Anyway, to make a long story short.
The "aurora" quickly faded as a topic of conversation—at least among ordinary people—though Japan was suddenly flooded with scholars from all over the world because of Miki Kashiwagi's "little gadget," with big names from various fields flocking to Ikebukuro to "conduct research and observations."
In reality, it was just the top astronomers' junior assistants who ran around every high school and college in Tokyo that had an astronomy club and decent conditions for celestial observation. They somehow acquired the astronomy clubs' observation records from the past year—whether by buying them or through other means—and then bolted without even staying for a meal.
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