Lines by Ayu Tsukimiya introductions 14
[Yuichi is talking to Ayu as she in unconscious in a coma. Ayu is thinking this.]
AyuA dream... I'm seeing a dream...A dream of the person most dear to me, sitting by my side. He talks to me. He lets me hear about many things. About his cousin that he met after seven years. About of story of a fox that became human. About a story of a strange girl that came to the school's courtyard every day. About a story of a girl who fought ghosts. And about a story of a childhood friend he met in the shopping district at sunset. A dream...I'm seeing a dream. A dream of being by my dearest person. A daily life that repeats. Pieces of dreams come on after another and fill my heart, just like how snow gradually turns the city white.
[Yuichi goes out to try to find Ayu's headband. Ayu is thinking this.]
Ayu
I loved the scenery that flew by. Winter. A city of snow. I loved running through the shopping district, leaving behind footprints. Spring. A city of melting snow. I loved picking up the snow piled beside the roots of trees. Summer. The city has forgotten how cold the snow was. I loved looking at the city through the cracks on the umbrella. Autumn. The city waiting for snow to fall. I loved catching the small snowflakes with my hands. And it's back to winter. The season of snow. The season when the entire city is white. I loved the scenery that flew by. But, like a puddle that freezes, my time has frozen. Inside this square room, where there is no change in seasons. I was always alone...while repeatedly seeing the same scenes in my dream...while viewing the endless night...But, slowly, light was starting to shine into the night.
[Yuichi goes out to try to find Ayu's headband. Ayu is thinking this.]
AAyu (Dub)
I liked the flowing scenery. Winter, a city of fluttering snow. I loved running through the shopping district, leaving behind new footprints in sidewalks. Spring, a city of melting snow. I loved scooping up...scooping up the little piles of it that hadn't melted yet underneath the trees. Summer, a city that's forgotten the cold of snow. I loved looking at the city when I would take long walks under the shade of my parasol. Autumn, a city foretelling the arrival of snow. I loved watching the snowflakes drifting down from the clouds. I would catch as many as I could with my hands. And now it's winter again. The season of snow. The season where everything in it is covered in white. How I loved the flowing scenery. But like a river frozen in its banks, my time had stopped flowing, in this rectangular room, in a time that knows no seasons. I was always, always and forever alone. Over and over again, I would see the same scenes in my dream. That I always did. And I began to surrender to the never-ending night. But slowly, I feel the dawn is breaking.
A dream... I'm inside a dream... Just the same view over and over again... I wish for only one thing in that dozy state. I wish I will see a different sky when I awake.
A dream... The day the dream started. The light was shining brightly through the trees. The feeling of the snow was cold. The smell of the leaves was gentle. And, a little child was crying... I still can't remember that crying face.
A dream... The day my dreams became endless... I could only... Like always, wait at my usual spot... forever and ever, just waiting... That was all I had... So... I'm still waiting...
A dream... A dream of that day... That season where we ran together. The sparkling afternoon sunlight, that I prayed would last forever. The same dreams, over and over again. Like a broken record, over and over...
A dream... There is an end to dreams... Happy dreams, angry dreams. The dream ends when your mother wakes you while you're in your warm bed. The morning scenery that never changes. But... right now...
A harsh dream... A dream you keep wishing you would wake from. But, how do I know that it's a dream? That's a dream? Really?
A sad dream... A dream that makes you want to cry... but you never realize that it was a dream until you're awake. If you don't wake up, that is reality. The dream is reality...
I was dreaming... A dream of two sisters that got along well. They wore the same uniform, and went to the same school, and went back to the same home. It was a sad dream, where that little happiness continued forever and ever.
I'm dreaming a dream from long ago. The same days over and over again. Within this endless dream, I wished for a morning that wouldn't come. It's red... and white... and cold... and warm... and sad... and happy... and... and the same days are repeated. I knew from a long time ago, from years ago. Wandering in this dream... wishing for a dawn that wouldn't come... I'm always in the same spot. A ruckus with no voices, and a faceless person walks before me. No one cares about just one little child. I'm waiting for a person. A person I know who won't come. Someone I know I won't meet again. For years and years... within this repeating dream, I was always waiting... for a dawn that won't come.
The dream... the day the dream ends... Like the way the snow melts away in the warm spring sunshine, Like the way memories fade away in an eternal passage of time, The long dream comes to an end. My last wish is...
[Last Regrets, the Kanon game opening theme, plays during Ayu's monologue]
I liked the flowing scenery. The city where the snow falls. I liked running through the marketplace while leaving new footprints. Spring... the city where the snow melts. I liked scooping up little clumps of snow that remained on the trees. Summer... the city that forgot the cold of snow. I liked looking at the city scenery that showed under a tilted umbrella. Fall... the city waiting for the season of snow. I liked catching the little flakes of snow that fell from the sky in the palm of my hand. And the season turns to winter. The season when the city gets covered all in white. I liked the flowing seasons. But like winter puddles that froze into ice, my time was frozen. I was always all alone within the season-less time. Repeating again and again. Staring at the same scenery again and again in my dream. Leaving my body to the ceaseless night. But now... slowly... the night is ending.
Scenes with Ayu Tsukimiya introductions 34
[Yuichi and Ayu meet for the first time in seven years.]
Ayu
Hey you! Outta the way, outta the way! Ugū, outta the way! [Ayu runs into Yuichi.] Ugū. That hurt!
Sorry, my fault. You were going so fast, I couldn't dodge.
Ayu
Ugū. I can't run that fast.
Hey, there's no need to be so humble.
Ayu
Ugū. Anyway, we'll talk later.
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