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LAKE CHUZENJI

H-Hey!

I did it! It's a kokanee salmon!

I've never seen a real one before!

Airi!

I caught a kokanee salmon!

Looks delicious!

I'm hearing a high-pitched sound.

All right! Here comes another one!

Who is that?

Hey.

A rainbow trout this time!

We can compare them at dinner!

The sound...

is gone.

TOURING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

#11 YOSHIMI HUNDRED CAVES

The Irohazaka Slope was fun,

and the Kegon Falls was thrilling to see, wasn't it?

It was.

The fish from Lake Chuzenji sure were yummy.

They were.

And Senjogahara...

There was nothing there.

It was vast and not much else, huh?

But, hey, Nikko starts and ends with...

TOSHOGU

Nikko Toshogu Shrine!

Whoa! The gatekeeper looks super mad!

Huh? This one's all beat up, too, but it sure is shiny, huh?

Since gold doesn't rust.

Hey, look, Airi! That's it!

See no evil.

Speak no evil.

DOLL YOURSELF UP

Doll yourself up!

Huh?

Awesome! Huge success!

Don't tell me you had this outfit ready just to pull off this joke?

Hey! Found the stamp, too!

DIGITAL STAMP RALLY NIKKO

SCAN THE CODE DIGITAL STAMP RALLY NIKKO

DIGITAL STAMP RALLY

There were tons of sights to see, huh?

No wonder it's a major tourist spot!

Huh? Airi?

Hey, Yoko...

I'd like to stop by someplace.

What? So unusual!

Where? Where? Where do you want to go?

Um... I can't really say where.

That way.

That way?

Over that way.

There's something over there that I need to see.

That's really vague.

I thought I might have heard something coming from over there yesterday.

What? What do you mean?

I love it! Feels like something neat is about to happen!

We have to check it out!

Show me the way to what caught your attention!

I'm on it.

THAT WAY

That way?

THAT WAY

That way.

Hmm? I'm pretty sure this area is...

What are you looking for?

I'm not really sure myself, but since we're close by,

I thought we could take a break and stop by.

Was it this way?

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

Come on, let's go!

Let's go!

Found it!

That's probably it!

What is it?

The boundary of three prefectures!

GUNMA

SAITAMA TOCHIGI

Big Sis posted about it on the Touringram.

It's where the borders of Tochigi, Gunma, and Saitama meet.

Apparently, this tripoint is unusual,

because you can walk over it on level ground.

Since normally you'll find them in the mountains or rivers.

Is that all?

That's all.

It doesn't really click, does it?

Nope.

Hey, I know!

Let's try to divine the direction you're drawn to!

Compass divining!

Gotcha.

Hey...

Tochig—

No, Gunma?

- Whoa. - What?

The sound.

I can hear that sound again.

Huh? I can't hear a thing.

Ultrasound.

It's a really high-pitched tone, so you might not be able to perceive it.

Is it the same thing you were talking about

when you said, "I think I heard something"?

Yeah. It's getting closer.

Oh... the sound is gone.

That way.

It feels like there might be something over there.

Hey! Look!

The divining rod is pointing in the same direction!

Saitama, huh?

What is it that's calling to you, Airi?

Is it just your imagination?

Or maybe some kind of trap?

Or could it be that something's waiting for us?

I love it! I'm getting so pumped up!

We're going to find out what's going on!

Yeah!

More that way?

MORE THAT WAY

More that way.

WIDEST RIVER IN JAPAN ARAKAWA

THAT WAY?

That way?

THIS WAY?

This way?

LUMINOUS MOSS HABITAT YOSHIMI HUNDRED CAVES

Hey, it might be to the right.

Okay!

Wow! What on Earth is this?

Whoa.

The mountain's riddled with holes!

It's like it's been chewed up by insects!

That's the Yoshimi Hundred Caves site.

Hundred Caves?

Seems like it's also known as Hundred Holes.

Hundred Holes is easier to say, huh?

It's pretty obvious that there's something here.

This has to be where you wanted to go, Airi!

I'm not really sure.

But I have a feeling that this is it.

Yee-haw! Looks like fun!

Let's start exploring right away!

Hey, it's a dead end.

Looks like a room.

Huh? Is the moss glowing?

IS THE MOSS GLOWING?

That's luminous moss.

The cells refract light,

so the reflections make it look like it's lit up.

So it's not like it's actually glowing!

Looks like we can go all the way inside this one.

Excuse us! Coming in!

Ohh, it's chilly in here!

I wonder why they dug all these holes?

What if it's really a nest for some gigantic bug?

FLINCH POKE

No such thing exists.

Y-You gave me a heart attack!

The walls back there have collapsed, so it's dangerous.

YOSHIMI TOWN BURIED CULTURAL CENTER HANDS-ON SEMINARS MAKE MAGATAMA MAKE HANIWA

The Yoshimi Hundred Caves are tunnel tombs

that were built in the sixth century, during the Kofun period.

I see, so they're ancient graves!

The site was also used as a munitions factory during the Pacific War.

Oh, really?

Before it collapsed and became dangerous,

it was also featured in movies and TV shows.

IT'S SO COOL AND FEELS SO GOOD

It's so cool and feels so good!

So cool!

All right, let's spend the night here!

But it's a gravesite.

That was in ancient times, and the ghosts are all dead by now.

Wait a second, are you freaking out?

You're the one who freaked out.

I-I didn't freak out!

Okay, then it's settled!

TOURING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

TOURING AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

ICHINOKAWA LET'S KEEP THE RIVER CLEAN SAITAMA PREFECTURE

I can hear it.

Yoko, wake up.

I can hear the sound again.

Wake up.

No good.

I'm done. Can't eat anymore.

Yoko.

Ow!

Abeshi...

YOSHIMI TOWN BURIED CULTURAL CENTER HANDS-ON SEMINARS MAKE MAGATAMA MAKE HANIWA

This way.

I can feel it getting closer.

You're the one who called me.

No, guess not, huh?

What?

Maybe I'll go back and wake up Yoko?

What's going on?

What is this?

It's pitch-dark.

The light's not reflecting at all.

I can't even tell if it's flat or three-dimensional.

Or is it a hole, maybe?

Yoko would touch it, for sure.

On second thought, I'm gonna head back and talk to Yoko.

Hold on! If you go in there...

I have to...

Yoko! Yoko, wake up!

Yoko!

Huh? What?

What?

Is this...

outer space?

So you survived, too?

There's air in here.

Is this...

What's that?

Oh!

I can hear something...

inside my mind.

Ah, I see.

I get it.

Yes, that's right.

My name is Airi.

Who are you?

A faraway planet somewhere...

Is this Earth from a long time ago?

What? 1,500 years ago?

Amazing!

I want to show this to Yoko!

Whoa!

Hmm?

Huh? I came out from a different hole.

A-A-Airi?

I'm Airi.

You were gone when I woke up, so I left the hole to look for you!

But if you're coming out of that hole now—

What's going on here?

Where in the world were you?

Huh?

Outer space.

Huh?

I was back before I knew it.

Listen... I'm being serious now, okay?

Totally serious.

MEOW

You were half-asleep and dreaming, weren't you?

I'm not you, Yoko.

In other words...

when you went into the hole, you ended up in outer space

and spoke to an alien, is that it?

Yes, that's right.

That hole might have been a teleportation device.

But unlike in the movies, I didn't see any spaceships or aliens.

It came straight inside my mind.

Not a voice, but I understood it clearly.

Oh? So what did you talk about with the alien?

You don't believe me, do you?

I heard all kinds of things.

Like how they first came to Earth around 1,500 years ago

and what they did while they were here.

They said that they built these Hundred Caves along with humans.

The aliens did that?

Seems like there were other things, too,

but this is probably the only one left now.

So they summoned you because they wanted to show you this?

Back then, civilization on Earth was still primitive,

so they couldn't really converse.

The fact that they were from another planet was totally lost on them.

Right.

And so they decided to wait until civilization had evolved a bit more.

They figured that humans would be at the same level after 1,500 years or so.

But when they arrived after waiting for 1,500 years...

humankind had...

If only they had come a little sooner.

But they also said that civilization was still in the midst of evolving.

In the midst?

They said that you and I were one possibility of the future.

Oh, really? Possibility?

What does that mean?

I don't know.

PERCH

What are you doing?

Airi, you went to outer space from this hole, right?

So I'm going, too!

Probably not.

I only went there because I was summoned.

No fair! No fair! No fair!

Why did you go off by yourself?

I want to go to outer space, too!

I want to talk to an alien, too!

BUT I DID WAKE YOU UP

I know! I might be able to go from a different hole!

This one?

Doesn't go.

How about this one?

Or maybe...

Oh, darn! I can't go!

Why are you going up by bike?

Since the alien came all this way to visit Earth,

I'm going to show them what we're capable of!

Watch me conquer the last 1,500 years on my Serow!

If you can, please show me outer space, too, Mr. Alien!

So you're doing this to show that you want to go to outer space, aren't you?

Introduction of Buddhism...

the Taika Reform...

Some say that there never was a Taika Reform.

1,500 years ago!

The capital was transferred to Heijo-kyo!

Todai-ji Temple was built!

And we entered the Heian period!

At last, it's the Kamakura period!

"Let's build a good country"— Year 1192!

Hey, I know!

MEOW

OH

They say that it's more likely that it was established in 1185, not 1192.

Big Sis taught us that, right?

800 years ago...

700 years ago...

The Nanboku-cho period!

We reached the Muromachi period!

In 1543, the introduction of firearms!

And 500 years ago!

Yoko!

Whoops! The era threw up a roadblock, huh?

I guess I wouldn't be allowed to climb up just like that!

I'll help out, too.

In 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara!

The Edo period!

In 1853, the Perry Expedition!

The Meiji era... civilization and enlightenment!

Taisho Democracy! Showa...

war...

rapid economic growth... and...

present day!

POW!

CLAP CLAP

I did it! I've reached the top!

I've climbed up 1,500 years' worth of history!

Yay!

MEOW!

There!

Hey, Airi, do you think that people from back then

and the aliens could have imagined that I'd climb up here on my Serow?

No way.

I know, right?

No one can imagine what the future will hold in 1,500 years!

I wonder if the alien was disappointed after all?

Yoko.

Y-Yeah.

Bye-bye!

They said, "Let's meet up again right here in 100 years."

If you live a long life, Yoko, you'll get to see them again, too.

C-Close Encounters of the Third Kind...