episode_0071

“Project Omega – Project – Ω”

– For related details, please check the documents in the secret safe on the upper right of the cabinet in the conference room. The password is 2005.

– Emergency call-up according to Eden’s Resurrection Protocol. Available executives are to assemble at Point Ω according to the contact date in the relevant document.

– After the collapse of Eden, the goal will be to quickly rebuild Eden through contact with all available executives.

– For the true return of Eden.

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The return of Eden.

Project Omega?

I don’t remember seeing a project like this.

This is a project that even the boss has never told me about.

No, rather, you rejected this project.

He said that since Eden would never be destroyed, it would be helpful to spend the time making such plans doing other things.

No operation has been established for the aftermath of the collapse.

Ugh…

First of all, I think it would be right to check the cabinet according to those instructions.

That is to say.

First of all, this is a story that must not be discovered by a magical girl.

I feel guilty about taking advantage of their trust, but…

They say Eden is resurrected.

There is now a possibility that his ideals can be spread throughout the world once again.

I got the chance to meet him again.

Well then, of course you have to follow those instructions.

Looking around, it seemed like everyone was surprised by the projector suddenly turning on.

However, seeing that he went back to work without seeing me or Ellie, it seems that he made it so that only a member of Eden’s organization could check the contents.

And, eye contact with Ellie.

A silent exchange of ideas.

Approach the cabinet naturally and get your hands on detailed plans for Project Omega.

“Blanc, can you help me?”

When I called Blanc here, Ellie looked at me with puzzled eyes, but she gave me a look telling me not to worry.

“Huh? Why?”

“There’s a drawer here that contains my personal belongings, but the door is tight. Could you help me open it?”

“Huh…? You’re saying it can’t be done with your own strength?”

“I think the problem is that the furniture here has been reinforced to prepare for various incidents. Can you help me?”

“Oh, I see. Wait a minute?”

Blanc approached like that and opened the cabinet door.

She simply opened the door, pretending she wasn’t interested, and turned around to go back to doing her own thing.

Not a word about the projector.

I guess it was just a guess that things in old facilities were malfunctioning as they often do…

Inside a cabinet with the door open.

That deep hidden secret vault.

The password is 2005.

Resurrection.

That’s right, resurrection.

That’s right. Yeah.

That person.

Make sure to keep the documents in the safe.

This document cannot be passed on to anyone else.

As I made eye contact with Ellie again, I briefly considered who should take care of the documents…

I had no choice but to fold it up and put it in my pocket.

In the coat pocket, buttoned up.

It’s not that thick, so you won’t get caught.

Our exploration of Eden ended with the discovery of that document and the new plan.

Since it was determined that there was nowhere left to look, they were brought back to the surface.

I don’t know when I’ll come back, but Project Omega. If this plan is successfully completed.

I didn’t feel that sorry because I thought that creating a space to unfold my ideals with him again would be like eating cold porridge.

On the way, Ellie, who had many memories of this place, wanted to talk more, so she dragged me along to look around more places, but…

That’s not our destination.

Besides, now that I have obtained this document, is it really a memory?

Well, since I was already here, I thought it would be right to give in to Ellie to some extent if it could make her happy.

I did go around to a few more places.

The spaces surrounding the square are mostly filled with memories of me and Ellie.

What was the expression on their faces when I explained what had happened to the magical girls who followed me through those spaces?

It’s only natural that they’d be shocked since most of the memories were intended to attack them, but whatever.

What can we do, they came to this Edenic stronghold.

On the subject of Eden’s greatest enemy, if it was so difficult, if only he had simply remained still and not rebelled against realizing our ideals, how much better it would have been for both my sister and brother-in-law.

Yeah, well.

You are on the side of justice, we are the villains.

Because society perceives it this way, isn’t that why they act that way?

While looking around like that, I dragged Ellie upstairs to stay a bit longer.

I must have come here in the morning, not even in broad daylight, but time had passed and the sun was already setting.

Without even having time to appreciate the sunset, I got into the car and headed home.

Even though it’s close, it’ll take a little longer since we’re not flying there but taking a car.

At least I have to get back home before it gets dark.

Oh right. I should buy some food for Arin and Redhead so they don’t starve.

Today, yes.

Should I get some tteokbokki to-go?

Not those weird tteokbokki that come out these days, just a regular snack shop.

I’m talking about the kind of tteokbokki you would only get at an ordinary neighborhood snack shop.

Fried food, sundae, and fish cakes too.

I don’t know if it’s a memory from my school days or a memory I made with Ellie.

I feel like doing that today.

* * *

Who would believe that the magical girls who returned home after finishing their work had a meal with the two villains?

Hmm, if a magical girl were to capture the villains and offer them a final mercy by treating them to a last meal before being thrown into Marina, would you believe it?

Well, but is there a need to trust such people?

This is already happening.

In retrospect, defeat did make us like this, but isn’t it a little different?

I wonder if these people I have now are considered family to some extent.

If you think it’s a long time, then it’s been a long time, but if you think it’s short, then it’s still a short time.

I think it’s cute that Ellie wipes the food that Arin eats off her lips.

I don’t know why, but Arin seems to be keeping Ellie in check little by little.

The redhead who was about to ask what Eden was like.

Or Blanc, who answers on behalf of that redhead.

A noisy feeling, a feeling I hadn’t felt in Eden, but a familiar feeling.

After finishing a meal that leaves you with that kind of feeling, you should say that you did your best at the task at hand.

First, I took care of the things I couldn’t handle at home and organized the things I brought from Eden.

I push away the magical girls who tried to help me until the end, and when I take Ellie with me to do housework, things end quickly again.

Then, he asked Ellie to go to her room in the middle of the night and analyze the document.

Even if you’re sleeping, I can wake you up.

Well, I already know the times when Baek-su comes out because he’s hungry and wanders around, so you don’t have to worry about getting caught.

As time passed, everyone went back to their rooms to go to sleep.

A time when there was no one around. I waited for that all-night time, just looking out the window, and then went to Ellie’s room.

It must have been a time when Ellie would have been sound asleep.

Breaking my expectations, Ellie was sitting on the windowsill, looking out the window.

“Oh, it’s raining. Are you here?”

“What the. You weren’t sleeping.”

“What about the documents?”

“Here.”

“Haa… Did it really have to be this late…?”

“It’s better not to get caught. At this hour, even the unemployed are busy with their work. But, why were you looking outside like that?”

“Oh, just. It’s night.”

“Why the night?”

“Do you remember how, after every battle, we would go up to the rooftop and look at the night view before we went in?”

“Of course I remember.”

“If you do this outside, you get caught and get chased again.”

“Well, then didn’t you see this view from the Eden Hotel?”

“That’s right. It’s all memories, Bin. Isn’t it?”

“Memories… I feel so familiar with this dark night that it’s hard to even feel like a memory.”

“Yeah, this was the darkness we lived in. Haa, after going to Eden, I have a lot to think about.”

“I think my mind is clearer now? I just have to run for the resurrection of Eden. I just have to reach my goal.”

“That’s right, yeah. Bine is an active child when she has a goal.”

“So, are you done thinking?”

“Okay, hurry up and open the documents.”

In the dark of the night, in a girl’s room, the only sound was the rustling of paper.

And, the two girls’ small breathing sounds.