On March 2, a little before 8 p.m., Jin promised .
"I wonder what Jin-sama's celebration is all about."
"I'm looking forward to it.
"It will be 8:00 in a few minutes."
Ten people have gathered in the warp gate room.
Jin had said that they could bring their automata, but this time, they were all reserved and gathered alone.
At exactly 8 o'clock, Jin and Reiko arrived at the warp gate.
"Good morning. Everyone is here.
"Father, it's night time here."
"Oh, yes, that's right."
The time difference between Horai Island and Onogoro Island is exactly half a day. Jin must have misunderstood because the warp gate room here has no windows.
"Well then, let's get moving.
Jin invited everyone to the warp gate from which they had just emerged.
"Jin-sama, the warp gate is ......."
"Yes. <
Wow ......!
Even Rubina, Natalia, and Shu, who had visited the island once before, had a twinkle in their eyes.
The seven of them, especially those who were visiting for the first time, were in high spirits.
"Come on, let's go!"
"Yes!"
Following Jin and Reiko, the 10 of us passed through the warp gate.
For this time only, it has been readjusted so that it can move directly to Horai Island and react to magic patterns other than Jin's. Incidentally, if you use it once, you will be able to move to Horai Island.
Note that the settings are restored after one use, so that you cannot use it after this time without Jin's permission.
It was 8 o'clock in the morning on Horai Island, beyond the warp gate.
He went out of the warp gate room in the basement.
Under the blue sky, Jin uttered his customary line.
"Welcome to Horai Island.
"Wow, so this is Horai Island!
Greenina Kuzma, the youngest except for Rubina, cheered. And it seems that the others were the same, whispering words of surprise and joy in their mouths.
"The legendary Horai Island: ......"
"This is where many magical tools and magical machines (Magi Machines) have been ......"
Jin knew how they felt, so he kept quiet for a while, but then he thought it was about time,
"Come on, let's move on."
He led everyone to the back of the institute.
There they found .......
"What is this?
"Is it a big ball ......?"
"Is it a spaceship?
Yes, there it was, a spherical spaceship 300 meters in diameter, Jin's flagship <.
"As a reward, or rather as a celebration, I thought I would take you to space with it."
The magic screens embedded in the floor, ceiling, and walls make it seem as if you are in mid-air.
Ars is getting smaller and smaller under our feet.
Above my head is a jet-black universe.
Adriana is climbing rapidly through the clouds.
"There are dangerous electromagnetic waves in space, including cosmic rays, so it's safer to stay in a room like this, surrounded by wards and metal walls," explains Jin.
Jin explains.
"We're almost at an altitude of over 30,000 kilometers. We are in the orbit of a geostationary satellite.
It is already pitch black, and countless stars are twinkling.
A star shines obliquely below. It is the sun Celan. Its type is G-type, almost the same as that of Sun Sol.
It is shining brightly in the blackness of space.
"So the planet Hale is on the other side of that Seran ......."
Jin nodded his head in agreement with Shu's words.
"Yes, that's right. The originals migrated to Ars due to the depletion of resources, but on the other hand, it is an easy planet to live on if you can manage to secure resources.
"Jin-sama is planning to emigrate, isn't he?"
Jin replied to Eugene Fowle's words.
"Emigration is not quite the same thing. I'm thinking of leaving Ars and using it as a base. A place to hide out, I guess.
With a slight smile,
"The first priority is to make it livable," he said.
I said.
"Can we live there too ......?"
Florence Fahlheit asked, to which Jin gave a big affirmative.
Of course we can. Of course. We have spaceships and warp gates. We can come and go easily, so we don't have to think too hard about it.
"I see.
While we were talking, the view of Ars from <> became much smaller.
"Well, I'm going to go back around the moon.
<> was not ascending vertically, but at an angle to go around the night side, so that the moon (Uni) was already in sight in the direction she was going.
"Uh, it's about 380,000 kilometers, right?"
Elvis Alcott asks Jin.
"That's right. Right now, this is flying at about 100 kilometers per second, so it will reach the moon in a little over an hour.
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"That's amazing. ......"
Everyone is amazed at the extraordinary speed.
"So there are a lot of things we have to be careful about."
Jin takes this opportunity to explain a few of the dangers in space.
"When you are flying at such high speeds, it is scary when you hit an object," he said.
"Oh, I understand."
Sidney Marek nodded. The others nodded in silence.
"That's why we fly with repulsive wards, physical barriers (solid barriers), and defensive shields (aigis) deployed.
For higher speeds, Jin explained, he also adds a shifting barrier.
"Then there are electromagnetic waves and radiation such as cosmic rays and ultraviolet rays. Some of them are so strong that they can only be blocked by adamantite or other materials 15 centimeters thick.
That's why this observatory is sealed, Jin said.
Everyone listens to him with great interest.
And the moon (Yunie) was getting bigger and bigger.