In a world built entirely from blue cubes, a boy with a bowl cut sat on the ground, fiddling with a larger blue cube in his hands.
He looked troubled, wearing the expression of a student who had encountered a difficult problem but could not find the correct solution.
Usually, only good students wore such expressions. Poor students did not trouble themselves over such things. In other words, not many people knew of CAAT's existence now. More people were still immersed in the bright prospects brought by the Cosmic Voyage.
A little girl stood behind the boy. She was a delicate, doll-like little cutie, though unfortunately, there was little expression on her face. Only her eyes revealed her confusion.
"No, I still can't calculate it." The boy put down the cube in his hand, and the light on the blue Cube dimmed with it. He rubbed his temples with his small hands. "If I substitute the number seven into the formula, I can indeed calculate a threshold for an extremum. But this is a set containing countless possibilities. I can't lock onto CAAT's location."
"Our level is not high enough, Franklin. You were able to escape Nightmare through calculations only because Dream is a low-level dimension compared to the Beyond Realm."
The little girl beside him spoke. She wore a white skintight leather suit and looked like a porcelain doll, her soft golden hair falling smoothly over her shoulders.
"You have a point, Little Guy." The boy closed his eyes, though it was unclear whether he was resting or silently calculating something. "Ascending dimensions is easy for me, but making a leap in level is difficult. My current limit is only the Omniverse, and CAAT is clearly above that."
He believed there was nothing wrong with the algorithm he had