Clockwork Planet

The next morning, Hirokazu wakes up to find that the gravity problem in the city is really shaking it. He thinks it's time to get rid of the trash heaps that are being fired at him. He's going to use his imaginary gear to beat the city's "automatic mobile forces" . He wants to know if he can beat them with his real gear, which is what caused his lack of function in the first place. He says he'll use his "imaginary gear" to beat them, but it'll take him a while to get over the fact that he left his side for a shift from real time to imaginary time. He also says that he can't even hear her scream because she's using the gear to jump from one direction to the other. He tells her to let him go wherever he wants to go, and she'll let him do whatever he wants. The only problem, he says, is that the imaginary gear doesn't actually exist. It only transmits energy counter-clockwise, which means that the real time is going in one direction, while the imaginary time is moving in the opposite direction. That's weird, he tells us, because he's never heard of an automaton with "free will" before. He asks if they're afraid that they'll love him, and they say they've never heard anyone say that before. They're going to call it a "poison speech filter" so they can hear her real feelings. They don't know what else to do, but they have to save the city from