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Somewhere around forty minutes into _Kizumonogatari: Tekketsu-hen_ , Araragi
is set upon by the three exorcists who earlier dismembered Kiss-Shot:
Dramaturgie, Episode, and Guillotine Cutter.

As they advance upon him, they speak to one another - but all we (the viewers)
hear is a sort of guttural grumbling. Araragi presumably hears the same thing
(non-speech sounds), given that he says something about trying to get them -
as fellow human beings - to communicate with him rather than kill him.

What's the deal? On the one hand, this was certainly an incredibly stressful
situation for Araragi, so he could well just have been on an adrenaline rush
that was interfering with his hearing. But then again, this being _Monogatari_
, it's not implausible that maybe they were speaking some sort of secret
exorcist tongue.


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Why was Araragi unable to understand Dramaturgie / Episode / Guillotine Cutter when they first met?


He was speaking another language.

Going off the English version of the Kizumonogatari novel, page 81 shows that
Dramaturgy spoke something that Araragi didn't understand. Vertical displayed
this by just having a bunch of black boxes in quotations (dunno how Nisioisin
did it in the Japanese novel, but I'm sure it's something similar). Page 82
starts with Guillotine Cutter reprimanding Dramaturgy for not using "the
language of the land you're in", meaning that Dramaturgy was speaking a
language other than Japanese.


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