6000 17

6000 17

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The Cofdeece is…
gone.

Did you think hesitation would improve the situation?
/ Confucius said one should not speak of misfortune.

He who seeks only profit shall lose all profit.
All this happened because you used Wen to play detective.

Chapter 17: Once More…

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The military has already finished its investigation.
/ There are plenty of idiots who want to use that,
but such delusions are unthinkable.

The most grave decisions
will be made by those who, at the very end, can bear the responsibility.

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Hurry!

Faster!

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Uemura-san, wh—what…
/ is that?
We don’t have time to argue!

The second those two get up here, we fall back into the aisle and close the bulkhead.
/ Don’t forget the floodlights.
SFX: Hah x2

Aieeeeeee

Hey! Where are you going?!
It’s dangerous!
/ Get back here!

(squiggly line bubble is actually just squiggly lines)
Hey!

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Are… Are you all right?!

Hurry!

Uemura-san, what about the guy who ran upstairs?
We can’t save him,
/ or we’ll all die!

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!!

Wahhhhh!

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Ahhhhhhh

Gah!

Kadokura-san!
That’s enough. Just force it shut!

Shit!
Why does there have to be a fucking sensor error now?!

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W…
We can’t stay here. Run!

Anyways, let’s head to CCR—the bulkhead there’s working!

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Aiieee

Wahhhh

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We’re the only ones who ran this way!

All right! This one works!!

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Hah. (x4)

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What… What was that, just now?
Where in the world did they come from?

I… I don’t know…
/ But the stairs stretched on forever, and…

But Uemura-san,
we were going to get batteries and start trying to restore things.

This isn’t the time for pointless chatter!!
This facility’s already done for!
/ We need to hurry and flee to the surface!

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Huh?!

Wait, where’d Amakasu-san…
Kadokura-san!

Regarding that, the truth is…

we can no longer return to the surface.
/ Barring some miraculous windfall, we’re stuck here at the bottom of the sea…

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That settles it. This is no longer the old Cofdeece.

At some point, without my conscious awareness being interrupted even once,
/ I left the chaos on the stairwell and returned to my original location.

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Please step aside, Kadokura-san!
Even now, we still have to gamble on what little chance remains!

At any rate, let’s start by securing at least a little more electricity.

We need to do all we can to hold out until reinforcements get here.

Uemura-san!
There’s no point just telling you!

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I get what you’re saying, but take a good, hard look at this!
Everywhere outside is crawling with those things!

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Don’t you think we’ve got bigger problems than waiting for reinforcements?!

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Living sacrifices to banish the darkness…

Metamorphosed humans…

Craving the sun, seeking to flee the darkness of the ocean depths…

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Thinking back over the flow of events, it’s clear this was no accident.

Which means we’re never getting any damn reinforcements!

It’s checkmate. Freaking checkmate!

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I was always the guy who, when push came to shove, got a jump on things, and yet…

Now bastards I can’t trust have the power of life-and-death over me.
/ You let your guard down, and this happens.

Hm?
/ The conference room…?
This…. is footage from the security camera, right?

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Yeah, come to think of it…
Didn’t I grab all the data off of Sakonji-san’s old computer?

Right about now, I couldn’t care less about the truth from years ago, but…
hmm.

!!

Wait, hold it.
What are they…

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That extreme conditions give rise to egocentrism
is a hideous fallacy.

When the outer trappings of culture are sundered, man can catch a glimpse of chaos…
I am glad I was able to sprinkle onto that even a single drop of hope.

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An intensely

black hope.

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Small it may be, but that is enough to overturn my fear of death.
/ The cold sun’s palace is complete.
It is as perfect as a platonic solid, as disorderly as the demons of the seven deadly sins.

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For the truth is, mankind is incorrigible.

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Hah
Hah

Hih
Hah

Shit!
How high does this staircase go?!

What did I do, to des…

Vvvvooooo

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U
/ vvvv
/ / vv…

Vooooo
/ oo

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Bakiii
Bakiii
Bakii
/ Bakiii

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You want to work while navigating around those monsters?
That’s impossible! Please, listen to me!

But… But still,
if we don’t,
/ then our only choice is to sit here and wait for death.

Yeah.
/ Here in the CCR, we’re on a different oxygen network than the rest of the facility.

If we close the bulkheads, our supplies will only hold out for so long!

We’ll be fine.

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I’m sure we’ll be fine.
/ Let’s just wait here.

Rescue will surely come.

If we do nothing dangerous and simply wait till then,
I know everyone will be saved….