Coffee と Matcha の潮汐実験

So you’re not a rabbit, but you turn into one sometimes. And you have the ears… but that’s like… different?

It's really not that complicated Chicha-

Sorry to interrupt but- It’s just that- Well its- Coffee and I were-

We have news.

Bad news.

Troubling news.

SPIT IT OUT ALREADY.

We’ve been conducting experiments on the anima we’ve collected in the field.

We had a theory and well…

…is there anywhere we could speak privately? Away from… you know who…

We’re safe here. The circle agreed not to spy on my room when I arrived.

Excellent. Our hypothesis that the tide was a corrupted form of anima has proven accurate. We were able to synthesize one of those cretins in vitro.

Huh?

The tide is made up of the same stuff as our souls. It’s just discordant… like fragments of sentience corrupted into something else.

Blackened and twisted souls, congealing into a single force.

It would appear so.

What causes the corruption then? These things are spreading across the whole cosmos, it must be a pretty universal process.

…That’s the trouble.

…We aren’t sure.

Great.

BUT. We do know one thing for certain.

The corruption only takes place once anima has come in contact with mana. We couldn’t replicate the process otherwise.

That’s…

Bad?

Troubling even.