Chapter 692 – The Day God Came ─ Where the Princess’s Wisdom and Knowledge Bear Fruit
“My, I! How could I forget this?! It may lack brilliance and splendor! Wherever you look, it is the pride of Holympia! Isn’t this the imperial palace where Abamama resides?!”
Before Eve Terra could explain in detail, the princess began to act as if she was very familiar with it.
At first she thought, ‘You must be excited to see a similar place.’ Eve was thinking about it with a smile, but the situation changed as the princess quickly climbed up the steel stairs and started walking down her hallway with eyes that seemed to know everything about her.
“Of course… Because you are making it, this and that… Yes! The wallpaper and the interior definitely have a different feel…”
Step, step, step, step The princess walks down the huge hallway like at home, heading somewhere.
“How could I not know about this place? There’s no way I wouldn’t know about Holympia’s proud imperial palace… Hmm, right, if you turn right from here, isn’t there a huge kitchen? Both the food Abamama eats and the meals I eat are all made there.”〈 Br〉
“Uh… That’s right. We’ve created a room that functions well enough to be called a kitchen. Since it’s a spaceship, we can’t just let people cook anywhere.”
Eve felt like she had been hit on the head.
‘How on earth did this happen…’
Unlike her, the princess motioned for her to follow, and she walked through the iron gate into the huge space that Eve had planned to introduce her to.
“In the imperial palace, here was Abamama’s throne room. Well, to be precise, Abamama always sits here on a throne made of gold.”
“Oh… Well, that’s a little different. This room is the bridge. It’s the brain of the ship.”
“Brain, brain…? That analogy is a bit bizarre.”
The princess mumbled, pushed open the huge door with both her hands, and entered majestically.
“Hmm, definitely… It’s just as you said! The room itself looks exactly like Abama’s throne room, which I know well, but yes, it’s full of things I’ve never seen before! It’s full!”
“There is no such thing as a golden throne.”
Eve said that in a calm voice, but it felt like her head was going to explode.
In this situation where something that shouldn’t have continued, all she could do was quietly listen to the stories the princess was telling and piece together her information.
“Did you say computer? It’s full of strange-looking devices.”
“This is the bridge. If this spaceship actually starts sailing, a lot of work will be done here. I likened it to the brain, right? In fact, we will be able to check various information such as where to go from here, what the status of the spaceship is, and whether the passengers are healthy… You can do it.”
After hearing Eve’s explanation, the princess looked around and saw that there was a large, black chair that was not as big as her golden throne. She walked over to it and lightly touched it to her buttocks.
“Anyway… This is truly bizarre. In all my life, I have never once imagined that the imperial palace of Holympia… Could be such a huge ‘ship’.”
“Well… Well, it has to be that way. I want to deny the possibility, but it seems that’s what happened.”
Eve, who still has a calm expression, shakes her head left and right once.
“This spaceship you call the Imperial Palace is very huge. Ah… Well, I think Mr. VVIP knows best how huge it is.”
Haha, how can I not know that? The imperial palace is so huge that some people say it is the whole of Olympia!”
“Yes, because it’s that big of a place. This spaceship was going to spend time in space almost permanently.”
“Permanently…? But isn’t it strange?”
The princess sits on her black chair, crossing her legs and straightening her back.
“I don’t intend to say ‘absolutely,’ and there is a high possibility that I am mistaken, but… Yes, this spaceship looks like an imperial palace no matter where I look. Didn’t I also show you the location of the room I used?”〈 Br〉
“It was quite creepy that there was a large VIP room there.”
“Of course, the place I pointed to was full of completely different rooms and objects…”
The princess points with her finger to the place Eve called ‘the bridge’.
“On the other hand, except for the names of the items and rooms, there were quite a few cases in which the approximate size and shape itself were the same. In the case of the underground library that Mr. VVIP mentioned, didn’t you say that it looks exactly the same?”
“Hmm, well… Actually, isn’t that where all the spaces are filled with books are?”
Eve let out a laugh at the small joke.
“Anyway, the important thing is that if what you say is true, then this spaceship is, um… I mean, I still don’t quite understand…”
The princess asked Eve what the universe was. She had listened to a long explanation of what the Earth was and what the sun and moon looked like.
“So. The sky above the sky… Isn’t it supposed to float forever in space? However, the imperial palace that I know is still on the ground.”
The princess had never heard of the story about a spaceship and that the imperial palace was actually a means of transportation that could fly, and Ceres did not seem to know about it, and even Emperor Jupiter did not know about it.
“This spaceship has a power source that can be used permanently. It was quite difficult to say that the time spent building this spaceship was just to find the power source.”
Eve continues the story calmly.
“In other words… If it is continuing its scheduled voyage, there is no reason for this spacecraft to return to the ground… That is, to Earth.”
“Is it really nothing? Is there not even the slightest possibility?”
Eve falls into thought for a moment at the princess’s question. She really thought about a lot of things, and then she sighed.
“To humans… The Earth has many meanings. There are also spiritual meanings such as being the cradle of life…”
While Eve was wondering where to begin to explain this, she looked into the princess’s eyes.
“In this incredibly huge universe… There is no planet that humans can immigrate to right now. It doesn’t exist anywhere. Even if the environment looks similar, it really looks similar, but it’s not the same. You can’t even imagine that the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere is different. There are also cases where gases that we have never tried before are mixed in.”
To help the princess understand, Eve created a small hologram on her palm.
“Mr. VVIP, do you know about nomadic peoples?”
“How could you not know? Aren’t you talking about those who wander around here and there instead of settling down in one place?”
“That’s right. But why did you become a nomad? If you think about it seriously, it’s hard to move around, right? If you go to a far away place, you might be safe, and you have to pick up everything you can call home and take it with you.”
In response to Eve’s question, the princess shrugs her shoulders.
“Well, isn’t it because the grass to feed the horses and livestock has disappeared, or the food to eat has disappeared? It’s not like farming.”
“That’s right. It’s the same in this universe. When all the planet’s limited resources are used up… Humans have to find a new planet. Unfortunately, all attempts have failed. There is no grass for horses to eat and no beasts for falcons to hunt. We just kept discovering land.”
“Hmm, so you… That new sun, planet? Instead of going there, you decided to float outside the fluffy Earth forever?”
“Yes, so this spaceship will never return to Earth.”
Eve’s confident voice made the princess’ head hurt.
‘Then… Why on earth is the imperial palace on earth? Why should a ship sink when it should float forever?’
The princess’s question was not simple.
‘If this spaceship is really the imperial palace that I know of… It should be able to be used in some way even now…’
The princess began to feel sad. If this spaceship were really in a place like the imperial palace, the methods it could use were close to infinite.
It would be impossible to hide certain items here and bring them to the present and use them, but anything else was possible.
“Eve… Is there, by any chance, a room here where injured people are treated?”
“Of course there is. If it’s a medical facility, it can’t be there. Even if most of the passengers are living a peaceful life on the cyber network, there is an emergency.”
The princess swallows her saliva at Eve’s words.
“Well… If there is such a thing as a power source, can you use that room as you please?”
“If there is no electricity, of course you can use it, and if there is, of course you can use it.”
The princess clenched her fists. The thought that no matter how much time she traveled, there was no place for her to use the wisdom and knowledge she had learned here, a bit of futility was eating away at the princess, and that was the moment when that thought disappeared.
The princess felt a sense of elation at the thought that she might be able to use powers that no one could have imagined.
“I know what Mr. VVIP is thinking, but there is absolutely no chance that this spaceship will ever return to the ground…”
“Uh, uh, you can’t say it doesn’t exist.”
The princess turns her head in pleasure at the sound of her voice, which is full of her foolishness. There stood Lilith, maintaining her youth and beauty just like Eve.
“This is my first time hearing such a story, Lilith?”
“Hey, Eve, I told you before I built this spaceship. About the Gaia project…”
“Ah, ah… Oh my god haa…”
Eve rubs her face with both hands and sighs.
“Lilith… That was just… A suitable excuse to roast and boil people like General Jade, people who love the Earth so much.”
“Eve, you always say that, but… You never wasted the Gaia project you created together with me.”
“Of course, I had to make something perfectly believable to fool that tight-lipped General Jade and the other humans!”
At Eve’s words, the princess folded her arms and looked at him quietly, then snorted.
“What on earth is the Gaia Project that makes Eve say it’s such a vain dream?”
“Oh, ah, hello, Mr. Venus… It’s really been a long time.”
Lilith’s hand, which greeted her with a light smile, made strange sounds such as squeaking, giggling, and whining, and her little finger twirled in a strange way.
“Oh my god… Give me Lilith’s hand.”
At Eve’s words, Lilith held out her hand, and Eve took out a tool from a small bag on her waist and began to fix his hand right in front of the princess.
The princess swallowed her saliva as she realized once again that they were a better pair than anyone else.
“Well… The Gaia Project… It’s a great project. We’ve run away into space, and we’re going to use a very cool weapon called Judgment Day…”
“After that, the Earth’s environment will definitely be irreparably polluted and damaged. The Gaia Project is what will restore that, return it to its original state.”
“Hmm…? Then isn’t it a story with potential?”
Eve snorts at the princess’s words.
“Ha! That can’t be possible. Do you know how long it takes for nature, completely damaged by radiation, to return to the environment we know well? Yes, there is a Gaia Project to reduce that, but it is absolutely taking a huge amount of time. I need it?”
“Like Eve said, I really need a lot of time, but that’s why… I want to raise children equipped with the ability to continuously improve the Earth’s environment…”
“I made it. Yes, yes, I showed them cleaning up the radiation in that little lab. But the reality is different, right? Lilith? I told you so.”
Eve sighs.
“I hope that the production system placed underground, which creates androids endlessly and continues to manage the environment on the ground, without any continuous management by humans… Will last forever for a thousand or ten thousand years without any problems with power? Ha. Isn’t that really lack of conscience? Even if there is an AI that learns, the machine will eventually break down and have to be handled by humans.”
Eve, who talks non-stop, even snorts.
“A machine without human hands will automatically fix the Earth’s environment after tens of thousands of years? Ha, that must make sense. There have been a time or two when this spaceship almost got rusty because it might or might not rain tomorrow…!”〈 Br〉
The princess points to herself with her finger as she looks at Eve, who has shouted at her with her helpless face.
“Well, what if… What would happen if you saw such a machine?”
“… Huh? What is that…”
“If you’ve ever seen a machine that hasn’t been touched by humans for thousands of years, carrying out a given goal on its own, forever! There’s a reason for this spaceship to come down to earth! Is it even possible to think that there’s a reason…?!”
Eve, who was dumbfounded by the princess’s words, adjusted Lilith’s hand and finally, really, opened her mouth.
“0%… I can’t say for sure. Never…”
