Chapter 932: A Long Day in the Life of Miyama Kaito ⑦ (1/2)

<Author's Notes>

【Just before the release date, the highlights of the Light Novel's Volume 12 is introduced in the Activity Report】

After we teleported to the deserted island we visited first, Eden-san slowly told me stories about her past. It was a long conversation that she would normally have gone out of control before she could finish it, but Eden-san's expression remained calm as she talked about the person she called her best friend, and I could tell that she really cared about that person.

It was a story about a girl born with mysterious powers…… Eden-san, how she met and was saved by her hero, and decided to become a God.

There were some parts that were made obscure, but the story was fresh…… and more importantly, judging from the way Eden-san talked about them, I felt that the best friend she called her hero must be a really great person.

Eventually though, Eden-san left her to become a God, parting ways with her best friend, but more than 20 billion years later, it seems that her best friend still remains in her mind as an indelible memory.

When Eden-san had finished her story, just as she had said, the sun had set…… and the stars became visible.

[……I sure sailed through a strange fate. A lot of years have passed since then, and even though the world has changed, I am still looking up at the stars with someone else. Some things change, while some things stay the same…… I could certainly feel it.]

[The number of years Eden-san has lived is too vast for me to even imagine…… but I can sympathize with the feeling of being deeply moved by memories and things that do not change over time.]

[I see……]

After calmly smiling at my words, Eden-san looked up at the starry sky once more and muttered.

[……This is the first time I've talked about this with anyone. However, I've always wanted to tell my child about this.]

[Why is that?]

[I don't know? I'm also wondering why.]

Why did Eden-san tell me about the story of her origins that she never told anyone before…… Somehow, I had a feeling that it was for a different reason than her being overly-doting on me, but it doesn't seem like she's willing to tell me that.

Well, I guess I won't pry too deeply into it.

[……Thank you for accompanying me today. Thanks to you, I have another good memory that will never fade.]

[No, I'm the one who should be thanking you…… Thank you for inviting me today. If there's another opportunity like this, I hope we can go out together again.]

All's well that ends well, I suppose. It has been a really tough day…… but I'm glad that things turned out all right. I learned a lot of things about Eden-san that I didn't know before, but now that it's over, I feel that today isn't so bad.

In the beginning, I was quite anxious, feeling tense along our stroll as if I was carrying a bomb that could explode at any moment, but even after a really long day, as it turned out, Eden-san didn't get out of control and I learned a lot about her.

However, I still felt very tired, and after taking a bath, I crawled into bed and let my consciousness be drawn to sleep…… or so it should have been.

When I came to my senses, I found myself in a strange place. If I had to describe it…… It was as if I'm up in the sky, with nothing but the blue sky all around me.

In such a sky, I was standing on top of a large gear toppled sideways. Was this a dream? If it was, I'm feeling awfully conscious…… A dream in which I'm standing on a gear floating in the sky certainly is quite a strange dream.

While I was thinking like this, a gear similar to the one I was on suddenly fell from further up in the sky…… and connected to the gear I'm standing on, seemingly forming a staircase.

What's this? Could I take it that I should climb up here? As I climbed up the stairs made of gears, feeling that this really was quite the strange dream…… I saw a very large gear and a huge door that should be about several dozen meters large.