episode_0070

The battle ended more smoothly than expected.

correction.

Rather than being boring, the situation ended due to a supernatural phenomenon.

Anti-gravity multidimensional refraction bombardment by the red moon.

To counter this, ‘white’ phase shift and dimensional transfer.

To explain this battle in two simple lines –

-Ether extinction method!

-Receive the teleport!

It can be summarized as follows.

What kind of joke is this?

‘But what if it’s true?’

Red Moon accepted my suggestion and fought a battle aimed at eliminating the opponent’s ether.

The enemy aircraft that was hit by the Red Moon’s bombardment suffered no material damage, but all of the ether flowing inside the aircraft evaporated.

In human terms, when exposed to light of a certain frequency, all blood flowing in the blood vessels of the body disappears.

That was exactly the situation.

Human life ceases without blood, and the Red Moon turned countless gases dispatched from Colony 12 into bloodless corpses.

What is left to do when you become a corpse?

Some people have emergency powers such as electrical energy or gas energy, but ether is also used in switches, circuits, and semiconductors that operate them.

Since the switch to wake it up did not work, many ASs, including the space battleship, became tubes of steel in outer space.

One way would have been to physically bombard, shoot down, or destroy all of those coffins, but unfortunately that was not possible.

it’s a shame?

…It’s not a pity.

If they had intended to kill it, they would have attacked in a way that destroyed all humans along with the ether, rather than using an ether-annihilating bombardment.

‘The majesty of the red moon was fully visible.’

overwhelming power.

Thanks to the power of the Ether Bus, which is known to be the most powerful among the Creation Trees, we were able to temporarily escape the crisis.

I’m a bit skeptical about how far ‘we’ should be defined here.

Weeeeing.

The miniaturized red moon lands in the central square of the colony square and Starlight Academy.

The Red Moon, which had become the same size as an ordinary Harkon, landed proudly on both feet in the center of the academy, and I quietly closed my eyes.

‘Red Moon.’

I asked the Red Moon for one favor.

[Are you really going to do that?]

It is a kind of acting, and if you ask if there is a need for it, you are literally asking for something that is ‘escaping reality’.

‘okay.’

That’s the only way.

In order to overcome this situation now, or more precisely, to overcome the crisis that lies ahead.

To be exact-

[If you try to avoid the hardships in front of you, you may end up in greater confusion later, so why not just attack them head on?]

‘I don’t want to do that now.’

In front of the central square.

One pilot, one instructor, and one vice principal are waiting for me along with other people.

Red Moon’s performance, at least on the outside, is that of a ‘hero’ who defeated the enemies surrounding the colony in one fell swoop.

I am not a hero.

I was just trying to escape the situation for a while by using tricks and using my wits.

‘I want to live thin and long.’

After retiring from the Galaxy Unit, he lived a long life without any particular trouble.

If this continues, he will die as a human being, and it is presumed that there will be no special ‘abnormalities’.

however.

“…write.”

I thought I was optimistic, but it seems I wasn’t.

“It’s a big deal.”

[why?]

“My eyes are starting to stop hurting.”

[……oh.]

The red moon knows.

What am I worried about?

He ‘synchronized’ with me for a moment, and by directly receiving my brain wave manipulation, he directly recognized what I was worried about.

[are you okay?]

“It’s okay, so it’s a problem.”

[Uh, well, then…]

“Still, I have to keep wearing the visor.”

It’s not a mask.

It is a medical device.

Coincidentally, the effectiveness of the visor has decreased, but it is correct to say that the situation has not improved but rather worsened.

You cannot say that your eyes have recovered just because you were on the verge of blindness and started wearing vision aids, and then your eyesight improves by wearing prosthetic eyes.

Moreover, rather than inserting an artificial eye developed through artificial organ technology-

“I can see the ether.”

If the eyes that have been mutated and corrupted by the Ether Bus and the Creation Water begin to look at the world okay, this is a big problem.

[Well, then…]

“Ah. It means that etherification has progressed.”

Etherification of Man.

To be more precise, it is the same as saying that some of the human cells necessary for life activities have been replaced by etheric substances.

Unlike human cells, which age and die, ether cells have singularities that I cannot control.

A space mineral that became a part of the human body without me having time to react.

It rattled.

The hatch opens.

The red-tinted world gradually returned to the academy’s unique colors, and I moved forward to the enthusiastic cheers that filled my ears.

‘Red Moon.’

I just ask for the rest.

“Instructor!!”

As I leave the cockpit, waving lightly at the voice that welcomes me-

Sreuk.

I lost consciousness and fell forward.

Consciousness was already close to its limit, and the last remaining consciousness was a forced awakening that was maintained by the red moon.

Since the connection was severed, or more precisely, the red moon cut it off with ‘good’ timing, I ended up falling unconscious from a height of dozens of meters as I was exiting the cockpit.

I didn’t fall to die.

It won’t die, because the red moon decided to catch it in the first place.

only.

Losing consciousness.

To collapse in front of everyone.

“That bastard is doing that again.”

I heard the familiar voice of the captain muttering from somewhere, but I decided to just close my eyes.

“It’s not my responsibility to take care of everything. Just, ugh.”

Post-war settlement is not the pilot’s responsibility. Captain.

Although I had already closed my eyes, I let go of the string of consciousness that I had been holding onto until the very end.

* * *

“…….”

When I opened my eyes, I found myself in an unfamiliar space.

In the center of the empty white space, a towering green tree was shining towards the sky, emitting etheric light.

“Hello?”

Under the tree, a green-haired woman, wearing only a dress, smiled brightly at me and welcomed me.

The woman’s appearance was so cozy, as if she could feel a mother’s maternal instinct –

“If you plan to play pranks, wake me up right away. Yggdrasil.”

“…….”

Yggdrasil, the green woman and the creation tree, smiled bitterly.

“And don’t just take someone else’s mother’s face out of your memory. It’s unpleasant.”

It was natural for me to feel maternal feelings.

The beauty that Yggdrasil transformed into was something I knew well, and it was what my mother, who separated from me when I was 7 years old, looked like when she was still young.

“Then who should I change to?”

“Anyone.”

“Then who is this person?”

Changes to Maria.

Instead of being the Maria who harassed me as the captain of the Taurus colony fleet, she changes into the person she was when she clung to me to survive during my active duty days.

“Bad taste.”

“Then, what does it look like?”

“…It’s the worst taste.”

The newly transformed woman still had green hair with an emerald hue, but her appearance made my heart faint.

“Isn’t it your first love?”

“Well. I have so many first loves.”

“This person? Or this person?”

“They are all dead.”

The people Emerald Yggdrasil shows are all dead.

There were seniors and classmates who guided me in the Galaxy unit, and there were also juniors who came in after me.

They all died.

Someone was caught in the explosion when a bomb held by a hostage exploded while trying to stop a colony terror attack, someone was oxidized by the enemy’s main gun while protecting the friendly bridge with AS to protect the flagship from a pirate attack, and someone else was made of ether. AS’s body was torn into pieces and eaten by the space monster.

“Is it fun to mess with other people’s memories like that?”

“It’s more interesting than fun. Before, we just talked face to face, but after reading your memories like this, I can understand you better.”

“So Yggdrasil, what does the representative of Starlight Colony plan to do with me?”

“I’m thinking of asking for help.”

The appearance of Yggdrasil changed.

“Except for Stella, no one recognizes that I am Yggdrasil itself, right?”

A long-haired handsome man in a wheelchair.

An ether bus in human form.

“People in the colony believe that our family has hidden the Ether Bus. But at the same time, I know that the colony has been able to be maintained because of the Ether Bus. Actually, that’s true.”

Yggdrasil began to treat me as a ‘representative’.

“I need your help. Paladin.”

“As an instructor or a pilot?”

“Preferably both.”

“With the former, you can keep going as long as you don’t break the previous contract, but with the latter, there are a lot of problems, right?”

I pointed to my eyes.

“If I get on the ether bus one more time, I think I will become a real ether human.”

“…….”

“I want to die as a human, I don’t want to become an alien. Especially ‘immortal’.”

“Humans want immortality.”

“It’s because I haven’t experienced the real thing.”

Coming back from death is not a very good feeling, and wandering around space without being able to die is not pleasant either.

“If I can help, I will help. okay. First of all…let’s check this first. Starlight Academy Principal.”

I straightened my posture.

“How many days has it been since I lost consciousness?”

“How many days?”

“I mean, how many days have passed since I lost consciousness and am now talking to you in the conscious world?”

“…1 hour?”

“No.”

1 hours?

“Then what happens afterward…?”

“Right now, everyone is working hard. Everyone is waiting. I hope you wake up.”

“Ah….”

I wondered if I could suck honey while fainting.

“…….”

It seems that I have no choice but to step in to resolve the situation.

“Ha. Just take care of the cleanup.”

A small colony where three ether buses are gathered in one place.

I thought that I could have solved that problem on my own.

I simply controlled the red moon and lost 10% of the 12 colonies’ power.