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[The camera shows a young man - maybe in his mid-twenties, possibly a little older - in a clean white lab coat, with a calm smile and red hair that's obviously been dyed fairly recently. He looks composed and confident - or, as someone more observant might note, he looks like he's trying to look composed and confident.

The nervous fidgeting, however, begins not too after he starts speaking.]

Hello, visitors to Saeng Seong. My name is Hwan, and I'm an employee in this city's science and technology research facilities.

I...erm, o-on behalf of my colleagues, I wanted to inform you all that the issues you have been experiencing with dramatic changes in internal body temperature should be resolved completely as of late last night. We're sorry that it's taken this long.

I also wanted to apologize for the fact that this happened at all. We...we, well, we really weren't trying to do anything that could potentially harm any of you. As many of you could probably guess, our department is heavily focused on solving the city's current energy crisis. One of our main goals right now is to find ways to make the energy that all of you produce through physical contact more efficient - after all, if we can make what all of you are already doing count for more, the problem gets solved faster, and that makes everyone happy, so-

[Oh dear, he's rambling.]

Ah, anyhow, we were attempting an experiment along those lines. It wasn't supposed to affect you all individually in any way, but we...well, miscalculated. We didn't expect this to be the result at all.

So...So again, we really apologize for what happened.

[Did his supervisors really tell him to apologize this much? Who knows.]

Oh, and if anyone has any further problems or concerns, please don't hesitate to inform Mai, Irene, or anyone else who can relay the message to us. You can also comment here and talk to me.

And...um, Goodbye.

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Hello, Mr. Hwan. I missed the initial announcement, but I appreciate the resolution to this issue as much as your explanation. [ Professional and polite, it seems Nanoha got up on the right side of the bed today! More like she's much calmer and not fueled by mild panic and adrenaline as she had been on the day she arrived, so this is more how she normally would be.

...not that it abates her concerns completely. ] Am I going to be expecting more of these adjustments to take place from here on out? I feel it's our right to know if our safety and comfort is going to be tampered with.

Well, in all honesty...yes, we do plan to continue researching methods to increase the productivity of energy creation. Uh, b-but in the future, I would hope that these experiments don't interfere at all with your day to day lives.

[He doesn't sound as sure of that as he would like to be, though.]

[ It wasn't reassuring at all, but she still has many more questions, so she'll get to that later. ] Do these changes affect everyone universally, or are certain individuals — such as yourself — exempt from symptoms that resulted from that tampering?

As for what happened recently, the symptoms were beginning to affect us as well, just at a much slower rate. We aren't exactly sure why that is, but we're trying to figure that out. That is...I mean, we're certain that it has to do with that fact that we're from here and all of you aren't, but we've been so wrapped up with trying to fix it that we haven't been able to pin down the exact reasons why the reaction with the atmospheric stabilizers occurred and why it hit all of you so much more quickly.

[He should probably be doing this with fewer words and he knows it, but talking to people has never been his greatest skill.]

If, um, if you're talking about the possibility of something similar happening in the future...well, I would hope that doesn't happen, but if it did I don't see why it wouldn't affect everyone. It may be a similar case to what happened last time, though, where it affects visitors and people from here to different degrees. I wouldn't be able to say for sure.

You sound uncertain about many things. [ Like maybe they were dealing with unfamiliar technology. There's a dangerous idea. ]

How long have you all been dealing with this problem?

It...the crisis that Saeng Seong is dealing with right now, that we have been trying to deal with...it's far from normal. We're trying to be as careful as possible with what we do, but we'd be lying if we tried to pretend that we knew how exactly everything we did would turn out.

Ah, which problem exactly are you referring to? The energy crisis?

Precisely that one. Unless there is some other crisis that I should also be aware of. [ This is a bad time to be holding back information, though even Nanoha isn't sure that's what is happening. ]

Yes, I'm sorry, I-I mean no, I...well, I lose the flow of conversations easily...[He looks away from the camera and takes a deep breath, trying to regain his composure. More than anything, he just looks horribly embarrassed.

Maybe he really should have left this to Irene...]

Anyhow, as for how long this has been going on, it's...longer than I can remember.

[ Nanoha exercises patience, for she knows that riling someone up is a poor way to get anywhere when it comes to investigations. ] It's all right. Just take things one a time, please. I also need to let the information sink in as you give it.

Is there someone I can speak with that does know how things began? I'm particularly concerned because there is a point in the history of the world I call home where a disorganized attempt at harnessing a new form of energy ended disastrously and I... would do anything to ensure that such an accident does not happen again. [ She will stop whomever she has to so that nothing like what happened with Precia ever comes to pass here. ]

I...I see. I understand why you would be concerned, in that case.

[He pauses again, this time to think.]

Probably the best people to speak to would be one of my colleagues - many of them would be able to remember what happened. They...I can try to convince one of them to come speak to you all. Try, at least.

I would appreciate that. I think a lot of others would, too, because I can't be the first to be curious about exactly what has happened to bring the city to this current state. [ . . . ] Though I'm also curious — what world are we on right now?

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