Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari

Isn't it good? Hayakawa-san gave it to me.

It's a very expensive foreign tea.

Yeah, it smells great.

The ritual's coming up soon.

Yep. After the ritual, there's the wedding.

I barely have a chance to breathe.

Do your best.

Leave it to me!

I know it's tradition, but I guess you have to marry someone from the head family.

If only I were in the head family.

Thanks.

But I'll be fine, if it's with Hayakawa-san.

I see...

Oh, yeah! Onii-chan!

Come with me!

H-Hey!

I'll let you in just for right now.

Tenna, this isn't good. I'm not supposed to...

It's fine! I wanted to show you, Onii-chan.

Isn't it beautiful?

Don't forget, okay?

Huh?

Never mind...

It's nothing.

A dream about back then...

That's...

Space-time is starting to distort...

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Those clouds look weird, don't they?

That's the distortion in space-time. That's where the rift's entrance will form.

Rift?

Yes. It's hard to explain, but...

Our world is made up of many layers, just like this coffee.

If the power of the pendant that belongs to the Blood Spirit is set free,

it's possible to enter the rift through the distortion.

If you go through that rift...

You'll be able to go to a different space-time.

I see. So it was this power that brought you and J-kun here.

Yes.

But if left alone, the distortion in space-time will swallow up the whole world.

That's why we must seal the distortion.

The only one who can do that is the Blood Spirit priestess.

So that's what the ritual is...

Yes.

But during the ritual, Tenna-sama...

Welcome!

Hayakawa Tsubasa.

I need to talk to you.

J and I had been trying to find out more about this bracelet

and what happened to J's sister.

The numbers 2220 appeared from the bracelet.

As for what that means... I think I figured it out.

Wow, well done.

That's amazing, Haruto-senpai.

That's not bad, coming from you.

First, take a look at these two maps.

One is just a normal map of Koyomi City.

The other one is a map made by combining the student year badges,

and this shows the ley lines.

Ley lines?

It's a concept used in feng shui.

They're said to contain the energy flowing through the earth.

Exactly.

North West East

In feng shui, it's said there's a point that's perfectly aligned

with the four gods who make the land prosper.

To the north, we have the Black Tortoise's mountains.

To the east is the Azure Dragon's river.

To the west is the White Tiger's road.

And to the south, we have the Vermilion Bird's lake.

This map of ley lines also indicates these landmarks of the four gods.

When you combine this map with the map of the city...

Hey, isn't that...

They match perfectly.

We have mountains up north, a river to the east,

a road to the west, and a lake to the south.

So Koyomi City is perfectly aligned with the four gods.

Yeah. And directly in the center of the four gods is...

This mansion?

Yep. This mansion itself was the exact center of the energy in the ley lines.

Oh...

Then what do those numbers mean?

At first, I thought "2220" was a number,

but they weren't all part of the same number.

So 222 and 0?

Yeah, you can split them into two numbers.

If you look carefully at the map of ley lines,

"222" is written right where the mansion is located.

Basically, the 222 indicated where the mansion was on the map.

Oh, yeah. Now that I think about it...

What's up?

You know, the address written in front of the mansion.

You're right. "222" is written there.

I see. It could be that the addresses around here

were determined by the map of the ley lines.

That's why they matched the numbers Tenna left behind.

So what's the zero, then?

Yeah, about that... We thought it was a number at first, too.

It's not a zero?

It's not. If you look at it carefully, there are some different shapes in it.

Right here.

Yeah, that definitely looks like something.

This wasn't a zero. It was a circle.

A circle?

Yeah.

So if the 222 and the circle

are some kind of message indicating a location,

it'd be somewhere within this 222 mansion marked by that circle.

J-san.

Is there anywhere in this mansion that's marked with that symbol?

Symbol... Circle...

Hey, what about a chandelier?

It could be a food, you know.

Maybe a meat bun or pancakes.

That couldn't be it. Right?

Maybe something round like that symbol?

A round symbol...

That's it!

There's one thing that comes to mind.

Everything was connected, like a circle.

The "Plasma in the Sky" incident...

Then you and J, whom we have no information about prior to that...

The mansion that's been around for over a hundred years,

and the strange incident that occurred the other day.

If we connect all of those things, you can start seeing the truth behind all this.

Hayakawa Tsubasa,

didn't you appear in this world because of the "Plasma in the Sky" incident,

somehow?

Not going to answer, huh?

In that case... Watson, take them out.

Right, Holmes.

This is you in this photograph, isn't it?

Right after this was taken, something made part of the mansion collapse.

There are signs that some strange powers were used, as well.

And you and J just happen to be at the center of all these incidents.

You're still going to play dumb, eh?

I'd rather not answer.

Fine. Then let me ask you one more thing.

I did a little research and found

that the "Plasma in the Sky" incident happened five years ago, too.

You had nothing to do with that, either?

Five years ago?!

Something similar happened five years ago, too?

Looks like you're finally willing to talk to me.