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Let's see.

We came from that direction...

GULP GULP GULP

so now we're at the Kashiwa...

Fujigaya intersection, I guess?

Kashiwa?

Mm.

Could it be nearby?

We can't be stopped by the grass blocking our way.

Come on, let's go!

Let's go.

Found it!

Huh?

TOURING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

#07 TSUKUBA

NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SHRINE

What did you wish for?

I wished that we could keep touring.

I wished that this beautiful world

would last even one day, one hour, one minute, or one second longer!

And also, also..

Greedy girl!

Well, but there are so many things I want to ask for!

What did you wish for?

NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SHRINE

The same as you. Also...

I wished that I could be with you forever, Yoko.

Right!

NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SHRINE

Purification complete!

Spick and span.

What did you wish for, Airi?

I want some pudding.

Hey, me, too!

WORLD PEACE SAKURA

LET ME KEEP TOURING WITH YOKO WHEREVER SHE GOES AIRI

How about you, Yoko?

That's a secret!

LET ME KEEP TOURING WITH AIRI FOREVER! YOKO

No fair.

"Tsu" is for "tsukune" (chicken meatballs)

"Ku" is for "cookie"

"Ba" is for "battera"

What song is that?

It's a song that I wrote, the "Tsukuba Song"!

What's battera again?

Pressed mackerel sushi?

What's pressed sushi? You press the mackerel?

I don't know, since I've never eaten it before.

"Tsu" is for "tsumire" (fish balls)

There's a second verse?

"Ku" is for "croque-monsieur"

You got classy all of a sudden.

"Ba" is for...

Again, it's for "battera"

Huh?

And this is...

"Tsu" stands for "Tsukuba's Arc of Triumph"

Just kidding!

What's this?

This is the Science Gate.

The suspended balls inside depict, from different angles,

the faces of four scientists.

Apparently.

What?

If you look at it from the east, it's Edison.

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!

From the south, it's Newton.

Universal gravitation!

I want an apple!

I want one, too.

From the west, it's Archimedes.

Eureka!

From the north, it's Galileo.

And yet the Earth moves!

Wow, this is great!

But why? What's a Science Gate?

"You can't teach anybody anything,

only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

What's that?

A Galileo quote.

Don't hold out on me! Just tell me!

This is the memorial park for the former World Expo site.

World Expo? So there should be—

Huh? What? Nope.

Hmm? I don't see it.

Did it break down?

What are you looking for, anyway?

When you hear the word "Expo"... this is what comes to mind, right?

ART IS AN EXPLOSION!!

SLAP

That's the Osaka World Expo.

Huh? Osaka?

Wow, amazing! So pretty!

The Tower of the Sun is at the Expo Commemoration Park in Suita, Osaka.

It was built for the Japan World Expo,

a.k.a. the Osaka World Expo, held in 1970.

Oh, I see, so not here.

As for the Tsukuba World Expo...

WORLD SCIENCE EXPO - TSUKUBA '85

Officially known as the International Science Technology Exposition,

a.k.a. the Science Expo, Tsukuba '85.

it was held in 1985, so the era and themes were totally different.

Also, expos have been held in Osaka three times,

as well as in Okinawa and Aichi.

The Science Gate was built to commemorate the hosting of that Science Expo.

Science Expo, huh?

I thought all World Expos were the same.

Cheese!

Yoko, is this the right way?

Huh? Why do you ask?

It seems like we passed the address in the email.

What? But I think we're on the right track.

Where are we?

What do you mean? This is the research facility

Big Sis was talking about, isn't it?

I knew it. It's totally not.

What?

Because it's more to the south.

Oh, no, I've been going the wrong way!

You were zooming along without checking the map,

so I thought you knew where you were going.

I was so sure that it was this way.

I wonder why, though?

For some reason, it seemed familiar.

I'm going to look at the map as I drive!

Airi, be my navigator.

I'm on it.

Keep going straight 'til the next traffic light.

Okay! I have to say, though...

Tsukuba's got a lot of buildings shaped like big boxes, huh?

They're all probably some kind of research institute or university.

According to the database from 2010s,

Tsukuba was home to around 300 research organizations.

The number of Ph.D. holders was approximately 8,000,

so people said, "Throw a rock, and you'll hit a professor."

That was the city's reputation.

Really?

So no wonder it was known as the Science City.

Huh? Look, Airi!

What's that?

What a gigantic pencil!

It's a rocket.

A rocket?

Precisely speaking, it's a full-scale model of the H2 rocket.

So this is our destination.

This place?

The building next door has existed since the Expo,

and apparently there are science technology exhibits there,

as well as the world's largest planetarium.

A planetarium?

Sounds like fun!

Let's go exploring when we're done!

Awesome photos!

The email says, "The entrance to the lab is the pay phone under the rocket."

Pay phone?

That must be it, right?

Huh? This is a phone?

There used to be a lot of them all over Japan.

It's huge!

Like, a hundred times bigger than my smartphone!

An ancient relic.

We go in from here?

So what do we do now?

I've never used a pay phone before.

This is where the email ends.

Hmm?

I guess we call someone?

Do you know how to use it?

I know how to use it, but I don't know the number.

HUH...

Hmm.

- Whoa! - Oof.

T-T-Talk about shocking!

Yoko, pick up the receiver.

Huh? What? The receiver?

- That. - This?

H-Hello?

Yoko, it's upside down.

Ohh!

Hello? This is Yoko.

Whoa!

AUTHENTICATED

Voice authentication.

We have confirmed a 99.8% match.

Huh? Wh-What?

- Whoa! - Oh.

TOURING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

LET ME KEEP TOURING WITH AIRI FOREVER! YOKO

TOURING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

LET ME KEEP TOURING WITH YOKO WHEREVER SHE GOES AIRI

So it was an elevator all along, huh?

Extremely deep.

We will now start the disinfection process.

Huh?

Hey! We're getting sprayed!

What is this? My eyes are stinging!

Look at this, Yoko.

Huh?

There's a place like this underneath the rocket?

Wow!

I guess that means, "Come in"?

Hello?

Is anyone here?

Doesn't seem like anyone's been here in a while.

You think it'll open?

It opened!

Huh? Wow!

This place is huge!

It kind of looks like our own shelter, doesn't it?

This place is clean.

Confirming vital signs.

Yoko, Airi, welcome to the Tsukuba Research Facility.

We have been waiting for you.

We have been asked to service Airi, the AI-Re06 model.

Hello! Who are you?

Did you hear about us from Big Sis?

And now let us begin.

Please follow the instructions and proceed promptly.

Huh? I guess she can't hear my voice?

Mm.

Hey! A secret door?

Airi, please enter Room A-46.

Mm.

See you later!

Yeah.

So I guess I should wait here?

- Yoko. - Huh?

Please enter Room Y-21.

What, there's a waiting room, too?

That's so thoughtful!

Okay, I'll wait in there!

Huh? Is this an exam room?

And now we will begin the health checkup.

Please remove your clothes and lie down on the table.

Huh? But why? I'm fine.

Please remove your clothes and lie down on the table.

Right, she can't hear what I'm saying.

Whatever.

I know I'm healthy.

The machine will begin operating.

Please lie still and don't move.

I haven't felt this way in ages.

Yoko, Airi, you two can go as far as you want.

Somewhere along the way, I nodded off.

Huh? It's quiet now.

Is my exam over?

Good morning.

Your health checkup is over.

Oh, I knew it.

As for the results, all is well.

You are extremely healthy.

See? Didn't I tell you?

Now I'm all set!

Is Airi done with her checkup, too?

Thank you for your patience.

Hey, I can go into another room!

All right!

Explore, discover, adventure, research facility!

Huh?

Whoa!

I knew it, I'm outside!

H-Hey, hold up a second!

We haven't explored anything yet!

And it looked so interesting!

Hello? Hello?

It's useless, huh?

So once they're done with us, it's "Be on your way."

- Yoko - Huh?

A-Airi got modified!

POP

What took you so long?

Look how late it is now!

How did it go?

It was over right away. I was waiting for you.

What? Sorry!

See, I ended up getting checked out myself,

and it felt so good that I crashed for a while.

Wait, never mind me! What about you?

Are you all healed up?

Mm.

They said they were able to fix my glitch.

And there's nothing else wrong with me physically.

Really?

Thank goodness!

So now we can go on touring without any worries, right?

No worries.

And since I had some time to kill, I went into the building next door.

What?

PUMMEL PUMMEL PUMMEL

No fair!

And I found this on the floor inside.

Cool, huh?

I wanted to go there, too!

But it wasn't that great, you know.

No lights, so you can't do anything,

and it was probably too dark for you to see anything.

Even still, I was looking forward to it!

Let's go again! Okay? Okay?

Well, I don't see why not.

Oh.

Look what I found!

Space food?

Though they're for souvenir use.

It says that they're not what the astronauts actually ate.

Well, who cares? Let's eat!

Thanks for this meal!

Yummy!

Pretty good.

What flavor do you have, Airi?

Strawberry ice cream.

Strawberry ice cream?

Mine's takoyaki!

Let's trade, okay?

Sure.

So crunchy! Really neat texture!

Even though it's not cold, it still tastes like strawberry ice cream!

Takoyaki, yum.

To think that we can eat these in outer space.

Humans sure are amazing!

The power of science.

And even with our feet on the ground, we can feel as if we've been in space!

Yeah. We sure can.

I know!

Cheese!

Let's make today Space Food Commemoration Day!

Okay.

- Huh? - Hmm?

THERE ARE UPDATES AVAILABLE.

What on earth is this?

A Touringram update?

When did we get this? We're out of range, right?

It could be that the research facility had reception.

THERE ARE UPDATES AVAILABLE.

THE UPDATE HAS BEEN COMPLETED.

"Notice of expanded feature."

"You can now use the stamp rally function offline."

Stamp rally?

BIG SIS 1 EMAIL MESSAGE

It's a message from Big Sis.

DEAR YOKO AND AIRI...

Dear Yoko and Airi.

Have you been having a smooth trip?

Regarding Airi's error, I know I caused you some worry.

Sorry about that.

And though this isn't really by way of apology...

"...I've enhanced a Touringram feature.

I hope you'll give it a try."

Hear that?

What's a stamp rally?

YOU CAN NOW USE THE STAMP RALLY FUNCTION OFFLINE.

You know, those things Big Sis used to collect!

STAMP RALLY IS IN THE BOTTOM MENU TO ACCESS AND COLLECT STAMPS!

Did she really do that?

In the Touringram app, we can only see Big Sis's journal now,

but she told me that there used to be tons of features.

You could log your routes using GPS,

and by linking the stamp rally feature to your map,

you could also check where all the stamp locations were.

Oh, really?

But since it was Big Sis who was writing the journal,

her stamps are all from the places she visited.

Meaning...

Hey, there's a spot nearby.

Kasumigaura!

Want to go?

Yeah!

Our next destination!

All right! So we'll spend the night here, and tomorrow, it's off to Kasumigaura!

Yeah!

This is our first time at a planetarium, right?

Not that they'll be showing us anything.

Looking up at the stars from your seat! How surreal is this place?

Planetariums rock!

Though the starry sky is real.

But I'm sure it's just as beautiful.

Research facility...

Huh?

Since it looked like our shelter,

didn't you think for a second that someone might be around?

Yeah.

But no one was.

You think there are other research facilities?

No idea.

I wonder where Big Sis is?

No idea.

Of course not, right?

Hey, look!

That bright star is moving! It's a satellite!

You don't think someone might be onboard, do you?

Just kidding.

There might be.

Since there actually was a space station.

LET'S EXPLORE THE COSMOS!

Countries from all over the world collaborated to build a space colony,

ANSWERS TO THE TWO MAIN QUESTIONS ABOUT THE COMPLETION OF THE LUNAR BASE!

and there was a lunar base.

And they might have even built an orbital elevator near the equator.

CONSTRUCTION OF ORBITAL ELEVATOR BEGINS

I see. So humans did venture into space, too.

You never know, someone may be watching us from up there!

It could happen here in Tsukuba.

I'd love to go to space someday.

Hey!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are