Star Children 14

Reserved for Pinoy Manga

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nb: The moment shuttle No. 1 is fired upon fast approaches...
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STAR CHILDREN
#14 Pleiades
Kida Masashi

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Shuttle No. 1 has 40 ASCANs, one instructor, and one pilot
In addition, the three who headed out to the rescue: Shitara, Subaru, Minorikawa...

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Are we supposed to fire on 45 human beings...?

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Jigami!!
No. 2 is...!

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Going to rendezvous with No. 1!!
What!?

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No. 1 is still flying erratically, a rendezvous is...

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It seems No. 1 has already switched to inertial flight
!!

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So they want to be rescued by No. 2...

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But they won't be able to make it before we fire!!
Who gave such an order!?

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Both Shitara and Dangouzaka are level-headed men
An idiotic instruction like that...
//!!

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Were they moved by that brat Subaru?

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It seems so
!!

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Director Subaru!!

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Bring the laser's focus closer
Also reduce its diameter even further!!

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Then the timing will truly be cut close
And if we make the beam narrower, the aim will get more difficult!!

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The ones in the shuttles are also timing their rescue very close
If that's the case, we have to respond to that!!

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Hmph!

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So it was idiocy inherited from his father

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What?
...Nothing

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If that's your order, we'll do it!!
Please do!!

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Subaru, Minorikawa, connect the wires
Roger

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Connection completed

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Per plan, I'll be going to No. 2 first, and direct the retrieval
First send out the ASCANs, and then Dangouzaka and the pilot will be last

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Listen up! Just like Instructor Shitara just now
Attach your tether to the guide wire and go!!

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Huuuh... I'm not very good at EVA
Now's not the time to be saying that!!

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Yuuto!!
Gaku!!

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Sheesh, you scared me... But you came to save us!!
Of course!!

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Hey, hurry up and go, the next person is coming!!
Uh, yeah

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You too, Minorikawa, thank you!!

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Hmph!

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Alright, everyone's gone!!
Just the two of us left now!!

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...Gulp

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What are you getting scared of, even the ASCANs did it!!
No time left, let's go!!
Y- Yes!!

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...Ho!

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The last two have arrived safely!!
All OK!!

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Th- There's no time!!
I'm going full reverse!! Everyone, grab on to something!!

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Eh!... Uh

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!!
//Please wait!!
There's still...

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Hey!!

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Turn back the ship!!
It's impossible now!!

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Tch...! In order to return the pilot here to No. 2
Subaru himself went flying toward No. 1...

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Yuuto!!

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Phew

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Somehow, we managed to fulfill your request
Director Subaru

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The radar is back!!

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What about Yuuto!?

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...

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We have a response!!
!!

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He's flying pretty far on the opposite side of where No. 1 was, but he's safe!!
H- He's alive

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I see...
He used all of his propellant not to return to the shuttle, but instead to fly as far as possible...

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So that means he's adrift now!?
Then we have to go rescue him!!

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Uh, please wait...

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Looks like I've flown far...
I won't see the station either

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At this rate, if they don't find me...
No, my oxygen will run out before then...

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Death

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You're in a dangerous place, Yuuto
It's the world of death where humans can't survive

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Shut up
I know, Kousei!!

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...But
Is this what Kousei might be facing now...?

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That's right!!
Even I, at a place like this, still...

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Subaru Yuuto!
!!
Are you conscious!? Respond!!

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Y- Yes!!
I'm conscious

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I won't give up!!
Remembered in the world of death, the promise made on that day. What does Yuuto feel now as space touches him, as he gets to know it---?
Next issue, the moving final chapter!!