- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Talking to his father by phone] Hello?
- Yosuke Sakakibara: Damn, India is really hot!
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Come on...
- Yosuke Sakakibara: Hey, what do you mean?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: If you're worried about my health, I'm fine. Hey, Mom ever told you about her experiences in middle school?
- Yosuke Sakakibara: Huh? What for?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Mom was in the third class from year three, right? Anything comes to mind?
- Yosuke Sakakibara: Hmmm... No
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Nothing?
- Yosuke Sakakibara: Well, I remember she told me a few things... Ah yes, Ritsuko was in class three... Anyway, how does it feel come back after a year and half away from Yomiyama?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: A year and a half? It's the first time I come here since I started middle school.
- Yosuke Sakakibara: Huh? No, I'm sure that...
- [sound of static interference]
- Yosuke Sakakibara: Oh, yes... Yes, you're right... I... confused...
- [the call is cut off]
- [first lines]
- Mei Misaki: [Friday, May 1, 1998. Mei Misaki was elected to become the nonexistent student] I don't want to... If I said that, then you didn't do that?
- Professor Kubodera: Of course you have all the right to refuse. However, if the disaster begins...
- Mei Misaki: Fine, I will.
- Yukari Sakuragi: Ehh... What will the teachers do outside of class three?
- Professor Kubodera: They will cooperate to the extent of their abilities. However, you should not discuss this matter with anyone outside the class.
- Yuuya Mochizuki: Not even with our family?
- Professor Kubodera: The rules say we should not talk about it.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: But... If that rule is so important, why they didn't tell me that before?
- Mei Misaki: You've already spoken to me. that made it difficult for them to address the issue.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Hey, there's something else I want to ask: Is there any reason why your desk is the only old in the class?
- Mei Misaki: It's part of the rules. I guess it must have some purpose to complete the spell.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Are you always like...?
- Mei Misaki: Like what?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: The way you talk to your mother. Almost I would say you are two strangers under one roof.
- Mei Misaki: We have always treated like that each other. How is your family?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: I have no mother. She died when I was born.
- Mei Misaki: I see. Well, this is normal with my mother. I'm just one of her dolls.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: But... You're her daughter, you're her flesh and blood.
- Mei Misaki: I may be her flesh and blood, but I'm not real.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: So... Now I know the class three secret... But... How can you accept that they are using you to complete the spell?
- Mei Misaki: There is no other way. Just only I could be. If it had not been me, I should have done like everyone else and treat another person as if he did not exist. It is better that I'm the one that is ignored.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Thank you. Be careful back to your home.
- Mei Misaki: I'll be fine.
- [Taking off her patch]
- Mei Misaki: I showed you this once, right?
- [Kouichi nods]
- Mei Misaki: I lost my left eye when I was four. Was due to a malignant tumor. I woke up one day and the eye was gone. My mother told me that an artificial eye would not be attractive, so she made one special for me.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: You don't need to hide it. Misaki, I think your eye is beautiful.
- Mei Misaki: They said I almost died during surgery. I can remember vaguely what happened then. Do you think that is possible?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: You mean near-death experiences?
- Mei Misaki: Death is not friendly, is dark, black on where you look at it, you're all alone.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: All alone.
- Mei Misaki: Yes, but is no different when you're alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we're all alone. I am alone, my mother is alone, and you are alone. Misaki was alone too.
- [Kouichi and Mei are looking face to face]
- Mei Misaki: From tomorrow, we will deserve each other.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Uh, oh, yes...
- Mei Misaki: [Shaking hands with Kouichi] Nice to meet you, Sakakibara.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Monday, June 8, 1998. After daydreaming that he was dancing with Mei in front of the class] I have to control myself...
- Chibiki Tatsuji: [Arriving to the library] Oh, you two are here?
- Mei Misaki: Now we are two people that don't exist.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: I see... Now do you understand the situation, Sakakibara?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Most, but still find it hard to believe.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: I understand, but it's true. This phenomenon is really happening in this town, in this school.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: I can't understand the logic behind that, I simply gave up. Only one way seems to be effective against this phenomenon: To deny the existence of someone in the class.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: And how probable is that it works?
- Chibiki Tatsuji: Fifty-fifty. Some years it works, others fail. In some years there is a clear reason to fail, others are unknown.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: That's terrible.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: This is no a curse. There is no evil. occurs naturally as a typhoon or an earthquake.
- Mei Misaki: Does Professor Mikami was a teacher in charge of class three in 1996?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: [Looking at the yearbook] Oh, you're right.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: She already went through a lot... and make her the assistant professor again...
- Chibiki Tatsuji: That's all for today.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Just one more thing, was in 1983, fifteen years ago, when the phenomenon was stopped?
- Chibiki Tatsuji: 1983? I think so.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: I thought so...
- Chibiki Tatsuji: Oh, yes. That was the year of Reiko. You mean Ritsuko was in Yomiyama then?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Yes, she came here to have me, and stay with her family.
- Chibiki Tatsuji: Then she died in this town... I see.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Why they decided to make two people did not exist?
- Mei Misaki: Probably they thought that the spell would not work if they say you now that you must start to ingore me.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: So by having a second person cease to exist, could they make stronger the spell?
- Mei Misaki: Right. It also saved them to explain you the problem on me. It's quite logical.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: But it's a spell, right? All this for a spell?
- Mei Misaki: Well, they're desperated. When they take into consideration that some of them may be the next, then take it seriously. Do you think they are being unreasonable?
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Of course!
- Mei Misaki: There are no guarantees. But if there is an opportunity to help us all avoid the curse, is not that good? It's sad when people die.
- [last lines]
- Professor Kubodera: [Monday, July 13, 1998. Coming to the 3-3 classroom quite disoriented] Good morning, class.
- [Putting his bag on the stand]
- Professor Kubodera: Today I apologize to all of you... I have to... I did my best that you could graduate safely in the spring. I did everything... I could to make that happen...
- [Opening his briefcase]
- Professor Kubodera: But whatever happens from now, you must to handle it on your own.
- [Looking for something in his briefcase]
- Professor Kubodera: Once it starts, I... I don't know if fight hard can be useful for you. I don't know... You can't expect me to... But I think... it's useless to talk about that now.
- [Desperated, he takes out a large knife from his bag in front of his students]
- Naoya Teshigawara: [Friday, May 1, 1998, after Izumi, Tomohiko and Yukari came from Visiting to Kouichi in the hospital] I thought it would not happen this year. In the opening ceremony, we had the perfect number of desktops.
- Izumi Akazawa: But we stayed with a desk less when the new student came.
- Naoya Teshigawara: Can it begin a month later?
- Tomohiko Kazami: Maybe yes, so...
- Naoya Teshigawara: By the way, You checked him, right? How was he?
- Izumi Akazawa: I don't think it's him.
- Naoya Teshigawara: How do you know that?
- Izumi Akazawa: He never lived in Yomiyama, he has no brothers. and he doesn't have the cold hands, but...
- Kouichi Sakakibara: I saw the phrase "Who is the dead one?" written in your desk. Did you write it?
- Mei Misaki: Yes I know I'm not dead. so I wanted to ask who it was.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Can You notice that?
- Mei Misaki: Well...
- [In that time, Kirika, Mei's mother, arrives at the room]
- Yukiyo ' Kirika' Misaki: Welcome. Sorry for the way I look.
- [to Mei, in a cold way]
- Yukiyo ' Kirika' Misaki: Is he a friend from class? Or the art club?
- Mei Misaki: [In a cold way] He is also a client of the gallery below. Seems to enjoy it a lot.
- Yukiyo ' Kirika' Misaki: [Ignoring them] Oh, really? Seems unusual for a boy. Do you like dolls?.
- Kouichi Sakakibara: Actually, I...
- Mei Misaki: [Interrupting him] I think it's time to go, Sakakibara.