Instant Death

"Yes, no! I need your help!

The rooftop of a high-rise building in Wangdu.

So a blackened man was calling in his stomach.

The man is a sniper. At the end of his reaching hand is a sniper rifle, peeking at the scope.

It would be a strange sight from the majority of this world. Because no sniper rifle or anything originally exists in this world, and no one specializes in it.

The man was part of an assassination guild and was trained to handle this weapon given to him by the guild.

"Here. Just give me a minute. It hurts, it hurts like hell, doesn't it?

On the side of the sniper trembling in small pieces stands a girl wearing a red dress and wearing red gloves.

"Yes, no! I don't want to die! I don't want to die!

"Yes. That's why it makes sense. You don't want to kill the target. But he tries to kill the target reluctantly to escape the pain. Because you need to kill the target to escape this pain. And, well, what happens if I try to kill you, thinking I don't want to kill you this time? That's an experiment."

The man's body is implanted with a machine to inflict distress remotely. The agonizing area, the intensity, was free and free, and the girl was in control of it.

"Oh, you don't even have to try that! I know the results!

Previously, we tailored snipers to target those who knew nothing.

But this time it's a little different. Even the assassination guild has chosen a man who knows more about this assassination plot.

"Yeah. But I don't know until I try. We can't reach success without building up the results. Either way, I think you're going to die of pain as it is, so if you're going to die either way, why don't you just die and be free from pain?

Slowly increases the pain. Of course I'm not going to kill you. But if we prolong the pain, then the limit will come.

"... oh, you, too, will be dumped one of these days! Do you understand that? It makes sense that your head is throwing all the plans at you!

"Yeah. I know. If you try to kill me, you die. So how far does that causality extend? If you ask people to kill you, will you even die as a client? For a rifle, whoever pulled the trigger dies, but then, if there's a robot that works with audio input and you order it to be killed, is it the robot or the orderer that dies? What if the target happens to be caught in a trap if he doesn't intend to kill the target and traps it? It's more about taking safety precautions than you know."

"Oh, is that all right, you!

"It's the master's order."

Ryosuke Miyagi, the head of the Dark Garden, is not involved in the high-altitude night fog assassination plan.

That's how they put themselves in the safe zone.

I guess you don't have to do that because only the perpetrators of the specific murders are going to die so far, but this girl is thinking about what to do and letting her men do it.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!

I guess the limit has come. The sniper couldn't stand the pain and put his hand on the trigger, and stopped moving.

The target attacked us back.

Not this time either. If you try to kill me, no matter what mental state you are in, you will be killed.

But the girl is not discouraged. I am not expecting much, and this is only part of the experiment.

View target from rooftop.

Today, unlike usual, I was walking around the city with a girl. Looks fun for that or something.

300 meters at a distance. It's impossible first of all to check people's faces with naked eyes, but that was possible for a girl.

Because she was a machine in the shape of a person and a replicated being with the ability of Yosuke.

Girls do the math.

Doing the same doesn't make sense. Explore the possibility of being able to kill the target, replace hands and continue the experiment.

"Please aim for the girl next"

The girl in the machine gave a wireless instruction to a sniper in another building.

Ryosuke Miyayoga, the head of the dark garden, was in his own room on the second floor of the florist, overlooking a sloppy array of monitors.

There's a multi-arm mounted on a large office desk, and a monitor expands to enclose Yosuke, who sits in a chair.

Unfamiliar with this world, they were reproductions made with the ability of Yosuke. Yosuke's ability is imitation. We can make reproductions of things in the world we were in.

The group of monitors displays the landscape of the Wang capital from various angles. Those are footage from surveillance cameras mounted all over the city.

One of them showed the target, the high-altitude night fog.

This boy has been wandering the city lately without doing anything, but rarely today he has a companion.

She's a beautiful girl, so maybe it means a date.

There is still a subtle sense of distance between the two young people, who, if they see it, may find it smiling, etc., but Ryosuke only saw it as a bucket thing and a silly being unaware of its dangers.

Yosuke continued to observe his men's trial and error.

As it was in the requisition, I tried to get my men to do it first.

They tried to snipe with a replicated sniper rifle.

But his well-trained men died abruptly on the roof of a building far from their target.

He peeked at the scope in a belly-up position and died as soon as he targeted him.

I was puzzled when I saw the phenomenon, but that's how I understood the intent of the strange request.

Even from this distance, the target fights back when he realizes he's being targeted.

This existence is certainly dangerous, and if it can be assassinated, it must be kept. It sparked Russian interest, but Yosuke only ordered his men to investigate the target.

I won't even tell you to kill me. I just told him to do an investigation, and if I tell him the rough stuff, he'll do it on his own later.

Then Yosuke continued to look at his men's investigation.

Aim, and if you try to pull the trigger, you die.

I don't die just for aiming.

Put a trick on the rifle so you can't shoot it. Then I don't die trying to kill you and pulling the trigger.

If you take your aim off and shoot, you won't die.

If you put a trick on this again and make sure it hits you even if you're not going to aim, you'll die even if you're not going to kill me.

Mines don't explode when you step on them. The man who set it up didn't die, so in this case he must have broken the mine.

The same thing happened with simultaneous attacks from multiple locations, increasing the number but the results were the same. Whoever tried to kill him died without exception.

In the case of an attack by magic, he dies on the verge of saying the end of the spell if he needs chanting, and the moment he thinks about activating it if he's the type to activate it by will using a cane.

He doesn't target the target directly, and even if he tries to get involved in ranged magic, he dies. That doesn't have to be informing the operator about the target.

Bringing the average person who planted the bomb closer together will make the bomb unexploded.

Whether collapsing a nearby building, the target leaves the scene perceived to be dangerous, or gauging the timing of the inability to escape, the rubble will easily fall apart.

The poison didn't work either.

Mixing it with a meal is perceiving it and avoiding it, and spraying it with poison gas is disabling it.

It was at first that Yosuke thought that he would react to the intention to kill, but that seems very different.

It's just purely a question of whether or not the target could die, and if that cut-off subject dies, it breaks.

A counterattack to a ranged attack seemed like an almost automatic response.

I haven't tried melee attacks, but the results will be the same. That seems to be refraining, as a corpse would increase the likelihood of foot attachment.

Along with the investigation of the target's crisis-sensing capability, a parallel investigation had also been conducted into how to prevent its imminent death capability, but no aromatic results had been obtained either.

Giving legendary armor in this world could not prevent it, and so could the original world armor.

It was futile to magically increase defense, increase instant death resistance, and have a substitute item.

Just die.

There is no trauma and I don't know what caused it.

If you dare, I know it means heart failure, but that would just indicate that the heart has stopped.

At the end of the day, it didn't seem like there was anything I could do about it, but Yosuke was still relaxing.

Even if the target was a hell of a bucket, it wouldn't even reach me. Because that's what I think.

Although the target will fight back, he doesn't even know where the person he killed is.

I seem to know about the general direction, but the distance is far enough so it is possible to withdraw immediately, without being informed of the existence of Yosuke.

In other words, the worst case scenario is that we can get away with it, which is one of the reasons we are able to continue this experiment.

Of course, it's a lie when it comes to not being anxious at all. But Yosuke could not honestly admit the anxiety.

Anyway, it all got boring, and I started running assassinations for inspiration.

Kill the person you can't kill no matter what you do. I just give up on such exciting things and run away for other stimuli, etc. Whoever doesn't tell you will think so. I don't want to make excuses or anything, and I can't allow Yosuke to do that.

So Yosuke anoints his faint anxiety with curiosity. I inspire myself that this is the exciting event that I wanted.

"Well. What's happening now?

Ryosuke switches monitors as the target moves.

Some monitors are constantly showing targets, but this is due to small drones.

It is located above unnoticed and continues to move with the target.

The two seemed on their way to the area where the mysterious disaster occurred.

More burnt buildings and more collapsed buildings.

There is only debris, it came to the heart of the disaster and the two stopped.

There were surveillance cameras here too, but this kind of thing couldn't have worked, and the only thing that was showing them now was the drones over the sky.

"Please aim for the girl next"

I hear voices from nowhere. Wireless communication.

Speaking of which, you didn't do the case.

I've tried to attack all the people around the target before, but that was to involve the target.

But without targeting, what if you attacked a nearby person?

Do you still sense intent to kill in that case? Can we fight back?

Maybe we can find some difference there.

A subordinate who was waiting somewhere shot the rifle.

The target reacted. I held the girl and protected her from the rifle bullet.

Yosuke checked the monitor showing his men.

He's not dead.

In other words, even if we could detect an attack targeting a human being nearby, we would not have even fought back against it.

"Do you mind if I continue on this route? - Hmm?

Yosuke doubted his eyes as he watched the monitor the sniper was showing.

When did the ninja show up there?

A fancy looking ninja in a red outfit sneaks up on a sniper.

And he was lightly tying up the sniper.

"Stupid!

Ryosuke stood up in a panic.

Ninja would be one of the targets. It's hard to imagine you came by chance and captured me.

That would mean that the sniper was out of position.

Then how.

No, it was originally possible to get away from the ballistics.

So I don't even have to panic. I can't get through to Yosuke from my men. My men don't know anything about Yosuke. I don't know this place, and I don't know Yosuke's face or his name. Even in the worst case, it's not until the machine girl who's planning it, and the girl never cracks her mouth because of the machine.

It's a shame to back off here, but there's no way this is going to happen. It doesn't make sense to go on like this in case Yosuke finds out.

Yosuke tried to calm down and sit in the chair, noticing further anomalies.

It is seen.

A target in the monitor was staring straight at this one.

The only thing that's reflecting the target right now is the drones floating above. In other words, the target will be looking up recognizing the existence of the drone.

"Wait. 'Cause I'm going that way now.'

The audio the drone picked up was clearly heard, and the monitor darkened.