This is the chief's office!

Thanks for having me. That's right, we were headed to the chief's office this whole time. I completely forgot.

Right, today's the day the magazine reporter is scheduled to come to see the facility and interview us. Sorry for dragging you into my experiment from the get-go.

Yours wasn't exactly the first one I was involved in… But it was a great experience all the same. Thank you.

Come on, Eli and everyone else. Have a seat! Feel free to ask us whatever you want. We'll answer any questions you have!

Really? Then I might do just that. First—

[Fade in/out.]

…Ultimately, I would like to rid the world of all conflict through the power of fashion.

That's a wonderful goal. I'm sure you have the talent to do that. I'm cheering for you.

*Giggle* Thank you so much. I'll do my very best.

Interviews really do make me all nervous.

I feel like you were your usual self, Kanata.

Not at all! Look at my wide-open eyes! My tense, taut lips!

You're not the slightest bit different.

Hey, hey! What's the next question? What else do you wanna know? Oh, do you want to see more of the lab?

Let me think… Actually, do you mind if I ask you one more question?

Is it true that this lab is conducting research into time manipulation?

*Gasp!!*

I think that's what Rina and Chika are researching together…

H-How do you know about that?! That's still top-secret research…

Yes, that's why nobody knows any details about it. There are only rumors floating around. But you know what they say. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Does that mean the information has been leaked? But from where?

I-I haven't said anything to anyone!

Me neither! I swear, I haven't said a peep!

Same goes for me. I haven't even taken any data out of the lab.

That makes the four of us. I don't think Rina knows anything about it either. There hasn't been any data leak or—Hold up.

Kanata? Did you remember something?

Sometimes we take photos to post on the lab's social media accounts when we're all gathered in the lab during lunch and stuff, right?

Yeah. We post photos of us being ourselves to dispel the lab's uptight image. Oh! Do you think some of the data is visible in the photos?

F-F-From the photos?! Delete them! Delete them right now!

It's probably too late…

It certainly is too late.

Eli, please! Could you hold off on writing about this in your article? We still have a lot of issues to address in this field of research. We're not ready to reveal it yet.

It might still be a fantasy, but I think that would be interesting in itself…

WHAA?!

Wh-What now?!