Volume 7 - Chapter 11 - Master
Arroganz was flying through the air, but the heat inside it was reaching their limits as Schwert continued to fire guided lasers.
If you looked around you would only see enemies, so if you attacked you would definitely hit one.
I did not expect this development.
- I can't get through to Luxon and he's not even coming to help!
Then, Luxon's voice that now sounded like an empty shell answered. [Did you order something? Please explain your order in detail.] However, it sounded too mechanical to be useful.
- I didn't tell you anything now!
While complaining, I directed Arroganz and swung my great sword towards the approaching enemy. The monster that was cut off emitted black smoke and disappeared.
But that was not enough as they started to come one by one.
The monster bit Arroganz, but it wasn't enough to cause him harm.
- I should have told him to carry more powerful weapons from the start.
I didn't expect to get to this point, and Arroganz didn't have a powerful weapon to overcome this situation.
Although it was burying a large number of enemy monsters with the laser, it’s energy was reaching its limit.
Various items displayed on the monitor faded from green to yellow. Aside from armor, if energy is depleted, Arroganz will not be able to move.
- Aah, I can't take it anymore. I'm at the limit!
I sighed deeply.
- I don't have much time since I have to go with Noelle.
Noelle was seriously injured while protecting Lelia. … I was running out of time.
So, I sent an order to Luxon, who had turned into an empty shell.
- Administer the strength-enhancing drug.
[There will be a physical burden on the pilot, do you still want it administered?] - Do it.
Luxon's shell responded to my command.
There was no usual irony or awkward conversations that worried me.
[Starting administration]
I immediately felt a tingle on my back and the drug was being administered to my body.
- ...! … T-This is harder than I expected.
The body-strengthening drug Luxon prepared for me was more effective than the inferior products that were sold in the alleys.
At the same time, it reduced the load on my body… but the downsides were still not zero. I felt something flow into my body.
And, I could see movement around me.
I felt my vision widened more than usual and my body was warmer.
I felt my heartbeat beating faster and my body was stronger than usual.
However, at the same time, I realized that it was definitely not good for me. Did Serge always use this? Isn't it really stupid?
I don't understand why he used it on a daily basis and not as an emergency ace up his sleeve like me.
- I will never use it again!
As I watched the monsters swarming across the monitor screen, I released Arroganz's limiter. Luxon established it in consideration of the burden on me as a pilot.
Deactivating it meant that Arroganz would bring out his true performance.
- Come on, Arroganz!
Arroganz's engine began to move harder, consuming more power than ever. However, the number of monsters destroyed by the laser emitted from the backpack had more than multiplied.
The great sword that Arroganz wielded shattered from the center. Then a large optical charge sheet emerged, its length extended to several tens of meters.
- I'll give you … a big cut !!
Once Arroganz started spinning with his great sword, the surrounding landscape moved at high speed and made it difficult to follow the landscape with his eyes. However, thanks to the body-strengthening drug, I managed to recognize it.
Dozens of monsters were slaughtered with a single hit and the laser burned more than 100. I made my way through the monsters that came out, and went straight towards the Sacred Tree.
As he passed through the hordes of monsters, what was waiting there was Ideal ... and Serge, who had been taken over by the magical armor and turned into a hunk of meat.
- Ideal!
When Arroganz swung his great sword, Serge's magic armor stepped in to block it.
The blade dug in and black liquid came out of the magic armor, and Serge screamed in pain. ... His voice was painful to the ears.
- You're an AI in bad taste! Didn't you hate magic armor?
Artificial intelligence hated the magical armor used by the new humans.
Luxon was so angry that he wanted to get rid of him immediately.
However, Ideal used it.
[Even if it's magic armor, I'll use it to achieve our goals. ... Luxon was not sufficiently prepared for that.] - Not prepared?
In the distance, the magic armor generated an ice blade and hurled it at Arroganz. While cutting it, I listened to Ideal's story.
[It doesn't matter if you must stain your hands with bad deeds, it is a promise that you have to keep. You don't need to know.] - Then I'll tell you something good.
[What’s that?]
- You have underestimated Luxon.
[That same Luxon is sinking outside right now. ... Serge, do it]
Serge, who turned into a demon, attacked me on Ideal's order. Like a starfish, the round piece of meat was about to split open and swallow Arroganz.
The center mouth belonged to that of a person.
I apologized to Serge, who had turned into an ugly monster.
- I should have killed you before you turned into this. ...I am sorry.
Arroganz swung his great sword and pierced the chunk of meat, then stabbed it into its open mouth.
- Do it!
[Impact.]
Following Luxon's mechanical voice, the great sword was dyed red and Serge, who became part of the magical armor, flew off. Ideal was looking at me.
[What a terrible thing.]
I stared at Ideal, who seemed to speak with a laughing voice.
I joke about this with Luxon ... But I'll tell you seriously. You have a lousy personality. I hate you.
Arroganz reached out his left arm and grabbed Ideal's wireless unit.
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Outside of the Republic, Luxon was exposed to attack by six supply aircraft.
To capture Luxon's main body, Ideal tried to avoid damage to the main gun as much as possible.
Seeing how the main body of Luxon fell apart, Ideal spoke to him. [You look pitiful, Luxon]
[I haven't lost yet. I have my Master fighting within the republic.]
[What can your Master do? You, you have the wrong Master. At times like this, how do humans say it? You’ve run out of luck?] Luxon heard him and was enraged at Ideal.
[I’m out of luck? I'm going to tell you something, Ideal.]
[Your last words? Let's remember them.]
[I'm luckier than you. You have underestimated my Master. And for that reason, you are going to lose.] [Are you a sore loser?]
Luxon decided it was time.
That is why he was willing to tell the story.
[When we first met you, Master said the following. “Ideal, it smells bad.”]
[Do I smell bad? Did I think your Master said he was envious when he saw me?]
[Do you think he meant it ? My Master is so devious that he rarely gives honest opinions.]
Seeing ideal following Lelia politely, Leon told Luxon to follow suit. But other than that, he had his suspicions.
… For that reason, he would never expose Clare in front of Ideal.
[You're taking too long, Clare]
When Luxon said that, one of the supply ships floating in the sky stopped the attack and fell where it was.
When it fell into the sea and sank, another aircraft was rendered inoperative.
Ideal was surprised.
[What did you do!?]
[My partner looks for your main body. Her name is Clare, but she used to run the lab. She is somewhat eccentric, but she is really excellent.]
[Another AI?]
Ideal was dismayed by this information that he did not know.
[Ideal ... didn't I tell you? You underestimate my Master. That will be the cause of your defeat.]
Then the third and fourth aircraft sank ... the fifth aircraft also stopped their attack.
When the barrier surrounding the republic was breached, Luxon released the bow of the hull and prepared to fire the main gun.
[That man doubted me! He even prepared a hidden sphere and saw through my plan ?!]
Luxon told him that was not true.
[Master just said ... it was a hunch.]
And Luxon's main weapon emitted a light. The light gradually increased in thickness from a thin and unreliable object, and when half of the Ideal body melted, it reached beyond the Sacred Tree.
Ideal sacrificed his body and deployed a shield to prevent Luxon's attack.
[I-I won't let you. Only the sacred tree… and… the promise…! Definitely
… ]
Swallowed by the light from Luxon's main weapon, Ideal's body evaporated and disappeared.
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Underground facility within the Republic.
In the place where the base used by ancient humans in the past was located, there were a series of facilities that could be called the main body with AIs lined up.
There, with the drones around, Clare was sabotaging the facility.
[ A ~ Ah, how disgusting. I am striving for simple work. ]
These drones were like an artificial intelligence prepared by Ideal.
[ Even so, he did a crazy thing. Don't you know that it is forbidden to copy and mass produce it? ]
Clare showed great interest in Ideal to ignore what was originally forbidden.
Clare, who stopped the copied artificial intelligence, was also absorbing the data.
There, Clare learned of a part of Ideal's plan.
This was a plan to transform the Republic.
[ That Ideal is pretty crazy too. not? Did he intend to make the entire
Republic a fortress? So that? ]
After verifying Ideal's data, Ideal was trying to install equipment throughout the republic.
It was like a plan to fortify an entire continent.
[ What kind of enemy would go that far? Hmm, I want to know more, but we have to withdraw now. ]
When Clare looked toward the door, an Ideal wireless unit was coming with an unmanned aerial vehicle.
[I found you, Clare!]
Clare, who had been found by Ideal, escaped from that place showing a funny appearance. All she had to do was secure the unmanned aerial vehicle with a propellant she had prepared in advance and escape.
[ Wow, I'm a celebrity! But I'm sorry. Excuse me, it's time to go. ]
[Wait!]
When Ideal tried to chase her, the area exploded and vanished.
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Ideal, whose underground facilities had blown up and lost contact with the main body and the other remotely controlled aircraft, was next to the Sacred Tree.
More than half of the Sacred Tree had been blown up and was leaking red liquid. At the painful sight, Ideal panicked.
[Oh, how horrible. I-I must treat it immediately … ]
But then Luxon's second shot was released, and the Sacred Tree screamed even louder, almost like a scream.
[Luxon! You have no idea what you are doing. The Sacred Tree is the last hope for this world!]
In front of the Sacred Tree, most of which has been burned, Ideal made a decision.
[If this happens, we have no choice but to end this fight quickly. But I didn't want to choose this method.]
When Ideal approached the Sacred Tree, he let himself be absorbed.
[Sacred tree… take me inside. Below is the hangar of the ancient humans.
Use the scraps from there. And then we will destroy Luxon… and him!]
When Ideal became absorbed into the Sacred Tree, another change occurred.
When the Sacred Tree was completely petrified, it broke and something humanoid emerged from the trunk.
The giant humanoid, over a hundred meters tall, had a ball-shaped head like Ideal and the part of its slender body resembled Emile.
The giant hovered in the air and moved slowly.
Then as Luxon's third shot approached, the single eye on its huge round head lit up red and deployed a barrier.
Luxon's main weapon hit was blocked by the first shield.
- {Lelia… become a…}
However, the one-eyed giant that was born from the sacred tree advanced as if guided… it was targeting Licorn.
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- Why do they keep coming one after the other ?!
The taste of blood spread through my mouth as I bit into my back teeth, but I didn't care.
However, not everything was bad.
The connection with Luxon was reestablished.
[… Master, have you executed the administration of the drug to strengthen the body?]
- You were late in coming back. And most importantly, I am going toexterminate that monster. And by the way, I'll make sure you give it your all.
[Are you sure?]
- I want to save Noelle. It is faster to call your main body.
[For Noelle's sake, and if I expose my body, which I had hidden until now, it will be problematic in several ways.]
Showing Luxon's true power, which had been hidden until now, was an act he wanted to avoid.
Although I liked to show great power, Luxon's performance is so dangerous to this world that it made me hesitate to want to show it.
But ... if I don't give it my all here, I will definitely regret it.
- It's fine. I'll think about those troublesome things when this is over.
[You don't have any plans, do you?]
- It doesn’t matter. Most importantly, save Noelle.
I ordered my mind in front of the monstrous unit with a head similar to Luxon, Clare and Ideal.
- So… can you defeat him? Does it seem like it's really strong?
Did the last boss to appear in the second otome game look like this?
The first ghost has branches like the roots of a tree. While controlling Arroganz, they swelled like a whip, hitting me with a pointed tip to pierce it.
- Whoops!
Arroganz fired his cannons and escaped the dozens of tentacle-shaped arms. Then Luxon began his analysis.
[Ideal, the Sacred Tree and Emile are fused. You can see the characteristics of all three. By incorporating Ideal, my body's attack was also neutralized.]
-I'm getting tired of this.
It hurts that they were able to evade Luxon's own primary weapon. How did the Noelle of the game fight a guy like that?
[Master, my body came into contact with Licorn. I'm going to join Clare and begin Noelle's treatment.]
- I beg you. Do everything you can to save her.
And me, challenge the final boss of the second game.
—Let's get this over with, although it is impossible that I ended in a happy ending, I will carry it to the extent that it is best!
[It is a realistic decision. I do not disagree with it. However, after the battle, you too will need treatment, Master. Don't underestimate the burden of the performance-enhancing drug.] - When I'm done!
I escaped from the first attacking tentacle, cutting it with the great sword.
However, suddenly the first tentacle was reborn.
He treated Arroganz like he was chasing away a fly.
I was slowly moving somewhere while floating.
- Where is this guy pointing?
[I discovered its course. Is it a ... Licorn? No, it's pointing at my main body]
- ...! Let's stop it! Give it your all too!
[Understood. Also, there is an incoming transmission from Marie] -Not now!
[… Noelle seems to have lost consciousness. There was a report from
Clare that she did not arrive on time.]
I firmly squeezed the control stick and my back teeth.
- Plug it in.
While maneuvering Arroganz, I opened a communication channel with Marie.
Marie, bloody, looked down and told me about Noelle, crying.
- Brother… I'm sorry. Even Olivia and I couldn't do anything else.
- So I heard.
- Please call Noelle while she's alive. At least do it in her final moments.After severing the connection, I took a deep breath and then looked at Luxon. Luxon refused before I could say anything.
[I refuse.]
- That's an order. Do it.
[I refuse. The load on your body is beyond the allowed limits.] - That's fine. Do it.
[I do not authorize it. It is possible to face it as it is.]
- I told you we don't have time. I want to get this over with soon ... please do. Even though Luxon was concerned, he followed my orders.
[ … performance enhancing drug, administering additional dose.]
Immediately a needle jabbed into my back, the medicine was administered from there, and I felt like a hot liquid was flowing through my body. I was starting to sweat a lot.
-Shit. I will never use it again.
[It's a wise decision. Nor am I going to authorize it for a next time.]
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Inside Luxon's ship.
A capsule-shaped bed had been prepared.
This was a medical capsule, a device where you can receive advanced medical care. Noelle had been brought here and Clare had started treatment.
Livia looked at Noelle and cried.
- I am sorry. It just didn't have enough power.
Clare began to comfort Livia, who was lamenting her lack of strength.
[ I think you did well. If you and Marie weren't there, she would already be dead. ]
Angie grabbed Livia's arm down.
- You did what you could. You were well.
- But, I couldn't be of much help.
Livia started crying and hugged Angie from the chest. Angie hugged her gently. Then Angie asked Clare a question.
- Clare, did you say this is Luxon's main body?
[ Yes ]
- Leon has been hiding Luxon from us all this time, hasn't he?
[ … Are you disappointed? ]
- No, I understand.I'm sure I would have made the same decision.
While Angie comforted Livia … Lelia, who was seeing this whole situation, trotted out of the room and headed outside.
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Lelia had arrived at the Luxon hangar.
There was a small boat that was used when one moved to Licorn, and when she saw it, she boarded it giddily.
Lelia got in and tried to steer the small boat out.
-… In the end, I was the one who was wrong. It is funny. I was so good at moving around being a reincarnated person that everything went wrong.
As a child, she used her knowledge and experience as a reincarnated person to get around well. However, thanks to that, Noelle, who was supposed to be the main character, was not loved by her parents.
Lelia had realized that.
- I can't believe I did the same thing as my older sister and made her suffer. Ha ha! I am an idiot.
Her older sister … In her previous life, her sister was able to get away with it and monopolize her parents' love.
He took it for granted and robbed Lelia of her happiness.
Lelia couldn't help but hate an older sister like her.
When she learned that she had been reincarnated into the world of an otome game she knew, she tried to do well and tried hard to get her parents' love.
She was successful, but this time his sister, Noelle, was deprived of her parents' love. Lelia didn't realize it and thought they didn't love her.
And then ... she thought it was good, and pushed everything annoying at Noelle.
-I'm the worst. I really am the worst.
Lelia, who was steering her small boat while crying, saw the figure of the Sacred Tree approaching Luxon. The one-eyed figure saw her. What the figure was looking at was Lelia.
When the Sacred Tree found Lelia, it moved its tentacles and headed towards her with greater speed.
The small boat was heading to the Sacred Tree without trying to flee.
- I've been doing the same. I was doing the same as my previous oldersister and the fiancé who abandoned me ... with Emile and my sister.
And there was another person she hated. It was her fiancé who left her in her previous life and chose her sister. She must have hated that man, but realized she was doing something worse to Emile.
When she had chosen who to be by her side, she was comparing Emile and Serge. It was just like her ex-fiancé compared her and her older sister.
Lelia couldn't forgive herself.
That's why… she decided to end all of this.
- I'm sorry, Emile. You can do whatever you want with me… So pleasestop this. Let my sister see Leon!
When the small boat headed straight for the Sacred Tree, it was caught by the outstretched tentacles.
Amid the violent reeling, Lelia saw Arroganz heading toward her.
Seeing Arroganz approaching, she apologized to Leon.
- You were correct. … I am sorry.
When he apologized, the small boat was crushed by the tentacles and exploded.
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A small boat was smashed in front of me.
- Why did you go out onto the battlefield ?!
It was Lelia who was in the small boat.
Seeing the explosion in front of me, I started to press my teeth. However, a change quickly took place in the Sacred Tree. [The Sacred Tree has stopped moving. Master, be careful.] -What happened?
The situation was changing so fast that he wanted to stop thinking about it.
I wanted to defeat them all and get this all over with fast.
Looking at the movement of the Sacred Tree, it looked like it was in pain.
[Master, this is your chance.]
The back of my right hand started to glow when I was looking at the motionless Sacred Tree.
What emerged on the surface of the glove was the emblem of the guardian.
-What?
What I heard from there ...
- Please, Leon. Help Lelia.
… It was Noelle's voice.
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When Lelia woke up, she was wearing her usual school uniform. She was in an all white and blurry room, but somehow it didn't seem real. It felt like she was dreaming.
However, the room felt strangely nostalgic.
- Aah, this is my room.
It was also her room from her previous life. There was a monitor and a game console in the room. Among the scattered soft cases, there was also the second otome set.
I was having a nostalgic dream. And while she was in the mood, before she knew it, Emile was by her side wearing his uniform as well.
- Emile?
Lelia recoiled that she felt bad for what she did to Emile and apologized for being angry.
- I am sorry. Sorry, Emile. I… I did a lot of terrible things to you.
However, Emile laughed and forgave her.
- It's okay. I did not understand you as I should either.
- Eh?
Emile had a much calmer look than his last look.
Lelia was relieved as he seemed to have returned to his original appearance. Emile was looking around the room.
-I didn’t know, I didn’t know about it. There really was a previous life.
Lelia, who was exposed to her previous life, became depressed and looked down.
- It's not disgusting? I did the same thing that I didn't like with my sisterand with you. I just imitated the people I hated and hurt them.
Emile gently called to Lelia, who realized her inner ugliness and comforted her.
- You've been suffering a lot, haven't you?"
When the appearance of the room changed, lazy parents and an older sister appeared.
They were complaining about Lelia from her previous life.
- Why can't you do the same as your sister ?!
- You are really useless.
And while her parents scolded her, her sister laughed at her.
- … Are you an idiot? You should do better.
In order not to remember the face of her older sister who ridiculed her laughing and that of her parents, she left them without faces.
Lelia got up to see this.
-Enough. Show me no more.
Emile hugged Lelia. Hugged, Lelia felt Emile's warmth. He apologized to Lelia.
- Lelia, I'm sorry I didn't notice.
- On the contrary, I am the one who should apologize.
Lelia apologized, but when Emile left, he picked up the packaging from the second otome game and touched its illustration. He was drawn smaller than the other characters and you couldn't say they were fond of him.
Still, Emile was happy.
- It feels weird. For you, I was a fantasy character.
Lelia was ready to receive his anger, but Emile only smiled.
- Lelia, farewell. You must go on living.
- Eh?
- I hated you at first, but I was able to know your past by merging withyou. I opened my eyes to know that you also went through several things.
Emile accepted Lelia even though he knew about her previous life.
However, ironically, they said goodbye here, even though they were able to understand each other.
- I want you to live. Live and I will watch over you.
- Emile? I-I refuse. I want to be by your side!
Her heart was filled with excitement at being accepted, but she felt sad when she knew that she would soon have to say goodbye to him. Then, the priestess emblem appeared on the back of Lelia's right hand.
-This is…
- I will give you the emblem of the priestess. I will always watch overyou. Be happy, Lelia. Emile disappeared as if blending in with the landscape, but said a few words after that.
- There is someone coming to help you. Come on ... go back.
When Lelia extended her hand, a translucent Noelle appeared.
Noelle's transparent appearance was like a ghost.
Noelle hugged Lelia while she was fascinated.
- Stop being a nuisance until the end.
Noelle's voice sounded angry but a little happy at the same time.
-… I'm sorry, Nii-san.
- Yes, that's fine. I will forgive you this time. Because this is my last greatservice as your older sister.
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