Once she was able to get the attention of everybody inside of the room, Lune stopped playing the bagpipes, and placed them down on the ground right next to her. Then, besides her, Stelline stopped closer to the audience, and began to give her new speech. “As you may all know by now,” she started - “more information on the space rock has been discovered. With this information, we’d like to pose some new sciences into thought.”. After she delivered the opening lead, Stelline turned to face Lune, who was now standing up, and staring at the audience as well. Lune felt a bit of stage fright, upon seeing all the eyes focusing on her, and at first, she shook. But within just a few seconds, her body told her to adjust, and she was able to speak. Just as rehearsed, she asked Stelline, “Madame Stel’, what about religion?”, before backing up, and sitting back down. Stelline nodded before Lune sat back in her seat, and began to answer her question, with her too, pre-planned answer. “At first, when we originally entered this study, despite otherwise as we were told by members, we ignored religion, as it was unstraight, indecisive - and didn’t have proof all the time. But, eventually, as we continued to go on, we soon learned that physical sciences can’t show us everything, so-” Stelline stopped talking, and Yu walked forwards. Within her hands, Yu held a folded up only by a red ribbon, paper scroll. When she unrolled it, it appeared longer than anyone had imagined, and contained a plethora of informational text. Yu began to read and explain a few parts of it. She also went on to explain what this document was. “This is the outline for a new type of science that we are working on - that, for now, shall be referred to as by the title ‘Study of the Spiritual Existence Realm Science’, or, S.O.T.S.E.R.S. for short.”. Then, when Yu finished - the stage went into darkness, before the lanterns were lit again. There, was Lady Gaelius. Lady Gael’ was the leader of the Space Club that so many of the girls were in. So, when she was out here, everyone knew that something important must be going on. So, all the small side-conversations went silent. “With Sotsers now in mind, we are coming to the hypothetical conclusional theory, that this rock may be sent down from the Heavens - as a warning from Daihoshi, for attempting to unlock the marbles. However, we lack enough evidence for this, and are currently trying to develop technology to prove it.” she told everyone.

Then, after a deep breath in, she said “The girls here at the Space Club, alongside some students at the Technology Club, and Geography Club - have developed a prototype for a Sotsers Communication Machine, or, SCM, that will allow us to communicate with some souls. But, we need to test it first. And that is where you guys come in. We need someone who had a recent death - as, we believe that those ones are still in a dimension of Heaven that is close to Tera, so it will be easier to contact them.”.

When Meishu heard these words, his eyes widened, and all of his mind had been stolen. Suddenly, Adeline was looking at him, and he already knew what she wanted him to say. As small talk grew amongst everyone, Adeline nudged at Meishu, and tried to persuade him. “Go on!” she told him. “No…” Meishu told her, shaking his head as he did so. “It’s not worth it.”.

Adeline was puzzled at Meishu’s answer. “It’s your sister though.” she told him, as she began to take her jacket and blue shirt off.

“Who I wasn’t able to save…” Meishu adjectivised, as Adeline sat down. Under her blue shirt, she had a short sleeve yellow one, with a curved flat white collar.

Adeline rolled her eyes. “I’m sure she’d be happy to hear from you.” she told Meishu, as she looked at him closely. Meishu ignored Adeline, and just faced straight, looking at the other side of the table. There, Lucette sat. At first, she was looking the other way - but, as if she sensed Meishu, she faced back at him when he looked at her. Lucette was originally on her knees when she was looking off, but sat down correctly now. Looking down at the table, in a mumbled and slurred voice, Lucette said “Imagine how many lanterns they have here…”. Meishu reached his hand out across the table, before the same bagpipes that Lune blew earlier, went off once more. There she was, calling for the attention of everyone here again. At the sound, everyone went dead silent. “This is the last call” Lady Gael’ told them all, as she peered to look at everyone. “Is there ANYONE?” Stelline asked, in her own finalised tone. But, there was no response. The crowd remained silent. Until, finally - “Yes, there is someone!” shouted out loud Adeline. And with that, everyone faced Meishu, and stared him dead. “You're screwed.” Lucette moaned, before Amalia said something louder. “That’s right! We could kill his little si-”, as fast as she could, Kräuter covered Amalia’s mouth. Before they came into Town Square, some of the other girl’s had explained to Kräuter why Meishu was down in the dumps - and now she understood. But, Meishu still heard Amalia. He stood up. “Oh look at you!” he shouted at her. Amalia stood up as well, and faced Meishu back. Now, the two looked at each other directly in the eyes, and both seemed to be filled with both rage and anger. For seconds, they were quiet as could be, but spoke millions through their faces - all before Amalia ran up to Meishu, and pushed him into the wall. “Violence!” screamed Ciel, before Kristoph grabbed onto Amalia, stopping her from messing with Meishu anymore.

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“Satop at once!” shouted Lady Gael’ as Kristoph brought Amalia back to both her seat, and her senses. Kristoph frowned at Amalia, as he sat her down.

Now, Adeline began to speak her true words. “What I wanted was for Meishu to contact his already passed sister!” she whined.

Everyone now faced Amalia, who looked down, just as Lucette had been doing the whole time. “Meishu, would you please step forward?” asked Stelline, as she held up her hand.

With rosy red cheeks, and wet palms, Meishu stumbled over to the stage, but didn’t take Stelline’s hand. He already had enough girl problems.

“Now, Meishu, was your sister Kaminari - if I remember correctly?” asked Stelline. Meishu shook. “Yeah, she was.” he replied. Stelline nodded, as she began to crank up her large steampunk invention. “Now, I just need a source of spiritual energy.” said Stelline as she messed with buttons, dials, and other sliding levers, and whatnots on her rusted-yellow machine. “From where?” asked Meishu. “Huh,” Stelline sighed. “I originally planned to use humans - but we haveth not enough!” she whined. “So, where will we get our power from!?” called out Aloevia in the audience. Lune stood up from her seat on stage, and walked nearer to where Meishu, Stelline, and Lady Gael’ were.

She spoke softly, “If only we had something such as a-” “-Marble!” called out Kräuter. Lune gasped. “Yeah! Just that.” she responded. “Hehe~!” Kräuter laughed cutely, as she pulled out a yellow marble from her pocket. She continued to smile, as she ran and gave it up to Stelline, without stepping on stage herself. Stelline stared at the marble, “What a beautiful Hikidama…!” she said aloud, before sticking it in the SCM.

“So, let’s see if it works," said Kräuter, still in front of the stage.

Everyone, captivated, watched closely, as sparks and more came from the machine, which Lune noted got - ‘Quite hotter!’.

Soon, the machine seemed to be doing its thing. As it began shining off heavenly light, and a hologram began to appear above it.

Since everyone was standing up to get a view, Meishu couldn’t quite see at first.

But once he got to where Kräuter was, he was able to see.

The machine was working! Floating right above it, was little Kaminari!

Meishu smiled as he looked at her “Kami!” he yelled, as she looked at him, and blinked, with a smile growing.