리틀팍스

 The protect-mode was much better than I thought. It didnt only protected me from the gigantic pressure of the atmosphere while I was escaping from it, but also protected me from all the space danger that I hadn't thought about. For example, space radiation, powerful sunbeam, the vacumm, airless environment. Something sprayed the air in front of my face. It all scattered away into the giant space within a second, but still, the machine was spraying air very near from my face, and I had enough air to breathe.

 As I moved further and further from the earth, I thought about space speed. Forty thousand killometers per hour was too slow in the space. If I went at that rate, I would be traveling space without rest to find Racoto. But now, Racoto is finished, and I'm here safely on earth. I had some solutions to travel space much faster.

 I asked on the A.I.

 "How can I gain speed at this rate? Please give me the best answer."

 There was silence for a second(maybe A.I was thinking). Then it answered.

 "Swing-by is the most popular way to speed up. You swing by a planet or its moons(Ah, also some stars are possible. But be careful! They are very hot), and you will speed up by its gravity. Think of running down the hillside. While you are running down the slope, you will get faster and faster. That's how swing-by works."

 I noticed only one thing about the solution. It was great! I thought of trying it to the earth, but no. It was getting too far. And somehow, when I released from the gravity of the earth, I traveled at 80,000 killometers per hour for 2 hours. I thought that it will take a lot of energy if I turn backwards(and indeed it was),so I just decied to head for the moon and do some swing-by. Meanwhile, as the earth rotates, my country slowly sank into the dark side of the earth....

 "I made it to the moon!"

 And yes. The huge moon was approaching nearer within every second. It was almost a perfect timing to do swing-by. I decided to approach more and swing the moon near me, because there would be no problem of atmosphere pressure.

 I approached the moon within 100 killometers(which is very near in the space), and started to  swing around it. As I moved, I felt the moon pulling me, and that force was getting much powerful. Soon I was at 100,000 killometers per hour, and was going to pass the moon within 10 seconds....

 BLAM!

 A huge column of dust and poisonous gas suddenly shooted up into the sky. That stopped my way.

 I hardly had time to think, 'What was that? I felt the hot gas.....'. Because suddenly, The peaceful moon rumbled, let the part of  the ground explode, which made a large amount of hot lava gushed out and shooted up into the sky, where I was floating! Piles of volcano ash rushed toward me, which made me lost my balance, and fall to the ground, where huge lava was forming a large rivers and lakes on the surface, still letting magma out with some explosion!

-to be continued-