- Izumi Akazawa: Professor Kubodera asked me to send you to the teachers room.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Fine, thanks...
- Izumi Akazawa: I have to apologize in advance, sorry. But this is for all of us. Forgive us.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: I understand that I no longer exist for them. But, why they do this?
- Mei Misaki: It is a natural question. Do you remember the story about Misaki who died twenty-six years ago?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Yes.
- Mei Misaki: That's what started it all. After that, the class three was close to death.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Death?
- Mei Misaki: First happened to the class three the following year to Misaki's classmates graduation . Once it happens, once it begins, someone dies every month. Whether a student or someone in their family.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: What is "It"?
- Mei Misaki: It's when... the number of students in the class is incremented by one.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Incremented? Who?
- Mei Misaki: Nobody knows, they may never know who's that extra one.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Extra one?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Where were you all during the sixth hour?
- Ikuo Takabayashi: To meeting hall, to take care of certain things.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: What things?
- Yuuya Mochizuki: You had many strange experiences since you came here, right?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: If you know, Can you tell me what's going on?
- Yuuya Mochizuki: Sorry, I can't. Just that. coming soon, something very unpleasant might happen to you.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: What do you mean?
- Yuuya Mochizuki: At the meeting, Akazawa said we needed to discuss something, without your presence there. But if you don't like what will happen, try to bear it. remember that you are doing it for all of us. Please.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: All of us?
- Izumi Akazawa: [Recalling her words] This is for all of us. Forgive us.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Is this one of those class rules?
- Yuuya Mochizuki: Yes
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Confused] I just don't understand.
- [to Yuuya]
- Kouichi Sakakibara: I can ask you something?
- Yuuya Mochizuki: What?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: I need a class list copy
- Yuuya Mochizuki: Don't you got one?
- Ikuo Takabayashi: It's not fair. I disagree with the way Akazawa handles that. It's not fair that she forces us to think like her.
- [to Kouichi]
- Ikuo Takabayashi: There are so many things you want to know.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Yes, there are.
- Ikuo Takabayashi: Then you can ask. I will tell you everything I know.
- Yuuya Mochizuki: Takabayashi, wait! Do you mean that?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Fine. Mei Misaki... Does she exists?
- Ikuo Takabayashi: She...
- [He suffers a heart attack and dies before he can respond]
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Hello
- Mei Misaki: [Surprised] What's wrong? Your call was unexpected.
- [Kouichi shows her a note that says: "Sorry, ask Misaki to explain you - Mochizuki" And a class list with the name "Mei Misaki" strikeout in red ink]
- Mei Misaki: Well. You got the class list. So?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Let me start from the beginning. Did you hear that Takabayashi died?
- [She is surprised]
- Kouichi Sakakibara: He had a heart attack. I knew he had heart problems, but...
- Mei Misaki: I see. The second death in June was caused by disease.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Then when I got to school, whole class was behaving strangely. As if they all conspired to pretend that I was not there.
- Mei Misaki: So, it's what all they decided to do...
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Does it mean that now I'm like you?
- [Mei nods]
- Mei Misaki: How does it feel to not exist?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Not so cool... But in a way, is one less worry.
- Mei Misaki: Really?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Cause now I know that you exist.
- Mei Misaki: Why don't you ask? It might be easier for me explain it to you that way.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: I thought you hated the interrogations.
- Mei Misaki: I hate it. But today, I will make a special exception.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: First of all, Mei Misaki, you exist, right?
- Mei Misaki: You thought I was a ghost?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Kind of.
- Mei Misaki: I guess that was expected. But now you have no doubt, right?. Now you know that I'm a human living. Only I don't exist for the others in the class three.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Since when?
- Mei Misaki: First of May
- Kouichi Sakakibara: That's pretty recent.
- Mei Misaki: Many things have seemed weird for you from the beginning, Right?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Kouichi nods] And no one told me why.
- Mei Misaki: The fact that they don't have explained you the situation beforehand was a costly mistake.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Mistake?
- Mei Misaki: You were supposed to treat me as someone who does not exist, like others in the class.
- [to Kouichi]
- Mei Misaki: But you just finished like me. Bad for you.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Is not that "bullying"?
- Mei Misaki: I don't think they see it that way.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Reading the 1972 Yomiyama North Middle School Yearbook] Who am I fooling? I'm not gonna find to Misaki here.
- [Sees the photograph of the year three, third class, he finds a girl]
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Mom...
- Chibiki Tatsuji: Did you find your mother?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Yes.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: Interesting... then she graduated in 72, At what class was she?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: At third class, Like me.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: Oh? Who was she?.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Pointing to one of the girls] Was her.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: Ritsuko?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Startled] Did you know her?
- Chibiki Tatsuji: [Elusive] Yes... Ritsuko was... but...
- [to Kouichi]
- Chibiki Tatsuji: I heard she died. When was that?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Fifteen years ago, right after she gave me birth.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: [Surprised] Fifteen years ago? I see... then that's what happened.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Extra One?
- Mei Misaki: Twenty five years ago, shortly after the start of the new management, they realized that a desk was missing in the classroom, even though they had prepared enough seats for all students.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Could not they just check the lists?
- Mei Misaki: They did, but it was useless. The list of students had been altered to be inconsistent. They only lacked a desk.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Did someone rewrote the lists?
- Mei Misaki: I used the word "altered" figuratively. They say that memories of all had been changed.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Uh?
- Mei Misaki: That sounds impossible, right? But I guess that's true. They said that this phenomenon could happen.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Phenomenon?
- Mei Misaki: At first, everyone thought it was just a mistake and they don't gave a damn about it. But starting April, people connected to the class, began to die each month.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Does each month? All year?
- Mei Misaki: This year I think were six students and ten relatives. Quite unusual, isn't it? This has continued in the class three since.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Thoughtfully] Then, a third year student from the class named Misaki, died twenty-six years ago... And starting next year, somehow, there was an additional student in class. Then, people connected to the class began to die each month. But... Why do people die when there is a extra student?
- Mei Misaki: No one knows why. This is how it happens. Moreover, the extra one is... someone dead.
- [last lines]
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Someone dead? You mean the Misaki who died twenty six years ago?
- [she denies]
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Is a ghost or something?
- Mei Misaki: I think it's different to what we would call "Ghost". The extra one seems to have a physical body, there is no way to differentiate it from the rest of us.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Is there no way?
- Mei Misaki: The Dead One has body, soul and memories, and doesn't even know that is dead.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Who are they?
- Mei Misaki: People connected to the class that died with the passing of the years. This is how I see it. The actions of class three from twenty six years ago, made the class a place that invites the dead people. After that, the Dead One began to join the class, and class three approached to death. In response ,students from class three devised certain countermeasures to escape this calamity.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Like... exorcisms?
- Mei Misaki: Possibly. They tried to go to another classroom, they changed the name of class three to "Class C". but that didn't stop it.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: So, the problem is only with the students from the class three, third year?
- Mei Misaki: Apparently. Then, ten years ago, they found a way to deal with this problem. A method that prevented people from dying each month.
- Mei Misaki: Don't tell me that is...
- Kouichi Sakakibara: To treat a student as if he or she didn't exist. Thus, returning to the classroom to their correct number, and maybe avoid the calamity for a year. It's like... a lucky charm.