Chapter: Cycle of Instability
Iruru: You got in a fight with Hatsumi...?
Nikako: I didn't mean to get in a fight with her...! IT just somehow ended up like a fight...!
Nikako: I just got caught up in the moment, Daa-chan seemed uncomfortable, and thought I had to do something about the current state of Eden...!
Iruru: Current state of Eden? Did something happen?
Nikako: It seems like everyone is on edge. Even Shigure-chan seems a little down...
Nikako: Everything is a bit off~!
Nikako: So I thought that I had to do something, and went to speak with Ren-san. But she wouldn't listen and told me to leave if I didn't like it...
Iruru: Ohhh...
Nikako: What should I do...?
Iruru; A similar thing had happened in the past, but why did this happen with you? She even went out and scouted you.
Iruru: The members back then are completely different to Nikako.
Nikako: I was surprised too... I never thought that I would say something like that to Ren-san...
Nikako: If I quit, I'm going to have tyo go back to Aogashima... And my short happy city high school girl life will...
Iruru: Hold on, hold, on, it's not going to end that easily!
Iruru: Hmmm... I totally get that theres something strange going on with Hatsumi. She's usually able to speak freely with me, something must be going on.
Nikako: Umm.... When are you planning to come back to Eden? You don't plan to quit at this rate, do you?
Iruru: Ahaha. When indeed. I still haven't decided~.
Iruru: Well, with what just happened, I don't think Hatsumi really meant it~.
Iruru: She's got high expectations for you, you can tell just by look at her. I think she just splurted taht out in the pur of the moment.
Nikako: But... I got her really mad. There's a performance tomorrow, I don't even know how I should be feeling going into tomorrow.
Iruru: Just be nonchalant about it. She only said "leave if I didn't like it". Surely she didn't mean for you to actually leave.
Iruru: No matter how much she says it, you don't have to stand for it. You still have a lot to learn about this world.
Nikako: ... This is hard.
Iruru: Haha. Well, thats one of the good point about you. It's getting late, lets go home. I take you back partway.
Nikako: Haaah... I don't think I'll be able to sleep properly tonight.
Iruru: Don't get all depressed about it. It's time like this where you should look up.
Iruru: See the stars? They're really rpetty tonight.
Nikako: Ahh, they really are! Amazing...!
Iruru: It really is. To be able to see them in the city like this. They're super bright.
Niako: Right?
Nikako: Hmm... Is that Saturn over there?
Iruru: I'm amazed you know that.
Iruru: Can you even see that from here?
Nikako: Yep! Because that's south there I think. And you can see the rings around it.
Iruru: I see.
Iruru: Those rings are very pretty, it's like the old picture books.
Nikako: It's very strange isn't it! You can see them because sun's reflection of light it seems.
Nikako: But... It seems they only exist because of the shepherd moons.
Iruru: Shepherd moons?
Nikako: Yep. There are moons contained in the rings. They rotate around Saturn.
Nikako: The Rings are mostly made up of ice and dust, but thanks to the gravity of the stars around it, its able to hold the ring's shape.
Iruru: I see. The shepherd moons, huh... The more you know.
Nikako: Yep. Like Prometheus and Pandora.
Nikako: They're kinda like Irurun.
Iruru: Eh?
Nikako: I think that the shepherd are like Irurun.
Nikako: Ren-san is Saturn, and the ring is everyone in Eden, and for the ring to shape we need Irurun to hold everything together.
Iruru: ...
Nikako: Maybe, it's just better to head back