For a company conference room with 1.2 million, it's a really tiny room. Just about ten people had gathered to fill their seats. So Etta, who heads the Mercenaries Corporation, held her eyebrows between her eyes to an intolerable headache.
"Honestly, I don't believe you, and I don't want to believe you."
Etta exhaled heavily as she put her anger on the word without hiding it. Someone squirms in a room isolated from the outside world in every sense.
"Looks like you should rule out the possibility of coincidence. Probably not."
Except for Etta herself and her sister, Yotta, said the most powerful man in the Mercenaries. The man seemed to have tried to show Etta some information on the terminal at hand, but she shook her head and missed her face that it was not necessary.
"I don't even have to calculate. Of course."
A Human Resource Acquisition Station, also known in the Mercenaries as the code name G3, only some humans know. There are currently 28 of them, all of which were placed in places that make no sense at all. The people of the station do not have the power to develop planets and peripheral areas, nor do they need to. Therefore, there was no need to think about things such as the convenience of movement and work, and there was total freedom to place them where. However, ships heading to the site for harvest are located relatively close to the stars for reasons that make it difficult to locate the station. That was just the only reason they weren't placed in complete interstellar space that seemed absolutely secure.
"Every possibility of passage, conceivable in the way humans live. It's where we got rid of them all. It can't be a coincidence. They were clearly willing to visit there."
An emergency report from below that G3 was likely exposed to a third party, the culprit of a headache that attacks Etta. She didn't do anything disturbing when she heard it, but instead she felt breathless as if she had been stuffed with lead in her stomach. It was an inevitable and definite emergency that the presence of G3 would be a major problem if exposed to the world. It wouldn't be a big deal if we dealt with the future calmly, but at least Etta knew that there was something going on in the world in case.
The question is, how did you know G3 existed?
Etta emits in a sinking voice. A man raised three fingers there saying, "Three."
"One thing, there's a traitor among us. Two, information leaked from the bottom in some way. Mitsu, they have an excellent sonar man. One of these. Other possibilities have been verified, but it's hard to think."
I assure you so, man with arms. That's where Etta said, "Sonnerman?," he asked grumply, "Is it possible?" I replied curiously.
"If we had lived in a similar place for hundreds of years, the electromagnetic waves emitted from the station would have spread over hundreds of light years in radius. If there's a sonar man who caught it, it's not surprising to question the radiation from unmanned space."
To the man's answer, Etta laughed with her nose.
"They're moving them on a regular basis, and they've been strictly stealthy in recent years. Leaking electromagnetic waves are insignificant. I don't think you can tell from cosmic rays... yes, of course you can."
When Etta noticed the gaze being poured on her, she made a small smile at her sister, its lord.
"Yeah, sister. Of course I can... I wonder why you're a sonar man. Not even the possibility of a high-precision scanner?
Yotta turns a sharp gaze at the man. When the man raised his jaw to look down at Yotta, he slipped his mobile device onto the table, "Read about the material," he said.
"As for the large precision scanners, I took confirmation from one end to the other from each manufacturer, but they have never received such an order in the past few years. Alpha, I've never heard of a company that could build anything like that in the universe... and at the end of the Enzio project, twelve boosted men are out of the facility. Eight have been recovered here, but the rest are missing. They're all likely sonnermen."
A man who explains things like reluctance. "I guess," Yotta said boringly as she glanced at the information on the mobile device thrown as she heard the man explain.
"There's no such thing as a sonar man who can't break the line of alert. I don't think Coleman would let that happen."
When Yotta said so, she pushed the mobile device on the table back towards the man with momentum. When the man rushed to accept it, he tongued in frustration.
"Stop it. Later if you have a fight. What about the other two?"
Etta said as she rubbed her eyebrows apart. Yotta looked in the direction of the day after tomorrow, like reluctantly, and the man opened his mouth as he sighed.
"Just because you leaked information, it won't be light enough to claim that you're irrelevant. The line of traitors is thin. About the leak from downstairs, but I see this one as fateful. Look at this guy."
That's what a man says and waves. Then the monitor went up on the table and the footage that seemed to belong to the surveillance camera began to flow there. The footage showed the two men, and they seemed to be having some kind of conversation while looking at their mobile devices.
"Twelve days ago, it was footage from the Survey Center headquarters. One is the general representative of G3" Preparation "and the other is the supplier of the ship's equipment. As far as the footage goes, you two are in the usual shape, and you look like you're doing the usual exchange. Get ready."
Preparation refers to a series of parts in the G3 plan that incite a target threat by building pirates and hostile organizations. Etta remembered all the human faces involved in it, and she certainly remembered both of them in the video.
"I don't like to go around. In conclusion. What's the problem?
To Etta's question, the man pointed to the supplier's foot.
"Too distorted, let's do it"
A word with Boosh. "It's the floor," the man continued to the two who just said what he was talking about.
"Lighting reflexes. In other words, by carefully observing changes in the gloss of the floor, they can see how much the floor is. Later, if we reproduce the strength of the floor coverings and the conditions of the time, we can tell where and how much load is applied. It's like reproducing voices and sounds in a room from a window vibration."
The man manipulated the terminal at hand and sent a report entitled From the Investigative Tracking Laboratory to Etta's terminal.
"Too much distortion means more weight than expected from appearance, right?
When Etta said that, she sighed at the current state of affairs that she was being put into exploration to a much deeper part than she thought.
"Cyborg............... well, it must be Phantom. He's a nasty guy. Please hurry to incorporate the detection system into all G3-related facilities. I don't want to imitate being naked when I realize it."
When Etta instructed one of her men to do so, she gave an order to everyone to carry out a general check to see if there were similar cases. When each rose up in a hurry, they ran for each facility they were in charge of.
"Well, even if they sniff it out, it doesn't matter what happens. There must be nothing left to prove."
Etta and Yotta, and only three men left in the room, the man said. "Naturally," Etta continued, throwing up in a voice containing anger.
"I didn't expect RS to be more aggressive. It's off the ceremony."
Etta squeaks in frustration. From Coleman's legacy of social behavior prediction formula - mathematically predicting social movements under identification - the behavior taken by RS was completely unscheduled.
"From the ceremony, RS should be in the offense against EAP... so should Dingo. According to them, the internal collapse of the EAP should be desirable."
Yotta leaned her neck strangely. When Etta agreed with it, "Right," she thought again about why.
"The collapse of the EAP leads to territorial expansion and hegemony of RS and Dingo. I don't think they're hesitant to point the gun at each other because they've already done so, both military and civilian...... Speaking of which, RS and EAP were definitely close to each other at the top. I wonder what happens around there. I hear Taylor from RS is emotional."
Mouth whatever Etta thinks. "What if it were," the man said, pinching his mouth.
"No way is that personal......... yes, I don't know. Friendship, but should I say? That's how we decide how to run our organization."
To the man's words, Etta laughed small.
"Hehe, I can't believe that word comes out of your mouth. But I'm not. I'm talking about some sort of bondage between Rising Sun and Little Tokyo. Takasaki, now supposed to be Little Tokyo's katana, has decided to move a massive branch to RS. Instead of helping Little Tokyo maintain the status quo, for example, how about giving Takasaki's reins to Rising Sun? Much less attractive than bad territory?
To Etta's thoughts, the man gave a small roar.
"I can't even think about it. The reason why Dingo is so popular can also be explained if RS is holding him back............... but what do you think? It shouldn't have been unexpected from them that the enemy was a huge organization like ours, no matter how much there was prior conspiracy. Even if you knew that, would you still try to keep your word? Besides, I don't even hear there's any movement in the moderates of the EAP around Little Tokyo. It looks like RS is acting alone to me."
A man raises such questions. "Sure," Etta nodded, clapping her shoulders just to say she was up to it.
"You don't know anymore. I'm sure you feel a future threat to us, but that's why it's strange to think of hostility right now. It doesn't just make our collapse faster... even more so when it comes to revealing what we're doing. We know there will be civil wars and near them in the future, so we just need to get to the winners beforehand. Even exhausted EAPs can be swallowed right away. Instead of collapsing, you can leap a lot farther than you are now. It's a chance from them. There's no reason to antagonize us."
That's what I said, Etta tongue-in-cheek in frustration. From her point of view, that was the natural way of thinking and the most natural flow.
"Out of the blue, maybe you're right about the emotional reasons. The manipulators look so cute."
With a sarcastic grin, a man emits. Etta and Yotta heard that for a while, but eventually started laughing in tears.