LV999 Villager - Volume 3 - Chapter 11.05

Chapter 11, Part 5

An Endless Journey

「You’re saying it as if you had seen it yourself」

Said Palna with a doubtful look.

「Don’t get me wrong. I have simply seen the remainin videos in the facilities that show what happened back then. Anyway, Humanity was trampled by those who suddenly appeared… At that time, the only ones capable of giving some fight were the New Humans, the Mutants and the Transcendent One’s, or that is how we call them」

「What is a Mutant?」

「Would you understand it better if I referred to them as Evolved Humans? They were those who possessed special abilities and powers, which had become hundreds of times stronger than normal humans thanks to the evolution that their bodies suffered. In other words… They are your Senpais」

Everyone felt a little annoyed after hearing those words. Those beings didn’t seems stranges at all compared to what they had seen in their own world. And by calling them their Senpais, then he was meaning that they themselves were evolved beings different to the Humans of this world.

「At the end, we understood that no matter how good and efficient our weapons are, they are useless if those who use them are weak. But, even with their power…」

「Wait, what’s it that about those beings being our senpais? What do you mean…? What’s it all about? What is the relationship between Earth and Earth Clear!? Say it clearly!」

Regardless of whether or not he intended to answer Rex’s questions, after seeing that the others also seemed to have the same questions, Cruz simply shake his head from left to right muttering, 「It can’t be helped」, while pressing one of the brooches of his robe with his finger.

Immediately after, the white walls that surrounded them began to become transparent, causing them to be surrounded by in a completely dark space. Then, a short time later, the place began to be illuminated by an orange light that came from somewhere below them, which caused everyone to start looking down to find the origin of this light.

Below them was a deep hole, the bottom of which they could not even see, in the center of which was a large pillar, which seemed to be large enough to cover half the space of the hole, which glowed with a light that shone intermittently to the beat of a heartbeat. Then, after looking more carefully, the group could see small capsules that were at the sides of the hole walls, each of which emitted a faint orange light.

「What… is this? What is all this!?」

Screamed Tina in panic, while Rex and the others watched the capsules with bewildered glances at the objects they had never seen before, then, Tina quickly ran to Cruz and asked him what was happening while pointing the capsules.

Cruz, who smiled after seeing Tina’s panic state, muttered.

「Did you realize so fast? Yes… is what you think」

After hearing that murmur, Tina, seeming to have understood something, looked back at the capsules unable to believe what she was looking at.

「Tina-san, what happens? Why did you act that way…?」

「… You do not get it?」

After Krull approached Tina to ask what happened to her after seeing her run in a panic, Tina pointed her finger at one of the capsules that were beneath her as she trembled.

Everyone else followed her finger and looked at the capsule she was pointing at. The capsule, which was covered by a special translucent glass that did not allow them to see clearly inside, from which emanated an orange light whose intensity increased and decreased steadily. Without being able to understand what had surprised Tina, the group continued to observe the capsule for a while.

Then, when the light of the capsule intensified, Takako, who seemed to have realized what was happening, put on the same expression of Tina.

「People… are there people in there?」

After hearing that, the others, who had not yet realized the truth, focused their eyes again on the capsules to confirm it.

As Takako had said, in the capsules one could see what seemed to be the silhouette of a person when the light became more intense. Not only that, the silhouette seemed to be floating inside the capsule.

At that moment, everyone, except for Tina, Alice and Menou, was deeply surprised before that fact.

「Oh dear, you two and the Cleric over there are good observers. Yes, it is exactly what you think, what is inside those capsules… are humans」

Said Cruz with a tone plagued with what seems to be frustration. But, that was enough for the rest to understand what he meant.

Japan, the country that was said to have existed where Hexaldoria currenly was. The countless capsules that were below them, within which were human beings. And the fact that those capsules were the same as the white spherical devices in which they had woken up when they arrived in this world――,

「The Residents of the Kingdom of Hexaldoria of Earth Clear… all of them are here, asleep」

With those words, everyone realized that, during all this time they had been inside a cage, living a fake life.

「That huge pillar in the center is Earth Clear. One of the last sources of hope for Humanity」

At that moment, everyone, while looking at the pillar in the center, remembered the words Kagami had once said. The concept of status, the roles, and even the world seemed to have been created with the sole purpose of making them stronger. All that had become clear with this fact.

「Amazing… This is amazing, Kagami-san」

Everyone was surprised at the moment when the suspicions Kagami had had turned out to be true, while they were impressed by the particular and special type of individual he was.