Well now we're all sad, except Togami or is he

[refusedtoleave]

[Once they've all left the court room, Natsuhi doesn't go back to her room. She stays in the cafeteria and starts up the espresso machine. She's making coffee and lots of it, it's bitter and honestly not very nice, but it's got plenty of caffeine in. Prefect for pulling an allnighter.

Just before dinner, the remaining Champions will get a note shoved through their doors.]

Dinner is going to be served soon.
We need to prepare a suitable ceremony.

Comments

[ratherdoweddings]

Or we'd have a mutiny and more problems.

[refusedtoleave]

They'd react that badly? I really hope there's noone else left who'll just change one day and we don't have time to notice.

[ratherdoweddings]

You never know with people who value their individuality. And that's us for sure!

[refusedtoleave]

Even in times like this... I can't say I'm used to being surrounded by people.

[ratherdoweddings]

Does that mean you live somewhere remote?

[refusedtoleave]

An island. What about you? Are you from a city?

[ratherdoweddings]

I've moved around a lot, but when I was a kid, my father was stationed at the Utopia Colony on Mars.

[refusedtoleave]

On Mars? [Just give her a moment.] ...Is that normal where you're from?

[ratherdoweddings]

It was. Now with the war... No one lives there anymore.

[refusedtoleave]

So you had to evacuate. Where did you go?

[ratherdoweddings]

I moved back to Earth a long time before the Jovians came. But most people didn't survive that, and the ones who did stayed hidden... [sigh] The Nadesico's mission was to retrieve them, but we failed.

[refusedtoleave]

...You weren't able to find them?

[ratherdoweddings]

We could, but we... I led the Jovian fleet right to them. We were boxed into a corner, and I could only save my crew and the one survivor we already had on board.

[refusedtoleave]

...You managed to save one of them and get your people out of there.

[ratherdoweddings]

It was the only thing I could do.

[refusedtoleave]

if you did all you could, then there's no reason to feel guilty.

[ratherdoweddings]

Even with that, it was my mistake in the first place. ...but thank you, Ushiromiya-san.

[refusedtoleave]

[Making people feel better is hard.]

What over options did you have? Not look for them and leave them to starve when they ran out of supplies?