[Search Engine] Definition Confirmation [Absolute NOAH]
1. A life form that has surpassed the limits of known biology and has a lifespan either infinitely or imasurably long.
2. A life form created from or by a human.
3. A life form whose individual traits present a risk of spreading to or infecting unrelated people around it.
The conditions change depending on the environnt and situation, but those are the fundantal definitions of an Archenemy.
The term Archenemy itself refers to Satan in a certain monotheistic religion and from there ca to an any sort of demon lord in general.
Synonymous terms are the undead, the living dead, and the immortal.
Vampires and zombies are the representative examples of Archenemies in modern tis.
Part 1
It was a refreshing moonlit night after the citys air pollution was swept away by an out-of-season storm.
I was holed up in my room, curled up on the floor, and pressing my back against the inside of the door.
I had a simple reason for this.
Knock knock! Knock kno-knock knock knock!! Knock knock knock knock!
Satori-kuuun? Your big sister would like to speak with you. Specifically, we need to discuss what happened to the limited lon bread from Asamiya.
I know, right? They only make 20 a day and dont take reservations, so its super rare. Onee-chan and I were arguing over who got it, but then it just up and vanished.
Tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble tremble!!
I hadnt known.
I really hadnt known that was holding everything together here. All I did was trudge ho through the rain and realize sothing slled great when I set foot inside our house. And then that golden glittering prize was just sitting there! Of course I was gonna eat it!!
This was really bad. What was I going to do? My older sister Erika was a vampire and my little sister Ayumi was a zombie. They were known as the undead or Archenemies, which made them sothing like an RPGs hidden boss. I was in real trouble if they were angry. They wouldnt even need a fist to break through the plywood door; a karate chop would be enough to break right through! And then theyd drag out!
While I trembled in fear, my smartphone buzzed in my pocket.
I pulled it out and checked the screen (to distract myself from reality) and saw Maxwell speaking through an SNS speech bubble.
However, Maxwell was not an international friend or a classmate with a cringe-worthy screenna.
This was the system managent agent for the Maxwell disaster environnt simulator.
What is it, Maxwell? Im kind of busy.
Sure. And that is why I am contacting you. I determined you needed this systems assistance since you stepped in it and have no way out.
Y-you an youll make full use of the simulators processing power to calculate a way out for to survive Erika and Ayumis double punch!? Thats almost too good to be true!
No. I have calculated 8.6 trillion different scenarios and each and every one of them ends in failure.
So all I know is that Im really and truly dood! Thats a disaster environnt simulator for you!!
However, I have detected a single unknown variable. It is a possibility of unknown impact, but it seems better than any of the options with a 100% chance of failure.
In other words, theres almost no chance of success this way either?
Sure. It is like the difference between a suspension bridge just about to snap and one that has already fallen.
I mussed up my bangs with a hand while still leaning against the door.
I really had understood this wasnt a problem that would solve itself with ti. In fact, my sisters anger would only grow the longer I put it off. My best option was to imdiately open the door and bow down in apology. But I was scared! If I prostrated myself before them, they might just crush my head underfoot!! I an, my older sister was a vampire queen and an extre S!! The defendant requests ti for the lay judges to cool down!!
I guess I just have to go for it. Okay, Maxwell! What exactly do I have to do?
Sure. Turn your smartphones voice input option on and lower your privacy protection settings to Level 2.
?
User, I am asking for permission to borrow your voice to speak.
On the other side of the door, they wouldnt be able to tell if it was or Maxwell speaking.
My palms were sweaty and fear clutched at my heart, so Maxwell could indeed be the better negotiator since he operated on strict nurical values.
Okay, Maxwell. Lets do that. Therethereand done. Updatingand done.
Very well.
The smartphone replied with my exact voice.
So what was Maxell going to do? Anything was fine as long as it shattered this feeling like I was trapped in a cleaning locker which was then thrown in a big hole and had cent dumped on top. It was all riding on his performance!!
And then he spoke with my voice.
Oh, shut up!! Im sitting in front of the monitor with my pants down and its at the most exciting part, so cant you wait until this box of tissues is empty!?
You
You! Maxwell!?
Sure. The two behind the door have fallen silent. The unexpected attack has shut down their thought processes.
I could tell my face was filling with bright red heat. I wanted to call this a false accusation, but Id be in trouble if he brought up the folder Id stuck in a hidden drive disguised as his BIOS space!
More importantly, their thought processes will only remain shut down for around 30 seconds at the longest. If you do not act soon, they will recover.
Kh!!
Opening the door to face my step-sisters was not an option now.
That ant the window!
I wanted to get as far away as possible. For more reasons than one!!
By the way, the Class Rep next door should have her window open to view the moon on this clear night now that the storm has passed. That concludes my perfect simulation. Ehehn.
Sorry, forehead glasses Class Rep, but Im dragging you into this!!
I hopped to my feet, threw open the window, stepped back for a running start, and then leaped into the open sky. I wasnt riding a bike with an alien in the basket, but I still flew in front of the moon and right through the open second story window next door.
The black-haired forehead glasses Class Rep was in her pajamas and looked utterly shocked.
Kyahh!!
Nice one, Class Rep! Thats the normal reaction!!
Just 30 seconds ago, I had been trapped with a vampire and zombie only a door away while a parallel processing computer stabbed in the back. After that fantastical situation, the Class Reps normalcy soaked into the core of my being like the first taste of miso soup after returning from an overseas vacation.
Speaking of the Class Rep, she wore pastel-colored pajamas and she adjusted her glasses with a hand as if she could not believe what she was seeing.
S-Satori-kun? Is it just or have your own actions grown a little monstrous of late? You look like you should be wearing a cape and a butterfly mask and calling yourself a gentleman thief.
Heh. Humans are changed by their environnt.
Well, whatever.
As she spoke, the Class Rep shut her thin curtains instead of the window.
And at the sa exact mont, I heard a door burst open in the neighboring house which now ant my own.
O-Onii-chan is gone!? Fuguu!
I wonder what kinds of exciting things Satori-kun was watching. What if it was older girls or blonde big sister types? Kyah!
They apparently couldnt tell I was in the Class Reps room thanks to the shut curtain.
They seed more interested in searching my room than for , but that was fine as long as it bought ti. And there was nothing inside my room I didnt want them to find. Nothing inside it.
So what are you going to do now, Satori-kun?
The Class Rep supposedly had no idea what was going on, and yet she asked that, rummaged through her closet, and pulled out so sneakers.
For so reason, she had chopsticks, a toothbrush, a simple change of clothes, and exercise shoes for at her house. And yet I hadnt slept over at her house since before we moved up to middle school.
Maybe it was a lingering remnant of when my parents were getting divorced. I had escaped to her place a lot back then.
But there shouldnt have been any reason for her to worry about now.
Thanks, Class Rep. I had business outside anyway, so this really-
When I reached for the shoes in relief, the Pajama Class Rep pulled them away so reason.
?
S-sorry. Its not your fault, Satori-kun.
She was muttering about sothing.
Just as I wondered why she was blushing, she confessed the reason.
B-b-b-but I kind of wish you wouldnt loudly proclaim to the entire neighborhood that youre having an exciting ti in front of the computer screen. Th-there are so wet tissues over there. Okay?
Ma-
Maxweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!?
Part 2
It was all just too much.
But anyway, I borrowed the sneakers from the Class Rep and left through her houses front door.
She ca down to see off and her skeptical voice followed out.
Where are you headed this late? The convenience store?
Yeah. More or less.
I gave a dismissive wave and left.
Since the storm had just passed through, the area was damp but fresh. The air was cleaner than normal, so it may have been the perfect ti for a night stroll.
Not that I was in the mood in the slightest.
I spoke to the smartphone in my hand.
Maxwell.
Sure.
Lets get started.
Kukyou City was a strange place.
It was a picturesque sightseeing city surrounded by the sea and the mountains.
But it contained an abnormally high number of disasters, primarily lightning strikes and powerful winds, so it had taken advantage of that to beco a disaster prevention city that made money off of disasters by inviting in multiple institutions researching disaster prevention and protection.
And the city had another face hidden deep underground.
A final testing ground for vampires and zombies.
Those undead and Archenemies were tested to see if they could get along with modern society.
And if they failed, they were executed and disposed of.
A massive network of underground tunnels spread like a spider web below the city and any Archenemy that caused problems was dragged into the darkness by n in black who appeared from the depths of the earth.
It did not matter what the reason was.
They could even be people like Erika or Ayumi who laughed, cried, and attended school like normal.
I had only learned of this by accident.
But now that I knew that those two girls who lived in my house could be taken away at any ti, I couldnt just sit idly by.
They werent the only Archenemies.
And there were other things just as important as those two and I could not let those things be trampled on.
So
Maxwell, give the simulation data.
Sure. I have completed the scenario concerning the destruction of the Japanese Branch of the Bright Cross Disaster Prevention Foundation operating in its underground facility.
The Bright Cross.
That international organization was thought to be peaceful and was well-known enough to have donation boxes next to the registers at national convenience store chains.
I was picking a fight with them.
I have calculated 3448 scenarios for their later reaction, but in none of them do they maintain any influence over Kukyou City. I can promise you they will be fully driven from the city.
So all I can do is drive them from the city? What about the Archenemies outside of Kukyou City?
That is too wide a range for my simulation abilities. Either input different paraters and repeat the calculation or physically expand my system.
So that was all I could manage for the ti being.
I of course couldnt allow the Bright Crosss tyranny to continue anywhere in the world, but if I was going to fight sothing on such a massive scale, I had to start by solidifying my footing here first.
Fight.
That word seed so vague and none of this felt remotely real as I wandered through the dark night.
Maxwell? Where do I need to go?
Sure.
My smartphones map app opened and with a single location pinned on it.
Thats pretty close by.
Just as I thought that and looked up from the screen, I happened to be passing by a convenience store that faintly lit up the regional city night.
Nn.
?
Soone suddenly bowed toward .
Who was it, you ask?
A girl a head shorter than who had wavy blonde hair grown to shoulder length. She wore a baggy white sweater and a chocolate-colored miniskirt. I could see more of her brilliantly white legs than necessary. I wasnt sure that was doing much to protect her. It felt like seeing a dumb soldier holding his shield in the complete wrong direction during a hail of arrows.
She seed to have just left the convenience store. She used both hands to hold a single plastic bag containing whatever she had bought.
To put it simply, she reminded of a small animal.
That impression may have been helped by how her baggy sweater covered her mouth a little and only her fingertips poked out of the sleeves. However, her blonde hair was not the forcibly bleached blonde of a delinquent girl. She was a half-Japanese girl with naturally blonde hair.
Hm? Half-Japanese?
Oh, youre Itou Helen, right?
When I used the na I had rembered, she bowed again.
She was an underclassman at school. She was popular among the 1st years and among the ruder upperclassn who said they liked small girls.
I didnt really know her, but I had helped her out when the guidance counselor was getting after her for having too short a skirt.
I dont look like the type to do sothing so heroic? Needless to say, I only got dragged into it because I was nearby and the true criminals were a few of my mischievous male classmates.
So it was honestly strange I rembered her na and I didnt feel like I had done anything for her.
I was like the boring rchant in the sa party as a hero, a sage, and a magician. In fact, I was more like a villager or a corpse.
Well, not that it matters. So is your house nearby? Just make sure you follow the main roads and walk below the caras, okay?
I tried to give her so upperclassman-y advice as I left.
No. I was just trying to use my position at school to escape since I couldnt find anything to say.
In other words, I was a chicken who was afraid of this little girl.
I was afraid of failing to grasp the distance between us and making it awkward.
It was laughable that I thought I could fight an international foundation for my family.
chan. Itou Helen said sothing quietly. You have the sa scent as my Onii-chan, so I can relax around you.
I couldnt say anything for sure since I didnt know who exactly this Onii-chan was, but had sothing happened? She was in the 1st year, so had she gotten separated from her brother when moving up from middle school?
It was only a small thing like that.
Maybe its because I have a little sister too.
That was all I said.
And I had a big sister too.
Real conversations werent like in dramas. If you werent a good match, the conversation would trail off and create an awkward silence. It looked like the conversation was over, so I waved and started to leave.
You have the sa scent as my Onii-chan.
But Itou Helen said sothing again.
No, the conversation had never ended for her. Had it only seed awkward to ?
So pleasebe careful. But thats alsoa sowhat dangerous scent.
Her point of view was so skewed from mine that this hardly qualified as advice.
But her words did seem to stab into the center of my chest.
Especially as soone about to pick a fight with the Bright Cross.
What kind of person was Itou Helens Onii-chan?
To be honest, I was more interested in her.
Sure. Lets both be careful.
She bowed.
And this ti we really did part ways.
Maxwell.
Sure.
Just to be sure, lets make sure Itou Helen isnt following before I head to the coordinates. Give a route.
Sure. This is a lot like an open world quest, user.
I know. And why am I trying to lose the girl I t on the roadside? Thats not the Amatsu Satori way.
But I was worried over nothing.
Itou Helen did not follow .
I felt embarrassed about my unneeded caution and Maxwell left a targeted comnt.
Reality is cruel. It would seem you have not t a video ga heroine who becos obsessed with you the second you et her.
Well, I suppose this is honestly the real Amatsu Satori way. In fact, Im kind of relieved for the confirmation that Im standing in the real world here!!
But it was true it would have been a problem had she followed .
I called up the map app with its pinned location.
Maxwell, so the location is in the old factory section of the Hirano Ward residential district?
Sure. That area has shrunk in size as the city becos more of a commuter town. So after the owner on paper changed countless tis, they ran off in the night, leaving the rights to the land ambiguous. In other words, the area is poorly managed and difficult to find accurate information on.
I cant believe this. And I built a hidden fort there when I was a kid.
That reminder of the fort under the bridge brought a prickling to a corner of my mind.
But this was no ti to be searching for happy mories.
I had to make for the abandoned factory.
There were environntal standards for residential districts, so the factories had been in the way. History had its winners and losers and one half of that equation appeared as a crumbling moonlit silhouette.
Whether it was debt collectors or scrap tal collectors, the inside was almost entirely stripped of machinery, leaving a giant empty space.
I walked through the dark room with my smartphones backlight and finally found that.
It was sothing no one was able to carry out: a round door like to a bank vault.
These were officially known as tornado shelters installed for free in all the houses and offices of disaster-prone Kukyou City. But I had never seen one of them open.
And I had learned the truth through a certain thod.
The tornado shelter cover story was a lie and the city was actually filled with tunnels used to abduct Archenemies.
They were everywhere and could get in from anywhere.
These doors were inside every ho and office, so there was no shutting them out.
I glanced to a biotric scanning panel and spoke.
Maxwell. How long until youve hacked the system?
I heard a quiet beeping.
Then I heard the complex latch opening with a series of rumbling sounds.
A text bubble appeared on my smartphone.
Sure. That job is already complete.
It opened.
Slowly.
Did this seem to be going too well for an amateur high school boy? It was the opposite. If I took one step outside of the optimal course determined by Maxwells simulations, I would die instantly. It was like losing your life if the needle skipped even slightly on the record. I could not even afford to stumble.
It started here.
The underground facility was vast. Things changed considerably depending on what entrance I used. I was a normal high school boy, but I had repeated the simulation over and over until even that high school boy could strike back at the Bright Cross. I could only continue with this. I would know the facility better than its owners at this point.
(The server, the bats, short circuits, the backup timing, hardware damage.)
I repeated a few terms in my mind.
Now.
Ti to settle things with the Bright Cross.
Or so I thought.
My thoughts ground to a halt.
I ca across sothing unexpected.
However, it was not that I ran across a group wielding machineguns or was attacked by tad Archenemies as soon as I opened the door.
That would have been better.
As a vector, this was 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
There was nothing.
There was no one.
It was only a giant empty space. All of the specialty equipnt and even the lights had been removed, so I wouldnt have been able to see my hand in front of my face without my smartphones backlight.
But there had to be sothing here.
The loathso Bright Cross had to be here!
Whatthe hell?
No. I am unable to find an appropriate answer to your question. This situation was not in the simulation. I strongly recomnd you suspend this task and withdraw.
I ignored Maxwells suggestion and stepped into the long, long tunnel of that subterranean world. And I started running.
It was like being in a school at night.
There was no life there. There were no signs of anyone there.
This was definitely bad. It was entirely unexpected. More than a needle scratch, the entire record player had toppled over. And I could easily die if I set even one foot outside the simulation!
User, I am having trouble maintaining a signal. I cannot guarantee a connection to your device.
Dammit!
The thick disaster-resistant concrete worked against . If the Bright Crosss system had still been active, Maxwell could have secretly used it to boost the signal with their antennae.
If I lost Maxwell now, I was completely out of luck. It was possible I wouldnt even be able to find my way back to the door I had co in through. And it was the only one open.
What do you think happened? Do you think its just that the Bright Cross is all gathered in one spot?
No. I can construct a few theories, but I cannot provide any objective proof for any of them.
But whatever the case, this is not normal. We can assu they had a reason forcing them to do this.
Had an Archenemy like Erika or Ayumi gone berserk inside the facility?
Or had there been a confrontation and split between the ard humans of the Bright Cross?
But it didnt seem like either of those.
There was no damage anywhere. There was no blood splattered anywhere and no scars on the walls or floor.
Everything that had been here had simply vanished.
It was almost like they had predicted one of those more violent fates and skipped town before it happened
No.
Wait.
Did they predict we would be coming here today at this ti?
There is no evidence to suggest that. How that information would have leaked out is also unknown. But it is one of several possible theories.
But why!? If they knew, they could have just laid an ambush for . Or they could have just attacked before I did anything. Using these abduction tunnels of theirs!
No. I have no information leading to a useful answer. But as this has happened, the Bright Cross likely decided this would benefit them or reduce their losses.
It made no sense.
What was the Bright Cross thinking?
There is nothing you can do here. This underground space covers all of Kukyou City, so it is unrealistic for you alone to investigate it all. Will you recruit more help or will you use drone robots instead? Either way, I suggest you prepare so kind of plan.
I had to start all over again.
I had spent so much ti putting together this scenario to destroy the Bright Cross, but it was entirely useless now.
Dammit.
There was one place I wanted to check out.
The cold storage room in the dical lab.
The Level 4 Archenemies should have been kept frozen there, but it was as empty as everything else.
Not only were there no Archenemies, but I saw no sign of freezing equipnt or even a single screw or nail.
The boxy space was so empty it seed to be saying there had never been anything there.
The Bright Cross was not here.
I could not save the Archenemies.
I had never even considered this awful possibility.
User.
One more place.
There may have been no reason for this one.
My motivation was mostly just sentintality.
It was the center of that twisted subterranean world.
Level 4: The Colosseum.
There had never been anything in that vast circular space. Multiple unmanageable Archenemies had been tossed inside and made to kill each other there. And that was why the Bright Cross had had no way of erasing it.
That place alone looked just as it had when I saw it via a certain thod.
I see.
So it really did exist
User, your smartphones battery has dropped below 50%. And the odds of escaping this underground area without the light and my support are below 2%.
Understood. Lets get back.
I didnt want to die pointlessly there. I was just shocked to find there was no one to bring out with .
In addition to the Bright Cross humans and the equipnt they had carried out, there had to have been Archenemies trapped in here too.
And they had been treated just like the supplies and equipnt
Damn, so I guess its back to the drawing board.
Whatever the reason, shouldnt you be delighted that the Bright Cross has left Kukyou City?
Perhaps.
But I didnt want to be soone who was satisfied with this incomplete ending.
I started for the surface under Maxwells guidance. They had probably carefully planned their escape, so I doubted I would find any kind of hint leading to them in this subterranean world.
But they had hid this giant facility from 800,000 people. They had to have spread their roots to the administration, the police, the construction companies that worked underground, the public utilities, the gas company, and the subway.
They had to have left their scent sowhere.
My next step would be figuring out where that was.
With that in mind, I returned to the entrance in the abandoned factory.
And then it arrived.
The heavy bursting sound shook my stomach more than my eardrums and a vortex of light split through the night sky.
Even in my confusion, I quickly realized it was gunpowder exploding.
I briefly thought soone had thrown a bomb at . The Bright Cross would probably go that far.
But I was wrong.
What!? Fireworks!?
Sure. According to the administrative records, Katou Fireworks Production submitted a request for a test firing and their request was approved. But this is too large for a test firing. That was likely a cover story.
Countless fireworks continued to fly up and create colorful rings of sparks in the sky.
Each one created hundreds of thousands of lights and so might have reached the millions.
But what were these fireworks celebrating?
My pulse was pounding and unease filled my chest.
User.
What is it, Maxwell?
I have received so interesting information via a Full Seg broadcast. It is a national broadcast.
I didnt want to watch it.
But I was afraid to throw this out.
Was this what it felt like to be a patient with an ominous shadow on the X-ray?
I breathed in and out.
And I spoke.
Play it on the screen, Maxwell.
Sure.
The smartphone screen imdiately switched to a TV broadcast. A young womans high-pitched voice ca from a national key station.
Archenemy vs. Archenemy! The Colosseum is finally beginning! This new form of gambling has the full approval of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare!! Getting a head start on the rest of the country, its ho ground of Kukyou City is having one hell of a celebration!!
What?
Did she say Colosseum???
Isnt that a terrible scandal sealed away in the darkness below Kukyou City? Isnt that what the giant Bright Cross organization was working so hard to hide!?
What the hell is this?
Why is a sexy host boldly announcing it to the entire country in a brightly-lit studio!?
This is Karen-chan, your host in the bright bunny costu. We were having trouble getting an official casino off the ground, so it ended up as this kind of gambling system instead. Looks like Japans creative spirit hasnt been snuffed out quite yet! Were brimming with the power to create new things and systems! Lets get ahead of the world with an explosion of innovation! And that ans this Colosseum as a new form of entertainnt!!
I was dumbfounded by what I heard from the long-haired host who wore a bunny costu that sparkled with the blue of a rainforest butterfly.
This was probably how Arican families had felt when they saw the news that funny-slling dried plants had been legalized just because the prisons were running out of space.
In short: What the hell is wrong with you!!!???
Maxwell, is this for real? Has the Bright Cross really gone public with their insane Colosseum!?
Sure. I checked the administrative system since they ntioned the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare and this has been officially approved. In addition to the politicians worried about negative opinion polls concerning the idea of publicly run casinos due to the benefits given to bureaucrats in the similar horse racing and lottery systems, a dical group like the Bright Cross would have already had a large pipeline set up with the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. It would not have been difficult to set this up.
And yet
Even so!!
Were talking about televised public executions! Can they really get away with that? How can they!?
The blue bunny girl on the screen seed to answer my obvious question.
Okay, okay. We ensure you that the money from the votes you cast for a winner that is, the gambling tickets you purchase will all be used to cover our managent expenses. And the biggest of those is this! Every Archenemy that takes part will receive a substantial reward for every match they win. The first win nets them 10 million and each consecutive win doubles in value! Of course, theyre free to step down if they feel continuing would be too dangerous. They must fight fiercely and manage their funds wisely! We are rooting that these Archenemies will end up with a comfortable life!!
So thats how theyre presenting it.
Even if an Archenemy collapsed after multiple battles, it would be the greedy contestants responsibility, not the managents. And they had announced the prize money would co from the people who had bet on the loser. This would only increase peoples hate for the undead fighting in front of the caras.
And the Archenemies wouldnt actually be given the option to step down.
If every last one of them kept fighting unto death, the managent would never have to pay a single yen in prize money. And so they would force the Archenemies to do exactly that.
And if a contestant dies during the match, their body is given to the winner. Hm? I wonder what this special rule is for? Well, there will be tons of werewolves and vampires here. Whether its eating them or controlling them, Im sure they have so use for it!
They had even gone the extra mile.
Not only did this increase everyones hatred for the Archenemies being captured and forced to fight, but it also gave an excuse that rid people of any questions about what happened to them afterwards.
The examples might be foreign, but there is precedent for combat tournants that require contestants to sign away any liability if they die! We cant let them outdo us! Look at boxing and professional wrestling bound by all their compliance rules! You cant make anything unique with that! So lets make a tournant with the highest of risks and the highest of returns!! Karen-chan here will be rooting for you!! Doom doom doom too too too!!
This was insane.
Not only was this was being broadcast, but it was a national thing. A hundred million people were watching this and possibly even the entire world thanks to online streaming. Why didnt anyone stop it? Why didnt anyone stand up!?
A small box at the bottom of the screen displayed random ssages sent to the official SNS account.
And they said:
Ohhhh! I havent been this excited in forever!!
So an age of casinos is finally upon us.
We need to feel angry and depressed. But its amusing, so Im still watching without getting involved. lol.
There was no guarantee all of them were being honest.
Peoples personalities often changed between a face-to-face conversation and on a faceless ssage board. And Maxwell had said politicians were supporting this after worryingly negative opinion polls about the possibility of publicly run casinos, so it was possible all of the positive opinions were from hired shills.
But.
Even so.
It was disgusting. It was utterly repugnant. I couldnt accept that people were watching this fight to death in front of their dinner tables just because it was placed in a nice wrapper. And any sense of rejection lted away as they sided with the majority and as they laughed and angrily yelled at the victimized undead without feeling any guilt. That malice made sick to the stomach.
I could barely stay standing, like I was anemic. My vision would have grown dark if I hadnt stayed focused.
But the world didnt care.
Karen spoke from the screen with a smile on her face.
Itou Helen the witch vs. Kuroyama Hinoki the rmaid! Would you look at that! This is looking spectacular from the very first match!
Those words were the last straw.
I recalled the small animal of a girl with wavy shoulder-length blonde hair who I had just recently t at the convenience store. That harmless underclassman had cowered down just from the guidance counselor getting after her for her skirt.
Itou Helen.
She wasan Archenemy?
And she had fallen into the Bright Crosss hands!?
I had only just seen her.
If I had done sothing then, this wouldnt have happened. No, why had she even spoken to when we barely knew each other? Had she noticed the gazes targeting her? She had said I reminded her of her Onii-chan. Had that been a weird illusion brought on by her desire for soone to protect her?
Whether it had been intentional or not, she had sent out an SOS.
And I had rejected it.
So was it my fault this had happened?
The match begins today at 10 oclock. Its an exclusive live broadcast! Whether you prefer a national broadcast, a satellite channel, or a video streaming site, just check out this stations channel there! Ticket sales end 10 minutes in advance! Now, now! Get excited and take part. The Colosseum hopes you will find much excitent, happiness, and riches
[Search Engine] In Front of the Event Site [Absolute NOAH]
This is your confirmation paperwork.
Yes, yes. Just like always.
Now, please co in.
It would help if you went underground and entered using the parking lots industrial elevator.
Ha ha. Is that so? I thought you would be in a frenzy getting everything working under the new system, but its all moving surprisingly smoothly.
So what thod are we using to replace the tunnels? What is Laplace saying?
Oh? A tour bus?
Thats pretty roundabout. A refrigerated truck for transporting fish would be more direct. Youre right. The bus might indeed be more convenient when you need to be able to stop wherever you want. My apologies. And with all the personnel you need to transport on a job, I suppose a tour bus would be best since the soldiers can ride up top while the cargo is held down below. I see.
Yes, Im sorry.
I didnt an to delay you. Please keep up the good work.
Yes, hello?
Im here at the scene. Yes, Itou Helen was just delivered.
A witch and a rmaid. That should make a decent initial impact. And it honestly wouldnt be very pretty to have two filthy guys fighting each other.
Anyway.
Now we can safely restart the Colosseum.
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