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Chobits Episode 10 - Chii Buys

OPENING THEME MUSIC: "Let Me Be With You"

*** Street ***

Chii walks down the street wearing her Chiroru outfit. She takes her envelope out of her pocket.

CHII: The paycheck Chii got from Chiroru. Hideki said Chii can buy what Chii wants with this. But Chii still wants to give something to Hideki.

She comes to a bookstore.

CHII: Here is a bookstore.

Chii points to books.

CHII: Lots of books! Lots of reference books!

She points to the adult section.

CHII: Lots of models! Hideki has this one. He has this one, too. This, too. This, too. Hideki doesn't have this one!

She takes the magazine off the rack and carries it away, as two men stare at her.

CHII: I'm going to give this to Hideki.

She sees a storybook from the same series as the one she's read. Its title is "The Person Just for Me," subtitled "The City Where No One Was."

*** Hideki's Apartment ***

Hideki is pacing.

HIDEKI: I wonder if Chii's okay. She said she wanted to go alone, so there's nothing I can do....

He goes over to the window and stares out at the city.

HIDEKI: But there was that incident at the peep house, too.... She's learned a lot so far, so she's probably okay. I hope she didn't get lost. Maybe letting her go alone was a bad idea.

There is a knock on the door, and Shinbo comes in.

SHINBO: Hey!

HIDEKI: Shinbo?

SHINBO: Oh, here, you are. How's your job?

HIDEKI: I'm off today and tomorrow. What's wrong?

Shinbo holds up his plastic bin of shower stuff and chuckles.

SHINBO: I came to invite you.

HIDKEI: To a bath? At this hour?

SHINBO: What are you talking about? This is the perfect time of day!

HIDEKI: But I just went yesterday....

SHINBO: It doesn't matter if you went yesterday.

He finds Hideki's bin and hands it to him.

SHINBO: Anyway, come with me.

HIDEKI: Hey....

*** Hot Water Land ***

Note: That's the name of the place. Not my nickname for a bath house.

Hideki and Shinbo enter. The showers are empty.

SHINBO: See? There's no one here at a time like this, so it's like we reserved the whole place! It really feels good!

He notices Hideki sighing.

SHINBO: What, are you still worried about her? You can't do anything about it. You're the one who told her she could go alone. She's learned how to speak well, right?

HIDEKI: Yeah.

He and Shinbo start to undress.

SHINBO: Well, then, let's go. By the way, have you been giving your persocon baths?

HIDEKI: Eh? G.... Giving my persocon a bath?!

SHINBO: Oh, I guess you don't know. There.

He points to a price list on the wall.

HIDEKI: "Persocon - ¥200." Really? You can give persocons baths?

SHINBO: It's common sense!

HIDEKI: Common sense?

The two of them are in the showers.

SHINBO: Listen up. Basically giving a persocon a bath is cleaning it.

HIDEKI: Cleaning?

Note: It's not that Hideki doesn't know what cleaning is, Shinbo just used the English of "cleaning."

SHINBO: Right. It needs constant maintenance, so you can't neglect it.

HIDEKI: So you give your persocon a bath, too?

SHINBO: Sumomo? Mobiles are small, so I just use cleaning solutions at home. But regular persocons are big, so they need baths. Just bring her here and everything will be fine.

HIDEKI: I see. So all I have to do is bring Chii here?

SHINBO: But I guess your persocon doesn't know how to take a bath, right? Normally, you'd just buy cleaning software and install it. Then the persocon knows how to bathe itself.

HIDEKI: I don't have any money to buy software.

SHINBO: Then it can't be helped. There's only one other option.

HIDEKI: What is it?

SHINBO: You'll have to wash her yourself, in this bath house.

HIDEKI: Me, personally? Here at this bath house? I have to wash Chii here?!

Note: Gyaaah! CLAMP, WTF are you doing?! Was that shot really necessary?! (Hideki.... Just stood up in the bath. It's too much.)

HIDEKI: So that means I get naked in public and...! S.... S.... Seriously?!

SHINBO: It was a joke.

Hideki falls over.

SHINBO: You just have to teach her how.

HIDEKI: Teach what?

SHINBO: What? Well, how to take a bath, of course! She has learning software. If you show her how, she'll be able to take one herself in the women's showers. After that, you just need to pay the bill.

HIDEKI: Oh, I see. [thinking] Bathing, huh? If Chii gets nice and clean, I'm sure she'll be happy.

*** Hideki's Apartment ***

Hideki enters.

HIDEKI: Tadaima!

CHII: Hideki, okaerini!

HIDEKI: So you got home safely, Chii. I'm glad. By the way, Chii....

CHII: Hideki, Chii went shopping.

He chuckles.

HIDEKI: What did you buy, Chii?

She holds out a manilla envelope.

CHII: This. Chii bought this for Hideki.

HIDEKI: Eh...? So you went shopping for me?

She nods.

CHII: Chii.

HIDEKI: Arigatou, Chii! I'm really happy.

CHII: Chiiiiii!

She glomps him, and his bin and the envelope fall to the floor.

HIDEKI: Hey, Chii...!

CHII: Chii made you happy! Hideki, Hideki!

He laughs.

CHII: When Hideki is happy, Chii also turns happy.

She smiles.

CHII: My face turns like this.

HIDEKI: That's smiling.

CHII: "Smiling"? Is that a good thing?

HIDEKI: Yeah. It shows happiness.

CHII: Happiness.

Her breasts push against Hideki, and he grins stupidly.

HIDEKI: Happiness! Oh, that's right, Chii! It's not a present, but I'll teach you something good right now.

CHII: Something good?

HIDEKI: Yep, how to take a bath!

CHII: "Bath"?

HIDEKI: That's right. It cleanses your skin. When you walk into the bathhouse, the first thing you see is the locker room. Then you pick a locker and take off your clothes and....

He puts his hand on the manilla envelope.

HIDEKI: Huh?

CHII: Chii.

HIDEKI: Gomen, gomen. I better open the present first. I wonder what's in it....

CHII: Chii!

He pulls out the magazine. It has a picture of a girl in a hot spring. There is a faucet in the shape of a lion's head.

CHII: Hideki needs a new model!

Hideki puts the magazine back in the envelope.

CHII: Can you use it?

HIDEKI: And you see.... A bath is, you see....

He pulls the magazine out again. This time he imagines it's Chii in the hot spring.

CHII: Chii?

HIDEKI: And you see.... A bath is when hot water pours out of a lion's mouth.

He falls over.

CHII: Hideki, you're not happy with your new model?

HIDEKI, dazed: No, I'm really happy, Chii. And you see.... A bath is....

He is smiling bemusedly.

CHII: Hideki, smiling! Chii, happy!

HIDEKI: A bath is....

Note: He lost it, in case you couldn't tell. His mind, that is.

*** Shinbo's Apartment ***

SHINBO: Well, I guess I can.

HIDEKI: Sumimasehn, but after seeing that magazine I just can't teach Chii myself. Please!

SHINBO: You have too much of an imagination, y'know?

Sumomo's eyes flash.

SUMOMO: Searching, searching. We have a hit!

SHINBO: All right, download the data on taking baths from that site.

SUMOMO: Aye!

SHINBO: Well, leave everything to me. I'll have Sumomo act according to the data that she's downloading right now. Just have your persocon mimic her.

HIDEKI: Thanks. [to Chii] Now do what Sumomo does.

CHII: Chii.

SUMOMO: Download is complete!

SHINBO: All right, now play the data you just downloaded.

SUMOMO: Aye! Understood!

She hops from one foot to the other.

SUMOMO: Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot! Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!

SHINBO: What is this?

He pulls a cable out of her ear and plugs it into the television. The footage is of a game show: a woman is in a tub of hot water. I guess it's called net bathing.

SHINBO: Oh, no, it's a site for net bathing....

CHII: Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!

HIDEKI: Sh.... Shinbo!

SHINBO: Sumomo, that wasn't what I was talking about. Search for software regarding bathing.

HIDEKI: Hey, I can't afford any software!

SHINBO: If it's freeware then it'll be fine. It doesn't cost anything. [to Sumomo] Resume searching.

SUMOMO: Aye!

Her eyes flash.

SUMOMO: Download complete! I'll play it!

She puts her fingers to her mouth as though holding a drink.

SHINBO: Sumomo, what is that?

SUMOMO: In this club, the first rule of correct bathing is to drink coffee and milk with style!

Chii pretends to drink, too.

SHINBO: Ehhh, Sumomo, do another search.

SUMOMO: Aye! Download complete, I'll play it!

SHINBO: That's not it! One more time!

SUMOMO: Aye! Download complete, I'll play it!

*** Hideki's Apartment ***

Hideki is sprawled out on the floor. It's morning.

HIDEKI: Looks like we didn't figure out anything about bathing yesterday. I wonder what I should do....

Chii walks up to him wearing her Chiroru outfit.

CHII: Chii is going to work.

HIDEKI: Wait, I can take you to Chiroru today.

CHII: Hideki, are you going to the bathhouse you were talking about yesterday?

HIDEKI: Eh? Yeah, after you come back home.

CHII: Okay.

The phone rings. Hideki picks it up.

HIDEKI: Hai, this is Motosuwa.

MINORU'S VOICE: Hello. This is Kokobunji.

HIDEKI: Minoru-kun, it's been a while.

MINORU'S VOICE: Ummm, do you have some free time today?

HIDEKI: I don't have any classes today so I'm free.

MINORU'S VOICE: There's something I'd like to discuss.

HIDEKI: Discuss? Prefect! There's something I wanted to ask you, too, Minoru-kun. Where should I meet you?

MINORU'S VOICE: In front of the station at Ryukaron at 4 o'clock. Do you understand?

HIDEKI: Yep, I got it.

At his house, Minoru looks serious.

EYECATCH

*** Café ***

Hideki and Minoru have coffee.

MINORU: Huh? A good way to get your persocon to bathe?

HIDEKI: Yeah. I had Shinbo's persocon search for us but it didn't go too well. If wonder if there's a good solution....

MINORU: There's one solution.

HIDEKI: Ah? Really?

MINORU: You must show Chii-san how to bathe yourself, of course.

HIDEKI: I tried doing that before but it didn't go like I planned.

MINORU: Well, if you don't want to buy software that's all you can do.

HIDEKI: So that's my only option for now....

He remembers talking to Chii that morning.

CHII, in past: Are you going to the bathhouse you were talking about yesterday?

HIDEKI: She seemed pretty happy.... All right!!!! I'll do my best to teach her once more!!!! As long as I don't imagine anything weird....

MINORU: Anything weird?

HIDEKI: Eh, well, no.... It's nothing at all! Oh, yeah. What did you want to talk about, Minoru-kun?

MINORU: It's about Chii-san.

HIDEKI: About Chii?

MINORU: I told you a while back that I'd look through the persocon BBS.... And I got a response, so I thought I'd look into it.

HIDEKI: One second. What's a BBS?

MINORU: It's like a bulletin board on the Internet. Anyone can post things.

HIDEKI: Wow, that's pretty convenient. Hey, if I asked someone there about how to get Chii to take a bath....

MINORU: Huh?

HIDEKI: Oh, nothing! And there was someone there who knew something about Chii?

MINORU: There was a response.... Oh, a response is a written reply. Most of the people said things like "I'd like a persocon like that!" of "I want to check out its abilities!"

He pulls out a leather satchel from under the counter.

MINORU: Then I got an e-mail.... With an attached image file.

HIDEKI: An attached file?

Minoru holds out a printed photo.

MINORU: I don't know if this has anything to do with Chii-san or not.

Hideki looks at the picture and gasps.

HIDEKI: T.... This is....

The picture shows Chii hooked up to all kinds of gnarly cords and tubes and wires along her spine. There is a number on her arm: "01" and letters on her leg: "HOBIT."

MINORU: No matter how you look at it, it's Chii-san.

HIDEKI: I.... I don't understand, but.... It looks just like Chii. And what is all this jumbled-up stuff?

MINORU: I haven't seen these types of connections before, either.

HIDEKI: Could this be a prank? Maybe someone saw Chii, took a picture, and doctored the image like this.

MINORU: It's possible, but something bothers me.

HIDEKI: Do you know who sent it to you? Don't e-mails have things called "e-mail addresses"? If you know that, then....

MINORU: No matter how much I write back, my mail always gets returned.

HIDEKI: Why?

MINORU: It might be an address that isn't in use anymore, or maybe the e-mail was sent by a fake address.

HIDEKI: Why would someone do that?

MINORU: To keep the sender's identity a secret, I guess.

Minoru points to the letters on Chii's leg.

MINORU: Look at this. If what her arm is covering is a "C"....

HIDEKI: C-H-O-B-I-T. Chobits?

MINORU: I told you earlier, right? The Chobits codename. The legendary persocon with emotions, which can think on its own. Human-shaped but not human.

*** Street ***

Hideki walks along, thinking.

HIDEKI, thinking: Is it really Chii in that picture? Is Chii really an amazing persocon called a Chobits?

He accidentally bumps a man walking with a persocon.

MAN: That was really fun.

PERSOCON: Yes, what would you like to do next?

HIDEKI, thinking: There are lots of persocons around here....

CHII'S VOICE: Hideki!

He turns to see her running toward him.

HIDEKI: Chii?

CHII: Hideki!

HIDEKI: Chii!

Chii hugs him.

CHII: I'm done working!

HIDEKI: Is.... Is that so?

CHII: Now we take a bath. Are we going to the bathhouse together?

HIDEKI: That's right.

*** Hideki's Apartment ***

HIDEKI: I'm going to show you how to take a bath, Chii! But before that....

He picks up all his dirty magazines and puts them in the closet.

HIDEKI: Now we're ready. First, this is how we start....

He acts out all his instructions.

HIDEKI: You go into the locker room like this.

CHII: "Locker room"?

HIDEKI: A locker room is the first room you enter when you go into the bathhouse. Then you take off your clothes in that room.

He pretends to take off his clothes.

CHII: Chii....

She starts to take off her dress.

HIDEKI: Agggh! Not right now!!!! Now to explain the bathtub.

CHII: "Bathtub"?

HIDEKI: A bathtub is a large place with lots of hot water.... And it feels really good when you go in.

CHII: Chii knows!

HIDEKI: Eh?

He sees that she's looking at another dirty magazine with a girl in a bathtub.

CHII: The bathtub is right here! Chii saw it before!

Hideki screams.

*** Hot Water Land ***

Hideki and Chii stand at the front desk.

HIDEKI: Do you know how to take a bath now?

CHII: Chii!

HIDEKI: Before you get in the bathtub, clean your body with soap.

CHII: Chii.

HIDEKI: If you don't know what to do, look around and copy what others are doing. Got it?

CHII: Chii.

HIDEKI: Well, then, see you in a bit.

He walks off. When he's in the locker room, he takes off his shirt.

HIDEKI, thinking: I wonder if Chii's okay.... [aloud] But I can't teach her any more than that. But I guess this is one of those things where once you get started, everything works out fine. Yep! That's exactly what it is! It'll be fine!

Three men walk up to Hideki.

MAN: Onii-chan? Hey, onii-chan?

HIDEKI: Huh?

They point behind Hideki.

HIDEKI: Huh?

Chii is undressing (or trying to).

HIDEKI: D'Agggh!

He drags Chii out of the locker room.

HIDEKI: Ch.... Chii! Why did you do that?!

CHII: Chii copied. Right after I looked around. I looked around and copied Hideki. After copying you, I followed you.

Note: I guess she means she didn't know where to go so she copied Hideki and went into the men's locker room.

HIDEKI: Iee! Don't copy me! Copy the girls!

He grabs her hands and pulls her to the women's locker room.

HIDEKI: Chii needs to be over here.

Chii looks sad.

HIDEKI: Huh?

CHII: Chii wants to be with Hideki.

He blushes.

HIDEKI: Ah, geez! What should I do?!

Hibiya comes into the bathhouse.

HIBIYA: Oh!

HIDEKI: Kanrinin-san?

Hibiya and Chii are in the women's showers.

HIBIYA: Now we wash here.

CHII: Chii!

Hideki is over in the men's showers.

HIDEKI: I'm saved, thanks to kanrinin-san! I was wondering what I was going to do back there.

He hears Chii's voice.

CHII'S VOICE: Kanrinin-san's thing right here is bigger than Chii's! Like Hideki's model!

HIBIYA'S VOICE, laughing: Oh, my!

Hideki turns bright red and sinks under the water.

*** Hallway ***

Hideki is standing outside Hibiya's apartment.

HIDEKI: I'm really thankful that you looked after Chii.

HIBIYA'S VOICE: It's fine. Just call me anytime you want me to go take a bath with Chii-chan.

HIDEKI: Arigatou gozaimasu!

HIBIYA'S VOICE: All finished.

She opens her door. Chii is wearing a kimono.

HIBIYA: It looks really nice. A bathrobe kimono goes well after a bath.

HIDEKI: That's nice, Chii.

He smiles. Chii points at Hideki.

CHII: Hideki. Hideki, smiling!

HIDEKI: Oh?

He chuckles.

*** Hideki's Apartment ***

HIDEKI: Looks like the bath went well. I'm so glad. Huh?

He takes the photo out of his pocket.

HIDEKI: I forgot. I borrowed this from Minoru-kun.

He looks over at Chii.

HIDEKI: Is there any possibility that this is you?

Chii looks at the picture.

CHII: It's not. This isn't Chii.

Hideki sighs in relief.

HIDEKI: Really? Then it's a prank after all! I'm so glad. [thinking] I'm really glad. There was no need to get worried at all. That's right, Chii is.... [aloud] Chii is Chii.

He puts his hand on the manilla envelope the magazine Chii bought him had been in.

HIDEKI: What is it? It there something else in here?

He pulls out the storybook.

HIDEKI: Oh, is this a continuation of the book I bought you earlier?

He flips through it.

HIDEKI: It seems mysterious again.

CHII: Chii bought it. Along with Hideki's book. Chii wanted that.

HIDEKI: Is that so? It was your paycheck, after all. You can continue buying things you want from now on, too.

He pats her head.

CHII: Chii!

CLOSING THEME MUSIC: "Raison d'Être"

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