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There's a word, "world."
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Until middle school
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I thought the "world" was a place
with cell phone signals.
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But I wonder why...
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I can't reach anyone
on my cell.
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Hello?
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Hey... Is anyone there?
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How far do I
have to go?
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I'm lonely.
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Noboru?
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I'm going home.
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So... Where am I?
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Oh yeah...
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I'm not in that world anymore.
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Wait, Noboru!
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Nagamine...
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How did you do
in the finals?
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"July 2046"
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How did you do
in the finals?
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"July 2046"
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How did you do
in the finals?
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"July 2046"
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I did great
in the finals.
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Then we can go to...
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The same high school?!
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Maybe...
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Look, Noboru.
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A spaceship.
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That must be the Lysithea
of the UN Space Army.
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I wonder if they recruited
anyone from this town.
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Yeah...
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It's going to travel beyond
the solar system.
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Yeah...
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I heard it's going after the
aliens that attacked Mars.
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Yeah...
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Where do you think the
Tarsians come from?
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Yeah...
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You're not interested?
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A little...
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Let's stop by the
convenience store.
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Yeah...
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Where should we eat?
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The bus stop.
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Joining the kendo team
in high school too?
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I don't know yet.
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How about you?
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I'm going to.
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You should too.
You're good.
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You just want to be in
the same club as me.
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What are you talking about?
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Should we go home?
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Okay.
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It stopped raining.
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Look.
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The sky!
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They're Tracers.
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- So pretty.
- Yeah.
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Guess what?
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Noboru...
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I'm...
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going aboard
one of them.
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"April 2047, Mars"
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There it is!
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Hit it!
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Noboru, we went through
a training program on Mars.
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After all, I am a Select Member
so I did pretty well.
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I saw Olympus Mons
and Valles Marineris.
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Sightseeing on Mars!
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I saw the Tarsian Ruins
too, of course.
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I saw them so often
in textbooks
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but I can't believe
I saw them for real.
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I realize how the solar system
isn't just for us humans.
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The 2039 exploration unit was
destroyed by the Tarsians here.
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We're now pursuing them with
technology acquired from them.
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I've gotten used to
life on the Lysithea.
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We came to Jupiter after
the training on Mars.
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We're taking a break
in a base on Europa.
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I never get bored gazing
at Jupiter's clouds.
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The flux tube between Io and
Jupiter is amazing too.
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The biggest lightning
in the solar system!
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Will it reach him?
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It's from Nagamine...
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Mikako Nagamine was a classmate
and a good friend in middle school.
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I was hoping we could go
to the same high school...
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But she's on Jupiter now.
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She was recruited by the UN to be
a Select Member of its space army
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and joined a huge fleet of stars/ups
to go after the Tarsians.
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To think about it, she was
pretty smart and athletic
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but the UN Space Army?!
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It's kind of a crazy story.
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We're departing Jupiter.
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The Lysithea is headed
way beyond Pluto.
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The specific destination
is still confidential.
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It's going to take longer for
the emails to reach you
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but 6 months at most from
the Oort Cloud, which is farthest.
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"lt's like airmail of the 20th century
so it'll be okay."
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What's okay?
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I spent the first semester
of high school
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exchanging emails with Mikako.
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No new messages.
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The farther Mikako travels
away from Earth
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the longer it takes for us
to exchange emails.
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No new messages.
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It's just that...
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All I do is wait for her emails.
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"August 2047, near Pluto"
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Noboru, I'm on Pluto in the farthest
reaches of the solar system.
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We left Earth
half a year ago
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and have continued our
surveillance since Jupiter but
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we haven't found any traces
of the Tarsians anywhere.
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But Noboru. . .
To tell you the truth
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I wish we don't find them so
we could go back to Earth.
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What?
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The enemy? Really?
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I have to go too?
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I have to get him.
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What's that?
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A whole year between Noboru and me!
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I have to email him!
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I have to get him.
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Or we won't make it.
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I have to go back.
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"Checking mailbox..."
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"Time required to send email:
1 year, 16 days, 12 hrs"
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It'll take a year for this
email to reach you.
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From Sirius, it'll take
8 years one way.
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Noboru...
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Will you forget about me?
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"August 2048"
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A year passed and
it's summer again.
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I stopped waiting for Mikako 's
emails this past winter.
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I haven't heard from her
for a whole year.
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It's from Mikako...
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The first one
in a year.
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"...The Lysithea just made
a 1-light-year warp..."
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"The Lysithea. . . "
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The Lysithea is going to
make a long-distance warp.
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Our destination is Sirius,
8.6 light years away.
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When you get this email,
I'll already be on Sirius.
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Now it'll take 8 years and 7 months
to send emails to each other.
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I'm sorry.
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We're kind of like
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lovers separated on
Earth and in space.
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I think we only had eyes for
each other since middle school.
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But. . .
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8 years at the
speed of fight...
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It's no different
from eternity.
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The time lag gets bigger
between Mikako and me.
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So I set up goals.
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To make my heart much
harder, colder, and stronger.
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To stop knocking on a door
I know won't open.
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To become an adult
on my own.
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Since last century, we knew
Sirius had its own planets
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:45,530
but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:45,884
but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:46,210
but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:46,530
but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:46,884
but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:47,884
but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:47,891
"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:48,210
but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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"August 2047
Sirius Alpha & Beta Star Systems"
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but we're the first ones to
see them with our own eyes.
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Agharta, the 4th planet
of the Sirius System...
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Agharta's sky, clouds, and sea
look like Earth's.
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Even so, they're
complete! y different.
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I'm getting farther away from
Noboru in time and distance.
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I want to go
in the rain...
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Go to the convenience store
together and eat ice cream...
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Noboru...
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"To the 24-year-old Noboru
from the 15-year-old Mikako"
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"I still love you
very much..."
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"Sending mail..."
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Reach him!
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Me?
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So...
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We finally made it here.
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Growing up can be
painful sometimes
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but I'm sure you'll make it
much, much farther
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to other galaxies and
other universes even.
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Okay?
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So come with me.
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I want to entrust it
to you.
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But all I want to do
is see Noboru again.
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I want to tell him
"I love you."
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00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,406
Don't worry.
You'll see him again.
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I don't understand!
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"Space Technology Magazine"
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00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:03,044
"Space Army wins battle
against Tarsians 8 years ago"
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00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,687
"Serious damage, return to
Earth questionable"
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00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:17,570
That one summer day, I remember
thinking 8 years was an eternity.
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00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,928
My life has had its
share of uncertainties
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but my goals from that day
remain the same.
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I did what I had to and
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next month, I'm finally
joining the fleet.
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"You've got mail"
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00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:52,407
Mikako...
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00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,849
"Hello to the 24-year-old Noboru
from the 15-year-old Mikako"
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00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,885
There were only 2 lines in her
email, the rest was noise.
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00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:43,645
But it's still a miracle,
I think.
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Mikako, l...
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You know, Noboru...
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I miss so many things.
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Because there's nothing here.
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For example...
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For example, summer clouds, the cold
rain, the scent of an autumn breeze...
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The sound of rain on the umbrella
and the soft, spring soil...
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The peaceful feeling in a
late-night convenience store...
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00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,010
And also the chilly air
after school...
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00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,804
The smell of a
blackboard eraser...
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00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,809
The distant sound
of a truck at night...
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00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,442
The smell of asphalt
in the afternoon rain...
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Noboru. .. I wanted to...
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I wanted to...
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share them with you
forever, Mikako...
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The fleet is sinking!
I have to protect the Lysithea!
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Noboru...
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We're far apart,
so very, very far apart but...
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Thoughts may be able to
transcend time and distance.
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Have you ever felt that way?
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If it can happen
even for an instant
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what would I think about?
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00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:28,566
What would Mikako
think about?
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00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,322
We're thinking the
same thing, right?
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00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,360
Noboru...
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00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,242
I'm right here.