Steampunk Series Fullvoice Reborn: Celenaria of the Blue Sky

Steampunk Series Fullvoice Reborn: Celenaria of the Blue Sky

(Link to the Original Story here.)


--It took place somewhere in the early 20th century.
--It took place sometime in the 2210s in the Northern Calendar.


There was a soft light.
It was a light that took the viewer's breath away.
In a darkened room made of Chrome, standing on a kind of "machine" like an altar in the center of the room, the light that flickered and continued to emit a soft impression was not a natural luminous phenomenon nor was it the result of a light from an engine. It was so different from the unique hard light. Indeed.
It was a soft light.


At this time, mankind had what they call an Engine.
A thing to light up. The very driving force of modern civilization has cut through the darkness of the unknown and ignorant, bringing the light of civilization to the world.


This was the steam engine.
Literally, it was an external combustion engine that used steam.


At the beginning of the 20th century, it was a technology that radically altered the 190X History of modern society as we know it. The basic principle is the same, but at any rate, in this era, in this world, the steam engine has "enhanced" everything.
Production and life were to change dramatically.
The world has developed. The advent of the steam engine era, which could be called the second industrial revolution, changed everything. Is there anything that has not changed? Maybe not. Everything was changed and strengthened. A few things disappeared but were forgotten.
Yes. Just like...
Like a soft light. A light in the sky.


The people have lost the sky.
To be precise, they lost that beautiful, endlessly clear morning sky.
They lost the stars of the night.
Oh, yes, they did.
Our modern civilization has lost this soft light with their development.


And yet...
There was a soft light in this Chrome dark room.
But, as I mentioned earlier, it was not a natural, natural luminescent phenomenon. It was similar to the light that the lost sky had once brought, albeit it wasn't a lot like it. For it was something else.
It is a different thing because it seems to be a type of "person".


"I think I can see the sky."


Said the soft light.
It looked as if there was no one to answer, but there was someone in the darkened room. A human being. It was a young man dressed in a well-tailored dark suit that could be interpreted as either British or eastern New World style, and wearing sunglasses.
He had a handsome face, but his expression was truly inorganic.
Were they made out of a machine?
The occult craze that is thriving in the social circles throughout Europe, and among the whispers among the flirtatious occultists in the midst of that craze, of whispers of an Engine Human who has replaced all of his body with an Engine Machine, but there is no such thing. It's not possible. This man must be human after all. Even if he was a cold, machine-like man.



Said the man as he shrugged his shoulders.
The words were an affirmation of the soft light.


"Yes, I suppose so. You can see it. The world of the Blue Sky."


"A world of the Blue Sky?"


"Yeah. That's right. The Blue Sky. Blue. Already we have lost the blue sky here, but there is still a foreign land, the region of Kadath, beyond the English North Sea. There is still more beyond that, in the unknown area."


"Blue..."


"It exists. A Blue sky. A Blue Sea. And an infinite number of stars."


"I/we feel the need to search the Database."


"Have it your way, then."


The man shrugged his shoulders one more.
Then the soft light, sent away with those words, flickered with excitement, shimmering and scattering grains of light around it. As some of the light particles collided with the steel wall, a mysterious luminescence phenomenon occurred. A light that doesn't seem to be of matter or illusion. It was called Cracking Light, and yet, the soft light never knew about it.


The soft light did something.
Sleekly, there is something floating around the light.
Magically, it is a cluster of shining planar squares. Although the multiple quadrangles emerging in the darkness were an occult sight, they were really nothing more than mechanical devices. The latest "air crystal screen," an imaging device that uses a special airframe to link images, has been activated on six screens in total.


There was 6 screens. All six of them, showing only something as inorganic as a sandstorm.
But the first one.
The first screen showed something.
It was...



──Two girls looking up at the sky.
──A red-haired girl and a purple-haired girl with an unusual look. And a small animal.



The soft light flickers in the air.
It reminded them of the expression of a human being in a hurry to get something done.


"This is the Blue Sky?"


"Yes."


"This is..."


"How do you feel? Do you feel anything?"


"This is..."


The soft light says nothing.
It just flickered and blinked a few times, but never said a word.
Did the light feel anything? He doesn't know.


Then the second screen starts up in earnest.
What appears on the screen was...



──A woman under the Blue Sky.
──She was the same as the one before. It was also the figure of someone who felt something in the sky.



The soft light flickers.
It was reminiscent of a human being's gesture to tell you something with sympathy.


"Oh. This one?"


"Yes. And that too. What do you think of this?"


"Ah."


"Oh, so you don't get it," the man sneers.


"I/we don't have the words to describe this thought noise. But what? I/we feel the need to make that word stick to the base of our existence. This is an important matter."


"Don't get excited. Relax."


The man said.
He shrugged his shoulders for the third time.
Pointing to the Blue Sky projected on the two screens that emerged...


"This is the story of a foreign land far, far away.
These are the footsteps that follow the girls' journey.
At times, they are so brave that they depart from the gray that fills the sky to this one with great pride.
I will teach you the name of this Sky."


"The name of the sky...this is..."


"...A distant land. A dazzling world. It's name is Celenaria of the Blue Sky."

（To Be Continued...）