Star Children 5

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left: The isolation environment training begins unexpectedly. But there's a sudden worry for Yuuto...

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STAR CHILDREN
#5 The Right Stuff
Kida Masashi
Yuuto
Is the leader?

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Will this be alright?

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All he has is the right to open the door
It should be alright

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How little trust you have
In me

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But still... I'm the leader
Even though it was decided like that...

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Will it work out...
With the four of us for two weeks!?

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Well, what's the point of getting weak-spirited before we actually do anything?

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Since I did become the leader
Somehow, the four of us will get through through this two week exercise!!

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This cabin is the storage for food and clothing

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Our food supplies are divided by day

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Huh? It won't open?

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The clothes for your training are stored in Box No. 4
First change into them

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Is this it?

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Alright, we'll go change over there

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Ah!!

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I almost forgot

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Great!!
Yuuto, let's go look around other cabins

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What's this cabin for?
sfx: beep

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I- I'm sorry!!

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Hehehe it was a nice view~~~
Th- The stimulus was too strong

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I'm truly sorry
It's not like we planned to peep on purpose...

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It's alright
You can expect to be seen while changing in this isolation environment

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There's that thing constantly looking at you to begin with

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What's that?

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Surveillance camera
The cornerstone of isolation environment training

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Cornerstone!?

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They use that camera to check our speech and actions, body temperature, heart rate, everything
So they can evaluate our ability to act, the state of the body, resistance to stress in an isolation environment

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Heeeh~~~ They see all of that

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Now that I think of it, Kousei said in the past
"The indispensable quality for an astronaut"
//...What as that?

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By the way, shower and toilet are inside
Don't ever peep there at least!!

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I- I know

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So these are the basic private cabins

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They're just capsules, and pretty confined too

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Not really
nb: Under gravity
nb: Zero gravity
What was simply space above your head under the force of gravity
//Becomes usable when you're in zero gravity

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I see~~~
Yes, this should be enough

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This is the exercise room

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Nowadays, thanks to the developments in medicine, the degeneration in bone density and muscle mass can be arrested
But same as on the ground, if you don't do anything, they'll degenerate naturally, so you need to supplement them with exercise

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For now, we've looked around the facilities we have

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Hey, Yuuto, what are you doing!?
Let's go!!

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Why are they doing this training?

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Why? It's the isolation environment training for us to join Sirius
It could be even a longer term exercise...

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That's not what I mean. We only started a few days ago
And yet, they made us undergo this tough training already. Isn't it strange?

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Could this mean that Core Inc
Is planning to go to Jupiter again?

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True
The way the teams were decided was pretty tough too

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You're jumping to conclusions!
It was supposed to get tough eventually, so they're doing it a bit early

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But we can at least think about it a little, can't we?

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Announcement for the ASCANs

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I will now explain your first assignment, so assemble around the central terminal

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Your first assignment will be to use the keyboard to enter each character displayed
If you enter 100 in a row correctly, you clear this

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A hundred, huh
Should be pretty easy

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However

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There is a one second time limit from when the letter is displayed to when you have to enter it
O... One second!?
If all four enter it correctly, the question is cleared

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It's alright
If you stay calm, it's plenty of time

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The assignment is to be completed by 2100
//You can attempt it as many times as you want until then
Th- That's how it is...
Piece of cake
However, if you fail to clear this, we will not provide you with today's food allotment

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Are we animals they're training to perform?
It's probably even worse

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If you fail even for one day, and you're not able to eat, it'll affect you the next day
In that case, the probability is high that you'll keep failing again and again

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So their plan is to put us under pressure and make us fail!!
They're being cunning... Do they think it'll work on us!!?

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Let's clear this assignment quickly and eat our food in front of the camera!!

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True, this sounds like an easy task

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Even if there's a time limit, one second is plenty to input...

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What are they trying to accomplish
By making us do this?

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And now, we begin!!
Alright, everyone ready!?
//Let's go!!

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Start!!

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beep x3

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beep

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Pin-pon
//Question 1 clear
Yeah!!

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So the interval to the next character is 10 seconds

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At this rate, we can breeze through 100 questions

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Yes
We can do this

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What are you smirking about? It looks gross
Hmm~~~?

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But isn't it fun to imagine it?

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How the atmosphere grows increasingly tense

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You're probably told often that your personality is twisted
I'm not!!

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Bzzz
//Question 33 fail

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Sorry
I pressed the wrong key next to it

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Heeey, Yuuto?
You gotta be careful~~~!!

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Pin-pon
//Question 50 clear

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Alright, half-way there!!
Piece of cake!!

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Ugh
Bzzz
//Question 51 fail

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S- Sorry
Don't worry, let's go again!!

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Pin-pon
//Question 80 clear
Just 20 more!!

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Bzzz
//Question 81 fail
Wha!
//It wasn't "O"?

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It was "0"
Shit! So it's not only letters!!

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Let's be careful next time

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Bzzz
//Question 22 fail

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Bzzz
//Question 62 fail

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Bzzz
//Question 47 fail

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Phew~~~~

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Unexpectedly, it's difficult for all four to be correct every time...
It's also more exhausting than I expected

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Starting over from scratch because of one person's mistake
As a result, this turns into pressure not to make any mistakes of your own

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Also, what's really bad is the interval
The time to catch your breath actually disrupts your concentration

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Bzzz
//Question 13 fail

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Hey, you pressed the wrong key entirely just now!!
//I saw you!!
Are you messing around!?

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I'm not!!
I knew it, but I just made the mistake accidentally!!

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You knew it, and you still pressed it!!
So you are messing around!!
I couldn't help it, I just pressed it!!

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Our accuracy keeps dropping...
Because the concentration is declining

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!!
Listen, Yuuto
//What's essential to an astronaut is...

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Cooperativeness and fortitude
That's the right stuff!!

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The right stuff, huh...
I don't know if I have it... But I have to try!!

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So~~~
//What will you do?