Tenth Minute

[possibly_here]

[In the wake of losing Soushi like that... well, to say he's taking this horribly would be an understatement.  Eyes red and puffy, he's barely eaten anything since last week, and he's also been paying visits to the infirmary every two days to go through another crazy battery of tests.  It's not that far off from what was happening to Ryo a year ago, all things considered.]

[Video]

I've... talked things over with the Tatsumiya officials that were here along with Soushi.  None of them think it's likely that Soushi's still alive or... or even okay.

And without him, the Siegfried System can't even work.  That was how we were able to get the Fafners to be at least somewhat safer to use... even if we just ended up making him shoulder the load for us...

Maybe the people at ALVIS could get a work-around for this.  I don't know.   But if a solution isn't found... then using any of the Fafners is just going to lead to a repeat of what happened to the L-Boat's pilots.

This shouldn't have happened.  It was on my watch and I should've stopped that Fafner... and if I had then Soushi would've-

[He clenches up.A moment later and he cuts the recording.  He's not going to get over this any time soon.]