Chapter 25

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## Chapter Chronology

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Chapter 26

This is chapter 25 in the Heaven's Design Team manga series.

## Plot

Higuchi is helping Tsuchiya in the office on a new order for “an animal with excellent hearing.” She makes a suggestion regarding the size of the ear holes when Shimoda walks in. After exchanging greetings, Shimoda is eager to see the progress the two have made. To his surprise, he sees Tsuchiya working with the alien child prototype that originally became a tarsier.

Tsuchiya alerts Higuchi that he can see the eyeball through the ear hole. She then informs him that they can’t make the ear holes bigger. After getting a lesson on how the ear works, Shimoda wonders if there is a way to make the ears bigger like an elephant. But Tsuchiya informs him that elephants can’t hear well with their ears. Instead they use their feet to pick up vibrations from the ground.

Getting back to the prototype, Higuchi has an idea of making the ridges of the ear respond to the direction of incoming sound. So Tsuchiya adjusts the design giving the prototype multiple ear ridges. Higuchi also notes that with the ear holes on the side, it would be hard to pick up soft noises. Tsuchiya decides to move the ear holes to the front of the face and then gives the prototype a rotating neck. To see how well the prototype does with hunting, Tsuchiya asks Shimoda to pretend to be prey, much to the latter’s hesitation.

The lights are turned off and Shimoda timidly takes position under the office table. Suddenly the prototype starts dashing toward Shimoda, causing him to yell and panic. Tsuchiya stops the test and Shimoda points out that he heard its footsteps. Taking the new information into account, Tsuchiya tweaks the prototype’s design by giving it the ability to fly. He also offsets the ears so that it can pick up sound at different heights, which Higuchi concurs with.

They run another test, but Shimoda is able to tell where the creature is coming from again. It was the rustling of the wings that gave it away. Tsuchiya turns to Higuchi who recommends making the edges of the feathers serrated. After some tweaks they run the test again. But Shimoda is able to spot it without hiding under the table. Shocked, Tsuchiya asks why and Shimoda points out that when the prototype moves its head, the ears start to wave around making it noticeable.

Seeing that Shimoda is right, Tsuchiya decides to squish the ears right up against the face. Ensuring the form stays the same no matter which way the head turns, earning Higuchi's seal of approval. With all the data they collected, Tsuchiya makes a few more adjustments and the result is a new bird species. Suddenly, Shimoda receives a message from God giving divine approval and the owl is born.

As Shimoda gazes at the owl, he wonders what happened to the  parabolic shape of the ears. Tsuchiya explains that the owl’s round depression on its face was made into a parabola, and the feathers help direct the sound towards the ears. Shimoda is happy that the final version isn’t as scary as the previous one, only for Tsuchiya to point out that its chicks look exactly like the previous version. To top it all off, the coloring is the same range as horses.

Later on Kanamori admires the new species of bird. She then makes a slight change to its appearance giving it ear tufts. God gives the new change divine approval and the horned owl is born.

## New Animals

* Owl (Strigiformes)
* Horned owl (Bubo)