- Naota: When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.
- [Mamimi is clutching a bag of old bread]
- Naota: My brother, I mean - how much do you like him?
- Mamimi: It's hard.
- Naota: You saw the sign at our bakery, that bread's old.
- Mamimi: ...Watermelon.
- Naota: Huh?
- Mamimi: Or like a panda with a mean face, or like sandals with pressure points drawn on them, or the smell of a blackboard eraser, or a Sunday morning where you wake up and it's raining. Well, I like him more than hard bread.
- [Ninamori watches Canti eat curry]
- Eri Ninamori: Why is that thing eating? What is it anyway?
- Kamon Nandaba: That's just our TV.
- [Canti gets up]
- Eri Ninamori: Why is it walking?
- Kamon Nandaba: Well, uh, it must be a TV-Walkman.
- Eri Ninamori: Sony brand?
- Mamimi: I saw God the other day, by the river on a rainy afternoon. He helped a kitten that was left all alone. It's a God that only I can see. A black winged angel that came down from the heavens just for me.
- Kamon Nandaba: Ah, your brother is away, so she's sinking your fangs into you, Naota. Fondling around, fooling around! Fooly Cooly!
- Kamon Nandaba: [pause]
- Kamon Nandaba: What's Fooly Cooly?
- Naota Nandaba: How should I know? I'm still in grade school.
- Naota: [Naota 'lets go' of his powers as the Pirate King just in time not to hurt Haruko, to Haruko:] I love you.
- Amarao: That high school girl looked kinda sad. Seems like a little kindness might help, but you'd need some maturity to treat her that way.
- [Amarao and Kitsurubami are examining a hand-shaped structure on a bank of televisions]
- Kitsurubami: It's... a hand, isn't it?
- Amarao: It's a hand.
- Amarao: Look at that! Medical Mechanica's transporting these monstrosities here to destroy this planet! Ohhh, it's all over. Don't you see what's happening here?
- Haruko: [picking her nose, nonchalantly] You're such a drama queen, figure it out.
- Amarao: You're the one who caused all this.
- Haruko: I don't CARE, you got it?
- Amarao: Your guitar's not up to it. That's it.
- Haruko: YOU are a million years under-evolved, primitive monkey!
- Amarao: That's discriminatory language used against underdeveloped planets.
- [a giant satelite bomb is headed towards the city]
- Mamimi: If that thing hits, do you think we'll have school tomorrow?
- Amarao: [to Haruko] This is insane! You're doing exactly what Medical Mechanica wants! They're flattening planets all over the galaxy... smoothing out the wrinkles so you can't think! Even the Pirate King has been captured! They're using him to lure you in! It's over! IT'S ALL OVER!
- Haruko: I said I don't CARE about any of that. I just want Atomsk, that's all. I don't care what happens to this planet. They'll have to learn to 'think smooth', I guess!
- Amarao: She's just as bad as Medical Mechanica! You're not going to get what you want from her! FIGHT BACK, TAKE HER OUT!
- Eri Ninamori: Just don't tell anybody I stayed the night here. People might start saying things if they know.
- Naota: [drinking a soft drink] Yeah, people will say all kinds of things. Just don't hang out with me for the next couple of days, all right?
- Eri Ninamori: But tonight is okay, right?
- Eri Ninamori: What's really weird... is your ears...
- Naota: What? You've seen them...?
- Eri Ninamori: I was told not to touch them, perfect for playing a cat...
- Eri Ninamori: You're Puss in Boots, the one who tricks the prince. He hides who he really is and pretends to be someone else forever. So in time he becomes that person, so his lie becomes the truth, see? He transcends the mask. Well, don't you get it? That's how he finds happiness. That's pretty good, right?
- Naota: By the time I realized it, I had already swung the bat. My palms still sting. I wonder if Haruko feels like this all the time.
- [Haruko laughs gleefully]
- Naota: By the time I realized it, I had already swung the bat. My palms still sting. I wonder if Haruko like this all the time.
- [Haruko laughs gleefully]