The Gloomy and Timid Princess Heads to the Academy

No turning points.

No matter how much they achieve, from up above, it all seems rather unimpressive. Looking down is just that.

It means viewing from below. It means not seeing as equals. Even if there is a significant gap between me and the children, it wouldn’t hurt to drop down to the same eye level just once.

I’m not regretting anything. I hardly had time to dawdle, so I could do nothing but run as fast as I could, even within the time I could have regretted.

During the time I can exist as myself, I followed this hope and emotion.

I’m not being pessimistic. I’ve accomplished many things. Those who will soon vanish now gaze into the distance, dreaming of a new world.

The flow has changed. They have the strength and wisdom to pioneer a new world. They are no longer creatures incapable of leaving even the weak mother’s embrace.

Even if I hadn’t led them due to a moment’s whim, they would have reached it someday. Even if I hadn’t made children out of curiosity, nothing would have changed.

…Still, I must admit. Finding something that makes me smile every time I see it isn’t such a bad feeling after all.

The Empress leading the current Empire, with white hairs sneaking through her black locks. If there’s a child who inherits power from her, and a mindset from her son-in-law, I could trust and leave it to them.

I look up at the sky.

There’s a me that isn’t me up there.

It gazes at me, looking without any feelings or hopes, just staring blankly.

“I almost thought I’d die of boredom waiting.”

Despite having near-unlimited power, the bystander, with no will of its own, looked down at the indicators as if it had lost interest.

The world it sees through its eyes must differ greatly from mine. That’s how it has been made to appear. Being infinitely close doesn’t mean being omnipotent.

Because it was once me, I know well what it didn’t know and what it wasn’t proficient in.

-What did you do?

“Nothing.”

-I saw your signal on the surface as well. Are you saying you did nothing?

“The ability has been sealed. It was a child born out of experimentation, and it has already left the world. The benevolence won’t last for many generations. It’s nothing more than that.”

That which can judge only by momentary information can never grasp the truth.

It stared at the texture of the world I created, and perhaps it had come to a judgment, as it addressed me.

-…After resetting the function of the relevant module, I will dispose of it.

So it will be.