＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

Episode Five: Accumulating Tales and Unexpected Reunions

□ [Saint Knight] Ray Sterling

"I see, [Grieving Cow Horse Gozmaize] to [The Great Grifter Gardranda]? Ray's pretty odd too, Kumar. '

"Strange edge, huh?"

Me and Nemesis, my brother, were talking about all this while we had tea at yesterday's sweet parlor that Nemesis wanted.

By the way, I only have tea because the sandwich I just had is still in my stomach.

Nemesis eats normally.

What's wrong with your stomach?

"< UBM > doesn't encounter it in the first place, and even anecdotal bears are powerful enemies. < Infinite Dendrogram > The case of fighting and defeating even though it hasn't been long since you've been in, is a bear without a medium '

That's what my brother says, carrying a honeyed pancake in his mouth.

Stab the fork, of course.

I think it's something you can hold well with that wearing hand, but is it easier than a gatoring gun?

... but the picture surface where the bear is sitting in a chair eating honey pancakes is too fancy.

It would be cute too.

Unless you know the contents are men in their late twenties.

"Me and Lord Figga defeated UBM when I was still in my first lower position."

"Huh?"

"It was just then that I met Lord Figa. Me and that guy happen to be lost fighting two < UBM > on the field... '

"Two!?"

In my head, I imagine fighting [Gardranda] or [Gozmaize] at the same time.

Yeah, no. I'm gonna die.

I defeated both of them, and I still die at my leisure.

"Then work with Mr. Figaro, two on two."

"No."

"Oh well. Mr. Figaro's other members."

'No. Each one of us is going to tie man with < UBM >'

……………………

Uh, what?

"It's hard from where we split the two bodies first, and it's also pretty hard to use your head to defeat them..."

"Wait. That's when my brother was still the first junior."

"Oh."

"What about Mr. Figaro?

"He was also the [fighter] in his first position. He hasn't even reached 50."

"... What about < Embrio >?

"Neither me nor Figaro had the ability to specialize in Giant Killing like your nemesis,"

…………

Maybe it's not something I can say... but how did you win, that?

Besides, I didn't even have cover like I did.

More to the point... when my first brother was in a junior position, right?

That means it's almost the first time any player has defeated < UBM >...

"Ma, this story is gonna be long, so I'll talk to you when I get a chance, Bear."

"Burn it."

Absolutely. I'm going to wonder how you won for a while.

"When we talk about this, the bear will also fall apart from Figaro's ability traits. I don't want to blow it out of my mouth, even if I talk to you, after you realize it yourself, bear. '

"If that's the case, I don't know."

This dueling city is home to Mr. Figaro and the king of the arena, Mr. Figaro, is overflowing with information.

But there is one thing that is decisively missing from that information.

That's Mr. Figaro's.

Mr. Figaro's is believed to be unknown.

Ability, shape and even category are unknown in any way.

The other three giants of the Kingdom of Alter have been found or presumed to be, to some extent, [Destroyer King] 's “Battleship” and [Lady Pope] 's “Night”.

But [Superfighter] - I don't have anything about Mr. Figaro.

I saw Mr. Figaro's battle in the battle footage with PK that Marie showed me too, but I have no idea about Embrio.

If my brother's deceitful story is rooted in the truth about this secret, I'm also convinced that I can't hear it right now.

"I mean, you know my brother."

"We've known each other a long time. Speaking of over four years of dating bears' in this time.

"I see.... Oh, so you also know how Mr. Figaro is being held in solo?

"I know. But I can't tell you because you're finally private."

"Oh well. Well, that's okay."

That's probably why Mr. Figaro didn't participate in the war by saying, "I don't want to have a cluttered fight".

However, if that strong solo policy concerns Mr Figaro's own circumstances, there is no choice.

"But Kumanisan seems to have a very wide face. That Figaro is like a friend."

"I've been playing for a long time."

"... I was going to ask you, how long is my brother spending over here all day?

An unearned neonite brother has as much time as it takes.

"No, no, I'm still doing this healthy Kumar"

"What is Healthy"

"Three meals, a bath, a toilet and an hour of training to keep proportions (muscles) are essential over there, Bear."

"Paradoxically, you mean this way all but that!

Abandoned! He's an unusual loser!

"Ma, there's only one thing I want to do here right now, so I can't help it."

"I just wish I was in love because I have time and money."

My mother wants to see my grandson's face.

Me? I'm just a student and early.

My sister... that guy is, well, yeah.

In the end I think my brother is closest to getting married...... I guess we're still ahead of us for this minute.

◇

It had been about an hour while I was talking about that as my brother.

"Then I have a little bit to stop by, so now you'll excuse me Kumar."

"Oh, okay. See you at the venue."

"Response. Looking forward to meeting Ray's people, Kumar."

That said, my brother left the store.

They put a little more money on the table.

I won the prize money, so this time I tried to get out, but my brother ended up putting me out by saying, 'This is Kumar who looks me up'. I appreciate it here.

It should be noted, as a matter of course, that 90% of the cost is for the food of Nemesis.

It's really troublesome to eat more.

Even though it's the same name as Heavenly Punishment God, what you're doing is one big sin bulimia or something......

"No, that's not true, Ray."

"What's the difference?"

"A bulimia is eating and wasting food on darkless arrow cod. But I taste, enjoy, and turn it all into flesh. So this isn't a bulimia, it's a gastronomy!

"I see, then that's good. But let me tell you one thing."

"Something."

"How much weight would you gain if you had turned it all into flesh?"

I'm not even talking about weight or making it a girl.

That's the level of concern you're gonna get from watching.

"Huh, don't worry. I'm Embrio, right? I don't change my shape or weight sooner."

"Sodeska, awesome"

"Bar reading!?"

The form changes are so different in shape and weight.

"But when it does, are we all eating big?

"Hang on. That's why it's no good. I'm not. Nemesis is only Nemesis. I don't care if it's spelled like that."

"Really?"

In retrospect, other babies were unusually spicy, but the amount of food they ate was normal.

That blasphemous taste still seems more decent than this diet.

"... what!?"

"No!?"

"Yay."

Soon, there was a white girl sitting next to us - Cuco (Coquitos), Hugo's Embrio.

"It's terrible that Nemesis stuck it up. I am the 5th of them, Muri. Momogu."

She had a taste of bright white rare cheesecake, talking in low tension bar readings, just as she had seen her before.

They've been in the store for a long time.

I couldn't notice it at all, even though it looked bright white and noticeable. Was that all I was distracted by my brother and nemesis meals?

"It's mundane. When I screw around, I have a" Let's Play "skill. If you're a regular, you can do the same."

"Why were you erasing signs?

"It was awkward, wasn't it?

"Surprised, though."

Answering that, she began to taste the rare cheesecake again with a "mmm" and satisfying look.

... Huh? Did you just want to surprise me?

"Still unreadable."

Totally.

Her character has yet to be grasped, although she is one of those people who fought the Gods Maze Bandits together.

And yes.

"Cuco. Isn't Hugo with you?

"It's time to come. That's why I was looking back. Then I'll come back because I've had enough."

"I've been looking for you." I wonder, "What have you been looking for?" When I tried to ask.

The store door opened and rang the bell of the visit.

Coming in through the door was one man in a familiar military uniform rider suit.

"Hey, Ray. Do I have to thank God and you for being able to see me safely again today?

As usual, a disturbed man who was daunting and playful - the figure of Hugo Receps was there.

... I don't know, we meet again a lot today.

◇

It was time for the store to come in, and we decided to use one table with Hugo and Cuco.

If you look in the store, the fuller the store becomes, the more exotic people can be scattered.

"Yum! It's a really tasty sweet store, as the wiki said. Yikes!

"... Io, honey, voice, loud"

"Peach Tart, 80 points. Shortcake, 76 points. Rare Cheesecake...... 95 points"

From the table behind me, you can hear the young woman's fornicating voice.

"Oh, I have this to take home with me. I wonder if this is a souvenir for Dreamroad-kun and Karl. Even an organism keeps a highly conservative item box. Alberto... let's make it something other than food"

At the table next to the left, a turban-wrapped Arabic noted something.

Others, such as a bunch of boneless men dressed in the leather armor of the beast, a girl in a pirate hat and a pirate bandana matchomen surrounding it, are kind of wider in the customer base than they were yesterday.

I guess it's people from elsewhere to watch tonight's event.

And I guess I've come to taste the sweets here, including the faces that don't seem to fit the atmosphere of the store, more than I am in this store.

"... it was a popular place here."

"Oh, Tian and I have a reputation for the sweets here."

"Rachizuki, Yoguru Tosu, Soufu Riku, and Rishi"

Hugo and Cuco seem satisfied too. I think Cuco only eats some white stuff though.

Oh, yeah.

I have to tell you about it because I was able to reunite with Hugo around the corner.

I told Hugo that the Ghozmaids Bandits bounty was as much as 80 million lil.

"... I didn't know the prize money for the Gozmaids Bandits was going to be like that. I was surprised by the boulder."

"So what about the distribution?"

"As I wrote in yesterday's letter, I resign,... but Ray doesn't seem convinced by that"

"Naturally."

Such a large sum of money, if I alone, puts a hole in my stomach.

"Let's make it half."

"... No, I don't mind half of that. You're resigned once, so much so that you still have too many."

"Really?

Instead, if it's in the name of the Gods Mays Bandits, I only defeated Mays, so I want Hugo to take more.

"... Ray has no greed. Even if you didn't declare me stupid and honest, you would have misled me as much as you wanted."

"What am I supposed to do with lying to my people?"

…………

When I said that, Hugo lay his eyes down for some reason.

Is something wrong?

"Oh, and it's at the Knights' Stuff."

I will also tell you that I donated the treasures I left behind from the Gods Mays Bandits without saying no to Hugo.

"I don't mind that either. I would have made the same choice."

"Oh well."

I feel a little relieved.

Turns out me and Hugo think alike.

"Oh, you two look alike."

They're both Maiden's.

I'll finish talking about the money first, and I'll hand in Hugo's payout.

Now I'm glad I didn't get sucked by [bandits] or something......

... There are no [bandits] in the store, are there?

"20 million lil, I did receive it. And it's a lot of money. I'll make up for all the [Marshall II] I lost yesterday."

"Heh... by the way, how much is that?

"10 million lil a car"

"Yikes!?"

Was that such a luxury item!?

"With tunes and optional gear, it's a little over 20 million lil."

That's what Hugo said. He refers to the item box that just cost him 20 million lil.

At the same time, I felt that my eyes were complaining, "Don't think about giving me more money because the damage to Magingear is not a necessary expense."

"It's expensive equipment for how many minutes. Besides, this price is our clan… Cost selling price for members of. Double in regular sales of drife. In terms of the terminal price in case of being sidelined by Cardina, we could do another two or three times."

... should I be surprised at 10 million at cost?

Should I be surprised at the rise in the end price?

"This high cost is the biggest drawback of [Marshall II]...... It has subdragon-class combat power, but if you buy that subdragon as a Tame Monster too, it's about 3 million, which makes a lot of difference in terms of cost."

That's how much Aaron costs.

Shall I buy one set with a dragon car too... but there is also silver and don't you need it?

"Best of all, there are advantages to it. Unlike Tame Monsters, they don't eat capacity, and even have the ingredients and money to increase production at all costs."

The subdragon class is for one senior position and one junior position party.

I knew you could make as much of that as you wanted. It costs a lot.

"A creature, a monster, can't increase with materials and gold."

"... right"

"I was just saying, are you even selling it in Cardina?

"Oh, because that country imports and sells specialties from different countries, and“ what the country doesn't export ”for some reason. Drife's, Gran Baroa ships, Alter's Drops, Heaven and Earth weapons, Yellow River and Legendary magic items.“ As long as you have gold, you can buy any country's specialties. "That's what's so special about that country. Plus, you can buy your identity for gold."

"It's again"

Money is a country in this world.

"The problem is that high end players who got a lot of lil migrated because of it... they also have the biggest number of"

Hugo shrugged at how it included some troubles.

"How many are the most?

"Nine < Super (Superior) >. That's the country's greatest power."

"... a lot of them"

There are four of us in Alter Kingdom. That's more than double.

Speaking of which, in the previous war, Drife...

"Although he prevailed over Alter in the war, Cardina invaded Drife's territory shortly afterwards. The need arose to pull Super off the front line in defense. That's why I haven't packed Alter Kingdom to the end."

Thanks to you, the kingdom has not yet perished even in the last war, which lacked everyone.

Though there was not enough leeway left to return the border line altered by the invasion of Drife.

"I acted big with the intention of winning to the end and the result. Prime Minister Vigoma, who runs Drife's internal affairs, said he had his head. By the way, there's only one more time Drife can dance that reward to the Master. More than that, the economy will collapse."

Can I tell you something?

"As far as I'm concerned... I know even those who are just one of the < masters > to whom I belong, and it's an internal circumstance that is often written on bulletin boards. There's no problem."

"Is that what this is?"

"Whatever it is, if Drife is to win the war, he needs to occupy the Kingdom of Alter sooner than he can be intervened by Cardina... get it by means that do not rely on war, such as annexation by harmony"

I see.

Well, it's tough as a kingdom with significantly reduced national power to wage prolonged wars.

Happy or unhappy, Cardina's presence is the stopper.

... I thought it was a troublesome country in the case of the Gozmaids Bandits.

"Oh, by the way, the reason Legendary, an ally of the Kingdom of Alter, didn't participate in the war ahead is also Cardina. The Drife border north of the Kingdom of Alter is far from Legendary, which lies to the south of the Kingdom of Alter. However, it is extremely close to Cardina, which covers the desert zone in the centre of the continent. If you send Tian from Super or Super to support you, Cardina will drop Legendary in that gap. That country intervened in Dreiffe to prevent Dreiffe from annexing the Kingdom of Alter and gaining momentum towards continental unity, but apart from that, that country is also aimed at continental unity"

Do you have ambitions for Cardina as well as Drife?

That's pretty messy, < Infinite Dendrogram >.

"The only reason Cardina as it stands doesn't invade anything but the country that showed the gap is because that country is located in the middle of the continent"

That's a geographic story.

If you look at this continent, which houses six countries, except the maritime state Gran Baroa, on a map, you can divide it as if it were a French or Italian flag.

On the left are the three western countries. Overlapping like hamburgers, from the north, the Empire of Drife, the Kingdom of Alter and Legendary.

The centre is the Union of Urban States Cardina.

On the right are the Yellow River Empire and Heaven and Earth.

Within this, the central Cardina borders all but the most easterly heavens and earth.

"Drife of the West, Kingdom of Alter, Legendary, Yellow River Empire of the East. And grambaroa at sea. I'm surrounded. If we focus on attacking somewhere, other countries will shred Cardina's territory. There are plenty of reasons to attack."

"If we get up there, we don't get up here."

I am in an adhesive state.

And it's the war between Alter and Drife, which is temporarily in a state of truce, that's going to make the situation a moving cut.

"... even now, are you all right with the way you're dressed?

"What is an outfit?

"'Cause that's not Drife's uniform or something?

Hugo's outfit is the same as yesterday, like a pair of military uniforms and a rider suit.

Given Hugo's affiliation, there's no need to think about which country's military uniform it is.

Then I guess it's not a good idea to wear it in this country.

"No, this is not Drife's controlled gear"

"Oh, you don't"

"Oh, this is a pilot suit for the Demon Armor Grand Marshall."

"Seriously, Gura... what?

"The Grand Marshall of the Devil's Armor."

Title like robot animation......

"Were you broadcasting that animation?

Maybe an overseas cartoon given that Hugo is French......

"Not Anime"

"Special?"

"No, it's a comic strip drawn by a [painter (painter)] belonging to our clan"

"... over here?

"Here."

According to Hugo, it was the following flow:

After bitterness, Hugo's clan developed [Marshall II], the first battle robot type.

He was very enthusiastic about completing the robot cartoon because it was originally a facade gathered for the purpose of "building a human battle robot".

In the wake of this fever, they continue to develop robots, but at the same time another fire was lit.

At one point, I drew up an excellent illustration of [Marshall II] using the skills of [painter] retained by members belonging to the clan.

Then the other members drew comics.

There were also those who wrote novels and made 3D models out to members who couldn't paint, and in what changed, some produced theme songs and BGMs.

It continued to chain with the increase in clan membership and gradually became a major creation.

Originally a gathering of robotic animation lovers.

[Marshall II] Geek fever heated up in the inner circle against the subject matter to develop various creations, and now they have space within their home base dedicated to the display of their creations.

They said some of those creations were costumes mimicking pilot suits worn by pilots in comic book works, that is, clothes that Hugo was wearing now.

"I mean, constant cosplay."

"Sometimes the performance is impeccable just because a leading production job has been created, and the uniform is handled by the [pilot] belonging to the < Triangle of Wisdom >. I'm only talking about the inner circle, so it's not known externally, so I don't have a problem wearing it in this country."

"Performance is fine."

"That doesn't exactly extend to MVP benefits, but as a handmade item, it would probably be the finest category in the wearable level range"

Not so much.

How much enthusiasm is put into that costume.

Because humans are things that don't stop when you elaborate on what you like......

"Hugo was also a robot lover and entered that clan, the Triangle of Wisdom?

"... no. My mouth went into the clan because I knew the owner of the clan. Instead of that, he invited me into < Infinite Dendrogram >."

"Heh."

That's what I heard somewhere.

My brother invited me to start in Alter Kingdom.

"Well, there are a few things I'd like to ask you, too. I especially want to hear about yesterday's fight against [Grievance Cow Horse Gozmaize]"

"Oh, that's good. After Hugo and the others took the children out, me and Nemesis..."

Then Hugo and I will exchange information and talk to the public.

"And it's time."

If I noticed, the event was just an hour away from the start time.

Uh, you don't have time to shop at Mr. Alejandro's today. Let's do it tomorrow.

Can I help you?

"Oh, I got tickets for the event. It sounds like Mr. Figaro and Mr. Yellow River's Xuan Yu are a super game in the Central Arena, you know?

"I know. Instead, that's what most of the other countries in this city are looking for."

"Hugo to watch that, too?

"... that's the place"

"Well, maybe I'll see you at the venue."

…………

When I said that, Hugo seemed to have something in mind.

Did I say something weird?

"Ray, this is something I want you to remember in the corner of your head."

Hugo separates the one-breath minute words there,

"My destiny is west."

That's what I said.

"... fate?

My destiny is west... what are you talking about?

"... that's not a big deal. See, in the Central Arena game, players would enter from the west and east, right? So today's fate means [Superfighter] Figaro entering from the west"

"Is that how you get in? I haven't watched a game yet, so I didn't know."

But I wonder why.

That explanation of Hugo sounded like he had misled something.

"I'm going to the venue now."

"Oh, okay. Me and Cuco will be moving around in a little while."

"Oh well. Then it's time to say goodbye here. Oh, you want to register your friend?

When you have something to look for again, you should at least know if you are logged in or not.

"... let's stop now. Next... next time we see each other"

"Huh. Well, nothing."

I'm going to see you again because there's going to be some connection.

"I'll see you later, Ray,"

"Shi-yu, give it to me, Nemesis"

"Oh, see you later, Hugo"

"Um, Cuco, sooner or later!

◇ ◆

"Hey, Hugo. You could have said that?

…………

"Isn't this just a little"?

"I think so."

"Hugo doesn't like" Kake ”?

"... I wonder. To be honest...... I don't know myself"

"Don't you get it?

"Of course I want to fulfill" that guy "s wishes. Otherwise there's no point in me being a Hugo. but as unmissable as that is the misfortune of a woman"

"How about Ritsuya?"

"Two-law transgression...... maybe so. That's why I gave Ray the information. That's all. Later, I don't know if he's willing to take it as just part of the public discourse. In the plan, I just... move along the plan."

"Well, I'm good for Hugo."

"... thanks"

To be continued