Volume 3 Chapter 1 (1/2)
Chapter 1
───German Joint Particle Body Research Center ”Ymir”.
”.........Ouch......!”
Homura realized he had lost consciousness for a short time, after he had been struck in the back of the head. Surprisingly, he showed no signs of panic or unease following the nightmare.
That was because he had been seeing the very same dream again and again for the past couple of days.
He didn't expect to even have daydreams about it, but as he was in the middle of an experiment it wasn't that strange of a thing.
The explosion that occurred after that flash was powerful enough that it caused an earthquake.
It was an experiment that was being performed at one of the sectors’ of the research center that ”Everything Company” co-founded with Germany, but not a single person, probably, could have imagined that the shock it would cause would be to this degree.
Edward Grímnir, the head of the development, fixed his gla.s.ses and overlooked the fallen Homura.
”The tremor was greater than expected, Dr. Saigou Homura. Are you alright?”
”Y-Yeah. But that surprised me. I never expected that it would destroy the ”Iron Coffin” from the inside and that its shock would reach even the observation room.”
”That's true. The visuals and the measurement result are here. Do verify them.”
The two confirmed the recording of the moment the experimental body had exploded.
They, who saw everything from the observation room that was separated from the laboratory where the explosion had occurred, had swallowed their saliva from those results that could even be said to be overwhelming. On top of the measured data, they were shocked and lost for words from the recorded phenomenon.
It was a flash so dazzling that it would disorient one’s eyes and deprive their vision.
The measurement device that had been installed in the laboratory had been vaporized by the heat rays being generated inside the room, with no trace left of it. The fortified alloy had been superheated and was now sagging.
That scene, with molten alloy flying around and the scattered light particles falling down as they shone, was something that could even be called fantastic.
It was a small mercy that it ended with just that section of the facility blowing apart. Was the plant that acted as the model the cause of generating this local force, or was this how it was from the start?
After glancing back at Homura who put together the observation results, Edward looked at the crystallized bodies that had been stored inside the vacuum capsule.
”So these are part of the crystallized Star Particle Bodies that were used to break out the ”Bull of Heaven”? Albeit we only managed to collect a meager amount, they are quite a terrific thing. I heard just one of these can embody all NBCR weapons. I wonder if that is true.”
”You mean the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Radiological weapons, right? ......I wonder. I think that would depend on the results of the current ”Genome Tree” project. We are already establis.h.i.+ng radioactivity removal technology using particle bodies, so I would instead like to advance the technology to neutralizing NBCR weapons.”
”Hmm. You have a high will. In that case, if it carried the ability of both WMDs and their neutralization, what would you come to call it?”
”Hahah. If that's possible, I'd settle with ”The General Weapons” for the time being. Or if we a.s.sume that an ordinary frontline soldier could use it, it might be better to just call them armaments at that time. ...Ah, d.a.m.n it. The data that was sent here is in a mess. The shock from a while ago might've interrupted the circuit.”
”Is that so. Then let's grab it directly from the main server.”
Edward connected to the inner line and spoke a few words.
This room wasn't the only room with the purpose of observation. The use of around three observation rooms were allowed for this experiment, and furthermore, the observed data was stored on the main server.
Manager Carla and Director Weser seemed to be on standby in the second and third observation rooms.
Just as Homura, who couldn't deal with either of them, was rather unwilling to meet either of them,
The door opened with a clank.
”Hey, pleasure house. I brought the data.”
The door to the observation room suddenly opened up and Homura was taken aback.
Moreover, the youth who entered the room was about the same age as Homura and had white hair and golden eyes. From the sudden appearance of the unknown boy Homura lost his words, but it was different for Edward.
He slightly knit his brows and clicked his tongue.
”......Your Highness. I don't remember permitting you to enter the room.”
”H-Highness!?”
”I don't remember being given it either. I merely came here after Carla told me to bring the data.”
The youth referred to as Highness pushed his way in indifferently without paying any mind to the surprised Homura.
Homura felt unsettled from the name that went beyond his expectations.
Just his white hair and golden eyes were rare enough, so after hearing ”Highness”, it couldn't be helped that he felt like that.
Homura observed the clothes that the youth called Highness wore. He wore a white coat different from the white robes that were provided to the researchers, and his uniform under it was worn out.
The fact that he didn't feel any disagreeability with them being worn out, was probably because of the youth's natural elegance. His appearance as he quietly walked as his white coat fluttered behind him made him think that he was someone of n.o.ble heritage.
(Hair with weak pigment......Is it Albino? There seems to be no doubt about him being a Caucasoid, but......... no, that's not the problem here. Why is someone the same age as me in ”Ymir”? and what's with ”Highness”!?)
Those allowed to work at the forefront Particle Body Research Center ”Ymir” were only the personnel chosen by the ”Everything Company”, and no one else. There wasn't supposed to be anyone of the same generation as Homura there, aside from Ayato.
As Homura was lost in thoughts while staring at him, Edward stepped forth and started introducing him.
”You are meeting each other for the first time, right? He is Kalki A. Vishnuyashas. He's the son of my friend. One of the investors of Particle Body Research. As for why he's called Highness, it's the nickname that was born from that position.”
”........Right, that's right. Nice to meet you.”
”I-Is that so. So you were from one of the investor families...... Uhh, I'm Saigou Homura. I'm the one researching the Particle Bodies as you can see.”
As homura introduced himself, the youth referred to as His Highness Kalki seemed to be surprised as he opened his eyes wide.
”......Saigou Homura? You are the one?”
”Y-Yeah. Something wrong?”
”I see. I was just surprised because you give off a more mediocre atmosphere than I thought you would. Since this inhuman guy seemed to be having fun talking with you, I thought whether you were some odd fellow that couldn't be called human, or some kind of monster.”
”Oi, Highness. Just what do you think I am?”
”To say it indirectly, inhuman. To say it frankly, s.h.i.+tty fiend.”
”Shut up you s.h.i.+tty brat. I'm trying to be a gentleman around here, so talk to me like one.”
”Oh? I think you are established as a sham gentlemen. ...What do you say?”
HIs Highness Kalki looked at Homura after smiling a little.
Homura was lost on how to react to someone who considered him as an oddball at their first meeting, however he fully agreed with Edward being a sham gentlemen and nodded his head in reply.
”I'm sorry for being rude, But I also think that you are a sham gentlemen.”
”.........Nu.”
”Haha, see that! I was instead unable to hold myself back from laughing at your gentleman act!”
Kalki said it with even more vigor after having earned Homura's support.
Edward sat down on a chair and faced the other way in agitation. He probably saw that his chances of winning the argument were meager after it had turned into a two versus one.
Homura was suppressing his laughter, but they couldn't continue chit-chatting like this forever.
”The results of the a.n.a.lysis came. I'm starting the video.”
”Got it. .........Okay, this is a good chance, Your Highness should see it as well. It may become a reference for the future.”
”What am I watching?”
”The first results of the ”Genome Tree” project. It concerns you too, right?”
From Edward’s words, Kalki opened his eyes wide from the surprise.
””Genome Tree” Project......Hah, what's with that? Is it really fine for it to be created in this age?”
”What?”
”I'm being anxious about this super technology. Never mind that, display the results. I'll take responsibility.”
Homura was full of question marks, but since he said he would take responsibility, and being urged by Edward, he revealed the a.n.a.lysis results. The three of them ended their conversation and directed their sights at the monitor.
”.........This is...”
The video noise filled the room as if to disturb the silence.
In the middle of the laboratory where the two meter tall sapling was located, the B.D.A. - The Constant Velocity Particle Accelerator released a frequency of 32.768 kHz frequency, commonly considered as the ”Definition of a Second”. This caused the sapling to oscillate along with the whole facility, even after the B.D.A was stopped. The sapling evaporated along with the luminous phenomena as the fusion was happening, or that is how the current process seemed to have went.
But those surface results weren't the reason for Homura's surprise.
Edward had a smile on his face from the unexpected results of the experiment.
After cutting off the cigar's tip with the cutter, he pleasantly asked Homura.
”The fortified armor that has the same thickness of 200 millimeters as the ”Iron Coffin” was instantly fused, huh? ......Now then. Doesn't seem like this was a complete failure either, don't you agree, Dr. Saigou Homura. I don't mind if it's within the measurable scope. Can you explain what just occurred?”
Edward showed a pleased smile while exhaling the cigar smoke.
Contrary to him, Homura had a sour expression on his face as he answered.
After concluding that it was something impossible, Homura dropped his gaze at the measuring instrument and continued.
”.........Well, this is just me making a guess. But it appears that a heat wave and ma.s.s comparable to the sun's corona was released from the experimental body in just the fraction of an instant.”
”Hah, that of the corona!?!? That's quite the absurd conclusion! So, what? You're trying to tell me that that measly, two meter sapling had a ma.s.s of millions of tonnes for an instant!?”
It’s too unbelievable!!! How to even write it in the report?!
Spreading his hands, Edward exclaimed in exaggeration and amus.e.m.e.nt.
But it wasn't like Homura told him that without proof.
Rewinding the experiment room monitor, he projected the camphor sapling that acted as the experimental body.
”Please look here. Although it is a phenomenon that cannot be confirmed because the Particle Accelerator - B.D.A. does not conform to the target standard, a slight pseudo radiation phenomenon can be confirmed. ”
This time It was Kalki's turn to become confused from Homura's words.
”Pseudo radiation? What's that, something different from the radiation phenomenon?”
”Yeah. To begin with, the B.D.A. is the abbreviation for Blood Accelerator, so it's something that should be used on animate beings instead of plants. It is an accelerator that allows blood circulation of about 330 thousand revolutions per second in accordance with ”Definition of a Second” in Particle Bodies taken into the body, and for example, when used for a human body holding particle bodies—ah, before that. Does Highness and Edward-san understand time-resolved particle momentum spectroscopy or semi-permanent engineering by electron transfer within a substance caused by binding mitigation of particle bodies?”
”No, don't know it. Unlike that sham gentlemen I'm no researcher.”
”While I'm the head of the development I'm not a researcher. I'm someone who joined in with connections.”
”Ah, guessed as much. I'll take that in mind from now on. Then I'll just stick to the simple explanation that uses a human body.”
With a cough, Homura summed it up and started the explanation.
───The ”definition of a second” is a field that can be defined in various ways, but here in this laboratory it is replaced by the 32.768 kHz frequency that's primarily used in clocks.
This frequency points to the one that the quartz clocks use for measuring one second, and is the frequency that is released when the crystal embedded inside the clock is given electromagnetic waves.
We confirmed that the ”Star Particle Bodies” reacted to this ”definition of a second” and the pathways inside the body of a parasitized creature rotated at about 330 thousand times at constant velocity. This wondrous nature is the third engine of the new era that enables the ”Star Particle Bodies” to generate third Energy that's detached from the first and second.
Constant velocity motion, that uses the new 'Definition of a Second' that goes beyond the propagation time of light — the relation called the 'Third Perpetual Motion' that allows the complex-momentum necessary for Tachyon particles and Ether to be observed in the material world.
”Complex momentum is not the movement of approaching the energy from the concept of ma.s.s, but the momentum that occurs when approaching the material world from the concept of time. So the 32.768 kHz frequency is inputted in order to fixate the movement of Particle Bodies with the concept of time called the ”Definition of a Second”.”
”.........Mhm. So it's going to exceed the existing momentum of the universe by performing uniform velocity motion on the s.p.a.ce concept? So then, how would it be used on a human body?”
Receiving Edward's question, Homura answered as he displayed the human body diagram on the monitor.
”The overall length of the human blood vessels is about 100 000 km. It could be said to be over twice the circ.u.mference of Earth. If we apply this to the ”Definition of a Second” and turn it's speed to uniform velocity, the calculation would be that it would travel the 3,300,000 km of blood pa.s.sageways every second. At this level, it transcends the speed of light ten times.”
With Homura's conclusion, Highness raised a voice as if he doubted his ears.
”Over ten times......the speed of light, you say!!?”
”......Dr. Saigou. Then, what of the pseudo radiation?”