Senku sat outside the coronary care unit with Chrome.
"The crystal Kuri was talking about..." Senku said. "It fell from the sky the day he found the comet. The crystal grew with amazing speed. It was clearly an unknown crystal. The unknown crystal's elements caused Kuri to see hallucinations. That crystal is dangerous."
"Snow Kaguya..." Chrome said. "The comet's name... Oh my..." He sat onto the couch. "It wasn't a hallucination, Senku," he said.
"You might not be able to believe this," said Senku, "but it's an invader. And it's from that comet."
"An invader... Could it be that unknown life form?" Chrome asked.
"The crystal could be a part of it as well. Kuri might have been targeted... She might be attacked again. We should deal with that crystal."
"That can't be..." Chrome says. "Kuri is being targeted by the unknown life form?"
"It's not just Kuri," said Senku. "This planet could be being targeted too. Kuri..." He thinks of Kuri.
"The point where the comet Princess Snow Kaguya vanished." Chrome held onto the crystal piece.
"Who's there!?" said the spirit. "You people are standing in the way of my path!"
She rose up out of the crystal and growled at them.
"You made it appear that it vanished," Senku said, "and you've been hiding it! What do you want!? Invader! Get out of here now and leave Kuri alone!"
He threw an acidic compound at her but it had no effect. Chrome tried something too, but to no avail.
"Hahaha!" the spirit said. "You fools are like babies! What can you do!" She knocked the two back. "Hahaha!" .
"I thought that I'd slowly hide this planet," she said. "Now with the energy of my three and a half billion years alone, I will cover this planet. This planet is mine."
The spirit vanished, it's host body destroyed by the acid. So it had worked! Senku fell on the floor.
"The comet hasn't vanished!" said Senku. "Snow Kaguya is aimed at this planet! If it continues on that course, it'll collide with Earth! The planet is in danger!"
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Senku walked to the space development building. "The invader... I can't believe it's an alien... That it attacked Kuri..." He went inside.
"Senku!" a man called. "There's a message from the director at NASA! The goal of the 24-day flight of the space shuttle Serenity has been changed! You've been chosen for the crew, Senku!"
Chrome sat up in bed as the television showed a picture of the flight's crew, which now included Senku. "This will be the first flight for the new member of the crew, the Japanese astronaut, Senku Senku," the reporter said.
"He will be the youngest Japanese man to be an astronaut..."
"Senku..." Chrome whispered as he watched the newscast.
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Kuri stared at the picture of the crew on TV.
A tear fell.
