ainezu amatsuki amatsuki 98 69 Text: [Chapter 98] Text: [The Nightingale That Calls To The Moon, Part 1] 70 Toki: ...So this is Ueno? Bonten: Sort of. Bonten: It's not like there's a clear boundary Bonten: Between the demon paths and reality. ainezu amatsuki PasteShr ainezu amatsuki [Toki: Whoa, this is pretty freaky.] [Tsuyukusa: (no idea what he's saying there, it's too cut off)] Bonten: So whenever you enter or leave, Bonten: Reality and the spirit world tend to melt together. Bonten: Hm, it's hard to tell exactly where we are... SFX: [*rustle*] 71 Toki: Oh! Bonten: Well, I guess we're back. ainezu amatsuki PasteShr ainezu amatsuki Bonten: Come on. Bonten: THis way. SFX: [*rustle*] Toki: Really? Toki: I know this is Ueno, but... Toki: [Something doesn't feel right...] Toki: [I wonder if it's still being affected by the demon world. 72 TOki: [It feels like...] ainezu amatsuki How to get it? ainezu amatsuki SFX: [*rustle*] Hashita: Oi!! Hashita: [*Hey!*] Hashita: Toki!! Tsuyukusa: Oh... Tsuyukusa: You really came back... Toki: [We're somehow on the border between Amatsuki and my world...] 73 Toki: Tsuyukusa!! ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki Toki: Hashita-san!! SFX: [*gasp*] Toki: Tsuyukusa, you got so big!! SFX: [*hug*] SFX: [*waaaaah!*] Toki: I'm crying so hard that I can't see... SFX: [*wibble*] Tsuyukusa: Shut up! SFX: [*twitch*] Tsuyukusa: [What the hell are you doing!?] ainezu amatsuki How to get it for free? ainezu amatsuki Susutake: Hey, the bird and the brat are here, too? SFX: [*rustle rustle*] Toki: Yeah, we're over here!! 74 SFX: [*gasp*] Hashita: ..... Hashita: fufu... 75 ainezu amatsuki How to use it? ainezu amatsuki Hashita: Bwahahahaha!! Toki: [*huh?*] Toki: Hashita-san? Toki: What are you doing? SFX: [*laugh laugh*] Hashita: Isn't it obvious!? Ainezu: Hashita... Hashita: Well, I mean, I guess I look pretty funny too. (pffft!) SFX: *laugh laugh* Susutake: Hashita...? ainezu amatsuki How to get it for free? ainezu amatsuki Hashita: What is it? Hashita: You two aren't saying anything. Toki: What's going on...? 76 Ainezu: ...... Ainezu: H... Ainezu: Hashita-san? Ainezu: B... Ainezu: But how... ainezu amatsuki How to use it? ainezu amatsuki Ainezu: This can't be... Toki: Huh? 77 Susutake: What the... Susutake: Wait... SFX: [*gasp*] SFX: [*cough cough*] Susutake: Hashita? Old man? Susutake: But why... ainezu amatsuki How to use it? ainezu amatsuki Susutake: Are you dressed like the bird? Susutake: I don't... Susutake: What's going on? Susutake: ...Hashita? But how!? Susutake: Um... Hashita: Wait... Hashita: You guys... Hashita: Don't you know who I am? 78 ainezu amatsuki How to use it? ainezu amatsuki Hashita: Aonibi... Hashita: Wakasa... 79 Ainezu: I... Ainezu: I know, but... Ainezu: I don't... Ainezu: Do I... Aizezu: Know you...? Susutake: Hey... ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki Susutake: Time out! Susutake: What the hell is going on!? Why am I...? Toki: Hashita-san!? Toki: Could it be that you... Toki: Know these guys!? Hashita: Huh? Hashita: Yeah, of course I do! Hashita: They're my buddies from work! 80 ainezu amatsuki How to get it? ainezu amatsuki Hashita: They look pretty close to the way they do in real life, so I guess I'm still dreaming... SFX: [*wahaha*] Toki: Hashita-san! Toki: I keep telling you - this isn't a dream!! Toki: [You've got to trust me, okay!?] Hashita: Eh!? Hashita: What!? Hashita: You mean... I'm really not dreaming? Toki: Um... Hashita: But then why do I suddenly look like this? ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki Hashita: How did that happen!? Toki: Well, uh... 81 Ainezu: You know, it's terribly difficult to prove that the world you see is the "real" one... Ainezu: But... Hashita: Aonibi? Ainezu: Utsubushi-san... Ainezu: No, Hashita-san... Ainezu: Why... ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki Ainezu: Why is it that I suddenly have memories of you? Ainezu: But... Aienzu: If all of a sudden I have knowledge that I shouldn't be able to have, Ainezu: Then that means this can't all be happening in my head. Hashita: ...... Hashita: Oi... SFX: [*gulp*] Hashita: You... Toki: !? Ainezu: Wakasa-san, ainezu amatsuki PasteShr ainezu amatsuki Ainezu: It's the same for you, right? Susutake: Uwah... Susutake: Give me a minute... 82 Susutake: Ugh...!! Susutake: This feels just like when I play sensory immersion video games for too long... Susutake: [I feel sick...] Susutake: [My head is spinning...] Susutake: I don't think this is a dream... ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki SFX: [*uggggggh*] Susutake: Holy shit, what happened to me!? Susutake: What the hell is going on!? SFX: [*shock*] TOki: Susutake-san... Toki: How do you know about video games!? Susutake: What is this shit, cosplay!? SFX: [*gasp*] Susutake: This is some kind of total immersion game, right!? ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki 83 Toki: .....!? Toki: You two... Toki: Are from the real world!? Hashita: Hey, hey... Hashita: Are you serious about this!? Ainezu: I think we can rule out the possibility that this is a dream. Ainzeu: There's simply too much new information content. Ainezu: I have memories of being "Ainezu," but I'm also aware that I'm "Aonibi." Ainezu: It's like they're blended together. ainezu amatsuki How to use it? ainezu amatsuki Susutake: Me too, me too! Susutake: But I can't remember what I was doing in my last few moments as Wakasa... Susutake: It's like I woke up and I was suddenly Susutake!! 84 Hashita: The more we're reminded of our old lives, the more memories start coming back... Susutake: What does it mean...!? Utsubushi: Hey, you guys! What's got you so worked up? SFX: [*flap flap*] Utsubushi: This isn't a good place to stop and chat! ainezu amatsuki How to get it? ainezu amatsuki Utsubushi: We have to go find the priestesses... SFX: [*shock*] SUsutake: KACCHAN!! Utsubushi: Ah! What are you doing, Susutake!? Utsubushi: [Ee!?] SFX: [*kyaa*] Susutake: Kacchan, it's you!! Susutake: And you can talk!! 85 ainezu amatsuki How to get it? ainezu amatsuki Utsubushi: [Nooooo, let me go!!] Susutake: [Uwaaaah, I'm so happy!!] Toki: No way... Susutake: [I get to see my creation come to life!] (Note: "Kacchan" was the unofficial mascot sprite of their spy business, back in Chapter 49) Toki: That version of Utsubushi-san... Toki: Is from the real world too? SFX: [*shock*] SFX: [*staaaaare*] Toki: OMG, what about you guys!? ainezu amatsuki How to use it? ainezu amatsuki Toki: Do you remember your other lives, too!? Tsuyukusa: ...What are you talking about? Are you guys... Tsuyukusa: Okay? 86 Toki: .....! SFX: [*tremble*] Toki: What if... we're all from the world they call "Nirvana?" Toki: It's starting to seem possible... Toki: But why...? It doesn't make sense... ainezu amatsuki PasteShr ainezu amatsuki Hashita: Whoa, whoa... Hashita: So this isn't a dream. Hashita: We're all really in this place. Hashita: So it begs the question... Hashita: What *is* Amatsuki? SFX: [*shock*] 87 Ainezu: And for what purpose were we brought here? Ainezu: Something about that Yakou's face covering seems really familiar... ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki Ainezu: The Sensai Corporation!! Susutake: You're right!! Susutake: It's the same as their logo!! Susutake: Back in the real world... Susutake: We were investigating the Sensai Corporation!! 88 Ainezu: So the Yakou is wearing their logo on his face... Ainezu: This place must have something to do with Sensai. Ainezu: But while we were investigating, ainezu amatsuki How to get it for free? ainezu amatsuki Ainezu: We never saw anything about "Amatsuki," Ainezu: Or about this "Yakou." Ainezu: ...Unless you know something, SFX: [*glance*] Ainezu: Bonten-san? 89 Ainezu: Now that I think about it, Ainezu: You've always seemed to avoid letting me, Utsubushi and Susutake-san all be in the same place at the same time. [Bonten: I guess you could call it destiny.] ainezu amatsuki How to get it? ainezu amatsuki [Bonten: Hey, you two, quit fighting!] Ainezu: Honestly, Ainezu: I assumed that you disliked me. Ainezu: But now I wonder... Ainezu: Was it that you were trying to prevent something like this from happening? Bonten: ...... Ainezu: ...... Ainezu: Well, it doesn't matter. Ainezu: If I worry too much about your involvement in all of this, I'm probably just going to make the situation even worse. ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki 90 Ainezu: Anyhow, Ainzeu: I'm sure that everything will soon come to light. Bonten: ..... Hizame: Ainezu...? Ainezu: .... SFX: [*wibble*] Ainzeu: Please forgive me. Ainezu: I've caused you to worry, haven't I? Ainezu: I promise, I'll explain everything to you soon. ainezu amatsuki How to dowload it? ainezu amatsuki 91 Toki: Hashita-san? Toki: What is the Sensai Corporation? Hashita: Oh! Hashita: Right, you wouldn't know. Hashita: They're a business that we were investigating... Toki: [Maybe somewhere in my heart...] Toki: [I'd started to think that the world was just a game, and I was the main character.] Toki: [I was always the nameless protagonist.] ainezu amatsuki PasteShr ainezu amatsuki Toki: [I didn't know anything.] Toki: [I didn't have any bonds with other people.] 92 Toki: [But...] Hashita: Sensai's the company that created that "Bakumatsu Interactive Exhibit" museum. [Teacher: A mandatory social studies field trip over your spring vacation!!] [SFX: [*tadaa*]] [Text: [Greater Edo Bakumatsu Interactive Exhibit] [SFX: [*slam*]] ainezu amatsuki How to use it? ainezu amatsuki [Teacher: It opens tomorrow! You're invited to the Bakumatsu Interactive Exhibit!!] [Toki: WHAAAT!?] [Toki: [My spring vacation!?]] [Toki: What do you mean!?] [Toki: Waaaah!] [Teacher: Feel the breath of history on your skin and in your bones and in your eyes!!] Hashita: Have you heard of it? Toki: [But really... maybe I was just...] Toki: Yeah... I've been there. Toki: That... ainezu amatsuki How to get it? ainezu amatsuki Toki: That was how... Toki: I came into this world... Toki: [An outsider in this world.] ainezu amatsuki