Jaeger Sobek felt that from the moment he entered the Sacred Tree Palace, he had stepped into some surreal, bizarre scenario. It seemed he'd had a conversation with his liege about the future and received a luxurious seaside villa on a resort planet. He vaguely recalled finally gritting his teeth and making up his mind to try starting a family of his own.
Yes, a man like him was actually planning to propose to the young lady of the Seredin family. Wasn't that the height of surrealism?
Yes, this was an utterly absurd dream. And since it was a dream, wasn't it perfectly normal for Yu Lian to pop up at the end?
They said that what you thought about by day would appear in your dreams by night.
He really did want to understand everything he was seeing. If he hadn't been able to feel so clearly the damp chill of sweat soaking through his uniform and the dull ache of his heart pounding against his chest, he might have actually believed it.
But when Sobek opened his eyes again, trembling, all he could see was the person sitting in the pilot's seat of the Red Snow.
The Earthman's fingers skimmed lightly across the control panel, as casually as if he were switching channels in his own living room. Beyond the bridge's panoramic windows, the starlight and artificial lights of the Celestial Domain drifted by.
Civilian ships following their designated routes cruised through space in orderly fashion, as if forming a well-organized interstellar highway.
Under her control, the Red Snow slipped naturally into the flow of traffic.
Farther away, two patrol ships flashed their navigation lights as they passed. They didn't seem to have noticed anything amiss.
Everything about reality was so calm it made him uneasy.
"S-so, what