Hoi, have a translation bump for these last 2 pages. (Is this how you do a translation bump?)
Man, reading through this had been a ride with mixed feelings. Sad, happy, funny, existential dread and a little bit of more fear of the universe. Glad that some humour was mixed into this story so it wasn't soul crushingly depressing just kinda depressing.
★The Universe★
The universe is truly a mysterious place.
In order to draw a manga about the universe, I bought a lot of literature on astrophysics and astronomy, hung around the library, and conducted in-depth research.
The previous “Final” part was more of an entertainment story, while this “Eternity” part is a more accurate depiction of the future of the universe as shown by modern astrophysics.
Around August, I had a clear idea of what I wanted to do and decided, “Let's draw it!" Two months after I made up my mind, the accuracy of Google Translate improved dramatically, and I was able to easily understand the research articles on arXiv (a cosmology paper site), that I could not understand before, which changed many things in the plot, so... I had to redo everything and because of that I was unable to complete the project. Isn't it sad?
I was particularly confused by research related to proton decay and vacuum phase transition, phenomena that are certain to occur in the distant future, but there were many models of how the universe would specifically change when they occurred, and I had a very hard time thinking which theory to adopt.
Thank you very much for your patience with my many excuses. See you again on the Internet.
