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Thanks very much for the translation, cnet!

Spoiler:

It was fantastic to read such details of the nature of the alien factions. Kimidori and Asakura's conversation was priceless for the information it provided; it felt like even more of an expose than the esper expose we experienced in volume 9. And after hearing Asakura talk, I finally like her (before, I just found her a bit amusing). I also thought it was really interesting that Yuki used her yuki.n> prompt to talk to Kyon while in that state.

I hope we can see more of an expose of the time travelers, too. Koizumi was saying in volume 9, IIRC, that for the time travelers it can at least be understood that the factions have business in this time plane beyond just observing Haruhi, even if their agents aren't made aware of what it is, so more on the real issues at stake would be awesome.

I guess it's still a mystery exactly what is causing Yuki's sickness. When I first read it, I interpreted Kimidori and Kyon's conversation to mean that the "heavy load" was the attempt to connect with the Canopy Domain, but the reference to around when Kyon got his phone call is definitely suspect, so it must have something to do with the parallel timelines.