After Suzuka finishes rubbing my head, we all tio look up and see enormous objects up above us.”

  The guide says to everyone, “Now that arting from the astral sea and are getting close to Elpída, I would like to tell you a few things. First of all the yout of my beloved try. OWO.

  Elpída is six enormous oval-shaped ptforms, which are at the highest point in the sky than any other obje the how world. They are split up from ptforms oo six, and all have different specialisations which are all equally useful ?(?*ˊ?ˋ)?*.

  Though I would suggest staying off of the sixth ptform, it isn’t the most heavily monitored ptform, so there are a plethora of illegal activities going ohere, but if you want to engage in said morally corrupt activities, you will definitely enjoy your time there ???).

  Taking about ws, as visitors, you have three strikes before you are able to be punished by w, you get busted by the w three times then they have the right to punish you for all your worth, some of them have some pent-up stress so I will not firm whether brutality might happen or not. But slipping some lupas into their pockets could make them gain sudden amnesia ?.?????.?.

  Regardless of whatever activities you get into I would suggest not stealing anything, most things in this try only be used in this try. So all you will be doing is getting yourself put on a bcklist (?_?).

  And not the st few things: our national nguage is the heaven’s song, but the Heroes song is also used a lot, if you ’t speak those two you're probably fucked.

  t money of any and all kinds, exge rates are for eadividual shop so keep that in mind, and finally, I hope you enjoy your stay at Elpída the city iure that was formed in the past.” After she says all this I see her victoriously say, “Yes, just made it in time.”

  And just like that the whale spits out our bubbles at incredible speed sending us into one of the six ptforms. When we arrive, the guide tells us, “Please everyone jump out of your bubbles and tinues down the hall.”

  Following her instrus, we go down the hall until we reached a point where we could see outside, and when we did, we all saw people moving through the sky on objects, and buildings that reach the sky.

  Me, Atanta, and Suzuka stopped to look at the sight with wonder, but Cyrus grabs and takes us down the hall where we see anuide, who says, “Wele to Elpída the most advanced civilisation in the world, I hope you enjoy your stay, but before that, I o receive payment for all of your stay. So, I need you guys to pay me -sor- Lupas.”

  One of the other travellers says, “That’s utterly ridiculous, do you know how much that is.”

  “As I told you we are the most teologically advanced city in the world, so the sights and things you could see here are not something you could see anywhere else, I think for an experience such as this, paying up that amount isn’t an issue, and this also goes towards our prote ws, we didn’t have to give visitors immunity, but we did since we are all so nice, you should be grateful and stop pining. So, the rest of you please pay us without any issue teehee.”

  So, all of us pay her the fee, I feel sort of bad that all the money we were giving is being used for such frivolous things, instead of buying food for everyone back at the tunnels, but I did give Willow about half of the ridioney we were given, so they should be able to get some supplies to throw the use of the members of Gaia’s sky.

  And are told by her, “I hope you enjoy your stay, walking through this door behind me you will have another door to walk through before you leave, and since you guys have been so well behaved I will give you a bit of advice, look and walk forward empty everything else from my mind if you do you won’t be having to leave immediately.”

  Around the end of her sentence, she ged her tone, are the workers here stable? As we ehe room, I see that it isn’t a corridor but a giant area with tons of shops lining the sides. Wheart walking down this area, people run up to us and say, “You fine people must have e from the lower world, would you like to do some shopping.”

  “You should ighat man, he is a liar, he will scam you, so you should e to my store, I will do my best to make you walk off with the best Elpída has to offer.”

  “Don’t listen to that man, everything at his store is trash, e over to mine for some real high-quality goods.”

  I am starting to see what the guide was talking about, to reach the exit we have to get through this horde of money-sug parasites, this isn’t going to be easy. Looking over at Suzuka I see she is looking sort of ill, so I ask her “Are you ok.”

  “To, many, annoying, thoughts.”

  I fot she be overwhelmed easily, so I raise my void say, “We are good now leave us alone,” while grabbing everyone and moving forward.

  This whole shopping area is incredibly predatory, by pg all these pushy people before we eve a ce to look around, they make us buy on impulse it is horrible.

  Thinking back, they specifically pced a corridor where we could see the outside of Elpída before we had to pay. That was set up in a way that our wonder and intrigue by entering the city, would cloud our judgment and make us pay their stupidly high price, without truly thinking.

  I wonder if I could use a variation of this when I get to eventually sell the crystals from Basileia. While I was lost in thought, I noticed that both Atanta and Cyrus are missing, looking over at Cyrus I run over and here a salesperson say, “If you take this medie it will give you ce and make all your stuttering go away.”

  “R-R-Really!”

  “I guarantee, you trust me. Also, no refunds.”

  I run up to Cyrus and grab him, then drag him away, which causes the shop owo say, “That’s obstru of business.”

  “Question, do you want to die.”

  Letting out a scream the man says, “That’s a crime. Buy something right now, or I will tell w enfort that you have just threatened me.”

  Walking up to him I say, “Let me tell you if I get arrested on any charges before I am I taken away I will make sure to kill you. That’s a promise.”

  Frighten by my words the man falls on his ass. I then go over to Atanta, where I hear someoell her, “This is the evice, a type of wihat only be made on Elpída. It is made from berries that only grow in our special gravity field, with it also being aged fifty years; I know you will love it.”

  “That sounds amazing I want to try some.” I hit Atnta on the head and grab the bottle saying, “Look before you buy. The bottle has a price tag from aore still on it, and the name of it is cheap wine in the heaven’s song, this bitch is trying to use your ck of knowledge to scam you.”

  As we all move aeople still keep ing up to us with their never-ending pitches for us to e to their shops.

  “We have fibres you have never seen before.”

  “We have teology that will let you dry your clothes in seds.”

  “We have medie that stimutes growth in all areas of the body, with absolutely no side effects.”

  “By drinking are astral water you look over twenty years younger.”

  “My shop is having a special fifty pert off deal, but for you guys, I will make it seventy-five pert off, doesn’t that sound utterly amazing.”

  My god, “SHUT UP AND GO AWAY YOU PARASITES!”

  Then someone says, “e all buyers, right here right now, we have a new sele of wonderbeasts from the astral sea, don’t miss your ce to get one as either a pet or food if it strikes you so.”

  Hearing this, my body moves on its own and walks over to the shop. This is a on-a-lifetime ce to get to have a special wonderbeast as a pet, I ’t let this ce go buy, I will be able to dissect it and figure out how the wonderbeasts up here work. “Sir how much will that be.”

  “Oh a buyer, it will be -sor- lupas. Do you have that much kid?”

  “Yes, I have that much, fork over the wonderbeast.” Starring at its cage I say, “I ’t wait to rip you apart.” The wonder beast looks scared in its cage due to me.

  Suddenly Atanta, Cyrus, and Suzuka grab me, carryi of the shop they say, “Orb we ’t let you do that.”

  While they are taki another one of the visitors who came with us, buys the wonderbeast for their child; “NOOOO!” I scream as I watch my hopes and dreams be shattered.

  As I see the boy and his family walk away with the wonderbeast, I mht oo the boy and kneel in front of him saying, “Sihat wonderbeasts natural habitat is specifically for Elpída, once you take it home with you it will probably die in no time, leaving you with nothing but its corpse. Animals are alive too, so by buying that wonderbeast all you have done is murder an animal, to think such a young boy would already be itting murders.”

  As the boy starts g, Suzuka hits me in the face but I say, “I just wa why ’t I have it,” with tears in my eyes.

  Suzuka picks me up by the hand and guides me back to everyone saying, “Don’t worry it will be ok.”

  Huddled up, all of us move as one unit, not letting anything distract us, we tinue like this until we are about to reach the exit, but suddenly our momentum is brought to a halt, and Suzuka stopped moving. Looking at her, I see that she is looking into a clothes shop. “Suzuka were almost outside, so let’s go, we have almost escaped this hellscape of parasites.”

  “Sorry about that, it is just that I have never bought any clothes.”

  “Wait, but your fourteen.”

  “All the clothes I have are uniforms from my dad's dojo, and the clothes I was given when I was at Himeji castle, that’s all the clothes I have ever worn. Sorry about making you worry, I am being selfish let's go.”

  Seeing her expression, I know what I o do, “Everyo us all go clothes shopping.”

  Suzuka gets a big smile on her face as we all walk into the shop, where her and Atnta pick out new clothes for all of us. Walking out of the store, the happiness of roup has increased, but our almost of money has signifitly gone down.

  Finally, as we walk out the door we are brought outside, where we see more of the sights we saw before, people in the air and buildings in the sky. As we gaze at these sights I man walks up to us in an outfit simir to our first guide but a male version and says, “Travellers I will be your st guide today. ?(??? ?).”

  The man iion is very flirty to all of us, and is just as lively as our first guide. “You are probably taken aback by the sights you are seeing in front of you, but all the people in the sky are those who are taken advantage of the special gravity field in our try. (??’???)?.

  As long as you are he ground, the gravity field will act like normal but if you are a certai away from the ground, you will a zero gravity which is what everyone else is doing, so remember this to be safe. Now if you have any more questions, there are maps all over the city which will point you towards one of our w enfort stations the Gravitas police force pd for short. (????).

  Now finally if you want to maximise your time getting around, I would also suggest renting a transport vehicle, to take through one of our cities gravity roads. I hope you enjoy your stay in our try.