Horizon:Volume 1 Prologue

Prologue: Those Lined Up Before the Horizon

Whether to be lost.

Or to be explored.

The reason to keep hold of your heart's compass is something.

Point Allocation (Protagonist)

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A sky exists.

A clear morning sky. In the blue floated two pale white moons, and below the clear air, waves of dark green mountain gorges overlapped, reaching far.

The mountainous region, the expanding sky above the many-edged mountains.

In the sky, divisions which appeared to be pillars were there. Stretching from the earth to the sky, divided segments which held the appearance of pillars existed. Through the reality in which the clouds and wind traversing the sky disappeared as if reaching an invisible wall, and the division of the vegetation of the ground, those wide yet numerous pillar-like segments flaunted their existence.

Though the segments were uncountable, the spatial relationship was sporadic, and their wideness too varied.

The sky, divided in that manner, held three things.

The first was wind. The atmospheric flows of the mountainous region rose, appearing to be entwining, and birthing clouds, they faded away.

And, another one was the waves. In the sky, waves ran. Lines, not of clouds, but where the surf broke were many, stretching out toward the sky, outlining the character 「八」.

Things in the sky. The last was that which traveled between the clouds and created the waves.

Ships.

Through the pillars of the divisions of the sky reaching past the mountains, raising the sound of the surf, eight white ships sailed.

The Aerial City Ships, bearing towns and natural parks on the surface segment, brought their shadows together, descending towards the mountains. The shadow of the group of ships, two ships lined up in the center and three ships lined up to the left and to the right, engulfed themselves in one of the gorges, which stretched multiple kilometers from head to tail.

Each one of the ships created waves, which streamed from the bow and into the sky, and carrying the echoes of break of each wave, they continued on through the heavens.

Breaking the waves, advancing through the skies, each of the ships were connected to the ships close by with tens of thick ropes. Occasionally, when the group of ships changed their path slightly, the ropes which connected them would be drawn in and pulled out.

At the bows of the eight ships, the name was there. First, on each one of the ships, the name 'Musashi' was written with black characters. Next to that, the ship-names were, as expected, written in black characters.

First Starboard: "Shinagawa"

Second Starboard: "Tama"

Third Starboard: "Takao"

Center Leading: "Musashi Field"

Center Trailing: "Inner Tama"

First Port: "Asakusa"

Second Port: "Murayama"

Third Port: "Oume"