Love You Day 25,500: 02 [Kyouka Scar] ◇◇◇◇ ( 95 ) (Patreon)

*Day 25,500: 02 [Kyouka Scar] ◇◇◇◇*

Leaving the "children" to cry around the bed, Kyouka beckoned a single young woman over and walked with her out into the hallway.

"What is it, Director-General?"

Her name was Star. She was Homura's daughter, and legally Sayoko and Kyouka's granddaughter.

She was a young but brilliant and promising woman, whom Kyouka was educating by keeping her close, almost like a secretary.

"You can call me Grandma for now."

"What's wrong, Grandma?"

"After I meet with the hospital director, I'm going back to headquarters for a bit. Please take care of the arrangements after that."

"Okay, I understand."

"Also, once everyone has calmed down, get in touch with the aunts and uncles who work for the group. An email is fine."

"Okay. Why?"

Kyouka turned to face the tilting head of Star.

"Star Scar!"

Startled by Kyouka's sudden shift into "Director-General mode," Star quickly adjusted her demeanor.

"Yes!"

"As of today, with the death of Vice Director-General Sayoko Scar, our Scar Conglomerate will activate Project Erika."

"Y-Yes, ma'am!"

Project Erika, a secret plan.

A grand plan that would span several hundred years.

Star's face tensed; Kyouka had revealed the concept to her before.

"We will move into full-scale action as soon as the funeral is over, but I want to inform the family members involved in the conglomerate's management of this tonight. So, make the arrangements. Let's see... the top floor of the main headquarters, the special conference room, should be fine."

"Understood!"

Kyouka patted the head of Star, who stood at attention as she replied, then gave a light wave and turned her back.

Click, clack, click.

As Kyouka walked briskly away, something warm trickled down her cheek. As if to hide it, she quickened her pace. A staff member she passed turned to look back with a surprised expression, but she continued on without paying them any mind.

(That's right. I won't let it end.)

...Sayoko.

Ever since then, I've been thinking about whether there was a way to save Eri-chan.

I had the timeship's mainframe run analyses on it for a long, long time.

But no matter how many patterns I considered, no matter how many simulations I ran, the result was always "impossible."

Well, I suppose that's to be expected.

No matter how much money I pour into it, no matter how much effort I expend...

With the fundamental scientific knowledge, technology, and industrial power of this era, it's impossible to build a time-travel device.

We can't even analyze the technology related to the timeship.

So, I thought about waiting until the time machine is invented and entrusting our wish to that generation.

But the simulation result for that was also a no-go. And my own personal prediction was a big fat X, too.

It would be impossible for an organization to maintain an individual's wish for the nearly six hundred years until a time machine is built.

If a huge organization exists for several hundred years, as long as it's healthy, power struggles and reforms are inevitable. And after going through several of those, even if it was the founder's, a personal desire would be forgotten and cast aside.

It's only natural. Because a massive organization capable of executing this plan can no longer be said to belong to an individual.

But.

What if I could make them think that those feelings, that ideology... wasn't personal? What do you think would happen?

If so, that's another story.

If I frame it not as a personal wish, but as a seemingly plausible cause of social justice or the cherished ambition of the family... wouldn't that ideology be passed down?

Of course, even in that case, power struggles and organizational reforms would still occur.

But when they do, the question of whether the ideology can be maintained, whether it can be achieved, will surely be used as a point of contention.

After all, if they were to deny it, they could be attacked for it in the family's internal power struggles. Whether they actually believe in the cause is another matter.

But it would continue to be used as a "quota" that the successors of the Scar family must achieve, or as a "tool in the battle for succession."

That's why I made the complete prohibition of time travel the theme of the plan.

The reason is arbitrary. Something like the stability of human society.

I could even use the phrase, "People should live in their own time." Hey, doesn't that sound kind of cool, Sayoko?

Well, I'll think about the details later.

It will probably take nine hundred years for the plan to be put into action. Eight hundred at the earliest.

Even through several nuclear wars and periods of turmoil, the conglomerate must maintain its global influence until that time.

Well, until the 27th century, it'll be a piece of cake since I have all sorts of historical data. The Scar Conglomerate existed in the 27th century when I was there, after all. But after that, I'll need the people involved to do their best.

Then, around the eight- or nine-hundred-year mark, I'll have the [Erika System] go back to the 27th century and use that incident as a pretext to solidify the establishment of the [Erika System] itself. Since it's a matter of self-preservation for those involved, I'm sure they'll take it seriously.

As long as the system continues to exist, no one will be able to interfere with our past anymore. In the distant future where the [Erika System] might cease to function, the very survival of humanity would be in question, and by then, no one would care about an incident from the ancient past.

Well, that's the gist of it, I guess.

I wonder if it'll be okay. I hope it'll be okay. I'm worried, but when it's nine hundred years in the future, there's not much I can do.

All I can do is build the organization and the family with that future in mind, create the timeline, construct an AI to supervise family disputes and the execution of the plan, and draft the initial plan and policy for the [Erika System].

Of course, I plan to do all of that meticulously. Don't lump me in with you and your carelessness, okay?

I've run tens of thousands of simulations. I've considered thousands of patterns.

I can't save Eri-chan.

But I can connect her feelings, her wishes... I can make them a certainty.

And that was your wish, too, wasn't it, Sayoko?

So, I'll protect it.

No, let me be the one to protect it.

Because I'm your partner, after all.

Like a tangle of intertwined threads.

I'll fix history, moving back and forth through time, and protect your feelings to the very end.

Sayoko.

That's why, I...

No, I will.

I will not let your feelings end.

2025.10.31

Rinri Kiyo-sensei, the artist for the manga version of "I Won't Forgive Your Future," has drawn a Halloween costume illustration of the three main girls: Sayoko, Erika, and Kyouka! It's a terrifyingly lovely Little Red Riding Hood costume, wearing the skin of a wolf!

Rinri-sensei: "I drew this with the feeling that I wanted Kyouka-chan to enjoy Halloween! She might sulk and say she's too old to get candy now...? (even though she's 10)"

You can just imagine Kyouka, pouting with puffed-out cheeks, but still having a blast!

Happy Halloween to Kyouka, too!

And knowing Erika, who's always so enthusiastic about Sayoko's outfits and cosplays...

She must have had a blast dressing up the adorable, doll-like Kyouka, too!

Erika: "Kyouka-chan... such a talent... too much of a talent...! Ufufufufu."

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Kyouka: "So, medieval (21st century) Halloween is about dressing up as ghosts and committing candy robbery! Hmm, how interesting."

Sayoko: "That's such a misleading way to put it!"

Erika: "Does that mean Halloween in the 27th century is different?"

Kyouka: "It's a festival where we throw ripe pumpkins at each other."

Erika: "Why did it get mixed up with Spain's La Tomatina festival...!?"