The summer break is drawing to a close.

  ?In about two weeks, the researchers will return from their seasonal leaves. To secure the funds for the impending labor costs and facility maintenance, the Doctor has decided to open the Robo Kissa that means Robo-Café.

  ?Set within the heart of the botanical garden, a glass-walled sanctuary has emerged. Its design is sleek and minimalist—stripping away any structural excess to ensure seismic integrity while offering an unobstructed, cinematic view of the stars above.

  ?Clamo proposed a radical shift: by day, the garden is shrouded in black vinyl, completely cutting off direct sunlight. In its place, a sophisticated network of planar lenses and fiber-optic cables has been installed. These cables act as veins of light, pulsing solar energy deep into the facility’s bowels to slash the basement’s heating and electricity costs.

  ?As a side project, they engineered a pressurized system for the cherry tomato seedlings. Bathed in filtered light—purged of ultraviolet rays—and breathing air enriched with double the standard carbon dioxide, the plants grew with unnatural vigor.

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  ?This wasn't mere science fiction. Records from the Korokan archives trace this technique back to a 20th-century Japanese professor from Tokyo.

  ?The results were staggering. In just a few months, a single vine surged to three meters, yielding an impossible harvest of four hundred baseball-sized tomatoes. The records suggest this is only the beginning: after two years, such a plant could reach five meters and nine hundred fruits, eventually stretching to a titan of twelve meters. The ceiling of its potential has yet to be found.

  ?Two months have passed since Amethyst began joining them for dinner.

  ?As the harvest overflows, Clamo spends his hours devising a culinary repertoire vast enough to handle the surplus. The laboratory is no longer just self-sufficient; it has earned a new moniker among the locals: "The City’s Granary."

  ?And through long, winding conversations with Amethyst, more than just her history has come to light. The shadows surrounding the "Torn Page Incident" are finally beginning to dissipate, revealing a truth more complex than anyone had imagined.