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Okabe reveals that the Uilta Liberation Front plans to bomb the Hokkaido Tower to incite war against the Union, hoping that this will lead to the reunification of Japan. Tomizawa is secretly working with the Uilta Liberation Front and lets Mr. Tomizawa has discovered that she is somehow connected to the Union's research into parallel universes and the Hokkaido Tower's ability to change the surrounding land into alternate possibilities, but Tomizawa keeps this information, as well as her whereabouts, secret from Takuya initially. Her mind is trapped in an unpopulated parallel universe, where she is all alone. Sayuri is revealed to have been hospitalized over the past three years, having developed an extreme form of narcolepsy she has been sleeping continuously for most of the three years. Okabe signs Takuya on for an excursion to Ezo with Uilta. Okabe is its leader his factory workers are the other agents of the organization. Takuya becomes involved with the Uilta Liberation Front after he learns that Mr. They know that the Hokkaido Tower, which began operating in 1996, replaces matter around it with matter from other universes, but they do not yet know why it does this for only a 2-km radius. Maki Kasahara under the supervision of Professor Tomizawa.
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Takuya is working as a physicist at an Alliance scientific facility sponsored by the United States' National Security Agency, researching parallel universes alongside Ms. Three years later, Takuya and Hiroki have stopped working on the plane, having taken different paths after the grief they suffered at Sayuri's disappearance. However, before they can do this, Sayuri mysteriously disappears during the summer. The three teenagers promise to one day fly to Hokkaido to visit the Tower. The boys find a crashed Maritime Self-Defense Force drone plane and work on rebuilding the plane with the support of Mr. Sayuri becomes close friends with the two boys. In 1996, the three are in ninth grade, their last year of middle school, and they are fascinated by the Hokkaido Tower visible across the Tsugaru Strait to the north. The anime follows the story of three friends living in Aomori, in northern Japan: two boys, Hiroki Fujisawa and Takuya Shirakawa, both child prodigies and one girl, Sayuri Sawatari. Also in that same year, the Union began the construction of a strange tower on Hokkaido designed by a scientist named Ekusun Tsukinoe. After the Separation in Japan in 1974 the northern island, HokkaidÅ (or Ezo, as it is called in the anime), was occupied by the "Union" (referring to the Soviet Union).