On The Side Of The Pitch With You

Stowaway

"Here's lunch! It's the Galaxy Nauts Gou special!"

Kamata served them steak with fried shrimps and salad, with custards and oranges for dessert.

"This is..."

"For space food, it's the same as a normal meal."

"That's because Galaxy Nauts Gou has gravity control."

"So everything is just the same as if we were on Earth."

"Kind of feels like we're missing out on the full experience..."

"Yeah..."

All the muttering seemed to irk something in her. "What, what? Are you saying you don't like my food?"

"N-No, we'd never say that!"

"... We really are going to a far planet, are we?" Konoha muttered, turning to see Earth from the screen beside her.

"180,000 light years away." Kusaka stated.

"188,000 light years away, to be precise." Manabe corrected.

Minaho hummed. "We're flying at the speed of light for 188,000 light years."

"It seems so overwhelming." Sakura said.

Tetsukado stood up and went to the front of the screen while pulling on his face. "By the time we get there, we'll all be old and wrinkly."

"Ew!"

"No way..."

"It's going to take that long?" Tenma asked.

"Not to worry." Mizukawa spoke up. "We're going by warp."

"I see!" Manabe nodded to himself. "So they've already invented warp navigation."

"Whoa, warp, huh?"

"Wow!"

Sakura blinked. "You guys know what that is?"

Kusaka and Tetsukado gave her a look before smiling confidently. "Nope!"

"Warp is indispensable for starship travel." Manabe stated.

"The easiest way to think of it is that it's like teleportation, but it's not instant." Kimiko explained. "It's extremely convenient, because if we're to travel that far for that many years, we won't be old. We'd be dead."

Tetsukado opened his mouth to comment, but no words came out. Instead, it was Tsurugi who commented.

"Just because you're right, doesn't mean you have to say it."

There was the sound of a bump and the blonde in front of him let out a silent scream. "What did you kick me for?! I'm saying that that won't happen!"

"Knowing you, it's only a matter of time before you start making even more jokes like the whole fire phase you had."

"It was genuine curiosity! Oda Nobunaga did all that according to that one history book I read!"

Shindou coughed, or maybe he choked, and gave them a look. "Is this about the 'burning thousands of people alive' thing again?"

"Yeah."

"Unfortunately."

"You brought up the topic!"

"You were the pioneer of it!"

"Just what the heck goes on in Raimon..."

"Don't think about it, Ibuki. It's just her."

"It is not!"