Chapter 98: The Core of the Star-Eclipse Eye: “Future Sight” and “Domination”
Chapter 98: The Core of the Star-Eclipse Eye: “Future Sight” and “Domination”
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The final episode of Stellaris: Embers.
“First!”
“Confetti, confetti!”
“Open up—water meter inspection!”
Amid the audience’s enthusiastic barrage of comments, this phenomenal anime finally aired the season finale of its first cour.
And just as everyone expected, in this last episode the production team not only tied up several previously planted hints, but also buried countless tantalizing “hooks” for a second season.
. . .
[Five Minutes Before the Self-Destruction of the Embers Base]
Gohn walked expressionlessly through the devastated underground of the Embers base.
He eventually arrived before one of the base’s armories.
When he pushed open the heavy, deformed blast door, what met his eyes was William—his chest pierced through by steel beams, his entire body buried beneath rubble, with only one arm left exposed.
Gohn looked at him, pinned beneath the ruins.
A complexity visible to the naked eye flickered through his gaze. Then he stepped forward and carefully removed the pink children’s wristwatch from William’s arm.
“You are a stupid man, William—throwing away your own life for a group of enemies.”
“But I will keep my word. Since I said I would help you bring your ‘heart’ back… I won’t go back on it.”
With that, Gohn took the pink children’s toy watch and headed toward the exit of the Embers base.
As he did, the camera suddenly focused on the “pink toy watch” in his hand.
The cracked face, the halted hour hand, the strawberry sticker along the edge soaked in blood.
It was clearly nothing more than a crude children’s toy watch.
Yet it felt as though it was hinting at something far greater.
Just as Gohn’s figure vanished completely into the darkness, a crisp tick suddenly echoed through the corridor.
It was the sound of the clock hand moving.
The moment the sound rang out, the comments section exploded.
“Holy crap! Foreshadowing—this is definitely foreshadowing!”
“William’s daughter has to be a key character!”
“Damn it, when is Season Two coming out?!”
[Embers Base Island, Offshore]
The storm had already passed, and the churning sea had returned to calm.
Morning glimmer filtered through gaps in the clouds, illuminating two figures upon the surface of the ocean.
Tachibana stood atop the head of a Terravaran rising from the sea. Her long black hair fluttered in the ocean breeze, while the crescent-moon earrings by her ears danced silently with it.
Gazing at the Embers base as it continued to sink beneath the waves, she spoke without expression:
“Zmey… are you sure Tendou is really… alright?”
Although the Doctor had reassured her time and again, watching the base steadily disappear beneath the sea still left Tachibana uneasy.
To her, Tendou was far more than just a trainee.
He was a “little brother” she had practically watched grow up—one of the very few family members she had left in this world.
The Doctor did not answer her at once.
Instead, he gently raised a hand toward the towering waves surging toward them as the island sank.
Boom!
As an invisible force swept through, the ferocious wave—over ten meters high—was instantly split apart by unseen power.
The scattered seawater turned into countless droplets, brushing past him and Tachibana like mist.
Only after that did the Doctor calmly look at Tachibana and say, “Rest assured. Tendou is far stronger than you imagine.”
“But he’s still only twelve years old.”
Tachibana’s silver-white, unusual eyes fixed silently on the Doctor.
It was as though she were trying to see through that silver mask—to discern the expression beneath it, to guess his true thoughts.
As the Doctor’s assistant, Tachibana rarely questioned his decisions.
But today… she truly found it hard to trust that choice.
And sensing the shift in Tachibana’s emotions above its head, the Terravaran—thrashing about in the seawater—hesitated for a moment.
Then it immediately turned a fierce glare toward the Doctor, who was standing on the corpse of the mechanical dragon not far away.
Its posture made one thing abundantly clear:
Sis, wherever your finger points—that’s who I will fight!
Loyalty.
Ignoring his assistant Terravaran’s idiotic display, Zmey Gorynych looked at the expressionless Tachibana. After a brief moment of thought, he said, “Tachibana, what do you think the core of the Star-Eclipse Eye is?”
“…Future Sight?”
The Doctor shook his head.
“No. Domination.”
Tachibana showed a hint of confusion, clearly not understanding what he meant.
In response, the Doctor spoke calmly:
“Tachibana, if it were merely Future Sight, then Tendou’s eyes would only be called the Star Eye. They would not be called Star-Eclipse Eye.”
“Only an eye that can see the future and dominate the future can be called a ‘Star-Eclipse Eye.’”
“So don’t worry. A Tendou who has already seen the future—and changed it—is far stronger than you imagine.”
“Besides…”
The Doctor snapped his fingers.
The mechanical dragon beneath his feet immediately began to rapidly disassemble.
Countless nanounits spun like a galaxy, eventually condensing into a radiant metallic sphere that hovered before him.
He reached out, grasped the sphere, and embedded it into the newly acquired perpetual-motion core in his chest.
In an instant, an invisible quantum magnetic field swept across the entire sea, causing strange ripples to spread through the surrounding waters.
“With my preparations in place, nothing will happen to Tendou.”
“After all, he’s not the only one who can ‘see’ the future.”
“Alright, Tachibana. Tendou needs to sleep a little longer. Once he wakes up… you can come pick him up then.”
“As for us, we need to leave first. Those old fossils who got played won’t let this go so easily.”
“They won’t truly feel at ease until they see my ‘corpse.’”
With that, the Doctor’s body rose into the air, slowly flying toward the distant horizon of the sea.
At the same time, the reflection he cast upon the ocean’s surface under the sunlight was no longer human in shape—but that of a black-winged, golden-eyed mechanical dragon.
“Seeing… and then dominating the future?”
Watching the Doctor’s departing back, Tachibana murmured softly, then gently stomped her foot.
“Jin-chan, let’s go.”
Glub glub
Hearing Tachibana’s words, the Terravaran—whose body was submerged with only its nose and above visible—immediately blew a ring of bubbles.
Then it began paddling its thick limbs with all its might, swimming swiftly across the sea’s surface.
Though Tachibana standing atop its head and riding the waves looked undeniably cool, Terravaran’s frantic dog-paddling beneath the water… looked genuinely adorable.
As the two figures gradually receded into the distance, behind them the final outline of the Embers base island was slowly swallowed by the sea—until it vanished completely.
Meanwhile, in the unfathomable depths of the ocean, a special metal cube lay quietly on the seabed.
As the camera drew closer and passed straight through the cube, the dimensional audience soon saw that familiar black computation pod—and Tendou, sleeping peacefully within it.
And so, the final curtain of Season 1 froze upon that very moment.
The sense of foreshadowing practically spilled out of the screen.
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