Chapter 171: 32.3 Open World?

Steering the trackball, everyone seemed to devolve into their respective activities as they all waited for me to get us to our destination. The two kids were playing with one another, Maruki was doing his usual thing of guarding us against non-existent threats, while Shade was off to the side fiddling with his [Manifest]. All in all, we looked like we were all just waiting for our voyage to finish.

Well, all except for Guidance as she deemed it fit to accompany me on console duty.

"Do you really think that you should be the only one capable of steering this thing?" she asked.

"No?" I scoffed. "If anything, I'd be more than happy to relinquish helmsman duties to anybody that wants it."

And I wasn't kidding too. Driving took a lot of energy and attention even if you were just riding a motorcycle. What more for a massive [Rig] that probably weighed thousands of tons drifting through the sea?

"Helmsman, huh... I kind of didn't think of that term," she pondered to herself.