Occultic;Nine

March 8th (Tuesday)

Jeez...

Why do I drop it all the time?

Um...

Now, it's time for "Musashino Wonderland."

I'm bringing this show to you from FM-KCZ in Kichijoji.

I'll be reading letters from listeners again today.

It makes me happy if I can put you at ease even a little bit with my talk.

R-Ryo-tas?

You're Ryo-tas, right?

You're acting different than usual.

More like, you're acting like Zonko.

I'm myself.

My name is Ryoka Narusawa.

Huh?

The staff member of Kiri Kiri Basara whom you call Ryo-tas.

The girl claiming to be your minion, Yuta Gamon.

And my other self that you gave a name to.

The voice heard from the Sky Sensor that you hold.

My self that you call Zonko. Both of them are me, each is my true self.

Y-You can speak Japanese—

But, right now, I'm neither of those personalities.

Do you want to know my real name?

Want to know?

My real name is...

Hello!

Wait, there's nobody here.

Manager isn't here, either.

Isn't this shop a bit too careless?

Gamo-senpai left his computer behind.

This is what they called CODE.

Gamo-senpai had been working pretty hard, I guess.

Oh, but he probably was complaining the whole time.

He'd say, "Why do I have to do a side job like this without getting paid?"

What about Chi?

Chi, what can I do for everyone?

What I can do... has to be this, in the end!

If fortunes come true, they come true. If not, they won't. Open, Chesed!

Being invisible can be useful, depending on how you look at it.

Don't you think so?

I think it's dangerous to seek usefulness out of this unstable condition that we haven't elucidated yet.

You're on that stance again?

By seeing your corpse in front of you,

you did acknowledge that we've become ghosts, right?

From an occultic perspective, you could call us ghosts.

But I won't bring unscientific reasoning into the ascertainment of this situation.

I don't think Professor Hashigami who acknowledged the occult

would say something like that.

I'm sorry. I was a bit crude there. I do realize that I'm, but...

I used to look up to my father.

My father was always perfect

and had logic backed up by scientific reasoning.

I used to think he would solve any problem given to him.

Now I see why my father, who wanted to make Nikola Tesla's super theory into reality,

progressively devoted himself to the occult.

I will never acknowledge the occult.

However, what lies beyond my father's research?

I want to know what that is.

That must be connected in some form to the truth behind his death.

An old photograph?

This is Tesla in his last years. Who is that next to him?

"October 1940, with my daughter Aveline."

Wait, "My daughter"?

What? Not his grandchild?

That's not what you're supposed to be reacting to, Sumikaze.

Grandchild or not, Tesla supposedly had no children to begin with.

Oh, is that so?

Yes. It's known that he stayed a bachelor his entire life to concentrate on his research.

I didn't know that. But then, what about this girl?

Indeed, it wouldn't be a contradiction to think she was his grandchild

considering the age difference. However...

This is Professor's handwriting.

"1943, Great Tokyo Air Raid, Aveline dies."

"August 2011, meet Aveline."

"June 2012, destruction of Aveline Note."

"At the same time, I was given the boot key..."

What about this? A family tree?

THE NARUSAWA CLAN FAMILY TREE

The Narusawa clan? Is this Musashino's medical conglomerate Narusawa clan?

Medical conglomerate? Ascension?

Hey, hold on a second here. I'm getting confused.

Does this have something to do with Professor Hashigami's research?

I have no idea.

He could have been receiving research funding from them.

Huh? Come to think, Narusawa...

FIRSTBORN DAUGHTER RYOKA

Aveline?

What's Aveline?

My real name is Aveline.

Aveline Narusawa Tesla.

Remember that, Gamotan.

No, wait, wait, hold on a second here!

We don't need any secret settings like that!

And why are you talking like that? You are totally off!

Jeez, what got into you, Ryo-tas?

Oh, could it be the rain? Are you affected by low pressure?

What weird things are you talking about?

I can say that right back at you right now.

You know about Nikola Tesla, right?

He's some famous inventor, right?

I'm the daughter of that Nikola Tesla.

Wait a second, isn't that a bit weird?

Nikola Tesla was a 20th century inventor, right?

His daughter must be pretty old, right?

Then Ryo-tas, you look like that, but you're an old lady in your 70s or 80s?

No, no, no, even if legal Lolita grannies were the fad,

that's too big a stretch in your character settings!

Impossible! Impossible! That setting is just impossible!

The physical body is that of Ryoka Narusawa.

But her consciousness is under my control.

I myself am just an astral body who died 73 years ago.

- A-Ast... - Simply put, a ghost.

- And now we're talking about the occult? - Perhaps.

Th-Then... Ryo-tas is being possessed by a ghost?

What a joke! Are you a shaman?

That's so low that even KiriBasa won't pick it up!

Ryo-tas, you don't have to overdo yourself!

E-Evidence! Show me the evidence!

I totally understand how Sarai feels now.

Really, don't toss in any occultic stories if you don't have the evidence!

You're going to pull out his tooth!

You're going to pull the left most tooth on the bottom!

You can't make a mistake there, okay?

You're already staring at the answer!

The answer is the ceiling you're staring at!

H-How do you know that?

I, as an astral body, was riding the radio waves

and was watching through your Sky Sensor.

I was the one giving the orders, too.

The physical body is nothing more than a container.

The soul, in other words, electromagnetism with memories and personalities, is the astral body.

That's the truth about ghosts.

B-But, even if you said there was a ghost, with occult reasoning just like Sumikaze...

I don't get it at all!

Gamotan, your current condition is proof above all else.

Then, how can you make phone calls despite being dead? How can you send texts?

That's all because you're sending out your thoughts on the radio waves.

There is a ridiculous amount of radio waves flying about in this world.

Radio waves that were emitted in the past

can wander around until the wavelengths weaken and dissipate.

Even your father's radio show... It was broadcasted in the past,

but I was able to pick it up because it still existed as a weak radio wave.

Shut up...

Of course, I wouldn't have picked it up on anything other than that Sky Sensor.

Shut up.

That one is really special—

Shut up!

What is this... What in the world is going on? I don't get this at all!

Ryo-tas, what happened to you?

Go back to the usual Ryo-tas who keeps saying "poya" this, "poya" that!

You're suddenly telling me you're Aveline? What should I do about that?

I don't get it! What's up with this "my true self"?

Don't confuse me any more than you already have!

Enough! I've had enough of this! Give me a break!

Give me a break already.

I just want to run KiriBasa, make money from affiliates and live the fun life.

I just wanted to treat Ryo-tas to frozen yogurt from Woodberries.

But, I got involved in some incident and died. I can't laugh about this.

Myu-pom too... She said a path would open up if she was with me...

And in the end, she has only faced rough times.

Even yesterday... Everyone went to where Myu-pom was...

but I... I couldn't even go to save Myu-pom.

I'm a piece of trash. I'm nothing more than a trashy NEET!

Gamotan...

Gamotan, look over here.

Stop that!

I'm sorry, Ryo-tas!

Nah, I'm fine. Before that...

Gamotan, you're not a trashy NEET.

Gamotan...

you have special powers.

That's why Ryo-tas became your minion, Gamotan.

An emergency meeting? What's the meaning of this, Takasu?

I rather have you not so readily call all of us out.

We're not your pawns, you understand?

I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Hatoyama.

The fact that you can control the operations of the MMG is all thanks to our approval.

- Do you understand? - Of course I'm fully aware of that.

Then, what in the world happened?

Was there some mishandling in the maintenance of the first generation?

No, concerning the experimental bodies of the first generation,

we are now undergoing eradication in sequence.

The implementation unit is handling the procedure, so please rest assured.

Reports of the results are coming in, as well.

With the full eradication of the first generation,

we'll shift the plans to Phase Three.

There is not even a 3% deviation in our time schedule.

Then, what is the meaning of your summons?

We don't have time to gather based on your whims!

This emergency meeting is about the Wardenclyffe Gun.

An important item which serves as the key in the New World System.

This is a small prototype module of the Wardenclyffe Tower

that Nikola Tesla once erected in Long Island, New York.