episode_0029

“…….”

My vision, which had been stained white, becomes brighter.

The light of the ether that exploded in the clash of the two ether buses and the Creation Waters slowly begins to fade.

My eyesight had greatly decreased due to the effects of cosmic radiation, but paradoxically, I was now able to see one thing called ‘ether’ better.

Click.

Take off your visor.

Even if you are on the bridge, your eyes will sting as soon as you take it off due to the electromagnetic waves unique to all the electronic displays around you, but the stinging is temporary and the beauty is eternal.

“Hu.”

On the black sea, bright rainbow colors come together.

The colorful etheric light spreads like a prism twinkling, and in the center, the two colors, purple and red, repeatedly grow larger and smaller as if confronting each other.

Ether hypersensitivity.

Psychotherapeutic phenomenon.

This is a phenomenon that occurs to mecha pilots at least once. Pilots who are too exposed to the ether become unable to see reality properly due to the excessive amount of visual information flowing in from the ether.

Because you start to see things that are invisible to your eyes.

Because I start to see and hear something like ‘will’ contained in the ether.

To put it simply:

-Why are you interfering? Are you not one who does not choose your master?

There may be a misunderstanding on my part somewhere.

-Shut up, red dragon. The Star of Hope cannot be handed over to someone who preys on its owner.

The phenomenon of the will of the two Creators being ‘visible’ to my eyes as language is clearly a strange phenomenon experienced only by those who are possessed by demons or who are mentally unstable.

Shoot ㅡㅡㅡ

Red waves spreading towards us.

A purple wavelength spreads forward to block the red wavelength.

One ether to have what you want.

To protect the other ether from it.

-haha! You’ve been abandoned, you idiot!

-It’s not that I was abandoned, it’s that I trusted and had my back!

-I guess I was pushed because I was scared!

-no!

The object they want to possess and protect appears to have stopped moving behind Fenrir, floating in space in the same position as Fenrir was pushed away with both hands.

-Are you just trying to force the owner to take the reins on an animal? Don’t be mistaken. The one worthy of the stars is not you, but me.

-A big monster. Do you think you can handle the owner?

-The responsibility is not mine, but my rider’s responsibility. It’s different from you, who has never had a human in your body. I don’t fail anymore.

-You will fail equally. It was as if my heart had been pierced by ‘Chang-eun’.

-You bastard.

fight

It seems like people who are on very bad terms are arguing based on bad blood, but what if ether beams are flying every time a word is said?

Conversation is not language.

It is an emission of ether, a signal, an attack.

It is a mental, spiritual, ‘etheric’ phenomenon that flies through outer space.

And the powerful conflict between the two beings.

– Oh my, a crack?!

-Ugh, for an ignorantly strong guy to uselessly release his power!

-The crack opens! no! I can’t chase after my master with this body! You bastard!

-ha ha ha! You idiot! That’s because it’s so big and unnecessarily big!

It creates a leap into a completely different space that cannot be specified.

“!!”

My body is focused.

Before anyone on the ship had time to react, the ship was sucked into the etheric crack-wormhole along with the light in the world inside for 0.01 seconds.

‘Fenrir was after it.’

The impact of the different ethers opens a rift, causing the battleship we are on, along with Fenrir himself, to be sucked into the wormhole.

It’s just big enough for us to get over.

Even the red moon, which is already far away and huge in size, cannot enter the wormhole.

People don’t know.

Not even one second has passed yet.

‘I’m going crazy. When does it end.’

That I can perceive all of this is also a miracle, a curse, and a disease of the ether.

Should I say it’s a flashlight?

Or should I say metacognition?

In a world where ether spreads excessively, I experience a phenomenon where it seems as if the world is flowing slowly – or only my thoughts are flowing hundreds or thousands of times faster than the flow of the world.

-If you force open the crack…!

It’s an obsession.

Even though I know it won’t work, I try to force it.

-Forcibly opens a wormhole with bombardment!

-crazy! Are you planning to destroy the star of hope?

-Hope is not broken that easily!

If that happens, the biggest losers will of course be Lavender Whiteley, who they are so obsessed with, and us.

“Hu.”

In a world that has slowed down, I briefly cleared my throat and looked ahead.

“Hey, you idiot.”

-?!?!?!?!?

The guy recognized it.

-Hey, this wavelength…! You, you uuu!!

The moment it recognized me, the red moon’s head twisted in the direction of the battleship where I was.

-……!

And in that short gap, Fenrir releases ether forward.

Quack!

Pushing Lavender’s Harkon with his body, he throws himself into the wormhole.

And then we are sucked right in, and the world turns purple in an instant.

-Don’t miss it ㅡㅡㅡ!

A beast full of evil screams and sprays red waves from behind.

Ahhh!!

Oh, no! This energy reaction is unavoidable-

The screams of those who seem to have been affected by the wave spread out into the space of color.

-Eat this.

I made a small stop in the direction of the red moon, and soon the world changed.

Flashing.

Quiet outer space.

We are floating on the calm sea of darkness, as if the chaos that had occurred just a moment ago was nothing.

“…….”

This is not a space overflowing with ether, but a place where you jump through space through a wormhole opened by the ether.

How much has it gone over?

Where is this place in the first place?

“Ugh, uh…?”

Great things happened in a split second that lasted less than a second, but those on the bridge had only just become conscious.

“What here…?”

“This….”

“Just now, what…?”

“…….”

Even Captain Edmund, who is used to this kind of thing, is frowning.

Unlike me, Captain Edmund still has normal eyesight, so it takes quite a while for him to accept the gap between the etheric world and reality.

Crash.

Put the visor back on.

Electromagnetic waves that sting the eyes are blocked, and light begins to return to the world beyond the visor.

[Uh, uhh…. Teacher, instructor! Captain! Everyone, are you okay?!]

The first person to come to her senses was none other than Lavender Whiteley.

[Someone, give me an answer!]

She shouts toward the bridge in an urgent voice.

“…Calm down.”

[Instructor!]

I placed my hand on the microphone connected to her aircraft.

“The line is only in my direction.”

[oh.]

“Are you planning to burst my eardrums?”

[……..]

Crackling.

[Mo, is everyone okay?!]

It was her second time asking how she was doing, but she was the first among us.

“As expected.”

A being loved by the Creation Tree.

star of hope.

“…….”

what is that.

I wanted to immediately ask a question to someone who could not be seen here.

[Hey, over there!! There is a strange reaction to the main camera…!]

“…Step by step.”

Captain Edmund, who had his eyes tightly closed, slowly opens his mouth.

“Let’s check where we fell first.”

Because I entered a wormhole.

“…Please, I hope it was near a colony.”

It’s natural to fall somewhere outside the wormhole.

Beep beep.

I checked the location through the space signals my visor could pick up, and soon I couldn’t help but scream inwardly.

‘crazy.’

We’ve come a long way.

[Outside the solar system…?]

Let alone Pluto, even farther than the sun’s sphere.

* * *

About 30 minutes later.

[So now we have warped outside the solar system due to the confrontation between the two creators.]

Captain Edmund’s voice echoes throughout the ship.

[Due to the destruction of communication equipment, no signals can be properly received.]

After coming to the infirmary for a while due to a problem with my optic nerve, I sat alone on the bed and listened to the broadcast that echoed throughout the ship.

[I have about a month’s supply of food, including preserved food.]

Although it is an educational battleship, it is fortunate that basic supplies are always provided.

[Of course, there is the problem of drinking water.]

There is also a bit of water to drink.

[The expiration date for supplies was not properly observed due to negligence in inventory management and poor condition.]

Our current situation is that we don’t even have enough supplies left.

[that….]

Captain Edmund pauses for a moment.

I know very well the meaning behind it.

one. There are very few people who have actually driven a battleship, and most of those currently here are students.

two. Everyone becomes a space lost child who cannot return home overnight, so everyone is unable to make proper decisions and is in a panic.

three. There are a few members of the National Guard, but considering that the students almost suffered great harm because of them, their situation is like an abyss.

And last.

According to what I found out while I came to the infirmary to rest and stabilize.

‘There’s no proper medicine.’

The only medicines available are the bare minimum, such as red pills or cold medicine, so it’s like a worst-case scenario where you have to die if you get hurt.

[We have become space children, and this is reality.]

ruined.

[If there is hope.]

Although it is ruined, not everyone dies right away.

[…Miss Lavender Whiteley’s Harkon is picking up a long-distance signal, so we can only hope that there is something there.]

Lavender Whiteley.

And her riding Harkon.

[This whole situation right now is a real situation.]

We are in trouble in space.