Big Love from Ultra Deep Space ch16: Big Love From Ultra Deep Space

Hey, I wanna eat crepes today.
Eh? You seriously don't know!? At the station there's...
Lulu.

Ten-sama.
Will we be shopping on the way home today?

Yeah... That's the plan, but... you got a minute?

Th-...
There's something I wanna tell you...

You taught me everything about love and romance.

Something... you want to tell me?

Is it something I did...?
Ah, not, not at all.

It's nothing like that...
Ah!

Teradate~ Long time no see too, Princess!
Megu-sama!

And Rina-sama too! It has been a while.
Good work studying at that other school~
Say, you guys free after this?

We're having a pizza party at Rina's place. Wanna come with?
Oh my!
Eh!?

Rina's mama's making the pizza.
It is handmade...!?
Yeah. It's seriously delicious.
Ah Ah

...Ah~ I just remembered!!
!?
I need to go pick up my little sister today!!!
Huh!? Seriously!?

We're gonna go on ahead, so you two feel free to drop in later if you feel like it!!
Later!!

What gives!? Hey, don't push me!!
Let's just go!!
What a kind girl...
Thank you...
?

My apologies, Ten-sama. You were saying...?
Ah, right.
Erm... well...

...How about we walk while we talk?

...Thanks for the other day.

Eh?
After my talk with Sakuya...
Aah!

I keep showing you such a pathetic side of me...
...Not at all.
The way you open up to me when times are hard
makes me happy.

...I'm
glad I met you, Lulu.

It's thanks to you that I decided to try and get involved with people again.
Rather than return to my old self,
you helped me find a new me.

You taught me thing that lie beyond "not knowing"
and helped me move forward.

Thank you.

So like... there's something else I wanted to talk to you about...
P-

Please wait!!

...U-
Um...

I am sorry
for interrupting you, Ten-sama.
But

would you listen
to what I have to say first...?

Sure...?
Eh?
Hey...

Eh...!?

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Eh!? Wh-What is this!?
My apologies for surprising you!
I was in such a rush that I...!

Is this your doing, Lu-...

So tiny!!!
Ah.
I suppose I do look small.

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...When you told me about your past at the culture festival,
I felt ever so frustrated.
I am not able to look into your past, after all...

That is when I thought about doing the opposite
and it worked!
What a strange power...

...So this is
inside your mind or something, Lulu...?
Yes.

...With this method that I gave everything to accomplish,
I want you to know as much as possible.

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...Will you let me show you?

...Yeah.

When I was young,
I was a quiet and reserved child
and never tried to get involved with anyone outside of my family.

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Ever since I was born, I have always had this... vague feeling.
As if I was alive in the place of someone else.
That is the feeling I had,
though I have no idea why.

I am sure that is just how I was born.

When I turned five years old,
I made my debut at a party where many important figures from various planets had gathered.
It is there

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that I received a marriage proposal from an alien I had never met before.

It is okay, Ten-sama.
This is just a memory.
My family came to my rescue right away and I was okay.

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Okay? I doubt that...

...Ever since the party however,
I kept on receiving marriage proposals one after another.

I became scared and stopped appearing in public.
Even so, the proposals would not stop
and neither would the requests for an audience.

It soon escalated into planets waging wars with each other.

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Many people were getting hurt because of me.
Unable to bear that fact,
I began to seclude myself even further.

However...

my family were very patient and strived to cheer me up.

I wanted to repay them.
I wanted them to feel at ease.
That is why I decided

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to once again try and get involved with others.

...I enjoyed myself
and my family seemed to be at ease too.

I was able to live positively,
or so I thought.

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...Is something the matter?

I am not sure if I will be of any help,
but you can talk to me if you...

...My dad
works for the Anukamulan knights.

He came home seriously injured yesterday!
Dad was always saying

that important people from other planets are desperate to get their hands on you, Princess Lulucielamo!!

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THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!

I can't believe you're walking around smiling like that
when people are getting hurt because of you!

I don't want to be given comfort
by the likes of you
who's never experienced any pain or inconvenience!!!

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Princess!
Aah, you have returned, Lady Luluicelamo!
The elder princess is...!!

Hey, Lulu!

What's with the pale look on your face?
I just had a little scuffle at the diplomatic meeting.
Nothing to worry about.

...Hey, did you hear about the elder princess...?

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I heard one of Lulucielamo devotees was on the planet she was visiting.
What? Again?
Apparently she lost her mind, mistook the elder princess for Princess Lulucielamo and tried to capture her.
What the heck?
I know I shouldn't say this...

but if I were the elder princess,
I would hate having a little sister like her.

...Afterwards,

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a marriage proposal came from that emperor.

Knowing that the emperor was prepared to go to war,
my family enacted a certain plan for my sake.

I would be sent to Earth
as an official bride and apostle.

I would be going to a beautiful planet with good conditions
that was even slightly further away and slightly easier to live on.
...But by that point,

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I had already stopped caring.

I wanted to disappear as soon as possible
so that I would never trouble anyone ever again.
Like I had never existed in the first place.

I wanted to disappear.
I wanted to disappear and be at peace.
Even with all the favor and love I was receiving,
I could not help but want to disappear.
Yet at the same time,

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I wanted just as badly for someone to find me.

Not as a princess or a little sister or a daughter.
I wanted someone to obvserve the me who wanted to disappear
just for who I am.

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Somebody...

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I never expected
my eyes would meet with someone else's,
but just from that alone,
I felt, for the first time, like it was okay to exist.

...I guess that might be an overexaggeration?
But
to me, it felt like a miracle.

I wanted to see you.
I wanted to express my gratitude.
Even if you were to hate me.
Even if you were to get made at me.

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It was I, who you once called "something for your own convenience",
who conveniently used you to save myself...

You've spent your days embracing
all the love and romance that had hurt you.

That is why
I wanted to at least be positive and offer you warmth.

I am far weaker than you think I am.
Cowardly even...

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...Is that all?
I already know that.
I'm at least aware that you're not some perfectly flawless being.

...Y'see, Lulu,
I never really understood stuff like love and romance.

There are things I've lost because of it,
and I'm scared of embracing it.

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But
it hasn't all been losses.

I want you to smile, Lulu.

I want you to always be happy.
I want your stomach to be filled with delicious food.
I want the things that scare you to disappear from this world.

And I want to be the one
who can make all of that happen.

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These feelings of mine are love
and I hope that what I can give you is love too.

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I love you, Lulu.
I love the you, who isn't perfectly flawless
and isn't always positive.

Thank you for finding me.

...Ng
J-...

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...Just you being here
should be enough for me.
Yeah.
I truly feel that way.
Yeah.
And yet
the more I get to know you,
the greedier I get.

Even though your happiness should be all I need,
I find myself wishing to be a part of your happiness.

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I'll bring you so much happiness that you'll forget
all about the painful things.

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So instead of a temporary one,
is it okay if I become your true finacée?

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Yes...!

Ten-sama!
Ah.

Welcome back, Lulu.
What did they call you for?
Just a little report!

I have also borrowed a new book from the principal.
I am very much looking forward to it...

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...Ten-sama?
Ah, well...

I was just thinking how cute you are...
HEH!?

Ah.
Sorry. Did you not like that?
I did not mind it at all!!
It is just, um... lately you have been rather...!

I just felt like saying it.

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Keep flirting like that and we'll leave you behind~

Megu!!
Megu-sama!!
Did you forget about the karaoke?
We didn't forget!
We'll get ready right away!!

Way to butt in.
Those two will be stuck like that forever unless someone pulls them apart!

Come to think of it, that girl's coming today, right?
Shiori... was it? Are things gonna be okay?
It'll be fine.

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I've already told Ten.
Shiori's the one who suggested it in the first place.

So like!
Mind if come with too?

Of course!
The more the merrier!
Yeah~!!
Well, I guess it'll be fine with these guys around...

Are you ready?
All set.

Let's go, Lulu!

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Yes,
Ten-sama!

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