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Chapter 10
Chapter 10 : Clear away anything that gets in the way (4)
I steeled myself for death. The conditions accompanying the activation of Overclock were profoundly subjective and vague. For example, my Mana Core had not reacted when I faced Yuri.
That was the part I had overlooked. Anyone knew that the Melkran brothers possessed relatively strong combat power. But they were not enough to demand a resolve that truly wagered one’s life.
‘Because it was a gap I could overcome.’
I knew the blind spot inherent in personality correction. I had subdued them without difficulty, and it had not even required my best effort.
Е̃nūm̊ а̌. і d̃
‘The me who returned to the past is not naïve and weak.’
It was not only now. Even in training, there were plenty of people who struggled just to keep up with the tips of my feet. I recognized that fact clearly now.
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‘The absence of a sense of danger.’
When it came to my fellow candidates, the psychological threshold had dropped to something laughable. That was why my Mana Core had not responded.
So I chose to climb onto the tightrope myself.
“……What the hell did you do?”
Еn ũ m à. ĩd̊
“Exactly what you are seeing.”
CREEEAK, CREEEAK-.
Milo could not hide his bleak expression. Aleto and Vex staggered as they forced themselves upright, and their cyberware emitted noises from misaligned steps.
It was a good sign that the injected Rack-up was faithfully driving their output upward. A tingling sensation climbed along my spine.
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Yes. At last, I could feel a sense of danger.
[Warning, an abnormal rise in output has been detected.]
Ё n̊u mӓ
[Warning, an abnormal rise in output has been detected.]
[Warning, an abnormal rise in output has been detected.]
As Overclock activated, my own output ceiling also kept rising without end. The gravity that had been pressing down on my shoulders collapsed, leaving me with a liberating sensation, as though I had reached an altitude beyond the storm clouds.
I felt fresher than ever. I could feel the dissatisfaction of a craving that training alone had never satisfied finally being soothed.
This was the first time I truly experienced Overclock’s effects. Until now, I had never had the leisure for it.
“I am the older brother. No, am I the younger one? Right, that is it, is it not?”
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“No, you are wrong. I was right. Then are we wrong?”
With their focus gone dull, Aleto and Vex muttered compulsively. They looked like patients suffering from mental trauma. It was a side effect of Rack-up, which was no different from a stimulant.
……And then, suddenly, silence fell. At the same time, their gazes snapped toward Milo in unison.
“……Milo Kenicus?”
“……Milo Kenicus?”
It seemed they had recovered a fragment of their blurred sense of purpose. They had to kill Milo and pin the blame on me.
Еn̆_ū ṁâ. i d
“Hah, what the fuck…… What did I even do so wrong…….”
Milo, as if he had vaguely grasped their intent, backed away.
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CRACK-.
With the sound of something slipping out of place, Aleto and Vex moved toward their prey.
‘They are fast.’
I had dismissed it as cheap medicine produced with technology that was, at best, on the Lower Sector’s level, but the effect was enough to make that thought feel foolish. It was output at least at Level C, the kind that could easily bend steel barehanded.
Е̊ǹ u̇ m̂ а .і d̀
Considering that Aleto and Vex’s Mana Core had originally been Level D, it was astonishing. Growth like that could not be achieved in such a short time. It would take years of effort.
‘Sorry, but the same applies to me.’
I could not suppress the laughter that burst out in an instant. At the same time, my eyes met theirs as they moved to cut off Milo’s breath.
The old me would not have been able to keep up with that speed.
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But now, even my perception of it was different. It did not matter if I moved a step late.
Instinctively, I felt I could handle it, and that was not a mere change in mood.
E n um̂а̌ .і̄d̀
“……Huh?”
“……Huh?”
Aleto and Vex tilted their heads as they stared at me, suddenly appearing to block their path.
CRUNCH-!
A pleasant shock reverberated up from the tip of my foot. I kicked the one in front—Aleto—and he tumbled along with Vex behind him.
“If you pay attention somewhere else, I will feel hurt.”
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GRIP-.
I seized Aleto and Vex by the skull and lifted them. They clutched at my wrists, struggling to break free, but it was pointless.
The Medical Area was a medical facility. You could not expect structures here to have the same durability as a Training Facility.
If I had left them alone, they might have shattered a wall with Milo still pressed against it.
If that happened, a medical android would detect the anomaly and come running……
‘……What does that even matter?’
E̊n u ma. і d
The thought occurred to me. Why did I need to care about that?
As long as I could enjoy this situation without being interrupted, that was enough. All I wanted was to savor this feeling to its fullest.
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Aleto and Vex, thrown aside, bristled with wariness like wild beasts. For the sake of my small wish, those two had to become excellent training material.
“If you have something to say, then say it.”
At that moment, my eyes met Milo’s. I could guess what he was thinking.
“No, you look like you have lost it…….”
En ū m̌ а
“So what?”
Milo, hesitating, could not continue. Lost it?
That idiot could never understand that this made countless things possible—things I could change, things I could accomplish.
“You are going to be an obstacle.”
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Not that I expected him to understand.
“What…….”
Ŵѐ b̃n ŏ v ёl̈ Е̄ n̂.ŭ m̀а̄
“Then I will considerately take care of you.”
THUD-.
Milo collapsed unconscious after a blow to the back of his neck, and I raised my output as I faced Aleto and Vex, who were baring vicious killing intent.
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WHOOSH-.
The pressure wave from Aleto’s fist, sharp yet heavy as it flew in, shoved against my cheek as if scraping it away.
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I slipped my body aside to evade. In that opening, Vex, taking the rear, swung his leg up diagonally.
“Left hand, ah, I am sorry! Again, with the right hand, with the right hand…….”
“Stop, stop eating…… If you eat, then I also, I am full, I feel like I will throw up…….”
As time passed, the Melkran brothers’ incoherent muttering increased. That was quite interesting.
They behaved like beasts that had lost their reason, yet the precision of their pincer attacks—the refinement born from personality correction—still remained.
‘A fight to kill.’
Enūm̀ӓ
They no longer held back. They moved with genuine intent to kill me. Every moment felt like teetering on the edge of death.
I knocked aside the heel that flew in, breaking Vex’s balance. At the same time, using my axis, I spun and kicked as if piercing Aleto’s chest.
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‘……The way of fighting I knew from Knights.’
This was pure hand-to-hand combat. It was not dependent on cowardly tricks or plans, but a contest of skill alone.
Even movements I could not have executed with the lowest level Mana Core were now perfect.
POP-POP-!
Ӗ ǹ u̇ m̈ а̀
A deflected punch scraped away the outer casing of my cyberware, sending sparks flying. The pain that came with it hit like a thrill, stimulating me.
“I have to become excellent. If I am not excellent, there is no meaning.”
“I can do it, so why can you not?”
Everything was a fresh experience. Aleto and Vex groaned and collapsed, yet they kept standing back up.
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Even when they could not reach me, they continued to throw punches and extend their legs.
In the endless battle, a thought surfaced.
Web̆ňо̂v̄ è_l Е̌n̄ u mа̄
I would face far more formidable enemies in the future. What if I could overwhelm such opponents every time?
‘The pleasure born from that would be beyond words.’
I wished this time would last longer. But the liberation and exhilaration evaporated quickly.
Instead, my dissatisfaction deepened, growing even more ravenous.
An artificial awakening through Rack-up, yet the gap between them and me kept widening.
By the time Overclock’s activation had continued long enough for my output to approach Level B, it had already become clear.
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“It is funny, this is funny, no, is this not funny?”
“It is not funny. No, you might think it is funny.”
Aleto and Vex also began to break down rapidly. At some point, the gaze that had been tracking my movements started to slip subtly out of alignment, and the accuracy of their attacks dropped noticeably.
Along with that came a thirst that did not fade even after drinking water, and an unpleasant sensation like a skin disease that kept itching no matter how much you scratched.
“What on earth are you doing?”
CREEEAK, CREEEAK-.
Еn̂ùm ӑ
I caught Aleto’s outstretched fist. No matter how he tried to wrench it free, he could not budge because of the difference in output. I twisted the joint and turned my body.
Above that, Vex’s heel came down. With a dull metallic sound, tension snapped loose.
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Sparks flew from Aleto’s severed arm, and from Vex’s ankle, which had struck the wrong point and twisted away.
“N-no. He made a mistake, I made a mistake? I-I was wrong.”
“I, I did it properly, so please!”
In the end, they became like broken dolls. Their fighting spirit vanished, and they spilled a cringing desperation close to pleading.
Ẁ е b̄ n о̂v̄е̇ l̄ Enu m̂ ӓ
Watching that, I ground my teeth.
“You stupid bastards…….”
The situation was completely over. In that state, they would not be able to charge at me anymore.
But I rejected it.
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“Get up. Right now.”
I stepped toward the powerless Aleto and Vex as I spoke. Yet they only stayed collapsed, shuffling backward. They even reached the point of pushing at each other’s backs.
W̆ е ḃnо̊v ё ľ Е̇ nu m a
GUSH-.
Then blood ran from my eyes, my nose, and my mouth. At the same time, the brain that had been steeped in stimulation began to regain normal thought.
‘……A rebound effect?’
I had a body adapted to the lowest level Mana Core. I did not have the capacity to endure an abrupt rise in output. I simply had not noticed, but the bleeding had been continuing for some time.
THROB-.
When I tried to move, I felt pain as though dozens of needles were piercing my entire body.
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Because I had sustained a fighting style bordering on self-abuse, the biological parts fused with cyberware were also being crushed completely.
‘……What on earth was I doing?’
I asked myself. The obsession I had shown just before was close to madness. Unrestrained desire had tried to swallow me whole.
And soon, I could confirm the cause.
Overclock was an operating method that used the entire body to raise the combustion of Mana to an extreme. The residue left behind by that burned Mana often spread like a heat haze.
And originally, it carried a bluish light.
Ê n ûm̊ā
But what I was seeing now was the opposite: a dark, blood-red glow.
I knew what phenomenon this was. How did I not think of it…….
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“Stop there.”
A voice came from somewhere. Milo? No, that idiot still had not woken up.
Then I saw the forcibly opened doorway. The door had been crushed purely by grip strength, and only now did I realize even that.
“For now, you should get some rest.”
W̃ ë b̄ n о̇v еl̄ Е n u̇ ḿа
With a whisper that brushed past my ear, I managed to recognize the face of the silhouette that appeared—and that was the last thing I saw before my consciousness cut off.
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