Chie nodded as well,
She wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes and let her gaze fall on the ginkgo woodchip pattern in the lower-left corner of the worn notebook. Yet she no longer felt any regret.
Because, in the time ahead, everyone would begin assisting Ifasta in linking her resonance capabilities.
They would directly calibrate the parameters of every relay point and adjust the strength of every signal.
She wanted the "Star Rail Cipher" her grandfather had buried to follow those physical tracks sealed away by time, turn in the direction of the gears, pass through interstellar dust, and cross the vast void between Earth and Mars.
They were meant to fly toward Mars,
Toward that red land carrying the warmth of civilization's continuation,
Toward the next milestone belonging to the surviving life Sephidolos had left behind—a milestone her grandfather had spent his life waiting for and guarded with his final gaze.
Inside the laboratory provided by Ifasta, the low hum of overclocked computing equipment continued.
The roar of the instruments overlapped with bright lines on screens against Tokyo's deep-purple backdrop,
As if countless fine gears were slowly turning between the star trails, producing a gentle yet resolute sound as they continued onward through the veins of time and space, toward the depths of the universe.
Ifasta's Holographic Projection hovered at the center of the signal console corresponding to Makuhari Seaside. Once Caroline had confirmed the relevant locations, she had already hacked into the corresponding systems.
"Thanks to Selen's earlier preparations,
These Data Points still appear to be functioning normally."
Ifasta's long hair transformed into flowing pale-blue Data Streams, entwining with the pulsating Star Core resonance curves on the screen.
As the remote-sensing data from Mars was examined, a semi-transparent fragment of a Star Core Crystal gradually