イオンは自分が異性愛者なので、端末の向こうの人間が男性であることを初めから疑っていませんでしたが、厳しい言い方をするとそれ自体が彼女自身の無意識な差別を表しているとも言えます。一方、ねりこさんがわりと最後までその点を忘れずに話していたのは、さすがと思います。
Because Ion herself was heterosexual, she hadn't doubt that the person behind the terminal unit was a male since the beginning. If I dare to be hard on her, the fact indicates her own unconscious discrimination. On the other hand, I was impressed Nelico-san had spoken to me without forgetting about that until the end.
まあイオンの場合、相手が同性でもすんなり受け入れそうではあります。精神世界の最後までいった仲なら、今更性別にこだわることもないでしょう。外見や性別といった外側の第一印象を通すことなく関係を築けたのは本当に特殊だし、ある意味非常に純粋とも言えます。
However, I guess Ion doesn't seem to hesitate to accept relationship with a woman. If we can understand each other up to the last stage of spiritual world, there's no reason to stick with sex. I think it is very special that we could form a relation regardless of first impression of look or sex, and it is very pure in a sense.
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ついでに言うと、私はシェルノサージュの序盤でとても怖い可能性を考えたことがあります。本物のイオンはとっくの昔に死んでて、あれはエネルギーを集めるためのただのプログラムなんじゃないかと。（「端末がAIじゃないか」とイオンが言ってたのを逆に考えたのです。）
Just for the record, I used to imagine of very horrifying possibility at the beginning of Ciel nosurge. Such as real Ion had been dead a long time ago, and she might be just a program to gather energy. (Ion once said "the terminal unit might be an A.I. program"; I thought about that in opposite way.)
メタ的には事実そうなんだけど(^_^;)、設定としてこれ自体がすごい茶番ということはないかと不安に思いました。作中でイオンが自分が死んだのではと思う描写も実際にありましたが、杞憂に終わったので土屋さんもそこまで意地悪ではなかったということですね。
Well, it IS true in metaphysical point of view, but I was afraid that as the game itself is just farce as a setting. There was a moment in the game that Ion thought she was dead, but it ended up as a needless fear. Tsuchiya-san was not as mean as to do that after all.
ただ次元を越えれば時間の概念はあまり意味がないので、アルトネリコ３の時点でも我々の世界から見てはるか昔なのか未来なのか、本当は寧の世界でさえも彼女の生きてる時間がいつなのかわかりません。その中でつながったことこそが奇跡であり、それがテーマの１つなのでしょう。
Still, concept of time tends to become meaningless over different dimensions, so we are not sure whether the time of Ar tonelico 3 is in the past or the future from our point of view. Moreover, we don't even know about the time that Nei is living in her world. I think it is a miracle that we could connect each other in such condition, and it is one of the theme of the game.
