I Came Back but the World is Still a Fantasy!?
02-15 Things to Remember
The resurrection of the evil god - the split, to be precise - ultimately failed, but was in fact nine-ninths successful.
Because the ritual using the boy, the best possession charge sought by the Order, was a success.
An unaccompanied, all-e ignorant boy in a land where the brains of that evil god are sealed.
I didn't even know that was something that would be excluded from the public,
Let those who have a devotion to a distorted God give their flesh and their lives,
so powerless that he could not even resist where he was at last suspicious,
He had a strong thirst for the underlying power that came with it.
Conditions are in place. Then success is inevitable.
The evil god who dwelt in the boy's body had flesh in the world, as we can see.
Remains an inner soul of a boy protected by otherworldly reason that even evil gods can't handle.
That's the one-centimeter element of uncertainty nobody noticed.
The power of the Evil God, born in Farandia, only fully acts on those of the same world.
Just as man had human limits, God had divine limits.
The small debacle that emerged from it was spread by several sacrifices,
Successfully entrust power to the boy in the action of a Sister's abandonment.
minutes of the evil god who dwelt in the split. After the soul destroyed one peaceful village,
He was killed by the power that dwelt in the soul of an angry, mourning boy.
So the boy figured out those circumstances only after it was all over.
The moment I used up my power to hold her down.
It was all too late.
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'Oh, here comes the emergency alert.
○ △ There were reports of multiple assaults of people with guns in a department store in the city.
Right now, in front of the department store, a joint police and Countermeasures team is assembling...
The man sips coffee watching raw news footage flowing on his device.
A man with glasses in his thirties or so who crushes his time in a coffee shop with no weird philosophy of any kind anywhere.
My hair is black but my eyes behind that lens are creepy red and cloudy.
He laughed invincibly, not surprisingly, before the urgent news.
"You're the same."
The man was surprised for the first time in a long time when an old man's voice arrived from his back seat there.
The real Garest language, not via the translator, was blaming some guy.
I didn't do anything stupid to look back, but squeeze my voice out as I calmed my upset inner mind.
To this extent, it is cancelled by the hustle and bustle in the store, but it is audible to the person.
"... what can I do for you?
I assume this was a matter for me?
"I did delegate it, but I didn't order you to do anything extra"
A grin disappears from him in his voice that makes him feel old but also strong pressure.
In a man's brain, there's an old man with a gray hair, white beard, but a superior officer with a flexible flesh (...).
I tremble unintentionally at the sight of myself staring with sharp eyes.
"I thought it was the scope of the operation. Did you touch it?
"It's not. Just a confirmation. I was wondering if there was a clue to the end.
You're brilliant, but when you greed, you have a bad habit of putting out an extra, dodgy hand. "
"I know. This time the client is good at it.
This time it has nothing to do with us directly in order not to be bad...... ah "
"Hmm... I thought so."
The man is a bitter face to an old man who sighed like he sensed everything in those words.
I was oblivious to keeping the necessary pawns in place in the final place.
"... placed my“ spear ”in the hindsight"
"I'm afraid that's..."
For a moment, I show my gratitude with breath for the words.
Being metaphorically described as a spear is the katana this old man trusts most.
I know the power, but it makes me feel safe, but I also had the trouble of making a loan.
The man who shook his head, for Christ's sake, utters simple questions to distract him or not.
"But why are you two here?
Sure, I heard the spear (it) resides in Kutoria for another job?
"I asked you to come out. Along with receiving the new model and retrieving operational data.
I just decided that this coverage would be convenient to retrieve operational data.
Don't forget it's your fault, get it back yourself later. "
"…… Copy that"
The man who stood up after sighing it out completes his accounting and leaves the store.
When I drank the tea that the old man came out of without ever seeing it off.
A masked man attacked the bank across from the coffee shop and robbed the hardware.
"I hope you're handy."
It was less than five minutes. The old man who finished watching it through the window.
I quietly left the store behind, leaving only a whine that no one could hear.
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The road in front of the department store was immediately sealed off after the incident was discovered,
Still, people are turning back at the police, the Countermeasure Office, and the customers who have fled.
Outside the strewn barricades were also gathered the press and wild horses.
"Captain Kazan!
In the meantime, I'm in a big wagon car parked across the road from the department store.
Without even hearing the stopping voice, a woman in her everyday clothes jumps in and the insider slightly eats.
She knew very well that was the vehicle that would replace the command room at the scene.
Equipment and operator personnel required as a simple command room in the indicated vehicle.
And there was a dependable superior who was the field commander.
"Sakamori... you weren't.
What's wrong, Nakamura? Don't you even have to ask? You were among the guests, weren't you?
At first glance, he leaned from the doubt but immediately guessed.
Otherwise, there's no way this man would stick his neck in an extra case.
Because the roots are good people, if you can see them, sometimes you can get your hands and mouth out as far as you can.
If it's been all this noise, I'm not equipped or ready. I don't get involved with myself being in the way.
He had decided he wasn't that keen on the job in a good way.
"Yes, so what's the situation!?
"Wait, it starts with you. Tell me what you saw and heard."
We've heard from customers who've already escaped.
Everyone has yet to get the guidelines rather than calm, and many have just taken refuge in the noise.
We're making him look inside the building, but he also wanted information about the moment there was a commotion.
"Shh, excuse me. Then..."
At first, I thought I'd hide Sinnyich's actions, but more than just having witnesses.
Makoto explained briefly and concisely what he had seen and heard in turn.
A series of events that followed from the discovery and suppression of groups with guns by Sinichi.
And after he's headed upstairs, it's better to go after ourselves first.
He said he gave priority to letting the child and his deviant mother escape.
I ran into a bunch of fellow killers and thinkers along the way, but Amarillis overtook me.
"Now I'm asking that guy to keep it with Maoji and go away.
Maybe she'll protect you, no matter what. "
"That individual was totally on that boy's side.
You see, that's why I left you behind. "
"Yes, I thought you were going after us, but you were leading us."
"That's a two-car.
Wait a minute, I just got word from the guys who broke into the first floor. "
Focus and listen to the report with your hands on the incense you were wearing on your ear.
There's not much change in the appearance of the strong side, but we've been dating since we walked into the emergency room.
Kiko felt that a less good kind of report had been made.
"............... what happened?
"Perhaps nothing has happened yet.
If it's true, it's not something I can tell you inside me... you hear me?
Kayama opens her mouth with a gentle sigh of sighing at the nodding child without a wandering bare gesture.
I also wanted to hear the judgments and thoughts of a trusted subordinate, although not without problems.
"First of all, they seem to have been hit by you guys on the ground floor. The guys have secured it.
And after exploring it, it turns out there's no one lurking on the ground floor anymore.
They're standing there. They just escaped from the third floor to protect us.
According to a light interview, thanks to the intruding boy, he escaped. "
"Shinichi!
"I guess. But that's it. I'm not among those who have fled.
There are other Garretian girls and their sheltered children who haven't come down. "
In the two brains float a boy who has been taken hostage one more step and is no longer able to move.
Kayama hasn't seen him move directly, but he can barely control his opponent with a gun.
I had decided very well that I had more than a certain amount of strength, which was information from Tsuko.
"Any demands from the killers?
"No, I don't feel like making any contact with them.
All the lines inside have been broken and there's been no response to the call from this one.
And then I close the third floor completely, and I'm willing to let no one in. "
"... closed the third floor? What do you mean, it?
Only that expression is oddly strange compared to the others.
The former two are common in stand-up cage cases.
Sometimes a building with a hierarchy would create a barricade so that it wouldn't come up.
But the boss in front of me never described it as “closed” at one time.
"The elevators are all powered off with stops on the third floor.
And the electromagnets were stretched so that they couldn't get through all the stairs.
And, as a matter of courtesy, if we try to break through with force, we'll do some serious damage to the building.
at an output level that is strong enough to give. "
That indicates that there is no means to reach the floor in question from the inside.
Electromagnetic nets are tools that prevent people and objects from entering with nets made of electricity as if they were words.
mainly from substitutes for general crime prevention levels that cause pain to the extent of static electricity,
Even objects used in prisons and critical facilities with such life-threatening output.
Things like the latter are impossible to break through safely without special equipment.
Fortunately during the unfortunate, the system is visible to be operational.
There are always translucent walls where purple electricity runs, so there are few accidents unless it's too much.
That's why they decided I couldn't break through immediately.
"Where did you get that stuff?!? I don't even have it yet!?
Those guys must have only had a weapon about a pistol!
There is too much technical difference between the weapon and its equipment to be uncomfortable.
Electromagnetic nets are made by Garest technicians with an interest in electricity.
If it's a crime level thing, it's easy to get it, but the output stuff to that point...
It has not yet been deployed in the countermeasure room, where the latest equipment will be turned on a priority basis.
"Yeah, that's a chig hug, but there are other traps for our stopping.
Sensor-type bomb on the outer wall. Is there more aerial lightning on the roof than there is foot treadmill?
You can't fly it in through the window, you can't let the troops down. "
I also thought it was closed. I thought it was planned.
And that is giving the child even more intense discomfort.
There's no demand for a formation that won't let you attack, but the weapon is old-fashioned.
I thought I had planned it beforehand, so I can't see the purpose even though I'm standing in a cage.
If it's only a tendency, but a human offense that has been detrimentally affected by cross-world exchanges.
Garest products are often not used, and they should make their own claims again.
I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do and what the case was.
"Is that it? Then where are the people who have fled from the third floor?
No, in the first place......... how did you get into Shinichi-kun's third floor?
But when I thought about it so much, I wondered why.
If it was closed, he shouldn't have gone to the third floor from the beginning.
"That's it......... thank God it was open when the kid came through.
We're talking about a guy on his way to confirm that an armed man was re-pasting it.
I knew there were still hostages, so I let them just observe... "
"... no way... broke it?
He did.
Kayama laughs bitterly at the face he says so.
"It was originally a defect. I had a malfunction. Artificial manipulation errors.
Is that your opinion first of all? [M] Well, it sure comes the best way. "
Conveniently, when he was on his way, the electromagnet that was where he was headed was broken.
A story that could have been better interpreted as having something to break through than such a coincidence.
But he opened his eyes to the attitude of accepting it lightly.
"... Captain Kayama told you about Shinichi?
"Well.
I just kind of thought you knew how to fight in action. Just a hunch. "
So Kayama shudders if he doesn't know anything.
I remember hearing from people that he was originally an excellent detective.
He asked me to come to the investigation squad, but he wanted a guerrilla squad to undertake the first move.
After years of facing criminals, I guess he saw something different to himself.
Though it is called an inquiry, the inquiry that comes from long experience is not something that could be made of an out-of-the-box fool.
"Than that came the best news at the moment.
From the results of a search for the third floor by a unit that secured the second floor.
When there was a reaction that matched the characteristics with the three children who had missed the escape, it was just... "
"Along with the killer and the squishy reaction,"
She nodded again, too, to her boss, who nodded bitterly.
It is the easiest situation to imagine that this is the case at a time when we are not back.
But with this, even if you get equipment that can break through the electromagnet, you can't move in a detour.
"The trouble is that you don't see the purpose at all.
It seemed like he was willing to stand and cage from the start, but he had no claims or demands.
And with all those tools, weapons are old-fashioned... I don't know what that means. "
"Anti-Garest, anti-social forces are rampant with weapons.
It's not a simple story, this is... "
There is too much difference between those experienced so far and the fullness of the equipment and the actions of the culprits.
I'm even feeling uncomfortable being danced in the palm of some big being.
"But where the hell did all this stuff come from...... no way?
"You think so, too? I think so too.
Otherwise, the overall behavior of this garrest gear (bargain sale) is too puzzling. "
Tsuko blues his face to the possibilities he has come up with.
Kayama and I were thinking about it bitterly distorting it on the strong side.
About the organization that makes it easy for me to get these together as long as I have the money.
"Terrorist Support Organisation 'Unmarked'"
An organization with the name No name and No name to be translated.
It is said that some of Garest's anti-government organizations are the most famous and always behind terrorism.
Few constituents, but rich in funding and high technical skills, as well as the strength of individual combat personnel.
I was just claiming no righteousness. The Lord's activity is support and also has the element of Death Merchant.
It is now rumored that even the planet has grown its power a little by little.
"You mean you've finally reached out to this country, too?
"I don't know, but he won't be inside.
The M.O. is too cluttered for them and the deployment is slow.
I just sold my gear this time............ I'd like to think so "
If we have a real bearer, we may not be able to deal with it on our own.
We both had to look up through the car window with anxious faces and wait for backup.
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The noise caused by the intrusion of unexpected beings was also coming to an end.
The new group doesn't know they drove the boy's plans crazy.
I can't move with the missed timing and more hostages and enemies.
As a result, Shin-ichi had to be quietly taken hostage.
Especially though the rumbling has been going around tight until then.
"Unworldly kid looks great!
"Gu."
"Who's the garbage scum! We're the victims!
"Fuck."
"Do you know what it feels like to be robbed of everything by them!
"Ugh."
poison that was supposed to have been hunted down, unilaterally, and thrown up by everyone.
The first boxer-aspiring man to be the limit of patience is already apart,
Others were tapping to clear their accumulated depression.
With his wrist tied with a rope in his back, he can't even defend it.
"No more! The other guy's a kid! What are you doing, you guys!
A man long enough to see - Dago screams but has no ears to hear.
Everyone was losing me in anger because they made fun of their plight in a dirty way.
The sight was too unrealistic, too much to remember physiological aversion.
The way Dai grownups keep hitting boys they can't resist because they want to.
I didn't think it was sane.
"You need to be quiet now!
"Come on!"
But his words are thrust unacceptably, and he butts on the floor.
I tried to get up aggressively, but I couldn't resist if I was stuck at the muzzle in front of me.
"Hey, is this the only one with the addition?
"Oh, I'm off guard, too.
I can't believe this guy resisted me and got away with it. "
That's what the young man replied to a query from a man in a leadership-like suit.
It was the floor lined with restaurants that another group of people attacked than the Shinichi and the others encountered.
I tried to shut up the guests with my pistol in one hand, but it suited Daigo's unexpected resistance,
By the time I had laid him down with the others, I had let the other guests escape.
"I thought you were an anti-Garest comrade, too, but I miss you"
It doesn't seem too sad, but Daigo puts an uncomfortable face on the familiar words.
"Mita, are you really one of these guys?"
"Oh yeah. You must be a part-timer who went in for a living.
I went to an interview to do something like this. What are we gonna do?
Now you can join your people for the sake of synchronization. "
"Fuckin 'hell! Who!"
A part-time companion who was interviewed at the same time and then often on the same shift.
It was a shock that that was one of those people who could plan something like this.
"Oh scary scary scary. Even if he rots, what kind of a cop aspires?
Nice, great, hehe... "
Everything is regrettable.
I didn't even know you were talking about it.
And I still can't help my friends who keep getting beaten up.
You can't even punch a man in the face who laughs at you.
"Gha!!???
A sudden scream arrives at him who was teething with anger and remorse.
My voice was a man, but it was so pathetic, and for some reason, there was an indefinite voice that hurt this way.
"Gun, gum, punch me!
Who am I, Princess Mazo? What a pleasure. It just hurts!
If I turned my gaze, Sinichi was screaming while shouting for something that I didn't understand.
In front of him, they screamed. His opponent held down his groin and was stuffy.
That alone made me wonder what childhood taming had done. Because of the same sex.
I could see that he made a huge headache.
"Oh, my God!
A giant man barks with more blood on his head after his buddy is hit.
I shake up my arm as an emotion but a few of my buddies came back with a change of blood phase.
Those who somehow acted differently after the rendezvous report to shout out.
"Oh my god! I can't reach you outside! I can't get through my phone!
"This way, too. Even the ext didn't get anywhere!
"All the stairs are blocked with electromagnets, and the elevator won't work!
"Hey, what..."
A stunned look appears on the faces of the killers.
Daigo is also at the disadvantage of anti-Garest ideas and cross-world exchanges where they are.
They had been asked to have gone into such action on the grounds of them.
Probably wanted to turn those claims to the public.
But the means of communication were sealed and he said he could not move from the third floor.
"I can't believe I locked you up after not even listening to this one!!
"You Garest dogs, are you willing to hide and erase your dissatisfied eyes!
They burn unnecessarily angry as they are scattered around things.
In the meantime, the only men in suits approach us as hostages.
"I'm sorry to hear that. Apparently, outside, I've given up your rescue.
I was unwilling to negotiate and locked in instead of stepping in.
Maybe he's willing to blow up every building. "
"Oh, no!?
I hear a girl screaming from behind.
Dago trembles again, too, with her back behind her as she sits on the floor holding her child.
The anxiety in my chest that there is no such thing as common sense.
There's a woman across the street from Sinichi, one of the killer groups, approaching.
I can hear them saying something similar.
"What do you say, this is reality. It's the world today.
A society that throws away those who can't follow you just because you don't need them.
You'll remember that, too. Let's smash it together. "
"What..."
Daigo himself is surprised that his heart was a little distracted.
The man in the suit's voice is infinitely gentle and enters the gap in his chest.
Until now he has hidden his dissatisfaction with the changes in the world.
It is not a good idea to move with a faint emotion, but it cannot be erased.
"I have a lot of plans. It's like this now, but I still have company.
Everyone is as much a victim of interaction as you are. Don't be patient.
Burn your anger, and don't hide your hatred. We're gonna change the world. "
Words that will make you understand that it is,
I remember so much temptation sweet in the words I was looking for somewhere.
That's right. He said it was all Garest's fault that it was painful now.
The voice from within begging you to return the days that were.
"So..."
"─ Yikes!? What are you doing!!
A woman's frustrated voice blocks the last word of invitation.
The woman who was talking to Shinichi as her gaze gathered had her face covered with sleeves.
"What's up?
"This guy's suddenly spitting in my face!
"I just didn't poke my head. Appreciate it, single-celled people"
That's how he was poking around laughing at the solicitation from the killers with his nose.
Only Daigo trembles with a grudge as his surroundings become even more irritated by that attitude.
"A guy blinded by anger and hatred is pathetic in every world.
You told me people were friendly around the corner, trash scum, and you're still gonna be human. "
The venom of vomiting becomes more powerful.
If normal, Ogo should stop childhood taming.
Imitation like oiling an armed opponent with blood on his head is just dangerous.
But more than that, I could tell because it was childhood friendly. My back was drawn to the change in the atmosphere.
Your voice is extremely low. My eyes are dark. He seems to be laughing and he's not laughing.
That can't be stopped by Ogo with evidence of his growing grump.
"You don't seem to know where you stand yet!
"... that's really pathetic. A sheep meant to be a whimpering wolf.
It's bad for sheep, but I don't feel good looking at my old self. Get lost. "
My eyes are cold looking up at the fiercely stuffed killer. And intimidating and vicious.
So much so that we don't know which one is the weaponized killer and which is the hostage.
They don't know if that attitude has traumatized many opponents in the past.
That the boy named 'Nobuichi Nakamura' never lost with those eyes.
"What... I don't understand..."
They tend to get pressured by it.
I'm guessing there's some gaze and voice pressure, but no matter how much you punch him, his eyes won't fade.
That was no longer the only threat and instinctive fear aroused.
Even Daigo, who can't remember being turned around in the past, is afraid.
Their will, directed directly at them, is suddenly frightened and shriveled.
"Shit."
Only Daigo could hear the man in the suit smashing his tongue because of his proximity.
By the time he found something strange, the man was already in his next act.
"That will be enough. I don't have an in-laws to go out with him.
More than that. What are we going to do now, right?
to hold the shoulders of those under barometric pressure and let them switch,
He has a tough gaze at Singh Ichi, who is just laughing and watching it with his mouth.
"Well, I'm sure the guys in the emergency room brace the heights that we can't do anything about it.
Then you just have to show him you're never ready for that. "
But he talks to his buddies in a voice that can also be taken as gentle.
"What, exactly?
"Kill one hostage"
But the killers run upset by the story that was told too lightly.
If you had blood on your head, you might have done it with emotion.
Once Shinichi pressured them, they were calmed down in a way.
"What's up, man?
Yogawa, you just breathed about killing that Garest girl. "
"Oh, no, but... there's only four more of us.
Killing doesn't make sense... "
The directly named giant refuses to go far with the most seemingly utter words in his wolf.
Common sense, morality and conscience, which is normal in a head that once got cold, irritate them.
“Are you sure this was a good idea?" That kind of question is bringing my head.
"There's a way.
He's stopping the body. You can shove him into the elevator and cut the wire.
If it falls, they'll look inside and find out what we're really doing. "
That's a good idea.
It's a good idea, but the women look away visibly and feel ill.
You and the men imagined the sight. He had a blue face.
"Ahhh, you're freaking out.
Hey, Takahiro. I'm gonna let you get away with this. Will you kill this woman?
Lightly Mita turned the pattern to Ogo when she took out a single knife.
I wonder what he's talking about. I doubt the head of a man who was seriously a part-time companion.
It's just uncomfortable to think they think you're going to snort at me for saying that.
"Who would do that!
"Well, you can say no... but what happens to him?
"Become!?
Another man with an automatic small gun shuts up and points the muzzle at Sinichi's head.
Nobody says anything, but I see what that means.
"I don't care about any of this one. Then you choose.
Your friend over there or the woman in Garest who doesn't even know her name. "
"Huh..."
There's no way you can choose that.
But the balance in Daigo leans slightly toward Shin-ichi.
If anyone asks who's the most important of these, that's certainly him.
But that's why there's no way I can kill people.
But if they don't, they'll shoot. Unlike the rest of them.
Even he found that his eyes were incredibly serious.
"Look, good luck"
Somehow they grabbed the knife for taking advantage of the upset.
Ogo accidentally compares the girl behind him with his best friend, but the girl is angry that she's "cowardly,"
Childhood taming shouldn't tell you anything with a strangely calm face.
It's like they told me to leave it to your choices. Extra Daigo gets upset.
"You don't have to worry about it. I thought you said that.
Why did my parents lose their jobs? How could a dream be broken?
Look, it's Garest's fault in front of me. Do it. "
Something about Ogo is annoying when it's like a devil's temptation.
That's right, a snorting voice and a cry to stop.
The knife held on makes me rattle and tremble.
I can't hear Mita laughing funny enough, and I have eyes for the girl.
…………
The girl nodded silently, turning the boy she was holding to her back and meditating her eyes.
Do you want me to stab you? In the urge to scream about not being an idiot, I realize it all the time.
I wondered if this knife would stab the girl in front of me.
I hear the Garretians boast a high status on average.
Then why don't you stab me where I waved the knife with my muscle strength?
Because I know that, this girl... and I thought about it, Dago wanted to beat himself up.
"Huh..."
The girl's body is trembling. They're pointing weapons at me without any equipment.
There's no way I'm not afraid of that, no matter where people are. Still to the girl trying to take it.
I ask myself if I will wave the knife down because I won't get hurt.
But.
"Hurry up, or I'll shoot you over there?
I don't have time to think. But I can't choose between them.
What do I do? It's right what to do. What do you want to do?
I shook up my knife without answering the question that was going to boil my head...
"Dreams are...... you can give up"
─ ─ ─ Somehow it stops with a quiet friend's voice that sounds a lot.
"Hey, you're lying"
"Of course you can keep chasing me"
Shut up and stick the muzzle in front of me, but Sinichi won't respond.
Talk quietly as if there is no such thing anywhere.
"" But don't forget why you admired it. ""
Heavy, heavy, heartbeat that somehow sounds strong on your chest.
You can give up. You can keep chasing me. But don't forget.
What? The first reason I yearned for that dream.
"Me, is..."
Why did you want to be a police officer?
From the inexcusable sense of justice of evil? That's not all.
Because I was confident in strength? It should have been.
Then when and why did you admit it yourself?
"Thank you, Ogo"
"You're so cool."
"I'm sure you'll be able to help everyone, not just me, when you grow up"
Someone's words praised and admired me with a scorching voice.
It made me proud of a large body complex that was different from the others because of it.
Know your big body will help for someone who can't protect you.
What else? That the profession of police officer was just the most likely to do that.
I now remember that it was for that reason and the grin spills.
Then it's not the same as abandoning Shin-ichi here or stabbing a girl.
- What do I have to do?
Replace the knife in your hand with the other hand. faster than what the surroundings say,
He swung down the knife as he hung himself, and there was blood.