U is for Universe in Danger ch17

Eh...?

Me...?

You've gone and caused a time paradox at lightning speed,
Kuu.
Sorry...

!?

Eh!?
An earthquake!?
What's this tremoring!?

Time is crashing!
Be careful!
Eeh!?

Hah...
And after all the warnings I gave you...
Good grief.
I said I was sorry, okay!?

Hey, what's the meaning of this!?
What's happeni-...

Huh?
That's it?
Nothing's happening...
Erm...
Um...

There's two... Kuu-chan's...?
I'm not seeing things, am I?

What's going on?
Yeah! Explain yourselves!

We've come here from one hour
into the future.

Th-The future...?

Silk Dog's gonna attack soon.
We need to get out of here right now.

H-...
Hold on!
Explain things properly...

There's no time!
Hurry!

...A-Alright.
Let's go, Chiyo.
R-Right.

What's going on?
You said you came from the future, right?
Yeah.
We're here...

to prevent Chiyo's death.
Chiyo's death!?

Eh!?
I'm gonna die!? How!?
E-Erm...

...Covered in flowers?
Eh...?
That sounds kinda romantic...

Flowers...
You mean...
...Urk.

This stun gun is the only weapon I have.
But
Silk Dog's pretty agile
so I doubt we'll land a hit easily.

I see... There must be something we can think of...

Kuu.
Do you have a moment?

There's... one thing I'm...
curious about...
wheeze...
wheeze
hah...
R-Right...
You okay?

How are we
still moving?

What do you mean?

When the time paradox happened, time should've stopped there and then.
But the cars are moving,
which means time hasn't stopped, right?
Wrong.

Look up in the sky.

That vapor trail
hasn't gotten any longer.

So time is stopped over there?
I think distance may play a part in this.

It looks like something has caused
the time stop in this area to become invalid...

Fweh!?
Wh-What is it!?

...Don't tell me. The black hole?
Indeed, the radius of a gravitational singularity
would create an area in which particles and light would become unable to stop...

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This bloodlust...
Yeah.
It's Silk Dog.

Nuruka! Look after Chiy!
Got it.

I would appreciate it
if you would show me a little concern too.

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Be careful.

Thank you.

Chiyo.
Let's get out of here.
R-
Right.

...Now then.
What do I do?

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All we've got is a stun gun.
If we can't hit them, we stand no chance of winning.
Let's say
time gets slower the further away Chiyo moves...
We'd slow down too,
but the fact we know that gives us an advantage.
Okay.
When time slows down, that'll be our opening.

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Hm...?
...Two of you?

Mirror camouflage?
Dummy clones?
Well,
maybe you're both the real thing.

DIE!

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So fast.
We need to create an opening somehow.

!!

Time...
has started to slow down!?

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Now's my chance!
What the!?

Now!
Shoot!!

Let me go!!

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Hah
Hah
I...
I did it...!

Hah...

...You okay?
...Everything hurts.

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Hah...

Nuruka.
We did it!
Eh? Really?
We're on our way.

Sorry to keep you waiting.
Kuu-chan!

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You sure took your time.
Were you that far away?

Yeah.
Me and Nuru-chan ran quite a bit.

We worked hard to get as far away as we could!
That way, Kuu-chan would stand a chance at winning.
That's what Nuru-chan said!

I see.

...I just went with the option that raised our chances of survival.

More importantly,
what do you intend to do now?

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Are we just gonna
leave Silk Dog lying there?
Ah.
I see.

For now, we should disarm them.

...You really
beat Silk Dog, huh.
Which one's the disarming switch?
Which one, I wonder?

You thought I couldn't?

To be honest, I did think your chances were slim.

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I thought one of you would die...

There!
The disarming switch!

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Eh...?

A woman!?

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