| Guy | .... |
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| Guy | Father—. |
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| Guy | —gh. |
| ...Agh. |
| Izumi | ...Guy-san. |
| Guy | ——. |
| Izumi | Could we talk for a bit? |
| Guy | ...Yes. |
| Izumi | I’m sorry about earlier. |
| Guy | No... I apologize for my attitude. I don’t know why I got upset like that; it surprised me. |
| Izumi | Please don’t apologize. |
| I think we were all happy to see you express your emotions like that, Guy-san. |
| Guy | You were happy...? |
| Izumi | You said that you had trouble expressing your emotions, after all. |
| Guy | Ah, that’s right... I’m often told that I’m eerie because it’s difficult to tell what I’m thinking. |
| Citronia always called me useless, too. |
| Izumi | Maybe Citron-kun also wanted to see you express your feelings, Guy-san. |
| He might have called you useless because he wanted to make you mad. |
| Guy | I wonder... I can’t tell. |
| Izumi | You’ve known Citron-kun since he was young, right? Have you always been his servant? |
| Guy | No... I was initially hired as a common soldier in the royal palace. |
| ...I was assigned to a special unit; it took care of duties that could not be made public. |
| It was known as the dump, because nobody joined of their own volition. Everyone gathered there was an outcast of some sort. |
| They hammered all sorts of knowledge into me—how to use various weapons, how to perform espionage duty. |
| After I made it through the grueling training, just when I was about to be assigned a mission... I met Citronia. |
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| Guy’s boss | <<Listen. The target will pass through the back passageway at 10 PM tomorrow. That’s your chance.>> |
| Guy | <<...Yessir.>> |
| Guy’s boss | <<—Wait. There’s someone here.>> |
| Citron | <<....>> |
| Guy | <<?>> |
| Guy’s boss | <<Oi, hide.>> |
| Citron | <<....>> |
| Guy | <<....>> |
| Citron | <<...Who are you?>> |
| Guy’s boss | <<I apologize, my prince. He is not someone you should pay any heed.>> |
| Guy | <<....>> |
| Citron | <<I’m asking him who he is.>> |
| Guy | <<I am Guy.>> |
| Guy’s boss | <<You fool. Don’t be so discourteous. Watch your language. Lower your head.>> |
| Guy | <<...I apologize. Mannerisms toward royalty have yet to be installed.>> |
| Citron | <<Installed?>> |
| Guy | <<I’m an android. I cannot perform actions which haven’t been installed.>> |
| Citron | <<Where’s your switch?>> |
| Guy | <<Right here. But you must push the switch without—.>> |
| Citron | <<Push.>> |
| Guy | <<....>> |
| Citron | <<He really stopped!>> |
| <<Push.>> |
| Guy | <<You must not push the switch without good reason.>> |
| Citron | <<You’re really interesting!>> |
| Guy’s boss | <<Prince. We belong in the shadows; we are not beings who should ever cross your path. Please, do leave us behind.>> |
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| Citron | <<Guy! Let’s play together!>> |
| Guy | <<Citronia. You must not come here.>> |
| Citron | <<That doesn’t matter. I am the crown prince, and I am saying that I will play with you, Guy.>> |
| Guy | <<I have a mission.>> |
| Citron | <<What sort of mission?>> |
| Guy | <<...I can’t say. It’s a dangerous one.>> |
| Citron | <<Are you going to die?>> |
| Guy | <<I would simply break.>> |
| Citron | <<You can’t! You won’t be able to play with me.>> |
| <<That’s right! You should become my servant. That way, you won’t have to go on dangerous missions.>> |
| Guy | <<But....>> |
| Citron | <<Then it’s decided! Starting today, you are my—.>> |
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| Guy | If I had stayed in that unit, I would have long since been broken and discarded. |
| I’m nothing but an android that can be easily replaced. Soldiers in that unit are simply discardable pawns. |
| Izumi | ...So Citron-kun wanted to save you, Guy-san. |
| Guy | He probably just wanted an unusual toy. |
| Izumi | But.... |
| Guy | Otherwise, how could he throw me aside so easily? |
| Izumi | ——. |
| (Why did Citron-kun go through the trouble of lying to leave Guy-san in this country?) |
| (There’s no way to ask Citron-kun now, but....) |
| (But at the very least, it can’t be because he doesn’t care about Guy-san.) |
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| Citron | So that Director... so that Guy can smile, lots and lots. |
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| Izumi | I don’t think Citron-kun threw you away, Guy-san. |
| When I received a charm from Citron-kun, he wished that you could smile lots and lots, Guy-san. |
| Guy | A charm? |
| Izumi | —Could you give me just a minute? |
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| Izumi | I received this from Citron-kun right before he left. |
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| Guy | This is... I gave this to Citronia. |
| Izumi | Eh? You did, Guy-san...? |
| (This is a Japanese charm... So that means Guy-san really lived in Japan?) |
| Guy | I don’t know why, but I always had this with me. When I tried to throw it away because it was so tattered, Citronia asked me to give it to him. |
| I had no reason to refuse, so I gave it to him, but I didn’t know he kept it with him for so long.... |
| Izumi | It’s a good luck charm; many people keep them close at all times. |
| Guy | I see, so that’s how it is.... |
| Izumi | I think the fact that he received it from you also makes it special. |
| Guy | Because he received it from me...? What do you mean? |
| Izumi | It means that Citron-kun treasures you that much, Guy-san. |
| Guy | .... |
| Izumi | (Guy-san might be out of touch from not just his own feelings, but also from the feelings of those around him....) |
| Guy | ...There’s something inside. |
| Izumi | Eh? |
| Guy | It didn’t feel like this when I had it. |
| Izumi | Then Citron-kun...? |
| Guy | ...I’ll open it. |
| .... |
| Izumi | What is that? |
| Guy | A microchip. |
| Izumi | Why would Citron-kun leave this.... |
| Guy | I don’t know. |
| Izumi | Can we find out what sort of data is inside? |
| Guy | We can if we return to my country, but we don’t have the necessary equipment here. |
| Izumi | So we can’t read it with a regular computer.... |
| (Is there someone who can handle this sort of task... Ah.) |
| Let’s try asking Hisoka-san! |
| Guy | Mikage...? |
| Izumi | (Maybe Hisoka-san or Chikage-san can do something with this!) |
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| Tasuku | A microchip...? |
| Hisoka | Ap... Chikage probably has something. Give me a second. |
| Izumi | Thank goodness.... |
| Tasuku | Who in the world is Utsuki? |
| Azuma | He’s full of mysteries. It’s fascinating. |
| Homare | But where did you get that from? |
| Izumi | It was inside the charm I got from Citron-kun. |
| Tsumugi | Citron-kun’s charm...? |
| Izumi | Apparently it originally belonged to Guy-san. |
| Tasuku | Which means that Guy-san was in Japan, after all.... |
| Guy | I have no memories of that, though. |
| Izumi | .... |
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| Hisoka | ...We figured out what was inside. |
| Izumi | Eh, already!? |
| Hisoka | ...There was no security lock on it, so. |
| The chip contained a key for accessing the Zahra Kingdom database. |
| If you use that key, you can see someone’s family register information. |
| Tasuku | ...Whose? |
| Hisoka | Guy... Nishiki Gai. |
