Yokohama Station SF National by Yuba Isukari and Tatsuyuki Tanaka

Author:Yuba Isukari and Tatsuyuki Tanaka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen Press

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Before long, the entire town—in fact, the whole city at the foot of the mountain—knew that Dr. Blue-Eyes was living in the regenerated Hill Town with a girl young enough to be his granddaughter. After the eruption, she had appeared out of nowhere and settled in his home. He named her Kito and began raising her.

Kito grew slowly and learned to call him “Eddie, Eddie,” but proved more resistant to learning any other words. She’d probably been abandoned by her parents shortly after birth, then reached the age of six and was expelled by the turnstiles without ever picking up language.

Dr. Blue-Eyes recalled the method of accessing locational data from Nijo and decided to try it out with Kito to see where she’d been.

Yet when he put the device to her hand and executed the command, the response declared that no Suika was detected.

He tried it on his own hand and succeeded at pulling up a map of his life’s travels (around the Gunma area and nowhere else).

Mystified, the doctor sought out a bioelectric technician, who pressed his diagnostic tool to Kito’s neck in search of a signal. Eventually, his face pale, he gasped. “Dr. Blue-Eyes, what does this mean? She doesn’t have a Suika.”

He gave the technician a quick explanation of Kito’s past. He’d found her in a station hollow on the south side of the mountain before the eruption, and left her there initially, but she appeared in the town after it had been regenerated.

The technician considered this, then said, “Meaning that, because the station structure was reconstructed in the eruption, she wound up Inside without a Suika, I guess?”

“Is that possible?”

“No. I’ve never heard of it,” the man answered, worry evident in his expression. Dr. Blue-Eyes impressed upon him in no uncertain terms that he didn’t want anyone else to know that the girl did not have a Suika. “Well, if you say so, Doctor,” he replied.

Dr. Blue-Eyes wanted to ask Nijo his thoughts, but the net address the man had left behind was no longer working. He’d probably arrived in Kyoto by now. As far as Dr. Blue-Eyes knew, an extremely long distance, individual communication from Gunma to Kyoto was essentially impossible. Perhaps Nijo could pull it off, but there was no communication forthcoming from him.

He was such a loud and obnoxious man when he was here, but he won’t get in touch when I really need him.

While the appearance of the books on the shelves was virtually identical to how it was before the eruption, little details had changed about them. Sometimes, the pages were in reverse order, or the same entry repeated hundreds of times, or a section of a literary novel was found smack in the middle of a medical text. The combinations of words and definitions in his dictionary were all scrambled, making it useless. If he’d known this was going to happen, he would have simply given Nijo the dictionary.

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