Kanata and Marika reach the special laboratory. Will they succeed in stealing Diablos X?
I succeeded in a giant killing.
But my left arm is useless now.
Just as I was about to move to support Marika-san with the captain’s sword still stuck in my left arm,
“How dare you hurt my father!”
A soldier with a furious expression attacked me.
Father? Is this guy the captain’s son?
But his skill doesn’t even come close to his father’s. He’s at a level where even I, with one arm, could kill him.
So that’s why the captain was so desperate. He had his son among his subordinates.
“Kanata, don’t kill him!”
Marika-san ordered me, so I focused on defense. I’m not confident in blunted strikes. What should I do?
Marika-san severed the attacking soldier’s head and stood next to me.
Then she glared at the frightened captain’s son. Marika-san’s Scarlet Eye glowed eerily.
The captain’s son’s eyes rolled back as he collapsed.
What? He fainted just from a glare? Is this the power of the Scarlet Eye?
After that, it was simple work. The remaining soldiers were also dealt with.
Marika-san killed most of them, though.
Every time Marika-san glared, the soldiers seemed to stiffen for a moment.
Stiffening for a moment in front of Marika-san, the fastest woman in the world, is like saying, “Please kill me.”
I pulled the sword from my left arm, applied a hemostatic patch, and asked Marika-san,
“Marika-san, what was that technique just now?”
“It’s like momentary hypnosis. It can knock out brats with low Nenshin Strength like the captain’s son, or at least make them lose consciousness for a moment. It consumes quite a bit of Nenshin Power, so I don’t do it often, but it was necessary this time.”
Marika-san answered, putting a cigarette in her mouth.
A perfect compatibility, possessing the rare ability of pyrokinesis, and on top of that, she uses ocular techniques too.
My beautiful superior is a cheat far beyond my imagination.
Marika-san questioned the captain with a cigarette in her mouth. It seemed she had missed his vital points, so the captain was still alive.
With this bleeding, he’ll likely join his subordinates soon, but…
“Looking at it, the gate seems to require fingerprint authentication, retinal authentication, and a password. What’s the password?”
“………Who would………tell you.”
“It’s not that you don’t know, but that you won’t tell. I’ll make you talk. Kanata, bring the unconscious brat here.”
I obeyed the order. With my right hand, I grabbed the captain’s son by the collar and dragged him to Marika-san.
Marika-san, with a cold expression, whispered to the dying captain.
“If you don’t answer, I’ll kill your son. You have five chances. Each time you refuse, I’ll cut off a finger from his arm. Once his hands and feet are gone, I’ll go for his heart. Try it if you think I’m bluffing. My Bio-Metal arm won’t die from losing a limb.”
“………You… inhuman monster…”
“There’s a saying called karma, isn’t there? I won’t let you say you didn’t know what kind of research is being done here! …Now, let me ask. What’s the password?”
“………1192………”
Kamakura shogunate, huh? What you’re creating isn’t a good country, but a bad one.
“Kanata, place his palm on the panel. I’ll pry his eyes open.”
And when she entered the password, the gate opened.
Marika-san and I headed to the special laboratory on the 6th floor via a private elevator.
The elevator was directly connected to the laboratory.
The laboratory was deserted.
Did the researchers flee?
The attack started late at night, so it’s possible the laboratory was deserted.
“Now then, I wonder what Diablos X is.”
I found a cylindrical metal case, about the size of an adjustment pod, in the center of the laboratory.
There’s a lever, I should pull it.
When I pulled the lever, the metal case descended, revealing an adjustment pod inside.
Inside, a silver-haired beautiful young girl about 10 years old was being held.
I spoke to Marika-san, who was examining the computer.
“Marika-san, look at this.”
“Another child added? Fine, we’ll take her. Get that child out of the pod. I’ll figure out what Diablos X is.”
“It would be faster to ask this child.”
“Huh?”
Marika-san stopped operating the computer and threw her cigarette on the floor.
Marika-san, littering is not good.
I attached adhesive tape and broke the glass with the back of my sword, saying,
“This is the special laboratory at the deepest part of the bio-weapon research facility. What is this child, protected in an adjustment pod within a metal case, unlike the others?”
“I see, so that’s it.”
I rescued the silver-haired beautiful girl from the adjustment pod and applied the awakening patch to her face.
She twitched and the silver-haired beautiful girl woke up.
“Don’t make a sound, don’t cry, I hate the shrill screams of children.”
The silver-haired beautiful girl replied with a sigh.
“Such a greeting right off the bat. So, intruder, do you need something from me?”
“Are you Diablos X?”
“I was called Type X, so I guess so.”
Bingo. Researchers really like calling people by numbers like “No. 12” or “Type X.”
This child has a composure unbelievable for a 10-year-old, but I need to tell her we came to save her.
“What’s your name? We came to save you.”
“To save me, huh? I don’t think it will change the outcome for me. I am Lilith Lohengrin.”
Lohengrin, huh? There was something like that in Wagner’s opera. Does that mean this child is of German descent?
In this world, Germany is called Garum, isn’t it?
This child has beautiful blue eyes.
She’ll be incredibly beautiful in 10 years, but even if she’s a beautiful girl, she’s only 10.
Even I have ethical barriers. They’re rather flimsy barriers, though.
“Lilith Lohengrin, huh? It’s a beautiful-sounding name. I am Corporal Amagake Kanata. And this is my superior, Captain Hogakure Marika. Nice to meet you, Lilith. We’ll take you to a safe place.”
“You can call me Lilith. I have no intention of being nice to you, though.”
Lilith said so, without showing much emotion.
This child is cute, but not cute!
“You’re taking me, right? Let’s hurry. Before that, one more thing, okay?”
“What is it?”
Lilith pointed to a corner of the laboratory wall and said,
“There’s a hidden room behind that wall where the researchers are hiding. You have bombs, right? Kill them.”
Kanata and Marika exchanged glances.
“Whoa, this beautiful girl is dangerous.”
“They are inhuman monsters who used children my age for experiments trying to create someone like me. They’re not worth keeping alive. If you do that, I’ll follow you obediently.”
“Alright, I’ll set it up on that wall.”
Marika-san set a bomb on the wall.
“One more thing.”
“You’re asking for a lot, kid. What is it, say it?”
“Let me press the detonation button.”
At the unexpected proposal, I couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Lilith, you’re talking about killing people!”
“That’s right. They trampled on the lives and dignity of children like us. I, a child myself, will take revenge for the children who were sacrificed. Vengeance is mine.”
“…Very well. But you’re a frightening child.”
“Did you say your name was Marika? You have the face of someone who’s killed quite a lot. I’m nothing compared to you.”
…This child isn’t just 10 years old. She’s sharp, and what’s more dangerous is that her mentality is sharp.
“Well then, let’s go. Corporal, carry me.”
As I was about to take Lilith under my arm, Lilith shook her head.
“Princess carry! Being held under your arm makes me feel like luggage!”
“My left arm is injured, so I can’t lift you properly.”
“If you’re a man, show some guts! Besides, you, a plain guy like a Corporal, won’t have many chances to princess-carry a beautiful girl like me. I’m even restraining myself because I really want a more handsome guy to carry me!”
Damn, this kid could probably compete with the Commander in terms of being bossy.
I wrapped tape around my left arm to stabilize it and then princess-carried Lilith.
My left arm hurts a little, but it’s troublesome to go against this kid, so it can’t be helped.
“See, you can do it. Come on, let’s go. Marika, I’ll leave the escort to you.”
Marika-san, with a look of exasperation, handed the detonator to Lilith and said,
“It seems the Mechanist Army’s new weapon spews poison gas from its mouth, Kanata.”
“It seems so. I’m glad we could stop its development.”
We left the special laboratory.
Lilith, with a cold expression unbecoming of a 10-year-old, muttered curses as she pressed the detonation button.
“…Fall into hell, you damn insects.”
The special laboratory erupted in flames after the explosion.
To think such a monstrously beautiful girl would exist.
No matter how many times I proofread, the typos and errors don’t decrease.
