Kill the Dragon

After completing the mission, Silence enters the room. As soon as I entered the room, I felt exhausted.

‘It's been a long day. ’

Silence sits on the bed and catches his breath. Silence was more dispatched than the other third graders. He's a trusted member of the Arc. As a combatant, your skills are almost imperfect.

Click.

Silence turns off the light and quietly removes his helmet. In the darkness, your face is buried. As if the dark darkness was familiar, I just wiped my face with a towel and lay down. The shower was postponed for tomorrow morning.

Woof.

Silence has been using a faint handset screen to identify the deaths for weeks. The soldiers he knew were on the death list. In the arc, soldiers die and are replenished. Whenever a familiar name appeared, my shoulders twitched.

‘He's dead, too. Fewer and fewer people are aware of the case. ’

The early arc project was not this big. It was not long ago that it took the form of large tissues as it is today.

Silence takes a sip of water and closes his eyes. I turned to sleep for a long time because of the excitement of the battle. Perhaps it was because I met Zach de Gaulle that I forgot about the past and pushed up my unconscious dream.

[I wasn't born to raise you like this either.]

[All other humans are enemies, not us.]

[Come with me.]

Now even the boy with a blurred face said, I reached out to Silence several times. Silence instinctively knew he was dangerous. There was a charisma that attracted children of my age. He was unique among many boys.

The horrific sights then dominated Silence's dream world. It's a bloody sight. The children who were crazy about the slaughter jumped. Crazy boys left behind a psychic. Silence only had to look at it.

Bam!

Silence awakens as he sets his bed at dawn. I threw the glass of water over my head with my duvet tucked away.

Tsk, tsk!

The glass breaks. Silence gasps as he shrugs. It's been a nightmare for a long time. I thought I'd forgotten it a long time ago.

‘Why did I mention the incident? ’

Silence covers his head. I remembered the ‘boy’ I had forgotten. It reminded me of an old feeling.

A calm tone, a logical thought that does not fit the age, and a speech that makes the listener nod. Silence, who was a child at the time, did not know how great it was.

‘... resembles Lee Han. ’

It doesn't look like a face. It resembles its distinctive, calm and adult charisma. Silence thought so.

‘He's already dead. It doesn't matter. ’

Silence lies with his torso bent. You flip the wet pillow over and close your eyes again.

The minion crisis in France calmed down over time. Even without arc intervention, the risk level has been lowered to a level that can be solved by local soldiers. As there were many deployments, the growth of the third graders was remarkable, with practical experience accumulating over the course of a year in just two months.

“A psychic sensor chip. ”

Lee Han heard about the sensor chips in the ward. Around it were about 10 third-graders. It seemed that only the current number of people had roughly gathered. Third graders had different schedules, so they rarely all gathered together.

The researcher explained with a chip the size of a pinky. The psychic power was a real-time verifiable chip.

“Are you hitting us? ”

Someone asked me a question. The researcher nods, smiling.

“I'll put it under the skin. It doesn't hurt that much. Compared to the procedures you've been through, this is nothing. ”

Some of the boys who heard it frowned. Some had tongues. It's physiologically repulsive to put something in your body.

“Ugh. I hate it. ”

“All the bikers will get it. ”

The children murmured. There was nothing quite like what they said. Although many suspicious boys conspired to suggest that there might be a device, in the arc, there was an opportunity to attach any suspicious device to the boys' bodies as long as they were willing. There's no reason to be so open-minded.

“What's the efficiency of having a measurement sensor in your body? ”

Lee asked. The researcher points to a first-generation sicker standing next to him.

“It's quicker to explain than to say. Corporal Leo in front of you is already chipped. Scan Corporal Leo's handset. ”

The boys moved their fingers.

“I see your P.P. ”

“It's true.”

I checked the terminal. You can see Corporal Leo's psychic powers fluctuating in real time. Other conditions such as pulse and body temperature were indicated.

‘It was to check on our allies. ’

It was a good device to quantify the foreground and power more objectively. When you wear a helmet, the display can tell the status of the squad members at a glance.

“And in the case of reinforcements, it's easy to link with the psychoframe and data the estimated uptime. It's being programmed separately by your techs. ”

The researcher said, the eyes of the boys chased after Lee for a moment. This is the only third grade that is currently confirmed as a reinforcement unit.

I went into the procedure after the description. The procedure lasted one minute per person. Everyone left the operating room touching where the chips were inserted. I went inside Lee, who was waiting for me.

“It's going to sting a little. ”

Lee Han inserted a chip into the left shoulder. I grumbled because I felt an unpleasant foreign body under my skin, but I only heard that you'll get used to it soon.

The next day, Lee Han got a call from Okto and went out to the development room. There were a lot of other technicians, not just the third team. The team chief figures had a rough debate among themselves.

Okto drags Lee Hwan aside and spits out an unspoken word.

“Do you know exactly how psychoframes work? Actually, we don't know. I just hooked up dragon material and metal and injected a psychic kick, and I found that bones and leather moved along a pattern like parts of the body. The result of this phenomenon alone is a psychic frame. I don't know the causality, I'm just guessing the correlation. Contemporary technology doesn't tell us exactly what to do. So no one knows the fundamental drivers of psychoframes. When the primitives hit the flint, it doesn't scientifically explain why the fire started, but it does. ”

Okto talked a lot today. He was excited. Lee heard the explanation and did not understand it. I just nodded my head.

“So? Why did you call me? ”

“Eleven psychoframes have just arrived. ”

Lee's eyes widened. I knew why all the technicians were here. Psychoframe is a tricky piece of equipment. Teams divide and repair psychoframes.

“And why am I here? ”

“Now the 11, MK-2, are based on prototype exercise data. It's adapted to your body until the other team tunes in. ”

Lee knew what it meant even though Okto didn't say anything behind his back.

“A test.”

“Yes. That. Make sure there's no defects. Inspired Smith might not be good enough... Maybe he's old. ”

Lee sighed, but there was no excuse or reason to refuse. It's what we have to do to be safe.

“Can I do the same as last time? ”

“Tell me if you find anything strange. ”

Lee Han followed Okto and the technician to the testing ground. Eleven psychoframes stood there glowing. There was not a scratch on the glove board.

‘This is what I was like at first. ’

Lee's psychoframe now reeks of combat. The exterior armor plate had traces of combat left in the interior skeleton.

Kieing.

Second generation psychoframe MK-2. The breastplate has the letter [G2] MK-2 on it.

‘Looks are not that different from prototypes. ’

The basic structure is the same as copied. The arc did not have time to add functionality and improve performance to MK-2. I moved the prototype design and made it because it was in a hurry. What has changed is the difference in the proportion of dragon materials. I used less dragon material and increased metal content.

“I'm glad I don't smell sweat. ”

Lee said while mounting the psychoframe. The display was switched on as the helmet shield closed. Familiar screen information appeared. I heard Okto's voice.

- I have to be in my 11s. Lighten up.

“Okay."

The shield between the skin and the psychoframe fell. Psychoframe absorbed this psychic energy.

‘The power to absorb psychic energy is weak. ’

Dragon material is like a magnet that attracts psychics. Its weakness meant that the proportion of dragon material was that low.

‘It's much easier to control. ’

Lee Han moved lightly. My arms and legs felt heavy overall. Using the same psychic energy, the output was slower and less responsive than the prototype.

‘It feels relative everywhere. This one is much more athletic than the first generation. ’

MK-2 also implemented all the possible human movements, such as prototypes. Unlike the first generation with only sturdy skeletons and articular sinuses like dolls, the second generation used artificial muscles that looked at human muscles as internal bodies. It is hard to make and expensive, but it is much better than the first generation, as Lee has proven in practice.

“It's clean. There's no snag. I could be in combat right now. ”

Lee ran the aerial swarm while wearing a psychoframe. As soon as I landed, my weight caused my floor to crack. There was elasticity everywhere.

‘I'm getting good at psychoframes, too. ’

This limit was completely different from the last time I tested it. This level of operation is possible even with psychoframes. I performed more varied and delicate movements than I did during the test.

“Hey! Grab this! ”

One of the technicians throws a nut. Lee thought he would catch it with impulsiveness, but he moved his fingers because he didn't think it was what the technicians wanted.

Knock.

Lee Han grabbed the nut between his index finger and thumb. It's no big deal, but the technicians were overwhelmed.

“Oh!”

Technicians know how great progress is. Reinforced exoskeleton suit with few delays for the same mobility as humans. Without dragon material, modern technology is impossible. Due to the reaction of psychic energy and dragon materials, countless procedures have been omitted.

“Hah, this is hard. ”

Lee tested and exhausted all 11 psychoframes. Technical teams loaded their respective reserved psychoframes and cooled off to their development room. Lee looked at the water as he drank.

Three days later, a second generation reinforcement unit was appointed. It was personal contact through a handset, but rumors spread about who was soon chosen as the reinforcement unit. Lee looked at the names of the members, counting them one by one, then tilted his head.

Why seven? ’

MK-2 was 11 years old. There were 4 spaces except for 7. It was exactly one team number.