Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

"Recalculation of the orbit...... good"

"Is it true ~?

"Well, take a look. Here."

"Which one ~... Two moons are going to collide in 300 years, but, well, this looks okay ~"

After returning to the bridge. Waltz recalculated whether the current state, the orbits of the planets and the two moons do not intersect - that is, do not collide - by checking the coordinates of the moon, which has moved greatly. As far as the results of that calculation are also confirmed by Cortex, there seems to be no particular major problem in the immediate future.

However, even if there was no problem with the moon itself, Waltz himself seemed to have a pile of problems.... When will you leave Strandia for the moon track fix? When you leave, how long do you take your own emergency food (Nenryu)?

And more importantly --,

"So, when do we do the problem..."

—— When will it be time to transfer the moon?

The moon from the planet of the future was always climbing at the same time, so we have to put the moon in line with the timing of the planet's rotation. Should that timing be taken for granted, or only once a day? Trially and erroneously, it would seem better to put it into orbit for now and fine-tune it later, but then it would be difficult to do the task of adjusting the direction of gravity of the two moons to arrange them in a straight line from the planet. To say that the adjustment of the moon's orbit would be complicated also meant that it would have a greater chance of leading to mistakes, so as a waltz, he seemed to want to move the moon to the target coordinates in one shot. Well, to be precise, we also have to adjust the rotation and rotation speed of the moon, so even after we put it in orbit, there are a lot of things we have to do.

As a result, Cortex opens his mouth as Waltz holds his head. She said after playing the moon at the tip of her nails from a holographic monitor with the moon and planet displayed.

"When is the next time?

"Three hours later"

"Is it 3 hours from now? Isn't that a good time ~? I can't think of anything particularly troubling ~..."

"Maybe the history of the stars will be decided? It doesn't taste right."

"I think it's the same whenever you do it ~"

Unlike Waltz, who was unusually cautious, Cortex didn't seem to think very deeply about it. She had broken it off that there was no answer even though she thought about it, so she was already thinking about it at this point, after she had it transferred.

On the other hand, as a waltz, he seemed to have to be cautious because he was thinking about Lucia using metastatic magic or because he felt a responsibility that failure would not be tolerated. Nevertheless, she does not even consider Lucia to be finely dusty, for example, to fail. However, unlike our own machines, we understood that Lucia and the humans had waves in their behavior and results, so we were wondering if Lucia's condition should carry out the metastasis at the perfect time.

It's just another fact that the more free time you have, the more pressure you'll be under. Tomorrow, not today. The day after tomorrow, not tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow. Waltz knew that postponing what he had to do would make him permanently incapable, because he didn't feel like riding. If you analogize —— using a cross-world transfer system without practice or confirmation, and like someone else who broke the system and couldn't go back to the original world...

Such an idea looped infinitely in Waltz's head, and he worried at what time the mission should start.

"No, but, hey, shouldn't we think a little more carefully?

"Sister ~? That's what you call indecision ~? If you think about the creatures that live on the planet, or about Lucia, you can do it with one thought in mind. If it fails ~... well, that's when it happens"

"That's Lucia. You don't think she's gonna fail?

"Okay, let's do it. Look, I'm pushing the time limit too ~. If it stays like this, everyone on the planet is going to freeze to death or starve to death while worried that it might fail with the transfer of the moon ~... well, in any case, it's going to be irrevocable ~.... because your sister was worried ~"

"... sure"

As a result of being poisoned by Cortex, Waltz turned his gaze toward the blue-white stars floating across the black sky, and narrowed his eyes to think about it before...

And he raised his voice unto those who were at the bridge.

"... Guys, listen. Three hours from now, we're moving two moons around 700,000 km and 800,000 km?

At that moment, as if to respond to Waltz's words, the people of the bridge nodded. There was no Lucia there, and she seemed to have gone to the cafeteria for a break, but the information that the mission would begin in three hours would instantly spread to the entire ship, and in less than a few minutes everyone on board, including Lucia, would know.