Otherside Picnic: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 2] by Iori Miyazawa

Author:Iori Miyazawa
Language: eng
Format: epub

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The next day, Migiwa called me in to DS Research. They had found the budget to bring a construction vehicle into the Farm at Hannou, so we were going to have a meeting about that.

I opened the elevator panel with the key I’d been given and took it to the secret floor. When I dropped by his office, Migiwa looked up from his computer. “Are you alone?”

“Uh, yeah.”

“How unusual. I had expected Nishina-san would be with you.”

“Well, stuff happens.”

“I see. Please, have a seat.”

Maybe because of how bitter I’d found the espresso before, I was always served tea from an ordinary plastic bottle now. I was grateful, but it felt kinda awkward.

We talked about construction for a while. First, they’d bring heavy equipment up the mountain from the outside and build a slope into the basement where the Round Hole was. Runa’s cult had already started the work, so we’d finish it. Once that was done, we’d be able to send cars and materials from the underground parking lot in the DS Research building to the Round Hole. Then, we just had to close off the mountain road so that no unauthorized people would come in.

The plan relied on the Round Hole being able to connect two distant points in space. Thinking about that, it was so unrealistic that I could only imagine the mental toil of the construction workers who had to play along with this.

“Maybe it’s a bit late to be asking, but will Torchlight be okay?”

Migiwa smiled at my question. “They have considerable experience. Although, I imagine the new hires will have a hard time of it.”

DS Research used a private military company called Torchlight Inc. that had registered the trade name Tomoshibi Engineering and made use of it when it was convenient.

Just as we had finished the meeting and I was planning to head back, Migiwa suddenly said, “Come to think of it, it has been some time since Uruma-san’s funeral.”

“Yeah... I guess it has, huh?”

“I perhaps should have said this sooner, but thank you again for all of your hard work in taking care of that matter.” Migiwa bowed his head to me.

“It was hard work, that’s for sure...” I said, then added, “But I’m sure it was even harder on Toriko and Kozakura.”

“And for Runa Urumi-san as well.”

I frowned when he said that. “As for her, well... I guess you could think of it as the bill coming due?”

“What do you mean?” Migiwa queried.

“In the sense that she had to pay for everything she’s done.”

“Certainly, yes.”

Right after the funeral, we were thrown out into the surface world. When I’d pulled up the map app on my phone and checked where we were, it was Kujuukuri Beach in Chiba Prefecture. Runa, who’d thrown up and passed out, regained consciousness shortly after that, but had suffered serious mental and physical shock, and was in no state to be moving around on her own, so I called Migiwa and had him come pick us up in his car.

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