Kill the Dragon

Eight hours after the operation, Silence went to see Sergeant Red without taking a break. Sergeant Red sits as if he was waiting.

- He was alive?

Silence moves quickly. Sergeant Red noticed the trouble.

‘The Omega team was faster than I expected. ’

The Omega Team is a special unit to be operated in secret. It is a team to be used for unsafe or dangerous missions to third graders. It must not be exposed in the third grade or in public. He kept his mouth shut for a third-grader who met with the Omega team. The paperwork says that only the Alpha and Blue were able to subdue the enemy.

‘It was bad. There were many variables, but the commanding officer was careless. I was optimistic about the situation just by sending in two teams. ’

Sergeant Red didn't know where to start. Even then, it wasn't long before I looked up information about the Omega team. It was a project very few knew about and worked on. The Omega Team is a public part of the Undercarc. Through information and budget manipulation, Arc continued to invest in the Undercarc. The existence of a completely disconnected basement from the outside was a necessary evil.

‘The founding of the Omega team was a few months earlier than expected. The original PsychoFrame 11 prayer was to form three teams only in the third grade. ’

Threatening creatures emerged sooner than expected, and we needed an Omega team. There has been a change of plans. The ideal situation was that only Arc's superiors knew the identity of the Omega team and then ‘destroyed’ it to the end.

-Sergeant.

Silence is in a hurry.

“Fourteen rebellious children. Unfortunately, only four have survived so far. As fate would have it. ”

-First is down to five, including me.

“Five out of 54. Survival rate is terrible. ”

Sergeant Red shrugs.

Arc's initial training plan has failed. During the training process, 20 people died or fell into a trance, and 14 children attempted to escape the Arc system. The children who were driven mad by the harsh environment brutally killed those who cared for them. Most of them did not overcome extreme stress. Escape and freedom were just excuses, and they simply did not control the violence.

Even children who did not participate in the rebellion were killed or killed in confusion by the children who caused the rebellion. The remaining survivors are mentally damaged beyond normal ability. Silence was the only child to join the next program. He is the first third grade.

- What did you do?

“I don't know what the process was. I only know that it's controlled by some sort of means. Although it's obvious that it's a means to an unseemly end. ”

- I'd like to meet him.

Sergeant Red frowns as if he knew. He ignites the air and repeats to extinguish it. He was nervous, too.

“While taking the risk of exposing power you don't want to see, Arc thought it was more important to support you. Can't you just get over it? ”

- Maybe if it were Ihan. But I can't live with the distractions like Han.

“Maybe one of the Omega teams shot you in the head. Why don't we just kill each other? ”

- If you don't blame him... you're lying. At least I won't fight.

“Don't even think about it. It's impossible for me to contact the Omega team directly. How could you be more monitored? Even the arc would have figured it out by now. ”

Silence trembles. It's been a long time since I've had this rage. It felt like my trust in the arc had been broken.

What happened to the instruction that before being a weapon, you have to be a human first?

“It only applies to you. They've already given up on being human. He's a felon who even killed his partner. You know better than anyone, don't you? ”

Sergeant Red said and was embarrassed. A felon who even killed a colleague seems reasonable, but the reality is just an excuse. At that time, the rebellious children were as big as the big babies who could not even tell the difference. I was younger than the third graders. It is natural for them to act according to their emotions and instincts. The fundamental problem lies with the uncontrolled arc. The whole responsibility is passed on to the children and the arc is just pretending to be clean.

‘But Silence is not smart enough to dig a hole in the problem. ’

Silence can't take it anymore. At this rate, I'd be skewering you, but Silence doesn't have that kind of talent.

‘I'm sorry for Silence, but I have to convince you. Right now.'

Sergeant Red knows that Arc is our only hope. No matter how strong the seniors are, if there is no backup through Arc, there will be no victory in the war. Even if you have a complaint, it's okay to have an argument with Arc after the war is over. If we divide now, humanity is finished.

‘As long as the war is over.... ’

Red Lieutenants complained about the arc one by one. No matter how high-class he is, he is essentially a combatant. I empathize more with first-line soldiers and sickers than with desk-heads. Some of the treatments of the arc were overwhelming for a third-grader cyker. The Commander is a Saiker, but the Chief of Staff and a large number of executives are not Saikers. The odd distinction grew larger and larger.

‘Maybe it's leaning more after the Commander loses control. I doubt even the Omega Team has Commander's permission. ’

Commander's personality and experience was admirable. You sacrificed yourself and tried to get emotional with Elu and the Minions. Thanks to that, I got a lot of information. The commander has gained insight into the core, as if several people were thinking at the same time. That is why I am still a commander and pay for Arc's policies and important matters while in my right mind. But the cycle of returning to sanity became longer and longer. It is obvious that Alexander Lecor will take command once the war begins.

“Damn it. That's how the Supreme Council handles it, because there's so much to hide. ”

Sergeant Red sends Silence out and buries himself in a chair. He puts his legs on his desk and smokes a cigar. His prosthesis presses heavily against the desk.

The end of the Arc project will be to dismantle the psychoframe after winning the war and cultivate third-grade sickers in different countries. Most of them will return to their own countries, but the negotiations after that are at the discretion of the state and the sicker. If you are from a small country, you may enter a strong country. Third graders are talented people borrowed from different countries. A kind of mercenary.

The Supreme Council's biggest concern is arc owning and powering third-grade psychoframe troops like soldiers. If the arc is independent and powerless, the balance between the nations will be broken. Factorial assassinations using psychoframes and sickers, guerrillas, etc. are troublesome to conventional troops. One Man Army is no joke.

That's why the Omega Team that Arc controls is unacceptable to the Supreme Council. Arc's psychoframe death squad, which the Supreme Committee so desperately tried to stop.

‘Perhaps for peace's sake, it's right for the Arc to have his own personal power. ’

Arc can play a deterrent role in conflict and war in the middle. There is no organization better suited to clean up the chaos that will end the war than Arc. The image of the hero who prevented the destruction can also gain popular support. If the world order is reorganized around the arc, it can move on to the next generation without confusion.

‘Course, it doesn't suit the next big country. ’

Sergeant Red mutters with a gust of smoke. Despite Arc's support for order, the weak nations will oppose the possibility to change the world order as they see fit. The Supreme Council is such a power-driven organization. They want the Ark gone quietly after the war.

‘If the arc leads order, it may be a form of power dominated by sickers, as the Pure Ones say. ’

If the power of the sicker is the foundation of order and control, he will also rise at the center of chaos. Humanity only desires the ability of the sicker as a value of protection, not as a power of control. Humans instinctively deny that they are different from Saikers.

Lee placed the communicator in his ear in the private room. He overhears Silence and Sergeant Red's conversation. Silence took the comms to see Sergeant Red. The story of Sergeant Red goes into Lee's ears.

“I thought Silence was old.... ”

Silence told Lee most of what he knew. Initiative prototyping and insurgency - and subsequent Purge. Many children have died.

‘What matters is now. ’

Lee Han frowned as he moved his shoulders. Muscle fatigue piles up fiercely. I wore a psychoframe and fought for a long time. I wanted to fall asleep right away, but I endured it.

‘At least we'll be safe until the war with the dragons is over. Ironic.'

If Sergeant Red is telling the truth, there is only one team like Omega. In the end, the main force of the war is the third grade. Threeth-grade safety is guaranteed until the war is over.

‘It's complicated to say it's just an arc versus a sicker. ’

Lee Han seemed to be tightened in his head. There are too many interests involved It is difficult to come to a simple and clear conclusion. Cyclops, Humans, Arcs, Powers. Each seeks his own interests. Just as humanity is divided into anti-cycles and pro-silkers, factions will split apart inside the cycles. Such a complex world awaited the end of the war.

‘It's unclear who the enemy is and who the ally is. ’

Everyone is going crazy to fill their greed. The massive currents falter and swirl. It was chaos itself.

“The war hasn't even begun... ”

Lee Hwan is bitter. There is no guarantee that he will win the war. The last battle was a close victory. If Arc had failed Jersey, there would have been another great catastrophe.

Arc has suffered heavy casualties. Four of the five third-grade wounded have died. The deaths included Moose and Amir. Only Blue's squadron commander, who barely escaped the precipice, survived.

‘He's dead again. ’

Lee didn't want to lose another member of his squad.

‘I had to push harder. ’

Lee had lost control of Moose and Amir. This influence did not reach them. If they thought it mattered, they would have been wary of reacting to the word "step back immediately." If so, at least he might have saved his life. Lee had thought about it several times. You look back at your actions and find the breakpoint.

‘If I had taken a different action there.... ’

Queek.

Silence came into the room while he was thinking. He put the communicator on his desk.

- Did you hear that?

“Yes."

- This is how it happened.

“You should keep your mouth shut for a while. There's nothing good about the other kids. ”

Third graders believe in Arc all the time. An organization that saves humanity. Some boys take pride in being a part of it. Even the slightest crack in pride and faith has great consequences.

Lee instinctively understood that causal relationship. He once led a small group of orphans. Small doubts spread with great disagreement. We had to distribute food equally in front of everyone.

- The Omega team is dangerous.

Silence sits down and writes calmly.

“Why do you think that is? ”

- Everyone but themselves is the enemy. Neither humanity nor arc.

“Cyclist? ”

- Similar, but slightly different. If you refuse to be a colleague, even the same psychic would kill you.

“The Arc will have weapons to control the Omega Team. Otherwise, there's no way we're going into the field. ”

The Ark has taken control of the Omega Team by some sort of means. Even in action, the Omega Team remains calm. I followed arc's orders.

Like a dog. ’

Lee looked at Silence. Silence was reluctant to mention the past. I couldn't even imagine what kind of environment it would be for children under the age of 10 to go on a killing spree.

‘It must be from experience that you value mental stability in the arc. ’

Lee suddenly looked over Silence. Silence is the only case that has successfully grown, maintaining sanity and combat strength in such rough environments. When stress is expressed externally, it is expressed as aggressive and violent, and when accumulated internally, it causes depression and psychosis. Silence alone could not have grown in such an environment without mental illness.

‘Mask.’

I didn't think that mask meant much, but maybe it has something to do with Silence's mental state. Lee reminded me of what he often heard from his therapist.

Defense mechanisms.

Silence might break if the mask is broken.