Report 53

Plot
Arata, Ryō and An sit down to talk. Arata asks for a proper explanation for what just happened, and is surprised to find that Ryō is his age and An is a year younger. An and Ryō apologize to Arata for the deception, though to him they do not seem to be very sorry at all. An explains that the purpose of her actions was not to make fun of Arata, as testing the moral integrity of the subjects is important to the experiment because some of them might try to exploit the memory erasure by fooling around with high school girls or such like.

Arata wonders if it means that his experiment was in jeopardy depending on how he acted, and Ryō explains that he did not come to stop Arata. Instead, he came to stop An, as she has been acting too unpredictably for his convenience. As he speaks, despite his usual smile An gets the impression that Ryō is quite angry at her.

Despite Ryō attempting to stop her from talking about it, An reveals that in truth she was not worried about Arata's morals as she was the one who chose him for the experiment. She was the one who was originally supposed to be Arata's support, and she immediately knew she was going to choose him as her subject when she went to observe Arata at work at the convenience store.