＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ Cardina

Great desert with sand hills even to the horizon.

Ultra-high temperatures in the middle of the day, ultra-low temperatures at night, and the dryness of the atmosphere hold back the center of the world of life… A red and white dyed mechanical dragon is walking away.

That fuselage is [Sardonics]. [Vessel God] Rascal the Black Onyx collected the material and it is a manoeuvre weapon produced by his partner, Makina.

Currently, [Third Nix] is taking Rascal and Makina all the way to the [Eltram].

It has been a forcible force since the extermination of the forces of the Dreiffe Orthodox government, and it has already been hovering for a long time.

With this fuselage equipped with two ground dragon-type power furnaces on the torso and back, it is also easy to carry out prolonged continuous activities that are not possible with MP depleting the rider.

However, it is… about the fuselage.

…………

In the front seat of the double-seated cockpit, Rascal stared at the monitor with a seated eye.

Technically, it is a state of unconsciousness if we do not focus on maintaining consciousness.

If you keep riding without rest, you can't even do it. Because while riding [Sardonics], he kept giving instructions to all places by telecom.

"Your husband. I'm rowing a boat. Do you want to go to bed? Do you sleep -? Do you sleep on a super-pretty maid's knee pillow -? Come on, come on!

Makina in the back seat slammed Pessipesi and herself on the knee while doing that.

"... you, the more I say... pri...,..."

"Ah. Seriously, I think I'm sleeping. The scratch won't fly! Or your husband. [Tetra Gramaton] Then why don't we take more time off?

300 Metel Class Battleship [Tetra Gramaton], also home to < IF >.

Rascal can also go to bed as it is their residence and all of the ship's manoeuvres are under Makina's control, leaving the move to them.

"The poorly adjusted [Sardonics] needs to work steadily with your husband's job skills, but if it's that way with the perfect adjustment, I can already do it alone, right?

"Now... I can't use it. Gran Baroa, Legendary. The situation is increasing confusion and the overall level of vigilance in Cardina is rising. To scratch that...... too conspicuous in [Tetra Gramaton]"

"Oh, that's why. But you're not feeling well, are you? Master, it's not that strong of a job physically."

"... no problem. Never mind. Over there... until you set up so you could run the company without me... this much overwork... it was a daily tea meal. Now, this one, this one, < IF > and... it's just about him. Easy stuff."

Machina was a little stunned by Rascal, who said that with obvious uncertainty of consciousness.

"I'm flirting for ease, already. Please fall asleep unintentionally. Combat manoeuvres can't be solo, but if you just want to travel. There you go."

Makina slammed the console to adjust the seat angle and position of the front seat and set Rascal's head to ride on the back seat's own knee.

"... hey"

"Nennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"

Machina stroked Rascal's head with her right hand with words that could not be described as such a babysitting song, causing her lid to close gently.

At the same time - I tapped a needleless syringe into my neck muscle with the left hand of the machine.

"Meh..........................."

"Okay, you slept"

Even the subdragon instantly knocked about three drugs (at a market price of 300,000 lil) into the [forced sleep] state, and Makina forced Rascal to sleep. It is a desolate business that may sleep permanently.

Even in this way of forcing the flesh to sleep, consciousness should remain, but if nothing can be done, consciousness will have to sleep anymore.

"And you're getting a little troublesome with the operation. After all, my husband... the skill impact of a super position specializing in weapons operations is huge."

Makina says that, while hitting the console with her right hand, she continues with the more difficult maneuvering.

"Anyway, I'm a tireless man-made person. Your husband should take a rest. Sweet dreams."

Makina, who forcefully laid the Lord to sleep, said so and looked at Rascal's sleeping face with a smile somewhere.

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Rascal, abandoned of his avatar consciousness, was in a blackish space. Ray Sterling is also a frequently visited place. (Though there's nothing like a perk weapon talking to me like him)

To Makina, he said, "You idiot, you can't wake up. You can't even use kusuri. What are you going to do if I need to log out in an emergency, 'but I know that's what cares about me.

So I decided to take that intention and sleep first. Just be sure to do the manipulation after you wake up.

That's how Rascal's consciousness falls asleep and dreams.

It was an impressive dream a few months ago… for him.

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January 2004 was a time when much had happened in Infinite Dendrogram.

The last of them are kingdoms and empires.

The emergence of [Five-Row Extinction Holobimal] in heaven and earth.

There were also New Year's events as a simple event.

But there was a thing going on that anyone who knew.

It's a clash between [Destroyer King] and [Criminal King]. And it is the confinement of [the criminal king].

"Right...... Did Zex lose?"

Rascal heard the news of the murder for him over a comms machine in the middle of an exploration.

It's not like you didn't consider the possibility of doing so.

Instead, he wonders if Zex fought because he's the one who might.

(Well. Zex will all come out, too, but the operation is a problem for some time to come. Zeta's guy will be rough, and it's no good not having Zex to deal with Emily's rampage. Emily is not a child who strips her fellow fangs, but she still needs safety. even in the light of the steady growth of the mental aspect.)

The presence of Zex, our own owner and needed for the organization in a variety of ways.

That temporarily leaves, and all the burdens are on Rascal, who is in charge of the operation.

In a way, he was the one most affected by Zex's incarceration.

(The fifth La Crima... was originally negotiated by me, and there's no problem. Even a party of [Reapers]... the alliance will manage to continue. Is the problem under the umbrella? Some of them will turn their teeth if they don't stare.... I still don't have enough backbone members. We need to increase the number of < super > nomination arrangements somehow)

As a result, I will be scouting for super ability but personality issues, but that is a later story.

(And then... I hope I can at least find what I'm looking for in this.)

What Rascal is looking for at this time is an ultra-high performance operator that can be used for automatic control of [Tetra Gramaton].

This is the largest dive he's ever made.

It has been found to be a plant built at the end of the previous period of civilization, and there is a good chance that there is an object of interest here.

Moreover, some of the functions are alive, albeit incomplete.

…………

Rascal takes the gear from the crest - TYPE: Advanced Curator, [Infinite Coupling Deus Ex Machina] and pushes it against the machine on the wall.

"Connect"

Communicate the machines touched and the structure of the internal wiring and equipment, as well as information on living machines and their energy coupling paths, are also passed on to Rascal.

According to this, there is a vast amount of space in the basement, where living energy and machinery are concentrated.

It's like in the middle of making something huge.

"... it's not like we're developing weapons over the course of 2000 years."

But Rascal understands that it is the < Infinite Dendrogram > that is possible.

The moment we reached the underground space, it sucked that we were attacked by awakened and prior periods of civilized weapons.

"I would have liked to have collected all of them later, but I can't help it if it's too late"

Therefore, I decided to promptly disable (...).

"- Junk Box

The moment Rascal spoke of Deus Ex Machina's unique skills, he was partially alive. < Ruins > died (...).

The living light sources disappeared, the mechanical sounds that roared in the basement stopped, and the < ruins > were engulfed with silence and signs of death as if they were graves in the earth.

Why, it has become so.

That's something huge connected to the machine on the wall that the gear was touching, the cable that stretched from it, the power distribution equipment, the working machine underground, the working machine.

It's all because - it was stored in Deus Ex Machina (...).

Unique Skills, Junk Box.

As its name suggests, the skill of storing the machines contacted by Deus Ex Machina - including those connected with the contact surface - inside Deus Ex Machina.

If it is a machine, it can be stored immediately with exceptions such as those with anti-theft mechanisms incorporated or < UBM >.

Or maybe something that was under construction in the basement was supposed to incorporate the anti-theft mechanism as well, but it had not yet been incorporated because it was incomplete.

In the first place, it stops piling up anti-theft mechanisms for reasons such as "I don't have an item box that I can put in even if I steal it" to make it bigger.

…………

In a room where the lights went out and it went dark, Rascal waved Deus Ex Machina to release one of the machines he stored… a escort drone with a search light.

"... Pretty big, this is"

At the same time, I opened the related window and was slightly surprised by the size of the stuff I had stored.

Note that it is unclear whether Deus Ex Machina has storage limits like item boxes.

Rascal himself has never confirmed that cap.

Many times before, we have stored all the machines in one place, and we have previously recovered 300 Metel Class Battleships from the bottom of the sea... but it is not less than a cup.

While Deus Ex Machina is a Super Embrio, he has only three skills, including Special Skills.

On top of that, Deus Ex Machina's capacity is awesome because we specialized one of our skills in machine-only storage.

"Well, I recovered the big guy, but I haven't found the operator I'm looking for yet. … look for some more before it collapses"

Collapse, means as it is. It means that the structure of itself becomes brittle and collapses because it houses large quantities of internal machinery, including infrastructure.

This has resulted in the loss of several, and Rascal has been called the "Ruin Killer” and has been nominated.

His exploration of < ruins > is synonymous with taking root and destroying it all.

"That would have been the only machine alive in the facility, so will we be looking for something that can be fixed with a broken machine?... don't remember when I was watching him work beside me"

Once upon a time… Rascal continues his exploration of the < ruins >, whining words that nostalgic for what was before him before he began < Infinite Dendrogram >.

That's how he goes past several rooms illuminating indoors and passageways with drones.

Gradually the parallax and soil are falling from the ceiling, but there is still time to collapse.

Even if it collapses, it's a mind-count to deal with by offering a different kind of drone or mechanical weapon.

So I toured the room enough to finish using my fingers on both hands......

"... hmm"

In the room I reached, I saw something I hadn't seen before.

It was a massive amount of human bone.

Thinking of the age of, things from earlier periods of civilization.

Weathering has progressed because the air conditioning was alive, and many are collapsing.

But traces show that's human bone.

"Did you even commit mass suicide?

The deterioration was severe and the cause of death can no longer be ascertained... but it seemed that the line was thick that the room was dead together in safe condition.

Explore the indoors while turning the search lights.

"Huh..."

At that time, there were only a few rascals who were not afraid of the body either.

That's because in a room full of weathered human bones - I could see people's faces (...).

Among the many crumbling human bones...... Sole (...) kept the figure of a beautiful person.

The garment was weathered at last, but its body is left behind.

The body is not untrue. He has a scratch on his forehead, his right eye is lost, and his left arm is missing.

Still, the sole is beautiful.

Over 2000 years old, there was a presence there that remained intact.

"This is not a corpse...... machine. … well, this is the brilliant Jade Man"

Brilliant Jade Man, I had seen it in the materials left behind by the monument.

The supreme humans created by the famous flagman.

Even in a broken state, this was the first time I had seen the real thing.

"... you can't store it"

Let Deus Ex Machina touch, but you can't store it.

This means that there is an anti-theft mechanism or it is < UBM > made.

This time it was the former.

…………

Rascal thinks a little, but quickly concludes.

"Connect."

When Rascal twirls Deus Ex Machina, the gear turns smaller one turn.

That was, nevertheless, the size of a human eyeball.

In the damaged right eye of the Brilliant Jade Man, close to the brain - I plugged it in.

"-" Connect "

At the same time as Rascal's proclamation, Deus Ex Machina and the Broken Brilliant Jade were connected.

Inherent Skills, Connect.

Skills of coupling the target machine with the machine inside Deus Ex Machina.

thereby obtaining information, or coupling functions.

If there is a machine that has lost the power furnace, it is connected to the internal power furnace; if there is a machine that has lost its electronic brain, it is connected to the internal electronic brain, making up for it and making it bootable.

Differences in original part formats and connector standards are irrelevant. If the energy or program is homogeneous, it can be connected by application.

Sometimes a glitch occurs, but it can suppress the majority with Rascal's job skills as a [vessel god].

In conclusion, this brilliant egg man was in a state of inability to operate, with his energy diminished because of the crushed power core on his forehead.

Therefore, it was connected to the power reactor (originally for large machines) of earlier civilizations stored inside Deus Ex Machina, replenishing the energy.

The brilliant Jade thus freaked out and trembled all over his body at the energy that began to flow, but it also gradually subsided...... opening his left lid and looking at Rascal with his remaining left eye.

…………

…………

So, they stare at each other silently for a while.

Eventually, the Brilliant Jade man touches his right eye with his right hand...... the gear that fits in there to figure out what is going on.

"I see. So you've been captured by the incarnation."

"… capture?

Rascal didn't know why the Brilliant Jade used those words.

"Civilization earlier... I know the civilization that made you perished at the end of the battle, but do you even think you're one of those enemies? But it's not about hatred. I don't know anything from 2000 years ago."

Without lying or falsehood, Rascal expresses his thoughts.

But in contrast, the brilliant Jade shook his head.

"No eh. You're part of the incarnation. Maybe he's unconscious."

"What?"

"Besides, what I'm inconvenient with you...... if I try to take your neck for example, I'll break again, right?

"... right"

The brilliant jade man today is moving with the energy supplied by the power furnace inside Deus Ex Machina.

If you don't fit inside the Deus Ex Machina in size, it's a substitute that the Brilliant Balls can't pile up.

Let it stop or go back to the crest...... or if Rascal disappears with a death penalty, the Brilliant Ball Man stops working again.

"... oh, I knew it was gone"

The Brilliant Jade slapped his forehead with a cone.

"Ultra-compact power core. It's a rare material, so it's just for our sisters, and there's no spare, is there? So I can't move anymore without your gear"

"... Sounds like it"

"And my Astral Manipulator... I don't have my left hand, don't you know?

"No core, no right eye, no left hand since I found it"

"It's a shame. I wonder when it's gone, left hand. I think it happened just before it broke.... Don't you know?

"... there's no way I know"

Rascal is an excellent figure, but still not someone who can show off his famous reasoning beyond the time of 2000.

"Well, I get it. So this is who I am now? Well, thank you very much for coming."

"... I'm too quick to understand what you convinced me of?

"The mission before it broke and so on is almost over, and my creator... I'm sure Flagman's asshole isn't alive in person, and without your degradation“ incarnation, "I'll stop functioning again, and I've been wondering if it's best to think about it and follow you"

…………

The Brilliant Jade Man threw a little, or he said, "I don't care anymore - It's a teketo -" it emitted an atmosphere of robots and others.

"... I'm listening to you, and I think I'm one of your enemies. Is that good?

While making some reasoning about the “incarnation” in his heart, Rascal asked what he needed to hear.

The Brilliant Jade's answer to that is......

"I wasn't born for the“ incarnation ”crusade like I was making here number four (...) - This plant, entrusted to Flagman, is completely out of function, too. My substitute boss is boned there too... which one is it?

He was tilting his neck without knowing which bone of the person he was looking for, as he seemed to finger one of the human bones.

"Well, whatever it is, I don't care about my old smugness anymore, so I live like me. So lend me this gear. Instead, arithmetic abilities, technology, wisdom, erotic bodies! I'll lend you something."

"No, I don't need a fourth."

Rascal swallowed the phrase 'You're not as erotic as you say you are' as he penetrated.

Even though the opponent was a robot, Rascal also had the kindness not to bassari say 'lack of charm' to the naked female opponent.

"... so that means you (...) are going to be mine, okay?

Around the slightly coarser way of calling it, there were signs that Rascal was also rethinking the way he treated the brilliant Jade in this short time.

"Wow, passionate words. That's fine, my husband (...)!"

…………

But the same goes for the brilliant Jade Man.

It is a 'master' statement that is pleasant but does not see any loyalty or respect.

Still, the familiarity seemed to be overflowing.

"Master, clothes for now. Right eye bands and prostheses too. Oh, I knew clothes were good made-up clothes. You can kno when that person says' Master '!

…………

'Was it a mistake to pick it up' at this point, Rascal also thought in his heart.

but I still didn't have the option of not picking it up any more than this is the ultra-high performance operator I was looking for. [Tetra Gramaton]... and most importantly, her powers are necessary for < IF >.

"... Whatever, I understand. From now on, you are my property."

"Okay, I'll register the owner, so please give me your name"

…………

"You've suddenly been robotically appealing to this guy," I thought, "Rascal," but since it's necessary, I decided to introduce myself.

"I'm Rascal the Black Onyx. Job is [vessel god]. The gear in your right eye is my Deus Ex Machina."

"I signed up -. Then again, I'm introducing myself too!

The Brilliant Jade decides to pose (naked) while not naming himself.

"I'm [Agate] … oh, there were no more cores or altered uniforms! So there's no time left to name the original name..."

but the name stopped on the way to see if there was anything wrong with the name to be named.

"So from now on, I mean Makina!

And he gave himself a new name, "Now no more."

"Hey."

"I'm inseparable from this right now. Isn't half of this mine now anyway?"

"... I'm just lending it"

It was such a weak exchange, but the two taught each other their names and made a contract.

Thus, the greatest masterpiece of civilization of the previous period became a partner of the modern [vessel god].

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Rascal thinks as he dreams about such a beginning day.

- This guy was the most pompous and understated these days.

It is a time when I was still wearing a cat.

Things It is more impossible to tell Rascal to anticipate at the time, such as showing horrible pomposity when it comes to the depletion of assets and materials.

The damage sustained by Rascal is slightly different from the average scattered amount.

But still... Rascal thinks.

- Machina's here, and I'm glad to hear it.

Zex was imprisoned, he wasn't close to Zeta, Emily was a temper, La Crima was abnormal, and Gabella was an idiot.

In such a state of operation, it was Machina who supported Rascal the most.

Control of the home [Tetra Gramaton], development of various essential equipment such as accessories for concealment and assistance with rascals.

Once, in earlier periods of civilization, the brilliant Jade, assistant to the greatest genius and the bewitched man, was undoubtedly brilliant, even with many problems, and a great help.

Rascal also appreciates...

-... no, I knew it was a thank you.

It is the daily damage that passes through the back of your brain before you express your daily gratitude.

Either way, that's one way to be a partner.

It may not be the same way Embrio came from.

Still, the relationship between the two was turning around like meshed gear.

To be continued