episode_0186

If you look outside the window right now, you can see the horizon and the horizon intertwined in the distance.

Yes, I am in heaven now.

It is very small compared to the airship I rode when I first came to the palace from Bern City, but it is still a small ship-sized airship.

The car that started in front of the accommodation went straight to the military base surrounding the palace, and boarded an airship right at the dock.

Come to think of it, there were a lot of flying machines in this world.

That’s because there actually is an unknown substance called flying stone. According to some memories, it’s a collection of microorganisms that float using magic power, or it’s a substance that isn’t originally affected by gravity, but it has the property of being absorbed by magic power, so it’s often found on planets where magic power is concentrated.

There are many examples, but it is said that this world has different magical properties, so one side floats and the other side sinks.

To make an easy analogy, if you pour oil and water, the water will float to the bottom and the oil will float to the top. If there is an object that sinks on top of the oil and floats under the water, it will clump up at the boundary between the water and the oil.

It looks like that kind of material. In short, the airship of this world is a vehicle that moves up and down using a material that rises to a certain altitude.

There are layers to magic, or at least there are types of magic that don’t mix, but I don’t know what. I can’t use magic.

Looking at the memories of the Primordial Heavenly Lord, I am probably the type that is completely opposed to magic power, so even if I die and wake up, I will be unable to use magic power.

So, just ignore those things and look around.

The front is covered with a transparent plate, and the pilot or captain drives from the front. On the left and right, there are clockwork machines to assist in steering.

And there is one door separating the cockpit and the passenger cabin.

There is a large circular glass window in the middle, so you can see the cockpit. And the cabin has two seats attached to the left and right like a bus.

But what sets it apart is that the chairs are quite soft and seat one person at a time.

Polaris is sitting and resting as if it is used to it.

Looking at Kanna’s memories, it’s not strange that wealthy nobles have airships, so she’s familiar with airships.

However, it is difficult to see airships in the capital.

Except for certain airships, if an airship approaches within a certain distance of the capital, it will be shot down immediately after one warning broadcast if it continues to approach.

So when Kanna went back home, she took an airship, but to get on it, she left the capital and headed to where the docks were.

By the way, there are also flying monsters and aerial bandits in this world.

So the airship we’re on has defensive equipment.

Flash!

So when you look out the window, you sometimes see a creature approaching the airship firing an electric blast.

Electricity in the air is dangerous, yes.

By the way, considering where Victoria is now… … ,

ah.

We’re now down south of Victoria. It’s definitely a lot faster in the air than on the ground.

But I couldn’t show it, so I sat quietly.

Polaris doesn’t talk to me either, probably because I feel awkward, so I can only faintly hear the sound of the airplane’s gears turning.

Unlike me, who has countless movie channels available at all times, this will be a rather boring trip for Polaris.

The concept is to respond sincerely when the other person talks to you, but not actively talk to them unless they talk to you, so unless something unusual happens, it seems like it will be a quiet trip.

yes.

Unless something really bad happens.

The incident occurred when we were approaching Bern City.

“Kaaaah!”

In front of me.

Suddenly, without any warning, the window that showed a little bit of the cockpit turned red with a scream. Anyone can see that it was a lethal amount of blood.

The only person in front is the pilot.

There was no monster that appeared in front of me right before, nor was there any enemy intrusion. Then it would be called a locked room murder.

This is a world where non-humans can kill people.

Kwajik!

A bloody, bloody clockwork machine emerges from the cockpit, openly hostile despite having a hand to open the door.

Contrary to popular belief, the visual device wasn’t dyed red or anything, but it was obvious to anyone that the machine had killed the man.

Kwaaang!

As soon as I came out, a chair hit my face and it exploded.

The person who threw the chair was none other than Polaris.

I thought most people in this town were good people, but there are many who deal with dangerous situations without wavering. No, it’s not that they don’t waver. When I look at their faces, they are filled with confusion and fear, and I’m also shocked.

They’re trying to push it in somehow.

If you look down slightly, the chair is firmly fixed to the ground with screws. In other words, this chair was torn off with bare hands and thrown. This.

Keeek

The chair in Polaris’s hands was ripped from the floor with another sound of steel tearing. Ah. The structure of this chair was made of steel.

Polaris was about to say something when a new sound came out, so he cleared his throat a few times and pretended not to be confused at all while shaking his head.

“Bell, don’t go to the door, it’s dangerous. What is it, assassination?”

“Isn’t it more like a machine rebellion?”

Crunch.

I hear a sound behind me and turn around to see a wind-up doll-shaped machine, also covered in blood, walking towards me with what appears to be the remains of its intestines stuck in a half-broken kettle.

Now that I think about it, there were a few crew members there when they came in, and it looks like that’s the wreckage. That thing.

“Who’s controlling the wind-up machine?”

“There is no possibility that it has an ego, right?”

“A machine? That’s impossible. I can judge to some extent, but it’s at the level of a bug. I don’t know if it’s a modern wind-up machine, but the one in front of me looks quite old. There must have been someone who gave the order.”

Even including faded memories, this kind of intelligence, hmm. No. There are more than you’d think. Rather, it’s strange that the world in faded memories is so developed that there isn’t even this kind of artificial intelligence.

Hit

Then a wind-up machine carrying a bloody, broken kettle runs towards Polaris.

Boom!

But Polaris, holding the chair, knocks it aside.

Thud!

It hit the wall and got stuck. It seems to have quite a bit of durability, and it tried to get out of the place it was stuck in, making a rattling sound, but it didn’t seem to have the power to free itself from the crumpled iron plate, so it just flailed around.

◦How many are in %◦?”

“I don’t know.”

“That doesn’t help.”

Polaris walked carefully backwards, but stopped before reaching the back door of the cabin.

Three blood-covered wind-up machines.

It popped out of the back door of the cabin. Behind that machine, you can see a corpse with a lot of skin peeled off.

I quickly turned my gaze to Polaris. I was worried that it would be quite a horrifying sight for a girl to see, but Polaris just stared at the wind-up machine with a cold expression.

The wind-up machine creaked as it walked towards Polaris. Then suddenly, the wind-up made a violent noise and ran towards Polaris.

Boom!

However, I hit the chair and my body gets crushed, and I duck to avoid the machine’s hand that rushes at me one after another. As I duck, I turn my body and hit its head with my foot.

Kwajik!

The head is literally ripped off from the body.

But the last third one caught Polaris’s torso while it was spinning in the air.

Will the harvest season come like this?

Kwaaang!

wow.

As the clockwork machine grabbed the body, Polaris’s legs, which had been spinning in the air with the remaining inertia from kicking the clockwork machine, spun around once. Then, like a snake crawling, she wrapped her legs around the clockwork machine’s head and shoulders, grabbed them, and slammed them down to the ground.

Action and reaction exist, and it’s comical that Polaris is launched into the air, but it’s just as Polaris planned, as he grabs the ceiling and lands slightly away, taking a martial arts stance.

And even though it hit its head on the ground, it was still a mechanical machine, so I went up to the wind-up machine and jumped up slightly and slammed it down.

Heek.

This time, instead of the head hitting the ground, the bone that served as the skull shatters into pieces, sending shards of the clockwork flying in all directions.

The build is the same as Rebecca’s, but does this explode like a bear paw hitting her?

No, come to think of it, it seems like Rebecca in her later years could have done something like that too.

After I left, Rebecca started moving again without any light or warmth, and when I saw her again a while later, she had become incredibly strong.

Since there is something called magic power, is it possible to receive some kind of correction to simple physical force?

Thinking it was a strange phenomenon, I looked at Polaris as she went out the door at the back of the room. I followed her to the back of the room.

“Don’t come!”

As I grab the door, I hear a threatening voice from inside. It’s not as if they’re telling me not to come because it’s dangerous, but as if they’re saying they can’t show me something gross.

But I went inside.

I saw Polaris’ back, and the thick smell of blood hit my nose.

Polaris’ clenched fist, visible from behind, has turned pure white.

The hallway is littered with shattered corpses. But judging by the scattered pieces, it looks like one person… … .

Oh, no.

Underneath the sign that says “Crew Room,” there’s a hand sticking out through the crack in the door. Polaris must have seen it too, because he walked over to it and stood there.

I walked over to that side too. While I was at it, I stepped on the corpse and took the warmth that was still faintly there.

The memory is broken here and there, perhaps because it’s a corpse, but it came to me.

Let’s check what happened a little while ago.

The content is sad because it was an emergency flight and I was dragged there in a hurry. This is not it. The memory of right before I died… … .

Oh, I found it.

While they were chatting about why they were suddenly going to Bern City with two children in tow, the wind-up machines that had been helping them with small tasks slowly surrounded them and died before they could do anything.

It was even more fatal because he had no suspicions at all, thinking that something was up even though the clockwork machines were surrounding him.

Polaris backs out the door. Her face, revealed little by little, is pale and frozen.

“Bell.”

“We need to check what happened.”

Polaris hears my footsteps and calls my name, telling me not to come. But I tell her that I will find the reason inside, so I leave Polaris and go inside.

There are two more people.

Pretend to rummage through the corpse and get the warmth that’s fading away. A corpse that’s been dead for a long time literally still has the warmth of the dead.

It’s very faint, and the memories that come in are broken.

“All three were killed in a surprise attack.”

“Set?”

“Including the hallway.”

Polaris nodded grimly. That was it.

Suddenly there was a jerk and the car shook, and the inertia went upward.

“Is this falling?”

“I think so.”

Polaris’ face turned pale at my words. But it’s not like he’s completely lost his buoyancy and is falling. That would mean he’s in a state of weightlessness, but for now, he’s just going down. That means someone’s controlling him.

If you look at it that way, there were wind-up machines on either side of the pilot, and only one was sticking out.

I’m heading to the cockpit.

“Where?”

“The cockpit.”

Polaris follows along, wondering if there was a way.

My first goal was to get the pilot before he lost his warmth, but there was no reason to explain it in detail, so I pretended to resolve the situation and headed forward.