GNOSIA (グノーシア)

Jina! Jina!

Do you understand?

Y-Yeah.

What am I supposed to do?

How can I make everyone happy?

How can I make these things stop happening over and over again?

Or is this all just fate?

Does someone always have to be sacrificed, no matter how many times I repeat this?

Yuri...

Setsu?

I'm fine...

Setsu...

Setsu!

INTERLUDE

Setsu...

Yuri...

How are you feeling?

Today... How many days has it been since we left Liu-An?

No. You didn't loop.

Huh?

Yuri...

You fainted on the way to the meeting.

But don't worry.

I had LeVi check you while you were asleep, and apparently, it's just exhaustion.

On the way to the meeting? Then...

We have to get going. It's about to start, isn't it?

E-Er...

I had them delay the meeting.

Also, Stella's the one who undressed you, so you don't have to worry.

I keep telling you all, I'm not a woman.

What happened?

Actually, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I could be a Gnosia, after all.

And I could be a Gnosia, too.

Though if that were the case, I probably wouldn't go through all this trouble.

Passing out right before the meeting like this.

Yeah.

Yuri, how much do you know about Kukrushka?

About Kukrushka?

The more I loop,

the more I keep getting world lines where Kukrushka is present.

It probably means that there's still information about Kukrushka

that I haven't gathered yet.

She's a doll... right?

Yeah. I guess you know that as well.

Also, under certain circumstances, she goes berserk

and lays waste to the ship.

I experienced that as well.

I have a feeling that Kukrushka is hiding something huge.

Actually, I'm certain of it.

That's why I've been investigating every time I loop...

Aah, Arya.

For several centuries, I chased after her shadow.

No matter how much I ask Jonas about her,

all he ever says is that he once loved a woman named Arya and Kukrushka looks like her.

The only thing I've found out for sure

is that the trigger that causes her to go berserk is Remnan.

Remnan?

That's right.

Every time Kukrushka has ended up in that state, Remnan has been there.

Y-Yuri!

It's been hundreds of loops now,

and that's all I've found out.

Pretty pathetic, right?

Hundreds...

I wonder how many more I'll have to do.

Setsu.

The meeting's been canceled.

Huh?

LeVi's going to give us a day so you can recover.

But how is that...

I guess there are world lines like this, too.

So let's take this chance for a change of pace today.

Let's just forget all about the Gnosia.

We can't do that.

If we lose even one day, then the Gnosia infectees will...

Huh? Wait, Yuri!

You're exactly right, Setsu.

But...

If being right is all you have, you won't stay mentally healthy.

Yuri...

Let's go.

Hey... Okay, fine.

I'll go, so stop pulling me so much.

A water storage tank?

Yeah.

Apparently the water we drink gets filtered,

so there are synthetic fish for consumption in here.

So we're fishing?

Yeah. Chipie previously mentioned that he secretly fishes here.

Apparently, it makes his cat happy.

Though Sha-ming yelled at him about it.

I've never fished before.

Neither have I, actually.

What?

Let's compete to see who can land one first.

We haven't caught a single one.

Are there really fish in here?

That's what I was told...

There are. They're just deeper down.

Deeper? Didn't you say they were synthetic fish?

Whoa!

Setsu!

Reel it in!

R-Right.

Huh?

It's huge! I-It's...

a big one!

Oh, my!

O-Otome?

What?!

That startled me.

Why were you in the tank?

I saw a lot of fishies in there and couldn't resist the urge to swim, too.

And then something all bright and shiny showed up front of me.

Is your mouth okay?

Oh, it's fine.

More importantly...

I-It's nothing.

Okay, bye.

All right, next...

Why don't we watch a movie?

How was it?

Honestly, it was hard to suspend my disbelief.

Was it that bad?

I wouldn't say it was bad, exactly...

But if the military had just reported the anomaly to the higher-ups from the beginning,

the incident that followed would have been completely avoidable.

But then the detective protagonist wouldn't have had anything to do.

It breaks all kinds of rules to involve a civilian in the operation in the first place.

Setsu... It's fiction.

I mean, I know that, but...

No wonder that movie's a classic from the Earth era!

It hits you right in the feels!

Shigemichi... I didn't know you were here.

Hey, more importantly, why aren't you two holding hands?

It's common courtesy to hold the hand of the person next to you in the theater.

What?

I guess I just picked the wrong movie. Sorry.

I fully understand that it's fiction.

It just really bothered me to see them unable to prevent people from getting hurt.

That just shows how compassionate you are toward other people.

Even strangers in a movie.

Really? It could just be my sense of duty as a soldier.

That's just as noble, I think.

Did you pick this setting, Yuri?

Er, yeah.

I did. I thought you might like it.

I get it.

You must've seen me choose this scenery on some other loop before.

You got me.

But it still makes me happy

that you actually remembered something like that.

Every time I loop, I think about how any individual Yuri I met before,

or the one that's with me right now, is also looping just like I am.

That they're doing their very best.

That fact alone always cheers me up.

Me, too.

Um... Yuri, Setsu.

Otome.

You're telling us

it's about time for the two of us to get into the cold sleep capsules, right?

Huh?

Did you really think I wouldn't notice?

To get us some free time, you agreed that the two of us would go into cold sleep.

That's how you got us exempt from the meeting, isn't it?

Setsu...

Please don't ever do anything like this again.