Rain returned to the starting point, where he found that tube and soon found that the hole had been repaired as well. That wasn't a problem per se… the problem was the fact that it seemed just a part of something much more troublesome.
"Bending space to repair something like this shouldn't be cheap in terms of energy and skill," Rain thought while rubbing his chin. "I can't feel the presence of the machine god controlling space, so it is an automatic process… this whole thing is valuable enough for the machine god to make this happen without his interference."
"I am not sure one can feel the presence of something that had never been alive in the first place," Elisabetha said. "Sakaki once said that they should be AI with pseudo personalities that decided to exert their influence in the whole cosmos after a while for some reason."
