“What are you protecting this world from? It surely can’t be humans…?”

“The biggest dangers are meteorites and volcanoes. Other than that, while controlling and maintaining a balance of resources within our domain, this operation controls and adjusts the population and mutation rate of living things… especially, humans. Humans are a very dangerous race, so we have continually managed the population.”

“Are meteorites and volcanoes that dangerous?” San asked as he tilted his head. He was truly curious about this aspect.

“Meteorites are no joke. In a word, it’s not an exaggeration to say that this universe is just a mini shooting range of meteorites. You can even call it a machine gun shooting range. Imagine a meteorite bounding towards from who knows where to this star or planet every second. The smaller ones are filtered by the atmosphere, but occasionally, meteorites over several kilometers in diameter fly in. Missing one of them would be catastrophic.”

“…”

“Imagine this… their speed is tens of times the speed of the bullets you used in Episode 285. It hits the planet’s surface in just a second after it enters the atmosphere. After accelerating for just one second, the temperature at the time of impact is above 60,000 degrees Fahrenheit, 10 times the surface temperature of the sun. Ten-meter-thick steel would melt in...