Rhodes Island.
The so-called power of a god was truly astonishing. Rhodes Island had no one else who knew much about it, so they could only seek out Miss Raiden Mei, who lived in the cafeteria kitchen and had already become fast friends with the others.
"Mm?"
"I don't know anything. I'm just a cafeteria cook."
Given her status, she could only access limited information. The people of Rhodes Island should go to Yae Shrine and ask themselves. Yae Sakura was not currently fit to move around too much.
To shock Doctor Kal'tsit, she needed to rehearse plenty of lines in advance.
After all, she was omniscient.
In a few days, she would know nothing at all.
Kal'tsit had already arranged the itinerary. The moment Yae Shrine's gates opened, she and Amiya would set out together. Amiya could see through lies, like a flawless piece of pure glass.
She would never be deceived.
Hoshino had been forced to become a shut-in at the shrine. With nothing better to do, she began some inexplicable human-machine interaction with the system.
"Say, can we eventually solve the most fundamental problem in this world?"
[The world's calamities all originate from Catastrophes.]
Well, damn.
She had considered it before. The world was so unstable mainly because of Catastrophes. Mobile cities created a false peace, constantly producing surplus populations. That surplus population was like a fuse—without enormous demand for labor, it would lead to war.
Catastrophes cut off those labor demands.
There were no intercontinental highways or bridges, no dams to intercept rivers... nothing.
All they could do was mine.
Yet that would create even more severe problems.
"By the end of our development, can we eliminate all Catastrophes?" Hoshino asked the system, having only just remembered this question.
``` [Yes.]
[Calamities originate from