The coat was somewhere on Earth, from the looks of it. The coat was in some frozen tundra. It looks like Antarctica. "Could it be?", Chiyuri thought. "Nah, it couldn't be. The location is on Earth but it was clearly not located in the Arctic. It just looks like some area with a lot of snow in it. Still? What area could possibly have snow, during the summer, no less?", Chiyuri mused again.
"Obtaining the coat is in my best interests, if I obtain this coat. All my problems would be solved for sure. I will be able to save humans, back on my universe. As far as I know, I don't know what my chances of saving this planet are. But, those chances are slim, at the moment, if I don't grab the pieces of the coat myself back.", Chiyuri started to sweat, as she thought of this. Although, she enjoyed her time studying Gensokyo. She knew the real reason for why she came to Alton. She came to Alton to find a way to save the humans in her home planet. If only there was a way. "I, however, cannot wait any longer. Slowly, little by little, the people around me in the university that I used to work in are slowly turning into robots. Pretty soon, all of humanity will turn into machines. I have very little time left, I must act quickly.", Chiyuri thought. "I don't want to think about the time I got kicked out of University. Those people, they wanted to kill me. No, I can't think any more about this. The more I think about it, the more paralyzed I feel.", Chiyuri muttered silently with a pained breath. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she was. This was not something to think about well, in any shape or form. Paralysis began to take root of her body. She began to feel very dysphoric. The feeling pulsed throughout her entire body. This pulse overwhelmed her entire five senses. However, this feeling was quite different, this time.
Usually, these pulses caused a several seizures which quickly overwhelmed her body. However, these seizures began to transport her body into a different area. Or rather, it began to transport her mind.
"Where am I?", Chiyuri thought. "You are in Alton, welcome Chiyuri", a silent voice called out. "Wait, this isn't Alton", Chiyuri thought. "Alton is a planet with special properties. Those who've encountered this planet have a special place in the planet's heart. This planet always eternally watches over you, much like a worrying doting mother always worries about her sons and daughters. Alton views each planet as their own children. The time you spent on this planet, only furthers the bond you share between you and our mother planet.", the silent voice continued.
"I want to ask you something Chiyuri. How much will you sacrifice to obtain the coat? You can only access this location, but only through your mind's eye. As the Maiden of Science, once you master your mind's eye; you will be able to teleport to any location you choose, once you've mastered swimming through your dreams.", a silent voice called out again. "Who's telling me all this?", Chiyuri thought. "Nothing is calling out to me, I see nothing now. The background in this area was truly foreboding. Chiyuri was standing in front her tiles upon tiles, but these tiles felt friendly and they felt light. These tiles when stepped upon had a kind of friendly aura emanating from it. It was almost as if these tiles were meant to be stepped on by this person experiencing this dream and only for this moment.
As Chiyuri thought. The plants began to grow around her. By the time she went through one thought. An entire rainforest just sprung out of nowhere. The next thing she knew, when she began to continue thinking about her predicament, more plants were growing her way. She took a pause and began to think, "Is it possible that the plants are mirroring my thoughts? No, that can't be can it?"
She could start hearing animal sounds come out of the forest. Life was being breathed out of nowhere. It almost seemed like something was being created, right before her very eyes. This is certainly something you could write about, if you were to write a movie related to video games. This would be the movie to write about. Yet, there was something else to this strange phenomenon, something more. For some reason, it was apparent that the land beneath her very feet began to change into multiple assorted colors; each color seemed to represent living in a different world. After all, if you look closely at the land and examined it under a microscope, or really tried to squint your eyes. You would notice that the colors began to form images. One of the images had a picture of a girl holding a coat. The coat actually morphed into a fairy of sorts. The fairy clunged towards this girl quite closely. The fairy nodding in affirmation followed the girl and the girl began to swim to a nearby lake. What was interesting was that, in the nearby lake, there were no air bubbles that the girl made. In other words, the girl didn't use any oxygen to dive deep in the water. "This must be some sort of new human species; who are these people exactly?", Chiyuri thought. "There definitely must be something going on, but I can't put my finger on it.", Chiyuri paused again.
"The plants seem to react to my thoughts and my thoughts only, is this the power of the science shrine maiden. Is Chiyuri now a science maiden? This cannot be and when did I get my powers?", Chiyuri was deep in thought. "No, there must be some sort of scientific explanation to this power I've received and gotten. Yeah, that must be it. There must be some other explanation to the phenomenon going on right now?", Chiyuri hastily began to tell herself. Fumbling around, she finally decided to go to the location given in her phone. However before she could look at her phone to see her location. The plants suddenly began to come together and take some sort of form. The plants slowly began to form what seemed to resemble a temple. The temple had some architecture, more importantly she could the fairy she was looking for along with the girl that was holding the fairy. The temple made a large rumbling sound. It was a sound that anyone could've payed attention to and it was a sound that was extremely hard to ignore.
The sound made it seem like the temple was alive. When, upon closer inspection, Chiyuri found that racoons appeared to be occupying the temple at large. These racoons were quite odd, almost as if there Youkai or something. For those who don't know: Youkai are supernatural creatures that are recorded in Japanese folklore. These creatures are best known for their appearance in the Touhou series.
"No, it can't be.", Chiyuri thought. "Well, better late than never, I suppose, I shouldn't dally around any longer. But how is this possible? Surely, this must be some sort of mistake. I've seen such technology before and I've seen what it can do. Tech should not have the capacity to do such things.", Chiyuri exclaimed mentally in her mind. As she was thinking, an idea came to her mind, what if she grabbed a cup of hot coffee? "After all, from what I've heard, it's not like education means that same thing that it used to mean. This isn't something that Pokey what've wanted and it's something that Giygas wouldn't have wanted either. I choose to save Earth, because of them and the noble sacrifices they made for humanity and the world. It is due to their sacrifices which gave birth to my conviction. Without it, I would've given up my humanity and turned into a machine long ago."
As she was pondering. A girl in a sailor uniform hurriedly started moving towards the door, "Hey, long time no see, I finally caught up with you? It's me Yumemi, don't you remember?", the girl made direct eye contact with Chiyuri. "I've decided to make some adjustments to your suit professor, there is some sort of powerup that I wanted to add in your suit. It was the creation of the hyperspace probability vessel. The ship has been finally completed, at least the structure for the ship. However, there do remain some problems in regards to features you wanted to add to the ship. You wanted to add time travel to the ship, correct?", Yumemi asked curiously.
"Unfortunately, giving this ship the ability to time travel cannot be done, now, were still missing some vital information on some physical law that prevents us from time traveling. We will update you on any additional information, should they arrive. There are some other additional components that the ship may require, in order to function. I want to let you know that the ship requires all six elements to function. As of now, the ship lacks those six elements.", Yumemi continued to add.
"Any other additional questions, professor?", Yumemi asked rather tersely. "Yes, I would like to know some more information about the Maiden of Science. Does this sound familiar to you? Given, that your essentially a giant computer database disguised as a cute girl with a school sailor uniform, surely you can tell me, right?", Chiyuri asked.
"Unfortunately, I have no data on such a thing before, what made you ask the question?", Yumemi asked. "Some unexpected visitors phoned a visit to us.", Chiyuri murmured. "You can't possibly mean, but there's no way…", Yumemi slowly exhaled at this exciting news. Nervously with excitement Yumemi then asked, "And what is it that these extraterrestrial visitors wanted to phone in on?", Yumemi asked. "They wanted to tell me that I was the shrine Maiden of Science and that I have the ability to use an artifact known as the coat. This coat can prevent humans from turning into robots. All we need to find this person named Admiral Oscar and were good. I've already looked at the coordinates to were the coat is. There is some additional information the admiral. There is an ability where he can encase himself in ice to prevent people from capturing the coat. Given this high amount of detail about the coat, I can tell that the people who met up with me aren't trying to scam me. I know that's one of your objections, isn't it?", Chiyuri said. "Well, you got me, that's certainly a big question that I wanted to bring up, but since it has already been brought up. There's no other reason to push line of inquiry in regards to ethics now is there?", Yumemi said. "Now, then, while I do have your suit there is one more thing, I also want to provide.", Yumemi added.
"Take this", Yumemi muttered. "It's a cursed blanket. This blanket is used to copy the abilities as well as the take the appearance of an individual being copied. There have been no blankets back in our world of Earth before now. This is a least when it comes to generating publicity about ", Yumemi added.
"How did you come up with this cursed blanket, may I ask?", Chiyuri inquired. "It's a blanket I created in the laboratory just yesterday. They say, it's a blanket that can travel back in time or has the potential to do so. I created this blanket from a dream that I recently just had about you. It's strange you know, I know know you told me to keep my feelings bottled, in regard to our relationship, but I just can't. Each moment with you, I have dreams of you and I marrying and being together. Do you ever get that feeling?", Yumemi took a silent pause. Then, Yumemi continued anxiously, "Anyways, I had a dream and this time, it was a serious dream. This dream was something I couldn't just ignore. No, this time I had to tell you. There was a strange shrine maiden that appeared in this dream. She told me that you were to become the shrine Maiden of Science and that when you do obtain the coat, one of us will have to kill each other to wear the coat." Chiyuri began to think about whether she wanted to continue hearing Yumemi's rants again, but she decided in order to honor their love it was worth exploring.
*The following is an excerpt about Yumemi's dream of what happened in regards to her encounter with the shrine maiden. The events occur in chronological order*
It was a solemn day, there was many leaves blowing in the wind. Like many of Yumemi's dream the skies were sunny, which is what Yumemi would usually think. However, the recent dreams Yumemi has kind of feel like they're not Yumemi's own dreams. How could one go about describing this one phenomenon? Well, here goes. The dreams Yumemi has usually have a theme that ends with awkward sex after a date in some sort of restaurant. However, this is not the case this time. This time, there is no date. This time and many other times afterwards, there would be a succession of multiple dreams of a shrine. This shrine has many stone pillars inside. These stone pillars had many oddly colored pillars surrounding this shrine. You could see the 12 animals of the zodiac guarding this shrine. The color of these marbles is pure white. The pure whiteness of these animals is a representation of purity for the individual. Although these animals weren't real and weren't breathing. One can almost feel the energy emanating from these statues. It felt like they were alive. There was a feeling of pure malice and desire to harm an individual, which was something that was not good. There was another strange feeling one got Nobody knows for sure what will happen afterwards, not even the person who created their dream.
As Chiyuri stared at the statue. As she began to stare at the statue, she could see her mother. As she looked at her mother; she attempted to converse with her mom. The closer she walked towards the mother, the more likely her body size began to gradually decline. As she began to closely continue to walk towards her, she said, "Hi". The mother turned towards Chiyuri and turned into a black hole. A screech that sounded like a bat's blood being squeezed out of it's body. The scream was very visceral, it was unlike anything Chiyuri or anyone for that matter that she knew of witnessed before. The hole sucked Chiyuri into a hospital. She begins to wake up, she instinctively begins to walk towards what appears to be a hospital. One of the first things Chiyuri does is ask, "Where am I? Who am I?". A strange girl who looks like a witch says, "Your Natsumi…." Then the witch says, "It's that time again isn't it Natsumi? It's time for you to check your Chemistry skillset. Don't you know? You have a specialty in Chemistry. However, your skillset in Chemistry mainly involve creating chemicals that can give an object the ability to dream. In other words, non-living objects as well as living objects can dream, if you mix certain chemicals together." "Can I ask what your name is?", Chiyuri asks. "My name is Mima, and you can think of me as your tour guide. But you must really work on your memory, there is no telling what kind of troubles await you if you lose your memories.", Mima cheerfully noted.
"This is strange", Chiyuri thought. "I've had this dream multiple times before, yet why is it this time my dream is clearer, before there would be a blur of characters in my dream. I wouldn't be able to recognize where I am, much less who I'm talking to. Yet, this time it's clear that I'm talking to someone. The people and the place that I interact with have physical form and I can actually hear the words being spoken from people. Chiyuri's flashback prematurely ended.
Then as she continues to walk around through the hospital, she begins to walk to the hospital. She looks at her own name tag. The name tag reads Natsumi. "Is this the name of the girl, what's going on? It's quite clear she wasn't reminiscing about her past anymore, but rather it's like by reminiscing about her past, she began to daydream. Is this her dream, it seems like she was in someone else's dream? There certainly is no association with her dream and her real life, or was there?", Natsumi thought.
For a split moment of time, Chiyuri was in the same dream that Natsumi was in. What seemed like days really was just a split moment in time. Nevertheless, during that time many things happened. Memories were made and shared and events began to transpire which exceeded the expectations of everyone present in the room. Natsumi at this moment was going to talk to Mima. Mima was asking her what was going on and what made her stop from walking.
Natsumi could only give one answer and usually it would be whatever was on her mind. Though, this time, nothing was on her mind. "Who was that voice in my head?", Natusmi thought to herself. "I know for sure that I use chemicals or something as a skill level. This time it was a witch that gave me this information, but I didn't get any other information, as of yet." Natsumi began to ponder her additional possibilities on what she was supposed to do.
Although, it was shocking that the strange fairy wouldn't allow her to communicate with anyone else. There was the question of what to do, at this critical moment in time. It was clear as day that something was going on. For some reason, the fairy didn't want Natsumi to leave that was for sure. "Actually, come to think of it, why did I care about finding my memories in the first place? Shouldn't I have been happy about not finding it, just as much as finding it?", Natsumi silently thought. These thoughts were swirling through her mind, but she decided to prioritize one thing over the other, in the end. The first order of business is to acquiesce to the fairy's demands of staying. For whatever reason, she couldn't give up on the journey of finding the coat.
Now, the only thing of concern is what response Mima would give. Mima gave stared at her directly and said, "There are things you should concern yourself with and things you shouldn't concern yourself with. This isn't an inquiry you should concern yourself with. All inquiries about me will be answered at an appropriate time and place. Come with me, I will send you to a place where that fairy won't be able to hear you.". Mima then gave a pause and said, "Just remember to keep in contact with the coat that you currently possess. Should you want more information about me, you're going to have to play along with me for now. Just know that if you were to look at a telescope, I'm Mima." This was quite a cryptic response, which was something that concerned Natsumi.
This wasn't something worth pondering over, as events would transpire quickly, he still needed to go as the fairy did threaten his life earlier. Natsumi then felt a strange spine down her neck. There was something fishy about this, although what once was an interesting journey now turned into something more sinister. She wasn't sure what was going on, but something shady was afoot and there wasn't a good chance that things were going to get better. "Well, if you really have forgotten, then you should follow me. Remember, there isn't much time left, and trusting that fairy is a dangerous game that no one should play. For if you follow that fairy, you will give yourself your own doom.", Mima called sternly.
Natsumi began to contemplate what was going on, but there was no time. Natsumi followed Mima, as she followed Mima. Mima took a wand out of her coat and a wand appeared. This wand began to emanate magically, "Remember who you are, Natsumi, or rather Natsumi star. But before I can continue, you must take care of unfinished business on your end." As Mima began to speak, Mima's natural surroundings of the outside began to change into a black hole. Mima spoke, "Now, no one can hear what we are saying, not even your little friend that is watching you." Mima signals towards the fairy that Natsumi talked to earlier. "You must remember why you are here Natsumi, you're here to fulfill just one task and that is to retrieve the coat. I suppose you don't remember, you possess a coat that contains a lot of possibilities, shall we say? You have skills pertaining to be a chemist and can utilize those possibilities. You live in two different worlds you lived in one within the dream world and one where you're currently breathing.", Mima stared at Natsumi unsure if she should even continue talking. There was already a look that this Natsumi had suffered enough and wanted to die. To Mima, she found it hard to believe that this person was once the strong women she once knew. She appeared naïve and yet weak, this was the opposite of the Natsumi she once knew. What was redeeming about her exactly now? Yet know, you share your consciousness with two other people, or perhaps you soon will share your consciousness with them. My goal is to see to your safety, against the wishes of my creator, and so I shall protect you with my life." "Hold on, I didn't ask for any of this, can't I just go home back to be a ghost, back to the hospital and just die there?", Natsumi replied back.
"You cannot, forces beyond my understanding have arrived and have already began to hunt you down. The entire planet that you live on is after your life and I mean that literally. Your coat that you designed has the power to control the universe and bend reality itself. My master, the original Mima, is after your life as well. You should refer to me as a clone of my master, because that's what I am.", Mima replied quietly.
"Okay, I'll call you Green, since your hat and your clothes are green, that should be okay, right?", Natsumi asked. Go Green nodded in affirmation. "As I've said, the entire planet is after your life, you are not safe anywhere you go, so I suggest thinking of a way to get off the planet, with your life intact. There are a couple of shrines that we can visit which lead to portals which will allow you to jump from planet to planet. These planets are planets you have once visited, Natsumi. That's all you need to know for now. Pieces of the coat are somewhere around these planets, if you can just find them, rumors have it that you can control the universe for just one second. Make that second count, in that one second you can do anything to the universe. It is up to you to make that choice, you are in control.", Green replied back. While Green and Natsumi were talking, they walked to a nearby shrine, it was as if the conversation they were having gave them the ability to instinctively move towards a shrine. Or was it that the shrine moved towards them, because of the conversation they were having? Natsumi couldn't tell.
Green then gave a salute to Natsumi and said, "Now I must bare you farewell, however before I leave, let me impart some knowledge to you, go to the shrine in front of you, you will find your answers there."
The surroundings around her began to go back to normal. This was an interesting development, there were certainly things that weren't going in a positive direction, but things were starting to make sense. Now, Green left Natsumi to fend for herself. "Great, now what?", Natsumi thought. While the sky looked normal, there were birds flying around the shrine. These birds didn't look normal. "Oh my, it appears Kappa birds are flying around about?!", the fairy popped out of Natsumi's body. Natsumi acted shocked. Natsumi made the face of shock at the fairy having residence inside his body. He thought the fairy disappeared, what was going on.
As he stared at the fairy, the fairy had a wormlike tapeworm pouring out of the fairy and it seemed to have permeated Natsumi's skin. The fairy acted like it was a parasite more than anything else. This was a frightening thought to Natsumi, imagine the fact that the fairy that she's known for a while was parasite living in her body. Wasn't it originally supposed to be something else?
"Hey, what were you doing earlier? Were you spacing out or something I saw you talking to nothing, for the last 30 minutes or so.", the fairy asked probingly. As Natsumi was about to speak, she noticed her hands began to glow. In both hands she could see the caption "Molecular" on her left hand and a "?" on her right hand. What could these mean and why? Could this be her chemistry skill set that the fairy was talking about? So many unanswered questions it was like a long mystery that was trying to unravel itself. Suddenly, her left hand glowed, "What does it mean?", Natsumi was shocked at what happened. The hand began to spray some sort of purple mist at the fairy, then an eye appeared on her left hand. The hand inquired, "Do you wish to destroy or save?". Natsumi reacted in a confusing manner and in a freaked-out manner. "You must choose carefully. If you do not choose in within 24 hours, you will lose this word.", the hand spoke. The fairy was confused at what was going on, she couldn't see what was happening in front of her.
Natsumi was confused, "Just what did this power do?", she thought. Then Natsumi talked to the fairy and said, "So, do you know anything about this chemistry ability that I have?". "No, but I do have this manual that I can't really understand on how to use it.", she pulled out a book tucked in between her boobs. Her boobs made an audible jiggling sound. Natsumi looked at those boobs and then touched her hands, "Disappointing", she muttered underneath her breath. She gave the book to Natsumi and she began to read it.
She opened the book and instantly a flash of light hit her brain, it was almost as if she received an info dump from the book of atomic proportions. She began to have a partial memory of how to use her powers. However, she didn't have full memory of how to use her powers. There was no time to contemplate either. One of the pages of the book from what she could read said that her left hand that's glowing with a "Molecular" caption on it allows her to create a new object both animate and inanimate object from her surroundings and create something new with it. It also gives an ingredient sheet on how to create that object that the user desired. Unfortunately, for Natsumi this power wasn't something that could be used easily as the ingredients themselves were indecipherable as well for most of the things she wanted to make. The book mentions that she would have to figure what these ingredients translate to as well. Truly frustrating. The "?" on her right hand allows her to inquire the object whether living or dead does. This was a much more interesting power.
The most important thing to note gave her insight on what she should do next: Clone possession without magic. This skill required you to imagine the coat, for it to be used and allowed one to find out a piece of the star map, in return for imagining it. You then transmit that information of where that star map is to clone of some person. Keep in mind, you can't just directly access this information directly from your mind, you must give it someone else first, before you can use it. The user isn't allowed to use the knowledge directly.
"This must mean that Green has information on the star map and I have to make eye contact with her", Natsumi thought. "Hey fairy, where going to try to meet Mima again; I know what to do next.", Natsumi prepared to go. The fairy grumbled "Fine, but can you feed me? I need food every couple months or so; I'm really hungry. You have some money on your left pocket just get me some food."
Natsumi then said what she really thought about her, "Haven't you been feeding off my energy lately, why do you need food now? You think I can't tell? I saw those string of tapeworms exiting my body what were those about?" "Oh! You have it all wrong, those tapeworms contain all my past emotions for you. Although, I don't quite understand what those emotions are myself, but I did indeed feel something for you, at some point. I thought you wouldn't notice that would make dealing with you, less complicated. I thought I hid those worms with some sort of camouflage well. You do need to get me food though. The amount of worms accumulating on my body has grown an exponential amount. Here is the amount of food you need to give me", the fairy produced a list of foods, fresh vegetables, along with kitchenware that the fairy was going to eat for Natsumi to buy.
Seeing the list, you could literally see Natsumi's jaw hit the floor. There's no way she could possibly afford to buy these items. Natsumi stared at the fairy and said, "I don't have the money". "I figured out you'd say that, well if you can't get me the food by the end of this month, I'm going to die. And when I die you die. Then a bunch of shadowy hands started to choke Natsumi.", the fairy gave Natsumi a look of anger and terror. She wanted to let Natsumi know that the last thing she should do is displease her.
After venting out her temper tantrum, the shadowy hands disappeared, and she said, "Luckily for you, you can find the money for the food by going to these convenience stores. These convenience stores have ads on them that talk about quests people can do. These quests once completed allow you to earn money. These are high end quests that anyone can do, however few survive them. "The way the fairy said that didn't seem credible, in fact, in many ways, it appeared judging from her facial expressions that she really didn't care whether Natsumi lived or died. As she was talking though, the list of convenience stores began to appear with a hologram being produced from the palm of her hands. The hologram then began to print out paper that showed exactly what was in the hologram.
"All I wanted to do was to find out my memories, how did it come to this?", Natsumi lamented. As Natsumi went to these convenience stores, another memory suddenly started to surge from her mind.
"Where am I now?", Natsumi wondered. "You are where you need to be always and forever", a girl with green lilac hair appeared, she resembled the fairy which threatened her life before but didn't have wings. "Hey sleepyhead, your finally awake! It's time for breakfast, would you like to eat some toast, or would you like to have me for dinner?", she smiled with a charming smile. This woman also appeared to be a mom, from the way she conservatively dressed and her body build. "Her boobs…. They were also big", Natsumi pondered dejectedly. "For some reason, I'm feeling hot suddenly. This heat, it's from embarrassment, isn't it? I also feel something else, could it be love?", Natsumi thought.
"Now, you sit their young man and wait while I serve you food. Just remember to call me by name and thank me, when I bring the name. The name is Lila.", the girl looked embarrassingly at her like she was talking to her lover. "Was the feeling I have for her mutual?", Natsumi thought. "It appears this time, I'm in a house and inside the house I see of what appears to be magazine clippings of me on the table.", Natsumi stared at the first clipping. As Natsumi looked at the clippings, surge of memories began to pour back in. "That's right, it's all coming back to me now, I know I am. I'm the first chemist who managed to convert human imagination into a fuel source people can use. Then, it all went wrong one day, when I tried to demonstrate my invention again in a specific hospital. No, it wasn't a hospital it was a laboratory." "The fuel source became sentient and was commanded by me to use it was soon able to replace every known mineral as it could transform into any mineral had wanted. This truly was a chemical capable of magic as one calls it, it was limited magic though. You still had to follow the laws of physics to some extent, after all. There were limitations to this material of course, but what those limitations are exactly is not something I remember quite yet. I need to look further into these newspaper clippings.", Natsumi frantically searched.
Natsumi kept searching through the clippings to find some sort of information on who she is and what she is here for. A clipping contained information on her being kicked out of the Grand Unified Physics university, which was a school Natsumi once attended. Next to her picture, there was an image of a person her friend who attended the same university as her, Chiyuri. The clipping states that they were both part of the number one team in eliminating Youkai. The name of the team was Morning Star. There team was the strongest team that had ever existed in the science community. This team was responsible for many scientific achievements. Keep in mind, these scientific inventions were aimed at thwarting the schemes of the Youkai. These most notable ones were the development of the cloud atomic bomb which was a technology that was a bomb that could level an entire city through manipulating the structures of clouds in the sky. Naturally this was a dangerous weapon. It didn't however stop there, the clipping continues to state their other accomplishments, this included fixing Global Warming and most interestingly coming up with time travel. Natsumi developed these technologies along with Chiyuri to create things.
The clipping does mention that Natsumi was a reclusive person that didn't like to talk to anyone. Even when the media began to become aware of her presence in the scientific community, she always made too sure to remain anonymous and keep her scientific exploits unknown. She was someone who was not too concerned about money and was more interested in helping mankind advance forward.
There was however a problem, as the clipping states. Although she wouldn't take credit for her accomplishments and often had other people take credit to keep existence a secret. In fact, she was so good at keeping secrets, that she even managed to prevent people who took credit for these inventions not get any profits from doing so. This is because Natsumi had a keen talent at giving people one sided business transactions, in terms of intellectual copyright laws, without them knowing it. This type of girl with such a suspicious profile could not be ignored forever. Eventually, the Morning Star team did end up firing Natsumi, because they couldn't make any money off her and she kept causing trouble.
However, this time the spotlight as on Natsumi, as right at the same time she was fired from the team. Natsumi the girl who managed to keep her identity a secret all these years was exposed wide open for the first time. This was done by none other than Chiyuri herself. Natsumi could almost remember the raw betrayal quite vividly and the words Chiyuri gave when Natsumi got fired on that day, as Natsum left the office.
"You've lost. I won, now the new era that you fought for begins with me and ends with you.", Chiyuri told him. "There's nothing to talk about is there, being fired means you no longer have any clout to do as you pleased, expect some indefinite prison time, soon. We will make sure that you will never recover from a disaster like this again.", Chiyuri said. "Any last words?", Chiyuri asked gleefully again. With tears in her eyes Natsumi says, "How could you do this, we had so many moments together, I helped the science community immeasurably. You were my confidant and in many ways, you were my lover, how could you betray me like that?! I helped you when you were at your lowest, and I helped free you from being sold into prostitution, because I saw something more in you that others couldn't."
"None of that matters anymore, the only thing that matters is your death. You, however, can get a get out of jail free card, if you hand over the rest of your inventions and promise to give up your anonymity and completely work for the government. Will you do so? If not, all your assets will be seized including your personal information and your house, by the university. The galactic government has given the authority to do so. You will have tortured slowly until you die, unless you give us the information.", Chiyuri asked. Natsumi didn't remember why but at that moment she didn't care about her fate. She only cared about looking at that beautiful sunset that was above her. It was nighttime, here in the University, the sky was quite beautiful and there was a lot of things that looked nice. It was as if that sunset would give her the conviction and give her new direction in life. Natsumi didn't understand the reasoning why but at that moment, a light bulb hit her, she had one more way to avoid government detection and one more way to regain her prominence and this time it will be on her own terms. However, the path to regaining her former power would be grim and it would be filled with an unsurmountable amount of despair. Would she be willing to sacrifice everything and start all over again? At this strange moment Natsumi gave an almost devilish grin that began to send Chiyuri chills.
"No, I won't do either. I choose to conduct one last science experiment.", unexpectedly Natsumi quickly shot herself in the head with a gun in her pocket. It was strangely shaped outdated pistol. Natsumi became unconscious in a pool of blood. She died there, but that wasn't the end of her story. Although, the Galactic government did seize her assets, they didn't understand how anyone could get information on her assets.
Afterwards, the clipping states that people went to speculate about her death. Some speculated that Natsumi choose death over giving what secrets she had left. Others speculated that she never existed to begin with and this whole story was bogus. Whatever the case, the person who invented these wonderful inventions wasn't on Earth anymore, somehow, she disappeared.
"Hmm, I can't remember any information on how I died and can interact with people again. I assumed I somehow came back to the physical realm and if so, how come I haven't been caught yet.", Natsumi thought. "You know just as a fun thought, if I were to do one more science experiment which involved killing myself, it would be the Schrodinger cat experiment….", Natsumi commented out loud. Then it hit her, "Could I pull of a Schrodinger cat and start a new life. Perhaps, I wanted to prove myself that there was an alternative answer to Russian Roulette and that was Schrodinger's cat?" "The bullet I shot myself with was a memory lapse pill." Depending on who it is, you can shoot yourself with in such a way that you can be unconscious for an entire day to a whole month, as opposed to killing yourself. This is if you're lucky. In return, your genetics get altered and you reincarnate as a person with different talents than what you started out with. This would be the ultimate gamble though, as there was a one percent or less chance of this happening to someone who got shot with this bullet, and most likely you would die pulling a trigger. The bullet would just kill you in almost every other case. "Also, from what I understand from what people have told me in the past, the memory bullet's side effect was more of a joke than anyone else. But what if I knew it wasn't a joke and believed it was real?", Natsumi thought.
"It's quite possible I managed to pull it off… Damm, that's probably what happened, I have the devil's luck! There's also a one percent chance that I manipulated my genetics in a specific way.", Natsumi thought. "My skillset isn't being a chemist anymore though, I'm a multivariate weapons specialist, with extremely fast reflexes. Due to the fact I shot myself with the bullet, the joke claims that if you shoot yourself in the head right, you can get the fastest reflexes for shooting in the entire world, you will also pick up learning how to use weapons faster than any Youkai or human being. My skills partially in using chemical formulas to kill Youkai have also transferred over. All of my strategic tactics that I use to kill Youkai in the past are in my brain.", Natsumi thought.
"I'm not in a bad place, but I'm not in a good place either. Normally I'd stay low, and live a normal life. However, the coat I possess which is imbedded in my brain can tame the sentient source of fuel, yet it is also more dangerous than the fuel source itself. The coat itself isn't whole; it's scattered. If it isn't brought together eventually within a couple decades time it will destroy the whole universe. Many people in the galactic government have no interest in maintaining disposing the bomb safely, as they believe they'll get the coat first and they don't know about the expiration date. I could just give my piece of the coat and get it over with.", Natsumi thought.
"Just what is the galactic government exactly? I keep using the term almost subconsciously without thinking too much about it.", Natsumi pondered. The definition flashed in Natsumi's brain, "Well, the galactic government is a governing body that was established to fight off the Youkai, which have spread throughout the galaxy. They threaten all sentient life that live on the several different planets and plan to destroy everything, if they are not stopped soon. The government is composed of representatives from four different continents: Asian continent, European continent, Antarctic continent, and the Americas. Each leader had their own directive and their own thoughts that they wanted to be guided in." The scene being witnessed was beautiful, imagine being hit with lightning and after being hit with lightning, you come up with a new idea. This was the moment Natsumi had that definition flash over.
"There is one problem though, how could I give my piece of the coat back, without being killed by the government? There is no doubt in my mind, they're not going to let me out alive. The people in charge of this government run the Grand Unified Physics University and would much rather kill me, than anything else. If I could just return the coat to Chiyuri or someone in her position of power, then I can return back to normal. Yet, I feel something is missing…", Natsumi reflected on this.
Natsumi's memories quickly changed and the house she was in shifted into the house burning along with Lilac being burned to death. Then the house started bursting into flames, the outside scenery looked like absolute death everywhere. The world had changed, how could Natsumi forget? While, she may not care about revenge nor her legacy, as that was illogical to her. The only thing that mattered where the scientific achievements that were made, while she was alive. That day, Chiyuri engulfed the entire town that they lived in a burning inferno. The entire town burned with all the men, women, and children dying there. Chiyuri then captured the souls of the townspeople and sent them all to hell. "At the very least, I must try to free them.", Natsumi thought. Natsumi could still remember all of the women and men that were tortured and killed. Afterwards their soul was captured. Chiyuri went after the ones Natsumi had a secret relationship with first and then went for the people who were indirectly related to them. This resulted in the whole town burning.
"To free them, I can't give away the piece of my coat that I have. For, the coat will be a bargaining chip that I can trade to the government to procure certain items that I will need to get their souls back. Given how long these items last, they can only be used one time and will continue to be that way for a long time.", Natsumi was spinning with her thoughts.
"Although, I feel like my hands were a little rusty, before I died, I managed to get one of my clones to retrieve a piece of the coat which I now have imbedded in my brain. This is only made itself possible by the fact that it froze itself, in a pillar of ice. When one of my clones freeze itself in a pillar of ice, it allows the clone to transfer an item that it possess someone else. The item that the clone is holding, while being frozen is then merely an afterimage of the item.", Natsumi pondered.
As Natsumi pondered her memories showed Lilac being burned to death and suddenly shrinking in body size. Lilac then unexpectedly touched Natsumi; Natsumi was shocked. "This was still her flashbacks was it not, then why is she able to touch him?", Natsumi thought. Lilac then tugged his shoulder and said, "Do you know I am?".
Natsumi thought this was error of some sort and ignored her. But she then bit her ear. It wasn't an illusion for sure. "I don't know who you are little one.", Natsumi lied.
The girl gave a long stare and said, "Okay". "Enough, I no longer want to see any more memories now, what happens next is too painful for me to reexperience.", Natsumi shouted. With that, the flashbacks ended. To Natsumi, this was a fairy that she must save, nothing more nothing less. She was once her lover and now she was reduced to this state. At the very least, she could give her a new life.
Yes, everything was clear now. More important than her life, she must save the souls of those who perished in the town, nothing else mattered. Perhaps, she could save the other people whose souls got trapped by Chiyuri.