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"So the of four of us change Seina's probability bias !?" kiriko's team reacted to the news in washu's report that airi told them.
"Originally this was what Erma's reports assumed, so you knew to a certain extent."
"That's true ... ...."
"but Washu's conclusions have confirmed it, so there's no doubt."
"But when we were together we were attacked by Space pirates, weren't we?"
"But everyday injures to seina have stopped haven't they? " airi glared at kiriko. she had the most experience with seina's injuries in the past.
"They've been less frequent, but ...."
"The probability bias won't go away, seina will still suffer some damage, the probability is fluctuating though, although there's some distortion, it's vector direction has changed."
"Four people, huh does that mean hakuren and her girls too ... ...?"
"It's been confirmed and the fuku clones as well."
"why four people?"
"If you're interested, I'll tell you in my spare time but for now, just keep in mind that you can reverse his luck."
"OK" Kiriko said
"Well ... ... So as a result of considering this fact, we have decide to continue maintaining training for seina even after graduating from the academy.Of course if Jurai and Balta acknowledge it, you and ryoko won't have to worry about official affairs while doing so, but since Hakuren's team are seto's employees, they will have to go back to her service again for official dispatch.
the Fuku team is not yet able to participate in a single task independently, but we're working on that too. "
"But Fuku-chan still has control of the Kamidake?"
"as a team it will be different from Kiriko-chan's, think of miki and the others as Fuku-chan's backup staff."
"so then, we're the main crew."
"Yes that's what I expect. also while we're here..." airi paused
"... ... ZINV was found to be the first generation royal Tree as a result of the investigation, "
"oh!"
"I was expecting something like that ... ... but Is it really a first generation? " Kiriko asked Airi "there's no mistaking it."
"so is seina going to become royalty ... ...."
"our findings Regarding ZINV are being withheld from disclosure for now so were holding out on going that far, of course that would change if Seina decides quit the GP and become part of the royal family."
"Seina wont quit the GP ... so I guess its a non issue"
"Well, that is what the gp is hoping for, as for ZINV please keep what you know about it secret for now. any further questions?"
"............" All respond silently.
"Okay, then leave the room"
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"Seina you can come in now" Seina was called in as the girls left and airi led him down her stairs to the lower level When they arrived at the bottom, the doors opened in the opposite directions, there was a corridor that straddled two buildings. he saw a garden behind a gate with a path leading to the back to the apartments for her staff.
"uh ... ... where is this?" above him was the huge obsidian floor of airi's office supported by several pillars it seemed to be slightly transparent and glowed light brownish green.
"My house, I used to live here with yosho, Minaho, and Kiyone in the past."
"Here?"
" it was more than big enough for our family of four, i know you cant see it too well from here but there's a large pond in the back that kiyone used to love to play in."
It was certainly a small mansion in comparison to the staff apartment. It was wider than seina's current home. Airi headed to the left building. they entered a large living room.
"Sit and I'll make us some tea"
"No.. uhm... I don't..." Airi entered the kitchen in the back. Within a few minutes she came back with a big cup and a small pot.
"here you go"
"Oh, thank you"
"Dont be alarmed, It's not laced with anything."
"... No, uhm ... ... I'm not worried about that."
"it's been 150 years since I've had another man in here."
"uhm..."
"don't be like that, that's not why i brought you here. you're here because I wanted to talk about your future."
"……I understand" he had stood up to leave but he quickly sat down on the sofa again.
"Seina, aren't you graduating in a few months? I want to confirm with you your intentions for the future, your answers effect the GP and the academy, so please think and answer me well "
"Yes, I understand."
"Have you heard that there are humanoid weapons very similar to ZINV in the renza federation?"
"I heard that ZINV may be their originator, maybe."
"Well, we have received some informal requests from them, asking for the results from the ZINV survey, and even some requests to hand over ZINV itself"
"hand it over? No way !?" The expression on Seina's face became steep, and Airi quickly picked up the conversation to control it.
"Of course we refused, you're the one who discovered it, your it's master, not to mention zinv had its own will, there's no need to respond to their advantage, I don't plan to do that"
"Oh, so is that a good thing?"
"Also at this stage they don't know ZINV is an Imperial Tree, nor is it publicly announced that it's the founder of the humanoid weapons of renza, which they don't know. But that wont keep them from tying to send in spies to find out and even to possibly take zinv, its also possible you may be targeted. it's a first generation tree and you have the Kamidake ...... I don't think there's anyone who can put up an offense against that, but Seina you're different "
"... ... Well, both the Kamidake and Fuku were taken away once..."
"As long as you touch the world, there's a limit to what you can protect.If they were an ordinary person, there would be nothing to worry about, but in this case your enemies are at a national level, so I ... ... No, the Galactic Federation can't present to you a lot of options. " Airi took a deep breath, calmed down, drank tea and moistened her thirsty throat.
"Seina, if that happens we in the GP can defend and back you up and so can jurai. but that is only possible if you live on earth on the condition that you don't leave it.
It's quite controversial, but those are the facts- in fact, if you refuse, you might be drawn into a fight against the federation... "
"As might be expected ..."
"but I'm going to treat you as a VIP until then, if you are dissatisfied with anything here, we will give you preferential treatment"
"I do not have any dissatisfactions so far at the moment ..."
"If you want a woman, I'm more then happy to help you out with that... ...."
"I don't need that!"
"Well, the situation with these things is always changing, so if you don't have to think about it right now, and you can talk to me again when things change."
"........................."
"i just wanted to let you know about the future and the degree of danger you could be in, but for now you're still a minor, who's about to graduate from the GP academy, and there are still labor and underage protection laws we have to abide by that have my hands tied for now on certain issues. "
"Oh, I see."
"Yeah, that's right ... All parties involved, including me, are completely paralyzed and it's been a pain having to deal with them especially concerning acha."
seina finally realized the abnormality of his position. By the way, they had also received inquiries from various fields at the same time in various ways, from accounting and taxation agencies, trying to account for the abnormally large income for someone his age and the personal ownership problem of the Kamidake, and so on.
"So I'm getting a lot of scolding by people in charge of certain things. , anyways, think about it ok. " "I understand" seina went back to his dorm.
his roommates greeted him. they worried about how he looked after coming back from airi's.
"You know you can talk to us about it if you ever need to" but he couldn't.
they then decided to celebrate by ordering delivered food which they were now, as seniors, allowed to do, but they made seina pay because kenneth spent all his money on sex toys and rajau spent all his money on his hobbies.
seina showed them his budget for the day and they all ordered around that amount.
while they eat he asked them what they going to do after graduation kenneth wanted to be a first class special detective, which is a detective that is above any jurisdiction and has access to any case so he can investigate wide spread incidents. basically a philosopher of the detective department.
rajau wanted to be a special area delivery person, someone who delivers things to places without regular mail service.
eventually they asked seina why he decided to join the gp,
"well I mostly did it for my mother There was no future for me on earth after jr high and I just didn't be a burden on her. "
"What was your first impression of going up into the universe and entering the GP?"
" i was surprised it felt like the world suddenly expanded and when i first talked to you two and you explained my probability bias i realized there was a whole world of things here i couldn't even imagine " At that time, Seina remembered the most important thing.
"What's wrong?"
"... ... my probabilty bias became my weapon.I hurt myself and hurt people ...... and i even changed the entire galaxy"
"The fate of the entire Galactic Federation has changed."
"your bad luck is kind of indispensable now, isn't it?"
"oh, that's it. That was it. i decided to stay because there was a person who said that my talent was necessary." he pictured seto in his head
" ─ ─ I want you to name me" echoed in his memory
To name it is to establish a person's identity. so he was hesitant to do so.
mirror seto was like a second mother to him in a way, she was the person who established Seina Yamada, the ego.
Taking the chance to name her, would make him her birther in a way ─ ─
"Seina, what's wrong?"
"Oh ... uhm ...... I was lost in thought a bit.... I think I'm going to stay with The GP after This..."
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--------------by the way you know how i know nabeshin had this as the outline script and simply cut whatever he damn well pleased? watch the anime.... All the girls are suddenly in their own apartments when airi interviews them but they were never told to move out so they made a last minute opening scene telling seina that they they just suddenly up and moved out of amane's-----------
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Amane 's island apartment complex had over 150 units.
amane only lived in the penthouse.
neiju moved into her own unit because they couldnt have all the girls living together anymore
airi helped her settle in. then she helped ryoko settle into her unit. then she visited amane.
"my apartment is way too big without all the people in it."
"I visited the other girls and asked if they would stick with seina, obviously they confirmed that they would and when I asked them individually if they thought that seina would stay with the gp they all answered more or less what else would he do? " Amane who heard the responses they gave responded with dry a laugh without any intonation.
"... .... That reminds me, Amane you were the one who made Seina sign up to join the GP ."
"yeah and you kept me from being promoted because of it" amane said glaring at airi
"If you want to become a first class detective still, I'll give you a letter of recommendation. "
"not now ... ... I'm part of the crew of the Kamidake, this is worth more to me than being a first-class detective, i get to handle way bigger things."
"Well, that's true." Airi gave a shrug "... ... I'm hungry, make something!"
"Well, it's a bit early, but it's supposed to be dinner soon ...." amane opened a monitor to order from nashissu
" I don't want to eat my own food can you cook something?" so amane and her went in the kitchen and she tried her best. but clearly amane wasn't a good cook...
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Airi Arrived to help kiriko move in. she was feeling sick from having to eat amane's food.
kiriko made her some tea and gave her some candy From Japan.
she asked her the same thing as the other girls and got more or less same answer.
" why where you so opposed to him being there at first?"
"on earth people treated seina like and outcast as if his bad luck was a disease, they ostracized him. no matter who came into his life one by one they would leave until he was alone, "
"that's not true he was never alone. he always had you."
"and my brother kai. In fact they became best friends thanks to his easy-going personality, he was stubborn enough not to care about others warnings despite his bad luck they were inseparable"
" it sounds's like his luck has changed for the better. good friends are hard to find"
"i got to know seina because kai would bring him to the house everyday after school. What stuck out most to me was how often he would fall down, but still he never stopped smiling, I remember one day his parents came to pick him up and his mother was upset, I couldn't understand why until i learned she was crying out of joy not sadness, she was glad seina had finally made a real friend. I remember thinking If someone as gentle as seina could be ostracized to the point that he only had one friend there wasn't much hope for the world. "
"I'm impressed. that's an astute observation for a young girl to make. "
"That day i vowed that he would never be alone again, i wanted to protect him so badly and to show him that i really understood i wanted to show him that someone accepted him for who he was but i didn't. seto was the one who told him his bad luck was an asset, I treated it like a handicap no worse I treated him like he wasn't even there. I felt like it was my responsibility to look after him all the time and i resented him for that. so i left to space. I didn't want him here with me. But I've realized that him being in space with me and the others is the only real chance he has of having a good life"
" He will forever need a group of Four people around him if he doesn't want to have bad luck ... ...
It sounds like a curse"
"For Seina-chan, it's the key to his freedom ... and it's not too revolting a concept... Hakuren's here and Fuku-chan is also here, Acha is pretty and Amane is pretty.I think it might be kind of enjoyable. "
There was no sadness in her eyes anymore. she smiled
"Yeah ... well then ..." airi looked at her
"... ... Hey Kiriko chan"
"Yes?"
"do you think there's room in there for me? ... ... How about it?"
"absolutely not. I refuse."
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airi cried as she handed her reported to seto
"... ... alright ... quit crying and wipe your face already"
Seto handed a handkerchief to Airi with a tired face,she gave the sticky handkerchief back to seto.
Seto threw it into the transfer gate for the laundry.
"Well, as you expected, everyone answered the same ... ... sorry the report is so boring."
"I don't think any of the girls would refuse the idea of marriage if we proposed it."
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the girls had a pajama party to celebrate seina's graduation the day
all the cabbit girls were now able to turn into humanoid so they celebrated by getting drunk.
three barrels of shinju sake and juice arrived from sasami. they played the message attached to the barrel
"Kiriko! I heard From Noike that your having a party tonight to celebrate Seina's graduation . I'm sure everyone will want to celebrate so I've sent you sake and juice made by Tsunami. See you later, Bye bye " Sasami said smiling with Ryo-Ohki.
Behind that, you could see Noike smiling The monitor disappeared after the message was over.
"Oh ... ... Dear ....Tsunami, ... ........................" kiriko said unsettled, hakuren was also visibly shocked
"What's wrong, Kiriko-san? Hakuren ?" They explained what shinju sake was to the other girls.
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seina and his team mates checked in for the last role call they would ever check in for.
rajau and kenneth decided to sneak out for the night to celebrate.
seina went with them because they were his team mates.
at the graduation ceremony every one was there including the cabbit girls, tennyo, and tsukiko...even seiryo
"why are you here !?" Amane glared at Seiryo who folded his arms.
"I am the GP academy's top instructor, its only natural i came."
when seina came in he was the only guy in the graduating class without a bag on his face. presumably everyone else got hit with the security bot marks in his attempt to get out of the dorm.
"Graduate, Yamada, Seina! "
"Yes!"
The moment the name of Seina was read out, the venue was filled with applause. It continued for a long time and seemed like there was going to be no end. Naturally expecting this , Seina's name was called last.
"Everyone quiet! mikami is here to deliver a speech"
as soon as they heard Mikami's name, the hustle and bustle of the hall fell to silence.
Mikami, the principal, was not in her usual uniform, but she appeared wearing the uniform of a GP general commander.
There was none of her usual dizzying smile she had on a serious expression.
When Mikami's footsteps echoed in the venue, the people in the venue corrected their posture and closely watched her. mikami went to the podium, slowly looked around the graduates and the audience, and began speaking heavily.
"Two years ago, with a lot of colleagues, you all knocked on the gates of the GP Academy, and as of this day, a few of our colleagues have gone on to other roads, The people of this class encountered a big incident rarely seen early on and was exposed to more suffering and trials than ever before but everyone here has overcome the challenge and lived to celebrate today, I am proud. "
Mikami closed her eyes to reflect back on the memories. The students and audience did the same.
"... Well! From tomorrow on you are officially welcomed as a members of GP, please keep the fight for justice alive in your mind... However! " the smiley face of Mikami changed to anger
"Don't be bad, don't bring shame to us !!" her anger made all the people shudder
"well the it's over, the graduation ceremony has ended !! Everyone, congratulations on your graduation" Mikami declared with her usual smiling face.
the graduates threw up their hats high in the sky and cheered. the doors where opened and the customary race began,
"ready set go!" seiryo got in front of them and was trampled
"o ho ho ho" mikami laughed she noticed a shadow in a place not visible from the audience "............" Miki · Steinbeck stood upright there.
She wore the same mantle for the graduation ceremony as everyone else and smiled behind her was Caliche and Miranda.
"Miki · Steinbeck?"
"Yes!" Miki saluted
"you've graduated, congratulations"
"Thank you" miki threw off her hat and ran off with her teammates.
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"Hey, hey Miki. can you do the thing again?" Miranda asked miki she transformed into a cabbit . "Ah ah ah ah, cute!"
Miranda and Caliche hugged Miki as they went out from the back door.
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the graduates raced
"why is there a race after the graduation ceremony !?"
"Ha ha ha! After the graduation ceremony is over, is the graduation party !"
"So why the race?"
"For the graduates who arrived at the party first , they get a celebration kiss from Miss GP!"
"After that, they can go out on a date with her as well"
Previously there had been a few who had become a couple with Miss GP after that, but the rate at which it happened was exaggeratedly rumored. a car tried to run them off the road rajau took out a missile and blasted them off the highway
"!?"
"don't worry he wont die, there's a specialized rescue team!"
"Ha ha ha! This is an obstacle removal race were supposed to attack! "
"After all we are going to fight criminals from now on,"
"……Really?" at the goal the girls waiting there talked about seina and became worried when part of the highway collapsed in the distance Seina's air car remained undamaged but they sank into the sea with the collapsed highway.
Miss GP was looking at the highway which collapsed with a smile.
usually this would be considered a catastrophe, but since Seina came, it was normal and just a minor incident. they all eventually make it to the party and seina was praised for his driving ability
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"On the earth"
the rainy season had settled, the intense sunlight shined around the area as if to clear up the damp moisture, while the trees and buildings were casting shadows of jet black. A huge cumulus cloud spread out in the high blue early summer sky. a 14 or 15 year old boy frantically peddled his bicycle down a country road.
"── Why did no one tell me sooner!" the boy sped past another older boy who had gotten a bit out in his way in a panic.
"Be careful!" The young boy yelled to him
"... ... I bet he doesn't even realize he just talked to someone from outer space..." seina, the older boy said .
"...... has it been two years already?"
he walked down the road he had been down two years ago and stared at the moon in the sky. The boy who went by reminded him of himself before he went into space but seina had no doubt that he had become an adult in all the time that had passed since then.
"I didn't think I'd come home like this though ... ... " Seina vomited a big sigh, he made his first step towards his far-away home.
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── Several days ago.
"............ "
since Seina was born, he had wanted to go into space and now that he was there he found him self spending a surprising amount of his time in space in chairwoman airi's office.
"oh! hi big brother." Yoshiko greeted seina with a smiling face as she sipped tea.
And next to her was his father, nishia. Also next to him was his mother, kyoko. he was surprised to say the least. No matter how many times he pinched himself and looked around there was no doubt they were sitting there in space... in airi's office.
"Airi, what kind of joke is this!"
"Oh, it's not a joke. " airi said
"There are good jokes and bad jokes!" he glared at her even harder
"Seina, i assure you it's real, oho ho ho" behind her was Mikami, the academy's principal and GP commander general.
"Dad, mother, Yoshiko ... why are you here?" Seina asked
"Because your getting married.... aren't you?"
"............................................................... Uh ...... what now?" Seina was confused.
"You getting married"
"I'm getting married?"
"yes"
"with who?"
"Several people Seina! did you forget?"
"airi! are you keeping something from me?! tell me whats going on!" Seina yelled at Airi.
Airi cowered and began to cry.
"Oh well, isn't it kind of obvious" seinas mother said looking at airi and trying to assess what kind of person she was.
"Ho ho ho, you truly are Seina's mother, you understand things quickly"
"So, who am I marrying?"
"Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko and Neiju."
"............"
As expected it seemed that his brain's processing limit had been exceeded for the day this answer. he couldn't understand it at all.
"Well, why ... ... and why four people?"
"should we tell him there will be more?"
"isnt it obvious! this is your first official mission!"
"Why the heck is marriage my first mission! !?"
"because its a political marriage"
"eh?" he froze again.
"don't over thing it your going to have four beautiful brides isn't that enough of a perk?"
"I'm happy, Kiriko-san will become my big sister" yoshiko said
"i wonder how long till they have kids, oh i guess were going to be grandparents soon..."
"And I'll be an aunt.... " yoshiko said
"so what about you? do you think your going second or third?" seinas mom said.
"For me, I'm thinking I'll bite the fourth bullet, oho ho ho" mikami said
"............ What are you saying?" seina said
"For the time being, we should get back to the matter at hand... ...." mikami said she snapped her fingers and soldiers uncamouflaged around seina and restrained him.
"hurry up and take him back to the earth"
"roger that!" and So Seina was sent off to the Masaki family's house through the long-distance transfer gate to tenchi and that was two days ago.
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"im home" seina called, in order to organize his thoughts he decided to take a walk back home from tenchi's on foot .
"Mya!" And, as soon as I opened the door and entered the inside, Fuku appeared on his head, and her three clones appeared around him decloaking their camouflage.
"Did you calm down a bit?"
"Just a bit ... ...."
The clones were staying together with seina to correct seina's biased probability. it worked much better then always having 4 people walk with him. but whenever he passed someone his normal habits caused him to distance himself a bit. but he was happy he could finally go to see his family's supermarket while it was operating but seeing old acquaintances was a bit awkward so he had on a slight optical camouflage to look different.
The shop where Kiriko and Ringo were busy working was wonderfully thriving, sometimes it even ended up on television; and magazines too occasionally. even Seina saw the atmosphere inside the shop was bright and lively. As Yoshiko's had told him, they already purchased land for the construction of a huge department store and parking lot nearby, and they planned to open it in three years.
---that's where the the protagonist of paradise war gets the pamphlet for banjo island---
he was surprised to see all that because he was amazed at how much they prospered with him not there. Seina came home and headed for his room. which looked exactly like he had left it when he visited last year
"the Wedding ceremony is tomorrow," Miki who became a humanoid said
she sat on a chair by his desk
Next Kirche sat near the window, D was seated near the entrance. Fuku jumped to Seina as cabbit,he stroked her and she looked up at Seina desperately.
"it's supposed to be held on the other side of that satellite" Kirche looked up at the sky at the moon. it felt weird to have them all in their, previously kiriko was the only girl who had been in his room outside of his mother and sister.
miki wore a suit styled uniform Kirche wore glasses and a sensible suit and had her hair up like a teacher or librarian, d wore a seifuku, his mother and sister picked their outfits.
"... ... Haha" seina sighed awkwardly.
"Why don't you prepare for tomorrow? you never know what could go wrong." Miki was indeed in a good mood. this was her favorite desk, and she enjoyed sitting it it. she gently stroked the wounds remaining on the desk with her fingers.
"But Miki-senpai, i don't get why i have to suddenly undergo a political marriage ..."
"Haven't you heard? its for The same reason why we are here, your probability bias ......"
"That's no reason for marriage."
" well then how about because the people in power judged that it was convenient,"
"Miki, what if Seina is concerned about is what Kiriko thinks" the words from Kirche shook seina.
"what do you think she thinks idiot! if you cant see it when you look at them you're dense, you better get used to it soon because it's our turn next round!"
"But even when its our time, i bet she will want you to suffer a little bit like this..., Because Ms. Mitsuki is a tsundere" D said D saw the sight of the four of them in this room nostalgically.
Apparently this resembled her original life.
"MY name is not mitsuki!" D often mistook Miki as mitsuki. Everything looked just like everything in her past life to her
" fine Miki-senpai is a tsundere ... ... is that okay?"
"That i don't mind so much, how do you feel about it about Kirche,... D?"
"its not important right now, what is important is what is going on tomorrow."
"I don't mind, for me it just things going back to its original state."
"was it just like this a billion years ago?"
"Yes, there was Kazuki, there was Mr. Mitsuki, Mitsuki-san was there, Ms. Yayoi was there, and my original body was there."
"Miyow ... ...." fuku snuggles seina
"Well, thats enough talk for now! Shall we begin preparing for lunch soon?"
"sure I'll help you" Miki stood up, Kirche followed and Fuku quickly rode behind.
"Miki, can we have curry for lunch." As D stood up, she sent a serious look to Miki.
"make it spaghetti and you have yourself a deal"
"OK." Seina sighed as they headed downstairs.
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"and with this the preparations for the wedding tomorrow is complete."
seina's mother finished checking off things to do for tomorrow yoshiko came and told her dinner was ready. They went into the kitchen where Miki was cooking.
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"how does it taste mother?" Miki asked she cooked the food and kirche was helping too
"Your cooking looks really similar to Tsukiko's, although I have seen her young in pictures you remind me of her when she was young, but you give off an atmosphere more like Kiriko."
"Hahaha ... i remember the first time I saw Tsukiko, Seina was in kindergarten. I'm glad they met Seina, not only does he have kiriko to make him happy... he has miki and all the rest of you now too." seina's dad said as he read the paper and smiled.
kirche and miki could tell from his smile that the family had put up with a severe amount of hardships in the past.
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"Hey Seina, can i come in?" seina's dad said opening the door.
he came in before seina could answer, he carried in a tray of onigiri with him.
"I'm not that hungry, but thank you, Just leave it."
"……okidoki."
Seina was looking out the window of his dark room. A beautiful moon was visible from the open window. his father placed the tray next to Seina and sat across from it.
"When you came home last year, we were also looking at the moon together on a night like this." "Oh, yeah, that's right."
"I understood what you were thinking at that time,"
" What's going on over there? "
"...... That's right, for me it's normal to be up there. It feels weird being back here."
"you know, the amount of humans who have been into space is less then a few hundred, and only 12 of those have been to the moon, but tomorrow we're having the wedding there, I can't help but find that funny."
"You know you did go to the academy to get me, so technically you're the 3rd pure earthling to ever go into space. And your my father so you can go back whenever you please."
"haha...... It is a shame that I can't go around boasting about it to my friends, it would make one hell of a story to tell people."
"You should go into space and see it for yourself." seina said
"I consulted with your mother and Yoshiko about that actually but I decided to keep things as they are for a while, I can't just go into space and neglect the family business. besides I am plenty content living life as an ordinary earthling for now, but I'll go eventually. it really depends on Yoshiko. She is really enthusiastic about taking over the business but it depends on what she does when she gets married"
"Well, hopefully she will stay."
"Yoshiko loves running the business..."
"Oh, that's just like her ... she always liked helping run the business more then helping with the housework."
"it makes her happy, and in the same way your living in space makes you happy."
"eh?" Seina was surprised by his fathers insight.
"I heard about your success from Seto-sama and Airi-san, everyone had lots of compliments for you. There certainly is something confident in your face that is different from before."
"I couldn't have done it on my own."
"Yeah, but now there are lots of girls around you to help you." seina's father looked up at the moon again.
"The girls are waiting up there"
"Dad ... ... I ..."
"are you sure you're ready for this?"
"............" Seina answered silently.
"every man has such feelings to some extent."
"you too?"
"I also thought of running away, I was worried ..."
"But I haven't even said anything to Kiriko and them I haven't even had a chance... I just got told I was being involved in a political marriage ..."
"Oh, do you really care about that?"
Last year they came along with Seina 's during his homecoming, his father understood they all had feelings for his son and released this situation was inevitable. Of course, for Seina who lived in a society where monogamy was a cultural constant, the situation was odd, especially knowing there would be second and third rounds to it. But Seto and Airi, were insistent and confident that he should go through with it.
"Seina, ...... you know , it was rare for marriages to be decided by love back in the old days. It is only recently that they system of romantic marriages was made.It used to almost always be that people other than those getting married were the ones who decided it because priority was given to protecting families, clans, the country, and their environment, this is exactly that.the great powers of the universe have gathered together to decide your marriage."
"But ..."
"let me finish, even though that's the case, there is a bond between you and those four women, which you can't deny, if you had to choose any other way it would destroy that, and if you think about it this way they can all compromise and be happy, but if you tried to do it yourself by your own will, there is a good chance that your probability bias would get involved and things would go wrong, so you should be responsible and just go with it."
"be responsible……?"
"Why not, it will make you happy it will make them happy it will make the various leaders happy,but if you refuse, just think about that ... ... why would you say no? would you rather die then be married?"
"that's not the issue! ... i just wonder about their feelings ... ...."
"you're being a coward, after all, airi had to have told them all about it already, they have to be okay with it."
"Well ... Yeah, but ... ...."
At that time, the door opened roughly, kyoko and yoshiko came in and beat Seina.
"are you stupid?! are you? You're not confessing to an unrequited love! so shut up and get ready to get married tomorrow, it's useless thinking about such things!"
"Oh my god! I was just telling him I'm nervous!"
"Er ... um ... ...."
seina felt betrayed like he felt when they forced him into putting his finger print on the gp application. but he noticed Miki peeking in at them from behind the door. she looked as mad as kyoko, her eyes looked angry.
"I understand, I'll do it just stop." seina said
"Well then, it's tomorrow early in the morning, so were going to bed now and so should you." kyoko left the room quickly. Fuku and D clones came in to go to bed with Seina.
"You're coming with me!" miki said coming in, she caught the d and kirche clones by the neck and took them out of the room, fuku stayed behind on seina's knee and rubbed her self against him.
"Well, I guess we should go to bed." seina told fuku and they went to bed.
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The next morning it was raining heavily.
"... ... it's pouring down rain on the day of your wedding ...... just what I would expect for my son" siena's dad said eating onigiri and reading the paper in the living room everyone was eating breakfast
"this could be bad, the guests feet could get all muddy"
"Mom, the ceremony is behind the moon, the rain won't it at all"
"... Oh, that's right, then there's no problem is there?" kyoko laughed
"Good morning……" seina said coming in sleepily with fuku
"we have to hurry, eat quickly" kyoko said, kirche got up and gave seina some miso soup.
"Thank you"
"Good morning, Seina, i hope your rest helped you make up your mind. "
"... oh ... yes... thank you Miki-senpai" seina drank some miso soup to calm his mind.
When Seina finished his meal, everyone started preparing for departure.
"Well, let's go Don't forget your shoes"
they got onto a transfer gate installed at the entrance door. The transfer destination was the Kamidake.
"you got everything ... right?" seina looked back and made sure he had gotten everything before going into the gate.
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There was a huge dome behind the moon which could not be seen from the earth. it was rented from recepshi for the event. The visiting spacecrafts where transported to a temporary space port set outside the solar system and from there guests where shuttled to the moon. This was a special protected area and measures had to be taken against terrorism. their were strict checks conducted on guests.
airi and mikami were walking around checking out the guests
"This is one heck of a crowd."
"It's what one would expect of a marriage of jurai, seina, balta, the kaunaqs and melmas. "
"setting up the seating arrangement must have been a nightmare."
"I heard a rumor there was going to be a galactic conference"
"Oh! that's a great idea i should have added that to the itinerary"
"Ho ho ho, well its too late now. aren't they going to be here soon?"
"seto's private guard is here as well as mitoto's cleaning service, and they even got racepshi, this must have cost a lot to organize. "
"Despite this size, it was probably as cheap as possible knowing ringo."
Airi 's ear launched a communication device
"Seina will arrive soon"
It would have been easy to open a transfer gate between the earth and the moon. However, it was a kind of ritual to come by Kamidake.
" Oh! " From the window of the dome the Kamidake loomed to greet everyone inside
"The protagonists are arriving, lets get this show started." Airi and Mikami headed off
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The waiting room for family members on the lower floor was a large garden-like place. This
was the size of a large stadium and it had atmosphere like the ancient ruins of Greece but half submerged. Various large and small aquariums float around the surroundings, and a variety of aquatic plants and beautiful fish were swimming in it.
Seina 's parents and Yoshiko, who had already changed clothes, had tea with Seto.
"I am really thankful to Seto for taking care of this... ... and thanks for playing matchmaker, it was really helpful."
"oh no it was nothing I was honored."
"... ... what is Utsutsumi doing?"
"damn it!" Beyond the line of sight of Seto, Utsutsumi was franticly practicing greetings behind the aquarium. he seemed pretty nervous.
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Miki and her group were talking to mikami in another section of the place.
"thanks to your hard work, we were able to get everyone here without anything going wrong."
"No, thank you, i finally got to meet seina's parents and sister." kirche said
she had previously been unable to when they visited last time and she had to pretend to be nb
"did you enjoy it?"
"I got to understand what kind of environment he grew up in"
"I felt very nostalgic, that feeling of the early civilization's books, TV shows and landscapes ...... It really looks like the planet where i originally met him... Also i really enjoyed their curry....." said d
"This girl, if it were up to her she would probably eat curry 3 times a day. Seina's mother was surprised by how much curry she ate."
"ohohoho well you should be excited. today we announce you as fuku's co-pilots."
"Oh.... right!" That said, miki and the gang turned into cabbits.
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The place where Seina was in was the lower level of the garden. In the center of the hall, a huge aquarium that extends from the upper garden extended further down. Seina and Airi were talking in front of the tank.
"Airi-san ... I ... I was wondering if should marry Kiriko-san."
"why?"
"I understand it's necessary, and I am glad that it will be necessary, but is it necessary to have a political marriage to do it ..."
"Definately!" Airi affirmed with a firm will.
"oh...really?"
"your value is immeasurable to the Galactic Federation, I know that you aren't fully aware of the power you have, but like it or not you are a very powerful part of the system that you are now in. "
"huh?"
"You've only recently had your life affected on a national level and it's only been two years since you've been in space. you have no idea how important and rare it is that you've managed to come into space and have been accepted by everyone here. you proven yourself to be incredibly capable and your ability to avoid total crisis is certainly high but the probability of you getting into danger is even higher, it's troublesome... and in the future you might not end up only in trouble that happens spontaneously, there may be people setting up artificial misfortunes for you to fall victim too."
"but ... how is that related to that my marriage?"
"Have you ever heard of a Honey trap?"
"Yes, ... mainly from Kenneth ... ..."
"Seina you aren't immune to such things, not only do adult woman flock to you, but you also get girls like acha and old hags like mikami, if we don't do something who knows what could happen. "
"Do you feel any compassion?"
"Well ... ... from what I've seen acha should look pretty nice when she grows up."
"No way, Acha too?"
"oh no, no time soon but who knows what will happen in the future, but as for kiriko it isn't as if she is being forced into it. but if we didn't force you to go through with this now then who knows more girls could show up and she could end up waiting forever. if your really that nervous about it i can take you to ask her. "
"Ha ha ... well, that would help..."
"... Well then, shall we go ?"
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Seina passed through a little darkened passageway. Airi and him stood in front of the bride's waiting room. he had an Anxious expression on his face.
"Well, here we go" Airi knocked lightly and the door opened.
"...... !?" seina was blinded not by the bright light that came of the room but by the girls in front of him their dresses were made from the finest Juraian silk and they sparkled brightly at him.
"oh!!" As soon as he saw Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko, and Neeju in their wedding dresses looking at him and smiling , all his fears screamed at once.
"How do i look Seina?" Amane was the first person to call out to him.
Naturally, the dress coupled with her beauty reminded him of the painting "the birth of venus ".
"I'm glad you didn't get here earlier, i just finished reworking my outfit" Ryoko · balta said
"Does my outfit look good?" Neeju · Na · Melmas asked.
she was still a girl, but for a long time she had been worshiped as a shrine maiden, and she learned to live within herself and her sacredness. Whereas other people might feel somewhat worried to show off their dress it felt natural to her. but for seina, Kiriko was the first one he saw. he had yearned to see the sight of her in a wedding dress before him since he was a child.
"............"
And as soon as the two realized they were noticing each others wedding outfits they froze up.
"uhm... ... Do you not like it?" Kiriko suddenly became uneasy due to seina's silence
"That ... ... uhm no, i said no such thing.... i..... you all look beautiful."
"Good, if you didn't like it i don't know what I'd do."
"Miaumau!" Fuku came at seina and the miki clones followed her decorated similarly. acha followed behind.
"oh fuku is dressed up too" Seina lifted up Fuku while being careful not to ruin her dress. "Miau" "Besides the wedding ceremony, we're also announcing that the Kamidake has officially become your ship, and Miki and her crew will be introduced in the form of a backup terminals, and who knows what else we will announce? " Airi said
"Is Washu-san's survival going to be announced?"
"Well, there are already a lot of people who know here, so it wouldn't be that big of a mess to do that."
"that reminds me Airi ...... What happened to Hakuren and her people, I haven't heard anything from Seto?"
"They are officially scheduled to be a part of the Kamidake's crew, but at this time they will not be announced as crew. For the moment, they will be coming to the venue as Seto-sama's girls. "
Airi said as she took fuku from seina
"Miau?"
"The Kamidake 2 is a Ryo-Ohki type isomorphic ship and was a massive piece of confidential information, being such a mass of confidential information, it was a problematic ship to disclose information about it, but because of the fight with the big daruma, everyone knows about it's abilities when combined with an Imperial ship, we had no choice but to disclose some information. "
"Then, like the Army and Tarrant, there are going to be more people trying to get information."
"yes but Fuku is able to backed up by miki's team, so the degree of danger has decreased, but now that you’ve acquired zinv were going to have to be extra careful of people wanting to take what’s yours " The eyes of everyone concentrated on Seina.
"The situation might not end up like it did this last time, your enemies will be more clever."
"I see, the need for security is really much greater then ever before" Seina was a VIP of the Galactic Federation, also a royal member of Jurai.
"That's why your own actions are important"
" I'll be careful."
"Excuse me" an employee came in
" Seina Yamada, it's about time, please come with me"
"Yes, I understand."
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Seina walked through a quiet passage lead by the staff. Seina had a smile on his face. There was no anxiety any more. Seina entered the transfer gate with the the staff member.
─ ─ It went down. The transfer destination was a large hangar. Instantly seina realized that this was clearly not the place he was supposed to be in and that the transfer gate was blocked off. a blow hit Seina across his face. Seina tried the door but it was stuck
"That’s pointless!" The staff said, the door was locked so he couldn’t escape. The staff man grabbed seina by the neck and slammed him into the wall.
A hole formed from the eye of the staff member as his face started to melt
"... ... ... ... No way!"
It was a nightmare sight. Blood flowed out of the hole in the face of the staff member, and finally it swelled like a balloon. It seemed that something came out from inside.
"huh!?" Seina felt nauseous, it was the smell of death.
"This time you won’t escape," seina heard a voice mixed with metallic synthesized speech say, and the inflated face like a balloon finally popped .
"Tarrant ......"
"... ... Did you think I was dead?"
Below the exploded mass of face meat that remained there was the face of Tarrant smiling like a demon. The same thing had happened to his arms and tarrant 's mechanized arms were covered with blood and shining bluntly. Seina was losing consciousness when tarrant hit him in his stomach with his other arm His body stiffened in pain and the nausea that had built released as he vomited.
Tarrant was caught of guard and he managed to break away.
"Was the explosion fake?"
"Fake, all that remained of my body was my head and my arm, I’m a fucking robot thanks to you!" "... ... you brought it on yourself" Seina said glaring at Tarrant.
"... ....ahahahahaha! You bastard, you can smirk all you want but your not going to make it to your wedding. I think I’m going to send kiriko your body in a gift box when I'm done. I’ll cut you up nice and neatly for her.”
“You bastard”
"What? Don’t you think that would make a great present?" Tarrant’s machine arm raised up and ejected a lazer sword. He lunged at seina.
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"Seina hasn’t arrived yet… it seems he is just standing in one room doing nothing..."
Airi and Mikami looked at each other with anxious expression when they heard the report from Seina's dressing officials.
" quick to the Monitor room!" Immediately, Airi and Mikami hurried from the hall to the monitor room. they arrived there to find seto and hakuren. Gaurds went into the room and the image of seina dissipated, it was a hologram.
"Where ... is... Seina!" Airi flashed through the monitors rapidly,
"Please!" It was an exclamation similar to a prayer.
"Oh, Airi look!"
"eh!?"" they found seina with Mitoto
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Airi headed to the hangar to find Mitoto and several cleaning staff on the scene. They found tarrant trapped in hardened extinguishing gel.
"To think this kind of thing would happen ..."
seto instantly judged the situation from the sight alone.
"Seina!" hakuren rushed to seina and checked on his condition.
She turned to seto and smiled. Seina was a little bit scratched up and bruised but that was all, hakuren tended to his wounds.
"The thing was over when I got here" Mitoto said
"Airi, can you take care of this?" Airi acknowledged Mikami's question and began to scan the situation of the site to submit a report to the GP.
“Hmm it seems like he was led into a trap …You accessed the system here and made the sensor overreact didn’t you?"
That situation was the same as when Seina encountered komachi. The box panel of the terminal beside the door was opened and the inside console was visible.
“He must’ve been covered in gel when he drew his weapon.” Seto glanced at the gel covered Tarrant. After completing the scan, Airi signaled to Mitoto.
"Everyone, get to it."
Mitoto issued an instruction to the cleaning staff who was conducting surveillance of the site. Soon they gathered up the melted flesh lumps scattered on the ground carefully into small boxes. Seto turned away from that sight, worried about whoever tarrants victim was.
"...... well, at least you’re safe." Seto got closer to Seina.
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"How did you access that system? the console was shielded. you didn’t have any keys, did you?”
"Yesterday, Ms. Washu ... ... she gave me this thing called the philosophers stone "
"Oh, i see" Seto spoke as if she knew what it was airi also seemed to know.
"Ms. Seto, what is a philosophers stone?" mikami asked Only Seto and Airi knew what it was.
"Its a sort of ultra advanced compact version of seina’s NB ... ...."
"It’s even more advanced than mine." Airi said begrudgingly..
There was no great difference between the performance of washu and airi’s inventions, but rather a lack of airi’s strange additions and built in surveillance system. In other words in a way it was a downgrade to hers.
"Well, even if Washu made it, the name of" philosopher’s stone " makes sense, i bet it can even access washu’s personal database. "
"Washu-sama’s database !?" Mikami understood the reason it was called "philosophers stone".
If you could access the knowledge of Washu, a philosopher who was called the greatest philosopher in history, it was certainly an appropriate name.
"Of course, Seina's access is at the lowest level, but still you get the best knowledge that ordinary people can know.The high-frequency data can be accessed by human beings who have thought-oriented Bio-Enhancement But you need a lot of training and talent. "
For example, if one saw in the scenery one flower that could be seen, with a single insect on it, a huge amount of knowledge related to the scene could be sent to their brain instantly and obviously that scales with what can be seen. But you’d have to be able to understand and process them in a moment, if you were an ordinary human you’d surely die of shock.
"If you had the power of the stone, why did you access the panel manually, "
"I'm not used to it yet, I have to touch things directly to use it ...." Seina said,
"That's why I had to go to the terminal near the door,"
"...... Anyway, I'm glad you're ok Seina, Hakuren take Seina to the restroom, and keep this confidential to Kiriko-chan."
"I understand" the rest of the seto scouts came and joined them at the transfer gate. Seto looked relieved as she watched seina transferred out of the room.
"We have to find out how he got in...but for now it’s just good enough that we’ve caught Tarrant ..."
"He sure is stuck in there." mikami said
Seto looked at Tarrant. Tarrant was staring at seto with a terrified expression.
Seto smiled a cold hearted smile. The future that awaited for Tarrant who had been caught alive was going to be a suitable one for someone so evil.
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"So the of four of us change Seina's probability bias !?" kiriko's team reacted to the news in washu's report that airi told them.
"Originally this was what Erma's reports assumed, so you knew to a certain extent."
"That's true ... ...."
"but Washu's conclusions have confirmed it, so there's no doubt."
"But when we were together we were attacked by Space pirates, weren't we?"
"But everyday injures to seina have stopped haven't they? " airi glared at kiriko. she had the most experience with seina's injuries in the past.
"They've been less frequent, but ...."
"The probability bias won't go away, seina will still suffer some damage, the probability is fluctuating though, although there's some distortion, it's vector direction has changed."
"Four people, huh does that mean hakuren and her girls too ... ...?"
"It's been confirmed and the fuku clones as well."
"why four people?"
"If you're interested, I'll tell you in my spare time but for now, just keep in mind that you can reverse his luck."
"OK" Kiriko said
"Well ... ... So as a result of considering this fact, we have decide to continue maintaining training for seina even after graduating from the academy.Of course if Jurai and Balta acknowledge it, you and ryoko won't have to worry about official affairs while doing so, but since Hakuren's team are seto's employees, they will have to go back to her service again for official dispatch.
the Fuku team is not yet able to participate in a single task independently, but we're working on that too. "
"But Fuku-chan still has control of the Kamidake?"
"as a team it will be different from Kiriko-chan's, think of miki and the others as Fuku-chan's backup staff."
"so then, we're the main crew."
"Yes that's what I expect. also while we're here..." airi paused
"... ... ZINV was found to be the first generation royal Tree as a result of the investigation, "
"oh!"
"I was expecting something like that ... ... but Is it really a first generation? " Kiriko asked Airi "there's no mistaking it."
"so is seina going to become royalty ... ...."
"our findings Regarding ZINV are being withheld from disclosure for now so were holding out on going that far, of course that would change if Seina decides quit the GP and become part of the royal family."
"Seina wont quit the GP ... so I guess its a non issue"
"Well, that is what the gp is hoping for, as for ZINV please keep what you know about it secret for now. any further questions?"
"............" All respond silently.
"Okay, then leave the room"
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"Seina you can come in now" Seina was called in as the girls left and airi led him down her stairs to the lower level When they arrived at the bottom, the doors opened in the opposite directions, there was a corridor that straddled two buildings. he saw a garden behind a gate with a path leading to the back to the apartments for her staff.
"uh ... ... where is this?" above him was the huge obsidian floor of airi's office supported by several pillars it seemed to be slightly transparent and glowed light brownish green.
"My house, I used to live here with yosho, Minaho, and Kiyone in the past."
"Here?"
" it was more than big enough for our family of four, i know you cant see it too well from here but there's a large pond in the back that kiyone used to love to play in."
It was certainly a small mansion in comparison to the staff apartment. It was wider than seina's current home. Airi headed to the left building. they entered a large living room.
"Sit and I'll make us some tea"
"No.. uhm... I don't..." Airi entered the kitchen in the back. Within a few minutes she came back with a big cup and a small pot.
"here you go"
"Oh, thank you"
"Dont be alarmed, It's not laced with anything."
"... No, uhm ... ... I'm not worried about that."
"it's been 150 years since I've had another man in here."
"uhm..."
"don't be like that, that's not why i brought you here. you're here because I wanted to talk about your future."
"……I understand" he had stood up to leave but he quickly sat down on the sofa again.
"Seina, aren't you graduating in a few months? I want to confirm with you your intentions for the future, your answers effect the GP and the academy, so please think and answer me well "
"Yes, I understand."
"Have you heard that there are humanoid weapons very similar to ZINV in the renza federation?"
"I heard that ZINV may be their originator, maybe."
"Well, we have received some informal requests from them, asking for the results from the ZINV survey, and even some requests to hand over ZINV itself"
"hand it over? No way !?" The expression on Seina's face became steep, and Airi quickly picked up the conversation to control it.
"Of course we refused, you're the one who discovered it, your it's master, not to mention zinv had its own will, there's no need to respond to their advantage, I don't plan to do that"
"Oh, so is that a good thing?"
"Also at this stage they don't know ZINV is an Imperial Tree, nor is it publicly announced that it's the founder of the humanoid weapons of renza, which they don't know. But that wont keep them from tying to send in spies to find out and even to possibly take zinv, its also possible you may be targeted. it's a first generation tree and you have the Kamidake ...... I don't think there's anyone who can put up an offense against that, but Seina you're different "
"... ... Well, both the Kamidake and Fuku were taken away once..."
"As long as you touch the world, there's a limit to what you can protect.If they were an ordinary person, there would be nothing to worry about, but in this case your enemies are at a national level, so I ... ... No, the Galactic Federation can't present to you a lot of options. " Airi took a deep breath, calmed down, drank tea and moistened her thirsty throat.
"Seina, if that happens we in the GP can defend and back you up and so can jurai. but that is only possible if you live on earth on the condition that you don't leave it.
It's quite controversial, but those are the facts- in fact, if you refuse, you might be drawn into a fight against the federation... "
"As might be expected ..."
"but I'm going to treat you as a VIP until then, if you are dissatisfied with anything here, we will give you preferential treatment"
"I do not have any dissatisfactions so far at the moment ..."
"If you want a woman, I'm more then happy to help you out with that... ...."
"I don't need that!"
"Well, the situation with these things is always changing, so if you don't have to think about it right now, and you can talk to me again when things change."
"........................."
"i just wanted to let you know about the future and the degree of danger you could be in, but for now you're still a minor, who's about to graduate from the GP academy, and there are still labor and underage protection laws we have to abide by that have my hands tied for now on certain issues. "
"Oh, I see."
"Yeah, that's right ... All parties involved, including me, are completely paralyzed and it's been a pain having to deal with them especially concerning acha."
seina finally realized the abnormality of his position. By the way, they had also received inquiries from various fields at the same time in various ways, from accounting and taxation agencies, trying to account for the abnormally large income for someone his age and the personal ownership problem of the Kamidake, and so on.
"So I'm getting a lot of scolding by people in charge of certain things. , anyways, think about it ok. " "I understand" seina went back to his dorm.
his roommates greeted him. they worried about how he looked after coming back from airi's.
"You know you can talk to us about it if you ever need to" but he couldn't.
they then decided to celebrate by ordering delivered food which they were now, as seniors, allowed to do, but they made seina pay because kenneth spent all his money on sex toys and rajau spent all his money on his hobbies.
seina showed them his budget for the day and they all ordered around that amount.
while they eat he asked them what they going to do after graduation kenneth wanted to be a first class special detective, which is a detective that is above any jurisdiction and has access to any case so he can investigate wide spread incidents. basically a philosopher of the detective department.
rajau wanted to be a special area delivery person, someone who delivers things to places without regular mail service.
eventually they asked seina why he decided to join the gp,
"well I mostly did it for my mother There was no future for me on earth after jr high and I just didn't be a burden on her. "
"What was your first impression of going up into the universe and entering the GP?"
" i was surprised it felt like the world suddenly expanded and when i first talked to you two and you explained my probability bias i realized there was a whole world of things here i couldn't even imagine " At that time, Seina remembered the most important thing.
"What's wrong?"
"... ... my probabilty bias became my weapon.I hurt myself and hurt people ...... and i even changed the entire galaxy"
"The fate of the entire Galactic Federation has changed."
"your bad luck is kind of indispensable now, isn't it?"
"oh, that's it. That was it. i decided to stay because there was a person who said that my talent was necessary." he pictured seto in his head
" ─ ─ I want you to name me" echoed in his memory
To name it is to establish a person's identity. so he was hesitant to do so.
mirror seto was like a second mother to him in a way, she was the person who established Seina Yamada, the ego.
Taking the chance to name her, would make him her birther in a way ─ ─
"Seina, what's wrong?"
"Oh ... uhm ...... I was lost in thought a bit.... I think I'm going to stay with The GP after This..."
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--------------by the way you know how i know nabeshin had this as the outline script and simply cut whatever he damn well pleased? watch the anime.... All the girls are suddenly in their own apartments when airi interviews them but they were never told to move out so they made a last minute opening scene telling seina that they they just suddenly up and moved out of amane's-----------
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Amane 's island apartment complex had over 150 units.
amane only lived in the penthouse.
neiju moved into her own unit because they couldnt have all the girls living together anymore
airi helped her settle in. then she helped ryoko settle into her unit. then she visited amane.
"my apartment is way too big without all the people in it."
"I visited the other girls and asked if they would stick with seina, obviously they confirmed that they would and when I asked them individually if they thought that seina would stay with the gp they all answered more or less what else would he do? " Amane who heard the responses they gave responded with dry a laugh without any intonation.
"... .... That reminds me, Amane you were the one who made Seina sign up to join the GP ."
"yeah and you kept me from being promoted because of it" amane said glaring at airi
"If you want to become a first class detective still, I'll give you a letter of recommendation. "
"not now ... ... I'm part of the crew of the Kamidake, this is worth more to me than being a first-class detective, i get to handle way bigger things."
"Well, that's true." Airi gave a shrug "... ... I'm hungry, make something!"
"Well, it's a bit early, but it's supposed to be dinner soon ...." amane opened a monitor to order from nashissu
" I don't want to eat my own food can you cook something?" so amane and her went in the kitchen and she tried her best. but clearly amane wasn't a good cook...
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Airi Arrived to help kiriko move in. she was feeling sick from having to eat amane's food.
kiriko made her some tea and gave her some candy From Japan.
she asked her the same thing as the other girls and got more or less same answer.
" why where you so opposed to him being there at first?"
"on earth people treated seina like and outcast as if his bad luck was a disease, they ostracized him. no matter who came into his life one by one they would leave until he was alone, "
"that's not true he was never alone. he always had you."
"and my brother kai. In fact they became best friends thanks to his easy-going personality, he was stubborn enough not to care about others warnings despite his bad luck they were inseparable"
" it sounds's like his luck has changed for the better. good friends are hard to find"
"i got to know seina because kai would bring him to the house everyday after school. What stuck out most to me was how often he would fall down, but still he never stopped smiling, I remember one day his parents came to pick him up and his mother was upset, I couldn't understand why until i learned she was crying out of joy not sadness, she was glad seina had finally made a real friend. I remember thinking If someone as gentle as seina could be ostracized to the point that he only had one friend there wasn't much hope for the world. "
"I'm impressed. that's an astute observation for a young girl to make. "
"That day i vowed that he would never be alone again, i wanted to protect him so badly and to show him that i really understood i wanted to show him that someone accepted him for who he was but i didn't. seto was the one who told him his bad luck was an asset, I treated it like a handicap no worse I treated him like he wasn't even there. I felt like it was my responsibility to look after him all the time and i resented him for that. so i left to space. I didn't want him here with me. But I've realized that him being in space with me and the others is the only real chance he has of having a good life"
" He will forever need a group of Four people around him if he doesn't want to have bad luck ... ...
It sounds like a curse"
"For Seina-chan, it's the key to his freedom ... and it's not too revolting a concept... Hakuren's here and Fuku-chan is also here, Acha is pretty and Amane is pretty.I think it might be kind of enjoyable. "
There was no sadness in her eyes anymore. she smiled
"Yeah ... well then ..." airi looked at her
"... ... Hey Kiriko chan"
"Yes?"
"do you think there's room in there for me? ... ... How about it?"
"absolutely not. I refuse."
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airi cried as she handed her reported to seto
"... ... alright ... quit crying and wipe your face already"
Seto handed a handkerchief to Airi with a tired face,she gave the sticky handkerchief back to seto.
Seto threw it into the transfer gate for the laundry.
"Well, as you expected, everyone answered the same ... ... sorry the report is so boring."
"I don't think any of the girls would refuse the idea of marriage if we proposed it."
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the girls had a pajama party to celebrate seina's graduation the day
all the cabbit girls were now able to turn into humanoid so they celebrated by getting drunk.
three barrels of shinju sake and juice arrived from sasami. they played the message attached to the barrel
"Kiriko! I heard From Noike that your having a party tonight to celebrate Seina's graduation . I'm sure everyone will want to celebrate so I've sent you sake and juice made by Tsunami. See you later, Bye bye " Sasami said smiling with Ryo-Ohki.
Behind that, you could see Noike smiling The monitor disappeared after the message was over.
"Oh ... ... Dear ....Tsunami, ... ........................" kiriko said unsettled, hakuren was also visibly shocked
"What's wrong, Kiriko-san? Hakuren ?" They explained what shinju sake was to the other girls.
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seina and his team mates checked in for the last role call they would ever check in for.
rajau and kenneth decided to sneak out for the night to celebrate.
seina went with them because they were his team mates.
at the graduation ceremony every one was there including the cabbit girls, tennyo, and tsukiko...even seiryo
"why are you here !?" Amane glared at Seiryo who folded his arms.
"I am the GP academy's top instructor, its only natural i came."
when seina came in he was the only guy in the graduating class without a bag on his face. presumably everyone else got hit with the security bot marks in his attempt to get out of the dorm.
"Graduate, Yamada, Seina! "
"Yes!"
The moment the name of Seina was read out, the venue was filled with applause. It continued for a long time and seemed like there was going to be no end. Naturally expecting this , Seina's name was called last.
"Everyone quiet! mikami is here to deliver a speech"
as soon as they heard Mikami's name, the hustle and bustle of the hall fell to silence.
Mikami, the principal, was not in her usual uniform, but she appeared wearing the uniform of a GP general commander.
There was none of her usual dizzying smile she had on a serious expression.
When Mikami's footsteps echoed in the venue, the people in the venue corrected their posture and closely watched her. mikami went to the podium, slowly looked around the graduates and the audience, and began speaking heavily.
"Two years ago, with a lot of colleagues, you all knocked on the gates of the GP Academy, and as of this day, a few of our colleagues have gone on to other roads, The people of this class encountered a big incident rarely seen early on and was exposed to more suffering and trials than ever before but everyone here has overcome the challenge and lived to celebrate today, I am proud. "
Mikami closed her eyes to reflect back on the memories. The students and audience did the same.
"... Well! From tomorrow on you are officially welcomed as a members of GP, please keep the fight for justice alive in your mind... However! " the smiley face of Mikami changed to anger
"Don't be bad, don't bring shame to us !!" her anger made all the people shudder
"well the it's over, the graduation ceremony has ended !! Everyone, congratulations on your graduation" Mikami declared with her usual smiling face.
the graduates threw up their hats high in the sky and cheered. the doors where opened and the customary race began,
"ready set go!" seiryo got in front of them and was trampled
"o ho ho ho" mikami laughed she noticed a shadow in a place not visible from the audience "............" Miki · Steinbeck stood upright there.
She wore the same mantle for the graduation ceremony as everyone else and smiled behind her was Caliche and Miranda.
"Miki · Steinbeck?"
"Yes!" Miki saluted
"you've graduated, congratulations"
"Thank you" miki threw off her hat and ran off with her teammates.
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"Hey, hey Miki. can you do the thing again?" Miranda asked miki she transformed into a cabbit . "Ah ah ah ah, cute!"
Miranda and Caliche hugged Miki as they went out from the back door.
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the graduates raced
"why is there a race after the graduation ceremony !?"
"Ha ha ha! After the graduation ceremony is over, is the graduation party !"
"So why the race?"
"For the graduates who arrived at the party first , they get a celebration kiss from Miss GP!"
"After that, they can go out on a date with her as well"
Previously there had been a few who had become a couple with Miss GP after that, but the rate at which it happened was exaggeratedly rumored. a car tried to run them off the road rajau took out a missile and blasted them off the highway
"!?"
"don't worry he wont die, there's a specialized rescue team!"
"Ha ha ha! This is an obstacle removal race were supposed to attack! "
"After all we are going to fight criminals from now on,"
"……Really?" at the goal the girls waiting there talked about seina and became worried when part of the highway collapsed in the distance Seina's air car remained undamaged but they sank into the sea with the collapsed highway.
Miss GP was looking at the highway which collapsed with a smile.
usually this would be considered a catastrophe, but since Seina came, it was normal and just a minor incident. they all eventually make it to the party and seina was praised for his driving ability
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"On the earth"
the rainy season had settled, the intense sunlight shined around the area as if to clear up the damp moisture, while the trees and buildings were casting shadows of jet black. A huge cumulus cloud spread out in the high blue early summer sky. a 14 or 15 year old boy frantically peddled his bicycle down a country road.
"── Why did no one tell me sooner!" the boy sped past another older boy who had gotten a bit out in his way in a panic.
"Be careful!" The young boy yelled to him
"... ... I bet he doesn't even realize he just talked to someone from outer space..." seina, the older boy said .
"...... has it been two years already?"
he walked down the road he had been down two years ago and stared at the moon in the sky. The boy who went by reminded him of himself before he went into space but seina had no doubt that he had become an adult in all the time that had passed since then.
"I didn't think I'd come home like this though ... ... " Seina vomited a big sigh, he made his first step towards his far-away home.
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── Several days ago.
"............ "
since Seina was born, he had wanted to go into space and now that he was there he found him self spending a surprising amount of his time in space in chairwoman airi's office.
"oh! hi big brother." Yoshiko greeted seina with a smiling face as she sipped tea.
And next to her was his father, nishia. Also next to him was his mother, kyoko. he was surprised to say the least. No matter how many times he pinched himself and looked around there was no doubt they were sitting there in space... in airi's office.
"Airi, what kind of joke is this!"
"Oh, it's not a joke. " airi said
"There are good jokes and bad jokes!" he glared at her even harder
"Seina, i assure you it's real, oho ho ho" behind her was Mikami, the academy's principal and GP commander general.
"Dad, mother, Yoshiko ... why are you here?" Seina asked
"Because your getting married.... aren't you?"
"............................................................... Uh ...... what now?" Seina was confused.
"You getting married"
"I'm getting married?"
"yes"
"with who?"
"Several people Seina! did you forget?"
"airi! are you keeping something from me?! tell me whats going on!" Seina yelled at Airi.
Airi cowered and began to cry.
"Oh well, isn't it kind of obvious" seinas mother said looking at airi and trying to assess what kind of person she was.
"Ho ho ho, you truly are Seina's mother, you understand things quickly"
"So, who am I marrying?"
"Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko and Neiju."
"............"
As expected it seemed that his brain's processing limit had been exceeded for the day this answer. he couldn't understand it at all.
"Well, why ... ... and why four people?"
"should we tell him there will be more?"
"isnt it obvious! this is your first official mission!"
"Why the heck is marriage my first mission! !?"
"because its a political marriage"
"eh?" he froze again.
"don't over thing it your going to have four beautiful brides isn't that enough of a perk?"
"I'm happy, Kiriko-san will become my big sister" yoshiko said
"i wonder how long till they have kids, oh i guess were going to be grandparents soon..."
"And I'll be an aunt.... " yoshiko said
"so what about you? do you think your going second or third?" seinas mom said.
"For me, I'm thinking I'll bite the fourth bullet, oho ho ho" mikami said
"............ What are you saying?" seina said
"For the time being, we should get back to the matter at hand... ...." mikami said she snapped her fingers and soldiers uncamouflaged around seina and restrained him.
"hurry up and take him back to the earth"
"roger that!" and So Seina was sent off to the Masaki family's house through the long-distance transfer gate to tenchi and that was two days ago.
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"im home" seina called, in order to organize his thoughts he decided to take a walk back home from tenchi's on foot .
"Mya!" And, as soon as I opened the door and entered the inside, Fuku appeared on his head, and her three clones appeared around him decloaking their camouflage.
"Did you calm down a bit?"
"Just a bit ... ...."
The clones were staying together with seina to correct seina's biased probability. it worked much better then always having 4 people walk with him. but whenever he passed someone his normal habits caused him to distance himself a bit. but he was happy he could finally go to see his family's supermarket while it was operating but seeing old acquaintances was a bit awkward so he had on a slight optical camouflage to look different.
The shop where Kiriko and Ringo were busy working was wonderfully thriving, sometimes it even ended up on television; and magazines too occasionally. even Seina saw the atmosphere inside the shop was bright and lively. As Yoshiko's had told him, they already purchased land for the construction of a huge department store and parking lot nearby, and they planned to open it in three years.
---that's where the the protagonist of paradise war gets the pamphlet for banjo island---
he was surprised to see all that because he was amazed at how much they prospered with him not there. Seina came home and headed for his room. which looked exactly like he had left it when he visited last year
"the Wedding ceremony is tomorrow," Miki who became a humanoid said
she sat on a chair by his desk
Next Kirche sat near the window, D was seated near the entrance. Fuku jumped to Seina as cabbit,he stroked her and she looked up at Seina desperately.
"it's supposed to be held on the other side of that satellite" Kirche looked up at the sky at the moon. it felt weird to have them all in their, previously kiriko was the only girl who had been in his room outside of his mother and sister.
miki wore a suit styled uniform Kirche wore glasses and a sensible suit and had her hair up like a teacher or librarian, d wore a seifuku, his mother and sister picked their outfits.
"... ... Haha" seina sighed awkwardly.
"Why don't you prepare for tomorrow? you never know what could go wrong." Miki was indeed in a good mood. this was her favorite desk, and she enjoyed sitting it it. she gently stroked the wounds remaining on the desk with her fingers.
"But Miki-senpai, i don't get why i have to suddenly undergo a political marriage ..."
"Haven't you heard? its for The same reason why we are here, your probability bias ......"
"That's no reason for marriage."
" well then how about because the people in power judged that it was convenient,"
"Miki, what if Seina is concerned about is what Kiriko thinks" the words from Kirche shook seina.
"what do you think she thinks idiot! if you cant see it when you look at them you're dense, you better get used to it soon because it's our turn next round!"
"But even when its our time, i bet she will want you to suffer a little bit like this..., Because Ms. Mitsuki is a tsundere" D said D saw the sight of the four of them in this room nostalgically.
Apparently this resembled her original life.
"MY name is not mitsuki!" D often mistook Miki as mitsuki. Everything looked just like everything in her past life to her
" fine Miki-senpai is a tsundere ... ... is that okay?"
"That i don't mind so much, how do you feel about it about Kirche,... D?"
"its not important right now, what is important is what is going on tomorrow."
"I don't mind, for me it just things going back to its original state."
"was it just like this a billion years ago?"
"Yes, there was Kazuki, there was Mr. Mitsuki, Mitsuki-san was there, Ms. Yayoi was there, and my original body was there."
"Miyow ... ...." fuku snuggles seina
"Well, thats enough talk for now! Shall we begin preparing for lunch soon?"
"sure I'll help you" Miki stood up, Kirche followed and Fuku quickly rode behind.
"Miki, can we have curry for lunch." As D stood up, she sent a serious look to Miki.
"make it spaghetti and you have yourself a deal"
"OK." Seina sighed as they headed downstairs.
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"and with this the preparations for the wedding tomorrow is complete."
seina's mother finished checking off things to do for tomorrow yoshiko came and told her dinner was ready. They went into the kitchen where Miki was cooking.
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"how does it taste mother?" Miki asked she cooked the food and kirche was helping too
"Your cooking looks really similar to Tsukiko's, although I have seen her young in pictures you remind me of her when she was young, but you give off an atmosphere more like Kiriko."
"Hahaha ... i remember the first time I saw Tsukiko, Seina was in kindergarten. I'm glad they met Seina, not only does he have kiriko to make him happy... he has miki and all the rest of you now too." seina's dad said as he read the paper and smiled.
kirche and miki could tell from his smile that the family had put up with a severe amount of hardships in the past.
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"Hey Seina, can i come in?" seina's dad said opening the door.
he came in before seina could answer, he carried in a tray of onigiri with him.
"I'm not that hungry, but thank you, Just leave it."
"……okidoki."
Seina was looking out the window of his dark room. A beautiful moon was visible from the open window. his father placed the tray next to Seina and sat across from it.
"When you came home last year, we were also looking at the moon together on a night like this." "Oh, yeah, that's right."
"I understood what you were thinking at that time,"
" What's going on over there? "
"...... That's right, for me it's normal to be up there. It feels weird being back here."
"you know, the amount of humans who have been into space is less then a few hundred, and only 12 of those have been to the moon, but tomorrow we're having the wedding there, I can't help but find that funny."
"You know you did go to the academy to get me, so technically you're the 3rd pure earthling to ever go into space. And your my father so you can go back whenever you please."
"haha...... It is a shame that I can't go around boasting about it to my friends, it would make one hell of a story to tell people."
"You should go into space and see it for yourself." seina said
"I consulted with your mother and Yoshiko about that actually but I decided to keep things as they are for a while, I can't just go into space and neglect the family business. besides I am plenty content living life as an ordinary earthling for now, but I'll go eventually. it really depends on Yoshiko. She is really enthusiastic about taking over the business but it depends on what she does when she gets married"
"Well, hopefully she will stay."
"Yoshiko loves running the business..."
"Oh, that's just like her ... she always liked helping run the business more then helping with the housework."
"it makes her happy, and in the same way your living in space makes you happy."
"eh?" Seina was surprised by his fathers insight.
"I heard about your success from Seto-sama and Airi-san, everyone had lots of compliments for you. There certainly is something confident in your face that is different from before."
"I couldn't have done it on my own."
"Yeah, but now there are lots of girls around you to help you." seina's father looked up at the moon again.
"The girls are waiting up there"
"Dad ... ... I ..."
"are you sure you're ready for this?"
"............" Seina answered silently.
"every man has such feelings to some extent."
"you too?"
"I also thought of running away, I was worried ..."
"But I haven't even said anything to Kiriko and them I haven't even had a chance... I just got told I was being involved in a political marriage ..."
"Oh, do you really care about that?"
Last year they came along with Seina 's during his homecoming, his father understood they all had feelings for his son and released this situation was inevitable. Of course, for Seina who lived in a society where monogamy was a cultural constant, the situation was odd, especially knowing there would be second and third rounds to it. But Seto and Airi, were insistent and confident that he should go through with it.
"Seina, ...... you know , it was rare for marriages to be decided by love back in the old days. It is only recently that they system of romantic marriages was made.It used to almost always be that people other than those getting married were the ones who decided it because priority was given to protecting families, clans, the country, and their environment, this is exactly that.the great powers of the universe have gathered together to decide your marriage."
"But ..."
"let me finish, even though that's the case, there is a bond between you and those four women, which you can't deny, if you had to choose any other way it would destroy that, and if you think about it this way they can all compromise and be happy, but if you tried to do it yourself by your own will, there is a good chance that your probability bias would get involved and things would go wrong, so you should be responsible and just go with it."
"be responsible……?"
"Why not, it will make you happy it will make them happy it will make the various leaders happy,but if you refuse, just think about that ... ... why would you say no? would you rather die then be married?"
"that's not the issue! ... i just wonder about their feelings ... ...."
"you're being a coward, after all, airi had to have told them all about it already, they have to be okay with it."
"Well ... Yeah, but ... ...."
At that time, the door opened roughly, kyoko and yoshiko came in and beat Seina.
"are you stupid?! are you? You're not confessing to an unrequited love! so shut up and get ready to get married tomorrow, it's useless thinking about such things!"
"Oh my god! I was just telling him I'm nervous!"
"Er ... um ... ...."
seina felt betrayed like he felt when they forced him into putting his finger print on the gp application. but he noticed Miki peeking in at them from behind the door. she looked as mad as kyoko, her eyes looked angry.
"I understand, I'll do it just stop." seina said
"Well then, it's tomorrow early in the morning, so were going to bed now and so should you." kyoko left the room quickly. Fuku and D clones came in to go to bed with Seina.
"You're coming with me!" miki said coming in, she caught the d and kirche clones by the neck and took them out of the room, fuku stayed behind on seina's knee and rubbed her self against him.
"Well, I guess we should go to bed." seina told fuku and they went to bed.
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The next morning it was raining heavily.
"... ... it's pouring down rain on the day of your wedding ...... just what I would expect for my son" siena's dad said eating onigiri and reading the paper in the living room everyone was eating breakfast
"this could be bad, the guests feet could get all muddy"
"Mom, the ceremony is behind the moon, the rain won't it at all"
"... Oh, that's right, then there's no problem is there?" kyoko laughed
"Good morning……" seina said coming in sleepily with fuku
"we have to hurry, eat quickly" kyoko said, kirche got up and gave seina some miso soup.
"Thank you"
"Good morning, Seina, i hope your rest helped you make up your mind. "
"... oh ... yes... thank you Miki-senpai" seina drank some miso soup to calm his mind.
When Seina finished his meal, everyone started preparing for departure.
"Well, let's go Don't forget your shoes"
they got onto a transfer gate installed at the entrance door. The transfer destination was the Kamidake.
"you got everything ... right?" seina looked back and made sure he had gotten everything before going into the gate.
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There was a huge dome behind the moon which could not be seen from the earth. it was rented from recepshi for the event. The visiting spacecrafts where transported to a temporary space port set outside the solar system and from there guests where shuttled to the moon. This was a special protected area and measures had to be taken against terrorism. their were strict checks conducted on guests.
airi and mikami were walking around checking out the guests
"This is one heck of a crowd."
"It's what one would expect of a marriage of jurai, seina, balta, the kaunaqs and melmas. "
"setting up the seating arrangement must have been a nightmare."
"I heard a rumor there was going to be a galactic conference"
"Oh! that's a great idea i should have added that to the itinerary"
"Ho ho ho, well its too late now. aren't they going to be here soon?"
"seto's private guard is here as well as mitoto's cleaning service, and they even got racepshi, this must have cost a lot to organize. "
"Despite this size, it was probably as cheap as possible knowing ringo."
Airi 's ear launched a communication device
"Seina will arrive soon"
It would have been easy to open a transfer gate between the earth and the moon. However, it was a kind of ritual to come by Kamidake.
" Oh! " From the window of the dome the Kamidake loomed to greet everyone inside
"The protagonists are arriving, lets get this show started." Airi and Mikami headed off
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The waiting room for family members on the lower floor was a large garden-like place. This
was the size of a large stadium and it had atmosphere like the ancient ruins of Greece but half submerged. Various large and small aquariums float around the surroundings, and a variety of aquatic plants and beautiful fish were swimming in it.
Seina 's parents and Yoshiko, who had already changed clothes, had tea with Seto.
"I am really thankful to Seto for taking care of this... ... and thanks for playing matchmaker, it was really helpful."
"oh no it was nothing I was honored."
"... ... what is Utsutsumi doing?"
"damn it!" Beyond the line of sight of Seto, Utsutsumi was franticly practicing greetings behind the aquarium. he seemed pretty nervous.
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Miki and her group were talking to mikami in another section of the place.
"thanks to your hard work, we were able to get everyone here without anything going wrong."
"No, thank you, i finally got to meet seina's parents and sister." kirche said
she had previously been unable to when they visited last time and she had to pretend to be nb
"did you enjoy it?"
"I got to understand what kind of environment he grew up in"
"I felt very nostalgic, that feeling of the early civilization's books, TV shows and landscapes ...... It really looks like the planet where i originally met him... Also i really enjoyed their curry....." said d
"This girl, if it were up to her she would probably eat curry 3 times a day. Seina's mother was surprised by how much curry she ate."
"ohohoho well you should be excited. today we announce you as fuku's co-pilots."
"Oh.... right!" That said, miki and the gang turned into cabbits.
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The place where Seina was in was the lower level of the garden. In the center of the hall, a huge aquarium that extends from the upper garden extended further down. Seina and Airi were talking in front of the tank.
"Airi-san ... I ... I was wondering if should marry Kiriko-san."
"why?"
"I understand it's necessary, and I am glad that it will be necessary, but is it necessary to have a political marriage to do it ..."
"Definately!" Airi affirmed with a firm will.
"oh...really?"
"your value is immeasurable to the Galactic Federation, I know that you aren't fully aware of the power you have, but like it or not you are a very powerful part of the system that you are now in. "
"huh?"
"You've only recently had your life affected on a national level and it's only been two years since you've been in space. you have no idea how important and rare it is that you've managed to come into space and have been accepted by everyone here. you proven yourself to be incredibly capable and your ability to avoid total crisis is certainly high but the probability of you getting into danger is even higher, it's troublesome... and in the future you might not end up only in trouble that happens spontaneously, there may be people setting up artificial misfortunes for you to fall victim too."
"but ... how is that related to that my marriage?"
"Have you ever heard of a Honey trap?"
"Yes, ... mainly from Kenneth ... ..."
"Seina you aren't immune to such things, not only do adult woman flock to you, but you also get girls like acha and old hags like mikami, if we don't do something who knows what could happen. "
"Do you feel any compassion?"
"Well ... ... from what I've seen acha should look pretty nice when she grows up."
"No way, Acha too?"
"oh no, no time soon but who knows what will happen in the future, but as for kiriko it isn't as if she is being forced into it. but if we didn't force you to go through with this now then who knows more girls could show up and she could end up waiting forever. if your really that nervous about it i can take you to ask her. "
"Ha ha ... well, that would help..."
"... Well then, shall we go ?"
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Seina passed through a little darkened passageway. Airi and him stood in front of the bride's waiting room. he had an Anxious expression on his face.
"Well, here we go" Airi knocked lightly and the door opened.
"...... !?" seina was blinded not by the bright light that came of the room but by the girls in front of him their dresses were made from the finest Juraian silk and they sparkled brightly at him.
"oh!!" As soon as he saw Kiriko, Amane, Ryoko, and Neeju in their wedding dresses looking at him and smiling , all his fears screamed at once.
"How do i look Seina?" Amane was the first person to call out to him.
Naturally, the dress coupled with her beauty reminded him of the painting "the birth of venus ".
"I'm glad you didn't get here earlier, i just finished reworking my outfit" Ryoko · balta said
"Does my outfit look good?" Neeju · Na · Melmas asked.
she was still a girl, but for a long time she had been worshiped as a shrine maiden, and she learned to live within herself and her sacredness. Whereas other people might feel somewhat worried to show off their dress it felt natural to her. but for seina, Kiriko was the first one he saw. he had yearned to see the sight of her in a wedding dress before him since he was a child.
"............"
And as soon as the two realized they were noticing each others wedding outfits they froze up.
"uhm... ... Do you not like it?" Kiriko suddenly became uneasy due to seina's silence
"That ... ... uhm no, i said no such thing.... i..... you all look beautiful."
"Good, if you didn't like it i don't know what I'd do."
"Miaumau!" Fuku came at seina and the miki clones followed her decorated similarly. acha followed behind.
"oh fuku is dressed up too" Seina lifted up Fuku while being careful not to ruin her dress. "Miau" "Besides the wedding ceremony, we're also announcing that the Kamidake has officially become your ship, and Miki and her crew will be introduced in the form of a backup terminals, and who knows what else we will announce? " Airi said
"Is Washu-san's survival going to be announced?"
"Well, there are already a lot of people who know here, so it wouldn't be that big of a mess to do that."
"that reminds me Airi ...... What happened to Hakuren and her people, I haven't heard anything from Seto?"
"They are officially scheduled to be a part of the Kamidake's crew, but at this time they will not be announced as crew. For the moment, they will be coming to the venue as Seto-sama's girls. "
Airi said as she took fuku from seina
"Miau?"
"The Kamidake 2 is a Ryo-Ohki type isomorphic ship and was a massive piece of confidential information, being such a mass of confidential information, it was a problematic ship to disclose information about it, but because of the fight with the big daruma, everyone knows about it's abilities when combined with an Imperial ship, we had no choice but to disclose some information. "
"Then, like the Army and Tarrant, there are going to be more people trying to get information."
"yes but Fuku is able to backed up by miki's team, so the degree of danger has decreased, but now that you’ve acquired zinv were going to have to be extra careful of people wanting to take what’s yours " The eyes of everyone concentrated on Seina.
"The situation might not end up like it did this last time, your enemies will be more clever."
"I see, the need for security is really much greater then ever before" Seina was a VIP of the Galactic Federation, also a royal member of Jurai.
"That's why your own actions are important"
" I'll be careful."
"Excuse me" an employee came in
" Seina Yamada, it's about time, please come with me"
"Yes, I understand."
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Seina walked through a quiet passage lead by the staff. Seina had a smile on his face. There was no anxiety any more. Seina entered the transfer gate with the the staff member.
─ ─ It went down. The transfer destination was a large hangar. Instantly seina realized that this was clearly not the place he was supposed to be in and that the transfer gate was blocked off. a blow hit Seina across his face. Seina tried the door but it was stuck
"That’s pointless!" The staff said, the door was locked so he couldn’t escape. The staff man grabbed seina by the neck and slammed him into the wall.
A hole formed from the eye of the staff member as his face started to melt
"... ... ... ... No way!"
It was a nightmare sight. Blood flowed out of the hole in the face of the staff member, and finally it swelled like a balloon. It seemed that something came out from inside.
"huh!?" Seina felt nauseous, it was the smell of death.
"This time you won’t escape," seina heard a voice mixed with metallic synthesized speech say, and the inflated face like a balloon finally popped .
"Tarrant ......"
"... ... Did you think I was dead?"
Below the exploded mass of face meat that remained there was the face of Tarrant smiling like a demon. The same thing had happened to his arms and tarrant 's mechanized arms were covered with blood and shining bluntly. Seina was losing consciousness when tarrant hit him in his stomach with his other arm His body stiffened in pain and the nausea that had built released as he vomited.
Tarrant was caught of guard and he managed to break away.
"Was the explosion fake?"
"Fake, all that remained of my body was my head and my arm, I’m a fucking robot thanks to you!" "... ... you brought it on yourself" Seina said glaring at Tarrant.
"... ....ahahahahaha! You bastard, you can smirk all you want but your not going to make it to your wedding. I think I’m going to send kiriko your body in a gift box when I'm done. I’ll cut you up nice and neatly for her.”
“You bastard”
"What? Don’t you think that would make a great present?" Tarrant’s machine arm raised up and ejected a lazer sword. He lunged at seina.
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"Seina hasn’t arrived yet… it seems he is just standing in one room doing nothing..."
Airi and Mikami looked at each other with anxious expression when they heard the report from Seina's dressing officials.
" quick to the Monitor room!" Immediately, Airi and Mikami hurried from the hall to the monitor room. they arrived there to find seto and hakuren. Gaurds went into the room and the image of seina dissipated, it was a hologram.
"Where ... is... Seina!" Airi flashed through the monitors rapidly,
"Please!" It was an exclamation similar to a prayer.
"Oh, Airi look!"
"eh!?"" they found seina with Mitoto
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Airi headed to the hangar to find Mitoto and several cleaning staff on the scene. They found tarrant trapped in hardened extinguishing gel.
"To think this kind of thing would happen ..."
seto instantly judged the situation from the sight alone.
"Seina!" hakuren rushed to seina and checked on his condition.
She turned to seto and smiled. Seina was a little bit scratched up and bruised but that was all, hakuren tended to his wounds.
"The thing was over when I got here" Mitoto said
"Airi, can you take care of this?" Airi acknowledged Mikami's question and began to scan the situation of the site to submit a report to the GP.
“Hmm it seems like he was led into a trap …You accessed the system here and made the sensor overreact didn’t you?"
That situation was the same as when Seina encountered komachi. The box panel of the terminal beside the door was opened and the inside console was visible.
“He must’ve been covered in gel when he drew his weapon.” Seto glanced at the gel covered Tarrant. After completing the scan, Airi signaled to Mitoto.
"Everyone, get to it."
Mitoto issued an instruction to the cleaning staff who was conducting surveillance of the site. Soon they gathered up the melted flesh lumps scattered on the ground carefully into small boxes. Seto turned away from that sight, worried about whoever tarrants victim was.
"...... well, at least you’re safe." Seto got closer to Seina.
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"How did you access that system? the console was shielded. you didn’t have any keys, did you?”
"Yesterday, Ms. Washu ... ... she gave me this thing called the philosophers stone "
"Oh, i see" Seto spoke as if she knew what it was airi also seemed to know.
"Ms. Seto, what is a philosophers stone?" mikami asked Only Seto and Airi knew what it was.
"Its a sort of ultra advanced compact version of seina’s NB ... ...."
"It’s even more advanced than mine." Airi said begrudgingly..
There was no great difference between the performance of washu and airi’s inventions, but rather a lack of airi’s strange additions and built in surveillance system. In other words in a way it was a downgrade to hers.
"Well, even if Washu made it, the name of" philosopher’s stone " makes sense, i bet it can even access washu’s personal database. "
"Washu-sama’s database !?" Mikami understood the reason it was called "philosophers stone".
If you could access the knowledge of Washu, a philosopher who was called the greatest philosopher in history, it was certainly an appropriate name.
"Of course, Seina's access is at the lowest level, but still you get the best knowledge that ordinary people can know.The high-frequency data can be accessed by human beings who have thought-oriented Bio-Enhancement But you need a lot of training and talent. "
For example, if one saw in the scenery one flower that could be seen, with a single insect on it, a huge amount of knowledge related to the scene could be sent to their brain instantly and obviously that scales with what can be seen. But you’d have to be able to understand and process them in a moment, if you were an ordinary human you’d surely die of shock.
"If you had the power of the stone, why did you access the panel manually, "
"I'm not used to it yet, I have to touch things directly to use it ...." Seina said,
"That's why I had to go to the terminal near the door,"
"...... Anyway, I'm glad you're ok Seina, Hakuren take Seina to the restroom, and keep this confidential to Kiriko-chan."
"I understand" the rest of the seto scouts came and joined them at the transfer gate. Seto looked relieved as she watched seina transferred out of the room.
"We have to find out how he got in...but for now it’s just good enough that we’ve caught Tarrant ..."
"He sure is stuck in there." mikami said
Seto looked at Tarrant. Tarrant was staring at seto with a terrified expression.
Seto smiled a cold hearted smile. The future that awaited for Tarrant who had been caught alive was going to be a suitable one for someone so evil.
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