＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

□ Kingdom of Alter ·

Three days after the day Shu showed Zex's letter to the Dormouses.

At the end of the horizon, Shu stood alone in the Novest Canyon.

The land was once determined by the three giants of the Alter kingdom and [Tripolar Dragon Gloria].

The battle destroyed the terrain, completely losing even the ecosystem in [Gloria's] Endangered Realm, a land where neither people nor monsters could lean on it.

That is why Shu chose this land for his end with Zex.

The location is also based on the fact that it is located in the west from the Wang capital and will be steeped further west to the former Lunings territory after the settlement.

The war is expected to begin at noon.

But by then defeating Zex and surviving himself to the battlefield seemed more difficult than any other difficulty he had ever faced.

…………

And again, when the hour was slightly past, and the sun began to rise slowly, and it came to pass at six o'clock at dawn.

"Thank you for waiting"

On time, Zex showed up.

Its black-haired, black-eyed appearance and mediocre style, including glasses, remain the same. The expression also remains the smile that is always on my face.

But Zex himself, who simulated the appearance... was felt by Shu as if he remembered somewhere where the emotions were expensive.

Now that the two were one-on-one and relative, it was the end in the back of the mountain that was chosen in the case that was written in the letter of fulfilment.

But we were sure this would happen to each other.

Zex thought Shu would do that.

Shu didn't think Zex would call himself in and do another evil thing.

As if they were one of two best friends, they believed in each other.

Even when it's time to kill each other.

'... if you were here, just come out. It'll be a waste of time.'

Shu glances at the gap, even though he tells her like she's frightened.

That is what awaits the moment to strike a deadly blow and settle it early.

But today, there was not a single gap in Zex.

"Time…. To defeat me and rush to war, right?

"Oh."

"Will you have any leeway?

'I don't know. But there's no chance you can rush and do something about it, is there?

"Right. Oh, if Shu loses this to me, I will raid the kingdom. So fight for real."

"... I thought I'd add that."

If the aim was to make Shu fight for real, it could rather be taken for granted.

Do it right and say, 'Yes. I lost,' if I'm convinced, I won't end up like this.

< War > and, above all, the risk to the kingdom itself, naturally, makes me take it.

"... but I don't think this is a good fit for Shu in itself."

Zex remained smiling, but slightly irritated in it.

"Human behavior changes dramatically with the values of good and evil that we have ourselves. If you think it's an evil thing, it's big and small and it takes a brake on your mind. If you don't think about it, you don't get brakes."

"Sounds like (...)"

The two speak of the movement of a person's heart as if they had heard it.

"And if you think it's the right thing to do... it takes an accelerator"

Humans don't stop when they try to do the right thing.

Even if inside that action hurts and harms others, it doesn't stop if you believe you're right.

"When we do that, people are mostly not alone. Along with many others, as one of many, he runs wild because of his correctness. Looking around, he said, 'I'm right.' Cause there's so many people who do the same thing, 'he reconfirms, accelerating."

The correctness of such a crowd and their footing on the road to and from is horrible.

"Both armies confront each other on former Lunnings territory. They both think they're 'right'."

Seeing the far west, Zex... turns off his grin and says the words.

"Those who seek to protect the kingdom from the invasion of the Empire believe that they are right.

Those who seek to save the Empire from the hunger woes believe they are right.

Both go to war, checking their own correctness with those around them.

Or with the amnesty of the appearance of 'no choice'. "

That is the essence of this < war > and not just here, Zekes says.

"But I'm sure there's not a single strong correctness in them"

…………

"No matter who doesn't affirm me, I can continue to pierce what I thought was right. No one has such a strong correctness"

That being said, Zex turns to Shu and smiles differently than he ever smiled.

"But right in front of me - there's someone I can't shake"

It was similar to the face I saw when the villagers scolded me to crusade < UBM >, once worshipped by God.

"I've thought about it since I first met you. I kept protecting her, even though I knew it, that could destroy the world. Don't get lost, don't doubt your choices, pierce strong correctness"

Zex thinks.

Shu asks others, "Am I right? He's a strong person who pushes what he feels is" right "even if he doesn't confirm it.

That's why - I'm attracted, he said.

"This me with no correctness, no errors, nothing... its strong 'correctness' looks dazzling because I am"

"... right"

Shu also thought that Zex was not like those he said.

You don't think you're right, and you don't think you're wrong about that if you do evil.

I'm only doing it because 'it's considered worldly evil'.

Zex's own thoughts have neither good nor evil. All there is is is a crime defined by society.

Zex follows his course of action without accelerators or brakes...... no, he's just a guy who falls.

Water droplets that involve good and evil irrelevantly and fall into the darkness of Naruto.

A phenomenon of human form, just sinful.

The emptiest king of sins in the world.

That's the man named Zex.

But why is a man named Zex so (...)?

Shu didn't know that.

"Speaking of which, do you remember that < UBM > called [Spiral Board]? This is the spinning UBM that I and Shu helped knock down."

"... I remember you."

"The inhabitants of the village who worshipped [the spiral board] belonged to the kingdom immediately after that. Now it's a completely normal village."

Zex cut out that story like a public tale.

But the word was backwards... and Zex's voice was slightly irritated.

"The village without an umbrella named Patronus has now entered an umbrella named Kingdom. I believed in that god of guardianship, sacrificed my children, and cursed you. Keep it 'right' and now live as if you forgot its faith and subordination. It's a bunch of weak people who don't have their own righteousness."

The words, like I wouldn't say if they were regular zexes... were terribly lizardly.

"You, are you mad?

"Angry? This me?

Asked, as he first realized, Zex puts his hand on his mouth.

Just think of it that way......

"... may be so"

I affirmed Shu's point.

"I (...) was on the side of sacrifice"

"Sacrifice?"

Sacrifice, a word that does not suit [the criminal king] Zex Würfel.

But that's who I am, Zex says.

Because......

"Me, not this me. I was a real clone for organ transplants."

◇ ◆

In 2045, no, more than twenty years before that, cloning techniques had been established.

There are success stories of human cloning as well as animal cloning.

In addition, the problems of the lifespan and physical functioning of the cloned body, formerly regarded as a technical difficulty, have already been cleared.

Earth Humanity has already acquired cloning technology.

But it's a technology that will never be used publicly.

The reason is' ethics'.

Human clones. It was considered ethically impossible, even if it was technically possible.

However, it was whispered to me that human clones can sometimes be produced in countries with such a low sense of ethics or in a world hidden from the eyes of people with such a sense of ethics…

They are clones as parts storage sites (...) for the replacement of healthy organs by those in power and millionaires in the event of visceral diseases or serious injuries.

sacrifice (...), is

It may be spoken like fiction exists in developed countries with ethics... but it is real.

Zex's real life was one example of this.

◇ ◆

"Clone...... You? '

"Yes, it's been 20 years since it was manufactured..."

Never before has Zex told anyone the secret of being a clone.

I don't even know Rascal.

But because Shu is the opponent... Zex talked without hiding it.

"I was made when a certain famous man was born. Illegally,"

There are rare cases where people with huge assets keep (...) clones for organ transplantation in other countries.

They are always raised to be of appropriate age, and when the original suffers from some disease, they take it back and (...) transplant the organs.

"But without the need for me to provide organs, the man died. He said he died in an accident or something."

…………

"It's just that he's not socially (...) dead either."

To such Zex's words, Shu immediately perceived the meaning.

'... because you replaced (...), or'

Zex agreed.

"Decide to have lived without dying in an accident and take me as an alternative. It is not only the organ, but the being itself is a spare.... Or maybe it was based on that too from the beginning. It was made clear from the beginning that it was a clone for organ transplantation, but the minimum necessary learning itself was given to me."

…………

"Of course I don't know about the friendship that he (...) had, etc., but if I don't meet people, it's fine. Now we're being treated for the aftermath of the accident."

While isolated from the public, he was made to learn about the knowledge and friendship required and to continue preparing to land softly in society as an alternative to the dead man.

Except for a few associates, I believe that the dead person is still alive.

That's what it is, without even realizing the existence of Zex.

"My role now is to connect families. Because the appearance and genes are the same. My genetic father was too old to be a child anymore, and I don't like the habit of making clones to make offspring with artificial insemination. So I have the same genes as the deceased man, and the only way to connect the family. Sooner or later, you will marry someone from the right family, you will have a child, and you will succeed them."

"Zex......"

The thoughts Shu felt were pity...... not.

To the point where he has such emotions, Shu hasn't seen Zex down there and he hasn't fooled around.

Strongly put Shu's thoughts into words...... it would have been 'convincing'.

Born to become an alternative organ, it is considered an alternative to maintaining the family name and leaving offspring if it is no longer possible.

That's why Zex...

"I don't have my life. I wasn't even born to be seen as a person in the first place. … I came to this world and got a body called Nun and convinced myself"

Zex raised his right hand and... made it turn into a slime.

No, I put it back.

"I'm just a Shizuku of blood and genes. It's only an alternative to changing shape depending on the vessel"

Zex spins his words as he causes his right hand to turn into the hand of man, into the hand of man, into the hand of woman, and into the figure of the original Zex.

- That's why I'm Nun.

< Embrio > is derived from a large and small < Master >.

The essence, action, or fate itself.

If so...... maybe Zex didn't have any snails but nuns.

"That's me, but at least I waved the race myself just to see what I would be in this world"

He also had free time in real life.

It was in a cage, but was given the degree of freedom to read and play books.

He just didn't know what to do with that freedom.

That's why, I guess.

Like many others, I came to the land attracted by the complains of < Infinite Dendrogram > because I had nothing to do now.

That was for him the door to a world in which he could live freely in a true sense.

And when he found the game on the table in the tutorial, he decided

Nothing, myself as only an alternative.

The days I didn't even own the path I could choose from, whether I wanted to or not.

So just the destination match at < Infinite Dendrogram >... I thought I'd shake it myself.

"Because that's my freedom"

Thus the path that fate has shown is' evil '.

True reverse of the majority correctness.

Executor of mechanical sin.

But even so, that's fine for Zex.

Zex chose 'Evil', as' Evil ', to live himself.

Everyone is watching Zex.

through 'evil'. He recognises the existence of Zex... himself.

And some were gained because they were 'evil'.

I got a code of conduct.

I got involved with people.

I got company.

Got memories.

Opposite and mirrored, I came across one of the most attractive beings in the world.

"Shu"

"... Zex"

Zex looked straight at Shu,

"Fight me till the end."

Slowly...... keep the word going.

"This is who I am, my lord. Alternatives that vary depending on the vessel. My, very essence, which is only the Shizuku of flesh"

Zex turns every part of a person's appearance into a red and black slime.

"Even so, there is something I have seen in this world thanks to living as this me. I feel like I can grasp the essence of it in a little while. If you can find out what you need to know."

With an eager eye, Zex keeps looking at Shu.

"That's why for me to live...... It has to be the opposite of this me and the existence of me."

Close the lid and hold both hands.

Try to grasp what you want in your heart.

It's no substitute for anyone, no one dictates it, the way Shu pierces' himself '.

"To understand"

And open your eyelids again.

"If I understand you, or not only in this world... I may be able to live myself over there"

< Infinite Dendrogram > gave it to me, it was my only possibility.

It is an experience in this world itself.

And the only possibility for Zex is before he understands the opposite shu from himself.

At least, that's what Zex himself believed.

"It's tentative first life, but let's kill each other. - Until the end."

That's why Zex wanted to fight each other... to show each other everything.

"... I wonder how many years it will be to rot with you"

Shu listens to Zex... take it.

"Four years or more? If that's all the answers you gave me, fine. I'll take it. '

That said, I accepted the proposal to kill each other.

"But... I'll just tell you one thing."

Shu hung up his words and... took off his clothes.

Gear changes due to "dressing change". (i) Substitution from function-specific and anomaly-skilled attire to pure combat equipment through bespoke production.

That is the most suitable piece of equipment for the battle for Shu at this point...... a 100% indication of the will not even intend to hide his face.

And Shu...

"-Don 't think you can understand me to the extent that we've killed each other?

I smiled back at Zex and moved out.

Thus, the battle begins in the shadow of a major incident called War.

[Destroyer King] and [Criminal King], a killing by two of the highest peaks of the kingdom began...

To be continued