episode_0143

Open your eyes.

Consciousness slowly returns, and things around me begin to appear one by one.

Vast universe.

In it, I am.

“Aren’t you curious about how the universe began?”

Next to me, a blue-haired girl is standing.

“Humanity knows that the universe started from the Big Bang.”

“Then isn’t it?”

“That’s right. That’s how today’s humanity started.”

The current universe.

“In the past….”

“I don’t think there’s any need to know.”

Beep beep.

The world stops, as if a video stops playing.

Before the Big Bang occurs, the light that gathers as one stops right before it converges into a dot, wrapping the universe in a path of brilliant light.

“Aren’t you interested in old stories? You like quoting old stories so much.”

“I say that because it is helpful when teaching.”

Humanity learns something from history.

I have taught Lavender and other students based on old stories of the Earth.

“And those are historically meaningful materials. These are proven contents that can be used primarily when teaching.”

“Hey.”

“So, it’s better not to know about the secrets of the world.”

I stretched out my hand towards the girl.

“Someday, when I live with you for a long time, I think I can at least listen to your story leisurely.”

“When is that time?”

“Well. Wouldn’t it be at least 100 years?”

“It seems long.”

“From a human perspective, it is ephemeral, but from the perspective of the Creator, isn’t it like a fleeting moment?”

I looked at the girl.

“It’s not even the creation tree. That’s just a name given by humans to treat them like animals as they please.”

“…….”

“Since it is a god from an exoplanet or an alien world, should it be called an alien god?”

“Call me whatever you like. In the first place, mankind has never observed us, and has never recorded our name in any imaginary record.”

Foreign press.

They are gods from outer space.

“Why 100 years?”

“Lavender, Aria, and the people they are currently in a relationship with have a life expectancy of about 100 years. If you hold it for a long time.”

“Do you mean that you will be with me after all the people you have a relationship with as humans die?”

“That’s right.”

“Hmm. At best, I’ve become an etheroid, although it’s a bit unpleasant.”

The girl stands in front of me with her arms wide open.

“Welcome. Because it wouldn’t be a bad idea to watch you live by your side for 100 years.”

“What does the Chairman of Zodiac do?”

“From the moment the Taurus colony broke the alliance, the alliance became virtually useless. I don’t know if other colonies will be afraid of the Genesis Beast, but at least there can be idiots who think, ‘I will be different.’”

“I guess so.”

The nuclear weapon didn’t work.

If so, they may try to achieve their hegemony in some other way.

“Are you going to keep an eye on that?”

“No.”

“Then what do you plan to do? Are you thinking of becoming a space patrolman traveling around the universe?”

“I plan to grow the Galaxy unit.”

“…Hmm?”

“The academy still remains.”

I thought about many things.

“Starlight Academy is an educational institution. And although it looks like it won’t be held this year due to various events, I originally came here to train excellent talents to participate in Starlight Academy’s ‘Colony Competition’.”

“Are we going to continue the colony war that is about to become meaningless?”

“Even more clearly. Through the war against the colonies, the will to fight is ignited, while restraining people from killing each other.”

“…Are you going to send the kids to the Galaxy Unit?”

“It’s not just participation.”

I put my hand on the girl’s shoulder.

“We are holding a colony battle.”

“……Hehe.”

“Walk around space and engage in mock battles against colonies. Although it is a non-lethal form, it is extremely close to actual use. And in the colony that wins over our kids, you will get a chance.”

“Opportunity? What opportunity?”

“Opportunity to become a member of the galactic army and learn from paladins.”

“……Are you going to threaten the entire universe with education?”

“It’s a threat. What kind of harsh words.”

I simply offer the opportunity to teach the best pilot in the universe how to handle AS and his experience of surviving countless universes.

“If I had just tried to teach those skills to everyone, I would have been a streamer with 3 billion subscribers by now. They must have been selling my lectures on the Internet.”

“There was actually an impersonator like that. I organized it, but.”

“Okay. He knew that I was tutoring and followed suit. Although it wasn’t a paladin.”

“Are you going to continue teaching only a small number of people in person?”

“Is there anything that can’t be done? The apprenticeship system is like a tradition that has been passed down to mankind for a very long time.”

“Apprentice.”

The girl shrugs her shoulders.

“In that case, we should deal with those in front of us right away. I have two students right now.”

“Two?”

“Yes. Two. One in the name of a true disciple. And another one by the name of junior.”

As the girl steps aside, a blue door soon appears in front of her.

“Please call me if you need anything. Because I am always with you. His role as Chairman will end the moment the Zodiac Alliance is disbanded, so he will reside in your body and continue to be with you.”

“That….”

“It’s okay. Well, I’ll be quiet when I do that.”

The girl narrows one eye and opens the door.

“Then, you should go on a rampage, right?”

“Rage….”

“After a battle, you always do something.”

“…but not always.”

Since there are jinxes that are not jinxes, this is something that cannot be helped.

“Leave the complex problems of the universe to me, and please welcome the two people who are trying to quickly cool down the Master’s body. Both are already waiting…!”

“……I’m a little worried about waking up.”

“Don’t worry.”

The girl whispers in my ear.

“Master is infinite now.”

“……What?”

“It means literally.”

The girl giggled lowly.

“You said that the Master’s current body is an etheroid, right?”

“That’s right.”

“From the moment the Master accepted the Creation Water, his body was no longer human. The entire genetic information has been changed, and we have become a new human species that can be called Homo ethertus.”

“…….”

“You wouldn’t know it from the outside. But if you look inside, you will know everything. Even though 200 years have passed since mankind entered the universal century, it is as if we still cannot understand the exact structure of the ether.”

“…….”

“Even if we analyze genetic information, will it come out as accurately as human? at all. That’s not true. You have completely changed at the genetic level, so you can no longer be considered a human being.”

“That’s right.”

“Yes.”

I gave up on humanity.

“Do you regret it?”

“……The opportunity to die as a human is gone, but I have no regrets.”

About the choices I made myself.

“If I have to give up being a human to create a world without war, I will gladly give up being a human. I already quit though.”

I don’t regret one bit.

“Even if….”

“Yes. that’s right. You are no longer able to have children with any woman.”

“…….”

I don’t regret it.

Because it was that kind of fate.

“But, let’s say it the other way around.”

The girl whispers in my ear.

“No matter how much you enjoy sex, it’s the same as saying you can’t get pregnant, right?”

“……What?”

“Hehehe, let’s go.”

“Now, wait a minute. You are now-”

“Strike of freedom! Fighting!”

“That’s not it-”

The whole world was dyed blue.

* * *

“…….”

It’s an unfamiliar ceiling.

Rather than saying the ceiling is unfamiliar, it feels quite awkward for me to be lying down like this and looking at the ceiling.

“Instructor, instructor!!”

“Are you awake?”

As soon as I wake up, Lavender and Aria greet me.

“…….”

Look at the two’s outfits.

Judging by the fact that he was wearing light casual clothes, he must have groomed himself after the battle.

The length of the hair… doesn’t seem to have changed much.

It doesn’t seem like I’ve been down for a month or two.

“How much time has passed?”

“Yes?”

“How much time has passed since I collapsed?”

“Well, that is…”

Lavender swallowed her saliva and looked at Aria, who nodded heavily and stood next to me.

“Please listen calmly. You should never be surprised.”

“……Why are you holding so much weight?”

“1 year.”

“……?”

“About a year has passed since the instructor defeated the Scorpi-Taurus combined forces.”

“To be exact, about 370 days have passed. Today is the 369th day since the instructor collapsed.”

Lavender smiles bitterly and looks out the window.

Aria lowered her head with a sad face.

“I’m so glad you woke up, instructor.”

“Both.”

I slowly got up.

“I already know about such pranks because I experienced them countless times when I was in the Galaxy Unit.”

“…….”

“About three days.”

I know.

In a state of extrasensory sensation, the ether flowing within the body clearly perceives the passage of time.

If I hadn’t put Genesis Water in my body, I would have definitely been embarrassed at first.

“……Instructor Aria. What should I do?”

“…….”

Lavender noticed, and Aria closed her eyes and remained silent.

“Seeing that both of them are like this, it doesn’t seem like there is any problem.”

“That….”

“What happened during the three days?”

“Actually-”

” doesn’t really matter right now.”

“Yes?”

For three days.

“The Chairman of the Taurus Colony must have been assassinated. The Scorpie Colony would have surrendered, and the Taurus Colony would have had an infighting now.”

“Uh, that is.”

“That kind of political part is the role of politicians like Captain Edmund and Vice Principal Stella. Aria, Lavender. Keep in mind. Pilots just have to do their best as pilots.”

I can tell what happened through the ether flowing everywhere, but I have no intention of finding out.

“Did you report that I woke up?”

“Uh, not yet?”

“Then don’t report it yet. If you have regular reporting time, report that you are still lying down.”

“That…why, why?”

“Of course.”

I pointed below me.

“To clearly awaken the feeling that you survived today.”

“…….”

“I guess you guys aren’t that interested in the complicated 12 Constellation Colonies and inter-colonial agendas anyway.”

“……That.”

“Now that peace has been preserved, all that remains is to celebrate victory.”

I tapped my hands on my sides.

“Would you like to join us?”

“…….”

“…….”

The two people quietly closed the door and locked it without saying anything.