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For this release, I wrote Trilogy mini sci-fi story for a PDF that only Bandcamp buyers can DL. But as it’s been almost two years, I’m going to post them here with Japanese translation.
Each story is dedicated to one of the three songs on the EP, but in total it is one story, like a film. Fabien Le Roy (Foobzipatham), a good friend of Blue Planet Corporation and French translation advisor for the science fiction novel ‘ Dune ‘ by Frank Harvard, provided editorial advice.
Congas Atlas Debt EP Conceptual story Written by SUPERCOZI 2020 Nov Editorial advisor : Fabien Le Roy ( Fougzypatam ) Listen to full EP : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvOIKk2h4OQ
それぞれの物語はシングル収録の3曲に捧げられていますが、トータルとして映画のような1つの物語になっています。ブループラネット・コーポレーションの親友であり、フランク・ハーバード著のSF小説「Dune」のフランス人翻訳アドバイザーであるFabien Le Roy氏（Foobzipatham）が編集アドバイスをしてくれました。
Congas Atlas – Conceptual-Trilogy-Story
1 – Into The Wild
Year 2XXX on Earth. The story began with her familiar dream – Tropical jungle, echoing sound of birds and monkeys, and an enormous abandoned metallic cocoon in the morning mist … But every time her hand almost touches the entering button, she awakes with an overwhelmingly nostalgic feeling.
So after having the same dream, It was another grim rainy grey morning for Masumi, an experimental prototype replicant girl, to find herself again in a tiny recharge capsule.
Masumi has a smooth pale coloured skin and almond shaped brown eyes and shoulder length curly black hair which her creator copied from his daughter who was killed in a surreal accident during archaeological site research.
Site was once called Zacca 33 in ancient time where functioned as a base specialized in cryptocurrency mining, also was secretly developing Dahara, a portal gate to other realm. But when ancient civilisation went down, Dacca 33 site was abandon and then jungle swallowed it up as the earth’s surface temperature rose aggressively.
Now Zacca 33 was entirely covered by luminous toxic moss that grows up eating radiation from dozen of crippled nuclear plants that scattered around in the nearly destroyed continent.
Far away from Zacca 33, Masumi lived in CORAL – Where the neon color residential micro-spheres layers up vertically, and thousand of layers were stretched out to the horizon. From the outside, it may looks pretty but each sphere was closely monitored by AI government Quantum 9 and living condition were dark and suffocative. CORAL was protecting humans and replicants both from still-deadly radiation for hundreds of years after the catastrophic event caused by a radical pole shift.
CORAL was sustaining itself with Xavda technology which the constant activity by artificial synapses were the essential source of energy. In CORAL, nearly all humans were considered as replaceable commodity except for a few shameless traitors who sought to deprive humans of their power. Xavda extraction and system operation were largely conducted by replicants who also will be terminated after the certain usage time. But Quantum 9 had been successfully created a deep division between humans and replicants even both side of them were only exist to sustain the system. Masumi never went outside of this draining eco-system as long as her memory chip can trace back.
One fateful morning, Masumi was approached by Veck, a human resistance who’s belong to an organisation that fights with Quantum 9 to change the ongoing system. Veck told her that she was designed to awaken others – human and replicants both – by her creator which was a father of Veck.
For Veck, Masumi was a holographic emotional trigger who activates his trauma caused by seeing his younger sister evaporated in the front of his eyes. Despite the inner struggle, He believes she is capable to access to the memories from his deceased sister, who was a prodigy and was just about revealing the secret of Dahara and Xavda technology which still little known for humans.
Masumi decides to follow him to unknown, in hope for meeting her creator. So … Veck and Masumi hijacked a vehicle and flied into the wild ……
After a half-day flight journey, Veck and Masumi landed on the island where the Dacca 33 site still remains. They walked through the jungle in a heavy rain and Masumi was astonished at seeing graceful ancient Asian temples and derelict towns with ancient Asian alphabets board signs everywhere.
She also noticed that she hadn’t fallen ill despite her lack of radiation protective clothing, and Veck informed her that the radiation level had drastically decreased on this island in the last 9 years, because the Dahara portal had somehow begun cleansing the air and the water, by sending unknown infrasonic – low-frequency sound – waves from the inside of the Dacca 33 site.
Veck brought Masumi into the ‘ City ‘ where the fractal shaped buildings were well hidden under the jungle surface and behind the mega waterfalls and artificial lakes, and Veck introduced Masumi to his people the ‘ Nanmo ‘ – Tens of thousand of rebels, a mix of both renegade humans and replicants, who believe that Dacca 33 is not a myth and that help will come from another realm to attenuate radioactivity all across the Earth and overthrow the domination of Quantum 9 if the Dahara portal is fully activated.
Masumi asked the whereabouts of her creator, but Nanmo leaders told her that Professor Kun, Veck’s father, had been taken hostage years before by Quantum 9, after he had successfully entered the Dacca 33 site with his math-genius 17-year-old daughter Masumi and Veck, who was 20 back then, and just completed various engineering training with outstanding scores. Veck remembered that his sister had broken the code to activate Dahara, but then got dissolved into the spiral-shaped wormhole after the explosion.
Shocked by this revelation, Masumi blamed Veck for not informing her sooner in CORAL. But Veck confessed that he couldn’t, as he feared Masumi wouldn’t have come with him if she knew her creator actually wasn’t on the island.
Strange things began to happen to Masumi from that night on. She started receiving coded messages day and night and couldn’t figure out what they meant. She told Veck that maybe human Masumi was still alive and trying to contact her, but Veck remained convinced that no human being could survive such an incident, making this contact impossible.
The Nanmo city council formed a task force with skilled rebels along with Veck and Masumi for a mission to enter Zacca 33 and fully activate the Dahara portal. On the same day, the Quantum 9 army attacked the city after they tracked down Masumi’s location.
Meanwhile in CORAL, an army of resistance has also risen and attempted to disconnect the artificial synaptic network that controls Quantum 9 and CORAL. This orchestrated revolution was possible because CORAL rebels and Nanmo’s had been secretly collaborating for years. Many members of both groups were largely influenced and educated through the information, the data and the words of wisdoms imparted in a digital book written by Professor Kun after he escaped from Quantum 9. He created Masumi’s replicant shortly after his escape to an underground bunker under the protection of rebels, but disappeared after completing her. Nobody knew where he went because he chose to be forgotten from the world, as he kept blaming himself for the loss of his daughter, all for the sake of his research.
The attack by Quantum 9 kept going strong. While the City held its ground and fought back, the task force successfully entered the Zacca 33 site with Masumi’s help. Then in the front of the Dahara portal facility, Masumi received the last piece of code from akashic records of human Masumi, and finalized the activation process.
The Dahara was activated at last. The portal began to open. Non-earthly entities immediately noticed the distress call from the blue planet across the universe, despite the tens of thousands of light-years distance. Responses from them started poured in…
The ocean was calm under the full moon after the final battle. The reflection of the moonlight on the horizon looked like millions of gold leaves dancing quietly. Veck sat alone on a rock, holding the remaining piece of Masumi’s mechanical brain.
She had blown herself up during the battle to destroy the main connection of the artificial synaptic network. The reign of Quantum 9 was weakened for now, but the casualties on his side were also enormous. They were ready to build a new world without Xavda Technology that they’d been exploiting for too long, but many of the rebels never saw their dreams come true.
Veck was thinking about Masumi’s shy smile when she swam in the ocean for the first time, just before they departed for the mission. She had told him that the real Masumi was still alive somewhere in the universe, waiting to be united with her father and her brother. Maybe it was true. But maybe it was just a delusion as she wanted so badly to be a part of a family saga that she’d never had.
Veck picked up a coconut shell on the shore, then he laid down Masumi’s mechanical brain with flowers and small shells inside, and sent them off onto the calm ocean. As the coconut shell drifted away, Veck saw the darkness on the horizon brighten ever so slowly, as the DAWN – a poetic transition between night and day – started painting the sky into a dark purple, then rose pink, before delivering the breathtaking first ray of light.
See you soon, Veck mumbled.
The words were his promise to the two Masumis and to his father to continue their journey. A journey to craft a new way of living with the legacy they had left on Earth. And he was sure that by pursuing his path, the law of the universe would eventually show him that their paths would cross again, beyond the reach of space and time…
END
Congas Atlas Debt EP Conceptual story Written by Supercozi 2020 Nov Editorial advisor : Fabien Le Roy ( Fougzypatam ) Listen to full EP : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvOIKk2h4O
Congas Atlas Debut EP – Conceptual SF Trilogy Story
( 日本語訳は下 ) Congas Atlas is a psychedelic downtempo unit of Blue Planet Corporation & myself, and our debut EP ‘ Congas Atlas ‘ was released in 2021 from a long-established UK Psychill label Liquid Sound Design.
For this release, I wrote Trilogy mini sci-fi story for a PDF that only Bandcamp buyers can DL. But as it’s been almost two years, I’m going to post them here with Japanese translation.
Each story is dedicated to one of the three songs on the EP, but in total it is one story, like a film.
Fabien Le Roy (Foobzipatham), a good friend of Blue Planet Corporation and French translation advisor for the science fiction novel ‘ Dune ‘ by Frank Harvard, provided editorial advice.
Congas Atlas Debt EP Conceptual story
Written by SUPERCOZI 2020 Nov
Editorial advisor : Fabien Le Roy ( Fougzypatam )
Listen to full EP :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvOIKk2h4OQ
２０２１年に、イギリスのサイチル老舗レーベル、リキッド・サウンドデザインからリリースされた、私とブループラネット・コーポレーションのユニット、コンガス・アトラスのデビューEP。バンドキャンプ購入者のみDLできるPDF用に3部作のミニSFストーリーを書いたんですが、２年近く経過ということでポストします。
それぞれの物語はシングル収録の3曲に捧げられていますが、トータルとして映画のような1つの物語になっています。ブループラネット・コーポレーションの親友であり、フランク・ハーバード著のSF小説「Dune」のフランス人翻訳アドバイザーであるFabien Le Roy氏（Foobzipatham）が編集アドバイスをしてくれました。
Congas Atlas – Conceptual-Trilogy-Story
1 – Into The Wild
Year 2XXX on Earth. The story began with her familiar dream – Tropical jungle, echoing sound of birds and monkeys, and an enormous abandoned metallic cocoon in the morning mist … But every time her hand almost touches the entering button, she awakes with an overwhelmingly nostalgic feeling.
So after having the same dream, It was another grim rainy grey morning for Masumi, an experimental prototype replicant girl, to find herself again in a tiny recharge capsule.
Masumi has a smooth pale coloured skin and almond shaped brown eyes and shoulder length curly black hair which her creator copied from his daughter who was killed in a surreal accident during archaeological site research.
Site was once called Zacca 33 in ancient time where functioned as a base specialized in cryptocurrency mining, also was secretly developing Dahara, a portal gate to other realm. But when ancient civilisation went down, Dacca 33 site was abandon and then jungle swallowed it up as the earth’s surface temperature rose aggressively.
Now Zacca 33 was entirely covered by luminous toxic moss that grows up eating radiation from dozen of
crippled nuclear plants that scattered around in the nearly destroyed continent.
Far away from Zacca 33, Masumi lived in CORAL – Where the neon color residential micro-spheres layers up vertically, and thousand of layers were stretched out to the horizon. From the outside, it may looks pretty but each sphere was closely monitored by AI government Quantum 9 and living condition were dark and suffocative. CORAL was protecting humans and replicants both from still-deadly radiation for hundreds of years after the catastrophic event caused by a radical pole shift.
CORAL was sustaining itself with Xavda technology which the constant activity by artificial synapses were the essential source of energy. In CORAL, nearly all humans were considered as replaceable commodity except for a few shameless traitors who sought to deprive humans of their power. Xavda extraction and system operation were largely conducted by replicants who also will be terminated after the certain usage time. But Quantum 9 had been successfully created a deep division between humans and replicants even both side of them were only exist to sustain the system. Masumi never went outside of this draining eco-system as long as her memory chip can trace back.
One fateful morning, Masumi was approached by Veck, a human resistance who’s belong to an organisation that fights with Quantum 9 to change the ongoing system. Veck told her that she was designed to awaken others – human and replicants both – by her creator which was a father of Veck.
For Veck, Masumi was a holographic emotional trigger who activates his trauma caused by seeing his younger sister evaporated in the front of his eyes. Despite the inner struggle, He believes she is capable to access to the memories from his deceased sister, who was a prodigy and was just about revealing the secret of Dahara and Xavda technology which still little known for humans.
Masumi decides to follow him to unknown, in hope for meeting her creator.
So … Veck and Masumi hijacked a vehicle and flied into the wild ……
To be continued …
地球暦2XXX年。
この物語は彼女の見慣れた夢から始まる ー 熱帯のジャングル、響き渡る鳥や猿の声、朝靄の中に浮かぶ巨大な金属製の繭……。しかし、エントリーボタンに手が触れそうになるたびに、彼女は圧倒的な懐かしさに包まれながら目を覚ます。
今朝も同じ夢を見た後、試作レプリカントの少女マスミは、代わり映えしない小さな充電カプセルの中で雨の降る灰色の陰鬱な朝を迎えた。
マスミは、滑らかな淡い色の肌とアーモンド形の茶色の目、そして肩まで伸びる巻き毛の黒髪を持っている。
夢に出てきた遺跡は古代にザッカ３３と呼ばれ、暗号通貨の採掘に特化した基地として機能し、異界へのポータルゲートであるダハラを密かに開発していた。しかし、古代文明が滅びると、ダッカ３３遺跡は放棄され、地球の表面温度が急激に上昇したため、ジャングルに飲み込まれた。
現在、ザッカ３３は破壊されかけた大陸に散らばる廃墟と化した原子力発電所で、数十個の放射性物質を食べて成長する発光性の毒性コケで完全に覆われている。
ザッカ３３から遠く離れ、マスミが住んでいるコラルはネオンカラーの居住用マイクロ球体が縦に幾重にも重なり、水平線まで何千層にも広がっている。外から見ると美しいが、それぞれの球体はAI政府クウォンタム９によって厳重に監視されており、生活環境は暗く、息苦しいものだった。
コラルは、急激なポールシフトによる大惨事から数百年ものあいだ、人類とレプリカントを未だ死滅しない放射線から守っていた。
コラルは、人工シナプスの絶え間ない活動をエネルギー源とするザブダの技術によって維持されていた。コラルでは、人間から力を奪おうとする少数の恥知らずな裏切り者を除いて、ほとんどすべての人間は代替可能な商品とみなされていた。
ザブダの抽出とシステムの運用は、主にレプリカントによって行われ、レプリカントも一定の使用時間が経過すれば、その役割を終える。しかし、クアンタム９は、どちらもシステム維持という目的のために生かされているという共通点を持つ人間とレプリカントの間に深い分断を作ることに成功していた。
マスミは、自分に搭載されたメモリーチップで追跡できる限り、自分を疲弊させるこのエコシステムから外に出たことはない。
ある日の朝、マスミはベックに声をかけられた。ベックは人間のレジスタンスで、現在進行中のシステムを変えるためにクアンタム９と戦う、とある組織に所属している。
ベックはマスミに、彼女がベックの父親である『クリエイター』によって、人間とレプリカントの両方を目覚めさせるように設計されていることを告げた。
ベックにとってマスミは、目の前で蒸発した妹を見たことによるトラウマを呼び起こすホログラムの感情トリガーである。心の中でそれと対峙する苦しみはあるが、ベックはマスミは亡くなった妹 ～ 神童として生まれ、人類がまだほとんど知らないダハラとザブダ技術の秘密を明らかにしようとしていた ～ の記憶にアクセスすることができると信じているのだった。
マスミは、自分の創造主との出会いを求めて、彼について未知の世界へ行くことを決心する。
そして・・・ベックとマスミは乗り物をハイジャックし、未知なる野生の世界へと飛翔した・・・・・・。
2 – Narrow Escape
After a half-day flight journey, Veck and Masumi landed on the island where the Dacca 33 site still remains. They walked through the jungle in a heavy rain and Masumi was astonished at seeing graceful ancient Asian temples and derelict towns with ancient Asian alphabets board signs everywhere.
She also noticed that she hadn’t fallen ill despite her lack of radiation protective clothing, and Veck informed her that the radiation level had drastically decreased on this island in the last 9 years, because the Dahara portal had somehow begun cleansing the air and the water, by sending unknown infrasonic – low-frequency sound – waves from the inside of the Dacca 33 site.
Veck brought Masumi into the ‘ City ‘ where the fractal shaped buildings were well hidden under the jungle surface and behind the mega waterfalls and artificial lakes, and Veck introduced Masumi to his people the ‘ Nanmo ‘ – Tens of thousand of rebels, a mix of both renegade humans and replicants, who believe that Dacca 33 is not a myth and that help will come from another realm to attenuate radioactivity all across the Earth and overthrow the domination of Quantum 9 if the Dahara portal is fully activated.
Masumi asked the whereabouts of her creator, but Nanmo leaders told her that Professor Kun, Veck’s father, had been taken hostage years before by Quantum 9, after he had successfully entered the Dacca 33 site with his math-genius 17-year-old daughter Masumi and Veck, who was 20 back then, and just completed various engineering training with outstanding scores. Veck remembered that his sister had broken the code to activate Dahara, but then got dissolved into the spiral-shaped wormhole after the explosion.
Shocked by this revelation, Masumi blamed Veck for not informing her sooner in CORAL. But Veck confessed that he couldn’t, as he feared Masumi wouldn’t have come with him if she knew her creator actually wasn’t on the island.
Strange things began to happen to Masumi from that night on. She started receiving coded messages day and night and couldn’t figure out what they meant. She told Veck that maybe human Masumi was still alive and trying to contact her, but Veck remained convinced that no human being could survive such an incident, making this contact impossible.
The Nanmo city council formed a task force with skilled rebels along with Veck and Masumi for a mission to enter Zacca 33 and fully activate the Dahara portal. On the same day, the Quantum 9 army attacked the city after they tracked down Masumi’s location.
Meanwhile in CORAL, an army of resistance has also risen and attempted to disconnect the artificial synaptic network that controls Quantum 9 and CORAL.
This orchestrated revolution was possible because CORAL rebels and Nanmo’s had been secretly collaborating for years.
Many members of both groups were largely influenced and educated through the information, the data and the words of wisdoms imparted in a digital book written by Professor Kun after he escaped from Quantum 9.
He created Masumi’s replicant shortly after his escape to an underground bunker under the protection of rebels, but disappeared after completing her. Nobody knew where he went because he chose to be forgotten from the world, as he kept blaming himself for the loss of his daughter, all for the sake of his research.
The attack by Quantum 9 kept going strong. While the City held its ground and fought back, the task force successfully entered the Zacca 33 site with Masumi’s help. Then in the front of the Dahara portal facility, Masumi received the last piece of code from akashic records of human Masumi, and finalized the activation process.
The Dahara was activated at last.
The portal began to open.
Non-earthly entities immediately noticed the distress call from the blue planet across the universe, despite the tens of thousands of light-years distance.
Responses from them started poured in…
半日のフライトの後、ベックとマスミはダッカ３３遺跡が残る島に降り立った。
大雨の中、ジャングルの中を歩いていたマスミは、アジアの古代寺院の優美な姿や、アジアの古代文字が書かれた看板のある廃墟のような町並みをいたるところで目にし魅了された。
マスミはまた、放射線防護服を着ていないにもかかわらず自分が何の影響を受けていない事にも気がついたが、ベックによるとダッカ３３遺跡の内部から未知の低周波音波が発され、ダハラポータルが空気と水を浄化し始めたため、この9年間でこの島の放射線レベルは劇的に低下したということだった。
ベックはマスミを『シティ』 ～ ジャングルの地表や巨大な滝や人工湖によって巧妙に隠されているフラクタル形状の建物が並ぶ場所 ～に連れて行った。
ベックはそこでマスミを彼の仲間『ナンモ』に紹介した。反体制派の人間とレプリカントの混成グループで、ダッカ３３は神話などではなく、ダハラポータルが完全に起動すれば、地球全体の放射能の減衰とクォンタム９の支配を打破するために別の宇宙領域から助けが来ると信じている数万人の反逆者たちである。
マスミは自分の創造主の行方を尋ねたが、ナンモのリーダーはベックの父親であるクン教授が数年前、数学の天才である17歳の娘マスミと、当時20歳で様々な工学訓練を優秀な成績で終えたばかりだったベックと共にダッカ33遺跡への侵入に成功したものの、クォンタム9に人質に取られたと告げた。ベックは、妹がダハラを起動させるための暗号を解いたものの、爆発の後で螺旋状のワームホールに溶解してしまった事を思い出した。
この事実にショックを受けたマスミは、何故コラルでもっと早く教えてくれなかったのかとベックを責める。しかしベックは、自分の創造主が島にいないことを知ったら、マスミは一緒に来てくれないだろうと思い、できなかったと告白した。
その夜から、マスミの身に不思議なことが起こり始めた。昼夜を問わず、暗号のようなメッセージを受け取るのだが、その意味がわからなかった。彼女はベックに、もしかしたら人間のマスミはまだ生きていて、自分にコンタクトしようとしているのかもしれないと言ったが、ベックは人間があのような事故を生き延びられるはずがないと確信しており、このコンタクトは不可能であると考えていた。
ナンモ議会は、ベックとマスミとともに熟練した反乱軍のタスクフォースを編成し、ザッカ３３に侵入してダハラポータルを完全起動する作戦に出た。同じ日、マスミの居場所を突き止めたクアンタム９軍が街を襲う。
一方、コラルでもレジスタンス軍が立ち上がり、クアンタム９とコラルを制御する人工シナプス網を切断しようとしていた。
このよく組織的された革命は、コラルの反乱軍とナンモたちが何年も前から密かに協力していたからこそ可能だった。
両グループの多くのメンバーが、クァンタム９から脱出したクン教授が書いたデジタルブックに収められた情報やデータ、叡智に満ちた言葉によって大きく影響を受け、多くの事を学んでいた。
彼は反乱軍の保護下にある地下バンカーに逃げ込んだすぐ後で、マスミのレプリカントを完成させたが、そのあとすぐに姿を消した。自分の研究のために死んだ娘を想い自分を責め続け、世間から忘れ去られることを選んだため、彼の行き先は誰にもわからなかった。
クアンタム９の攻撃は勢いを増し続けていた。
シティが踏ん張って反撃する中、タスクフォースはマスミの協力でザッカ３３遺跡への侵入に成功した。そしてダハラポータル施設の前で、マスミは人間マスミのアカシックレコードから最後のコードの断片を受け取り、起動プロセスの最終段階をスタートさせた。
ダハラがついに起動した。
ポータルが開き始める。
何万光年も離れているにもかかわらず、宇宙の彼方にある青い星からの救難信号に、地球以外の存在もすぐに気づいた。
彼らからの応答が次々と入り始める、、、
3 – See You at Dawn
The ocean was calm under the full moon after the final battle.
The reflection of the moonlight on the horizon looked like millions of gold leaves dancing quietly.
Veck sat alone on a rock, holding the remaining piece of Masumi’s mechanical brain.
She had blown herself up during the battle to destroy the main connection of the artificial synaptic network.
The reign of Quantum 9 was weakened for now, but the casualties on his side were also enormous.
They were ready to build a new world without Xavda Technology that they’d been exploiting for too long, but many of the rebels never saw their dreams come true.
Veck was thinking about Masumi’s shy smile when she swam in the ocean for the first time, just before they departed for the mission.
She had told him that the real Masumi was still alive somewhere in the universe, waiting to be united with her father and her brother.
Maybe it was true. But maybe it was just a delusion as she wanted so badly to be a part of a family saga that she’d never had.
Veck picked up a coconut shell on the shore, then he laid down Masumi’s mechanical brain with flowers and small shells inside, and sent them off onto the calm ocean.
As the coconut shell drifted away, Veck saw the darkness on the horizon brighten ever so slowly, as the DAWN – a poetic transition between night and day – started painting the sky into a dark purple, then rose pink, before delivering the breathtaking first ray of light.
See you soon, Veck mumbled.
The words were his promise to the two Masumis and to his father to continue their journey.
A journey to craft a new way of living with the legacy they had left on Earth.
And he was sure that by pursuing his path, the law of the universe would eventually show him that their paths would cross again, beyond the reach of space and time…
END
Congas Atlas Debt EP Conceptual story
Written by Supercozi 2020 Nov
Editorial advisor : Fabien Le Roy ( Fougzypatam )
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最終決戦を終えた満月の下、海は穏やかだった。
水平線に映る月明かりは、まるで何百万枚もの金箔が静かに舞っているように見えた。
ベックは一人、岩の上に座り、マスミの機械脳の残りの一部を手にしていた。
彼女は人工シナプス網の主接続部を破壊する戦いの最中に自爆してしまったのだ。
クアンタム９の支配はひとまず弱まったが、味方の犠牲も甚大であった。
彼らは長らく搾取してきたザブダ・テクノロジーのない新世界を築く準備をしてきたが、反乱軍の多くはその夢が遂に叶ったのを見ることはできなかった。
ベックは、彼女にとって最後のミッションに出発する直前に初めて海で泳いだときのマスミの照れたような笑いを思い浮かべていた。
彼女は、「本当のマスミはまだ宇宙のどこかで生きていて、父や兄と再び会える日を待っているのだ」と話していた。
それは本当なのかもしれない。
それとも、それは自分には決して持てなかった家族という物語の一部になりたいと強く願っていたマスミによる妄想だったのかもしれない。
ベックは海岸でココナッツの殻を拾い、花や小さな貝殻を敷き詰めた中にマスミの機械脳をそっと横たえると、穏やかな海へと送り出した。
ココナッツの殻がゆっくりと沖へと遠ざかっていくと同時に、ベックは真っ暗だった水平線がゆっくりと明るくなっていくのを見た。夜明け ～ 夜と昼をつなぐ詩的な存在～ が、空をまず濃い紫色に、それからローズピンクに染め上げ、そのあと息を呑むような一筋の光を放つのを見た。
「また会おうな」ベックはつぶやいた。
その言葉は、2人のマスミと父に旅を続けることを約束する言葉だった。
彼らが地球に残した遺産をもとに、新しい生き方を創造する旅。
そして、自分の道を突き進むことで、やがて宇宙の法則が、時空を超えて、彼らの道を再び交差させてくれると信じて。
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