Chapter 34

Chapter 34 is the thirty-fourth chapter of the Astra Lost in Space manga. It is the eighth chapter of the Icriss arc and, in the compiled volumes, the sixth chapter of the fourth volume.

Synopsis
At a cafe back home, the parents of the children, aka the "originals", are gathered in a private VIP room. Luca's original, Felice Genma, apologizes for coming in late, and remarks that Wei is not there. Gurt mentions that it's better if she didn't arrive to keep it more low key.

Olive bluntly mentions that the whole thing is a conspiracy and that Jed almost dropped the bomb and got them arrested, to which he retorts that Olive made Funicia as a spare, and Gurt adds on by complaining that he had to find a good excuse to put a ten year old Funicia with a high school camping trip. She retorts that the whole thing wouldn't have been started without her hospital.

Rei remarks that the whole thing seems so roundabout, making their clones disappear in an accident. Jed replies that they had to get rid of 100% of the evidence due to the Genome Control Act, which prevented illegal clones from being made. To ensure that their illegal activities are never discovered, they had to cause an accident in space, far away, in order to destroy all of the evidence.

In order to destroy the evidence, they had somehow acquired an orb to send a drone through, and realize that the drone ended up 5,000 light years away in deep space. By causing the accident, while they had failed to regain their youth, at least the public interest had died down and they weren't going to get arrested. Gurt declares that they should end their association. Rei asks Jed if the memory transfer was really impossible to do, to which he replies that because it only works best between the ages of 22 and 35, the memory transfer had a high potential of failing and that the clones had to be scrapped instead.

With the group regretting such a great opportunity, Felice remarks that he wishes he could've trained Luca better so he could be reborn. He mentions that he had Luca adopted to prevent him from being too attached to him, and asks the others how they dealt with this moral dilemma. Olive mentions she had Funicia adopted intentionally while Quitterie she had her servants raise. Jed kept Zack under close obesrvation but realizes Zack preferred to be alone, making it easy for him, while Rei had to train Kanata firsthand for his athletic abilities but never considered him a son.

Back on the Astra (ship), Zack brings up the Genome Control Act and how that if the government were to learn they were clones, the originals would've been arrested. The students soon realize why they had been stranded so far away from home. The downcast students bitterly wonder if they were just meant to be tossed away like trash.

Aries is adamant that her mother never do this, but Zack, although not fully understanding Aries' situation, mentions it might be possible Aries was kept ignorant of the situation and he mother is not biological. Kanata, still disturbed by all the facts involved, tells the others that he wonders if it was a coincidence that all of them were either adopted or had single parents, and all had unloving parents.

A sobbing Quitterie slams a nearby table, exclaiming they were only meant to be vessels, and the mood gets somber as the kids process this fact, with some crying. Kanata interrupts, yelling that if that they didn't have real parents and were treated as discarded clones, they had each other to bond together with, and that they were family. And that they should continue to work to go home together, and find a way to expose their originals and get them arrested, along with getting themselves registered as regular people. With their revenge plan in motion, Kanata declares that they will become their own people from this day forth.