<p>Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">I hate to say this after dragging you all the way out here,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> but if you prefer to go back, it's not too late.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">You've got to be kidding me.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">All right then.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> So, could you do me a favor and close your eyes?</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> It'll only take a couple of seconds.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">Hm?</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"> Do you have to hold my hand?</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Ok, open up.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> The gap between dimensions, separate from the world we know, completely closed space.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> In the middle of this crosswalk is the wall for this closed space.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> It's about five kilometers wide.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> And normally there isn't any physical way of entering this space.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> But that's one of the powers I have.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> That is, then the conditions are right.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> If you can picture a dome that's been popped down over the city,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> where we're standing in it.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> As we're in here, talking, lives go on as normal in the world out of the space.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> And normal folks wandering in here, well, that doesn't happen too often.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Now, closed space is created completely at random.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Sometimes they pop up every other day.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Sometimes you won't see one for a couple of months.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> One thing's for sure though.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Whenever Miss Suzumiya gets emotionally unstable, it creates space like this, somewhere.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I can sense when closed space is created, and I know where to go to find a door to get in.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> My powers aren't limited to finding these things and getting into them.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> You could say that my power's somehow reflected upon the things within Miss Suzumiya's consciousness.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> So if this closed space is a pimple that appears on Miss Suzumiya's spirit,</span><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">we espers are the acne medication.</span><br /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">You know your metaphors are hard to understand.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Yeah, I get that a lot.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> But then you sure are something.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I mean, here you are seeing all this, but you don't seem surprised.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">I've seen a lot of strange things already.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Well, it looks like it's starting.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Please take a look behind you.</span><br /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">Hm, Ah!</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">When Miss Suzumiya's irritations would thus get to a certain point, these giants suddenly appear.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I think it's her formal stress-reliefer, and with those things acting out on her behalf and destroying stuff.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I mean she can't go causing riots or anything in the real world.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> So she creates a closed space and she's freed and unleash her fury inside it.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Don't you think that's logical?</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I mean that thing really shouldn't be able to support its own weight.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> It seems to transcend the law of physics, doesn't it.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Even if you brought an army unit and fire rockets at it, it still wouldn't stop that thing.</span><br /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">So you mean that the thing just keeps tearing stuff off?</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Might quite.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Have a look over there.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Other espers.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> They're just like me, people that hunt down the giants created and powered by Miss Suzumiya.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Stay here.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> It's time for me to go help out.</span><br /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">I can't believe this is happening.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Sorry to make you wait.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Oh, there's something else I wanna show you.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> The last thing I promise.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">I don't think anything's gonna top that.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Once us espers get rid of the giant, the bubbled closed space disintegrates.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> And it's quite a spectacle.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">So, now do you understand?</span><br /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Uh, no.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">We have a name for that giant you saw.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> We call them shinjin, a man that's made by god.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> The shinjin are linked to Miss Suzumiya's mental state, so are we.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Stop me if this starts to get confusing.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> When a closed space is created, the shinjin rise up to take the form of giants.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> That's when I get down to unleash my super-natural powers.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> However, I can only use them within the confines of the closed space.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Right now, sitting in this cab, I don't have any powers at all.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> You're probably wondering why I was given these powers, right?</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I guess it would've been ok for anybody to have them.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I just happened to be the one chosen.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> And as for the shinjin, you can't leave them alone to do what they want.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> The reason is that the more stuff the shinjin get to destroy,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> the bigger the closed space becomes.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> The space we were just in,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> believe it or not, that was one of the smaller ones.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> If we left that alone, it'd keep on growing, getting bigger and bigger till it covers the world.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> If that happens, the world ends.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> The grey void closed space will replace the world we're living now.</span><br /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">But, how do you know what would happen like that.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">I don't know how I know.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> I just know that I know, you know.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> And the same goes for everyone else that belongs to the organization.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> If we don't do something about all this, the world doesn't stand a chance at all.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> It's such a bother.</span><br /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">So, please keep an eye on Miss Suzumiya's behavior.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Her mental state's been stable for a while.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> But it looks like it's starting to get active again.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Things like today haven't happened for a long time.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">Even if I do keep an eye on Haruhi,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"> don't you think I'm a little out of my league here?</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><br /> Koizumi:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);">Hang out.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> Don't sell yourself so short.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> If they were up to me, I'd let you handle all the stuff by yourself</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> because if there's anyone I trust, it'd be you.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,204,0);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,204,0);"> But there're many different opinions among us and the things are definitely complicated.</span><br /><br /><br /> Kyon:<br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">Koizumi tells me to keep an eye on Haruhi's behavior.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"> And for some reason, Nagato tells me to be careful.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"> Even though both of them warned me, I really didn't think anything would happen right away.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"> If I could see into the future, know the very next day,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"> I'd been in the middle of one of the hilarious situations ever in my life,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,102,255);" /><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"> I'm sure I wouldn't have been as calm as I was right then.</span></p>