Chapter 5.4

Something Missing Chapter 4 is the fourth chapter of Season 5 and the twenty-eighth chapter of élDLIVE.

Summary
The Solar System District Station staff are having fun at the monthly birthday party. Among those who are having their birthdays are Virgil and Riggs. Laine calls in from HQ to encourage them to enjoy themselves as much as they could. According to him, Dr. Love, who also has his birthday in the month, is too busy with the research material he got during his date to celebrate his birthday, but Taro remembered and made a lot of food for him to eat. Meanwhile, Chuuta and Dolugh are busy making sushi for the staff. Many of them are drunk and they begin to all thank Chuuta for everything he done, making him emotional. Dolugh reminds him that before he used to be alone, but now he has many comrades who believe in him. Chuuta decides to step out and spots Misuzu taking her medicine, which was switched from the kind she had before in order to lessen the side effects. He asks her if she called her parents to tell them that she's staying late like he's going to do, and she reveals that she doesn't have any parents and lives at the station. Unlike Chuuta, who's an orphan, she ran away from home because she resents her father and didn't want to walk the path he laid out for her. She chose to join élDLIVE out of her own free will and clung to it so much that she gave him trouble. Chuuta is shocked at how strange Misuzu is acting, and asks her if something happened. She tells him that she has decided to respect him because he's not her enemy. Even though she knew in her head that he isn't one, her nose tells her otherwise. Chuuta realizes that this is why she let him chase the suspect, and starts to laugh because it reminded of him of animals sharing their food. This angers her and she tells him to forget everything. This reminded Chuuta of the memory stick she gave him, and he tells her that it's too long for him to read. She tells him to use the summarizing software and when she is about to leave, an alarm begins to sound throughout the station, signalling the sudden warp-out of a large spaceship next to the station.

Trivia

 * Some of the panels were redrawn for the volume release: