When Chaldea Mecha Seven crashed, no one in the square seemed particularly surprised. Everyone simply went home.
They seemed used to failure. Obtaining a Machine God from Chaos and studying the technology of life from a higher dimension were not things that could be done overnight.
If anything, things had moved too fast. What had happened while Yuan Shikai was away?
"So what exactly happened?" Yuan Shikai asked. "I don't believe you—or the whole of Earth, for that matter—could decipher the technology of a higher civilization this quickly. Not even BB could."
"It's a long story," Olga Marie said. "It starts after you left. Remember Mysterious Heroine XX, who suddenly joined the battle at the Tokyo Singularity?"
"Chaos's technology is difficult to decipher, but that doesn't stop us from using it. Mysterious Heroine XX used the communications equipment on Chaos's Machine God to contact a Galactic Police officer."
A huge map of the universe suddenly appeared before my eyes, and Little Da Vinci took over the explanation.
"You might not expect this, but the New World is right here." Little Da Vinci now held a pointer, which she aimed at one spot.
"This galaxy is much larger than you imagine—roughly the size of ten thousand Solar Systems. Even the Galactic Police, the secret organization that has always guarded this part of the universe, has explored only a quarter of it."
"And the New World was hidden in the other three quarters. If we hadn't found it, it might have remained undiscovered for another thousand years."
"So it was with that Galactic Police officer's help that we achieved all this?" Yuan Shikai asked.
"Yes, but that isn't the whole story," Olga Marie said. "We've actually joined this galaxy's community and received fairly privileged treatment. This technology is one of the benefits,