Gustav merely shook his head in the end.
"This matter isn't that urgent. Let the investigation continue.
"How is the Star Journey Plan coming along?"
"We will set out eventually.
"Humanity will set out eventually."
Old Constance spoke slowly.
Before him, one star rail after another had become incomparably clear.
Yet, as a Star Realm Grand Mage, he had persisted for Lorenz Riel for far too long. Now, he only wanted to sleep here in peace:
"But I may not last until then.
"I am guilty.
"Whether it is the Borderlanders at the Wall of Hercules, or Southeast Asia and Japan in the Current World, or even more drifters from the Lost Sea.
"I have wronged them."
"But we cannot wait much longer either."
Gustav sat across from him with his arms folded. His solemn appearance made him seem like a true giant bear.
"This May, I hope you can attend the boarding ceremony for the first batch of space residents.
"Instead of making me place this message, along with a bouquet of lilies, on your gravestone."
"If possible, I have already picked out a spot for myself at Hughie Fal Grand Cemetery."
"Constance, don't talk nonsense. We are no longer young enough.
"And that place has already been destroyed."
"It will be rebuilt, like the radio waves of the exile Norman Nathaniel, like the colossal tower of Afarule Indletas.
"Like the first life born anew from Earth's oceans after Atlantis sank."
"That is your belief.
"But not the belief of this universe.
"To the universe, destruction is the true and praiseworthy normal state."
The Slavic old man, Gustav, did not intend to say much more.
Rather than sitting quietly in the study, he strode toward the large double-door refrigerator in a corner that seemed somewhat out of place with