TITAN: A Novel by Mado Nozaki

Author:Mado Nozaki [Nozaki, Mado]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2022-07-29T07:00:00+00:00

IV. JOURNEY

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I SET MY LUGGAGE DOWN IN A CORNER of the newly constructed living room, which looked almost like an open-concept communal studio space. With its alabaster walls and lack of amenities, aside from a standalone kitchen island with built-in appliances in one corner, the room of roughly one hundred square meters was spartan. It was a blank canvas of a room that could be used for anything by anyone, because its design catered to nothing and no one. The only other standout feature was the cumbersome, clunky-looking chair that looked ripped straight out of a rocket ship’s cockpit, complete with rigid stabilizing crossbars designed to hold the occupant’s body in place. I furrowed my brow, wondering what kind of bumpy ride I’d signed myself up for.

It’s just in case of emergency, Coeus hastily explained in response to my skeptical expression. You won’t be sitting in it ordinarily, don’t worry.

“But there will be shaking, won’t there?”

An average vertical displacement of 11.76 meters up and down with each step, yes.

“Excellent, sounds fatal.” Twelve meters was about two to three storeys on a skyscraper—being forced to endure that kind of shaking for an extended period of time would be absolutely brutal on anyone.

It’ll be fine. Coeus looked up at the ceiling. The room’s shock absorbers should cancel out any shift in momentum incurred during travel, and its gyroscopic stabilizers will keep it level at a fixed orientation. Our trip will not be fatal, I promise.

I could only offer a sheepish smile, because this very dry and Titanesque explanation as to why I shouldn’t fear for my life did little to dispel my fears. He picked up on this, though, and was determined to set my mind at ease—I could almost see his processors going into overdrive to string together some words of reassurance from all the vocabulary in his massive lexicon.

Look, I’ll tread very lightly! Okay?

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