Under the shower, Ide's husk inflates like a balloon and floats into the sky as Hidomi watches it disappear, her portal opens once more, this time shredding the world around her into pieces.Īt the theme park, Tonkichi begins the operation of collecting N.O. At the husk's gasping request, she takes it in her arms and stands under the pool shower with it, recalling the discovery that her mother is closing the café and the anger she felt in the moment. Haruko apologizes thinly and soars into the sky on her Vespa. channel and leaving behind a limp, featureless black husk in the shape of his body. When Hidomi finds them, she sees Haruko trying to seduce Ide. Haruko easily defeats Ide in the duel that follows Haruko expresses disappointment that he has failed to learn anything, to which Ide replies pointedly that she doesn't satisfy him. Ide and Hidomi are the only ones who refuse to follow Ide, now brandishing Jinyu's guitar as his own, confronts Haruko in the school's empty swimming pool and demands that she stop dragging Hidomi into her plans. A seemingly pregnant Haruko bursts into her classroom on her Vespa, announces that she is getting married, tells the class a false anecdote about how she met Atomsk, and cancels school to take them to the amusement park.
Eye Patch and Masurao take the pieces of Canti to the Oozu City Immigration Center Orbit Elevator to dispose of it. At its end, as she runs down the beach, smiling, she awakens to find her headphones have slipped off. Hidomi dreams again, this time of a colorless, devastated world overrun by the irons of Medical Mechanica. She also exclaims that the only way to become happy is to go to the amusement park. Haruko bursts into class and announces that she is pregnant, getting married and quitting her job as a teacher. This is because of old Saturday Night Live sketches with aliens called coneheads (who claimed to be from France), and because Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation claimed to be from France that one time when he time traveled to 19th Century San Francisco (that sort of thing happens when you're in a Star Trek).Having made damage to the plant, the iron now stands up straight. In greyscale, I don't think it would've worked particularly well.Īs for which country's flag, it would have been France. Were this in color, I might have made the shrugging Uryuom hold up a flag, suggesting that they might be from the country with that flag while suggesting that even they weren't sure. It does this because it doesn't actually make sense mechanically, but it works as far as magic is concerned because of perception, tropes, expectations, etc. I tried to think of something else for panel two, but strength at the cost of intelligence is just something that illustrates the entire idea really well. I will argue it was a good decision, because just trying to recap things these bits with dialogue would probably take a week or more to make it resemble anything like being in-character.Īnother is that I didn't want to reuse visuals, and I very specifically wanted a panel with Grace getting hit by a literal barrel. There are a few reasons for this, one simply being that this part is being carefully written, and it was actually a late decision to speed through this part via narration. This should have been a Monday comic, but it became a Wednesday comic.