First knob, first setting... call for green!

"Okay, I'm ready!" Chihiro called out just loud enough for his voice to carry over all the noises made by the machines within the factory, pass through the considerable distance of the narrow corridors, and then reach the small microphone recently installed just outside of the control room.

"Haaa…" I breathed out a long sigh as I stared down the window and into the factory floor with one of my hands on the first of the power knobs and the other at the ready.

'It's all or nothing now, huh?' I thought, gritting my teeth as if to mentally prepare myself for whatever the outcome of the last and most important of all the tests we did.

To a degree, I've already got more than I initially bargained for. Even if my understanding of this golden sphere entity would turn out to be true only on the surface level, the results would already be much bigger than the input, making it a perfectly good investment.

But…