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Episode: #10	Release Date: December 25, 2004 (February Issue)
Color Pages: 0	B/W Pages: 17

Story:
Noboru enlisted in the Space Force. He was known about Mikako's fleet suffered catastrophic damage, and he volunteered for rescue fleet. His friend advised to him that the fleet will play the martyr because Lysithea might not live until the rescue arrived.

Mikako and her space ship Lysithea was on Agharta orbit. Lysithea was badly broken and innavigable, so the crew was waiting rescue.

Miwa asked Mikako to help her work. Mikako said she felt anxiety about the situation of the fleet. Miwa said she hope Lysithea could live until the rescue came. And Miwa said she felt their voyage was a certain measure of success because what they got about Tarsians will be useful to the human beings in the future.

Miwa said Hisa joined the rescue fleet. Mikako was surprised, and checked the crew list. She found Hisa's name in the list, and Noboru's name too. He is coming! Mikako wept with emotion.

Mikako and Noboru will meet again in the future, in the distant space. Surely, they will....

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Notice: Tankoubon (compilation book) will be released on February 2005.

Last Modified : January 7, 2005

Episode: #9	Release Date: November 25, 2004 (January Issue)
Color Pages: 0	B/W Pages: 17

Story:
Mikako and the fleet she belonged arrived at Sirius. Mikako riding a Tracer came down to the surface of the 4th planet Agharta. She felt sad because she was separated by the long long distance from Noboru.

She saw Noboru and her happy life on the Earth in a vision. The vision disappeared and Mikako found a petrified Tarsian. After a moment, the petrified Tarsian vanished.

Mikako found ruins of Tarsians. At the same time, many explosions happened around Mikako's Tracer. The fleet alerted about the attack from Tarsians. Mikako sent an e-mail which said: "Hello 25 years old Noboru, this is 16 years old Mikako..."

Notice: Next eposode is the final.

Last Modified : December 5, 2004

Episode: #8	Release Date: October 25, 2004 (December Issue)
Color Pages: 0	B/W Pages: 18

Story:
Noboru decided to transfer to Space Engineering Department. He explained it to Wakana. She realized that he wanted to break up with Wakana because he still liked a girl who had gone to the space (Mikako). Noboru said "Sorry." Wakana dropped tears.

A few days later, the news said injured persons of the fleet would return to the Earth, but Mikako was not included in them. Noboru sent an e-mail to Mikako: "I decide to aim for going to the space too. It may take many years, but I will go there to meet you."

Hisa was lying in the bed at a hospital. She had large scars on her face and body, and partial paralysis on her left side. Her tracer was shot down by friendly fire, but she said to her doctor that she would not leave UN Space Force and wanted to work for ground missions because she wanted to help Mikako and Miwa. The doctor said the fleet would need very very long time until it came back to the Earth. However, Hisa said she wants to wait them if she could.

Mikako visited Miwa'a room to told about the next meeting. Mikako found a picture on the wall, and asked Miwa if the man in the picture was Hisa's boyfriend. Hisa said the man was her "ex-boyfriend" who might has become a middle-ager now.

Last Modified : October 28, 2004

Episode: #7	Release Date: September 25, 2004 (November Issue)
Color Pages: 0	B/W Pages: 20

Story:
Summer has come. Noboru was on his way home with Wakana. Wakaba asked to Noboru about his postgraduation plan. Noboru said he would graduate a mediocrity school and get a mediocrity job.

It began raining. Noboru remembered the rainy day with Mikako. Wakana found a large TV screen on the wall of a building. The screen showed a image of a tracer, and a news about Tarsian Project. Wakana said the project seems as if that was like a movie because the project is very different from her life. Noboru said one of his friends (Mikako) participated in the project but the friend might had already forgotten him.

The bottom of the stairs was the fork of their ways to home. Noboru lent his umbrella to Wakana. Wakana asked Noboru for a date tomorrow, and kissed Noboru before she left.

Noboru hid from the rain at a bus shelter. At that time, he got an e-mail from Wakana. She said "Take care not to catch a cold and mind your step!" Noboru smiled. Just after that, Noboru got an e-mail again. The e-mail was from Mikako. Mikako told about her first battle at Pluto and she must go to Sirius. That meant her next e-mail would reach to Noboru 8 years and 7 months after. Mikako said "Sorry," and "We are like lovers separated by space and the Earth, aren't we?"

Mikako also said "I want to go back... I want to go back and meet you, Noboru-kun." Noboru noticed Mikako did not give up their relationship yet, different from himself.

Last Modified : October 3, 2004

Episode: #6	Release Date: August 25, 2004 (October Issue)
Color Pages: 0	B/W Pages: 16

Story:
The fleet announced to the crew that they are going to do a warp for 8.6 lightyears to Sirius after 48 hours. Mikako was told that Hisa was rescued by another space ship in the fleet. Mikako talked with Hisa through the monitor screen. Hisa said she would be invalided home. Hisa shed tears and said she would never forget Mikako even if they were separated by the time difference of 8 years. Mikako teared too, and said thank you to Hisa.

On the Earth, a girl Wakana Maeda was talking with Noboru. Wakana asked to Noboru why he had quit Kenod club. Noboru said that he didn't know what he should do, and lost passion to continue kendo. Wakana said she wanted to walk with Noboru on her way home next day again. (Note: She is saying in a roundabout way that she wants to meet Noboru again because she likes him.)

Mikako asked to Miwa how she felt about getting time difference with the people who had been close to her. Miwa answered she had a chance to go back to the Earth once but she didn't, because she was afraid of the time difference between she and other people.

After 8.6 years, Noboru is 25 years old, but Mikako is 17 years old yet. Mikako was afraid that her close people would become different ones, and Noboru would forget her.

Last Modified : August 27, 2004

Episode: #5	Release Date: July 25, 2004 (September Issue)
Color Pages: 4	B/W Pages: 24

Story:
When Noboru went to school, he left his cell phone at home on purpose. He wanted to forget own suffering days waiting e-mails from Mikako.

Mikako was in Kuiper belt around Pluto. Mikako and Hisa were wisecracked by a commander of another platoon about their frivolous conduct. Miwa, the commander of Mikako's platoon, said each of the crews of the fleet is one of 'the choices' of human being, so the fleet should have diversification to investigate unknown lifeform from the space.

When Mikako's was writing an e-mail to Noboru while her platoon was on standby, Tarsians suddenly appeared on the orbit of Pluto. Mikako platoon made a sortie by Tracer. She thought that most of the crews believed that to investigate Tarsians is worth to do from the will of the people on the Earth even though there is a great sacrifice, but she wanted in heart to go back to the Earth safety with all crews. Then, Mikako's tracer faced to a Tarsian, and she was surrounded by the tentacles of. She killed the Tarsian and got back to Lisythea by order. The fleet did a space warp for one light-year. She couldn't send the e-mail.

When Noboru came back to his home, his mother asked to him why he came back so early. He answered he quit a kyudo clud. He checked his cell phone, but no e-mails he got. He thought Mikako has settleed in to her new world and she might not be paying attention to him. He was overcome with feelings of loneliness, and decided to change.

The fleet was out from the warp. Mikako found Hisa's tracer has not returned. Hisa has been missing in action.

She sent a e-mail to Noboru, but her cell phone said the e-mail would reach to the Earth after 1 year 46 days 12 hours 48 seconds. Mikako broke down and wept calling Noboru's name again and again.

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Last Modified : July 25, 2004

Episode: #4	Release Date: May 25, 2004 (July Issue)
Color Pages: 0	B/W Pages: 26

Story:
One year has passed since Mikako left.
Noboru bought a magazine which featured Tarsian investigating project. After he got out from the store, Noboru got an e-mail from Mikako which said she would leave from Jupiter. She said "It will take longer and longer for the e-mail to reach you, but even from Oort Cloud which exists on the furthest corner of the Solar system, it's still about half a year, huh? It's like air-mail in the 20th century. Yeah, it'll be all right!"

The delay of e-mail was getting longer. Noboru was afraid himself would become a person who only was waiting e-mail from Mikako.

One day, Noboru ran into a friend of junior high. The friend said Noboru's school uniform looked cool because Jouhoku high school was a high-level school. The friend glanced at Noboru's magazine, and joked he is having a boring book. Noboru said he bought it because Mikako joined the project, but the friend couldn't remember Mikako well. The friend said Mikako and the project were not concerned with his life because she was not on the Earth now and the outcomes of the project can come up decades　after. And, the friend said he would go shortly to hang out with his buddys and girls.

One day, at school, Noboru saw a boy and a girl are talking happily. Just in the moment, an e-mail reached on his cell phone from Mikako. He remembered Mikako was longing for the uniform of Jouhoku highschool on his way home. But, she did not wear it, and she was not here.

Noboru looked the sky up. He began to doubt his self confidence waiting for Mikako.

NOTICE:
The next episode will appear on September issue (July 25 release). NOT appear on August issue (June 25 release).

Last Modified : June 6, 2004

Episode: #3	Release Date: April 25, 2004 (May Issue)
Color Pages: 0	B/W Pages: 18

Story:
The fleet and Mikako is in Europa Satellite Base in Jupiter. She is writing a e-meil to Noboru by her cellular phone in the restaurant, and her friend Hisa comes up.
(Note: Mikako calls her "Hisa-chan". Hisa's real name may be Hisa, Hisako, Hisae, Hisami, or something related with Hisa.)

Hisa is a long-haired girl in sailor-style school uniform. She is a little elder than Mikako, and is a student of Jouhoku highschool, same as Noboru. Hisa wears Noboru's highschool's uniform, so Mikako feels a little sad because she doesn't wear it and can't go to the highschool together with Noboru.

Hisa proposes to Mikako to swap school uniforms temporarily. Mikako tries Hisa's uniform. Therefore, they late for briefing session.

Mikako and Hisa know the task of this fleet, but they notice that they don't know what this task means and what they should do truely. So, at last, they escaped from the briefing on purpose.

The fleet leaves from Jupiter, and goes to Pluto. Mikako becomes anxious because e-mail's delay will become more and more...

Last Modified : May 3, 2004

Episode: #2	Release Date: March 25, 2004 (April Issue)
Color Page: 0	B/W Page: 24

Story:
In the spring of 2047, Noboru is going to Jouhoku Highschool. There is a strong Kendo club at the school, so Noboru participates in it. He continues to exchange e-mails with Mikako, but he become to avoid asking whether she can come back.

Noboru remembers that Mikako broke a hair pin in kendo training in junior high age, and he said he would repair it for her. But, he couldn't. He bought a new same pin and gave it to Mikako, as if he could repair it by himself.

Mikako is selected as a member of Tarsian Investigating Fleet after training on the Mars. It's rare case that a young woman selected as the member as Mikako is.

Miwa, a female commander of the platoon in which Mikako belongs, appears as a new character. Miwa was in casual clothes with her hair tied in a ponytail. Miwa didn't make up her mind whether to order Mikako to be a pilot of the Tracer formally or not, because this mission is dangerous.

Miwa says: "I don't want to force you to be a pilot of Tracer, (....) because we will be a guardian of human beings in the best, but will be a scapegoat in the worst."
However, Mikako applies for it "if there is what nobody can do except me".

Noboru apologizes to Mikako that he has lied about hair pin by e-mail. Mikako said she has known it, and she said "Thank you" to Noboru.

Last Modified : May 3, 2004

Episode: #1	Release Date: February 25, 2004 (March Issue)
Color Page: 8	B/W Page: 32

Story:
2064 on the Earth, Noboru is reading a textbook for highschool's entrance exam. He gets a e-mail from Mikako by a cellular phone. She says she is on Mars now. She saw many natural environments and Tarsian's ruins on Mars.

Noboru talks with his classmates. Next day, there is a conference with a teacher to talk about a plan after junior high. Noboru's classmate says that he hates the conference and he is envious of Mikako's position, a pilot of Tracer. Noboru keeps silence because he knows Mikako's task is so hard, but, on the other hand, he feels his life is bound. Noboru is a little envious of Mikako too at the back of mind.

On his way home, he sees a small space ship. He reminds he saw a space ship Lysithea together with Mikako when she was on the Earth yet.

In a rainy day, Mikako and Noboru hide from the rain at a bus stop. They chat about Tarsian, draw a wired sketch of Tarsian by joke, and laugh. The rain stops, and they see a formation of Tracers is flying away. Mikako says: "I am going to onboard that."

In the next day, Noboru is in conference with a teacher. The teacher confirms that Noboru wants to go to only Jouhoku highschool and don't take entrance exams to safety schools. Next, they talk about Mikako for a while. The teacher says that he doesn't know well but Mikako was selected as a member of UN Space Force many years before. Many other members join UNSF more early, as soon as they can, but she has kept to go to school up to the limit. Noboru remembers that all students who belong to his generation had gone through a test when he was an infant. The teacher says Mikako might be selected to the member from that.

Noboru sends a e-mail to Mikako. He reports about the snow which falls recently, his mundane daily life, and "Go to the same highschool with me, do you?" While that, Mikako is in air combat training as a pilot. She maneuvers a Tracer, shoots missiles, and destroy a target. After the training, Mikako read the e-mail from Noboru. And, she replies: "Yes..."

However, In the spring of the next year, Noboru becomes a highschool student alone.

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Last Modified : May 3, 2004