The broadcast accidents never stop.

Translated by Dawn

The broadcast accidents never stop.

“Yeah! Let’s put this story aside for now!”

The MC person interrupted Maria and prevented a broadcast accident. I’m sorry that one of the kids was clumsy.

“So, Arima-san, speaking of Arima-san and the celebrity scandal that has been going on since yesterday, is it possible for you to uncover anyone’s scandal?”

“It is possible if there is enough information available. But it is not possible if I don’t know who the person is or if the scandal doesn’t exist. My ability is only to do Thoughtography of the facts that exist. It is not a video editing capability.”

“That’s scary. So if I do something wrong, will I get caught too?”

“Yes, but since you are already divorced, no matter how many dirty relationships you have with women—”

“Well then, let’s ask Naimine-san a question!!!”

The MC person interrupted Maria and went on the defensive. Oi, oi.

In truth, the questions to Maria would be the most in-demand, but the topic was quickly shifted to Miina.

“Well~, the value of the Japanese yen has plummeted and we can no longer import metal resources, but thanks to NAIMINE, factories all over Japan have been saved. You are a hero of the secondary industry!”

“That’s such an exaggeration. It was only with the support of the people at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ Extraordinary Ability Bureau.”

“Is that so? By the way, Naimine-san, if you only remove metal resources from the garbage landfill, won’t the landfill be depleted?”

“I will fill the landfill with the earth and sand that Ikuo-kun Apported for us instead. My [rebuilding] can also rebuild the soil and harden it, so if anything, the ground will be stronger than before.”

It was a lie.

In fact, Miina extracted metal resources from the ocean, not from garbage landfills.

Since seawater contained all metals at the particulate level, Miina could produce any metal from seawater.

Nevertheless, it was inevitable that countries that would not be pleased with Japan’s development would restrict the use of seawater once they learned of this fact.

So, ostensibly, we pretended that we were extracting metal resources from garbage landfills.

“Heh, by the way, you must be getting a lot of nasty stories?”

The MC man rubbed his thumb and middle finger together and smiled showing his teeth.

“Yes. But my starting salary has been donated. Because I had no use for that much money. I have already decided where I will donate the money, so in a sense, I am keeping the cycle running.”

Miina responded to the MC’s question with an elegant expression and a mild tone of voice in a flowing manner.

It seemed that she had been behaving as a people pleaser for eight years in order to secure her place. That ability to respond was also on full display here.’

And what about Shisae?

“What kind of a saint are you? Then I’d like to ask you, Esashi-san, doesn’t your [Operation] work on people?”

“…!?”

At the MC’s words, Shisae’s eyelids froze open abruptly.

“Se-Sebas-chan!”

“Who’s Sebas-chan?”

“Ah, that’s wrong, Honey-chan!”

“I’m not Honey!”

I gave a stiff Shisae a karate chop gesture.

The guests laughed.

Maria chided Shisae.

“Yes. Shisae-san. Unlike usual, didn’t we all promise not to call Ikuo-san Honey-san during the recording?”

“…..Eh? Everyone? You usually call him Honey?”

“Operation doesn’t work on humans!”

“Before the guests could dig deeper, I answered the question earlier with vigor.

My partner and I can vouch for that. It doesn’t work at all. I’ve tried it a few times, but I didn’t feel anything. However, it does work on dogs, cats, and monkeys, so I figure it’s not so much intelligence as the fact that it doesn’t work on her own kind.”

“I see. So the plan is to exterminate non-native species throughout Japan?”

“Yes. We intend not only to solve Japan’s food problem but also to use this opportunity to solve the problem of non-native species in one fell swoop.”

“What is that?”

Suddenly, a guest, a young female entertainer, spoke up.

“Isn’t it true that non-native species are victims of humans who brought them here by force? Isn’t it a human convenience to bring them in without permission and then exterminate them because they are in the way? Isn’t that animal abuse?”

I was fed up with this annoying person again.

Still, I tried my best to explain calmly.

“If non-native species breed, native animals may become extinct, so what’s to be done?”

“Isn’t that discrimination? If you say that it’s okay because they are native species and it’s okay to exterminate them because they are non-native species, then you are saying that it’s okay to kill foreigners, aren’t you? I don’t think we should be discriminatory like that. We live in a diverse society that recognizes diversity, and I think that we humans should take responsibility for finding ways to deal with non-native species. Don’t you all agree?”

While spouting off sophomoric statements, the female entertainer gave the audience and cameras all the attention she could handle.

It really made my head hurt to think that these idiots were going to destroy the country.

Smart people would think according to reality, but dumb people do think not according to reality.

There were two kinds of these idiots.

The pattern was that they were really not smart enough and criticized the compromised realism with unrealistic idealism.

Then there was the pattern of making money by parasitically exploiting social problems, or satisfying their need for self-aggrandizement by playing the saint to get attention.

Either way, she was a fool of the highest order.

“Why do we have to eat meat at all? Let’s all become vegans. Japanese people lived without meat until the Edo period, so there is no need to eat meat because of Western culture.”

—That vegan mindset also originated in the West, right? And, before Edo, they ate meat in Japan too, you know?

I was not able to say that.

What I learned in my nine years of elementary and junior high school life was that you couldn’t win against an idiot.

Idiots were idiots, so no matter how much you tried to convince them with good arguments, they would not admit to it and would come up with incoherent statements, wasting your time.

Even if you legitimately defeat them, they would come back later to get even with you because of a grudge. Just like Ryogo Bando who attacked Miina.

The moment you get involved with an idiot, you lose.

But if you didn’t say anything, the idiot would think they had defeated you and declared victory to the world.

hen I was at a loss for a response, wondering why the TV station had invited such a person as a guest, someone said to me.

“Huh? If there are non-native species, the native species will become extinct and the ecosystem will be destroyed, right?”

It was Shisae.

She answered with a blank stare, her face devoid of any tension.

“No, that’s why I’m saying that we should look for ways to prevent the ecosystem from being damaged by non-native species! Don’t you understand Japanese!?”

“Yeah. While we are looking for a way to do that, native species will become extinct. Once extinct, they will not come back. It’s like the dinosaurs. That’s why we have to exterminate non-native species before the ecosystem collapses. There are many non-native species in the local area, so they will not become extinct even if we exterminate them.”

Shisae rolled her tongue around as if she were standing on a plank of water.

“What’s wrong, Shisae? What in the world is going on?”

I couldn’t stop being nervous in various ways at Shisae’s sudden change.

The female entertainer was also very upset.

“L-like I said, that’s the human’s fault, isn’t it? It’s human beings’ fault, and killing them is the solution, isn’t that terrible!?”

“It’s a human responsibility, so humans are responsible for killing them, you know?”

“There it is, pretending to be God. After all, we kill for our own reasons, don’t we? Please stop pretending to be a god.”

When the female entertainer stood up and protested, Shisae raised her eyebrows and tilted her head.

“You don’t have to be a god to kill a living creature. A lion eats a zebra, but does the lion think they’re god?”

“T-that’s because they have to in order to live! Unlike humans, animals only kill what they need!”

“Eh? Animals kill their friends and other animals for fun, don’t they? Elephants, horses, lions, monkeys, and other herd animals are basically bullies. Are you saying you don’t know much about animals?”

“A-animals don’t do that!”

“Yes, they do. We can provide you with plenty of video and data to prove—”

“It’s people like you who think the earth belongs only to humans that are destroying it! Please apologize to the animals!”

As the female entertainer continued to speak, interrupting Shisae, Shisae scratched her cheek with a straight face,

“What is it, can you please stop telling [lies]?”

And asked.

The female entertainer’s face turned red, and while she was looking for her next words, Shisae rolled her tongue as if she was trying to gain the upper hand.

“Animals kill and hurt other animals for no reason, for fun or to satisfy their aggression. But Shisae and other humans can choose not to kill for fun. We only kill to eat, to make leather products, to maintain the ecosystem, to prevent epidemics, to protect something, and that is what makes us human.”

“Gugugu, you can say that because you are the strong one. Then, if an alien tries to kill an earthling because it is necessary, do you think it is OK?”

“No, of course, we would resist if we were about to be killed, wouldn’t we? Even zebras resist so much that lions don’t eat them. That is the competition for survival, isn’t it? We kill because we have to, and those who are killed resist. There is no right or wrong in that.”

“……….”

The male MC jumped in as the female entertainer opened her pupils and nostrils and released a sign that she was about to burst.

“Well, well, well, it’s just that everyone is different and everyone is good, so let’s move on to the next question, shall we?”

After being forcefully concluded, the female entertainer still looked unconvinced, but the guests sitting on either side of her nudged her and she glared at us silently.

I was sure that she would try to get back at us later with some nonsense.

But I was no longer annoyed with the female talent.

—Isn’t Shisae smart after all?

When I first met her, she was very philosophical when the topic of killing and eating livestock and vermin extermination came up.

Normally, she was just a high-spirited, annoying girl, but every time she showed this side of herself, I renewed my appreciation of her.

In the end, no more female entertainers got involved, and the rest of the session went on without a hitch.