Pioneer Space With Your Bare Hands! - Episode 196

Episode 196 [Side Story] The protagonist’s youngest brother EP26. Adventure to find real life [END]

In the end, they quickly surrendered without the need for the large fleet led by Kyle to wipe out the ships on the planet ‘Mana’.

However, I was not very happy due to the deep sense of disconnection I felt from reality.

And this time, Kyle’s communication comes to me.

-Abel! thank god! It’s not too late!-

When I look at Kyle’s face, which looks so happy because he saved me, I picture the Kyle from my favorite novel. At the same time, what kind of character his younger brother Abel was.

An extra who didn’t do anything.

And the cruel setting behind the name.

If it is true that the name Abel was taken from the Bible, as the author quietly mentioned in the comment, then Abel’s fate was bound to be extremely tragic.

In the first place, Abel in the Bible is the first human being killed by his older brother Cain.

In addition, the name Abel itself comes from a Hebrew verb meaning ‘vain.’

It really is the perfect name for my current situation.

-I knew you would come.-

Kyle’s face brightens as the words flow from my mouth.

-of course! There’s no way I’m ignoring your request for help.-

At this moment when everything around me feels meaningless, his bright face especially stimulates my emotions. Is it because he was the one who held my heart, which had wavered once before?

Or is it because he was originally the main character of this world?

I don’t know the answer right now, but at least it was true that talking to him put my mind at ease.

-I need to rest for a while. You can take care of people, right?

As of now, I have no motivation to do anything.

Still, wouldn’t it make you feel better if you eat something delicious and rest well?

Not all of the severe loss of motivation I felt was due to tasteless synthetic food, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have any effect. Because it is true that tasteless food made me depressed.

After eating well and resting well, I go on a journey to find my true life.

To a world where I can be more immersed…

I asked Kyle to take care of the rest of the place and headed to Planet Rize without any hesitation.

Then, I returned to Rize after a long time and started spending time watching the many movies that welcomed me.

Of course, don’t forget to eat your mother’s delicious food…

Meanwhile, Margaret, whom I brought in, has integrated into our family well.

Rather than being the bride I took, I became the daughter my parents never had…

She was more affable than I thought, and everyone in my family liked her.

Not only Margaret, but Olga and Sasha also adapted well to life in Rize.

Olga began working at Rize’s biotechnology laboratory, and Sasha entered military school.

Both greatly welcomed Planet Rize’s social welfare system, which was quite good.

In addition, when Kyle, who defeated the coup forces on the planet ‘Mana’ in just a few days, returned, Rize began chanting for Kyle again and the entire planet was shaken, but I began to focus only on the movies that were continuously made regardless of the external situation. did.

Watching the videos made using my nostalgic memories as a hint, I felt like my frustrating feelings were relieved a little.

Meanwhile, time passed quickly, and Kyle, who was said to be a ‘dream chaser’, ended up becoming a revolutionary force dreaming of a revolution in the empire.

In addition to the residents of the planet ‘Rize’, who were his enthusiastic followers, and the planet ‘Mana’, which surrendered to him, more forces than expected gathered under him, and he was able to establish a proud warlord power within an empire that was slowly heading towards civil war.

While I thought that the people who always raised one hand and shouted his name when they saw Kyle looked like a group of fanatics, I finally thought that I was ready.

The day I watched my second brother, Dane, marry Lena, the original leader of the hamsters.

And on that day, news broke that a man named Gazelle, who could not give up his ambitions, was found barely alive inside a satellite that had stopped working.

I turned to face Kyle.

“Are you thinking of leaving again? Are you going with Margaret?”

Kyle looked into my eyes and asked me if he read something.

At this, I shook my head.

“Margaret should be here with good people. I’m thinking of finding a new life. A life where I can live as just me, not as the hero’s younger sister.”

Then Amanda, who was next to Kyle, spoke to me.

“So that’s why we needed a time travel device.”

I knew Amanda could make it.

And as expected, Amanda accepted my request.

“No matter where I go in this universe, I will always be Kyle’s younger brother. But in a different time zone, it will be different. Then, I will not be Kyle’s younger brother, but will be called by my name, Abel.”

exciting adventure,

Heart-warming passion,

And all the heart-pounding romance was waiting for me beyond time.

Because here I was both the main character and an extra.

The moment everything that was shining became blurry, I made a decision.

‘okay! Let’s go to the future! Let’s see with our own eyes the overwhelming time beyond!’

One-way time travel was planned that way, once it started, it could never be reversed.

I put down everything that gave me my heart and left only the robot ‘Haniga’ by my side…

“Abel, you are wrong. You will always be my brother, no matter what time it is.”

Kyle hugs me tightly with those words.

I was always grateful to him.

Because he was the most powerful being that had held me in this reality for so long.

“Don’t forget your dreams because you’re so focused on the war! Brother. The dream you had was what everyone was desperately hoping for.”

I was afraid that if we talked further, I would end up getting caught, so I hurriedly let go of the hug I was holding, sent a grin to his face, and left the house.

Then, even as Dane’s wedding reception was taking place, Margaret, who was just glancing in this direction, quickly ran towards me.

“Please take me too!”

Traveling with a beauty like her will definitely be fun.

But what I dreamed of was not just a new life.

Beyond a long time.

Because I was curious about what lies behind time in this decorated world.

“This is a trip I must do alone. I don’t know how long it will take. My parents will take good care of me, so Margaret, you can find the joy of living in Rize.”

Then tears well up in her big eyes.

Thanks to this, my heart also almost weakened, but I persevered and turned around.

Then, he boarded a ship equipped with a time travel device and headed toward the void of space.

The moment the planet ‘Rize’ moves away, the time held by me through the time travel device I activated also begins to quickly move away. As the ship progresses with a rattling feeling as if there is considerable strain on the hull, the time travel stops exactly 1,000 years after the start of the time travel.

This was the first turning point in my decision because I thought that many things would have changed over time. However, the appearance of the planet ‘Rize’ in front of me did not change much.

Even the huge dome covering the planet ‘Rize’ and the city of Citadel located there were still the same.

So, with certain possibilities in mind, I slowly brought the ship closer to the planet ‘Rize’.

Then, along with the gloomy-looking buildings, something that shouldn’t be in the Citadel comes into view.

A giant human statue.

Of course, the subject was a person worthy of being remembered in Rize’s history books, but he was someone whose statue should not have been placed in that way.

Because he was the crazy dictator of the planet ‘Rize’ that fell because of Kyle.

In the end, a reset of human civilization occurred in just 1,000 years.

And that’s in the worst form, with its starting point tangled…

“Captain, the enemy is preparing to attack!”

At the words of the robot ‘Haniga’ who spoke next to me, I turned my gaze, which had been in the air for a moment, to the hologram, and as expected, I saw a huge Gauss gun the size of a building slowly revealing its gun barrel.

In fact, I could have continued the fight like Kyle did and executed that obnoxious dictator who was trying to attack me.

However, even then, it will not disappear unless all the clones that are its replacements are disposed of.

Even so, if time passes and another reset occurs, this situation will just repeat…

Therefore, I decided to ‘retreat’ at my first junction.

However, even though I turned the ship back into space, they did not stop their attack attempts.

Thanks to this, it seemed like a moment of crisis was approaching, but fortunately, the ship I was on was much faster than their movements.

Seueuuu~

The moment I gave the new command to escape, the ship I was on quickly left the planet Rize and ended up in the void of space.

And at that moment, what I felt was not relief, but despondency.

This is because it was discovered that the phenomenon of civilization reset does not ultimately create a new civilization starting from zero, but simply causes a specific point to be repeated infinitely.

Unless time was repeated in that way, a dictator with the same face could not have appeared in this new human civilization. In fact, if this were the real world, this could probably explain a lot of things.

The phenomenon of déjà vu is the feeling of familiarity in a place you have never visited.

The world after death pursued by many religions.

Another life called reincarnation or reincarnation.

All of that could be explained by this one reset.

But what I feel now is only an even greater disappointment that this world is just a simulation.

A world like a prison of infinite size, disconnected from the real world.

I was feeling extremely frustrated in the infinite freedom of time and space that I enjoyed.

At that moment, my fingers started dancing as I was trying to set a new time travel destination.

And the result was a ridiculous number with countless zeros.

100,000,000 years later

100 million years.

Can I, and all living things in the universe, handle this long period of time?

I didn’t have to worry about that question.

All you have to do is actually experience it.

And so the reckless time travel began.

For other beings, time feels like eternity,

And after what seems like a fleeting moment to me, what I see is,

It was a planet called ‘Rize’ that had not changed at all.

Although it is said to have been 100 million years, it does not seem to have been enough to change the appearance of the planet.

However, I headed the ship back to the planet ‘Rize’, believing that the beings living on it had changed a lot.

But this time, my attempt was blocked as soon as I approached planet Rize.

Several ships suddenly appeared and suddenly blocked my path.

[Communication is coming in from an external ship]

First of all, looking at the exterior appearance of their ship, it wasn’t much different from the ship I was on, but it still didn’t look like it did at the time when the dictator ruled, so I accepted their communication out of curiosity.

Then, after a while, a face saying something surprising appears on the hologram device here.

“This is the private property of Kyle, the protector of the Federation. Ships that have not been promised in advance are not allowed further access.”

These words were uttered by a cute-faced hamster with milky fur covering its entire face. It had quite a lot of meaning.

If we take his words literally, the planet ‘Rize’, where many people lived, has now become someone’s private property. Of course, this meant that someone who was no different from a dictator had appeared here again. And the name of that being was ‘Kyle’…

So, is the Kyle he spoke of really the Kyle I know?

Even though a whopping 100 million years had passed, I finally opened my mouth after taking a moment to catch my breath at the familiar name that sounded as if it were denying that long time.

“I am Abel, Kyle’s brother.”

Then the other person immediately confirms the fact.

“I’ve never heard of Kyle, who is a new human like us, having a younger brother who is an old human.”

I don’t know if this is a good thing, but the Kyle they talk about and the Kyle I think of have the same name, but they seem to be different beings. It’s unclear whether the reset of civilization has stopped or it’s just a different time zone, but something has changed.

Feeling a little encouraged by this, I decided to do as they said and retreat.

“I guess I was mistaken. I will leave like this.”

Then the other person, who made an incomprehensible face, spoke to me.

“We fully understand the mistakes of the old race. Frequent mistakes are a characteristic of the old race.”

Thanks to his words, I was finally able to roughly understand the meaning of the unknown expression the other person was making. Even though I couldn’t tell the furry expression on his face, it was clear that the guy’s tone of voice was sarcastic.

Of course, he may have his own reasons for behaving like this, but I didn’t feel the need to continue talking with him.

If this wasn’t the other side of time I wanted to see, I had the ability to leave again at any time.

Eventually, I began preparing for time travel again while their ship was watching. I learned that changes do occur after a lot of time, so this time I added 0 to the goal time…

10,000,000,000 years later

How long is 1 billion years?

The time it takes plastic, which is said to be the main cause of environmental pollution, to rot is only about a few hundred years, and the time it takes for the Earth to come to an end as the sun continues to heat up and all the oxygen on the Earth disappears is 1 billion years.

However, the planet in front of me, where water and land were beautifully harmonized, was a place worthy of such a name.

Blue planet Earth.

But I knew very well that that place was not Earth, but the planet Rize.

The time travel device I used was not a device for moving places, but only time.

What happened to Rize in the meantime?

This time, instead of pondering my questions alone, I set out to find the answer.

Then, after a while, a surprising sight appears.

A satellite orbiting the planet ‘Rize’.

It was a completely unnecessary item for existing humans, who were able to communicate even over distances of light years using warp gates.

As I brought the ship closer to the planet Rize, looking forward to seeing this unfamiliar yet familiar sight, images of the planet’s surface began to appear on the hologram located on the bridge.

Dull gray buildings and green trees decorate the land of the planet Rize.

In the original world of the novel, trees were treated as expensive resources, but here they were growing in abundance.

I was quite excited by the sight I missed so much, so I brought the ship closer to the planet. Then, those living on the planet finally noticed this movement and began to react.

“That’s a fighter plane!”

The moment I saw their aircraft on the hologram, which had suddenly changed direction from a considerable distance away and started flying towards me, I was so happy that I screamed.

Then the robot ‘Haniga’ next to me spoke.

“It looks like they are trying to attack our ship, Captain.”

Although it was truly human to immediately attempt to attack an unfamiliar space stranger, I still didn’t know if the people living here were real humans.

Because we have clearly confirmed that this planet was occupied by hamsters in the past.

So this time, I tried to communicate first.

“This side has no desire to fight. If there is anyone in charge, answer.”

But for some reason, there was no answer from the other person.

Is it possible that he doesn’t even want to talk?

“Captain, with their level of technology, they may not be able to receive our communications.”

When I heard the robot ‘Haniga’ point out something I hadn’t thought of, I thought it might be possible.

So I gave another command to the main system.

“You can hack into their communication network, right? Tell them what I said earlier their way!”

Then, as if my words had been conveyed well, their words towards me were also received.

However, the quality of the communication was poor, so it was a voice message with a lot of crackling noise and no video.

“We greatly appreciate your desire to not fight with us. However, we have not yet met visitors from outer space, so we do not know how communication works. If you don’t mind, would you mind communicating in our own way?”

Even though a long time has passed and we are from a completely different culture, I hear a familiar language. This is obviously a characteristic of this fake world that will never change no matter how much time passes, but right now, even that felt happy because of the welcome.

“I will comply with your request. Can I go there?”

However, perhaps I was the only one who was pleased with the other person’s reaction, but I heard a slightly embarrassed answer from the other side.

“That’s okay, but you don’t have to tell me where we are?”

Having already confirmed the location of the person on the hologram, I answered immediately.

“That much has already been figured out.”

Then, this time, the other person’s words flowed out after some time.

“Okay, I’ll let people know in advance, so you can come inside without too much fuss.”

Of course, it had nothing to do with me.

Because I had no intention of entering through the ordinary entrance they were talking about.

In the first place, the structure of the building, which required having to cross the large garden located inside the entrance, was just a place to waste time to me.

In the end, I brought the ship to a halt on top of the building where the person who claimed to be the representative of this place was staying, put on my spacesuit, and landed on top of the building.

In fact, the building I landed on was smaller than the ship, but this was possible because I had just brought the ship onto the building and not put my weight on it in the first place.

However, the security guard looked very confused as he rushed inside the building when he saw me, as if he had not expected me to come to him in this way.

Of course, in the meantime, I felt better knowing that the other person was not a hamster but a normal human being.

As I began to walk slowly, taking in the rough surroundings at a glance, as if I was looking at the Earth’s past, the person I had communicated with eventually appeared.

It looks like he heard the news of my arrival and hurried out to look for me, and thanks to that, our first conversation began in a strange place: the rooftop of a building.

“Welcome to Earth. My name is ‘Carter’ and I am President of ‘Lika’, the nation here on Earth.”

The person who reaches out to me without hesitation.

Originally, on the planet ‘Brunin’ where Kyle lived, holding each other’s hands was a sign of transaction, but here, holding each other’s hands seems to be the same greeting as the handshake I know.

In response, I also held the other person’s hand and opened my mouth.

“My name is Abel. I am also from ‘Earth’, although not here.”

A planet resembling the Earth of the past waiting for me beyond infinite time.

This place was definitely not the end of the infinite universe or the escape from this world that I wanted to know, but if I couldn’t escape this world right away, it was ultimately one of the best alternatives I could find.

It wouldn’t have been a problem to spend a few hundred years here and then go back in time to find the truth…

In the end, what caught my ankle at the end of my worn-out sense of adventure was longing again. That’s why I felt so welcome in this world full of things I miss…

While I was laughing, I heard a vague voice that sounded like one of the attendants over there was talking.

“This one lasted quite a long time, right? He said his hobby was reading books, and he seemed to have created a plausible dream. Check the activity of the frontal lobe and temporal lobe here. The levels are much higher than those of other test subjects. If we had secured it a little sooner, the body would have been completely destroyed. “If we had kept him alive, we would have secured more data.”

A chuckle escapes my lips at the conversation of some idiots.