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A long time ago, a space ship was flying.

 

This space ship was state of the art, the first of its kind; built at the International Space Institute on the moon, it could fly overwhelmingly faster than the speed of light the world’s first.
It took off from moon for research of far away space..

 

 

It left the moon, and decades later, the red siren sounded for the first time. Already, the front and sides of the space ship was covered in an expanding darkness; the rear was still reflected the light of innumerable stars.
He woke from his long slumber and checked the radar. In front of him was a giant black wall, which he could see on the radar, but in the suffocating darkness, he couldn’t see a thing in from of him. He stopped before he hit the obstacle shown on the radar. He changed into his space suit and decided to leave the ship and try to see what he could.

 

Moving forward, he bumped into something; touching it, he felt a flat surface, like a wall. Surprised, he tried to shine the headlights on the wall, but there was no light. It seemed that this black wall absorbed light.
With his hand, he tried to force a hole in the black wall. When he did, some light filtered through the hole.

When he looked through the hole, he saw a large room that looked like a laboratory. the room is silver color, he heard the sound of something mechanical but he could see no one.

 

He was surprised.
This was first time that he realized there were another world outside space.

 

He returned to the space ship in a hurry.
He wanted to return to the moon and tell the people what he had seen.

 

He looked for the manual for return to moon, but when he looked in the place where it should be, he couldn’t find it; in its place, he found a book with “The Store on Clouds”.

 

He searched all over the ship for the manual he needed but he couldn’t find it.

 

He panicked; thinking that the procedure for returning to the moon was somewhere in this book, he opened it and began to read.

Author  Tomoyuki Toyda