<p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933"> This is the first time I've ever gone for a walk like this.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">By "like this" you mean...</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Out walking alone with a boy.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">Come on, I can't believe that.<br> You're telling me that you've never gone out a date with anyone before?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Never.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">You're kidding, right? I mean don't you have guys just lining up to ask you out?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">But I can't do it. You see I'm not supposed to go out on a date with anyone,<br> </font> <font color="#CC9933">at least not on this...</font><font color="#CC9933"><br> Kyon, I've got a favor to ask of you.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">After a couple of false starts, Miss Asahina finally started putting<br> her words to complete sentences and began to explain.</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">You might not believe a word I'm about to say,<br> but the truth is I'm not actually from this time plane.<br> I come from the future.<br> I can't tell you from which time here it is or time plane I come from though,<br> Telling anything about the future to anyone from the past is restricted.<br> I was XXXX time machine.<br> Ah, think of it is thing a lot like animation.<br> The pictures look like they're a motion, right?<br> But it is just a series of still frames laid out in the sequence.<br> The time is just like that.<br> Time-traveling is moving in a three dimensional direction along<br> the various time planes.<br> I'm from the future, that means on this time planes, I'm sort of like<br> an extra picture in the middle of one of those flip book animation things.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF"> What is it, now?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">As for me, I'm here because a large timequake happened three years ago.<br> That's three years ago from the current time in this plane.<br> We arrived in the past to investigate and we were surprised once we got here.<br> No matter how hard we tried, we couldn't go for the back in time from<br> that plane.<br> The conclusion was that there had to be a large time-gap between the<br> time planes.<br> It wasn't until recently that we found the thing that caused it.<br> That is, "recently" in the future where I come from.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">So, what is the reason?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Miss Suzumiya.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">Not again.</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">She was at the very center of the time distortion,<br> and I can't explain any more this to you because it's classified information.<br> But we're certain that it's Miss Suzumiya who closed the access to the past.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">It's hard to believe Haruhi would be able to do something like that</font>.</p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Believe me. It's a mystery to us as well.<br> And Miss Suzumiya doesn't realize that she's the cause of the timequake either.<br> That's why I come in.<br> I was sent here to see whether or not there would be any new time anomalies occurring<br> near Miss Suzumiya.<br> I guess I'm a kind of like a watchdog.<br> Oh, I understand you don't want to believe what I've just told you.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">No, it's not that. it's just...<br> Why are you telling me?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933"> Because you are the one that Miss Suzumiya has chosen.<br> I can't explain because it's classified information.<br> But you're very important to Miss Suzumiya.<br> There're reasons behind everything she does, every time she raises her<br> hand and takes her step.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">What about Nagato and the new guy?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Oh well, they are in very similar positions to me.<br> I never expected Miss Suzumiya to get us all together in such a precise<br> manner, though.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">So that means you know who or what both of them really are, right?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">That's classified.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">Can you tell me what's going to happen to Haruhi?<br></font> <br> Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">That's classified.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">Well, if you are from the future, you already know what happens, right?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">That's classified.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF"> Well then, why don't you just tell Haruhi all this stuff?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">That's classified.<br> I'm sorry, but I'm not authorized to say anything right now.<br> You don't have to believe me.<br> I just wanted you to know about it, that's all.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">I just heard the same thing a couple of days ago, didn't I?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">I'm sorry to dump all this on you like I did.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">Don't apologize, I don't mind.<br> So now we got an alien and a time-traveler.<br> What's going on here?<br> If there's anybody out there who believes in all the stuff,<br> please call me. We'll trade places.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">Miss Asahina,</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Yes?</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">You mind if we put all this on hold, I mean is it OK if we just put aside<br> whether I believe you or not, and just get back to it later?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Sure.</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">Before we do, can I ask you one question?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">Yes, what is it?</font></p> <p>Kyon: <font color="#3366FF">If you wouldn't mind, could you tell me how old you really are?</font></p> <p>Mikuru: <font color="#CC9933">That's classified!<br></font></p>