A Sad Story

[Elysia: Huh!??]

[Elysia (Current Era): I feel like I just heard some incredibly shocking secret.](?＞?＜?)

[Cecilia: Um... could the crystal you mentioned possibly be...](;￣д￣)

[Vita: These seven little ones, of course. So, what do you think? Don't they look a lot like me?]

Vita posted a photo of seven little Vitas.

[Jean: Girls can reproduce too?]Σ(????)?

[Nahida: I seem to have learned something rather extraordinary.]

Nahida was learning "forbidden" knowledge.

[Theresa: That must have been a slip of the tongue, right? How could two girls possibly...]Σ(?д?|||)??

Theresa suddenly remembered her situation with Kiana. That seemed like it should count too.

[Murata Himeko: I hope I'm just overthinking this.]

Himeko thought of certain rather shocking things.

For instance, a manga she had confiscated from a student on some day in some year.

And certain surgical procedures in a certain country.

[Kallen: Has the world really changed this much?]

[Kallen: Two girls can actually have children? Then doesn't that mean...](#／.＼#)

[Otto: Miss Vita, while your words contain many implications, from what I can observe, these so-called children of yours ought to be creations of some sort of technology—clones, perhaps.](?ì_í?)

[Ruan Mei: Indeed. Those children do not bear even the slightest resemblance to that blue-haired girl. On the contrary, they look almost exactly like Miss Vita. From a genetic standpoint, that is impossible.](?ì_í?)

[Vita: My, I didn't expect you to discover my little secret so quickly.](〃?ω?)

[Vita: I'll give you all a thumbs-up!](??ω??)?

[Vita: But there is one thing I wasn't lying about. These children really are our shared children.]`(∩_∩)′

[Stelle: Don't understand, smida!]ヽ(゜Q.)ノ

[Cion: Don't understand, smida!]ヽ(゜Q.)ノ

[Arataki Itto: Ahahahaha! This great Arataki Itto doesn't understand smida either!]ヽ(゜Q.)ノ

[Childe: I don't know what smida is, but I didn't understand it either, smida!]ヽ(゜Q.)ノ

La Signora, still in her cell...

*I really want to