"Th-the snake has split into two...!"
"You’ve got the energy to spout nonsense right as you arrive. Well, it’s not entirely incorrect... Let's at least introduce ourselves. This is Jin, whom we brought in recently."
"Communication program activated... Nice to et you, Cartographer. I’ve heard about you from the Archetype."
"Snakes! Aahhh!"
As soon as Kato arrived, he was spouting nonsense.
Of course, there was no one there to call him out on it. Everyone was just chuckling—mainly because they were all people who were used to that kind of thing. Harmony, who was standing next to him, had known for a while that Kato had joined Yujin’s school, and Lorenatina… well, who knows if she cared.
anwhile, Jin blinked and reached out to Kato. Turns out she was offering a handshake. After chatting for the last few days and collecting basic social data, it seed like it had paid off. Thanks to her incredible logic circuits, she quickly picked up on things after I showed her so videos.
I wasn’t sure if she was intentionally using that tone, though.
"Anyway, I know this might be a little shocking right after you arrived, but I believe you can probably guess what’s going on. We’re going to be trained together from now on, so I hope you both get along."
"Wait, was this supposed to be an escape mode, or so sort of matchmaking ga?"
"I’m not sure if Jin will take a liking to you, Kato."
Kato, you can’t help but talk nonsense, huh?
I can't let my precious cha daughter end up with a scoundrel like Kato!!
I wanted her to be happy, but I didn’t expect her to be this happy... hahaha
Personal opinion: cha Yujin is a waste
You don’t stand a chance, buddy!!!!
Of course.
The viewers were going overboard. From what I could tell, they were acting like they were hundreds of thousands of grandfathers. Honestly, I was the type who taught just the basics and then let them do whatever they wanted. So, if Jin took a liking to Kato, I’d let her go.
Although, whether that was likely or not was a different matter.
Moreover, my focus was elsewhere.
"If you get seriously hurt, maintenance will be quite difficult..."
"Is it really more troubleso to damage than to damage you, Archetype?"
"Well, I suppose that’s true."
"…Now that I think about it, you make a valid point. I’ll do my best to avoid bodily damage during combat."
Although I had a body that could barely be pierced, aside from the grenade launcher in the bunker and the .50 caliber machine guns in the customs area, I’d be torn to pieces if hit by such things.
Moreover, the new arms, legs, and tail I’d attached weren’t as durable as the original ones. They were probably only a little tougher than a human’s. Unlike humans who could use a Grizzly dkit or similar, Jin wouldn’t have that luxury.
Even so, minimizing damage to the main body while inflicting maximum damage on the enemy was a combat strategy shared by and the rest of the team. Based on the performance of the combat logic circuits when we fought Harmony and Lorenatina last ti, I would need to teach it all over again.
After a quiet chuckle, I rummaged through the Gear Box and pulled out sothing, handing it to Jin.
"Don’t worry. I’m not sending you out unard. It’s a Class 6 bulletproof vest, so wear it properly. The weight limit shouldn’t be much of a problem."
"Wow, bulletproof body and a bulletproof vest? With this, I feel like I could take at least a few shots from an NSV machine gun."
"You’d be wrong. Even if you can take a few shots, it won’t help much if you’re sprayed with 700 rounds per minute. It’s a bad idea to walk into the line of fire of a machine gun."
First and foremost, safety, and secondly, safety.
While explaining where we’d be heading, the structure of the map, and the resources we’d need for this mission, Lorenatina, who had been laughing from behind, added her own comnt.
"I thought we’d just be shooting guns and running around like last ti, but it looks like sothing more interesting is about to happen. This always happens when we’re with the little one."
"Yujin’s always like that. Always attracting strange things, huh?"
"…I can hear you."
Of course, I couldn’t deny it.
But regardless, Kato had already made all his preparations and ca to visit my base. anwhile, Jin, who had been laughing and chatting, was now fully equipped with the gear I had handed her. It was a bit sloppy, so I had to personally adjust the positioning of the gear and the lengths of the straps.
One thing I realized was that Jin wasn’t exactly experienced when it ca to preparations for combat like this. It was her blind spot. In hindsight, it wasn’t such an unreasonable oversight.
Given her own tanking ability, plus the ballistic shield and mini-gun, it wasn’t like she needed to know much about CQB, grip, or firing techniques. A few shots from the mini-gun and the enemies in front of her would be wiped out, cover included.
Conclusion:
"Looks like Kato’s going to have to help out a lot more than I expected. Can you do it?"
"Uh… I’m not sure?"
"Well, learning combat strategies is easier when teaching soone else than practicing by yourself. I know you’ve made a lot of training videos for the newbies, so maybe you have a knack for teaching."
"Ah, well… if you say so, then I guess I’ll do my best."
This guy’s face hahahahaha
Look at him grinning! hahahahahahaha
I’m seriously tempted to pull Kato’s hair, hahahahaha
I hoped Kato would be happy, but I didn’t expect him to be this happy!!!
Please, shut your mouth hahahaha
As expected, Jin and I exchanged looks, and she nodded.
Jin, who had bowed her head, spoke:
"Please take care of , Kato. Let’s learn a lot."
"Er, okay! I’ll do my best!"
Good. I was passing the work onto him.
But just as I thought that, I turned my head slightly, and there was Lorenatina, whispering sothing to Harmony. I was curious about what they were talking about, but if I didn’t need to know, I didn’t bother paying attention and focused back on the front.
It occurred to that maybe Jin was like Harmony. Although, considering her body, she was likely to learn faster than most. Still, until I saw the result, I couldn’t know for sure.
The first map was a high-value research facility.
"Alright, let’s start moving. Jin, once we enter the map, don’t even think about trying to go down a different path."
"That’s unnecessary concern. I have no reason to stray."
"Good. Let’s go."
Already, I was curious about what would happen next.
"That little one with all the tricks…"
"I’ve been thinking, but Yujin seems to be evil in these little ways."
Yujin's evil nature was far from ordinary.
Today, Yujin's notorious reputation only grew.
[Notification: Pre-set values being calculated… Radar spawn probability and spawn numbers increased by 100%. The number of users who can join the session has been reduced to 30% of the original.]
[Notification: Session entry complete.]
"Good job, little one. You’ve prevented the sacrifice of many."
"Now, even just starting a match has beco sothing to think twice about… Should I be happy or disappointed?"
"But Yujin, now you can’t just blindly start a match like the regular users… Ughhh!"
I let out a sigh as Harmony, in her usual manner, teasingly pulled at her cheeks. This was my reality. My skills, which weren’t bad to begin with, had been honed to absurd levels through Apex Predator, soaring endlessly.
However, unlike other modes, EU had a system where I could adjust session settings to so degree. The basic structure didn’t change, but as you can see above… the number of enemy AI could be increased or decreased. The number of users in a session could also be adjusted.
Of course, it wouldn’t work to set the AI and the user count to zero and just farm high-value items or reduce the number of users drastically to farm items in a duo queue.
The forr was an offline mode, designed for new players to check out the map layout and exits, and the latter… unless it was a special case, the number of users and enemy AI was like a balancing scale.
If the number of users increased, the number of AI enemies would necessarily decrease, and vice versa.
In any case, the session settings I adjusted were as follows:
I wanted to prevent the users from joining and getting wrecked by , Harmony, and Lorenatina while letting Kato and Jin gain combat experience. It seed like an optimized structure.
The viewers, no matter what, started cheering and chatting away, but as soon as I ntioned that I was going to throw so of the noisy ones into the session as examples, they started praising my curriculum. It turns out, to quiet them down, firepower was needed.
Anyway, regardless of all that—
"Our little cha one has quite a shabby form."
"Reminds of the ti Moni dropped the magazine."
"Hey, when was that?!"
"Looks like we’ve got a long way to go..."
Jin was… a newbie.
She was a lot more of a newbie than I had expected. However, her eyes were working hard, and even though she complained a little about wanting to visit the lush forests when we ntioned the high-value research facility, it seed like she was getting more excited now that she was actually out.
Anyway, long story short, handling the guns wasn’t the problem. The issue wasn’t about not being good with certain weapons, it was that she hadn’t received the proper maintenance and usage data on certain firearms.
So what was the problem?
"…The way it functions feels completely different."
"Yeah, you’re right."
The self-preservation instinct, fast movents, and evasion techniques that living beings would prioritize… Jin lacked those things. To be more specific, her self-preservation instinct was much weaker than a living being's.
In hindsight, I should’ve expected this. Since she was an artificial lifeform with many differences from humans, combat principles built on human standards wouldn’t work here.
As expected, this led to problems. Not even minutes after entering the session, everyone except Jin witnessed the consequences directly.
BANG!
"Ugh, why are you standing up from there?!"
"Analysis of the round shows it can penetrate not just the bulletproof vest, but even my body. Starting pursuit now."
The bullets flew through, grazing her face, shoulder, forearm, and thigh, but instead of flinching, Jin stared down the defensive troops, locked onto their positions, and as the reloading began, she accelerated sharply.
She knocked one of the soldiers unconscious with the butt of the gun, and in the anti, Jin began firing her MK47 like a pistol. Naturally, the two enemy AI right next to her were obliterated in close-range combat.
She then looked at , a faint smile on her face.
She was probably… feeling triumphant.
"I did it."
"Yeah, you did... ugh."
"Confirming that the Archetype’s standards are extrely high. I’ll try approaching differently in the next combat."
"Yujin, after years of grinding ranked matches, my sharp predictions say that this guy is completely—AHH!"
Hahahahaha
Kato, you got what you deserved hahaha
The guy was eyeing cha Yujin just minutes ago
He just proved why he's still single, hahahaha
Please, just shut up already haha
I knew it.
Jin, with an expression that was sowhat annoyed, walked up and relentlessly kicked Kato’s joint, and he imdiately tumbled to the ground, creating an incredible scene. As expected, his left leg was dyed red in the process.
Lorenatina was laughing beside us, Harmony was giving him a hard ti, and Kato, finally letting out a strange groan, pulled out a dkit from his pouch and began to patch up his leg.
anwhile, another thought started forming in my head.
"...It’s an unusual approach, but it’s not entirely wrong. Just like how Harmony couldn’t exactly copy my combat style, everyone needs to learn a combat style suited to them."
As I said.
At this point, it would be easy to point out how Jin’s actions were wrong, but I couldn’t confidently say "that combat style is incorrect." I couldn’t assu that by showing Jin a combat thod suited for humans, she would execute it perfectly. In other words, I’d have to completely create a combat style for Jin from scratch.
It probably wouldn’t be that hard, but...
With a slightly lancholic Jin in front of , I spoke up.
"Jin."
"Currently listening to the Archetype’s instructions."
"Can you tell what areas need to be defended most in case of destruction, or if destroyed, will cause a significant disruption to the mission?"
"Arms and legs. The eyes can be replaced by sensors, and the central body with the power source is protected by the thickest armor. Even if hit by shaped charge shells, the internal energy shields can defend against it."
"Hmm."
I thought for a mont before speaking.
"From now on, focus on defending the arms, legs, and joints in the abdon instead of the main body. And try not to damage the eyes. You understand why, right?"
"The Archetype values repair costs… Ugh, understood."
What are they doing?
I can clearly tell they’re pretending not to have feelings
What’s up with cha Yujin’s concept?
Another unique character has joined
Please, give cha Yujin to all users already!!!
When I tossed a bolt at cha Yujin’s head, a crisp, clean sound echoed.
Lorenatina, who had been watching the whole scene, added her usual comnt.
"I thought it was a hunting ti with cha little one, but looks like it’s cody ti instead."
And so, the journey into the high-value research facility began. What would happen next was already making curious.
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