elman (kinome) 19

[feralphoenix]

Part 19 can be read here!

This chapter does not require any content warnings.



Author's Note: Kids, remember to keep your electronics charged.

Jelly: Hup.

[sfx: PSHT]

Jelly: Huh?

Jelly: A BLACKOUT?!

ELMAN
The Darkness of Space?! Panic Mushroom Quarantine! (III)

Jelly: I-I didn't do anything, though?! I just stuck a plug into the wall!!!
Oscar: Let us hurry and start a fire! May I burn this desk?
Hessian: N-no, p-please don't!!
Gyouza: Calm down.

Gyouza: That is way too much panic over simply losing visual input.
Jelly: Hey!! That's a mushroom, isn't it?!
Oscar: Yes! Surely it's a tummyhurty! Let us burn it posthaste!
Gyouza: Wha--look at it! This is a fungus I created, not a Tummyhurty Mushroom.
Hessian: You didn't have that when I searched you! Eeeek!
Gyouza: This grows automatically in response to the darkness.
Gyouza: It can't survive outside the glass, and it can't reproduce. Think for yourselves instead of losing your heads over a news report.
Hessian: A-anyway, I'm confiscating it! It's my job to destroy all potentially dangerous spores!!

[sfx: FLASH]
Jelly: Gyah!
Jelly: What is it THIS time?!
Oscar: I remembered that I have a head lamp!
Oscar: Here, these are for the rest of you.
Jelly: Why on earth do you have so many...
Oscar: I always carry four sets of daily necessities for my future family. Four pillows, four sets of cutlery, four toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste, four sets of snacks...
Jelly: (He's an idiot!!!)

Jelly: It's getting kinda cold too, come to think of it...
Hessian: T-the heat regulator has shut off along with the lights...
Jelly: Hey, shouldn't you go look into this? Maybe something's broken.
Hessian: Huh?! ME?!
Jelly: You're the director! You know this place the best!
Hessian: B... but I don't know anything about machines... Oh! Mr. Gyouza, you're a programmer, right?
Jelly: Huh? Does that mean you're good at computers and stuff?!
Gyouza: No, I'm a BIO-programmer... my specialty is completely different...
Jelly: But, like, you use them, right?
Gyouza: Technically I do???
Jelly: Then you'll be fine!
Hessian: Then let's go, Mr. Gyouza!
Oscar: It's great that we have a specialist here! Have a nice trip!
Gyouza: (Everyone thinks all technical jobs are exactly the goddamn same...)

Oscar: Well then, we'll have time to pass until they return, so shall we talk about family?
Jelly: Why?! I don't wanna!
Oscar: It happened when I was a boy.
Jelly: Words just don't get through to this guy...
Oscar: I adopted a little bird.
Bird: fkeee...
Kid Oscar: Let's be family! Your name is Ijuuin.
Bird: fkeee
Oscar: And so, we became a family.
Oscar: I bathed Ijuuin in unconditional love.
Kid Oscar: Here you go, Ijuuin! Have some chocolate! There are almonds in it!
Oscar: But one day, Ijuuin vanished. The end.

Jelly: That's it?
Oscar: It's a beautiful, fleeting memory of my younger days.
Jelly: (THIS IS STUPID!!!)
Oscar: Now it's your turn, Miss Jelly!
Jelly: No, uh, I don't really have anything to tell...
[sfx: beep beep beep]
Jelly: Oh no! The battery!
Oscar: Whatever could be wrong?
Jelly: I-I-I dunno, but!!!
Jelly: They said not to open it along the way no matter what... 'cause it'd be a disaster...
[sfx: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP]
Package: Battery power has run out!

TO BE CONTINUED

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