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!!! page 01
Chapter 29: The Secret of the Flower
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!!! page 02
FX: Thrumming
FX: Car speeding along
Misaki: ……
I should be able to see the Nishijima building just fine from here, but…
The closer I get the darker……
This fog……
That's……
FX: Fog rolling aside
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!!! page 03
FX: Clack
FX: Car moving
Soldier: ……No one will get through…
No one can be here!
FX: Ka-click
FX: Gunfire
FX: Boom
FX: Slam
FX: Shattering
Soldier: No one.
FX: Roaring
Soldier: No one.
!
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!!! page 04
FX: Click
FX: Clack
FX: Flashing
FX: Th-thrum
FX: Crackling
Soldier: Auuggh!
FX: Crumbling
Soldier: ……
FX: Thud
Misaki: That way of having been split off from that wreckage…
I thought it was with heavy weaponry, but…
FX: Shaking
Misaki: The black dandelion…one of Harvest's companions…?
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!!! page 05
Misaki: His ability is this unnatural fog…
FX: Flames roaring
Misaki: I met my expectation, but…it was a little undignified…
That was a good car.
FX: Wind blowing
FX: Running
FX: Earpiece static
Kanami: …saki,
Misaki?
Misaki: Kanami.
Kanami: Oh good, it finally connected.
Listen up, Misaki.
I scanned the Nishijima building by hacking Pandora's servers.
FX: Keyboard tapping
Misaki: Pandora's…?
Kanami: Yes.
If I'm done in, return the favor, okay?
It looks like things are serious inside.
Everything's sealed off below the lab floor, and the enemy are swarming…
Starting from the inner citadel, it'd be better just to stop.
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!!! page 06
Misaki: …Are there no other ways to go to the lab?
Kanami: That's right…
Wait, there is!
The roof of the second building next to it.
There's a built-in crane.
If you extend it as far as possible, you might be able to reach the tower they're in.
Misaki: ……I'll try it.
Thanks, Kanami.
FX: Swift
Kanami: It's a loan.
Be careful…Misaki.
FX: Trickling
FX: Flipping quickly
FX: Trickling
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!!! page 07
FX: Loose
Hei: You opened this huge hole too, Harvest?
Yin: ……
Harvest: BK-201…
If you hadn't taken those two dead weights under your wing,
You'd have been able to attack me without falling…
You really are extremely illogical.
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!!! page 08
Azusa: *sitting up*
Aah…it hurts…
FX: Trickling
Azusa: !
Mr. Mask!
Hei: Azusa.
Stay there.
FX: Swish/angry
FX: Whipping
FX: Landing
FX: Glaring
Kyouko: *hee hee*
It looks like you know what this is.
The "meteor shard."
The mysterious item from within the Gate that can make a contractor's powers increase by leaps.
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!!! page 09
Kyouko: Before, in South America, a struggle surrounding this took place,
And then,
I've heard that the Gate was sealed using this,
In the earth of South America.
Harvest: The ones who did that were his companions.
Kyouko: Is that so?
Then of course you'd know.
Hei: …Why do you have that?
Kyouko: *tee hee* It's mysterious, isn't it?
It suddenly disappears, and appears,
It exists in two places at the same time,
And it plays with the fates of contractors…
FX: Shambling
FX: Uuggh…
Hei: !
FX: Agh…
Kyouko: I really do wonder what this is.
FX; Shambling
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!!! page 10
FX: Shambling
FX: Uuggh…
Hei: This lot are being controlled by the black dandelion, huh…
FX: Shambling
FX: Swift
Kyouko: It's too bad, but humans who have died once can't be made to awaken.
They can be commanded as long as their hearts beat.
Azusa: This…
Kyouko: …This is a power that I can use because I took back "myself" and the meteor shard.
…Yes, I lost the thing called "myself."
To put it correctly,
By obtaining the meteor shard,
I lost the entirety of the existence called "myself."
As the remuneration for obtaining
That power.
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!!! page 11
Kyouko: I don't remember anything of the "original me."
What I remember is my own ability, and the remuneration,
And that very moment that I thought there was something…
FX: Shining
Person: !?
FX: Shaking
Kyouko: …My flesh and the meteor shard were taken in by the flower,
FX: Bursting open
Kyouko: And then…only the flower was left there…
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!!! page 12
Kyouko: I had limitless power, and I bloomed by the wayside of the Gate.
FX: Creeping
Kyouko: I'd come down in the world to just a weed.
*tee hee* It's comical.
My power is to command humans using the flower.
The remuneration was that my existence would disappear from someone's memory.
Each time I use my power, someone forgets me
…And then, finally
The last proof of my existence disappeared from the flesh, as remuneration.
Azusa: ……
Kyouko: There isn't even any record remaining of me as the flower contractor.
And I myself can't even remember the original me.
If no one has any memories of you, that's the same as never having existed in the world from the beginning.
……Just like you can't remember the me of now,
Azusa.
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!!! page 13
Azusa: ……
FX: Grip
Hei: …So then you stole that form?
FX: Drawing
And you sacrificed this many humans?
FX: Uggh
Aagh
Is that your goal!
Kyouko: *tee hee*
Sacrifice? Steal?
It's not that simple.
It's no good just to impersonate other people.
If I did that, I'd never have regained myself as a contractor.
That's why
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!!! page 14
Kyouko: I swallowed hearts and memories completely,
And reconstructed them as one existence.
Until I discovered that method, I broke a lot of people.
And I had trouble, too.
Hei: ……
If there's even a little lingering attachment, it's no good.
……Besides, I noticed that even if I swallowed one person, it wasn't enough to restore my existence.
…It's a lie that you know yourself best.
So that I could be myself,
Azsua,
Your heart, you who knew me well, was necessary too.
----------------
!!! page 15
Azusa: ……
My…heart………
Kyouko: That I can exist like this now is thanks to you.
Your memories made the flower complete.
…That's why I'll keep you alive.
FX: Creeping
FX: Swiftly
Kyouko: I'll let you see the details.
Hei: !
Wait!
FX: Flash
FX: Sudden
FX: Boom
FX: Draining
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!!! page 16
Hei: Harvest!
The flower is controlling you t…
!!
FX: Aggh
FX: Slam
Hei: Tch.
Azusa: Wa…wait.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to let me watch…?
----------------
!!! page 17
Kyouko: To completely cover this world with the flower, using the power of this meteor shard.
First is this Yokohama…and then Tokyo.
Hei: !?
Azusa: …To do something like that, what…?
Kyoko: Other than contractors and Dolls, ……
All humans will be made to awaken.
----------------
!!! page 18
Azusa: ……Huh?
Kyouko: Everyone will become like you, then.
They'll be obedient to hatred and the intent to kill.
Without hesitation, they'll try to kill the other people around them.
Azusa: ……Wha,
For what purpose?
Kyouko: …For what purpose?
I don't know.
Azusa: Huh!?
Kyouko: Ask him.
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!!! page 19
Kyouko: I made a promise
Harvest: ……
FX: Whistling
Whistling
Kyoko: To him that I would do this, when I regained my flesh.
Hei: ……!
So you are the root of this!!
Azusa: …Why!?
Harvest: You'll know immediately.
----------------
!!! page 20
Harvest: What remains in the world after illogic is eliminated,
And what is lost,
Immediately.
FX: Roaring
Hei: Harvest!
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!!! page 21
FX: Swift
Hei: !
FX: Sudden
FX: Flash
FX: Crackling
FX: Sweeping around
Yin: Hei.
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!!! page 22
Hei: Yin.
FX: Landing
FX: Slowly
FX: Sudden
Hei: Let's synchronize our breathing.
I'm breaking through.
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!!! page 23
FX: Swfit
Hei: !
FX: Flashing
Hei: The captain of the awakened squad?
FX: Flaring
FX: Popping apart
Soldier: Die.
FX: Sudden
Hei: !?
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!!! page 24
FX: Opening
FX: Staring
FX: Confusion
FX: Dropping
FX: Popping
FX: Slam
FX: Sudden
FX: Rolling
Hei: You…
Abigail: Don't worry about the small fish.
You follow those two.
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!!! page 25
Abigail: Go.
FX: Gunfire
FX: Gunfire
Hei: ……
I'll do that.
FX: Spooling
FX: Leaping
Abigail: …No matter what,
Those two won't be stopped by me.
If I disordered their minds, or caused an explosion, my hand wouldn't reach.
Azusa: Oh!
FX: Zooming
FX: Landing
Azusa: Mr. Mask……
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!!! page 26
FX: Running
Azusa: Oh…
……
Since I'm a burden, I'm wasn't told to follow…
But……
I have to stop it.
I……
Ouch…
FX: Sharp pain
Azusa: …Since it hurts, the nerves are connected…
That they won't move…it's because I'm afraid……
I have to stand.
!!! page 01
Chapter 29: The Secret of the Flower
----------------
!!! page 02
FX: Thrumming
FX: Car speeding along
Misaki: ……
I should be able to see the Nishijima building just fine from here, but…
The closer I get the darker……
This fog……
That's……
FX: Fog rolling aside
----------------
!!! page 03
FX: Clack
FX: Car moving
Soldier: ……No one will get through…
No one can be here!
FX: Ka-click
FX: Gunfire
FX: Boom
FX: Slam
FX: Shattering
Soldier: No one.
FX: Roaring
Soldier: No one.
!
----------------
!!! page 04
FX: Click
FX: Clack
FX: Flashing
FX: Th-thrum
FX: Crackling
Soldier: Auuggh!
FX: Crumbling
Soldier: ……
FX: Thud
Misaki: That way of having been split off from that wreckage…
I thought it was with heavy weaponry, but…
FX: Shaking
Misaki: The black dandelion…one of Harvest's companions…?
----------------
!!! page 05
Misaki: His ability is this unnatural fog…
FX: Flames roaring
Misaki: I met my expectation, but…it was a little undignified…
That was a good car.
FX: Wind blowing
FX: Running
FX: Earpiece static
Kanami: …saki,
Misaki?
Misaki: Kanami.
Kanami: Oh good, it finally connected.
Listen up, Misaki.
I scanned the Nishijima building by hacking Pandora's servers.
FX: Keyboard tapping
Misaki: Pandora's…?
Kanami: Yes.
If I'm done in, return the favor, okay?
It looks like things are serious inside.
Everything's sealed off below the lab floor, and the enemy are swarming…
Starting from the inner citadel, it'd be better just to stop.
----------------
!!! page 06
Misaki: …Are there no other ways to go to the lab?
Kanami: That's right…
Wait, there is!
The roof of the second building next to it.
There's a built-in crane.
If you extend it as far as possible, you might be able to reach the tower they're in.
Misaki: ……I'll try it.
Thanks, Kanami.
FX: Swift
Kanami: It's a loan.
Be careful…Misaki.
FX: Trickling
FX: Flipping quickly
FX: Trickling
----------------
!!! page 07
FX: Loose
Hei: You opened this huge hole too, Harvest?
Yin: ……
Harvest: BK-201…
If you hadn't taken those two dead weights under your wing,
You'd have been able to attack me without falling…
You really are extremely illogical.
----------------
!!! page 08
Azusa: *sitting up*
Aah…it hurts…
FX: Trickling
Azusa: !
Mr. Mask!
Hei: Azusa.
Stay there.
FX: Swish/angry
FX: Whipping
FX: Landing
FX: Glaring
Kyouko: *hee hee*
It looks like you know what this is.
The "meteor shard."
The mysterious item from within the Gate that can make a contractor's powers increase by leaps.
----------------
!!! page 09
Kyouko: Before, in South America, a struggle surrounding this took place,
And then,
I've heard that the Gate was sealed using this,
In the earth of South America.
Harvest: The ones who did that were his companions.
Kyouko: Is that so?
Then of course you'd know.
Hei: …Why do you have that?
Kyouko: *tee hee* It's mysterious, isn't it?
It suddenly disappears, and appears,
It exists in two places at the same time,
And it plays with the fates of contractors…
FX: Shambling
FX: Uuggh…
Hei: !
FX: Agh…
Kyouko: I really do wonder what this is.
FX; Shambling
----------------
!!! page 10
FX: Shambling
FX: Uuggh…
Hei: This lot are being controlled by the black dandelion, huh…
FX: Shambling
FX: Swift
Kyouko: It's too bad, but humans who have died once can't be made to awaken.
They can be commanded as long as their hearts beat.
Azusa: This…
Kyouko: …This is a power that I can use because I took back "myself" and the meteor shard.
…Yes, I lost the thing called "myself."
To put it correctly,
By obtaining the meteor shard,
I lost the entirety of the existence called "myself."
As the remuneration for obtaining
That power.
----------------
!!! page 11
Kyouko: I don't remember anything of the "original me."
What I remember is my own ability, and the remuneration,
And that very moment that I thought there was something…
FX: Shining
Person: !?
FX: Shaking
Kyouko: …My flesh and the meteor shard were taken in by the flower,
FX: Bursting open
Kyouko: And then…only the flower was left there…
----------------
!!! page 12
Kyouko: I had limitless power, and I bloomed by the wayside of the Gate.
FX: Creeping
Kyouko: I'd come down in the world to just a weed.
*tee hee* It's comical.
My power is to command humans using the flower.
The remuneration was that my existence would disappear from someone's memory.
Each time I use my power, someone forgets me
…And then, finally
The last proof of my existence disappeared from the flesh, as remuneration.
Azusa: ……
Kyouko: There isn't even any record remaining of me as the flower contractor.
And I myself can't even remember the original me.
If no one has any memories of you, that's the same as never having existed in the world from the beginning.
……Just like you can't remember the me of now,
Azusa.
----------------
!!! page 13
Azusa: ……
FX: Grip
Hei: …So then you stole that form?
FX: Drawing
And you sacrificed this many humans?
FX: Uggh
Aagh
Is that your goal!
Kyouko: *tee hee*
Sacrifice? Steal?
It's not that simple.
It's no good just to impersonate other people.
If I did that, I'd never have regained myself as a contractor.
That's why
----------------
!!! page 14
Kyouko: I swallowed hearts and memories completely,
And reconstructed them as one existence.
Until I discovered that method, I broke a lot of people.
And I had trouble, too.
Hei: ……
If there's even a little lingering attachment, it's no good.
……Besides, I noticed that even if I swallowed one person, it wasn't enough to restore my existence.
…It's a lie that you know yourself best.
So that I could be myself,
Azsua,
Your heart, you who knew me well, was necessary too.
----------------
!!! page 15
Azusa: ……
My…heart………
Kyouko: That I can exist like this now is thanks to you.
Your memories made the flower complete.
…That's why I'll keep you alive.
FX: Creeping
FX: Swiftly
Kyouko: I'll let you see the details.
Hei: !
Wait!
FX: Flash
FX: Sudden
FX: Boom
FX: Draining
----------------
!!! page 16
Hei: Harvest!
The flower is controlling you t…
!!
FX: Aggh
FX: Slam
Hei: Tch.
Azusa: Wa…wait.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to let me watch…?
----------------
!!! page 17
Kyouko: To completely cover this world with the flower, using the power of this meteor shard.
First is this Yokohama…and then Tokyo.
Hei: !?
Azusa: …To do something like that, what…?
Kyoko: Other than contractors and Dolls, ……
All humans will be made to awaken.
----------------
!!! page 18
Azusa: ……Huh?
Kyouko: Everyone will become like you, then.
They'll be obedient to hatred and the intent to kill.
Without hesitation, they'll try to kill the other people around them.
Azusa: ……Wha,
For what purpose?
Kyouko: …For what purpose?
I don't know.
Azusa: Huh!?
Kyouko: Ask him.
----------------
!!! page 19
Kyouko: I made a promise
Harvest: ……
FX: Whistling
Whistling
Kyoko: To him that I would do this, when I regained my flesh.
Hei: ……!
So you are the root of this!!
Azusa: …Why!?
Harvest: You'll know immediately.
----------------
!!! page 20
Harvest: What remains in the world after illogic is eliminated,
And what is lost,
Immediately.
FX: Roaring
Hei: Harvest!
----------------
!!! page 21
FX: Swift
Hei: !
FX: Sudden
FX: Flash
FX: Crackling
FX: Sweeping around
Yin: Hei.
----------------
!!! page 22
Hei: Yin.
FX: Landing
FX: Slowly
FX: Sudden
Hei: Let's synchronize our breathing.
I'm breaking through.
----------------
!!! page 23
FX: Swfit
Hei: !
FX: Flashing
Hei: The captain of the awakened squad?
FX: Flaring
FX: Popping apart
Soldier: Die.
FX: Sudden
Hei: !?
----------------
!!! page 24
FX: Opening
FX: Staring
FX: Confusion
FX: Dropping
FX: Popping
FX: Slam
FX: Sudden
FX: Rolling
Hei: You…
Abigail: Don't worry about the small fish.
You follow those two.
----------------
!!! page 25
Abigail: Go.
FX: Gunfire
FX: Gunfire
Hei: ……
I'll do that.
FX: Spooling
FX: Leaping
Abigail: …No matter what,
Those two won't be stopped by me.
If I disordered their minds, or caused an explosion, my hand wouldn't reach.
Azusa: Oh!
FX: Zooming
FX: Landing
Azusa: Mr. Mask……
----------------
!!! page 26
FX: Running
Azusa: Oh…
……
Since I'm a burden, I'm wasn't told to follow…
But……
I have to stop it.
I……
Ouch…
FX: Sharp pain
Azusa: …Since it hurts, the nerves are connected…
That they won't move…it's because I'm afraid……
I have to stand.