"Sorry, Andromeda Galaxy."
"Goodbye, Andromeda Galaxy!"
"If we succeed, perhaps we'll return someday!"
"Goodbye, my birthplace, my homeland. I am setting out on a long voyage. Though you are already incomplete, in our memories, you are still that vast Andromeda Galaxy!"
One civilization fleet after another sailed into the Star Gate passage. Some came from the Milky Way Galaxy, while others were native civilizations of the Andromeda Galaxy. All of them were bidding farewell to the Andromeda Galaxy.
Especially the Level Six Civilizations born in the Andromeda Galaxy—its meaning to them was complicated. Looking at the Andromeda Galaxy they were about to leave behind, they felt as though they were saying farewell to their cradle and homeland, yet also as though they had finally escaped a cage.
Many civilizations had not carefully looked upon the Andromeda Galaxy's starry sky for two hundred thousand years. Ever since entering their Small Universes, they had not dared take a single step outside, afraid that the Heavenly Maiden Civilization would find them and assimilate them through memes.
Yet now, having only just emerged, they saw the Andromeda Galaxy in ruins. But even in ruins, it was still their homeland, and now they had to bid it farewell.
The universe was vast and boundless. Once they left this time, no one knew whether they would ever have a chance to return.
"Battle Immortal Civilization, our forebears, we will surely follow in your footsteps, venture into the boundless universe, find a way to become a Level Seven Civilization, and then seek the answers of the universe. Three billion years have passed. How far have you gone? Will we meet again? When that time comes, if we call out that we are civilizations from the Andromeda Galaxy, will you recognize us?"
One civilization after another vanished into