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“Hey, Oikawa! Where’s my katana?!”
“Shut up and get in here, Kurata! You need to see this!”
“See what?” the burly man grumbled as he walked into the front room.
“-of Anima-City has requested that a press conference be held to explain the circumstances of the strange events that affected the Beastman Special Zone a few weeks ago. In preparation for the event, a startling announcement was made: two of the key players in resolving the incident were in fact human.
“Kagemori Michiru and Hiwatashi Nazuna were high school friends when both were caught in a car accident. During their treatment, a mistake was made and the two were infused with an experimental drug created by Sylvasta Pharmaceutical that transformed both girls into beastmen.”
“‘I know that it seems strange,’” a beastman with teal hair and brown facial markings was saying with a bright smile.
“Hey, isn’t that-?!”
“Shhh!!”
“‘-I was terrified, but now I’ve really come to love Anima-City.’”
“‘There are rumors that a drug has been produced that could turn you back. Will you ever take that opportunity?’” the interviewer prompted.
“‘At the start of all this, I would’ve used it in a heartbeat. But now? I like myself, the way I am now. I like the friendships I’ve made and the life I’ve built. I wouldn’t change what happened for the world.’
“Mayor Barbara Rose has announced that Kagemori Michiru will be participating on the panel for the press conference, in the hope that she can help humans and beastmen alike understand one another. She has high hopes that Kagemori Michiru’s experience will help beastmen and humans alike to reach ‘a new level of peace and mutual understanding’.”
The TV turned off with a click as those gathered in the room exchanged grim looks.
“Well,” one of them growled what everyone else was thinking, “it sounds like the war against the beastmen has just escalated.”