Vatican Miracle Examiner (バチカン奇跡調査官)

Is this Ryota's brother?

Has something happened to Ryota?!

Please try to calm down.

Ryota's condition has taken a sudden turn for the worse.

Because you were traveling outside of the country, we couldn't get in contact with you, and...

It's finally...

...my turn, huh?

There are those who would examine claims of holy miracles from around the world,

and verify a miracle has indeed occurred.

Please show them the way, O Lord, the Vatican Miracle Examiners!

Ikeru mono tsumibukaki kakugo de The living reach out their hands

Ataerareta fukashigi ni te wo nobasu yo With sinful resolve to the mysteries they've been given

Itami ga yobu negai wo tokiakashite The pain calls for resolution of their wish

Hikari yo ashiki tamashii sukuitamae to For the light to save their sinful souls

Koe dake ja tarinainda My voice isn't enough

Kiseki no nai jinsei iranai I don't need a life without miracles

Abunai jounetsu ga miseta akenai yoru no naka de A dangerous passion showed me a vision in an endless night

Dare no yume ga hiraku darou Whose dream will be opened?

Yami to boku wa niteru kai Do I resemble the darkness?

Abunai jounetsu o kaketa kore ga key ad mysterium I took the risk with that dangerous passion for this key ad mysterium

Ima wa semete shinjitetai I want to at least believe now

Dakedo nanimo wakaranai But I don't know anything

Hey, why do the stars follow us?

Well, you see, the Earth and the stars are very, very far away from us.

The next closest star to us, other than the sun, is Proxima Centauri,

and it's 4.243 light years away from us.

Oh, so basically, when you're on a train and looking at trees real close to you,

I loved... Oh, so basically, when you're on a train and looking at trees real close to you,

they pass by really fast, but things really far away from you...

my big brother. they pass by really fast, but things really far away from you...

He was warm, and always really nice to me, but then...

Take care.

Have fun at college!

Thank you, Mom and Dad.

Make sure you eat, okay?

Don't worry.

Ryota, I'll be back during breaks, okay?

Okay.

I couldn't tell him I'd miss him.

Because if I did, I knew he'd worry about me.

One day, a long while after that, my whole life changed.

Welcome, Mrs. Glasen.

Hello, Ada.

I made too many cookies. Please have some if you'd like.

Oh, my!

Hi, Ryota! Oh, my!

Hi, Danny!

I brought a board game! They smell so good. Let me get some tea started.

Alright! Let's play! They smell so good. Let me get some tea started.

Alright! Let's play!

That boy will die soon.

It seems so.

May God bless and forgive him.

Who are you?!

Huh?

Hey Mom, who are these people?

Who? They are Danny and Danny's mother!

You're so silly.

They can't see them?

Danny has died.

Wake up.

You must make a pilgrimage.

God, please brighten my way to Danny with Your holy light.

Please make this lantern into a lamp for Danny,

so Danny doesn't lose his way through the valley of death.

The Lord has answered.

It is done.

It is done.

No, he can't...

I'm so sorry. I don't know what to say...

Mom?

Ryota...

Danny's...

Danny's gone to be with God.

I didn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it.

I thought it had to be a coincidence.

I did, but then...

Are you not going to board the ship to Salvation?

Why are you here if you are not going to board?

Then someone will go in your stead.

Your mother.

Ada.

Please, wait!

I'll go on it! I'll board the ship!

So please, please don't take my mom away!

Please, please!

I'm begging you!

Please...

Don't be so sad, Ryota.

Okay.

I'll get through this.

I'm sorry, I've had to work out of the country so often, I've been kept away from home...

It's alright, don't worry about it.

Mom, I'm...

I'm gonna try asking them!

I'm gonna keep asking them!

So don't...

Ryota...

There's something I need to ask of you.

Just as mom asked, I didn't tell my brother about her illness.

Just when I thought it was time and told him about it, it was too late.

We entrust our sister, Ada Hiraga, to our Almighty God,

with the hope that she is reborn into eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

My brother didn't make it in time for our mother's final moments. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

I didn't cry, either.

There was no way I could cry before my brother did.

What could I say to apologize for not telling him about our mother?

What are you?!

Why did you take my mom?!

Why do you follow me around?!

Why do you show me all this death?!

Why...

Why do people die?!

Why are we born if we're just going to die?!

Why do we live if we're just going to die?!

Ryota!

I'm sorry!

I didn't know anything, and you had to face everything all by yourself.

You had to take on all these horrible, distraught, lonely feelings, all by yourself...

Please forgive me, Ryota!

While my brother held me in his arms, I made my decision.

I would never tell anyone about them.

Especially not my brother.

I would never make my brother worry about me because of them.

When my brother graduated from college,

he ended up going to a place in the Vatican called the Seat of the Disciple.

Brother?

Wow...!

God, please, protect my brother from them.

Many years later,

I was diagnosed with high-grade osteosarcoma and was admitted to Baden Hospital.

It's a pediatrics hospital famous in Germany.

It's a place where children with untreatable diseases...

see their short lives come to an end.

Maybe this was what I needed to do in the time I had left.

Pray for the ones who were going to die.

Then, before I knew it,

I started thinking to myself,

"I wonder if it'll be my turn soon."

I found a notebook hidden between two books that had a gold bookmark in it.

The words written in Italian inside said...

"My dear friend, with what emotions are you spending your days now?"

A fated book.

The door has been opened.

It cannot be closed.

I hope...

I hope...

...you're happy.

Who are you?

Another one of you.

A future me.

I'm going to tell you about the flower of sacrament.

"The flower of sacrament"?

Are you feeling hopeless about your fate?

Have you given up on life?

Just like I was when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor?

But God has shown you the path, too.

That's him.