Kino no Tabi - the Beautiful World - Volume 08 by Keiichi Sigsawa

Author:Keiichi Sigsawa [Sigsawa, Keiichi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

The gate shut after the final ship made its way into the ship.

It was only after the gate shut completely and we were immersed in total darkness that the lights came on. It was a long, narrow dock of sorts. It was a space full of metal boards, machinery, and the smell of steam and oil.

Our vantage point slowly became lower and lower. Master Shizu explained that they were draining the water. Soon the transport ship landed on the ship’s metal floor.

The man instructed Master Shizu to move the buggy. We went onto the dock in the buggy. We climbed a ramp ahead of us and went through a door as the man in black commanded. Inside was pitch-black, but the ceiling lights soon came on.

It was an extremely large space that could probably house about a hundred cars. It was completely empty save for some rusted scraps of metal in the corner. It was probably an unused storage room of sorts.

“Park where thy heart pleases. It is thy responsibility to drive it back upon departure.” the man in black said. Master Shizu parked a distance away from the pile of scraps. He unplugged the battery, secured the buggy to the floor with ropes, and covered the driver’s seat with a waterproof sheet.

“May we meet again.” Master Shizu whispered quietly to the buggy, and left the deserted storehouse. I followed after him.

We walked through a long hallway, along with five men in black—three ahead of us, and two behind. They surrounded us as if in capture, but they still did not disarm Master Shizu. Light-emitting diodes shone dully on the grey walls and floors. The halls continued in a straight line towards the centre of the country, with no crossings along the way.

At the end of the hall was a large elevator. We took it up to a higher location—from its location, it was likely the tower at the centre.

We stepped off the elevator after quite a long wait. A guard holding a pump-action shrapnel persuader was standing in front of the door. Inside the door was a large, round room.

It was a room about 40 metres in diameter, almost at the very top of the tower. It was centred around the elevator shaft.

All 360 degrees of the walls were glass windows, and outside was the ocean and the clear blue sky. The interior was also covered in metal and plumbing. It seemed that there had been wallpaper and ornamentation on the walls before, but they were no longer present.

There were chairs arranged in a semicircle in the room, and there were ten people sitting in visible range. The chairs seemed to be rotating, as they were all facing this direction.

Everyone was covered in black clothing, but from their builds, there seemed to be women and children there as well. I could sense movements from places out of sight. Overall it seemed there were about thirty people in the room. I could see empty seats, likely because their numbers were not enough to fill them all.

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