Beneath the cut is a detailed summary of 7 Seeds vol. 20, chapter 104 by Tamura Yumi. Don’t click through if you don’t want spoilers. Download the raw here.
They open door number one to find a single computer console standing in the middle of the room. Ango says he doesn’t know anything about computers and orders Arashi to do it. Natsu contacts Hotaru through the intercom, and Hotaru also connects them to Botan’s group.
Arashi turns on the computer and a question pops up on the screen: “What is your favorite book?” Arashi and Natsu have no idea where to start, but Botan suggests putting in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, saying that the captain quoted from it.
Arashi inputs the title and it works, but then there’s another box asking for an eight-character code, specifically “the same code as before”. Arashi asks Hotaru if she has the instructions to fire the missiles. She does, and she reads them to everyone.
In order to start and stop the self-destruct, one person is needed in each of the four booths. They must each set their own confirmation question and choose an eight-character password. Then all four must simultaneously press and hold the button for three seconds.
Realising that they need to get all the questions and passwords, Ango tells Hotaru to guide them to the captain’s room in hopes that he left the code written somewhere.
The captain lies dead in front of the captain’s room, and while the others search inside, Natsu looks at him, wondering if he has a note or something in one of his pockets. She doesn’t want to have to touch him to get at it, though, as she’s scared of the bacteria.
It’s then that she notices one hand is oddly free of the bacteria. There’s a bracelet on that wrist, silver or platinum, which the bacteria seem to have no interest in. As she looks closer, she sees there are numbers and letters on the bracelet and she realises what that means.
Once they’re back in room #1, they input the code from the bracelet, and a pop-up asks if they want to stop the missiles. They press yes and head for room #2.
Since they have no idea who the other people would be other than the captain, Arashi thinks they won’t be able to get anywhere with the second question, but when it pops up a picture of a kitten and the question “What is your pet’s name?”, Natsu recognises the kitten from the photo she picked up. “Mimi-chan!!” she cries.
“Mimi” turns out to be the correct answer, and now they know where to look for the code, in the rooms around where she found the photo.
Natsu says they should split up and Arashi and Ango should check out rooms 3 and 4. She says now that she knows all about the hidden ladders and the intercom and the room numbers, she’ll be okay. Ango agrees and says he’ll leave room 2 to Natsu. “Natsu,” Arashi says, “let’s stop those missiles,” and then they high-five (which Ango flat-out refuses to participate in).
Meanwhile, Semimaru is tired of doing nothing and volunteers to go to room 3. The question there turns out to be “What is the most popular menu choice for dinner?” At first he thinks there’s no way they could ever figure that out, but then they all talk about how much they love curry, and even Ango admits that the Summer A candidates had all loved curry, too. Semimaru inputs “curry” and then says the guy must be a chef, so he’s off to check out the kitchen.
Ango and Arashi head down to room #4 only to find that the bacteria are really bad down there. There was a shootout, and the metal from the bullets and blood had attracted the bacteria.
However, the computer still works, and the question it asks is “What sport can’t you play on a ship?” It’s a multiple choice question and says they’re allowed three mistakes before they’re out.
Arashi reads out soccer, basketball, bowling and golf, and Semimaru says there was a bowling set and Matsuri says there were golf clubs and soccer and basket and volleyballs, too.
As the others continue to debate what sport it might be, Semimaru explores the kitchen area, finally going into the freezer, where he’s confronted with the sight of the chef’s rotting corpse. He had hanged himself.
There’s a bracelet on his wrist, too. Semimaru sees it and says the chef must have hanged himself after hitting the missile switch. “Sorry, but we’re going to stop them,” he tells the chef. “I bet your curry was delicious.” Then he apologises for disturbing him and closes the freezer doors again.
While he’d been talking with the chef, the others had realised the answer to the sports question was baseball, so now Ango and Arashi are heading to the gym.
Meanwhile, Natsu is looking for Mimi’s owner. She puts the photo back and apologises for taking it. This time she isn’t afraid. She finds a corpse with an untouched hand just like the captain, but there’s no bracelet. She wonders if maybe it fell off when the ship changed position and spots a ring in the corner of the room.
They now have all the codes but one, however, Ango and Arashi are having no luck in the gym. There are no dead bodies anywhere. But when they look in the lockers, they find a set of dog tags with the code on it inside a baseball trophy. Ango asks how Arashi knew to look inside it and Arashi says from the question he figured the guy liked baseball.
Ango tells Arashi to go back to #1 and he will go to #4. As Arashi is about to leave, Ango calls out to him, but when Arashi asks what he wants, Ango says it’s nothing. Summer B’s not totally incompetent, he thinks.
Now that they’ve all input their codes, Hotaru tells them she will count down from five and on zero they should all press the button.
She reaches zero and they all press cancel…but the missile countdown doesn’t stop.
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