Horizon:Volume 1 Chapter 01

Chapter 01: Chanced Meeting

Your life is

Made to meet

If that’s the case, then, what is the meaning of meeting

Point Allocation (Life)

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Below the white sky, the movement of the first-half of the morning in the Musashi city was ending.

Everywhere in the city, the businesses were changing and connecting from the very first in the morning to the afternoon.

In the neighborhood of the central region of Tama, the bakery/café Blue Thunder was also starting its preparations for noon. The cafeteria section was closed by using a string tag and only the bread shelves in front of the counter, which was the bakery part of the shop, was doing business.

But it's too early to prepare to open the shop at noon. The woman shopkeeper was doing the preparations inside,

“P-01s, go water outside and after that you can go. I’m counting on you again at the early evening.”

“Jud.”

After P-01s nodded, she left the counter and went outside the shop.

Main street. The cleaning of the road was already done and there were people passing by. Occasionally large two-wheeled carts or horse wagons used for transport passed by, causing the structure of the street to tremble.

It’s time for business, but there are some tourists here and there.

“Looking at this situation, soon, it’s Mikawa. The market will probably become busy soon.”

P-01s muttered. P-01s thought with her own function that it has a long time since she had been to Mikawa.

… Once in a year, the first Mikawa.

Musashi travels around the all of the of the Far East in a year.Musashi stops at each region’s settlement and makes commercial and transport business, but from what I heard from the shopkeeper, a year isn’t enough to travel around the Far East.

P-01s thinks about these words that were said last year.

Last year it looks like P-01s boarded Musashi from Mikawa.

It appears that way because there are no memories from before that.

… When I became aware I was in the street of Tama.

My civil registration was already done by someone. The civil identity I had was authentic and my domicile was in Musashi. But when I went to the domicile, it had turned into a street.

There was a lot of uncertainty but as my civil identity was authentic, the first person who talked to me, the shopkeeper of the bakery/café, became my guardian and because of that I was allowed to live here.

What I think now is the same thing I thought back then,

… Who made P-01s?

The shopkeeper went to various public offices and companies to ask about this, but there weren’t any products that corresponded to it. There weren’t any reports about the loss or reports to search for missing automated dolls. The engineer who inspected over me said,

“I've seen flux types from IZUMO and England but, … In this case there are too many unclear aspects.”

That was all the engineer said. The shopkeeper tilted her head after hearing about the unclear aspects, but from what the engineer said, an automated doll is an aggregation of spells and mechanisms and as there are a lot of secrets in the component parts from the companies, you can call them as an aggregation of unclearness. Furthermore, the engineer said,

“The soul is in the throat.”

I have heard that automated dolls are dolls which have a soul in their bodies.

A doll won’t move by itself, but with the disposition of a soul inside it that can absorb and use the energy from the Earth plate (Ether vein), fluid (ether) so the drive system can be activated and it can move.

In my case there was a component, which looked like an ornament and is probably the soul, at the base of the throat and the vocal chords components.

From what the shopkeeper says,

“Maybe the emotions of a very important woman are in the ornament.”

Is what she said, but the truth is still hidden.

What I know is that I’m an automated doll with no memories and from an unknown place.

“——”

P-01s was in front of the shop and moved her hands to the water tap beside the door.

She moved the pail under the water tap using her gravity manipulation without touching it.

The ability of gravity manipulation is a characteristic power of the automated dolls. It’s a necessary ability to the soul inside something to move its container and to make contact with other things. The automated dolls have the disposition of devoting themselves to the people using mainly this power.

P-01s stopped her body at the street and using her extended hand, she put water in the pail and picked it up.

Wait.

She started watering the street using a ladle.

This is part of her usual routine. Once in the morning, once before noon and once more early in the evening.

The same custom. The same work. The same things I have to do. If I’m doing that I don’t have to think about me and this really helps.

… But to put it bluntly, I can conclude that I’m running away.

And after thinking until this point.

"Water."

A voice was heard. Coming from the ground, from the side of the street, a small, black, round creature was emerging,

"Want water."

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P-01s with the pail with water in one of her hands was getting closer to the direction from where the voice came.

It was a corner lot from the shop. In the street gutter. To connect the sewer there are wood covers, which were always closed, but coming from below raising the wood covers in the process, there was a black, round creature with 5 centimeters forcing his way out.

The black figure looks like an agglomeration of fur wet by muddy water,

... They are algae according to the self-assessment.

The algae were like an animal, hanging the bottom of its round body in the verge of the street gutter and using his sense organs, he looked around.

"Are we okay? All clear?"

“It’s okay. All clear.”

In front of the nodding P-01s the black algae was there, the black algae creatures are organisms with shared consciousness that work in Musashi and other cities by processing the water from the sewers. They use a process similar to photosynthesis, in each they eat the “dirt” and purify them into “not dirt”. Because of that each country makes a contract with the gathering will of the black algae creatures providing them food and in exchange they purify the waters in the sewers.

It’s one of those black algae creatures, but when they are soaked with sewage they will stay that way. The spilled sewage can be decomposed with the substance that's coming out from the dark algae, but it cannot be said for its smell.

They know that if they leave the sewer, the street gutter and go to the street they are going to be hated.

But they are here. The reason is,

"Water."

“It stagnated again?”

"Yes, again, a little, so with some water it will go away."

The body of the black algae appeared to be a little dry. P-01s concluded that this was because of the lack of water.

In these regions the sewer pipes get deformed. Because each ship of Musashi is enormous, the match is how much of the external shell deformation the internal structure can absorb but,

… The endgame comes stronger on the midsections, especially into the surface side.

The reason that there are several ships that allow wind to flow on the mid-surface side is for that purpose.

Now the black algae creatures want their subsistence, the sewage.

But the flux of the sewage is bad stagnated, blocked and it’s necessary to someone to have the same function as a brush, to force the stagnation and the blockage out.

Normally it’s supposed to ask the person responsible for this in the office, but

"Nobody others probably serious."

“—Jud., I understand.”

P-01s sprinkled water on the black algae creature.

The black algae creature narrowed his sense organs and after being saturated with water,

"Thanks."

It went below the street gutter and another one came.

"One more please."

P-01s nodded and sprinkled water.

So another black algae creature came, then another, they kept coming.

"Last."

The seventh one was splashed with water. The seventh black algae creature thanked P-01s, but when he was going to enter the street gutter,

"Okay?"

“What is okay?”

"Smells right?"

Asked, P-01s tilted her head. The black algae did smell, it smelt of sewers.

Only I can smell it because they are showing only a part of their bodies from the street gutter, but if they get out completely the other people will become aware of it. The truth is clear. That’s why P-01s said.

“Jud., to put it bluntly it smells.”

"Why?"

The black algae creature asked why she is helping them if they smell so bad.

"Always helping but others until now got in trouble said no why?"

To this question P-01s answered immediately.

“Your smell isn’t something you created to harm the others. This smell is a result of our actions. And you never go out of the gutters completely to prevent the spread of this smell. So, I can conclude that, —There isn’t a reason to P-01s deny you.”

So, the black algae creature said.

"Friend?"

“Jud., if that’s the name of the relationship between those who acknowledge each other.”

In response to the words of P-01s the black algae creature stayed silent for some time. But after a few seconds,

"Name please."

“—My name is P-01s.”

"Thanks for always."

As if nodding the black algae creature submerged his body,

"Wash hands please."

After the creature went away the cover of the street gutter was closed.

P-01s raised her body that was bent over down. She did like the black algae creature had told her and washed her hands with the water left from the pail and looked over to verify if there was anywhere dirty, but the black algae creatures have absorbed all the sewage dripped.

As if it were a substitute, something fell.

“?”

The something was a person. A black male uniform from the Musashi Ariadust Academy. Short long black hair with a thin body, but without any forces,

“——”

After shaking a little, he suddenly fell to the ground without even having the chance to put his knees on the ground, a direct hit.

There was a sound, a cloud of dust raised and P-01s,

… If a cloud of dust raised, this means that my watering wasn’t enough.

While thinking that, she said towards the shop.

“Shopkeeper, there is a client. As always Masazumi-sama is, —on the brink of starving to death.”

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Study - Musashi

Toori: “Sis! Sis! It may be a little late, but what is Musashi’s formation!?”

Kimi: “Fufufu silly brother, you’re always walking around the ship and don’t know even that, err, —almost that this genius sister used words not appropiated.”

Toori: “Hey, hey sis, don’t turn into a heretic now and teach me fast!”

• Musashi’s ships formation

	Left side	Middle	Right side
First ships	“Asakusa”		“Shinagawa”
Second ships/Front	“Murayama”	“Musashino”	“Tama”
Third ships/Rear	“Oume”	“Okutama”	“Takao”

• Musashi can only travels between borderlines of each country.
  • The line shows the way everyone took in the prologue. Name of the places going from down: Musashi Ariadust Academy (“Okutama”) -> Remorse Way (“Okutama”) -> Blue Thunder (“Tama”) -> Yakuza office (“Shinagawa”)

Kimi: “Well, the eight ships are like this. Basically the first ships are used for carrying cargo. The second ships contain many tourists and foreigners who live there, besides administrative offices and embassies. The third ships contain the people from the Far East and is the place that focus on industries. The middle-front ship is the center of the operation and control of Musashi. The middle-rear ship has the Academy as its center.

Toori: “Heh! I’m surprised that Sis knew that much! You’re a genius!”

Kimi: “No, you see, I’m really a genius, but it’s very bad if you don’t know about this!”

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