Apocalypse Witch:Volume4 Ending
“Professor Firenze.”
“How many times have you run the calculations now?”
They were floating out on the ocean.
An air-conditioned lab was contained in a marine research ship larger than a tanker. But the men in lab coats were not even checking the flatscreen monitors at this point.
They had grown sick of the coffee and energy drinks used to keep them awake.
They were so tired of holding this same discussion over and over.
“We have run 49 actual experiments and run the simulation more than a billion times.”
“Then it’s safe to say we have the answer.”
“But a lot of people aren’t going to like this answer,” cautiously mentioned a young man with the rare talent to control eccentrics.
The old man in a lab coat failed to realize he was doing that.
“There is nothing in the earth’s core. Checking the flow of geomagnetism is enough to tell that. Do we need further proof from the plate movement, the rotation speed, and the Coriolis force?”
“No.”
“The Original Crystal Embryo disappeared long ago. But where did it go!?”
They had no answer for that.
After all…
“We have never actually managed to reach the earth’s core. We have only theorized its existence based on a variety of geological data.”
“That’s true. So it’s always possible it has legs and could just walk away on its own. For all we know, it looks just like a human and is hiding among us.”
You could call that absurd, but then you would have to say the same about the very existence of crystal magic.
Humanity had thrown out their own common sense from the moment they chose to rely on magic. They had leaped at the tantalizing convenience dangled in front of them and sold their soul to the devil.
“But isn’t that embryo the Threat’s target as they arrive from outside the atmosphere?”
“Then has it given up on us?”
When his question was answered with a question, the young man fell silent.
And Chrisbart Firenze raised his voice like a child’s temper tantrum.
“Humanity cannot win. So the Original Crystal Embryo has given up on us. Is that the only conclusion we can reach here? But if so, who has it chosen to support now!?”
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