"Nessos, you really remember the time?"

"Big ...... Probably......"

Against a starry sky completely different from the one he remembered, Ronald looked at his smiling companion in front of him with a bewildered gaze full of suspicion.

In the evening, Nessos saw a gap in the forest at the top of the tree.

After more than half an hour of trekking, they arrived here even before the sun set.

It turned out to be right, a structurally intact railway was laid on the ground.

Following the sides of the road in the forest, they even came across a makeshift camp set up by railroad maintenance workers.

And then......

And then there was no then.

From the time the sun sets on the mountainside until the stars fill the sky at night.

Not to mention the steam train on the other side of the railway, the two of them didn't even wait for a ghost, and all they could see were nocturnal animals that happened to pass by.

"Forehead ......"

"Couldn't I be mistaken?"

Faced with Ronald's questioning, Nessos could only reluctantly begin to explain, while trying to recall the memories in his head.

"Wait, I'll count the time."

"The train departs from Woffman and departs at 4:30 p.m. today."

"It's a hundred and seventy kilometers in a straight line from Woffman to our location."

"So after almost two hours and forty-eight ......"

"Even if it's three hours, the train will arrive here."

"We've been waiting since before the sun sets, so there's no way we're going wrong!"

The initial hesitation grew firmer.

Finally slamming himself up from the coherent log stool, Nessos confidently declared to Ronald:

"Now this season, the sun sets normally around 19 o'clock in the afternoon."

"The train didn't have wings, we couldn't miss it!"

“......”

Looking at Nessos with a blank face, Ronald pointed to the starry sky and asked only a very simple question:

"What about the car?"

"Where's the car?"

“......”

Nessos, who has just shone with confidence.

His face instantly darkened.

The air was quiet for a long time, until the call of an owl could be heard in the distance, and Nessos forced an excuse:

"This ...... Probably the train was delayed, right? ”

"I can't mistake the date and time anyway."

After a moment of contemplation, Ronald continued to ask:

"You just said that the train starts at Worfman, right?"

"Are there any stops in between?"

Nessos shook his head dryly:

"The Yoiz Forest is not a place where humans can live."

"From Worfmann, the train will pass through the Great Forest before arriving at the stations and stopping at the same time."

"This train ......"

"You can't be a few hours late at the departure station, can you......?"

“......”

The night breeze blows across the land, blowing the humid air from the forest.

In the autumn night, when the temperature is gradually dropping.

Ronald and Nessos looked at each other.

No one can guess why the steam train hasn't appeared yet.

It's not the merchants who drove the wagons like they used to do.

It can't be a few wild men popping out of the primeval jungle and robbing the train with sticks, right?

In silence, nearly a quarter of an hour passed.

Watching Nessos go back and forth there, I couldn't figure out the point.

Ronald spoke:

"We'll take turns keeping vigil, so go and rest first."

"Now that the situation is uncertain, we may hold on for a long time,"

"It's always you who open the way during the day, and hunting or something also consumes physical strength."

"If there's any movement, I'll wake you up."

"Okay." Hearing Ronald's suggestion, Nessos didn't hesitate to get into the camp left by the railroad maintenance workers, "If there's any movement, you must wake me up!" ”

"Hurry up and rest."

"Hmm."

Soon, Ronald was left alone under the stars at night.

The stool under the buttocks is a stump cut directly by the railway maintenance personnel, and it feels very bad to sit on it.

But even so, he didn't pay attention to it.

Under the blowing of the autumn wind, his mind gradually drifted away-

It's been almost a week.....

From coming to this world to pass the trials of the illusion, to encountering a merchant team and crashing headlong into Montenegro.

In just five days.

There are brilliant judgments that have insight into secrets, and there are secrets that have not been understood until now.

But overall, I had a completely different experience than my previous life.

Sometimes Ronald wondered if all this was a big dream after he was buried in the rubble, and his colleagues were contacting all parties to rescue him.

But this fantasy really can't convince me.

The cold wind blowing slowly in the night sky, Nessos resting in the camp behind him, and even the two primordial-level magic books hidden on his body.

All this is a reminder of Ronald.

That's the reality!

"Whew-"

With a long sigh of relief, Ronald rubbed his somewhat cold hands before adding firewood to the campfire.

Look up, it's different from the clouds of the previous days.

The starry sky shines on the far side.

It's also dazzling, but I can't find the familiar stars.

Here, I look up at the starry sky that humans in the other world have watched for thousands of years; In their hometown, who looks up to that magnificent universe?

A kind of loneliness in a foreign land arises spontaneously.

"O stars, are you also the origin of human civilization in this world......?"

Ronald, who does writing work, has always liked a saying.

A very romantic, but also very probable statement.

That is, human civilization originated from the stars hanging high in the sky.

It is not an outrageous theory of alien origin, but points to the origin and cornerstone of civilization.

- Text.

It carries knowledge, is responsible for inheriting culture, and forms the structure of civilization.

At the time of his travel, among the archaeological activities on the earth, the earliest excavated texts came from the ancient civilizations of the two river basins.

And in the results of the excavations.

The two bytes that appear most frequently on those tablets are 'star' and 'god'.

Why these two words?

Because 6,000 years ago, the supernova X-Veli exploded.

It was the largest astronomical event in human history, far more than any celestial phenomenon that can be observed today.

In those ancient times, the light released by this sudden supernova was able to reach the Earth, shining as bright as the sun during the day and obscuring the moon's brilliance at night!

What did this unimaginable natural phenomenon mean to the humans of that era?

Puzzled, confused, frightened, awe-inspired.

Deep in the brain of the unknown!

Eventually, mankind's incomprehension and reverence for supernovae evolved into mythology and religion, and in order to record the greatness of the star, words were created based on the words "star" and "god".

The human civilization of this world will also be like this......

Woo –

Woo woo –

Suddenly, Ronald was pulled out of his mind by a small sound in the distance.

Although mixed with the night wind, he could indeed make out some subtle sounds coming from the other side of the train passage opened in the forest!

"Train ......"

"It's the train!"

"Nessos, hurry up!"