There is a pile of documents in front of me. Since my personal terminal is broken, I cannot send nor receive data so mom prints out all the documents and stack them in front of me. At another desk, macho is in there with also piles of documents the same way as I am and was grinning while looking at me. Looks like that muscle head is enjoying thisâŚ
âAnd these are the complaints from the Academy City Defense Forces. Ah, sorry! I almost forgot, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is requesting to return the submarine which you got on board to get hereâ
âAno~ momâŚâ
âWhile you are gone, the VR Technology Department was held up so there are also a pile of documents from them so make sure to check on it. Also, what elseâââ
Yabai, mom is angry. I donât know what to do when she is angry like this. My mom is smiling when I look at her but her eyes are saying otherwise. I tried to ask for help from Alice who is in the corner of the room but when our eyes met she look the other way. Kon who is being held by Alice is also covering her face with her tail. (TN: âYabaiâ literally means âDangerousâ but it is also a slang word to express strong expression. It can be used in both positive and negative way but it is only used when you are talking to someone who you are really close with. For negative way, you use it as a expletive which will roughly translate it as âdamnâ or âshitâ in English. For positive way, you can use it the same way as âamazingâ or use it to express positive expression to whatever you are pertaining to. Damn, Japanese is hard to explain but I hope you get the gist of it)
It is hopeless to ask for help even to the Captain and Anton-san who are standing behind me because they are frozen like statues.
âIâm sorryâŚâŚâ
When I said that one word, mom stopped piling up the documents and looked at me.
âYour voice is too low to hear, did you say something?â
âFor being selfish, Iâm sorry! I beg of you, please help me!â
âYou need help? You went to Russia on your own and did something dangerous. When I decided to help you, you told me that you will handle everything by yourself right? Moreover, You blew up the former capital of another country on a grand scale then suddenly came back riding a secretly kept submarineâ
âYesâŚâ
âââVery well. Learn from this and promise me never to do everything on your own again. Understand?â
âYesâ
Looks like she will finally forgive me. Mom takes off her white coat, sits in a chair and cross her legs. She was then looking straight at the Captain who was behind me. It was silent for a while, then she finally opened her mouth.
âCaptain Yurya, when Kouki had a meeting with the Russian Government I overheard the conversation through his terminal. Is the Polonium Case true?â
âI was a former member of Russian Federation Army, Iâm Captain Yurya Altamonowa. My identification number at that time wasâââ
Captain, there are no more Maritime Self-Defense Forces so you donât need to pretend that you are under my command anymore. Please stop provoking my mother. Look, the light on momâs eyes are gone. I wonder if she is angry againâŚ
âCaptain, itâs fine to answer momâs question. Please answer all of the questionsâ
âIt is true. It was a highly classified information. It was not supposed to be used but that case was an operation for my unit and the decision was left to usâ
âI see⌠Why does Ko-chan knows that kind of highly classified information?â
This time, I was asked instead of the Captain. This question, How should I answer? Maybe I should tell mom everything just like what I told the Captain. However, thinking that there are spies in Noah, it is possible that one of them is in this room listening to usâŚ
âI heard a rumor, that there is an operation like thatâ
âRumor huh⌠Ma~ whatever, you can go Ko-chan. Iâm done lecturing you, itâs now the turn of Alice-chan and the others to scold you nowâ
On those words, Alice and Kon had a happy expression on their face but my heart actually stop for a sec when I heard it. Looks like Captain will answer more questions. I am so nervous and my mouth is dry but I still left my seat in a hurry so that mom will not start lecturing me again. When I look at the Captainâs face before I left the room, she was expressionless as always. It made made me smile for a bit. I think she will be fine, I believe that she will not say anything related to my secretââ
â- Arakawa Miki Point of View â-
After Kouki left the room and couldnât hear his footsteps in the corridor anymore, the Captain spoke to me again.
âI thought that child has the foresight to see the future⌠and it is not only a certain future but all branch of future which are affected by human actionsâ
âFumu, that was interestingâ
âYes, but whatâs more interesting is this. What that child can see is apparently the past⌠but it might be more accurate to say that he knows the past. It is like he is presently experiencing the pastâ
The Captain seemed to be upset for a moment. No matter how you look at it, looks like he knows something about Kouki.
âI believe Kouki already told you that we made a base on a different world. Actually, in that world, that child always know the optimal solution on every situationâ
âIn a different world?â
âYes. Making preparation, taking action and leaving results. Iâm a parent so at first I just thought that he is really a genius but because of this incident I am now certain. He is abnormal. Why did he go to an opposite direction when he escaped the building(hotel)? Why does he know the case about the Polonium? Why everything is always convenient for that child?â
In my words, the Captain seems to be thinking about something. I love Kouki from the bottom of my heart. I will help him in whatever way I can for him to take his path of life but that kid wonât tell us anything and thatâs really frustrating. When I said that to the Captain, she finally opens her mouth as if she is having a hard time.
âI have an agreement with Arakawa. Thatâs why I cannot tell you what he said to me but I will not deny your guessâ
If she is not going to deny it, that means what I am thinking is correct? If he had experience something similar to this world then where could that world be?
ââŚDid Arakawa said his reason for joining the Interracial war in another world?â
âEh? At the very least he said the he wants everyone to live peacefully while laughingâ
âLetâs just say what you are thinking right now is correct. In that case, can you tell if this world is a place where everyone can âlive peacefully while laughingâ?â
I was surprised by what she said. That means Kouki is⌠from the future of this world that has walked a different history? And he alone, is trying to change the pastââ
âI thought hard about it base on what I heard from Arakawa and you. Would we really notice New World if that guy did not take any action? If we havenât notice, what do you think could have happened?â
âThat kid is trying to correct history, however he keeps on failing and trying againâŚâ
Thatâs why that child can keep doing the best course of action unless something unexpected happens. It is possible that he had knowledge about the polonium case because he experience it himself? I now understand the uneasiness that I experience when Kouki was born. I wonder how long did Kouki suffer? How many âdeathâ did he experience when he had such eyes upon birthââ