episode_0066

To be honest, I’m quite embarrassed.

“Are you fooling me?”

“It wasn’t just the instructor who fooled him.”

Vice Principal Stella countered with a straight argument.

“The Genesis Tree is a top secret that cannot be revealed to anyone. Revealing this carelessly is-”

“I knew it.”

“Yes?”

“I heard it directly from Fafnir Starlight, colony representative and academy chairman.”

“…….”

Stella’s expression distorts.

“What are you talking about? That’s…”

“It seems like there is a difference in information, so let me tell you first. Before leaving the colony, Chairman Fafnir called me separately.”

Tell the truth to avoid strange misunderstandings.

“He revealed to me the existence of the Creation Beast who resides in this colony.”

“Why…?”

“I think it’s because he probably recognized my identity.”

This time a question from my side.

“Does Vice Principal Stella know who I am?”

“…an instructor is an instructor.”

Vice Principal Stella answered bluntly with a somewhat sullen look on her face.

“Please don’t forget that I am your boss.”

“If you don’t know, I am the Chairman of the Board who has revealed the existence of Chang Se-su-”

“I know. Who. Galactica Skywalker, from the Galactic Forces. White Lancer. Of the red moon…hmmm.”

Even though I was Vice Principal Stella, I couldn’t talk openly in front of the red thing whose eyes were sparkling right behind me, so she cleared her throat and continued speaking.

“…Paladin, right?”

“Yes. Yes.”

“But now he is an instructor at our academy.”

“That.”

“Whatever your reality is, you didn’t mention it on your resume. You cannot suddenly ask for a raise in salary or say that you will terminate your contract and unilaterally quit your job now that the situation has changed.”

“…….”

Somehow, it feels quite fresh.

“Are you saying that you know that I was an ace pilot and paladin of the Galactic Forces, but you just treat me as a subordinate instructor?”

“Do you want to be treated well?”

“…No. I have no intention of receiving any special treatment. If I had been trying to receive treatment in the first place, I would have revealed my identity a long time ago.”

What I told the drifting team was just an extreme measure to lead the students with authority in an extreme situation.

“My salary will double with my career in the Galaxy Unit, but if my work increases five times more, I will just stick to my contract.”

“Do you plan to keep the same salary but double the work?”

“Good luck.”

“Hahaha….”

Vice Principal Stella put both hands on her hips and smiled.

“It looks like you noticed it a little bit.”

“Yes. In this situation, if you see them casually talking about everyday things and the future situation at the Academy…”

“Yes. That’s right.”

Assistant Principal Stella took out a fairly large hologram panel and displayed several screens through a split monitor.

“Under the protection of the red moon, our colony lives in peace, although it is cut off from the outside world.”

“…….”

Academy, dormitory, commercial district, general residential area, agricultural colony.

Everywhere, residents are continuing their lives as normal.

I felt a bit uncomfortable as the internet was cut off and I felt like I was living only with the colony’s internal computer network –

“Wait a minute. I don’t think agricultural plants were this abundant.”

“That’s right.”

The strangest thing is that there is a suspicious abundance of resources.

The resources were mostly primary raw materials obtained from plants such as grains and fruits rather than secondary or tertiary processed products, but Starlight Colony is enjoying a boom in resources more than ever before.

The problem is that the resources-

“It’s green.”

“Yes. Isn’t it strange?”

“…Should we say that it is stained with radioactivity, or should we say that the whole world is a commonwealth?”

“Would you say it was dyed jade color?”

Jade, or emerald.

It was very clear that all the resources were emitting light in a color close to a fluorescent jade color, which was influenced by a certain Genesis Tree located in the basement of the colony.

“Was the Creation Tree the World Tree?”

“That’s right. Emerald Yggdrasil. He disguised himself and cleverly hid himself like a vein of ore, suppressing his power as much as possible while waiting for something, but in the end, the red moon opened a barrier and revealed its power.”

Vice Principal Stella lowered her head with a somewhat bitter look on her face.

“Actually, I didn’t plan on telling you this either. But…if your sister told you about the existence of the Creation Tree, then I should believe it too.”

“Wait a minute. Sister?”

For a moment, a chill went down my spine.

“You may have someone you can call your sister, but Fafnir-”

“I’m a woman.”

“…….”

“And not just a woman…”

“Emerald Yggdrasil, should I say it’s me?”

Drurr.

With the sound of a wheelchair, the ‘he’ I had seen before approached with a smile on his face.

“It’s been a while, Instructor Trev Cloud.”

“…Fafnir Starlight Chairman.”

Long gray hair, glasses, and a somewhat innocent-looking face.

“This is my prosthesis. To be more precise, it can be said to be a ‘lifetime Fafnir’ created from ether.”

“…….”

“Fafnir Starlight is dead. And I made a contract with him, and in his stead, I ran this colony as Fafnir.”

“Uh, um….”

You could say it’s a very shocking story.

Maybe it’s because he became a lost space child in the battle between the two creation beasts and then came back here, but it just feels like a special issue amidst such a huge event.

The occult and mysterious things related to the Creation Tree are not something that happens once or twice.

“I have a lot of questions, but since I am quick at understanding the situation regarding Genesis Water, I will ask briefly.”

“You can ask as many questions as you want.”

“Currently, we are planning an all-out war in Taurus Colony.”

“…….”

The chairman of the foundation was actually Chang Se-su!

It’s not too late to talk about this later, after the battle is over, when it’s quiet.

“The opponent brought with him the extra-large ship Maclops and half of the Taurus expeditionary force, or in fact, the entire expeditionary force. To conquer the red moon.”

“I can’t be attacked!”

“You don’t know until it hits you. Isn’t that right?”

“That’s right!”

Because they think they can achieve the red moon, they attack without knowing that their lives are a waste.

“As for the red moon, by the way, if they find out that Emerald Yggdrasil, ‘Abyss’, is located under the red moon, all 12 constellations will attack this colony. …perhaps?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

The Creation Beast in the form of Fafnir laughed awkwardly.

“The two Creation Beasts clashed, and their power had to be unleashed to protect the colony from the ether storm. If I had made a mistake, my etheric reaction would have been revealed, and the entire universe would have opened fire on the Starlight Colony in search of the etheric bus.”

“Red Moon. What you were blocking weren’t battleships approaching from afar.”

Now I understand.

“Rather, it was blocking Starlight Colony’s signals from leaking out.”

“Heehee. ‘Did you do well?’

I thought it was the Red Moon that cut off the signal, but the Red Moon actually helped the colony.

“If the red moon lifts the ether barrier…”

” Immediately, the magic signal of the Emerald Ether Bus will spread throughout the universe.”

“In that case, it is the order of the 12 Constellations and I will immediately deploy battleships from the remaining colonies waiting behind the Taurus colony.”

As many as two of the ether buses are in this Starlight Colony.

One is from the beginning.

The other one settled here for some reason.

“Ha….”

There are two ether buses at the same time that are said to come out often, even once every 10 years.

No, it’s just surprising that there are three.

I don’t know how to express it, but I also feel like I belong to ‘a colony’ in some form.

“Could your combat power be-”

“I signed a contract. I decided to protect this colony.”

The World Tree immediately answers like a sword and shakes its head.

“It would not have been surprising if this colony had collapsed long ago.”

“…….”

Vice Principal Stella is shaking, holding her wrist with one hand, and Red Moon is just watching, giggling.

“Ah, I understand what the situation is.”

This is the first time I have seen a case involving the ether bus, but this does not mean that such cases did not exist in the Universal Century.

“You have decided to become the core of this colony. All of the power it possesses as an ether bus is being used to maintain the life of the colony.”

“Not all of the power I have.”

“At the minimum level of human help possible?”

Emerald nods.

“Everyone says Starlight is over, but as someone who has taken root in Starlight, I really hope this colony does well. I don’t want a war to break out because of a phone call, and I hate it even more if it’s because of me.”

There seems to be a separate story unique to the Ether Bus.

But it wouldn’t be very meaningful to question or question that now.

“It’s really fortunate that you came at the right time in this situation, but…”

“…….”

“I don’t really see a solution. are you okay. I just wanted to complain. The people of the colony will have some hardships in the future, but-”

“Chairman Fafnir.”

I called the person in charge of the contract, not Emerald.

“If you resolve this matter well, what will you do for our special forces members?”

“Is there a solution?”

“I really don’t want to do it, but it’s not like there’s no way.”

I pointed to the red moon.

“If the Special Forces and Green Camp participate in the colony war, I would like to provide full support.”

“…You say that even in this situation.”

“Isn’t it Chairman Fafnir who wants to talk about such things and hopes for a return to daily life more than anyone else?”

Whether the opponent is an ether bus disguised as a human or something else, there is no change in the fact that this being is my boss.

“You can’t lose your job, so there’s nothing you can do.”

Fortunately.

“There is a way.”

Coincidentally, a breakthrough is right around the corner.

“The cause of the accident is the red moon, so we are asking the parties involved to resolve the issue.”

“What? Hey, are you-”

“Red Moon.”

I pointed to the sky.

“I will climb on top of you.”