No. 292 The Real World 世界の真相
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沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: Finally. I was wondering when you’d show up.
Takatoshi Hijiyama: …What was that?
I thought I heard Okino’s voice…
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: You did. It’s me.
Takatoshi Hijiyama: Okino!?
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: You can't see them, but I do still have legs.
No ghosts here.
Takatoshi Hijiyama: So the scout was right…!
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: I'm still alive.
Because we shared the Sentinel…
You're the only one who I can communicate with.
Takatoshi Hijiyama: What can I do? How do I save you?
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: I can't go back to that world anymore.
I was cut off from it. To keep me alive.
This was the answer, Hijiyama-kun.
Remember what we talked about?
The mystery process eating up 80% of the innerlocitor’s memory?
Our hearing, vision, scent, touch, and taste…
It was supplying sensory data. Everything we ever perceived.
It made everything in that world seem real.
That was practically its highest-priority function.
Takatoshi Hijiyama: “Seem” real!?
You don’t mean it was all fake? My home, the factory…?
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: The five sectors are not reality.
Besides the fifteen of us, every human we’ve ever known…
They were created by Universal Control.
That world is a simulated space. A massive, perfect illusion for us.
Takatoshi Hijiyama: None of it was real…?
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: These cockpits we’re in right now?
That is reality.
My designs for the Sentinels never had cockpits at all.
What kind of suicidal moron would get in a 35-meter weaponized metal suit?
A single punch’s recoil impact would hit the pilot like a train crash.
But then the finished Sentinels had ways to get inside.
I wasn’t too familiar with the systems we’d pulled from the mainframe data.
I figured it was just a spec I hadn't noticed at the time.
But it wasn’t even a cockpit at all.
They're growth pods. Meant to keep our bodies healthy.
We were born inside these pods.
We have never known life outside of them.
沖野司:
Takatoshi Hijiyama: …
…If all that’s true…
How do we get out?
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: I don’t know if we can get out.
But at least one thing’s clear.
If the Deimos invasion destroys the world we knew…
Then we will all die inside these pods.
Takatoshi Hijiyama: …
Fat chance of that.
You're shameless, shrewd, and infuriating. People like you don’t die so easily.
…No matter what else may change, my duty is the same.
I live in service of my country. And the people I love.
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: Hijiyama-kun―
Takatoshi Hijiyama: I will not let you die.
沖野司:
Tsukasa Okino: Hijiyama-kun…
No matter how this ends, I will always be with you.
…Let's go.
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