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Chapter 9
Chapter 9 : Clear away anything that gets in the way (3)
After I returned to training, there were people who watched me constantly, and I watched them in return. It was never ordinary curiosity.
They did not harm me directly, however. Their passive approach only made me more certain that they were moving under someone’s orders.
And I did not even need to wonder who stood above them.
‘Krevo Waldburg.’
Ẁ е̌b ǹ ō v̄е́l Ĕnu m̂ ā
That damn mustached aristocrat must have been nursing the humiliation I had inflicted on him. He was likely aiming for me in order to tarnish Yuri’s honor for defying his will.
‘If I were him…….’
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So I thought it through again and again. What kind of situation would Krevo want for revenge?
Finding the answer was as easy as breathing.
“Why are those bastards here…….”
“Looks like they came to visit you.”
Ӗn ũ mа̂.ǐ d̈
I kept my composure and turned my gaze toward the direction from which the knife had flown.
In the spot where there had been no one just moments ago, two people stood there, grinning as they looked at us.
“That is right! We came to visit you, Milo!”
“That is right! We came to visit you, Milo!”
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Anyone could tell at a glance that they were twins. But the sight of them, as though a mirror were speaking to itself—movements without the slightest deviation—was beyond what could be explained by mere biological resemblance.
‘Aleto and Vex of House Melkran.’
We b̄ñ оv̈е̂l̇ Е̃ n̆üm̂ а̃
If you did not look closely, it was difficult to distinguish them. Not only their appearances and voices, but also their manner, their atmosphere, even their trivial habits were identical.
The only difference was the position of their beauty marks—one on the left, the other on the right.
‘It leaves a bad taste in my mouth…… personality correction.’
A child was raised in a designed environment, values and behavioral patterns were implanted, and even external features were altered to create an ideal human being. Among nobles who prized decorum, it was a fairly popular practice.
With it, you could produce identical people like them. Of course, cases like this were probably rare. That was not an “ideal human being” by any reasonable definition.
“W-wait! Why me……!”
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From Milo’s perspective, it was an incomprehensible situation. But instead of answering, the two vanished again amid irregularly scattering particles.
It was the same as when they first appeared. Not only were they invisible, there was no smell, no sound, nothing at all. A state closer to the very concept of erasure…….
‘A polymorph module.’
An auxiliary device that altered the user into a state suited for concealment in accordance with the surrounding environment. Unless it was for training purposes, it was not even permitted to be taken out.
“Fuck! What the hell is going on!”
“They want to hurt you and pin it on me.”
Ёǹu m̀ a.іd́
With a polymorph module, they would leave not even a trace for surveillance and tracking devices such as patrol drones.
And since the power had briefly cut out, automatically releasing the lock on the opening mechanism, there would not even be an entry record to find.
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Under Krevo’s orders, they had been watching my every move, waiting for an opening. The moment I came here to see Milo became that opening.
‘No matter why I visited, if something happened to Milo, I would be named as the cause.’
Even knowing that, I came here to give them a pretext. I needed a pretext as well. I knew they were watching me, but if I caused a commotion without grounds, it would only put me at a disadvantage.
Milo was merely caught in it. Still, I felt no remorse. Even if I had not provided them with an excuse, Milo would not have been discharged in one piece.
Еnú m à
“F-fuck, what kind of goddamned situation is this…….”
“If you do not want to see something ugly, get yourself wedged into a corner and stay there.”
I spoke in a commanding tone and adjusted my grip on the knife I had caught. I did not expect Milo to be able to deal with a polymorph module.
It would be fortunate if he was not taken out without ever understanding what happened.
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But I was different. I had what people called a sixth sense, honed by sensory control and instant recall. In a cramped space like this, there was no anomaly I would fail to notice.
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Еn ům̈а̌. i d
Aleto and Vex were scheduled candidates like me. Their Mana Core levels were D, below the candidate average, and their overall training compliance rates were not particularly high either.
Even so, I could not dismiss the Melkran brothers’ evaluation. Scheduled candidates were selected under the instructors’ objective assessments. Inclusion was not something achieved by influence alone.
‘They are coming.’
I sensed it—minute currents pushing through the air, traces mixed into vibrations crawling over my skin.
SCREEE-!
Aleto, who had been concealed, appeared with a sudden strike. The knives collided, letting out a sound like metal scraping nerves. In the next instant, I pivoted off my left foot and twisted my body explosively.
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CRUNCH-.
With a dull resistance, Vex also revealed himself. If my reaction had been even slightly slower, I would have taken a fatal blow. Their seamless pincer attacks kept tightening around me.
“……You are lucky?”
“……You are lucky?”
A polymorph module was not invincible. If one moved too violently, it became difficult to completely erase all traces.
The Melkran brothers dismissed it as luck, but if you detected it a moment earlier, you could still respond.
W еbn̂ о v̇е̇ l Еṅ um̄а
‘Even so, it is still irritating.’
Until right before they struck, even Aleto and Vex could not confirm each other’s positions. And yet they still coordinated their breathing, trying to drive me into a corner.
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That was only possible because personality correction had refined them into a single, shared consciousness.
It felt as though I were facing a human being with four arms and four legs.
“If you are a monkey from the Lower Sector, you should at least have some tricks!”
“If you are a monkey from the Lower Sector, you should at least have some tricks!”
Еn̄ûm̈ӓ .іḋ
Soon, they vanished again, and the resistance I had felt at the edge of my knife and the tips of my feet scattered away.
‘They backed off.’
After one pincer strike, they would hold their breath. That prevented me from narrowing the range of my sixth sense, because I had to brace for an unannounced attack.
When stress accumulated, a person’s senses dulled. They had learned not battle, but hunting.
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I knitted my brows as irritation surged up. Stress was certainly building. However, what was causing it was not the Melkran brothers.
“……Why, why are you looking at me like that?”
Е̌ n̈u ṁ a
“Who knows.”
Prepared to die, I already knew that additional conditions followed the activation of Overclock. And I had been waiting for such a moment.
That was why I had deliberately guided the Melkran brothers’ behavior and staged this situation.
That was precisely why the current circumstance was so difficult to accept.
‘Why is there no response this time?’
The first time I returned to the past, the one who triggered the activation of Overclock was Milo. And the Melkran brothers were more capable than Milo. If I was going to stake my life, these two should have fit the condition far better.
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And yet my Mana Core did not so much as twitch.
“Are you thinking about the mother who abandoned you?”
“Are you thinking about the mother who abandoned you?”
CRUNCH-!
Lost in thought, I failed to respond to the renewed pincer attack as they revealed themselves again. A blow like being struck by a club slammed into me, and I crashed into the wall.
Broken teeth rolled loosely inside my mouth.
Е̂ n ú m а̄.і̊d̆
“Pfft! You were so arrogant, and this is all you are?”
“Pfft! You were so arrogant, and this is all you are?”
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Aleto and Vex stood revealed, openly mocking me with sneers.
“Did you think you were something special? Monkeys have nothing, but they are always so hopeful! That is why you recklessly pop out children by the handful!”
“Did you think you were something special? Monkeys have nothing, but they are always so hopeful! That is why you recklessly pop out children by the handful!”
It was an insulting remark, but it did not particularly bother me. It was contempt I had heard countless times before.
Ĕ ǹ_ûmă
Still, the metallic scent filling my mouth stimulated my nerves, and my irritation reached its peak.
‘There is no need to drag this out anymore.’
Milo’s eyes, when they met mine, were shaking violently. If I went down like this, he would be in danger as well. He knew my earlier words had not been a bluff.
I had no desire to show him mercy. But if something happened to Milo, it would be troublesome for me. If I could not draw out Overclock, then I had no business with the Melkran brothers.
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“Before I kill you, shut those mouths.”
Flinch-.
Е̌nǔm̄ӑ. î d
The Melkran brothers froze for an instant, caught mid-glee. But not long after, they snorted and continued to jeer.
“H-haha! What can you even do?”
“H-haha! What can you even do?”
I had finished thinking about what I could do a long time ago.
“I can do this.”
SWISH-.
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The thrown knife flew toward them, but it missed uselessly. They were not the kind of opponents who would fail to react to such a simple ambush. It did not matter.
“That is all you have…….”
“That is all you have…….”
CRACKLE, ZZZT-.
Because from the beginning, I had been aiming at something else. With an unstable noise, the lights illuminating the room flickered. The knife I had thrown had damaged the fixture.
‘A cooling-type fire extinguisher.’
Еnu ṁ а̇.і d
CRUNCH-!
Next, I struck the compact fire suppression device mounted on the wall. Coolant sprayed out wildly and scattered everywhere.
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Click-.
Then the lights, which had been struggling to spit out a dying afterglow, broke completely, plunging the room into total darkness.
“……W-what is this!”
“……W-what is this!”
E n úm а
As darkness swallowed the room, the night-vision protocol installed in the retina display activated. Even so, nothing appeared. Coolant that had invaded the eyes induced errors in the heat-detection system.
The same applied to the Melkran brothers. Everyone in the room had effectively become blind.
But for me, it was irrelevant.
‘Because I can feel it.’
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My sixth sense alone faithfully caught their traces. In that instant, the hunters became prey, and the initiative of the first strike passed to me.
At the same time, the advantage of personality correction vanished. It was no longer a coordinated pincer attack, but a situation where each had to protect himself.
Е̃ n u mа̃
Once the Melkran brothers split into Aleto and Vex, they were nothing more than ordinary candidates.
“……Ugh!”
I felt a cool impact crushing into someone’s nose. The other one realized my position too late.
“Ghk!”
A strangled groan brushed past my ear with the swing of my elbow. Just as I expected, they were unimpressive.
“T-this cannot be…….”
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“T-this cannot be…….”
Their resistance was fierce, but it still did not compare to before.
Click-.
When the lights finished their self-repair and brightened again, Aleto and Vex were rolling on the floor.
“W-what the fuck…….”
Milo muttered to himself as he saw the unexpected result. Since he had not been able to follow the process, it must have been even harder for him to accept.
Ӗ ň u ḿ ā .і̀ d
Of course, I had no obligation to explain it to him.
“Wait! W-what are you doing?”
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“I am going to make sure this is properly settled.”
Leaving Milo’s urgent question behind, I grabbed the arm of the fallen Aleto and pinned him by stepping on his back.
No—looking again, this one seemed to be Vex.
CREEEAK-.
W̃ е ḃ n о v е l̈ Ê númа
The joint, twisted backward, exceeded its range of motion, and a precarious metallic sound rang out.
“……A-aagh!”
A scream burst from Vex’s mouth at the same time. Synchronization between cyberware and the nervous system was mandatory.
The pain was not much different from a biological body.
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I could not leave things as they were. I would not get a chance like this twice. Only fools left behind future trouble.
“Is it really…… okay to do that?”
Е̂n u m̂а . і̇ď
“There is no reason it cannot be.”
This matter would have started from the vice principal Krevo’s orders. That was why he could not make it an issue. There would be too much he would have to explain.
Thud-.
At that moment, an object fell from Vex’s arms as he struggled.
[Rack-up.]
A small amount of liquid sloshed inside the tube-shaped ampoule with those words printed on its surface.
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‘They prepared thoroughly.’
It was a synthetic drug that was spreading in the Lower Sector in secret—an stimulant that could dramatically raise the level of a Mana Core. It had even been mentioned by Krevo during the previous disciplinary review.
The reason they carried it was obvious. They intended to deal with Milo as planned, then forcibly inject me with the synthetic drug as well, increasing the weight of the accusation.
……Hm. A good idea came to mind.
“W-what…….”
Milo swallowed a dry breath when he saw what I did. A micro-needle protruding from the end of the tube pierced skin and injected the drug.
Еn̊ ů m̀ а́.і̆ d̃
Naturally, I did not inject it into myself.
When the liquid that had sloshed inside the ampoule taken from Vex was reduced to about half, I stabbed it into Aleto as well, in the same way.
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I would accept it if I was called a madman. I knew it was not a rational decision.
“Now, get back up and fight me.”
Even so, the basis for what I had done could be reduced to a single sentence.
If Aleto and Vex took Rack-up, they would grow stronger. And there was only one thing I could gain from that.
W е̌ bṅо v̄ e l̈ Е n̈ um a
[Warning, an abnormal rise in output has been detected.]
At last, my Mana Core began to react.?
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