Stage 1-12

**Stage 1-12** is a story stage of Chapter 1: Final Program.

## Script

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* Recording of the Final Episode of Miracle Finder
* With the help of my colleagues, I designed the theme, content, and the run down of the last show.
* Though I've recorded several episodes of Miracle Finder, it's the first time I felt nervous.
* **MC**: Anna, let's go through the program run down once more.
* **Anna**: How many times have you checked today? But, oh, alright...
* **Host**: My dear! I've never rehearsed this many times. I can even remember everyone else's lines!
* **MC**: Once more. You'll get a salary bump.
* **Lucien**: Just relax. I read the script. It's a good show.
* **MC**: ?! Professor Lucien, you're here.
* Hearing the words, Lucien seemed a little unhappy with me.
* **Lucien**: Um?
* **MC**: Oh... Lucien.
* **Lucien**: Aren't you going to show me around?
* **MC**: Sure. I'll introduce you to everyone. This is the guest expert for this show...
* **MC**: A distinguished scholar in neuroscience, Professor Lucien.
* **Lucien**: Hello, everyone.
* The audience stared at the professor in silence, then a moment later, broke into thunderous applause.
* Anna leaned in next to me.
* **Anna**: Where did you find such a handsome professor? This show is in the bag!
* The appearance of Lucien swept away the tension and unease on the set.
* **MC**: Lucien, um... Do you want to come on other future shows?-- I mean, if MC Company carries on.
* **Lucien**: Of course. If it's a program you're producing, I'd be happy to join.
* The recording session was very smooth.
* **Host**: Professor Lucien, what does neuroscience have to say about the seemingly miraculous art of mind-reading?
* **Lucien**: Well... perhaps more precisely, we should call it "brain-reading".
* Lucien's quibbling over terminology makes the whole audience laugh.
* **Lucien**: "Can consciousness be read"? An interesting topic. One theory argues that everything in the world is interconnected...
* **Anna**: The professor is something... Handsome, intelligent, and humorous.
* For a professor, Lucien is really down to earth. His humor and knowledge light up the set.
* He's literally another person in front of the camera...
* Looking into the monitor, somehow, I feel I don't really know this person.
* **Host**: Dear audience, the show is near its end. Let's invite Professor Lucien to have the final word! Please!
* **Lucien**: As our scientific understanding of humanity expands, the frontier of the unknown, expands with it.
* **Lucien**: Miracle Finder might end today, but the superpowers it discovered, have transcended our age.
* **Lucien**: Maybe someday in the future, the pace of science will catch up with this show.
* **Lucien**: Every scientist, myself included, hopes to make a contribution in this field.
* Obviously, Lucien garnered lots of fans for himself after the show ended.
* Instead of just leaving as usual, the paid student-audience members crowded around the guest area.
* Even some of the staff joined them holding autograph books.
* It was already late when I was finally able to escort Lucien out.
* **MC**: I'm really thankful for what you did today.
* **Lucien**: The honor is mine. It's the first time I've ever been on a show. It was really interesting.
* Thinking of what Lucien said on the show, I couldn't help but recalling the accident that day.
* I keep telling myself it was a hallucination, but it all seemed too real...
* Lucien is so open to the idea of superpowers. Perhaps he knows something?
* Maybe I can ask Lucien about it and not be seen as a crazy person.
* **MC**: Lucien... Can I ask something?
* **Lucien**: As long as I can help, of course.
* **MC**: You... Have you ever heard the term Evolver?
* The question stopped him in his tracks.
* He, still calmly, looked me over.
* **Lucien**: Yes. I've heard of it.
* **MC**: Really?!
* **Lucien**: So, where did you hear that word?

* Choice 1: Tell Him
* Choice 2: Don't Tell Him

* **Lucien**: Is that so?
* **Lucien**: Thank you for trusting me and sharing this with me.
* **Lucien**: I'm pleased.

- I hesitated. I have no idea if I should tell Lucien about what happened that day.

- **Lucien**: If you're not comfortable telling me, then you don't have to.

- **Lucien**: "Evolver" basically just means, a super-evolved human. It's just an academic term for a super-powered being.

- **Lucien**: It's said that 20 years ago, a British scientist dissected many superhumans and found a unique gene.

- **Lucien**: He called the special ability expressed by this gene, Evol. In other words, a Superpower. And those who possess Evols, are Evolvers.

- **MC**: He dissected a lot of-- um... Evolvers?

- **Lucien**: Does that scare you? Actually, the scientist was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment.

- **Lucien**: Because they involved crimes against humanity, his research was deemed classified by the World Gene Organization.

- **MC**: Sounds... inconceivable.

- **Lucien**: These are all just rumors I've picked from working in bioscience. I don't have a clue about the details.

- **Lucien**: Maybe the rumors are partly true, part fiction-- just like the superpowers on Miracle Finder.

- **MC**: Yeah... but other people have probably heard about it too and believe in it.

- **Lucien**: I am doing related research on this myself. Maybe one day, I will find out the truth behind it.

- **Lucien**: If you find any real superhumans while making your show, they are more than welcome in my research center.

- **MC**: Oh?...

- **Lucien**: What are you thinking? My research is all completely legal.

- **MC**: Couldn't helping letting my imagination run wild. Occupational hazard.

- If that's the case, the strange man I met that day must believe in the existence of this Evol.

- And based on what he said, I must be one of those Evolvers of legend.

- I have no idea what makes him think so, because I'm definitely just as normal as everybody.

- In my 22 years alive, nothing inexplicable has ever happened-- except those 2 car accidents.

- But, even if what happened that day wasn't real, the story of Evolvers itself will make an extraordinary topic.

- I wonder if that man would have a different version of the story?

- If I could somehow meet that man again...

- Perhaps... he's a real superhuman. You never know.