"Ootcha!"

I came out of the cramped carriage and stretched.

"Aigoo, my body."

My body wasn’t all that hardy so it was the first time in my life that I had come out so far in a carriage. Of course, I've been to the capital, which was farther than here, a few times, but because I took the train every time, it wasn’t uncomfortable. Now, because of the Demons’ Territory, there were only the railroads that connected the capital and Asterium, but I’ll have to tell my father later to lay them all over the Empire. If the railroads were opened and I got the advantages from it first, the benefits would be beyond my imagination.

"Ah! The wind is so refreshing!"

I roughly organized my plans for the future and enjoyed the cool breeze. Perhaps because it rained yesterday, the smell of wet grass pleasantly tickled the tip of my nose.

"Oh! I've never seen such a wide field! What is it called when the flat ground and the sky contact each other?”

Doomstone seemed to be more interested in the wide horizon than the refreshing wind.

"You mean the horizon?”

Doomstone smiled broadly and clapped his hands. "Yeah! That's it. It’s...