Speculation
"Yukikaze Sensei"
"What?"
The day we leave the imperial capital
In front of us, the airship prepared by sensei is preparing to take off.
"Didn’t you say it was the latest type of airship?"
"I said that."
Mileina is watching the airship and making a fuss outside.
"Uwaa! It's so big!"
"Mileina-san, that's shameless."
"But we're about to board this amazing airship! Aren't you excited, Eugenia-san?"
"I am! I'm so excited!"
The airship in front of me is something I am familiar with.
But I've never ridden one
"This is the Emperor’s personal airship, right?"
"Well, since this is the only thing the emperor rides, I guess it can’t be said that it’s correct."
"What do you mean?"
"Technically, this is a special airship that I drive, so the people who have ridden it are past emperors and the Chief God Lute."
"...Is it okay?"
Unpleasant sweat breaks out on my back
"No problem, this is also old-fashioned."
"So, it’s not the latest model, right?"
"The new passenger ship is planned to be manufactured using this as a prototype, so what I said is correct in saying that it is a prototype of the new model."
If sensei says it's good, then it's fine.
Yeah, it's fine. Definitely, definitely, maybe
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That way, no trouble would arise
Yukikaze-sensei is piloting the airship with six of us on board.
"Alright, now that we're on a stable course, we'll be on autopilot until tomorrow morning."
I asked sensei a question while the five students were excited and making noise.
"Sensei, why isn't it the eastern route?"
The current route of a ship is from the east of the Empire continent.
Passing over the Samuel Islands
And the route is to land in the kingdom of Eckezachs or Marguerite on the southwest continent.
"This airship is flying in the west right now, right?"
This airship we're currently on is heading for the southwest continent on a completely opposite route.
"Hmm? Well, it's just political considerations."
"Political?"
"...It doesn't seem a little unrelated, so I should tell you."
Yukikaze-sensei said as she took out a photo from her pocket.
It is a photo of Eri Drassel that I took.
She took out a test tube with it.
"Isn’t this the color of the golden hair you and the knights were talking about?"
There is a shiny liquid inside the test tube
It's definitely the same hair color as that woman's hair.
"What is that?"
"This is… umm… what can I say… a harmful secretion?"
An unknown ship was found stranded between Geldarinne and the Holy Kingdom in early spring of this year.
It was approached by the Empire's third airship, Amundsen, and an investigation began.
"What do you think was inside?"
"There's no way you could tell just from that."
"That's right. There were a lot of hanging corpses inside."
"That's creepy."
"That's right. It was definitely dead, but it didn't start to decompose until several days after it was found."
"What do you mean?"
"After that, many of Amundsen's crew members began to experience severe hallucinations and blackouts, and they were immediately examined by a medical team.The cause of this was..."
Sensei said as she gently shook the test tube.
"Is it the liquid?"
"Well, all the ingredients are nanomachines."
"Then that hanging corpse..."
"It's a nursery for nanomachines, and they feed on the corpses called nests while keeping their own nests from rotting."
"What happened to the people who investigated?"
"They're recovering now, because there's a talented person who can eliminate the nanomachines. Ah, that person is the only important person in this world, so I can't reveal it."
Sensei raised her index finger in front of her mouth.
"Just a guess. I wonder if the woman in that photo has some tolerance?"
Apparently, there were about 20 people on Amundsen's crew who were immune to these nanomachines.
Sensei says it's no wonder that there are many people in the southwestern continent who are resistant to the disease.
"What was the intention in doing something like this?"
"Is it simply because it’s golden and beautiful?"
"Isn’t that shortsighted to the point of worrying about the other person’s head?"
"Yes, there are many people who can only measure things on the surface, right?"
"Is that all?"
"What else… you use clouded consciousness or hallucinations to manipulate the people around you?"
"……………Yeah…"
I realized that my thoughts clicked into place.
"Did you think of something?"
"Sensei, can I contact Aristes?"
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