＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

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Electronic sounds rang from the machine that was placed in the corner of the room.

One woman heard the sound...... [Bandit King] Zeta is listening.

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The machine is what she kept from the king.

When a pair of switches are pressed, either of the two types of electronic sounds will sound depending on the switches pressed. That's all simple machines.

To be precise, that's the only thing I can do as a result of putting a specific weight on long-range actuation and jamming measures. I can't even have a long distance conversation.

But if you think about the use of the machine, you can just ring.

Because this is a machine that can only reward the breakdown of negotiations with the Kingdom or the suspension of operations.

And now it rang... the sound of announcing a negotiated breakdown.

Something to announce the transition from Plan A, which was peaceful and spicy, to a tougher Plan B.

"Too bad. I guess my request didn't go through that this rang"

The Empire's initial proposal for a second condition is what Zeta wanted.

Seeking to liberate [King of Crimes] Zex Wurfel (and then Gabella), the owner of < IF >, who was imprisoned in “prison”.

But that when the kingdom refused me or when the negotiations broke down, as this one did, I told him that it didn't have to come true.

If it had come true, Zeta would have cooperated in the operation against Cardina, but if not, Zeta thinks that's fine.

Later, then, work for the kingdom that has already received consideration… only to fulfill her first and last work in the Empire.

"Fine, and decisive. Let's do my job."

That's what Zeta said, took out [Jewel]... and crushed it.

From the crushed [jewel] the dust of light rises... takes the form of a person.

It wasn't just one person, it was four shadows.

"Demonstration. Let me show you that power in action"

That is what Zeta tells those who brought him into [Jewel] secretly unto this king's capital.

"Expectations. As I already told you to do. And then with you... I look forward to the skill of La Crima, who has done you."

Three of the four laugh at the words.

I just laugh at the opportunity to test my powers.

But only one person didn't laugh...... he had a gaze at the giant royal castle seen from outside the window.

"- Are you there?

With a vain eye...... but burning a strong will behind it.

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□ Wangdu Althea, Royal Castle and Rose Garden

The royal castle, which stands in the heart of the king's capital Althea, was built during the reign of the first Azrites, the founding king, and is still in use.

It was the work of a carpenter superposition [Great Chief Carpenter] who was a companion of the founding king at the time, and there are several tricks inside.

Those tricks are not just for crime prevention, they are also many for habitation.

The best looking of these would be the rose garden in the indoor courtyard (...).

Reflecting the light of the day on the outside of the castle, it is delivered indoors, producing a rose garden with brightness and warmth near the centre of the castle but no different from the outside.

Since the days of the Founding King, royalty has become accustomed to having tea parties with those close to him in this rose garden.

But such a rose garden and few visitors except the gardener of care after the death of Eldor Zeo Alter, his predecessor.

But today, for the first time in a long time, the Royal Hope is holding a tea party.

The face of the tea party was odd.

"Ooh. Tsang's toy is very familiar."

"Yes, this is the tea I brought from the Yellow River, but I thought it would be just fine because there was still something unopened"

It is Elizabeth, the second princess of the kingdom, the organizer of the Tea Party, who leaks such thoughts by drinking yellow river tea placed in a white magnetic teacup.

Tsanrong, the third prince of the Yellow River, responded to her on the same table as her like that, smiling.

Yes, the Tea Party of the Day was held with Elizabeth inviting her own fiancée, Tsanron.

And these two aren't the only participants.

"... why is this popcorn lining up for the tea party, Da?

Leaning his neck, eating popcorn made by some bear is Tsanron's escort, Xunyu. (Told TPO that Tenaga Asinaga was removed)

"You know what! Dude, the bear that was in town gave it to me!

That's what I said with a smile, Teng himself, who brought in popcorn.

He is Migliane, sister of Liliana Grandria, Deputy Commander of the Kingsguard Knights.

She had snuck into the royal castle as usual and was found by her friend, Elizabeth, and had been invited to a tea party because it was a corner.

Popcorn was offered as a thank you for the invitation.

"I was right in the item box!

It should be noted that my sister, Liliana, had been entrusted with the protection of this tea party, but was terribly surprised by the presence of her own sister, 'Why that child...', and was harrassed to see if she could do anything about it.

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Elizabeth, Tsanron, Xun Yu, Migliane and a very low average age tea party...... there are two more participants.

To be precise, I should say one and all.

"... yummy. I wonder if this is Shu's treat."

"Daw."

It was Elizabeth's sister and the third princess of the kingdom who said so...... Theresia.

She's not a chair, she's a giant hamster...... sitting on a doe.

Teresia had also been invited to a tea party by Elizabeth.

"Teresia, try the granny that Tsang brought me!

"Yes. Thank you, Elizabeth. I'll take it."

That's how we're sisters, friendly, lined up for tea.

Or... inviting Teresia might have been the point of this tea party.

(………… His Highness Elizabeth)

Seeing the Elizabetes having a tea party looking fun, Liliana remembers yesterday.

On that day, when he withheld Ultimate's departure for the harmonious meeting the following day, Elizabeth had told Ultimate that she would 'daughter-in-law to Tsanron'.

From that festival of love fights in Gideon, it was the conclusion she kept thinking about.

(I'm sure this will be... Elizabeth's last tea party in the kingdom)

After today's harmonious meeting, Elizabeth enters the Yellow River as Tsanron returns if nothing happens.

Even when harmony is reached, the times are still in a vortex of unrest, and that remains the same.

If you marry the Yellow River, it's hard to come back to the kingdom.

That's why he finally invited his sister, Teresia, to a tea party.

To have one last tea party with a sick sister who doesn't know how long she'll live.

To show my sister what a fiancée I will marry.

To show you how much fun it is to spend with him and teach you that 'I'm okay'.

Thinking of Elizabeth's heart, Liliana had tears seeping into her eyes.

"Daw, Daw"

At that time, somewhere deliberate...... specifically, Doe rang in 'It's like he's really forced to imitate animal ringing even though he can speak fluently'.

"Daw?... Oh, you do"

"Theresia? What's wrong?

"... it's time for your medicine, but I think I left it in your room. I'm gonna go get some."

"Why don't you just ask the maid to pick it up? - Ka?

"Because it's an important medicine, I'm the one who's putting the key to it. I'll be right back."

When Theresia said so, Doe, who had her on board, stood on four legs and walked outside Tokotoko and Rose Garden.

Xun Yu shrugs as he drops off that back.

"... Hey, I've been wondering, Sa. Why is the pet of a sick princess a hamster...... a rat, yo? That's crazy, Lo."

For the sick, rat animals are a danger that can become carriers of germs.

Well, Doe is a size that can be described as a rat animal.

"Who brought you here in the first place, Da? There's something more to offer as a pet, Ro. It's like your dragon."

Elizabeth has been offered a pure dragon by Count Gideon to escort her after Franklin's incident.

Although the priors used to escape were now supposed to be managed by the knights of the escort around.

"I don't know who followed Doe. I've been by Theresia for some time."

"... what?

Elizabeth's answer further deepened the question of Xun Yu.

"Does that... mean that monster was sneaking in beside Princess Teresia, who was in the royal castle?

"We said, 'That's what Theresia would do.... I'm sure he's here to protect her,' he said, making her a Teresian pet."

Xun Yu and Tsang Long think about the answer to Tsang Long's unleashed question.

Think of what the word 'Theresia would do that' of the predecessor means... but there was no answer.

Faced with a mystery, some pressing air flows between the two of the Yellow River......

"But Daw is cute!

But such air loosened with a word of Migliane who had no shards of such doubt

"Uhm."

"... well, it's the way the kids seem to like it, Na"

"Isn't he a child, too?

The question was first on the shelf that way, and they resumed their tea party.

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A few minutes after Teresia took her seat, there was someone to speak to Liliana.

That was Sir Lindos, a member of the Kingsguard Knights responsible for protection as well.

"Sir Grandlia"

"Sir Lindos, what is it?

"Trouble at the front gate. Apparently, someone showed up trying to enter the castle without permission."

"Huh? But then why don't we just get confirmation and let him leave?

"The person is the problem. According to the Gatekeeper's story, he showed up at the main entrance..."

Sir Lindos named a certain person, and Liliana was surprised by it.

"In person, is it?

"We need that confirmation. Among our Kingsguard Knights, your lord sees that battle that took place a few years ago"

Liliana was convinced by the words and found out she needed to go to the main entrance for confirmation.

"His Highness Elizabeth, His Highness Tsanron. I'm sorry, sir, but we're going to have to change our guards a little bit."

"I see."

"Sir Lindos, please guard the rose garden instead. Mr. Xunyu, if anything happens to you, please."

"I understand."

"I'm Tsang's escort. With that fiancée on the set...... and then I'll protect about your sister sa"

"... thank you. Migliane, don't bother me, okay?

"Okay -!

That's how Liliana left Rose Garden and headed to the main entrance.

The identity of those who are visiting there, etc. cannot be inferred either......

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What Liliana saw under her eyes on the hallway with the main entrance visible from the indoors was with the gatekeepers looking in trouble somewhere...... three men heading for it.

All three of them wear robes like magicians wear, hoods on their heads.

All I can say is suspicious as an outfit.

But one of the things that caught my eye was the leading old man.

He wore a red robe and stretched out his beard… a man of such flair as a skilled magician.

The person is clearly different from the aura that wraps up with the two behind him......

"That one... really?

Liliana knew that face.

Because four years ago, he competed with [the Great Sage], a heavy town in the kingdom, for his magical arm.

"Fuel...... Raspburn Master"

[King of Fire, King of Blades] Fuel Rasburn.

He is one of the leading tians Azrite was looking for and the landlord of fire attribute magic.

And he's the one who was supposed to be missing.

Liliana has already heard about that.

But I wondered why he appeared before this king's capital… it also appeared before the royal castle.

"Um, Master Fuel Rasburn? What can I do for you…?

The gatekeeper, who apparently knew Raspburn's face, asked.

But Raspburn hasn't seen him.

But its mouth is moggy and moving......

"... where?

"Huh?"

"[Great Sage (...)] is (...)... where (...)?"

Neither the Gatekeeper, nor Liliana, understood what he was saying.

Because the [Great Sage] he searches for is dead in the war ahead.

That should be known all over the country.

"Um, Dear [Great Sage]..."

"He should be here. If he's not there... he should come.... wolfsmoke, are you there?

A talking gatekeeper tried to mention that to Rasburn, but he just whines as if he can't hear the voice.

The gatekeeper sends a gaze at what to do to a colleague standing beside him, but the colleague was also worried about how to respond.

So the only person who knew the most correct response on the spot was Liliana, who was watching from above.

"- Avoid it!!"

faster than the gatekeepers react to Liliana's voice,

"Let's get some wolf smoke... up"

From Raspburn's back (...), two arms grew (...).

Shortly afterwards, [Flaming King] Fuel Rasburn undergoes further transformation.

The meat rises from the inside of the skin, the volume swells and its silhouette changes dramatically.

Growing distorted arms from their backs, they don't look like old men...... huge into bodies that don't look like humans.

Skin turns red like burning flames.

And he says to the gatekeeper - to the castle gate behind it, with four arms in his face.

"- Crimson Sphere"

Moments later, four giant fireballs were released from the hands of things that were Raspburn.

The fireball instantly swallows and evaporates the two gatekeepers, while striking straight at the castle gate.

Fireballs were far more powerful than the usual Crimson Sphere, burning and melting down magically protected castle gates like butter to extinguish them.

A roar sounds, black smoke rises, and anomalies at the castle gate are passed on in the castle... to the king's capital.

"Come out wow!! [Great Sage] Huh!!"

That would have been wolf smoke correctly.

It is the barbarity that the thing that was Rasburn did to bring the person he sought.

But the anomaly doesn't just stay with Raspburn.

The men who showed up in front of the castle gate about Raspburn also transform their appearance.

One looks like a mix of spiders and people.

One looks like a mix of bats and people.

All of them have transformed into unlikely figures in people.

"What the... is that!!"

Liliana's cry would surely have been a common thought of what she saw.

But she doesn't get it.

I don't care how bad it is.

I don't know if that's by the hands of one human - one Super Embrio.

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[True image alteration idea] exists.

It was a legion resembling a parasite and had the power to dive into the organism's body and modify the host.

You can make your appearance beautiful, you can make your body healthy, you can acquire new skills.

We can also apply non-human powers to humans.

We can also make humans, not humans.

Some people, like Raspburn, were still human beings, but no one could tell they were human at first glance.

Even if classification is people, they are not people already.

Controlled wills with things or brain modifications that were given far more power than the original body by physical modification, or both.

[True Image Modification Idea] of… "Modified Source (Error Source)" by La Crima (...).

Subject of and terminal of.

That is - it is a modified person (idea).

"Upper"

A corner of the aristocratic city… From the roof of a mansion close to the royal castle, there were those who looked at the reformers with emotional invisibility.

It was Teng himself who freed the reformers from [Jewel] and sent them to Royal Castle.

A person who bandaged his whole body as if he had crawled out of the back of his grave - [Bandit King] Zeta.

"Upper. This is the first time I've ever put into practice the super body, but the physical condition of what I see in my spirit is good. Identification of enemy allies is also alive. Later, we'll send data to La Crima, who arranged for them."

Zeta shrugged faintly as she was not concerned about the tragedy the reformers were causing to their guard opponents in the castle.

"Commencement. Confirm the intrusion of [Ignis Idea], [Alanea Idea] and [Wespertiglio Idea] into the Royal Castle"

The reformers she unleashed are assassins.

Modifications deposited by La Crima, a member of < IF >, against her acting alone. Operated them as combatants in this attack.

It is later a test to operate in < IF >, it is now a data collection for La Crima, who works in heaven and earth with excellence in the Vegetarian Body, and it is also a tool to fulfill the work she has undertaken from the King this time.

"Good. If even Tian is based on a super position, he's gaining more power than a quasi."

[Flaming King] Fuel Rasburn, the most powerful of the alterations that had been deposited...... The codename [Ignis Idea] has entered the castle with four hands setting fire to its surroundings.

And from the open castle gate, two alters... [Alanea Idea], who looked like a spider, and [Wespertiglio Idea], who looked like a bat, come on board.

"Concurrent. Confirm [Regina Apis Idea] and [Apis Idea] 's attack on the castle."

Behind Zeta whining so...... Black smoke and screaming are starting to rise from the streets of King's capital Althea.

In order to control the movement of the < Master > under the castle, we are also putting in a large number of super body modifications to cause confusion.

Zeta has stepped on the other day that it is difficult to confront the [Master] of the Wang Capital, who greatly reduced his power in the raid of the [Shinto] and the escort of the Conversation Conference.

"Behavior. The directive is already down. Activation timing has changed but not my job"

Zeta - the King asked for the final terrorist attack. That's what Super said.

"Purpose. Break into the royal castle, steal what is to be stolen, and erase what is to be erased. That's all."

Leaping one after the other over the mansions of the aristocratic city, he himself made another break-in into the confusing royal castle.

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Thus, the poisonous fangs of the Empire, triggered by the Conference of Reconciliation, move.

To take what is to be taken away, to kill what is to be killed.

To be continued