Part Seven Shikishima’s hands could not stop shaking. They haven’t been able to ever since the night he first encountered that giant reptile monster on Odo Island – the monster whose name he learned to be ‘Godzilla’ from Satoshi and Suri. He glimpsed their way every few seconds, trying to understand what it was they were doing near that unusual, hexagonal control console. Shikishima had never met women like them before, not even counting Noriko, who herself was baffled by their female rescuers. Neither of the Ginza survivors could comprehend the strange vessel they sat in or how its interior space transcended beyond its exterior space. It didn’t ease Shikishima’s nerves any with A.J. constantly staring at him and Noriko. The boy just stood across from them, not turning his eyes away for so much as a millisecond. It drove Shikishima to the point...