Hitoribocchi no Chikyuu Shinryaku 31

This was sooooo wordy. I'm truly not looking forward to the next few chapters simply because they are data dumps, and anyone who has read my TL's knows how much I hate them despite being a kind of necessary evil.

Oh well. Expect the next chapter next week sometime. March is Hitoribocchi month.



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Chapter 31: My name is...

002
Rico: Meow~
Nagi: What's up Rico? Did Koichi leave you behind?
Rico: Mew~
(Handwritten- So cute!)
Ayla: Nagi
Do you have a moment?

003
Nagi: 'Sup Ayla-senpai~! What's going on? You're being so formal!
Girl: See you Nagi.
Nagi: Later.
Ayla: I apologize. I just came to take Rico back with me...
Nagi: It's cool. I was just thinking it was time for me to head home.
Ayla: You've already realized what we are, haven't you?
Yet you're not trying to investigate us?

004
Nagi: Y'know this ordinary daily life is really important to me.
Stuff like fighting and the like is really beyond me.
You guys are totally immersed in abnormal situations where you're putting your neck on the line...but I think I'll just stay here in these ordinary days.
I'm pretty sure this is what Koichi wants as well.
Ayla: I see...
By the way, I see you're wearing your long sleeves.
Nagi: Yeah.
Y'see, I'm a little cold...

005
Nagi: So everyone at school is losing their memories of Ootori-senpai...
There's a method like that too huh...

006
Koichi: You're alive...
Thank goodness!

007
Nozomi: Why did...
You come here?
Koichi: Y—yeah,
Remember the day when we were cutting the grass? You said that when fall came around you'd enjoy having the fragrant olives around, yeah?
And so that's how I was able to find you!
I just searched for the fastest blossoming fragrant olive in the park!
From that point I was able to walk around till I found the right path!
I figured if it was you Senpai that I'd find some kind of landmark!
It was still a lot of work though!
Nozomi: You figured if it was me...?

008
Nozomi: But you aren't me, Hirose-kun.
Koichi: Hm?
Nozomi: You're Hirose-kun right?
Koichi: Y—yeah?
T—that's why I thought about what you'd do as hard as I could...
Nozomi: Of what?
What did you think about?
Koichi: I...don't feel like saying.
Nozomi: Huh?
{My initial thought was trying to enter the Secret base from the Sasanqua tree as I did habitually, but it seems that was just an oversight on my part.}
{It was just too obvious. Although that was the correct number of steps to take, it wasn't until I reconsidered the steps I was taking that I understood the deeper meaning.}
{What was important wasn't the number, but the things on the way to the destination.}

009
{A sense of the seasons is important to Senpai.}
{The first password was comprised of the flowers that bud before spring, but fall had to be different than that.}
{While walking through the fragrant olives, I searched through the budding trees and flowers of fall for something that had changed.}
{It was good that the destination doesn't have anything to do with the amount of steps...}
{It came down to asking “What kind of path does senpai walk down...”}
{And if she walks from point to point in a straight line...}

010
Nozomi: You certainly walked a long way...
How troublesome....it's meaningless if the password isn't more difficult.
It was careless of me.
Koichi: That's right!
What's the deal with that?! You even changed the secret base's password..!
Everyone is forgetting about you too! It's enough to make me wonder if my head is on straight!
Nozomi: F—forgetting?
What do you mean?

011
Koichi: Eh?
Th—that was your power right?
{Because I know of senpai's powers from ten years ago..}
Koichi: I thought that you'd be capable of doing something like that...
Nozomi: I wonder about that...I haven't been thinking of anything these last few days..
Could I have really done something like that?
I guess...
If I really wished for it, it could happen.

012
Koichi: What happened?
You met with one of your buddies from Orbelio?!

013
Nozomi: I thought they were a friend of mine...
But that person isn't on friendly terms with me at all.
Upon meeting that person they actually tried to kill me.
I had told them about the exsitence of the Secret base which is why I had to change the password.
Koichi: I see...
Nozomi: She said it was my fault that Orbelio was destroyed.
That ten years ago I was given a mission to save the planet and failed...
I don't know...I just don't know anything anymore.
Why I failed, if I actually failed....
I don't understand any of it.

014
Nozomi: Until now I've been fine having only fragments of my memory...
But now it's because of this that no matter what I think I come to the same empasse!
Is it really my fault that Orebelio was...
Is it really my fault...
Koichi: Senpa...
Nozomi: The port..

015
Nozomi: Maybe I should open it...
Koichi: You idiot! What are you sayinig!?
If you do that then we'll all be in big trouble!!
We've been fighting to ensure that the port isn't opened!!
So don't even say something like that as a joke!
Nozomi: Hirose-kun..
You act as if you know what'll happen if the port is opened...

016
Koichi: R—really? Well I'm just going by what Rico said earlier...it just seems like bad news!
Nozomi: Hmmm?
On that note, Hirose-kun...
There's that dream that you saw thanks to that old lady...
In this mirror...
Don't lie to me.
Hirose-kun?
Koichi: Y—yeah?
That's right! There's something I wanted to ask you! You said a while ago on Earth...
Nozomi: Don't change the subject!

017
Koichi: Uwaaaaah!!!
Nozomi: Tell me at once!
Where did you hear all of this?
Koichi: Er...well it's not like I heard it as much as I saw it y'see...gyaaah!!

018
Nozomi: Hirose-kun...
You already knew that Orbelio had been destroyed...?
Koichi: Yeah..
But I couldn't tell you.
I figured the only thing that knowledge would do for you is make you sad..
Nozomi: That was unnecessary!
I am Ootori Nozomi!
A year ago when I awakened I remembered I had this name!
I've already forgotten my former name! The one I have while I'm on this planet is the only one I need!

019
Nozomi: It's not something I'd simply be sad over!
After all I'm named for the “hope” people have when they are in the depths of despair right?
If I don't know the truth of what happened I can't be sad or upset about it!
I won't be held down by someone out of charm and ignorance!!
If I am..
To truly be myself...
I must know everything.

020
{Sorry Nagi...}
{At that moment I was caught up by the Senpai right before me now.}
{If it's together with her then maybe we really can protect Earth...}
{At least...}
{I don't want to see a stranger's face when Senpai is asking me about her sins.}
Koichi: That's right..

021
Koichi: We have to share things with each other!
I get it! I'll tell you everything!!
I'll tell you everything about the scene that Grandma taught me!!
But if you want me to talk you have to come outside.
Rico and Ayla-senpai are worried about you.
Nozomi: Okay.

022
Rico: Koichi!
And the Orbelian! Don't you guys just disappear on me like that!
Koichi: We're back Rico.
Nozomi: What?
Ayla: I just thought I'd enjoy seeing your messed up face...
(Handwritten- Whatta shame.)
Nozomi: Hirose-kun, Was she really worried about me?
Koichi: Y—yes..?

023
Nozomi: Ah, Ayla...
I'd like to meet with your Grandmother.
You only just came outside, so what's with this all of a sudden...
Nozomi: Grandmother showed Hirose-kun what happened 10 years ago it seems...
And to be honest I don't really understand it.
Koichi: I—I explained it to you millions of times!
When you were little, you were gathering “Fragments of the stars” and opened the port, but then an alien ship that wasn't Orbelian came through and wrecked the city!
But you turned dark and grew wings which allowed you to fly and turn the city back to normal, close the port and stuff! But you couldn't bring dead people back to life, and Nagi's got a grudge against you cause of that!
Nozomi: Do you get it?
Ayla: I get the part about the gate opening and closing ten years ago.

024
Koichi: Okay, I'll explain it from the top again!
Nozomi: At this point it'll never end. So I figured the easiest way to solve this is to ask Grandmother directly.
If possible I'd like to see her immediately.
Ayla: I understand.
That's fine.
(License- Matsuyoko 377// Sa 29-35)
Ayla: Honestly I thought it would be good for I and the two of you to meet with Grandmother as well.
Nozomi: What do you mean?

025
Koichi: Whoaa! These seats are so fluffy!
Rico: Koichi! I like these Earth ridey things!
Nozomi: Is this juice? Can I drink it?
Ayla: As usual, when all of you are together things get noisy...
I wanted to talk with Grandmother as well, but she's so stubborn. She won't say a word unless I bring you too.
Nozomi: What on earth could she want to talk about that involves us too?
Ayla: Earth's relationship to Orbelio's origin.

026

027
Grandmother: Oh.
Koichi: Huh? It's pitch black...
Grandmother: Well well! You've come at last.
I heard you were coming and got this prepared in a hurry.
Just follow me further in.
I worked quite hard on getting this prepared for you.
After all it's been quite a while since I've had to activate this thing...

028
Ayla: That's not the Bishahowa! What is it!
Grandmother: Heheheh...
I just need to change the connections of these connecting wires...
Ayla: Ooh...
Nozomi: I am only interested in what happened ten years ago...
Grandmother: Oh? Is that so?
What I was going to converse about now is Orbelilo and this Earth...well if we're to use the Orbelian name for it –Arsha.

029
Grandmother: So I wanted to discuss how the Orbelian people came to earth long ago.
Nozomi: That's something I already told Hirose-kun.
Ayla: How could you forget such an important conversation?
Koichi: I was having trouble keeping up with what was happening right before my eyes! I tried my best to ask her more about it but she thought I was trying to dodge the issue!
Grandmother: Hmm..
Well we can discuss all of it in the proper order, including what happened ten years ago!
Anything I don't know about you can add at the appropriate time.
Nozomi: S—sure.
Ayla: Thank goodness Grandmother is here huh?

030
???: This Planet is the property of the Orbelian king...
Koichi: Ten years ago Senpai said this to me...
Nozomi: King...
Grandmother: All right, it's done!

031
Grandmother: Now Bishahowa!
Show me the true form of long ago!

032
Grandmother: The Bishahowa was once the Mobile observation unit I rode.
If I had the mood for it it could even travel into space.
Now...where's a good point to start this conversation?
How about we begin with Obelio and my homeland of Eramea?
Nozomi: Grandmother...
Grandmother: The part you want to hear is coming up, so just wait.

033
Grandmother: Eramea and Orbelio are 239 million light years away from Earth and were born in the center of the Galaxy.
135 billion years ago the Orbelio was born and 3 billion years after that Eramea which acts as the younger brother of Orbelio was born.
These two planets within the Universe were like a sparkling Saphire and Topaz in their beauty.

034
Koichi: This is...?

035
???: You're being taken to the places within the Bishahowa's memories to a scene at Orbelio's oldest point.
H—hey...!

036
Ayla: Behind you!