Eighth Despair//Video

[zetsubo_sensei]

[Itoshiki can be seen quietly reading a book--actually, he's quite happily reading a book! It was a time for change, he had realized! His whole new life was ahead of him and nobody seemed to have any intention to harm him at all--well, except the scientists, but he wasn't thinking about that

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[kan_chyan]

Are you sure the book is even in a language you normaly know how to read?

[zetsubo_sensei]

It is! The book is English, which is my second language! I normally read it fin but...

I HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW!!!!!

[kan_chyan]

Are you sure it's English? And not just Roman letters?

[zetsubo_sensei]

No! Here...

[VIDEO]
[He displays the book to the communicator. Yea, it's English.]

[kan_chyan]

And you forgot how to read it...?

Are you sure you ever knew how to read English in the first place?

[zetsubo_sensei]

I could!!!

[...]

THEN AGAIN! I could have forgotten also that I couldn't read it!

I believe I can.... I do recall knowing English...

POSSIBLY IT'S MY ENGLISH I HAVE FORGOTTEN?!

[kan_chyan]

Maybe you know how to speak it? Reading is different.

And calm down! Flipping out won't do any good!

[Voice; English]

If you can understand this, then you haven't forgotten English, if you can't, you either never knew it to begin with, or perhaps forgot it. I think it's more you never knew it, or knew it well.

[zetsubo_sensei]

I am trying, but this is a matter of the utmost importance!!!

[Voice;English]

Ahhh.... Yes, I do understand. This is quite strange.

[kan_chyan]

I don't see why your English skills are that important.

Fine, try and write something on a piece of paper in English and show it to me. Why am I bothering with this lunatic?

[zetsubo_sensei]

Ah... perhaps that will work.... good idea...

[There's a deathly long pause.]

WHAT IS MY NAME?!

[kan_chyan]

...

Itoshiki Nozomu....

[zetsubo_sensei]

Oh yes.... Now I remember

Ah.... [There's another pause.]

[VIDEO]

Is this correct?

[Itoshiki has it written vertically in Japanese, then beside it he has written "Eetochicy Mosumo"]

[kan_chyan]

No, it's completely wrong. Though, maybe it almost makes the same sounds.

[Video]

Here, it's written like this:

I T O S H I K I space N O Z O M U

[Kantarou was writing out as he was speaking each letter. He then picks up the paper and shows it to the camera.]

Like that.

[zetsubo_sensei]

Itoshiki Nozomu...

I-T-O-S-H-I-K-I space N-O-Z-O-M-U

[He pauses again.]

[Video]

[He writes the letters out... but they all look like some kanji or another--only his I's are written normally]

Is that correct?

[kan_chyan]

No. Try and write it exactly as I wrote it.

[zetsubo_sensei]

Ahhh.... right...

[Video]

[He's forgotten, hold on while he makes a few mistakes]

I L O S I K I [space] N O Z O N U

[If it helps, as he wrote the letters, he SAID the right name]