＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

■ Early March 2015

That day, Black Three Ghosts, a test pilot at the Triangle of Wisdom, was walking down the main hallway with his hair permed.

"Mr. Zelbar is really already..."

The name he named is the cause of this happened to his hair.

When I was tasked with testing the fuselage that became [Zerbar TypeE] with the new electric shock gear, it leaked inside.

I almost became a Despena at risk, but my hair is barely alive at the expense of me.

These cases have happened several times before.

However, including the danger of such tests, I cannot complain because I am able to ride around the aircraft with high production costs.

"Good day. That sounds like a tough one."

"Ah, Hugo"

It was Hugo Receps who, at the same time as him, entered the < Triangle of Wisdom > as Rookie who welcomed him into the reclining room in the facility. Next door is also the figure of Cuco, his maiden.

Pilots are quite a lot of clans, but they talk relatively well because they are synchronous.

"Can I get you a coffee?

"Oh, thank you."

The Black Three Ghosts receive a paper cup with black liquid and stir seven sugars in it.

That's how the three of us start drinking coffee. (Although only Cuco had milk without coffee)

…………

While doing so, Cuco was paying attention to the heads of the Black Three Ghosts with unreadable eyes of emotion.

"... is that what you're trying to say?

"Shouldn't you be bald in the meantime?

"Dendro on the boulder, but the round-boy is a fluke!?

To sudden lethal advice, the Black Three Ghosts jump out of their chairs.

"... no, you have that too"

"What are you talking about obeying all the lords!?

The Black Three Ghosts lagged behind as they held to protect their heads.

"What, it's a simple story. Maybe we should cut them all once and recover in potion."

Hearing that, I also convinced the Black Three Ghosts.

"Here's my sister's hair restoration potion made by the owner."

"............... what is it?

The item itself is appreciated, but I was more concerned about why the synchronization had such a thing.

"Sounds like a by-product of a new ear medicine"

"What makes ear pills a hair pill?

The medicine is the [Chemomimi medicine] that will later annoy the < Master >.

But Hugo's explanation is a description of the medicine, not the explanation of the reason for possession.

"The reason I have... well, okay"

"Hugo, I sipped trying to get back at Kamigata. I got stuck with you."

"Cuco!?

Hugo turns a stunned look at the girl who exposed the Lord's ugliness to stab her in the back.

Seeing such an interaction between the two, the Black Three Ghosts decided to get a potion thinking, 'It seems to work for sure for now'.

shaved hair, and after taking it, his hair returned to fuzzy after a little headache.

"Yes... Despena was also taken into account."

"Despena is on the boulder for her hair..."

"... no, well, if I was testing Mr. Zelbar, I'd be dying somewhere"

"Ah......"

To the Black Three Ghosts who said so with a distant eye, Hugo also became a face who did not know what to answer.

Zelbar is a technician who excels in ideas and basic design, but is not immaculately skilled enough when shaping it.

As a result, an incident occurs and the test pilot is damaged after it runs halfway through.

And its role, these days, is mainly the Black Three Ghosts.

"I'm sorry I left you with a dangerous airframe even though it's synchronized."

Hugo also participates in the test as a pilot, but he deals with a lot of less dangerous objects like [Smoke Discharger].

"Fine. The MP expendable soldier outfit must be tough on me. Well, there's a little more capacity than the Kansts."

Apollo was a second form at the time and had few MPs to store.

Still, in the current situation of absenteeism from the Pilot System Super Position in the clan, he is the one with the most operational MPs.

"Plus, if you're on all sorts of fuselages, you might get me the perfect special machine someday."

I admired the robotic cartoon pilot, and the reason I started < Infinite Dendrogram > was also because I saw a video uploaded to the net by < Triangle of Wisdom >.

As soon as I logged in, I knocked on the gate of < Triangle of Wisdom > and was allowed to join the group because of the nature and future of < Embrio >.

"Huh. If that's what you can say, I don't have to feel bad about sleeping either"

"Yeah, well, don't worry about it.... but well, to be honest, I envy Hugo when it comes to dedicated machines. It's like having a special machine from the beginning."

Cuco... Coquitos combines with Magingear to increase its performance.

He can also change his appearance and exercise special and powerful skills. It was an admiration for the Black Three Ghosts.

"Thanks, but your Apollo is no better than Cuco's. Good."

"I wonder"

Hugo's words are a little hard to convince the Black Three Ghosts.

But Hugo overlaps words with certainty.

"Your Apollo connects with people."

"Connect?"

"Any MP supply capacity. Seek help, not exploitation. That means we always have company when we use that power."

To that word, the Black Three Ghosts take Hugo's face seriously.

"The magic that can be deposited is also called 'expectation'. Everyone expects you to succeed in the test and accomplish the project. Just like the Apollo project that inspired it."

"............... Hugo is awesome, cool way to look at it"

In praise of his own < Embrio >, the Black Three Ghosts became awkward.

"Hugo, Kizano-jubi, so"

"Cuco!?

But again Hugo's < Embrio > stabbed him in the back of it.

"It's so cool to be around you. I want to be a little bit."

"Stop!? No, don't! Because it collapses! My things!

The Black Three Ghosts laughed and watched the interaction.

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A casual conversation with a contemporaneous friend.

Hugo joined a certain plan with the owner after this and soon left < Triangle of Wisdom >.

Still, the words I received in this day's conversation... the Black Three Ghosts still remember.

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□ ■ Northwest Alter Kingdom/Plains

The clash between the kingdom headed by the Wolf Cherry Blossom and the Empire including the Pilot Troop.

There is no significant difference between the number and total strength of the two armies.

But in that situation...... the kingdom is clearly beginning to prevail.

The reason is the difference in experience.

Not level. It's about how much you've fought with 'opponents similar to your enemies'.

As the pilot himself said, the human size is small in purpose.

Much smaller human-shaped enemies than monsters in the sub-dragon class fighting for materials and quests than fighting in mock warfare.

If you make it a kingdom, you have as much experience fighting monsters as you do.

With the exception of Alberto, the aircraft engaged with Wolf Cherry Blossoms, the greatest power, was still alive, but in other battles the kingdom will destroy < Maggie > one by one in an even number of battles.

With the advantages of the number thus generated, he also begins to destroy those who are not on board.

Or a notable force on this occasion… [King Eater] Kata or [King Car Rider] Murdoch would have been different, but Kata is fighting < Babylonian Combat Regiment > and Murdoch is fighting < K&R > beside [Radio Battalion].

That's how the battle trend starts to lean...... eventually the war situation starts to move a lot in another way as well.

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[Destroyed King] 's wide-area extermination attack and [FSC] 's wide-area barrier system that inhibits it.

The antagonism lasted until the fifth time.

Until the second time it was a terrifying force, but the fuselage and dozens of shields managed to outshine it while screaming.

Still, I wouldn't have been able to outrun them if they'd released equivalent firepower three times.

But after the third time, it was clear that the [King of Annihilation] 's firepower had fallen.

Is the reason for this is the out-of-stock of privileged weapons or fear of involving the kingdom forces that have broken into the imperial position?

Or it's unclear if there was a reason it wasn't either.

But even as power fell, the annihilation attacks continued, and the Black Three Ghosts cut them off by devoting all their spirits to defense.

- The shell pierced [FSC] 's torso after preventing a fifth annihilation attack.

Dot shelling, not surface annihilation attacks.

The barrier was pierced by body sniping at times of extended defense and stiff posture, [FSC] kneeling at the cost of damage to key engines.

'They did it...!

The Black Three Ghosts, who were confronted with Alberto, squeal so as they zero blood from the edge of their mouth.

He himself had damaged his abdomen with fragments scattered across the cockpit.

(Five attacks to make a gap over here? More times for that...... more than that!

When the Black Three Ghosts checked the fuselage status, the connection mechanism to [Buckler Planets] had been destroyed.

Shields that have lost control and been cut off from the magic supply fall to the ground.

"... ugh!

Since the main mechanism has been destroyed, the shield cannot be reactivated even if re-equipped.

At this point, [FSC] had lost its function as a defensive fuselage.

The next attack, no matter what, cannot be prevented.

However... there is no pursuit of [Destroyed King].

Think about the reason, and I'll immediately guess.

The kingdom forces that have prevailed in the battle outside the Skol are additionally entering the Imperial position.

We stopped attacking extermination because we had more allies. In the future, I guess it's in my mind to shift to an attack on a point like shooting out the Black Three Ghosts' fuselage.

And those who have entered the Imperial position are showing a move to join the battle with Murdoch as it is.

(Switch to normal [Marshall III] and respond,...... can't you do that too)

As he looked down at the bloody seeping pilot suit, the fragments of the fuselage were profoundly pierced.

It wasn't a fatal wound like dying from a single blow, but the wound is deep, and abnormal [bleeding] and [left kidney injury] conditions are also visible.

Not far away, you'll run out of lives.

"So far, huh?

What the Black Three Ghosts did on this battlefield was defend their opponents five times.

Speaking of enough, I guess enough.

But......

- That's not the end of it.

- The pilot was not humble enough to be satisfied with the result.

"Gear change, [FBC]"

The [FSC] back unit comes off with the declaration of the Black Three Ghosts and new equipment is fitted.

It's a large caliber cannon body connected to a giant magic converter.

The name is [Full (F), Blast (B), Custom (C)]. It is a particle-accelerated artillery package developed simultaneously with the [FSC] defensive uniform.

However… [FSC] or more defective machines are substitutes that were not even completed.

"Charging begins…"

The magic that remains in Apollo is poured into the [FBC] magic conversion device.

It is converted into an enormous amount of heat, concentrated in the shell...... not (...).

The output of the heat conversion is too high to concentrate and leaves it unattended as a beam… increasing only the total amount of energy in the shell.

Eventually, even the heat-resistant treated shell distorts and begins to melt.

That's [FBC] 's flaw. The choice is whether the control of energy is as unfavourable and cannot be released due to lack of energy...... suicide bombing (...) due to excessive conversion of energy.

He once had a huge explosion at the laboratory and drove the Black Three Ghosts, who were test pilots after turning the surrounding area into a scorching hell, into a death penalty.

It was a bitter experience and this time it was also brought to me by the technicians but I was not willing to use it.

But I'm no longer certain of my exit.

That means that the MP of the Triangle of Wisdom deposited with me disappears at the same time.

At a time like this, his people...... what would the beloved tech idiots say?

- If you're enough to lose, you should erase your opponent's win, too.

- I'll blow it 100%, but that's the opposite of what you'd accept as something like that!

- Data on which it breaks when it melts. Regards.

- Art isn't an explosion. Explosion is the art. Especially of the twenty-seven stories in this cartoon......

- Let's do it flashy! de flamboyant!

They all seem possible, and the Black Three Ghosts laugh.

"Ha ha. Well then... let's launch some big fireworks!

Laughing, I can yell.

Because I'm sure my people deposited their magic and equipment in anticipation of this.

- It means we always have company when we use that power.

"Oh, not at all!

The Black Three Ghosts pulled the last trigger as they reflated the words of their former friends behind their brains.

It is emitted from the shell without the running of light converging.

More light than emitted from the cannon mouth melts and overflows the sides of the cannon.

A few runs of light twirling in all directions evaporate the right arm of the Black Three Ghosts' fuselage first.

Next swallow half of the kingdom's < master > who boarded the Imperial position and a third of the remaining [radio battalion].

In the light, only the [tall hammer] that deployed the electromagnetic barrier endures.

And the light that swept off the earth reached the sky, further up as it plundered Alberto... pierced the emerald cloud.

――――――

Some of the jade clouds that previously behaved like the naturalization evaporated in a circular fashion, and the giant eyeballs that appeared with the voiceless screams distorted into agony, causing the scowl to stop.

It didn't arrive, and even the physical attacks were ineffective. Even the elementary ones suffered a huge direct blow of heat.

The trigger pulled by the Black Three Ghosts became a clear hand in moving the war situation.

"Hehe, hehe..."

After scattering light trajectories and destruction across all directions, the fuselage that knocked the battlefield into chaos... falls on its back and disintegrates.

Pilots, the damage to the fuselage has reached its limits.

"Mr. Murdoch's [Radio Battalion] got involved too... I need to apologize later..."

In a spark-raising cockpit, the hand of the Black Three Ghosts, whose life support has reached its limit, leaves the joystick.

We could not survive this battlefield, nor could we fight through it to the end.

Still......

"But... you've lived up to everyone's 'expectations', haven't you?

Laughing at my people for keeping the fuselage and magic... the Black Three Ghosts became a death penalty.

At the end of the day, I thought, '... I'd prefer a guy who doesn't explode next,' just a little bit.

To be continued