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The story sure does a good job making me keep guessing. I thought Maru and Kiruko discussing the fact the disaster could have been caused by AIs/robots hinted that the AI in charge of the kids at the institute (and which is clearly up to something) was the cause of it and therefore those scenes took place in the past, but then they told us the date of Tarao's death was Ten'ei 16, and I think it has been 16 years since the disaster so that would mean it's present time.
Kiruko went full PTSD when she thought she had lost Maru as well. Yup, not a simple bodyguard job anymore. Stopped being one a long time ago.
I'm sure I wasn't the only one who kept focusing on Maru's mouth to see if his tooth had grown back. He's clearly not a normal kid so it wouldn't surprise me, though he could have said that because he's dumb.
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