Rikku
"...You should've seen
it! Everyone's eyes were glued on the stage,
waving flags and banners!"
"That's when a guard discovered me."
"And that's when I went punch, punch, punch!"
Paine
"Yeah, you've always had a
talent for disaster."
"We just knew that
Leblanc was up to no good."
"Paine figured out it was
some scheme of hers."
Yuna
"She's a big, fat crook,
wouldn't you say?"
"Yuna! I never thought
I'd hear you talk like that!"
"Ah...well...nowadays
I'm in the company of a seriously passionate
person."
"I'm so happy, you know?"
"Really, that must be
why he came back."
"Huh?"
"Much like when we were
together, relying one each other for every
little thing."
"Why didn't we write to each other?"
"It just never came up. It doesn't mean we can't rely on each other
anymore."
"I almost wrote to you,
Paine."
"But then I got really busy and didn't."
"But, all I had to write about was past stuff."
"There's
nothing new
going on in my life."
"And you don't want to hear about that, right?"
"Rikku, what is it
you're trying to say?"
"There's too many things..."
"Yeah, you can be seen
sticking your neck out here, there and
everywhere."
"Well, listen up. Rikku, what is it you want to be?"
"Ooh?"
"Let me think...well...?"
"Rikku?"
"It's complicated."
"I'm trying to decide what to say..."
"But I can't think
what, okay?"
"So what! I feel like I'm burning myself out at both ends
without
budging an inch forward!"
"I don't want to be busy but I'm not able to
relax!"
"But Yuna is doing just that!"
"What?"
"Spending everyday just
the same in Besaid in a lazy blur! Taking it
easy, as if time were standing still!"
"Lazy blur!?"
"Well, Rikku, didn't you choose to be flying around all over?
Anyway,
right now, I'm doing just fine!"
"Going where? Doing what?"
"It's...we...we watch
the ocean together."
"We take lots and lots of walks
together."
"I invent tons of different meals to cook for him..."
"That's pretty boring!"
"If being relaxed and
carefree is boring, then that's fine with me!
Rikku, why can't you understand?"
"I don't understand!"
"Why am I the only one who doesn't get it?"
"Just because you're too
busy, Rikku, doesn't give you the right to put
down my life with lies!"
"What was that?"
"Get a hold of yourselves!"
"Look, people each have their own way."
"Yes, but if people are
good friends, they shouldn't say things like that
to each other."
"Oh! And I suppose it
doesn't count that Paine can just say anything
she wants to me!"
"Rikku, we both care
about you!"
"Oh, really! You found
what you were looking for, so now you shut me
out!"
"It was completely your
decision to-!"
"Enough! You both know
that's not true!"
"After all this, just to get us back together...makes you
wonder what
for."
"Rikku..."
"It was you-"
"That's enough already!"
"Maybe this time, it
was a mistake for us to get back together, wasn't
it?"
"Awww, I wonder if
whatever's at the top will be worth it."
"It will probably be the best
part yet."
"We've just gotta get
up there!"
"What do you think's up there to see?"
"We could ask the one who
wrote the letters."
"That's the part I
don't get! If we don't know who, then we don't know
what to ask either, right?"
"Who do you think it is?"
"Maybe together the three of
us can figure out who it is, huh?"
"I think it's Leblanc."
"She'd definitely be
more showy about it... I myself have always been
suspicious of that jerk, Rin."
"Both of you got it
wrong."
"What about me?"
"What!?"
"Such a thing!?"
"What can I say...?
Everything I can think of now seems petty and
ridiculous."
"When we all parted, I journeyed alone for a long time."
"I didn't know how lonely a life like that could be."
"I wanted
to share
this with you."
"I didn't want to come here alone because...someone
who's
alone is incomplete."
"But the three of us working together can make things
complete. Why
can't we recapture that?"
"It's good to hear you say
that."
"The thing is, if we
keep heading to the top, will there really be
something to see there?"
"Yeah, that's what I've been
thinking, too."
"We've been set up! Darn it!"
"Sorry..."
"It's been so long that I just thought it would be more
pleasant if we
figured it out as a team again."
"I don't want our friendship to just be buried under the
times, in
the past."
"Those are the things that break friends apart."
"It hasn't been that
long...only like three months."
"Why then? Why can't we go
back to those times?
"Hold on. Up until now, I've
thought we all wanted to move on. After all, we can't go back
again."
"Are you afraid to?"
"This is your way of saying that, isn't it?"
"Maybe we're all scared."
"I think I'm starting to understand now."
"Whatever it is, let's go."
"Let's go see who may be waiting for us."
"It's nothing... Just
remembering."
"When we were being pursued by the temples, we were cut off for what
we knew."
"Then, suddenly, Nooj shot us."
"I remember the feeling of loss I had, thinking that the last thing
I'd ever see was that sunsetting sky."
"At that time, he was being manipulated, controlled by Shuyin."
"Coldly, he piled what was left of us close together on the ground.
We needed medical help badly."
"For some reason, he kept his distance from the Al Bhed who had
arrived to help us."
"To keep us away from the temple's prying eyes, they separated us,
carrying each one of us away for treatment. After that, we just had
to pick up
the pieces and start new lives full of regret..."
"Have you talked to Nooj about
it?"
"That's all water under the
bridge now, just a heart-pounding memory."
"My friends and I were separated, scattered that night at dusk.
Since then, I've endured many long nights..." |
"Me, too."
"You know, for me, it was the first
time I saw
Zanarkand."
"I wanted to hold onto that night. I didn't want Yuna to die. That's
all I could think about..."
"But then, Yuna, you decided to go on. There was no way I could stop
you. It wasn't my place to interfere."
"What was the point of it all?"
"Thinking and thinking but not understanding... Half of me wanted to
cry when I saw the sunset that day."
"Yes, I felt the same way."
"It was my sacred duty, the
Summoner's pilgrimage."
"I didn't know everything about it, but everyone was walking with
me. That was..."
Tidus
"This may be our last chance?"
"So I want to tell you everything I want to say."
"Hey, but now we're..."
"What?"
"...Never mind."
"Almost there."
"Probably."
"What's with you?"
"It's a secret."
"Well, let me try to guess
then."
"You won't get the reason
why."
"Is that so?"
"We haven't been together for
a while."
"Paine and I have changed. We haven't stood still."
"But now, even though we're together again, we seem even farther
apart."
"The gap between us has widened..."
"I think the three of us had the same feeling, we wanted to come
back together."
"Am I right?"
"How did you know?"
"I felt the same way."
"You mean it?"
"Indeed."
"Even I wanted to."
"Those times when we were fighting battles, even if we were hurt or
troubled, the idea of togetherness never felt wrong."
"I don't know brought us together then."
"Some might call it coincidence."
"I'm just glad that luck smiled upon us..."
"Right from the start, the three of us never stood still."
"That's how it was being a
trio."
"Then, when we just separated so suddenly, I felt alone. How did it
make you feel?"
"Same as you, a little
homesick."
"People can never say what
they really feel."
"So Rikku, that's what you
felt, too."
"I understand now. I'm so relieved."
"That's right..."
"That's right!"
"Yeah, why did that happen?"
"What, where, and who do I go with?"
"That's what I thought then.Everyone just disappeared. What was I
supposed to think then, huh?"
"If you felt that way,
wouldn't it have been simple for you to write us?"
"But I didn't know what I was
feeling!"
"Rikku, but why did you just,
out of nowhere, get angry with us?"
"It just seemed like I
couldn't think of anything else to do! It made me feel sick inside!"
"Again and again, we're still
just running."
"As if we don't really know each other."
"But we should never quarrel
like that!"
"From now on, let's agree to keep in touch."
"We have a lot to talk about, okay?"
"So! Let's go check it out!"
"It'll be us from now on."
"We'll go together and see what we'll find there!"
"Hey, I believe we'll
always be together."
"Whenever we're together,
I think we can change the universe."
"We can face anything."
"We won't just sit still."
"Why did I feel that we
had lost what we had?"
"How could I have thought
that reuniting was a bad idea?"
"But I guess people can't
help but have silly thoughts sometimes, huh?"
"Well, it wouldn't be
quite natural if we didn't."
"Nothing can change peoples' ways."
"The times we spent
together weren't wrong."
"After all, nothing could
destroy our bond."
"Going in, then?"
"Hey! What do you think we'll see?"
"Are you still worried?"
"So what do you want to do?
Turn back?"
"Not a chance!"
"Well, then..."
"Y"
"R"
"P"
YRP
"Let's go!"
"Let's have a look-see..."
"Guess it's busted, huh?"
"Even this has an expiration
date."
"So what we have here is a..."
YRP
"Dud? "
"Are you upset because it's
broken?"
"I'll say! Darn it!"
"We went through all the trouble of climbing this big, tall tower,
with fiends all chasing us around in circles!"
"During all that fighting, I was thinking about who wrote that
letter!"
"What'd all that stupid junk in it mean?"
"Dr. P!"
"Did you know that there would be nothing to see once we got up
here?"
"Hmmm? What? Can't you see
it?"
"What?"
"I can see it clearly."
"See it?"
"I can only see...us...?"
"Broken parts?"
"Now, it feels like we haven't been apart at all." "Looking at
this, I remember how it was to feel broken."
"Those times that I walked
alone are gone."
"I know now that all those lonely places I went to were only lonely
because I was by myself."
"But why didn't I know it
then?"
"Next time we're together, we won't just part."
"We won't meet by chance and lose each other again..."
"I remember through all
the battles in the past, the three of us still laughed together and
held on tight, didn't we?"
"Whenever it comes,
whatever the future holds for each one of us, we can always go back
to these days and look back fondly."
"Even if we are far apart, we can dream of this one moment in
time we spent together."
"Yes, surely, we'll have
this for always."
-Someday, somewhere in the sky...
_may we meet again.- |
