Hanamonogatari (花物語)

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I would rather like to talk about how Kanbaru Suruga is pretty stupid, but I wonder if you would listen to me.

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Well, I don't think this story has a point. None at all.

In my time, I've come to hate many people, to detest many people?

I found a devil inside myself, and made him grow?

But still I wondered what others did in their lives.

Now I will tell you of my story and hers.

Please let me share it.

I know that I live stupidly.

How

do you live, I wonder?

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If you can't be medicine, then turn into poison.

Otherwise, you'd just be plain old water.

Such words were second nature to my mother.

I don't think you can call my mother a good one.

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Suruga,

you're sure to lead a more troublesome life than others—

one that's all too tedious and annoying.

I think she was a bit eccentric.

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However, I don't say that because you're better than everyone else,

but because you are weak.

And you'll have to spend your entire life shouldering that weakness.

I had an eccentric mother, I think.

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I just hope your troubles don't become your raison d'etre.

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She was the kind of person who loved throwing people for a loop

by spouting incomprehensible words like she knew it all.

I feel like, to her, I was just "that little thing over there," and nothing more.

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Once she and my father passed away, I was taken in by my paternal grandparents,

and to this day, I still don't know what he saw in her.

Rather, it's not a question of why he fell in love with her,

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but why she went as far as to run away to marry my father.

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That reminds me, my father once said, "that girl's standing in for God in this mortal world."

Looking back now, the fact that he referred to his wife as "that girl" brings a smile to my face.

That said, I find it hard to agree with him.

You were already cursed when you turned out to be my daughter.

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I can't accept his opinion.

If I consider you cute, that's not because I actually want to,

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How should I say this?

Right. If you ask me,

but because I'm forced to by God.

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she was more like the devil.

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God and the devil are just two sides of the same coin.

Debate this endlessly as we might, humans will always be dancing in the palm of their hands.

So stop racking your brain over things that are clear as day...

So she said.

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My mother.

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Kanbaru Tooe—

maiden name Gaen Tooe—says to me:

and wake up already, my stupid girl!

An exciting new school term begins today!

9th of April

Oh god...

That was the worst wake-up call of all time.

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Ever since I unknowingly attacked Araragi in my sleep—

ever since I got possessed by a devil—

I've been tying myself up with these ridiculous "chains" every night.

Being aware of your unconscious destructive impulses must be tough, Suruga.

Ignorance is bliss.

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I'm good.

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It looks like

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I didn't commit any crimes yesterday.

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Need nail clippers...

Oh god.

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If I start looking for nail clippers now, I'll definitely be late for school.

If you really try, you can cut your nails with scissors.

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Bad idea.

Oh well.

"I should just go the whole hog,"

is what I think sometimes,

but I can't bring myself to make that decision.

I must have the tendency to be torn between options.

Torn.

Torn.

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Actually, I'm usually the one doing the tearing,

so that might not be the best phrase to describe me.

Then I should just cut to the chase and call myself greedy.

I am Greed.

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I desire everything, only to lose it all.

I am Greed, and I love Senjougahara.

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I start chasing every rabbit I see and end up catching none of them.

That's me, Kanbaru Suruga, and that's just how my life goes.

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As proof, I even lost my nail clippers.

Though, well, if I used that as leverage to rant against my destiny with my room as messy as it is,

Senjougahara and Araragi might get mad at me.

That's when it hit me:

I'll never be scolded by those two lovable seniors again.

Because they're gone.

I can still feel their presence, but it's merely an illusion.

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Laughing at my inability to move on, I head to school—

to a Naoetsu Private High School that has lost Araragi Koyomi and Senjougahara Hitagi.

I'd never lose it

It will always gnaw at my heart

Is there anything that you can offer me

in return for my admiration years ago?

A twisted light brings us back together

and suddenly my loneliness is lit up

On the waterside I see the summer haze

One day it will be gone like the flowers

I'm afflicted by incurable sadness

I made up an excuse to keep others at bay

I'd like to plant a faint kiss of goodbye on that

and be someone who turns around to face you in the crowd

Before everything grows faint and dim,

I want to find use for my pain

Suruga Devil Episode One

Suruga Devil Episode One

Font used in the video: HGP Mincho B

Font used in the video: HGP Mincho B

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The way I put it made it sound like the two of them had died or something,

but it's not like that at all.

They'd simply graduated high school, is all.

They graduated, and I became a third-year.

That's all.

That's all there is to it.

Anyway, today's April the 9th—

the day I, Kanbaru Suruga, officially become a third-year.

Now I am all alone.

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Oh, hello, Suruga.

Good morning, Ougi, my boy.

Wait. "Ougi... my boy"?

Weren't you a girl?

What are you talking about?

I've always been a guy.

I popped out of my mother's womb a boy, and not for a second has that ever been untrue.

Now that I think back on it, I do seem to recall you being a guy.

My bad.

I seem to have made a mistake.

Nothing wrong with an honest mistake every now and then.

Life would be too stifling if we weren't allowed to make any faux pas at all.

Speaking of which, you can't spell "past" without the "pas" in "faux pas."

Does that mean unequivocally everything in the past was a mistake?

That's... not how you use the word "unequivocally."

I almost said that out loud,

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but refrained from it in time.

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Now that I think about it, the word "future" goes back to Latin and means "I am not yet."