Fortieth Explosion

[god_is_a_dude]

[Action/Voice]

...You know, there's a lot of shooting stars tonight. I should make a wish or something. It's less sure-fire than Tanabat but at least it won't take sixteen years. ...Jeez. Sixteen years is a long time.

You guys ever think the sky here is fake? Or is a real?

[...He says this in wonder, almost. This takes place rather late at

Comments

[stilldontgotit]

Why would the sky be fake?

[god_is_a_dude]

There's a barrier around the entire village, didn't you hear? One them they even blocked out the sun and stars with it. It could be this is all just some hologram or something.

[stilldontgotit]

Guess it's no stranger than the rest of this place.

Seems kind of pointless, though. It's just the sky.

[god_is_a_dude]

How is that pointless? If they want to make it look like it's open it makes sense.

[voice]

[filial_guardian]

Does it matter? Either way, you can't get close enough to touch it.

[voice]

[god_is_a_dude]

Speak for yourself, we landed on the moon back home and sent probes to Mars.

But of course it matters! A fake sky messes up astrology or... anything like that.

[voice]

[filial_guardian]

[Okay, he's not surprised by this.] Hmph. The Orerines came from the sky, too. I was referring to here, in this place.

I doubt all of us look at these skies and see the same stars as our own worlds.

[voice]

[god_is_a_dude]

...Every planet should have the same stars though, just in different places. I wonder if I could find Earth's sun.

[rossovento]

It's probably just projected onto the barrier.

[god_is_a_dude]

...Yeah, probably.

[flower_of_hell]

It's so pretty...

[Excuse us, we're not used to shooting stars.]

...That's very deep thinking, Haruki-kun.

[god_is_a_dude]

Huh? Not... really.

[Pause... and then a smirk] Hey Rena! You can hear me from the roof, right?! Come up and watch it with me.

[flower_of_hell]

I think so!

[Rena blushes at that statement.] Oh...are you sure it's okay...are you?

[In any case, Rena is climbing up on the roof right now~]

[god_is_a_dude]

'Course I am!

[Still, he'll be waiting for you on the roof. He's just on his back right now, looking up. ...Huh. This seems so familiar]

[Voice]

[so_shik]

Depends. Do you think the trees, lake and the dirt are fake?

[Voice]

[god_is_a_dude]

That's different. There's no reason to fake those.

...That said, too many of them look like they're from Earth. I don't think they're naturally here.

[Voice]

[so_shik]

So what, maybe everything's like a hologram or something?

[Voice]

[god_is_a_dude]

Nah, that's too complicated. I'm thinking that we're in a biosphere. You heard about how America tried to do one of those like thirty-ish years ago, right?