＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ ■ XXXX years ago

The landscape was full of abundance of nature.

Rubbing sound of leaves swayed by the wind, creek spirals, bird songs.

The trees are green, the earth stained with fallen leaves and rich soil colours, the sky endless and pale.

A landscape that just seems natural as it is not accessible to people.

In it stood a man who looked like one young... boy as well.

He inexplicably squeezes his pocket watch one in each hand.

"Not a single real thing in this landscape"

The man on the pocket watch accidentally squealed like that.

Looking like a boy, he wraps an old, tired vibe around him.

In fact, the years that his mind has gone through far exceed the years that the flesh has gone through.

The flesh itself is certain...... I was just old and invisible because I restore with the ability of < infinite embrio >.

"Air and trees are reproduced by [infinite flow]. The sky is just what [Infinite Fantasy] is showing you. Even my flesh, which receives them with five senses, is just one of the bodies made by [Infinite Birth]"

He keeps talking to himself as he seeps through the old age of the spirit, not the flesh.

But it... seemed like he was talking to the pocket watch he held.

"But it's not like the real thing doesn't exist. The flesh is a crop, but my life is real. And your power will be real again."

Jizz, the old boy talks as he looks at his pocket watch.

"Except for the arr, the twelfth < infinite embrio >...... [infinite time]. The flow of being in anything is the real thing that can't be fake."

That's what he said, then he exhaled... grinned bitterly.

"Yes, but therefore... I have a life expectancy. It seems that my life is also limited because it is real"

…………

"Even if I die, you stay. That's what it means to reach infinity. The seventh and subsequent is linked to the complete death of the Master, which crystallizes the resource and feeds the next generation. However... As its name suggests, it can operate indefinitely unless the nucleus is crushed. … Unlike at the time of the Master's life, it will not be possible to reconstitute the nucleus after it has been crushed."

He connects the words "but…".

"Still, your infinite end will come. Sooner or later, when our project is ready…"

…………

"... Finally, let's talk a little bit about me"

That's what he said...... the boy looked like but looked terribly spicy and sat back with his back in the tree.

"... I only know here (...). Born here, grew up here with you, here... die"

…………

"I'm not dissatisfied with that. We... we all are. Seeking an end, more < infinite embrio >, while traveling the endless path. That's how we are. Instead, I would be one of the unlimited fortunes that led to < infinity >. Because there's a raw meaning, and this is how he lived to the limit."

Sitting back, he was talking that way toward his pocket watch... but his arms accidentally fall powerless.

As if to say I can't support you anymore.

"But for me... there's only one thing left to worry about"

He looked up at the sky...... and looked up at what he called the fake sky and groaned.

"... for once or so, I wanted to try and live the real world. I wanted to see the sky not here..."

It was as if I had never been blessed with that opportunity, somewhere sad... and stared at the pale sky with the kind of eyes I'd given up.

"But if you can operate indefinitely... you might have a chance to live in the real world"

…………

"... huf, me too... maybe the dying is a little careful. I've never talked to you before..."

His is a complete abiotic and self-indwelling kind of embryo.

So there can't be anything to respond to when you talk to them.

"Hey, what if... if you could live the real world... after the project... tell me. What the real world was like... My... instead..."

…………

"Hehe... Well, there might be, like, a post-mortem world... I don't know-"

He stopped the words on the way... and didn't keep his mouth shut.

".................. m, a"

The pocket watch tried to make some noise while slightly stirring its body.

But the man who was his hasn't heard it yet.

I can't hear you.

"… ma……, s……, ter…"

I don't think I can speak a word or anything, but even if I call him as I twitch my body... I don't have a voice to answer.

Eventually, the song of the little bird stops...... the color of the sky changes.

The pale and clear sky disappears, and the ceiling covered with metal is exposed.

Because the only user was gone, the pale fake sky was disappearing... back to the inorganic real thing.

His hands are getting cold, and his pocket watch is still gripping.

…………

"of the Twelve, confirming the death of Mr. Chrono Crown. The body is moved to the morgue. No. 12 was recovered and moved to training for independent operations'

An inorganic voice was heard and someone politely lifted his body.

From his chest pocket on that clap, another... pocket watch drops zero.

With both hands and chest pockets, three pocket watches to match.

Pocket watches, each engraved in Greek with the inscriptions' Βρονο (Kronos) ',' καρρο (Kyros) 'and' αἰν (Ioan) ', all sound ticklish.

The needle sounded... somewhere sad.

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□ ■ Ministry of Border Zones and Forests

Claudia marked the beginning of the battle on the floor of the Conference of Reconciliation, when [Bandit King] Zeta and numerous alterations were on the move in the Wang Capital and both factions of the kingdom and the empire were confronted.

Another confrontation was taking place somewhere close to the floor.

"Oh, my God. I didn't think they'd call me in secret communications while I was escorting you."

"... don't you have any idea?

Two men are relative in a deep green forest a little far from the floor in the border zone.

One is a young man with a round cat on his head and his eyes hidden with his forehead...... [Cat God] Tom Cat.

One wears metal boots and a boy with a raven ear...... [Ra] Chrono Crown.

Together, a corner of the management AI has gained a person's avatar.

"I don't. And Tom Cat, no chores, no battlefield lids, what are you doing here with a scarecrow? It's called dereliction of duty, isn't it?

I don't know where people's eyes are, even if they're apart. For that reason, Chrono calls Tom in his name as Avatar. And that was the same for Tom.

"... Chrono is what happened all the time."

That's what Tom said, still receiving information in the kingdom at the main body.

The kingdom is at a disadvantage for both the King's Capital and the Reconciliation Conference, as Krono's raids reduced his power.

"Arbitrary? Is that why you called me out on purpose?

"Oh.... and I don't know. Although your activities are supposed to benefit the Empire as a result,... it would be pointless if this hadn't happened. Instead, it must have just ended up worsening feelings between nations."

Chrono tilted his neck at Tom's words.

To that appearance, Tom said this convinced him, "Again."

"Neither you nor Bundersnatch... understand what human psychology is"

That's Tom...... what should be called a difference from a biological type like Cheshire, an abiotic management AI business.

The two Tweedles were abiotic as well as they were, but there are psychological readings to the extent that they are the largest computational abilities of management AI.

But Chrono... the time manager AI Rabbit is different.

It is abiotic and, at the same time, spends three times as much time maintaining the basic law of Infinite Dendrogram.

There are not many arithmetic abilities that can be turned to human thought, and thus the thought is not very different from human.

That's why that avatar, Chrono Crown, behaves in a short circuit.

He's usually only entrusted with his job as an avatar because that's the job with no problems with short circuit behavior.

From other management AIs in the first place, they want Rabbit to be solely responsible for time management.

But the activity in Avatar...... was what Rabbit himself wanted.

"Human Psychology...... ah"

Krono, Rabbit's avatar, looks up at the sky whining the words Tom tells him.

Only for a moment, I mixed some bitter emotion in that eye and then I put my gaze back on Tom... shrugged.

"Of course I don't understand.... there's no way you understand!

Suddenly...... Krono vandalized the words so that they exploded.

"Unlike you guys, I didn't have the time to understand people in this body! I was the one who kept accelerating this Infinite Dendrogram and giving you guys time to get ready!

It was not a spare language, like when I was PK the ranker of the kingdom, but a voice that exhaled the depths of my heart.

"Oh! Whatever you understand! The project I fixed needed time! I'm the only one who can do that! Specializing in time acceleration, I'm the only one!

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"But until I accepted the new masters here... that's all I could do (...)!"

It was a blood-soaking cry.

"With them visiting and time acceleration dropping to triple, I can finally move with this body! You can walk the world now! You know how I felt then!? There's no way I know!!"

Emotions overflowing from Chrono are neither anger nor remorse.

It appears to be exposing accumulated dissatisfaction, as well as Chrono himself swinging in overflowing emotions.

"Chrono......"

Tom knows. Alice tells me.

When an abiotic < Embrio > gets an avatar with Alice's power...... there are two patterns to it.

Is the root as cold as the original anyway on the surface?

Or... can't you control the emotions that come from the flesh?

Chrono, needless to say, was the latter.

Chrono got the avatar only a few years ago.

hundredths of a time period compared to other managed AIs.

Therefore… now the problem is revealed.

"Live in a real world! That was my < master >... the only wish Crono (...)... Crown (...) ever had in his life! It's not just raw in a closed environment! I wanted to live free in the real world! The destination was too far away for that, too little time! So I'm sure... I was born to manipulate time!!"

…………

Tom understands what he's saying.

Tom also... his < master > lusted for a friend, so he was born as his current self.

"I was asked on his death! After I'm done, tell me some real world memories! Now I'm finally making it! With this face imitating the former (Chrono Crown)! Grab my pocket watch! I'm free to walk this world... I can walk the real thing... you know what it's like then!! As a cultural distributor, you know what I mean when I've lived free...!

Chrono can chew his teeth, let them snap, and roar.

"That's the war? He said!? Last war, that was just like those days again! If that thing moves, it'll be all the time we can't do anything! My freedom is gone again! After I'm done (...), there's less I can teach < master >! Real world memories! I need more!

That's why he did arbitrary PK.

For him, time is the most negligible event in the world: a war in which he himself will be unable to do anything.

Because the limited time to complete the project… the last time he spends is shredded.

Because the time to fulfill the wishes of the Master will be cut.

That's why he says.

"What a waste of time! I'm... busy (...)!!"

From both eyes of Chrono, tears flow.

Red colored, tears of blood.

He was supposed to be selfless, and he got himself.

All those thoughts overflow from both eyes as tears.

"So to war or something... if it's enough to deprive me of my time by such a pointless thing, before that, I'll crush one side without my skin so much that I can't start a war! of that...... WHAT'S wrong with you!! GRIMALKING!!"

"... Chronos Cairos Ioane"

The two management AIs turn to each other and call each other by their true names.

Chrono, as a jealous fellow who was a disturber and continued to get what he didn't want and get.

Tom is a colleague who is running wild and trying to go the wrong way, and his feelings for the late master are as close as his companion.

The two management AIs confront each other head-on in a person's appearance.

"… the situation has changed"

Unexpectedly, Krono put his hands in his pocket.

There was a pocket watch gripped one at a time.

Two of his own three pocket watches, with the exception of one, which is nuclear.

"I'm leaving now."

He then wipes his blood tears with the sleeves of his clothes and stares in the direction of the floor with a strong gaze.

"I monitor the floor and the King's Capital. I also understood that securing the princess would be a victory for the Empire. I don't have time to ask questions with you anymore. I'll go over there now and grab the princess. No one can catch up. The same is true of Wang Du. The purpose of the Empire is accomplished. There will be no more war."

"... I won't let you"

Tom speaks up so that he can inhibit

"Their fate should not be spearheaded by our management AI. It is guided by the freedom of We shouldn't be distorting ourselves arbitrarily."

"Then you're not in this place either!!"

"If I didn't have to stop you... I wouldn't have come here either"

Because we have to stop Chrono's avatar, which is starting to run wild.

Still, Tom hadn't thought of it from the beginning: 'If you would stop the avatar as Alice did to Tom at Gideon'.

Chrono's emotional rampage must be stopped.

But I thought of the late Lord, and therefore I thought that the rampage should not be stopped with power.

I need to hit him from the front and stop him... think.

So I was asking Alice for just one thing.

"Chrono. If you're going to get your hands on Tian in the kingdom before you defeat me, I'm going to talk to Alice to stop your avatar."

"... what?

"I mean, this is what it is."

The overhead cat jumps and turns to Tom.

It grew... into eight people.

The eight surround Chrono.

"If you want to go through here... don't do it until you've defeated me. Krono Crown"

Eight Toms point their weapons at Chrono, daring to call him by a name that includes his tentative first job.

Chrono glanced at Tom and the others, "Ha," he exhaled briefly and laughed.

"Something you could beat me... even once warm? [Cat God] Tom Cat!!"

And a moment later, the battle began.

of Management AI... Know the sorrow of losing the Lord. There is a battle between

To be continued