Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 2 (section)

===Record 107: Oh, That’s Right===

'''02/14/1999

'''20:18

On my one night off during the week, I spent all night alone in the underground Officers’ clubroom.

They were playing some boring old film on TV. It was so boring I lightly revved the TV’s accelerator and shifted up a gear. Then a tower appeared on the screen.

It was a news program talking about Babel, the giant Word broadcast tower under construction in Osaka.

That 3km tower uses Word Resonance to send a voice across this entire planet covered by the Great Canopy. Students across Japan are competing for the right to use it first.

It was built by a company, but they’re temporarily lending it to a student.

The so-called Battle of Babel is being fought using a PR sales battle governed by a set of rules. I recalled that everyone was really excited about the result coming out soon, but if that thing was activated in Osaka so soon after the east and west were reunited, it would shift Japan’s power balance toward Kansai.

That’s why a lot of people were working in secret to keep the current power balance intact. Heh, I was being awfully intellectual, wasn’t I? Hard to believe.

Maybe I’m just more serious when I’m on my own.

Anyway, the black phone next to me rang and I picked up the receiver like a serious person should.

It was Senpai.

“I am currently at Tachikawa Airfield. A strange group was lying in wait for me here. I will cut them down and head back.”

He hung up there, but he never did return.

'''Author Comment:

After the discussion with Senpai in the previous chapter, the final night begins.

The protagonist is watching movies on TV because that’s his hobby. It will later be revealed he watches a lot of different things.