me that you are not.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Your left eye?

Mei Misaki:
I think I told you the eye let me see things that are not meant to be seen.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yeah, What the eye can see?

Mei Misaki:
The...

[covering her right eye]

Mei Misaki:
...color of death. The color of things close to death.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Color? What color is that?

Mei Misaki:
A color that I never saw with my right eye. There is no a distinguishable color like red or blue. It is a unique color.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
And only you can see that color in the people that are dead?

Mei Misaki:
It is clearer in the people that are dead and mild in those with serious illnesses or injuries.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You mean... Can you tell when people are about to die?

Mei Misaki:
You can't understand how I see these things, right?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Well...

Mei Misaki:
I had to accept it, I had not even talked about it to Misaki. At some point I decided that I would keep the eye covered for the rest of my life. That's why I wanted to see that photo from Twenty-six years ago.

[last lines]

Mei Misaki:
[Covering her right eye] I don't see the color of death in you. That's why I know it's not you. You're not the extra one.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
And you know it's not you for the same reason?

[Mei nods]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, that means that you already know who is the extra one?

Mei Misaki:
[Elusive] I try to keep my eyepatch at school.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But you wrote "Who is the dead one?" on your desk.

Mei Misaki:
Well, it wasn't as if my discovery would change things. But I was curious... so...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Rising from his seat] What about now? Is the dead one in this trip?

Mei Misaki:
The extra one... is here.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Taking Mei by her shoulders] Who is it?

Mei Misaki:
It's...

[a loud knock is heard at the room's door, Naoya bursts in desperately, Kouichi releases Mei]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Hopelessly] Sakaki! I think I did something terrible!

Naoya Teshigawara:
There was nothing we could do... Come on, Sakaki, don't get sad. Blaming yourself will not change anything.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Until today, you...

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Interrupting him] Yes, and it broke my heart. Now you know the whole story, right? So do you understand why I did it?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes, I understand, perfectly well.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[to Mei] What about you, Misaki? Do you feel like you took a huge burden off?

Mei Misaki:
Who knows? I never felt a burden.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Damn, you're weird.

Izumi Akazawa:
[Entering the roof] Oh, there you are. [Nudging Teshigawara to break through]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Angry] Hey, what's wrong?

Izumi Akazawa:
Can be that you two exist again, but you better get ready.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
For what?

Izumi Akazawa:
[to Kouichi] It's your fault [Kouichi grasps]

Naoya Teshigawara:
Hey!

Izumi Akazawa:
People will say that. There is no way you will be considered completely innocent, and I'm also sure that I will be accused of incompetence.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Rigth.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[to Izumi] What side are you on?

Izumi Akazawa:
I can't blame Kouichi, no matter what anyone says. But this is not over yet. The calamity and my job as countermeasures leader, is just the beginning.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I wonder if anyone will hide until the summer holidays begin.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Definitely yes.

Mei Misaki:
Some people may have already gone.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[to Mei] Do You think that?

Mei Misaki:
Yes It happens every year. There are always people leaving Yomiyama during the summer holidays.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Everything is so strange, but you're really strange, Misaki. You talk as if this doesn't concern you.

Mei Misaki:
Do you?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Could it be that you're the extra one?

Mei Misaki:
[to Naoya] Could also be you, you know?

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Surprised] Me? No way! Don't joke about that.

Mei Misaki:
Really there is no other way?

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Shocked] No, no, no! I don't remember being dead! And, not wanting to brag about... But I still remember all the things I did as a child! [Everyone laughs]

Mei Misaki:
[Kouichi walks in the hallway, Misaki appears behind him] Who's the Dead One? [Kouichi looks behind, but Mei is not there] Who's the Dead One? [Kouichi Look forward to see some friends, but he does not see Mei] Who's the Dead One? [Kouichi reaches the classroom door and opens it, his classmates are looking at him but they are immobile] Who's the Dead One? [His classmates begin to melt, as if they were statues made of wax. Scared, Kouichi flees and he finds face to face with Mei Misaki] The Dead One... is you.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Me? [Kouichi screams while he starts melting as a wax statue, he wakes up from the nightmare]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[a phone call] Inoya? Yes, I know where it is, but... Today?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Come on!... Or is that... [In mischievous tone] Do you have a date with Mei?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Oh man! What do you want to talk?

Naoya Teshigawara:
It has to be in person. And if you have a date, Bring Mei too. After all, this problem has to do with the whole class. [Kouichi sighs]

Izumi Akazawa:
[When she sees to Kouichi arriving at Inoya Bar] Kouichi, Over here.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Akazawa? Teshigawara called you, right? Em...

Izumi Akazawa:
Sit down.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Sitting] He called you too?

Izumi Akazawa:
Yes... I only came here because he said "It has to do with the whole class." Otherwise, I would never accept an invitation from that jerk.

Izumi Akazawa:
So. you don't come back to Tokyo?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
No. I would feel that I was running away, and... [after a second of silence] I started to wonder if I'm the dead one.

Izumi Akazawa:
Maybe you were never born. [Kouichi is surprised] Maybe fifteen years ago, the calamity that took the life of your mother, made she could not give you birth. And now, fifteen years later, you go back to life as a transfer student to class three.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
That... That's ridiculous.

Izumi Akazawa:
[Izumi starts laughing] Don't take it so seriously. Sure, I considered the possibility. But... Give me your hand. [Kouichi offers his hand to her] I Still have the feeling that you and me met before. No, I think I already gave you the hand before.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You think that?

Izumi Akazawa:
I can't call it visual memory, but my hand remembers you "Physically"

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Now that you mention it, you also gave me your hand in the hospital. You did it for some reason?

Izumi Akazawa:
There is a rumor that dead people have incredibly cold hands.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Since there is a possibility that my sister could be involved... Ah, my sister is...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Ms. Tomoka, right?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Anyway, I could not keep it secret...

Izumi Akazawa:
[Angry] You told it?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
In detail. She went to Yomi North, so she knows the rumors about class three.

Naoya Teshigawara:
And she gave us a surprising piece of information.

Tomoka Inose:
[Arriving at the table] One of our regular customers is a man named Katsumi Matsunaga.

[Recalling when she saw him at the bar]

Tomoka Inose:
I knew he was at Yomi North, but recently I found out that he was at class three in 1983. I took the plunge to ask him what had happened that year. And he said...

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[after taking a shot of whiskey. Pretty desperate] The curse of that year... was not my fault. I saved them all! I saved them !I knew I had to tell them! So... I left it there...

[Back to the kids at Inoya Bar]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What does that mean? What does he leave? Where?

Tomoka Inose:
Apparently he could not remember. I asked him several times, but he insisted that he did not remember.

Naoya Teshigawara:
It's a curious thing, isn't it?

Izumi Akazawa:
Did that Matsunaga stopped the calamity? And he left the clue somewhere?

Naoya Teshigawara:
It must be so. So, I thought we should talk to Matsunaga.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[to Tomoka] Do you know where we can find him?.

Tomoka Inose:
No, I don't know where he lives.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Resigned] Damn!

Izumi Akazawa:
[to Kouichi] Kouichi, you know someone who was in the same class with him. Right?

[Kouichi is surprised]

[last lines]

Mei Misaki:
[to Kouichi] By the way...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes?

Mei Misaki:
You said you wondered if you were the Dead One.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes.

Mei Misaki:
Did you find what you suspect?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes [Misaki goes behind the curtains, Kouichi approaches the curtains] Huh?

Mei Misaki:
[as if she were talking to someone else] The new dolls are placed here, sir. [Kouichi moves the curtains, he is surprised when he sees Misaki lying with eyes closed in a coffin, she wakes up] Do not worry, you're not... You're not the dead one.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
[Seeing to Misaki and Kouichi] You two are fine.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Thanks. Does Akazawa was here to talk about something?

Chibiki Tatsuji:
As the Countermeasures leader, she comes here very often.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I see.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
She is a strong girl, and she knows it. But considering what she is facing... I feel pity for her.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So,Will you leave the town?

Mei Misaki:
Only for a week. I'll be back for the school trip.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I see...

Mei Misaki:
Did you find the ghost picture that your mom left in the house of her parents?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Not yet

Mei Misaki:
If you find it, will you show that to me?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Sure.

[Mei approaches Kouichi,handing him a piece of paper]

Mei Misaki:
If something happens,use it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Taking the piece of paper] A number? A cell phone number?

Mei Misaki:
Yes.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yours?

Mei Misaki:
Yes.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You said you hate those devices.

Mei Misaki:
I hate those. The idea of being connected all the time to people using electromagnetic waves, makes me sick.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, Why do you have one?

Mei Misaki:
She forces me to carry it. She says she worries sometimes.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I see...

Naoya Teshigawara:
In any case, you're stuck with me until graduation. Keep your strength up!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[to Tomohiko] Are you stuck?

Tomohiko Kazami:
[to Kouichi] We've been together since the primary second grade. Even we're neighbors.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[to Kouichi] When we were kids, we did all kinds of pranks and idiocies. But now he became a pseudo-honors student that can't keep up with my improvement.

Tomohiko Kazami:
[to Naoya] For me, You haven't changed at all.

Naoya Teshigawara:
I've changed a lot!

[to Tomohiko]

Naoya Teshigawara:
What do you know about me?

Tomohiko Kazami:
I know things about you that you don't even know.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Intrigued] Like what?

Tomohiko Kazami:
[to Kouichi] This is how we're stuck each other.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Smiling] It makes sense.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Hey, Sakuragi. How was Misaki?

Yukari Sakuragi:
[Visibly terrified] Don't...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Don't... what?

Yukari Sakuragi:
[Terrified] Don't say that name in class three!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Answering the cell phone] Hello?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Are you okay?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why do you ask?

Naoya Teshigawara:
I called because I thought you were in trouble. Akazawa seems about to lose her composure.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But why?

[With static interference]

Naoya Teshigawara:
Listen... Don't... mess... with... things... that don't exist!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What do you mean?

Naoya Teshigawara:
...is... dangerous. About what you asked yesterday... I'll tell you all the next month. So... for the... rest of the month, just...

[the call is cut off]

[first lines]

Mei Misaki:
[to Kouichi] Can I show you? [Kouichi grasps] Can I show you... what is underneath this... eyepatch? [She removes her eyepatch]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Seeing that Mei's left eye color is light apple green, while the Mei's right eye color is brown] A glass eye?

Mei Misaki:
My left eye is from a doll, I can see things that are not meant to be seen. That's why I keep it covered.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[In smiling face, leaving school] Geez, the rain is getting worse.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[to Naoya] Hey, you know about the story of the class three from Twenty-six years ago?

[Teshigawa stops, without turning to look at Kouichi]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[In a serious tone] Do you believe... in stories like these?

Yukari Sakuragi:
[Terrified] How... How do you know that?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I just heard a rumor.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Looking out the corner of his eye to Kouichi] What do you know about that?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
A popular student died suddenly... And then she appeared in the graduation photo of the class. That's all.

Yukari Sakuragi:
Only the first year...

[Naoya and Yukari look at each other and nod, Ms. Mikami arrives at the place]

Professor Mikami:
Yukari, What's wrong?

Yukari Sakuragi:
Sakakibara knows about the first year...

Professor Mikami:
[Concerned] Ah. That's a delicate matter. Let's try to keep it quiet for now. Just... be very careful.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Auntie Reiko... Do you remember in which class was my mother when she was in third year?

Reiko:
[Elusive, ceasing to smile] No.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, Do you know about the story from twenty-six years ago in the class three?

[Reiko does not answer]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Reiko?

Reiko:
[Startled, as if she was sleeping awake] Eh?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Um... I was asking about the class from twenty-six years ago.

Reiko:
[Evasive] That story was going around for many years.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I heard that there is a continuation

Reiko:
Don't you know everything?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You know the story, right?

Reiko:
Such stories tend to be embellished and exaggerated

[Rising from her chair]

Reiko:
I don't think you should take it so seriously.

[Approaching the door]

Reiko:
There's a time to learn everything. Ritsuko was in class three.

[Reiko leaves the room]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Finding Mei in the hallway] You always come out of the classroom early.

Mei Misaki:
So?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yesterday you also came out before the school exam period ended, Is everything all right?

Mei Misaki:
Yes, I'm all right.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, her name was Misaki Fujioka. The girl who died.

Mei Misaki:
[Evasive] Misaki... Misaki was my cousin.

[Kouichi is surprised]

Mei Misaki:
We used to be together all the time. We were much more connected.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Connected?

[Mei does not respond]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Hey, About the class three from Twenty-six years ago... What is the rest of the story?

Mei Misaki:
[to Kouichi] Nobody told you?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
No.

Mei Misaki:
I guess it's understandable.

[last lines]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
There's something I want to ask. It's something I've been wondering since I was transferred. Why everyone in our class, even teachers, act as if you...

Mei Misaki:
[Interrupting] Because I don't exist. [Kouichi is in shock]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Remembering his words] Listen, Sakaki. Don't mess with things that don't exist!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
That...

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Remembering his words]... Is Dangerous!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Pretty frightened] But...

Mei Misaki:
None of them can see me. What if you're the only one who can see me?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Voice Over] No... No way... [to Mei] No... [the PE teacher runs into the room 3-3. He calls someone, Yukari Sakuragi comes out from the room. The teacher seems to say something terrible to her, she takes her umbrella. She rushes out of the classroom, Looks at the two boys and she is very frightened] What's wrong with her. [Shocked upon seeing Mei and Kouichi, she runs the other way. Yukari Sakuragi slips and stumbles, tripping down the stairs. Her umbrella lands point-up and impales her throat, killing her in seconds]

Sanae Mizuno:
[On Phone] It's about the girl who died in the hospital.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Did you find anything?

Sanae Mizuno:
Her name was Misaki, not Masaki, M-I-S-A-K-I and her last name was Fujioka.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Misaki Fujioka?

Sanae Mizuno:
Why do you want to know about her?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Um, well...

Sanae Mizuno:
[Smiling] You don't have to tell me now. But someday, okay?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
OK

Sanae Mizuno:
By the way, the school exams are close, right?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes

Sanae Mizuno:
My younger brother is studying like a crazy too.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You have a brother?

Sanae Mizuno:
Actually, two. Although that pair are really stubborn to learn. They are not interested at all in the books! I don't think they read something different to Manga magazines. [Kouichi Laughs]

Mei Misaki:
Misaki, Your definition of "Cute" is a bit complex...

Misaki Fujioka:
Really?

Mei Misaki:
[Both girls look at a fully functional toy panda] Is that cute?

Misaki Fujioka:
No, It's normal.

Mei Misaki:
So, What about that elephant? [Both girls look at a broken and unusable toy elephant]

Misaki Fujioka:
It's cute.

Mei Misaki:
I don't get it.

Mei Misaki:
Brothers are the second degree of kinship, right?

Misaki Fujioka:
Kinship? Oh yeah. About that. Parents are the first degree, grandparents and cousins are the second one. Brothers are also the first degree, right?

Mei Misaki:
Yes, I know it.

Misaki Fujioka:
Why you ask?

Mei Misaki:
People were talking about it in my class.

Misaki Fujioka:
Hmm, So, how is your class? Are there any cute guys there?

Mei Misaki:
I Don't think so. It's just that class is a little bit weird.

Misaki Fujioka:
Weird?

Mei Misaki:
How can I say it...? It's like they're cursed... or something.

Misaki Fujioka:
Eh? Cursed?

Mei Misaki:
Yes, I've heard rumors.

Misaki Fujioka:
[Cheerful] Yeah it's weird! I see. So... no cute guys, huh? You want me to introduce you some?

Mei Misaki:
Some... what?

Misaki Fujioka:
Some guys. Since you don't know anyone...

Mei Misaki:
No thanks. You sound like you're my grandmother trying to find a husband for me.

Mei Misaki:
[Seeing the half-finished dolls in the studio] Is this... what Aunt Yuki makes?

Mei Misaki:
Yes.

Misaki Fujioka:
Mei.

Mei Misaki:
What?

Misaki Fujioka:
Mom... still holds out hope that one day you'll forgive her.

Mei Misaki:
You mean Aunt Mitsuyo?

Misaki Fujioka:
She is not your aunt! Call her mom!

Mei Misaki:
There is nothing to forgive.

Misaki Fujioka:
Mom still thinks of you as her daughter. She really wants to see you, but she is indebted to Aunt Yuki to take care of you, and she knows it was a mistake to leave you with her, So... I'm sure she is suffering. That's why.

Mei Misaki:
I don't blame her.

Misaki Fujioka:
It's true.

Mei Misaki:
If we're talking about guilt, Kirika, My mom, she would feel the same.

Misaki Fujioka:
It was a horrible day... but I was fine after what happened in the amusement park, right?

Mei Misaki:
You'll get better, right?

Misaki Fujioka:
Don't be so worried all the time! It's called "Chemotherapy" what the doctor is going to do. I was told that my leukemia can be cured.

Misaki Fujioka:
I know you don't want me to worry, but when the time comes for the bone marrow transplant... Count on me to be the donor.

Misaki Fujioka:
The doctor said that you're the suitable donor... Thank you...

Mei Misaki:
We're going out again, after you leave the hospital...

Misaki Fujioka:
Yes.

Mei Misaki:
By the way, your birthday is coming soon, right? What do you want as a gift?

Misaki Fujioka:
Is your birthday too, you now.

Mei Misaki:
All I want for my birthday is for you get better.

Misaki Fujioka:
That's easy. [Both girls laugh] Anyway, I know what I want for my birthday: The doll I've seen in your house!

Mei Misaki:
Very well. I'll try to get it for you. [That night, Misaki Fujioka undergoes a strange complication and dies immediately]

[last lines]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Mei leaves the elevator] Hey, wait. [Mei is still on her way] What's your name? [Mei stops]

Mei Misaki:
[after a two seconds silence] Misaki, Mei Misaki.

[first lines]

Student Boy:
[a girl wearing a eye patch over his left eye is seen waiting for someone, A boy arrives] Hey girl, Do you have some time? Don't you wanna have some fun? [the girl does not respond] Hey...

Misaki Fujioka:
[Monotone voice] Do you know what a Doppelg?nger is?

Student Boy:
[Confused] Doppel... what?

Misaki Fujioka:
Is the other self, or the other "you". They say that those who to see a doppelg?nger... see tragedies to come.

Student Boy:
What are you talking about? [Mei arrives, wearing a similiar dress but in different color. The guy stares at the two girls and flees in terror]

Mei Misaki:
What happened?

Misaki Fujioka:
[laughing out loud, in normal voice] Awesome! Did you see his face? I knew you were going to come soon, so I decided to tell him a little story... and he believed it. [Both girls look at the boy flee]

Mei Misaki:
What happened to your eye?

Misaki Fujioka:
Let's say it was a "stye".

Misaki Fujioka:
[Looking at themselves in the dressing room's mirror] It's like "Which one of us is the real" right? [Misaki takes off the Mei's eyepatch] Look at me... That reminds me... You said you could see something with that eye right?. Your see that something in me?

Mei Misaki:
[Smiling] No, nothing.

Misaki Fujioka:
That eye is really nice, plus it's a different color and all. This is called "heterochromia", right?

Mei Misaki:
It's a glass eye.

Misaki Fujioka:
It's a shame that you have to hide it. You're prettier without the eyepatch.

Mei Misaki:
This is an indirect way of telling yourself pretty.

Misaki Fujioka:
Yes... [Both girls look at the mirror] I will not deny that... [Both girls laugh]

Izumi Akazawa:
Professor Kubodera asked me to send you to the teachers room.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Fine, thanks...

Izumi Akazawa:
I have to apologize in advance, sorry. But this is for all of us. Forgive us.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I understand that I no longer exist for them. But, why they do this?

Mei Misaki:
It is a natural question. Do you remember the story about Misaki who died twenty-six years ago?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes.

Mei Misaki:
That's what started it all. After that, the class three was close to death.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Death?

Mei Misaki:
First happened to the class three the following year to Misaki's classmates graduation . Once it happens, once it begins, someone dies every month. Whether a student or someone in their family.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What is "It"?

Mei Misaki:
It's when... the number of students in the class is incremented by one.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Incremented? Who?

Mei Misaki:
Nobody knows, they may never know who's that extra one.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Extra one?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Where were you all during the sixth hour?

Ikuo Takabayashi:
To meeting hall, to take care of certain things.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What things?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
You had many strange experiences since you came here, right?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
If you know, Can you tell me what's going on?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Sorry, I can't. Just that. coming soon, something very unpleasant might happen to you.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What do you mean?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
At the meeting, Akazawa said we needed to discuss something, without your presence there. But if you don't like what will happen, try to bear it. remember that you are doing it for all of us. Please.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
All of us?

Izumi Akazawa:
[Recalling her words] This is for all of us. Forgive us.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Is this one of those class rules?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Yes

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Confused] I just don't understand. [to Yuuya] I can ask you something?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
What?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I need a class list copy

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Don't you got one?

Ikuo Takabayashi:
It's not fair. I disagree with the way Akazawa handles that. It's not fair that she forces us to think like her. [to Kouichi] There are so many things you want to know.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes, there are.

Ikuo Takabayashi:
Then you can ask. I will tell you everything I know.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Takabayashi, wait! Do you mean that?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Fine. Mei Misaki... Does she exists?

Ikuo Takabayashi:
She... [He suffers a heart attack and dies before he can respond]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Hello

Mei Misaki:
[Surprised] What's wrong? Your call was unexpected.

[Kouichi shows her a note that says:
"Sorry, ask Misaki to explain you - Mochizuki" And a class list with the name "Mei Misaki" strikeout in red ink]

Mei Misaki:
Well. You got the class list. So?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Let me start from the beginning. Did you hear that Takabayashi died?

[She is surprised]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
He had a heart attack. I knew he had heart problems, but...

Mei Misaki:
I see. The second death in June was caused by disease.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Then when I got to school, whole class was behaving strangely. As if they all conspired to pretend that I was not there.

Mei Misaki:
So, it's what all they decided to do...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Does it mean that now I'm like you?

[Mei nods]

Mei Misaki:
How does it feel to not exist?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Not so cool... But in a way, is one less worry.

Mei Misaki:
Really?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Cause now I know that you exist.

Mei Misaki:
Why don't you ask? It might be easier for me explain it to you that way.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I thought you hated the interrogations.

Mei Misaki:
I hate it. But today, I will make a special exception.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
First of all, Mei Misaki, you exist, right?

Mei Misaki:
You thought I was a ghost?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Kind of.

Mei Misaki:
I guess that was expected. But now you have no doubt, right?. Now you know that I'm a human living. Only I don't exist for the others in the class three.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Since when?

Mei Misaki:
First of May

Kouichi Sakakibara:
That's pretty recent.

Mei Misaki:
Many things have seemed weird for you from the beginning, Right?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Kouichi nods] And no one told me why.

Mei Misaki:
The fact that they don't have explained you the situation beforehand was a costly mistake.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Mistake?

Mei Misaki:
You were supposed to treat me as someone who does not exist, like others in the class. [to Kouichi] But you just finished like me. Bad for you.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Is not that "bullying"?

Mei Misaki:
I don't think they see it that way.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Reading the 1972 Yomiyama North Middle School Yearbook] Who am I fooling? I'm not gonna find to Misaki here.

[Sees the photograph of the year three, third class, he finds a girl]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Mom...

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Did you find your mother?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Interesting... then she graduated in 72, At what class was she?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
At third class, Like me.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Oh? Who was she?.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Pointing to one of the girls] Was her.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
Ritsuko?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Startled] Did you know her?

Chibiki Tatsuji:
[Elusive] Yes... Ritsuko was... but...

[to Kouichi]

Chibiki Tatsuji:
I heard she died. When was that?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Fifteen years ago, right after she gave me birth.

Chibiki Tatsuji:
[Surprised] Fifteen years ago? I see... then that's what happened.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Extra One?

Mei Misaki:
Twenty five years ago, shortly after the start of the new management, they realized that a desk was missing in the classroom, even though they had prepared enough seats for all students.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Could not they just check the lists?

Mei Misaki:
They did, but it was useless. The list of students had been altered to be inconsistent. They only lacked a desk.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Did someone rewrote the lists?

Mei Misaki:
I used the word "altered" figuratively. They say that memories of all had been changed.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Uh?

Mei Misaki:
That sounds impossible, right? But I guess that's true. They said that this phenomenon could happen.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Phenomenon?

Mei Misaki:
At first, everyone thought it was just a mistake and they don't gave a damn about it. But starting April, people connected to the class, began to die each month.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Does each month? All year?

Mei Misaki:
This year I think were six students and ten relatives. Quite unusual, isn't it? This has continued in the class three since.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Thoughtfully] Then, a third year student from the class named Misaki, died twenty-six years ago... And starting next year, somehow, there was an additional student in class. Then, people connected to the class began to die each month. But... Why do people die when there is a extra student?

Mei Misaki:
No one knows why. This is how it happens. Moreover, the extra one is... someone dead.

[last lines]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Someone dead? You mean the Misaki who died twenty six years ago? [she denies] Is a ghost or something?

Mei Misaki:
I think it's different to what we would call "Ghost". The extra one seems to have a physical body, there is no way to differentiate it from the rest of us.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Is there no way?

Mei Misaki:
The Dead One has body, soul and memories, and doesn't even know that is dead.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Who are they?

Mei Misaki:
People connected to the class that died with the passing of the years. This is how I see it. The actions of class three from twenty six years ago, made the class a place that invites the dead people. After that, the Dead One began to join the class, and class three approached to death. In response ,students from class three devised certain countermeasures to escape this calamity.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Like... exorcisms?

Mei Misaki:
Possibly. They tried to go to another classroom, they changed the name of class three to "Class C". but that didn't stop it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, the problem is only with the students from the class three, third year?

Mei Misaki:
Apparently. Then, ten years ago, they found a way to deal with this problem. A method that prevented people from dying each month.

Mei Misaki:
Don't tell me that is...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
To treat a student as if he or she didn't exist. Thus, returning to the classroom to their correct number, and maybe avoid the calamity for a year. It's like... a lucky charm.

Takako Sugiura:
[Seeing that his classmate is coming out dizzy from the white car] Are you okay? You don't look good.

Junta Nakao:
It's nothing, it's just a little... [He runs in order to avoid vomiting over her]

Naoya Teshigawara:
The poor guy can't bear it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Akazawa, You will you come with us too?

Izumi Akazawa:
Of course [Viewing the Reiko's red car] Why don't you come in my car? It seems that this car can't carry four people.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
No problem, the car is tiny, but...

Reiko:
[Sarcastic] Thanks for the "Tiny", Kouichi.

Izumi Akazawa:
[Realizing by the road signals that they have left the town of Yomiyama, all breathe with calm] We left Yomiyama smoothly.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes...

Reiko:
[Feeling relaxed] Let's speed up! [Sinks the accelerator pedal all the way down. She starts to zigzagging between other vehicles]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Nervous] Auntie Reiko...

Reiko:
[Angry] What?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Nervous laughter] No, nothing. [They come dangerously close to a huge tank truck]

Reiko:
[Angry, quietly] Move that sh*t from fast lane. [Mochizuki is impressed by the way she acts]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
By the way... You are the countermeasures boss, right? How is it decided who has that role?

Izumi Akazawa:
It is usually designated by the teacher. It's not a popular job. One could say, that you are responsible for all the classroom lives.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, you were nominated?

Izumi Akazawa:
[Negating] I nominated myself.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why?

Izumi Akazawa:
No one else seriously thought about the calamity, but I was different. I can't forgive that a nonsense phenomenon like this exists. I will finish it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Misaki tries to build a sand castle, he comes to help her] Is your family's summer home nearby?

Mei Misaki:
Yes.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What does your father do?

Mei Misaki:
[while she shapes the sand hill and tries to avoid contact with the Kouichi's hands] I'm not sure. He rarely comes to Japan. That's why we do this small family ceremony on the rare occasions in which he comes. We may be family, but we are not really connected. It is not something that I care about.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Hey, if we find the dead one, pretend that doesn't exist, would stop the calamity?

Mei Misaki:
I don't think that works. It has already begun. I think it's too late trying to put everything in balance...

[Underneath the sand, the hands of both boys make contact. Misaki is surprised]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Are... connected?

Mei Misaki:
[Without moving her hands from there] It seems.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Be connected in that way from time to time can't be that bad, right?

Mei Misaki:
[after a second of silence] I suppose.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Okay, then let's see who can collect the largest amount of ingredients!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What about the winners and losers?

Naoya Teshigawara:
The Losers Cook food and winners eat it.

[Defiant]

Naoya Teshigawara:
What do you think?

Izumi Akazawa:
Sounds interesting.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Then said that. I will choose the teams. First, the "Countermeasures Team" will be...

[Pointing at Izumi]

Naoya Teshigawara:
Akazawa, Sugiura.

[Pointing at Junta Nakao, who is asleep under the umbrella]

Naoya Teshigawara:
And Naka... No, better than he rest... And Me!. Now the "Nonexistent Team" is... Sakakibara!, Mizaki!...

[Pointing at Mochizuki]

Naoya Teshigawara:
And Mochizuki.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
[Buried in the sand with only the feet and head out] Hey, I exist!

Naoya Teshigawara:
But you don't exist here.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
How cruel

[Moments later, all leave to find fishes]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So are we competing based on how much fishes we catch?

Naoya Teshigawara:
No, if you find more than just fishes, also counts.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
[Still buried in the sand] Hey, get me out of here!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
How is it going?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
[Pulling very strong the fishing pole] I think I caught a big one. This fish is pulling strong.

[He pulls the fish out of water]

Yuuya Mochizuki:
I did it!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Noticing that is a tiny blowfish] Is this your big fish?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
At least it's a fish, I think.

Mei Misaki:
[Looking at the small fish] How cute.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Reiko?

[Reiko watches him]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
I tried to call your phone. Did you have switched it off?

Reiko:
Huh?

[She checks her cellphone]

Reiko:
Oops...

Katsumi Matsunaga:
You're as forgetful as ever.

Reiko:
I'm surprised that you've found us here.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
It was not hard to find out, this is the closest beach to the hotel.

Reiko:
Ah.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[Looking at her, mischievously] Hmm, but Wow... Yes, the girls are changing. You used to be so flat as a table.

Reiko:
You also changed a lot. Now you're old.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Oh, come on. Fifteen years have passed, Huh?

Reiko:
Technically, it has only been fourteen years since our graduation ceremony.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Oh, yes. Now We're a couple of singles who will turn thirty and...

Reiko:
Forget it.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Wait... Did I hear something about you recently?

Reiko:
Where? I don't remember seeing you. Is there not been someone else?

Katsumi Matsunaga:
No, I'm sure it was you.

Reiko:
Maybe it was during the Kentarou or Natsuko's burials?

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[Melancholy] No, I just went to their funerals.

Reiko:
Ah.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
I can't believe it's been fifteen years since they died.

[Looking at the kids playing volleyball]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
And who are them?

Reiko:
The 3-3 class from this year.

Katsumi Matsunaga:
Poor kids.

[last lines]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[Completely petrified after seeing Nakao being torn up by the morotboat] But I... I protected them... I left it for them... in the classroom.

Izumi Akazawa:
[about the strange Reiko's attitude] I guess you can't judge a book by its cover.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I don't know, I think you're easy to read.

Izumi Akazawa:
Um... really?

[Defiant]

Izumi Akazawa:
So, Describe me

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Thoughtfully] Umm, well... A strong and brave person?

Izumi Akazawa:
[Shocked] Wait, Do I look like a Tomboy?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Well, you're tough. And you have a strong personality. Something like that.

Izumi Akazawa:
[Persuasive] You're supposed to say: "That's not what I meant"

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Sarcastic] That's not what I meant.

Izumi Akazawa:
[Indifferent] With that tone? Forget it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Joking] I have to get even sometimes.

[Makes Akazawa laugh]

[first lines]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[1983, While he records his confession in a cassette tape] I know without a doubt that I killed to *click*. Nothing will change that fact. That's why I decided to come clean here. This is my confession. It's been two weeks since the trip, and just Me, the only person involved in his death, reminds to *click*. But I have a feeling it's only a matter of time. That is why, while my memory is still clear, I want to tell you the truth, and how to stop the calamity. Listen: Send the dead where they belong, send the dead to death. this is how you can stop the calamity once it starts.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You must be kidding.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Why would I joke about this? I tried to dig a little, since he was acting strange lately. And he said he did not remember the things we did together as kids. He did not remember much about primary school.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
And then...?

Naoya Teshigawara:
I prepared myself and asked: "You're not really Kazami, right?", "You are the extra one in the class, right?" He looked me scared at first, then he was furious. He was acting really suspiciously, I was sure it was him. Since the recording said "Send him back to the death" All of us would be saved.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Worried] Don't tell me... Did you kill him?

Mei Misaki:
Is that true?

Naoya Teshigawara:
I didn't mean to do it! The attack began and ended outside on the balcony. And the next thing I knew... He was lying on the floor, blood coming out of his head. I panicked and ran down the hall. I saw you entering this room.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So you wanted to know if Kazami was the extra one?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Yeah I thought that if the extra one dies, no one would have noticed him. [Desperate] But you two say that still remember him, so it must have been a mistake. [With tears in his eyes] Say, Sakaki, am I wrong?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Is that, or he is not dead yet.

Naoya Teshigawara:
Uh?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
A fall in two stories high, he may have survived yet. [Naoya puts his hands on his head in sign of concern]

[Takako flees after attempting kill to Mei Misaki]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
She said: "Send the dead to death" How did she know that?

Izumi Akazawa:
She heard the tape. The tape you found in the old class three classroom, right? Ogura told me. [Kouichi remembers having spoken to Ogura]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I see. Does the tape was brought to you?

Izumi Akazawa:
Yes, by Mochizuki. As the countermeasures leader , I had to listen it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But, why she thinks that Misaki is the dead one?

Izumi Akazawa:
Since our trip to the beach, Takako has been emotionally unstable. [Rising from the ground] I'll get to Takako.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
No, Akazawa! It's too dangerous to go alone! [Is heard a message from the PA system]

Takako Sugiura:
This is an important message from the countermeasures leader to the students from class three. [All students listen attentively] Now you will hear the tape recorded fifteen years ago when calamity stopped at midyear. [Takako plays the tape]

Katsumi Matsunaga:
[On tape]... I want to tell you the truth, and how to stop the calamity. Listen: Send the dead where they belong, send the dead to death. this is how you can stop the calamity once it starts. [Takako stops the tape]

Takako Sugiura:
These are the facts, calamity stopped at midyear fifteen years ago, and the dead one in this year is... Mei Misaki... I know this because we went to the same elementary school and her left eye was intact. But now, she lost the left eye. What does this mean? It means she was reborn incomplete. Now we know that Mei Misaki is an impostor. And that is why we should... [Fully insane]... KILL HEEER!

[last lines]

Mei Misaki:
[Voice Over] If the dead one leaves, all these tragic things will stop, right?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Misaki... [Mei runs off, leaving Kouichi behind]... Misaki!

Takako Sugiura:
Back in elementary school, there was a girl who looked like her.

Izumi Akazawa:
You mean, Misaki?

Takako Sugiura:
Yes.

Izumi Akazawa:
But I thought Misaki was an only child.

Takako Sugiura:
Although I wasn't in the same class with her, I knew she was called Misaki.

Izumi Akazawa:
That makes no sense. According to where she lived, she should not have been at the same school with you.

Takako Sugiura:
Isn't it?, But that's strange

Izumi Akazawa:
Did she have an eyepatch over her left eye?

Takako Sugiura:
No. [Izumi startles]

Izumi Akazawa:
[to Sugiura] Our Misaki lost an eye when she was four!

Izumi Akazawa:
[Staring] What?, then...

[a loud knock is heard at the room's door, Naoya bursts in desperately, Kouichi releases Mei]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Hopelessly] Sakaki!I think I did something terrible!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Teshigawara? What happened?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Can I... Ask you a question?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Do you know to a guy called Tomohiko Kazami?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Just tell me! Do you know to Kazami? How does is He?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Of course I know him. He is a class delegate and he's the one that has always been stuck with you.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[to Mei] Misaki?

Mei Misaki:
Why not remember him?

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Falling on his knees] This is wrong... really wrong...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Worried] What is wrong?

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Crying] I think it may have been a mistake.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Mistake? About what?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Well, I... I was sure he was the extra one... So rigth now... I...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Was he...? You mean...?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Kazami... [Desperate] I did it!

[an explosion causes collapse in a part of the the emergency stairs structure]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I think it has stopped

Mei Misaki:
[Worried] What the hell happened?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
An explosion in the dining room, probably

Mei Misaki:
Ah...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Startled] Maejima was stabbed in front of the dining room. [to Mei] Did she...?

Takako Sugiura:
[Suddenly appears] It wasn't me. [Takako stabs Kouichi on his left arm] It was probably that old hag...

Mei Misaki:
Who?

Takako Sugiura:
[to Kouichi] You... [kicking him in the head] Out of my way! I will not kill you. You're not the dead one. Furthermore, Izumi seems fond of you. [Lashes out at Mei, who dodges her slashes] Send the dead to death! [In pursuing her. Takako's head is caught in some wires] Damn Mei ! [a wooden beam is broken, pulling the wires in Takako's neck and pulling her upward, Takako dies strangled, Misaki presences her death]

Professor Mikami:
[Looking at the drawing] What is this?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Well, It's a lemon.

Professor Mikami:
[Seeing that the drawing is a lemon screaming, imitating the Edvard Munch's "The Scream"] Is that a lemon?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
It's "The Lemon's Scream"

Professor Mikami:
Are you sure that's how is drawn?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
I see the lemon in that way.

[Ms. Mikami sighs]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Do you like the works of Munch?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
Yes, a little.

Yukari Sakuragi:
Mochizuki definitely has an own drawing way.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Does the lemon is screaming?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
No, actually, is the world that is screaming, the lemon is covering his ears because is terrified by the sound.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Both guys are walking down in a hall] Seeing "The Scream" by Munch, don't you feel scared or uneasy?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
[Pausing in front of a window] Uneasy?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes.

Yuuya Mochizuki:
I feel uneasy at all, Painting free up that emotion. that's why I like it.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Do you like it because makes you uneasy?

Yuuya Mochizuki:
It's no good pretend that we don't see what is happening. I think it's the same for everyone.

Sanae Mizuno:
So, What you are reading these days?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
The author that you recommended me, John Saul.

Sanae Mizuno:
Geez, If only I could make my colleagues read these books.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Answering his cell phone] Hello?

Sanae Mizuno:
Sakakibara?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Mizuno?

Sanae Mizuno:
About what we talked the other day, I found it. [Sakakibara is surprised] They said it was a middle school girl. [Sakakibara is in shock] Apparently, she was the only child, her parents were devastated.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Still in shock] The name... What was the name of that girl?

Sanae Mizuno:
I'm not sure, but...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes?

Sanae Mizuno:
I think her name was something like Masaki or Misaki. They told me that way, so I don't know if is... [the call is cut off, Sakakibara is still in shock]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Entering the the museum's basement, where he sees half finished ball-jointed dolls, Kouichi is terrified when he sees in a coffin, a life-sized doll with the Mei's likeness] Is that... Mei? Why are you here?

Mei Misaki:
[as if the voice came out from the doll] Ah... So you didn't dislike this kind of thing? [Kouichi panics] Why are you here? [Mei comes out from behind the doll] Why? [Kouichi still paralyzed] I wasn't hiding to scare you. You just came while I was here. [Kouichi is calming] You thought she looked like me?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Incredulous] Yes.

Mei Misaki:
[Approaching the doll] It seems, right? But only one half [Moves a little hair from the doll to show the doll's left eye] Maybe less.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why are you here?

Mei Misaki:
I like these things.

[last lines]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Mei shows him in a glass case, a doll representing a pair of female twins joined by the arm and hip] These are my favorites. Their faces look so calm. I wonder why do they look so calm, although they're attached.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Perhaps, that's why they look so calm?

Mei Misaki:
Impossible. It would make more sense for them to be separated. [to Kouichi] Can I show you? [Kouichi grasps] Can I show you... what is underneath this... eyepatch? [She removes her eyepatch]

[first lines]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Finding Mei sitting on a bench in the North Yomi garden] Hello

Mei Misaki:
[after a moment's silence] Why?... [rising from her seat] Does that seem right for you?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Well... [a mysterious blizzard comes on suddenly, a yellow rose bush is impacted by the blizzard. Yellow petals flies around both students]

Mei Misaki:
You should be careful. Maybe... that already has begun.

Professor Mikami:
What are you drawing, Teshigawara?

Naoya Teshigawara:
An apple

Professor Mikami:
[sighs] The apples don't have arms or legs.

Naoya Teshigawara:
I see the apple in that way. [Ms. Mikami sighs again]

Sanae Mizuno:
Afraid of her?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Well, not exactly, but... One boy told me that I don't mess with things that "Doesn't exist"

Sanae Mizuno:
She doesn't exist?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
She says that nobody else in the class can see her... The last week accident, happened right after she told me that.

Sanae Mizuno:
If you think about it logically, it seems like a coincidence. There is nothing to connect those two things. Right?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Another thing that worries me, They say that something happened twenty-six years ago.

Sanae Mizuno:
So, Misaki Fijioka was the cousin of the girl with the eyepatch. Anyway, I rarely talk to my brother, but he told me some things. It seems that your class has special circumstances.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Special circumstances?

Sanae Mizuno:
Yes, though he doesn't give me details. Don't you know?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
The "circumstances"? I'm sure that something is happening, but nobody wants to say a word.

Sanae Mizuno:
Really? It seemed that my brother was scared of something. Although it's just a hunch.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What do you mean?

Sanae Mizuno:
He thinks that what happened last week was not an accident.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Was not an accident? And that's why he was afraid?

Sanae Mizuno:
Maybe.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Have you ever heard about someone called Mei Misaki?

Sanae Mizuno:
Misaki? Mei Misaki? Who is she?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
A girl in class three. Did he ever talked about her?

Sanae Mizuno:
I told you, he doesn't talk much.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Actually, the girl with the eyepatch I told you about is called Mei Misaki.

Sanae Mizuno:
Ah... So... Do you like that girl?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
No, Is not that. it's just that, something is unsettling me. Something about Mei makes her different to the rest of the class.

Sanae Mizuno:
That's how you say: "You like her"

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I don't like her!

Sanae Mizuno:
Ok, whatever. So, what's so different in Mei?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Well... She is a bit odd, first I thought maybe the others were just ignoring her, but I don't think so. It seems more like they were afraid of her.

[first lines]

Student Girl:
[Voice over] A girl from the class three's third year died.

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Everyone are talking about it. She dropped her umbrella when she fell down the stairs and it pierced her throat.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Really?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] It was so terrible, the witnesses were told that they never talk about it.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Wasn't her a class delegate? I heard that her mother died in a car accident that day. Do you think that is the curse?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Have you heard about that?

Student Girl:
[Voice over] The most famous secret in that school. The Curse of the Class Three and the story that began Twenty-six years ago.

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Yes...

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Does that mean it will happen again this year?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Maybe. Nothing happened last year.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Once it begins, someone dies every month, right?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Yes, at least one person related to that class dies in the month.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Not only students?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] They say that family members also are at risk. Especially parents and siblings.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] You seem know too much about...

Student Boy:
[Voice over] One of the guys in my kendo club is in the Class Three. He told me that in secret. Although he didn't seem to believe it.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] But someone actually died...

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Yes... probably the best thing is get away from someone from that class.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] You're rigth...

Aya Ayano:
Wow, look who's here!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Ah...

Aya Ayano:
Hi, Kouichi! Skipping school?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Eh... No, I just leave the hospital.

Aya Ayano:
[Giggles] Oh, of course, it makes sense.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What about you? Do you fell sick?

Aya Ayano:
Oh, right... em

[Faking cough]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What a great actress you are.

Aya Ayano:
[Smiling] I hate to say it, but I'm glad you say that.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Glad for that?

Aya Ayano:
Yes, it means that my hard work at the club is working.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Which club?

Aya Ayano:
[Playing an excerpt from "Hamlet"] To be or not to be? That is the question.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Ah, you're in the Drama Club

Aya Ayano:
Yes, with Izumi.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Izumi Who?

Aya Ayano:
Izumi Akazawa. She tends to be a little dramatic. You can see that in her way of acting. But she's not a bad person. So I hope that you can help her too.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes, sure...

[a sudden blast of wind cross the street, a truck, behind the guys is dropping a large pane of glass pushed by the wind. Kouichi jumps away with Aya and they are nearly crushed by the falling pane of glass, the glass falls into the place where they were both standing a moment ago, breaking into thousands of sharp pieces]

Aya Ayano:
[Visibly and really terrified] No... No, No, No! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!

[Promptly breaks down in tears]

Rei, the parrot:
Why?, Why?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Looking at parrot] Yes, that's what I want to know.

Junta Nakao:
[Depressed] I really didn't think would happen this year.

Takako Sugiura:
[Adjusting her glasses] There are two possibilities: That it will not happen this year and Yukari's death really were just a coincidence. That, or actually it started in May.

Izumi Akazawa:
As the countermeasures leader, I can't think positive. It would be one thing if it were only Yukari who died, but her mother also died.

Takako Sugiura:
Because he broke the rules?

Junta Nakao:
Why they put a new student in class three?

Izumi Akazawa:
It was convenient for the school. The new director doesn't understand our situation completely.

Junta Nakao:
Didn't teachers explained him?

Takako Sugiura:
They thought it was best keep this matter among us.

Junta Nakao:
Not even they want to mess with this...

Izumi Akazawa:
All this happened because I was absent the first day... If I had warned him before, This wouldn't have happened.

Takako Sugiura:
[Consoling her] What's done is done.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Answering the phone] Holy... Hi?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Where are you?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Uh?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Angrily] Don't say "Uh", Where are you?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I tried to call you all week, but you didn't answer.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Apologies] Sorry! You just called in a bad moment and... you were sick.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Defiantly] You promised me you would say it in June. You also mentioned the "First Year" What happened?

Naoya Teshigawara:
Just wait, OK, Sakaki? Yes, I promised. I did it, but...

Izumi Akazawa:
[Interrupting him] Things have changed.

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Imitating Izumi's voice] Yes! Things have changed! [Kouichi looks at her with suspicion]

Izumi Akazawa:
Usually depends on the of countermeasures leader address those things, but things got complicated because THAT IDIOT acted on his own. [Teshigawara is ashamed] That's why.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You want me to pretend that he never made me that promise?

Izumi Akazawa:
Yes, as a favor for me. No, a favor for the entire class.

[last lines]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Listening the ring from his cell, on the Caller ID, the name "MIZUNO" is seen] Hello?

Sanae Mizuno:
Are you in your break now? Do you have time to talk?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What's wrong?

Sanae Mizuno:
Sakakibara, I want to confirm something.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Confirm what?

Sanae Mizuno:
About the girl that you told me about yesterday, Mei Mizaki. Are you sure she exists?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes, I'm sure.

Sanae Mizuno:
Is she there? Are you sure? Where's she now?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
She didn't come to school today.

Sanae Mizuno:
Then, she's not there.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why do you ask that?

Sanae Mizuno:
Yesterday I spoke with my brother. he refuses to talk about the incident happened twenty-six years ago, or last week's accident. But when I spoke him about Mei, his behavior suddenly changed. "What are you talking about?" he said. "There is no a girl like her in our class!" he said. He stood in his words.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But it's a lie...

Sanae Mizuno:
He meant it, and he had no reason to lie.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Hearing quite static] Mei Misaki exists!

Sanae Mizuno:
[Entering to an old elevator] What?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Voice with static interference] Can... you... hear... me?

Sanae Mizuno:
I just enter the roof's elevator. I have to go back to work.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Voice with static interference] Ahh, that... explains the static.

Sanae Mizuno:
But that's...

[When the elevator doors close, the old elevator motor begins to fail by a short circuit, the pulleys are released, the steel cables break and the elevator falls twelve stories down the shaft]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[while Mizuno's cell phone falls to the floor] Mizuno, can you hear me? What's going on?

[the elevator car crashes loudly in the ground level. Mizuno's body hits violently the ground dying immediately, then the elevator car crushes her. Kouichi hears all the crash over his cell phone]

Mei Misaki:
What a coincidence see you here again. Why are you here?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I returned from the hospital and went through here. What about you? Weren't you in school?

Mei Misaki:
I only go when I want. Are you okay?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I think I will not have to go back to stay in the hospital in a good time. How are the class since... you know... the accident?

Mei Misaki:
They are all terrified.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What?

Mei Misaki:
They believe that it may have already started.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Started?

Mei Misaki:
Deep down, they may have believed it a little earlier. But now... Despite what they told you, I don't think they have believed it at all until now. [to Kouichi] But it seems to be true. I would say I'm a hundred percent sure... that has already started. That's why... You still don't know? Good. It's better than you never find out. Once you find out...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Intrigued] Tell me what happened in class three!

Mei Misaki:
Are you going back to school?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes, tomorrow.

Mei Misaki:
So I think I'd better not go. [She approaches to the doll in the coffin]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why?

Mei Misaki:
Be... careful

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Hey, Mei... [a Doll falls from a shelf behind him, Kouichi notes the doll on the ground. When he looks back, he realizes that Mei is no longer in the room]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Finding a student girl stabbed to death] Why? Have they gone mad?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[a desperate girl runs towards him] Matsui?

[the girl gets stabbed in the neck, she drops dead in front of him, behind her, enters Tomohiko Kazami]

Tomohiko Kazami:
Sakakibara.

[Pulling out the dagger from the dead girl's neck]

Tomohiko Kazami:
Do you remember this girl?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Of course I do!

Tomohiko Kazami:
I knew it, I made a mistake, again.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What the hell are you saying?

Tomohiko Kazami:
[Wiping his glasses] Sugiura said it was Misaki, but I believe that the dead one is you. It started since May, right? Obviously, the dead one appeared in May.

[Lashes out at Kouichi, who dodges his slashes]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why are you doing this?

Tomohiko Kazami:
When Teshigawara tried to kill me, I thought... I have to send the dead to death, or else I will die.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But that's...

Tomohiko Kazami:
SHUT UP! If you hadn't come here, Yukari wouldn't be dead!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Sakuragi?

Tomohiko Kazami:
If you hadn't messed with who doesn't exist...

[Pointing his knife at Kouichi]

Tomohiko Kazami:
SEND THE DEAD...

[He is beaten on the head with a steel rod, Tomohiko drops dead immediately. Behind him, is Izumi Akazawa holding the rod]

Izumi Akazawa:
You idiot. Kouichi is not the dead one, but you already killed three people. You don't deserve to live.

[Izumi raises the rod to hit him again]

Izumi Akazawa:
I will help you die... Go and meet with Yukari in the...

[a hand stops the hit]

Chibiki Tatsuji:
[Holding the Izumi's rod] You should not be doing these terrible things... Killing each other.

Izumi Akazawa:
Wise words... from a coward who ran away for fear... Just to see us die! You have no right to say anything!

Chibiki Tatsuji:
You're right. I ran away. But I could still save the life of a student who was about to die in vain in front of me.

Izumi Akazawa:
You're a sick bastard who can't do anything! Nothing can be changed! The only ones who can solve this problem are us!

[They struggle. he takes the rod and she runs away]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Izumi is about to attack Mei] Stop it!

[He runs to Izumi]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Please stop!

Izumi Akazawa:
[after throwing him a slash that he dodges] If we don't kill her, we're all going to die! Even you!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
You're wrong! Misaki is not the dead one!

Izumi Akazawa:
If this calamity doesn't stop after I killed her.

[Knocking him out]

Izumi Akazawa:
Then I'll say you were right.

Izumi Akazawa:
[October 1996, She cries uncontrollably] Idiot Brother!

[Izumi kicks a coffee can. The can hits someone]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Ouch!

Izumi Akazawa:
[Nervous] Sorry, are you okay?

[She runs down the hill, trips and falls]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Approaching and offering his hand to help her up] Are you okay?

[She takes his hand]

Izumi Akazawa:
[Looking at his school uniform] You're not a resident of Yomiyama.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
No. I'm from Tokyo.

Izumi Akazawa:
Ah...

[She starts to cry again]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Are you hurt?

Izumi Akazawa:
No, A person important to me, just passed away.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Is that so... It seems that we're on the same boat...

Izumi Akazawa:
[Sunday, August 9, 1998, she is agonizing impaled by large pieces of glass] One and a half year ago, I accidentally hit you with an empty can. Do you still remember that?

[Kouichi denies]

Izumi Akazawa:
Geez, I'm getting angry. Couldn't you give an affirmative answer even if it's a lie?

[Izumi Akazawa dies]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I wonder if I'll be able to forget this. The trip, all that has happened since April... All things related to Reiko Mikami. Everything...

Mei Misaki:
[Putting her eye patch] Actually Do you want to forget? Or, Do you just want remember her forever? [Both boys are walking together toward the horizon]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
It's over, huh? [Mei answers him with a smile]

[last lines]

Naoya Teshigawara:
[Monday, August 24, 1998. Naoya is recording and storing a MD Disc with Mochizuki. While Naoya Teshigawara and Yuyya Mochizuki hide the message in the 3-3 classroom, the last lines of the message are heard]... That's how to stop the calamity. How you interpret this is up to you. Just make sure to carefully consider your actions. Think it through, and discuss it with your friends... so you'll have no regrets.

Izumi Akazawa:
[Kouichi comes between Mei and Izumi] What is your problem? I'm... I'm trying to protect us all, why?

[Pointing her dagger at him]

Izumi Akazawa:
If you want to protect her, I'll kill you both!

[Lightning strikes near a huge window, the window explodes into a thousand pieces, sharp pieces of glass fall towards Izumi, Kouichi and Mei]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Misaki!

Mei Misaki:
[Holding a pickaxe] Don't come.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I'll help you...

Mei Misaki:
You can't...

[to Kouichi]

Mei Misaki:
...I see the color of death.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Did you realize that?

Mei Misaki:
I already knew for a while, but I couldn't tell you. But now... It's the moment for stop it.

[Underneath the ruins, a person is seen coming out]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Recognizing the person who is coming out] No... She can't be... No way... You must be kidding! Is she the extra one? Are you sure? Are you sure? Does the Professor Mikami... My aunt, Reiko Mikami, is the extra one?

Reiko:
[Recalling what she said in the first day] Now the fourth thing you need to know to get ready for Yomi North is:...

[Taking off her glasses and pulling off her hair bows, she changes drastically her appearance, becoming the Professor Mikami]

Professor Mikami:
Keep the limits between my work and my personal life. Be careful and don't call me Reiko or "Auntie" by mistake. At school, I'm known as Professor Mikami. Got it?

Mei Misaki:
Is there any other class in the school with a teacher assistant? No. The only one is the third year's class three .

[Kouichi is confused]

Mei Misaki:
Our class had the correct number of desks this year. And yet the disaster began in April. Why do you think it happened? Because the extra desk... is in the teachers room.

Professor Mikami:
No, you're lying...

Mei Misaki:
Sakakibara... Move.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Stopping her] I will.

[He takes the pickaxe]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Send the dead to death.

Professor Mikami:
Kouichi...

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Forgive me, Reiko.

Mei Misaki:
[Answering her cellphone] Sakakibara?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Misaki! Are you okay?

Mei Misaki:
Yes.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Where are you?

Mei Misaki:
The backyard.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Are you hurt?

Mei Misaki:
I'm fine. But actually I can't move from here.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I'll be right there, ok? I'll be there, so...

Mei Misaki:
[Interrupting him] Don't come.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Don't come here, Sakakibara.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Desperately] But why?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
I... I have to stop it.

Mei Misaki:
Misaki, did you...?... Who is he?

Mei Misaki:
You'll regret it, Don't... [Mei hangs up]

[first lines]

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Have you hear about Misaki? The third-year girl in class three.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Was there anyone like that in the class three?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] It happened twenty-six years ago. She was popular from the first year. She was smart, pretty, and she had a great personality and was loved by both teachers and students.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Yes, at least there is someone like her in every school.

Student Boy:
[Voice over] But soon after she began her third year, Misaki died.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] What? How?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] I heard it was an accident. That's why all were impressed. Until, out of nowhere, someone said it.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Said... what?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Someone pointed at Misaki's desk and said: "Misaki is here. She's not dead."

Student Girl:
[Voice over] That was...

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Well, It was just an act. But from that day, the class three continued to behave as if she, Misaki, were still alive.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] That's very creepy.

Student Boy:
[Voice over] They continued acting like that until graduation. The director even made that the Misaki's desk were included in the graduation ceremony.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Is that good?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Of course, if the story ended there.

Student Girl:
[Voice over] Is there more?

Student Boy:
[Voice over] Well, The rest of the story is...

Rei, the Parrot:
Good morning Rei, Good morning.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Looking at the parrot] Rei is your name, you know?

Rei, the Parrot:
Cheer up!, Cheer up!

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Smiling] Sure, thank you.

Professor Kubodera:
[Introducing to Kouichi Sakakibara for the first time to the class] Please, give our companion a warm welcome. Help each other and work together, in order to make everyone can graduate unharmed the next March.

[last lines]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So... Do you remember have met me in the Yomiyama Hospital the other day?

[She denies that]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
In the elevator, You got off in the second basement level.

Mei Misaki:
Did something like that happened?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why did you go there? You said you had to deliver something. You were holding a white doll, Is that what you wanted to deli...

Mei Misaki:
[Interrupting him] I hate being questioned.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Oh, sorry. I don't want to make you to tell me. It's just that...

Mei Misaki:
Something really terrible happened that day. You're Kouichi Sakakibara, right?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yes.

Mei Misaki:
Didn't your classmates told you that?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Surprised] Tell me what?

Mei Misaki:
They relate your name with death. But not just any death. A cruel and irrational death occurred in this school. This school is a place close to death, especially the class three of the third year. This class is much closer to death than any other class.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Still surprised] Closer to death?

Mei Misaki:
Do you really know nothing about, Sakakibara? Nothing at all? Nobody told you?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
About what?

Mei Misaki:
You'll find out soon. You shouldn't approach me. You shouldn't even talk to me again.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Why?

Mei Misaki:
You'll find out soon.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But...

[Mei leaves]

Mei Misaki:
Farewell... Sa-ka-ki-ba-ra.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Um, you want something?

Tomohiko Kazami:
Oh, yes. Sakuragi and me are in representation of class. Akazawa is in charge of the countermeasures. Today we came as representatives from class three.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Countermeasures?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[In the elevator, to Mei] Are you a student from North Yomi?

[Mei nods]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Do you have something to do on the second basement level?

Mei Misaki:
Yes

Kouichi Sakakibara:
But the second basement level is...

Mei Misaki:
I have to deliver something. My poor other half... is there, waiting for me.

[the elevator reaches the basement two, Mei leaves the place while Kouichi looks at her]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
[Leaving the elevator] Hey, wait.

[Mei is still on her way]

Kouichi Sakakibara:
What's your name?

Mei Misaki:
[after a long silence] Misaki, Mei Misaki.

[Mei walks and vanishes into the darkness, Kouichi reads the sign to the place where she goes, which says "Morgue"]

Reiko:
[From a window in his hospital room] That's the Yomiyama river going through downtown. And can you see what lies beyond?

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Um... You mean that building?

Reiko:
Yes. It's the school that you will go.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Auntie Reiko, is this the same school you went to?

Reiko:
Yes, but that was fourteen years ago.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
So, my mother was also there?

Reiko:
Correct. My sister Ritsuko also went to Yomi North.

Kouichi Sakakibara:
Yomi North?

Reiko:
Yomiyama North Middle School.

Sanae Mizuno:
[to Kouichi] Wow, Now you're reading to Mr. King, Mister horror fan.