End of the World: [Video, Midday, Day 12]

[kazeninaru]

[There's a fully transformed Sailor Uranus on the video feed, everybody. Did you miss her? She missed you.... There's a backdrop of the ship wall behind her, and she appears to be walking briskly down a corridor. She is looking pretty unhappy about life. Or maybe just some of the people in it.]

Has anyone else died since I died? Where is Chime? Has been stopped?

[Since Chime is the only murderer she knows about, for sure, that's obviously the one she's asking about.]

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[voice]

[galacticheroine]

...Guess that confirms the ship's life support back-up still working.

[Exhaustion is pretty evident in Shepard's voice. She clears her throat, in an attempt to reply to Haruka's questions]

Headcount's gotten pretty unreliable. Is Chime responsible for what happened to you?

[Video still]

[kazeninaru]

He killed me, the bastard. Back-killing bastard.

[She's still angry about that, obviously.]

Is he around? Alive? Captured?

[voice]

[galacticheroine]

I haven't seen him come or go, but I've been trying to maintain the perimeter.

[Video]

[kazeninaru]

Someone has to. I will see if I can find him. And capture him, or kill him.

[The bastard.]

Anything else happen? Aside from this annoying warning about evacuation.

[voice]

[galacticheroine]

The oasis surrounding the perimeter of the ship that we used to use for a "safe zone" is shrinking inwards. No idea what the hell is causing that.

[Video]

[kazeninaru]

Same thing that causes the rifts maybe?

[It's only a guess. If Mercury or Pluto were here, they'd have an answer for her, but they're not.]

More likely the thing that the ship is counting down for. It's still doing that....

[voice]

[galacticheroine]

Yeah. Something about this "timeline collapse." Things just keep getting better.

[Video]

[kazeninaru]

Well, shit.

[The swear is in Japanese, of course. She's picked up English ones since her arrival here, but she likes her own language better.]

I guess we had best figure out how to stop it, or how to get out of here. Or be ready for the end, whatever it is.