GNOSIA (グノーシア)

No...

No...

No...

No...

N...

No!

This is...

Oh, Yuri.

Comet...

You're awake already.

We're all in the cafeteria eating right now.

Yuri?

Am I looping over the same time again?

The real me woke up, and the universe...

Am I going to keep looping in this world line without Gnosia?

An anomalous lifeform has been detected within the sick bay.

I repeat.

An anomalous lifeform has been detected within the sick bay.

I wonder what that means. Wait, isn't the sick bay where you...

No...

Comet!

Wait!

No...

This is just going to keep happening.

No matter how many times I loop.

Huh?

BUG

Calm down. Calm down.

There has to be some way out of this.

Right now, I should be in the pod receiving treatment.

And yet, the universe wasn't destroyed and the current me is still here.

Which means that as long as the real me is still sleeping,

we don't yet count as a dual existence.

If I'm able to solve this predicament before the real me wakes up...

What should I do? Should I halt the treatment?

Then the me inside there will...

But I'm the fake one here.

How can I even be thinking about this?

Crap!

You need to think.

The important thing here is to make sure the real Yuri doesn't wake up.

There's no reason to halt their treatment and take their life.

Maybe I can just postpone the time they wake up...

But... then what?

Am I just going to leave them there indefinitely until I find a solution?

Isn't that the same as killing them?

Even if I make sure to avoid the real one,

the moment someone sees there are two of the same person,

the universe will be destroyed by the dual existence.

The only way to get out of this is for one of us to disappear.

You are a foreign object anomalous to this world—

to this universe.

You are a Bug.

Disappear...

Yeah.

Given the situation, there's only one fair choice.

Best of luck.

Yuri.

Jina...

What's the matter?

An anomalous lifeform has been detected within the sick bay.

I repeat.

An anomalous lifeform has been detected within the sick bay.

Thank you.

Huh?

I hope you find happiness.

Yuri?

Yuri!

Yuri!

Didn't I... die?

Wait... Even after that, the loop is still going?

No way.

I can't even die?

I'm going to keep looping like this even if I die?

That can't be...

No...

No...

No...!

Calm down. I need to calm down.

I won't solve anything by panicking.

If dying isn't going to work, I need to think of something else!

The real me is inside the pod.

They're the one who's supposed to be here.

They're the one who should be protected.

I need to save them from becoming a dual existence.

In order to do that, I need to figure out how to eliminate the Bug—me.

To do that, I need a way to prove that I'm something that shouldn't exist.

Once that's established, I should cease to exist.

I need to prove that I'm the fake! There has to be some way.

I know!

Me...?

Yeah, LeVi confirmed for me that you have Engineer credentials.

Er... I do, but...

So I want you to use them to investigate me.

Huh? Investigate you?

B-But why?

The reason is... actually a bit hard to explain.

Is that a no?

I mean, I don't mind...

An anomalous lifeform has been detected within the sick bay.

I repeat.

An anomalous lifeform has been detected within the sick bay.

Please! There's no time!

ENGINEER CREDENTIALS

O-Okay! Um...

If she uses her Engineer ability, she should be able to tell what I am.

That will be undeniable proof that I'm the fake.

If that's established without doubt, then I should...

This is...

ENGINEER CREDENTIALS

Y-Yuri! Yuri!

Yuri just...

disappeared?

That didn't work either?

Dying doesn't work. Proving I'm fake doesn't work.

If I don't do anything, the moment the real me wakes up,

the universe is destroyed, and I'm right back to where I started.

Does that mean...

I'm trapped in this time loop forever?

Ooh! I've been lookin' for ya, Yurinchy!

I went all the way to your room to share some goodies with you,

but you weren't there! So I've been, like, wondering where you went.

Here, eat up.

What's up? You look like you've seen a ghost.

Wh-What is this? Wasab—

Was it?!

Jina made them, so I figured there was something up, but...

Jeez...

You feel a little better?

Huh?

You've been wandering around looking like you wanted to die or something, Yurinchy.

SQ...

Yikes, was it that strong? My badsies.

Whoa! There, there.

What am I going to do with you?

Here.

I see.

And that's why you wanted to disappear.

But nothing I do is working.

So the universe is just gonna explode?

I'm sure you don't believe me, but...

It's not that I don't believe you. There's just something, like, bugging me.

Are you really okay with all this, Yurinchy?