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starladyThe end! Many thanks to Simple Scanlations for bringing me on to this project (they're still looking for donations), and many thanks to my faithful commenters, particularly ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ki_ng and csg_dear4life, for encouragement and typo-spotting.
!!! page 01
Final Chapter: Toward the Future
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!!! page 02
FX: Crumbling
Harvest: Augh!
Wh…what did you do?
Hei: I turned your power,
As it is now, inside out.
Harvest: Inside out…
Hei: You're defeated,
Harvest.
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!!! page 03
Hei: ……Disappear.
There is no place for you in the future.
Harvest: What…are you…
Hei: ……As long as they have support, people can proceed forward.
They can fight.
They protect their connections
With those they care about.
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!!! page 04
Hei: Amber had that too.
Azusa came here to regain that.
You can do nothing but destroy that.
That's why you can't move forward.
Harvest: …
……Tha, that--
The shard chose the future…
Chose you…means…
…Or maybe…
Yin: …
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!!! page 05
Harvest: …Whatever.
This
Death is appropriate
For me…
Hei: ……
FX: Stagger
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!!! page 06
Yin: Hei.
FX: Rumbling
FX: Shining red
FX: Flinching
Misaki: Shi--
…The light's color has changed!?
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!!! page 07
FX: Claxon
Abigail: …Augh!
Auugh, my head…
…It won't…st…op…
Aaugh!
FX: Crash!
FX: Shattering fragments
Saitou: ……The collapse has stopped…?
Parcel: Not yet.
The light's still…
If that light doesn't stop…
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!!! page 08
Blondie: !!!?
What the hell!?
Parcel: Woah!
FX: Mesmerizing
FX: Confusion
Saitrou: My eyes are dazzled…
Parcel: Aaauggh!
FX: Shining red
Misaki: !!!
……!?
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!!! page 09
FX: Shining
Misaki: !……
There's no sense of its size anymore.
Is it far away? Is it in front of my eyes?
Can I…
Get through?……
FX: Radiating
Misaki: !?
FX: Radiating
Misaki: Professor Schroeder's anti-Gate particle irradiation device…
…With this!
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!!! page 10
FX: Grip
FX: Casing blowing off
FX: Expanding
Misaki: When you hold this, make your consciousness clear…
Can the shard be nearby thanks to this?
But…
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!!! page 11
Misaki: This is a treatment
That can be used only once…
FX: Shining
Misaki: Using this now would be…
Voice: Use it.
The black dandelion has vanished.
MisakI: !?
A voice……
Voice: That child is fine now.
Misaki: Who are you?
Where are you?
Voice: Only you can stop it.
Hurry.
Yin: Hei.
Misaki: Shi…
…Got it.
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!!! page 12
Misaki: It's all or nothing…!!!
FX: Ka-click
FX: High-pitched noise
FX: Rattling
Misaki: Can it stop…
Stop it…!!
FX: Rattling
FX: High-pitched noise
FX: Rumbling
Yin: Hei.
FX: Rattling
FX: Coming apart
FX: Grasp
Hei: Yin.
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!!! page 13
FX: Snapping
Misaki: Ah!
FX: Thump
FX: Flash
FX: Glittering
FX: Rustling
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!!! page 14
Saitou: *Gasp*
Blondie: It's back to normal!
Parcel: !
FX: Helicopter blades
Aaugh!
People: ?
?
Man: *coughing*
Man: ?
…What the hell was I doing?
FX: Crumbling
FX: Breeze
Misaki: ……
FX: Sitting up
Earpiece: …Misaki.
Misaki!
Misaki!
Can you hear me, Misaki?
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!!! page 15
Misaki: Kanami…
Kanami: Misaki!?
Thank goodness! Are you all right?
Misaki: …Yes, somehow.
I stopped it, but…
…The girls aren't here…
I'm going to look for them.
FX: Coughing
Misaki: Anyone?
If you're here, answer!
Anyone…
FX: Clatter
Misaki: !
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!!! page 16
Misaki: !!?
FX: Footsteps
Ah……
BK-201!!!
FX: Sudden
Misaki: Wait!
Li-kun!
!
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!!! page 17
Azusa: Farewell.
Farewell, Mr. Mask.
Misaki: ……
He got away again.
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!!! page 18
Misaki: He's always…
Helicopter: Chief--!!!
FX: Helicopter blades
Text: …In this way the series of incidents revolving around the black dandelion drew to a close.
Saitou: Chief!!
FX: Helicopter blades
Misaki: Those guys…
Yanagi: …I see. So it fell?
Text: It wasn't possible to find the corpse, but
Harvest's death was confirmed from Messier code of the star that fell at the same time.
FX: Beep
FX: Exhaling
Envelope: Resignation
Yanagi: This isn't necessary anymore.
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!!! page 19
Text: All the black dandelions that spread out over Yokohama withered.
Along with the meteor shard,
They turned into dust and vanished.
Blondie: Wa…
Huh?
Saitou: What?
Text: It was almost like
Blondie: The kid with the ears is gone…
He was just here a second ago…
Text: There was nothing there from the beginning.
Misaki: …Tsukimori Azusa-san, right?
Azusa: …
Yes.
Misaki: …Is that shirt that girl's?
Azusa: …Yes.
It's the last shirt she wore…but,
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!!! page 20
Azusa: …She really was different.
…What was here was just her memories and emotions…
FX: Dropping
Misaki: Oh…
Azusa: The real her died at the water tower behind the school building.
…You're from the police…right?
Misaki: Hm?
Azusa: Please arrest me.
Please.
Misaki: ……
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!!! page 21
Misaki: …All right.
Come with me.
But before that…
We'll treat your leg.
Azusa: All right.
Abigail: So you chose the road of not running away, huh…
……Well, not being able to run away is the same as us.
Right, Commander?
FX: Licking
Nishijima: Shi……
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!!! page 22
Hei: Shall we go, too?
FX: Appearing
Parcel: If you like, I can escort you.
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!!! page 23
Parcel: I promised, didn't I?
Hei: …What about your wounds?
Parcel: The one above my hipbone is sewn shut at the surface.
The medicine's doing its job now.
Hei: You should rest.
Don't concern yourself with us.
Parcel: Are you saying you don't need my help?
……The Syndicate is going to be after you guys right away.
Will you two be okay?
Hei: ……
We'll be fine.
FX: Opening
Parcel: …I see.
In that case this is goodbye.
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!!! page 24
Parcel: Don't cry.
FX: Swallowing slowly
FX: Shrinking closed
FX: Quickly
FX: Whoosh
The end.
ki_ng and csg_dear4life, for encouragement and typo-spotting. !!! page 01
Final Chapter: Toward the Future
--------------
!!! page 02
FX: Crumbling
Harvest: Augh!
Wh…what did you do?
Hei: I turned your power,
As it is now, inside out.
Harvest: Inside out…
Hei: You're defeated,
Harvest.
--------------
!!! page 03
Hei: ……Disappear.
There is no place for you in the future.
Harvest: What…are you…
Hei: ……As long as they have support, people can proceed forward.
They can fight.
They protect their connections
With those they care about.
--------------
!!! page 04
Hei: Amber had that too.
Azusa came here to regain that.
You can do nothing but destroy that.
That's why you can't move forward.
Harvest: …
……Tha, that--
The shard chose the future…
Chose you…means…
…Or maybe…
Yin: …
--------------
!!! page 05
Harvest: …Whatever.
This
Death is appropriate
For me…
Hei: ……
FX: Stagger
--------------
!!! page 06
Yin: Hei.
FX: Rumbling
FX: Shining red
FX: Flinching
Misaki: Shi--
…The light's color has changed!?
--------------
!!! page 07
FX: Claxon
Abigail: …Augh!
Auugh, my head…
…It won't…st…op…
Aaugh!
FX: Crash!
FX: Shattering fragments
Saitou: ……The collapse has stopped…?
Parcel: Not yet.
The light's still…
If that light doesn't stop…
--------------
!!! page 08
Blondie: !!!?
What the hell!?
Parcel: Woah!
FX: Mesmerizing
FX: Confusion
Saitrou: My eyes are dazzled…
Parcel: Aaauggh!
FX: Shining red
Misaki: !!!
……!?
--------------
!!! page 09
FX: Shining
Misaki: !……
There's no sense of its size anymore.
Is it far away? Is it in front of my eyes?
Can I…
Get through?……
FX: Radiating
Misaki: !?
FX: Radiating
Misaki: Professor Schroeder's anti-Gate particle irradiation device…
…With this!
--------------
!!! page 10
FX: Grip
FX: Casing blowing off
FX: Expanding
Misaki: When you hold this, make your consciousness clear…
Can the shard be nearby thanks to this?
But…
--------------
!!! page 11
Misaki: This is a treatment
That can be used only once…
FX: Shining
Misaki: Using this now would be…
Voice: Use it.
The black dandelion has vanished.
MisakI: !?
A voice……
Voice: That child is fine now.
Misaki: Who are you?
Where are you?
Voice: Only you can stop it.
Hurry.
Yin: Hei.
Misaki: Shi…
…Got it.
--------------
!!! page 12
Misaki: It's all or nothing…!!!
FX: Ka-click
FX: High-pitched noise
FX: Rattling
Misaki: Can it stop…
Stop it…!!
FX: Rattling
FX: High-pitched noise
FX: Rumbling
Yin: Hei.
FX: Rattling
FX: Coming apart
FX: Grasp
Hei: Yin.
--------------
!!! page 13
FX: Snapping
Misaki: Ah!
FX: Thump
FX: Flash
FX: Glittering
FX: Rustling
--------------
!!! page 14
Saitou: *Gasp*
Blondie: It's back to normal!
Parcel: !
FX: Helicopter blades
Aaugh!
People: ?
?
Man: *coughing*
Man: ?
…What the hell was I doing?
FX: Crumbling
FX: Breeze
Misaki: ……
FX: Sitting up
Earpiece: …Misaki.
Misaki!
Misaki!
Can you hear me, Misaki?
--------------
!!! page 15
Misaki: Kanami…
Kanami: Misaki!?
Thank goodness! Are you all right?
Misaki: …Yes, somehow.
I stopped it, but…
…The girls aren't here…
I'm going to look for them.
FX: Coughing
Misaki: Anyone?
If you're here, answer!
Anyone…
FX: Clatter
Misaki: !
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!!! page 16
Misaki: !!?
FX: Footsteps
Ah……
BK-201!!!
FX: Sudden
Misaki: Wait!
Li-kun!
!
--------------
!!! page 17
Azusa: Farewell.
Farewell, Mr. Mask.
Misaki: ……
He got away again.
--------------
!!! page 18
Misaki: He's always…
Helicopter: Chief--!!!
FX: Helicopter blades
Text: …In this way the series of incidents revolving around the black dandelion drew to a close.
Saitou: Chief!!
FX: Helicopter blades
Misaki: Those guys…
Yanagi: …I see. So it fell?
Text: It wasn't possible to find the corpse, but
Harvest's death was confirmed from Messier code of the star that fell at the same time.
FX: Beep
FX: Exhaling
Envelope: Resignation
Yanagi: This isn't necessary anymore.
--------------
!!! page 19
Text: All the black dandelions that spread out over Yokohama withered.
Along with the meteor shard,
They turned into dust and vanished.
Blondie: Wa…
Huh?
Saitou: What?
Text: It was almost like
Blondie: The kid with the ears is gone…
He was just here a second ago…
Text: There was nothing there from the beginning.
Misaki: …Tsukimori Azusa-san, right?
Azusa: …
Yes.
Misaki: …Is that shirt that girl's?
Azusa: …Yes.
It's the last shirt she wore…but,
--------------
!!! page 20
Azusa: …She really was different.
…What was here was just her memories and emotions…
FX: Dropping
Misaki: Oh…
Azusa: The real her died at the water tower behind the school building.
…You're from the police…right?
Misaki: Hm?
Azusa: Please arrest me.
Please.
Misaki: ……
--------------
!!! page 21
Misaki: …All right.
Come with me.
But before that…
We'll treat your leg.
Azusa: All right.
Abigail: So you chose the road of not running away, huh…
……Well, not being able to run away is the same as us.
Right, Commander?
FX: Licking
Nishijima: Shi……
--------------
!!! page 22
Hei: Shall we go, too?
FX: Appearing
Parcel: If you like, I can escort you.
--------------
!!! page 23
Parcel: I promised, didn't I?
Hei: …What about your wounds?
Parcel: The one above my hipbone is sewn shut at the surface.
The medicine's doing its job now.
Hei: You should rest.
Don't concern yourself with us.
Parcel: Are you saying you don't need my help?
……The Syndicate is going to be after you guys right away.
Will you two be okay?
Hei: ……
We'll be fine.
FX: Opening
Parcel: …I see.
In that case this is goodbye.
--------------
!!! page 24
Parcel: Don't cry.
FX: Swallowing slowly
FX: Shrinking closed
FX: Quickly
FX: Whoosh
The end.