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Strinova
Tomorrow's Eventual Arrival
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Artist / Wusebi
Proposed by Makoto Fukami
Author / Ishigaki
Coloring / Caicai
Editor / 99
Publisher / Kadokawa Group
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Chapter 24
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...Investigator Michele.
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...That was quite a shock.
Turns out you're actually a PUS Special Investigator.
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Ah, isn't calling you Kokona a bit too informal!?
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Haha, no worries, calling me Kokona is fine.
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Apologies for hiding my identity in front of you...
...My mission was extremely confidential.
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That being said, let's find a place to sit first.
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…As for the Scissors members that disguised their identities to participate in the assessment, there’s Frey…
No, Ming,
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and…
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Lawine, the one claiming to be “Alaya.“
Those two are both senior officials within The Scissors.
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Both of them disguised their identities and changed their appearances to blend in.
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They gathered intelligence and waited for their enemies, PUS and Urbino, to take action…
Perhaps their purpose was for more than that.
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But it seems like they've all retreated for now.
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...The Scissors...why do they have to do these things...
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…The Scissors is the most radical of Strinova’s three major factions.
That's because they are opposed to Strinova itself.
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Earth was supposed to be the home of mankind, but because of resource scarcity and depletion of natural resources,
humans are no longer able to survive there.
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The Scissors want to use the energy and technology gained in this world
to solve Earth’s energy crisis and revive civilization.
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This I know...however,
isn’t that how Strinova was made as well?
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In order for humanity to ensure its survival…
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Even though there’s the problem of Collapse Syndrome, PUS is always developing plans to solve it…
Everyone in this world doesn’t age nor die, and can do whatever we like.
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It's happy, and peaceful...
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This should be the utopia everyone dreamed of,
but...
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...What a "dream utopia" is depends on the person.
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I am one who protects this world, and I’m a PUS member, and thus I cannot agree with The Scissors…
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But if they want to revive civilization on Earth, to a certain extent…
I can understand.
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...Kokona,
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Right,
How did you get to know Celestia from Urbino?
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...ah, that,
uhhh...
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Regarding Celestia…I’m not authorized to say too much about that.
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All I can say is that we are old acquaintances.
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If you get the chance, why don't you ask Celestia yourself?
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OK!
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That being said, she is one of my very close friends.
That's all I can say.
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A close friend...
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Ah-
Sorry, I just spoke without thinking, I shouldn’t talk about friends or anything like that right now…
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…it’s not a problem.
Just hearing other people’s stories about “close friends” makes me very happy.
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Michele...
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…As for me, ever since I was little, I never had any good friends.
How do I say this…it might be because I can’t really read people’s emotions…
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So even though I really wanted to make friends,
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I always worried about this and that, and thus kept missing opportunities…
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During this assessment, I met people who were willing to be friends with a person like me…
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It made me really happy.
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Especially Freya...
We lived in the same dorm together,
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and would talk even during lights out. It seemed like there was so much to talk about…
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We would confide in each other, encourage each other,
and make so many happy memories…
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drip
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drip
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I have very few actual friends...
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So...
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so...
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being able to make friends...
...it...it made me so happy..
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sniffle
sob...
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WAAAAAAAAAHHH
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Michele...!
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sob!
Freya! Whyyyy!
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I hate you,
I hate you,
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Michele...
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I HATE YOU! FREYA...!
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Why...why...!
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I thought we could be good friends...!
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SOB
sob