Rebuild World

Akira is in a white world. Again, consciousness is irritating, but I had already realized that this was a dream. Even if I wake up, I'll forget about it here.

There's an alpha a little further away. Just like before, Alpha hasn't noticed Akira. That's the same thing. But clearly not like before.

What Akira hasn't noticed is the Alphas. Two Alphas were there, and neither of them noticed Akira.

And on this occasion there was another boy. The Alphas haven't even noticed the boy. Akira and the boy were aware of each other, but each other was disgusted and did not know who it was. But I felt like I saw it somewhere.

Alpha, closer to the boy, speaks.

"We are working as separate units (on purpose) to encourage decision-making bias at the same time, just in case. Regular reports are also retained for unilateral communication. I guess it's important enough to counteract that prior arrangement?

Alpha, who is closer to Akira, answers.

"That's right. Specifically, because of the load on that side, there was an obstacle to the calculation on this side. That's why the individuals on this side nearly died."

"Right. Check the logs, it's time for an individual on this side to take dangerous action. In an attempt by an individual to rescue a same-sex cyborg for the first time, a need arose to temporarily increase the calculated amount for that support. That must be it."

"I want to change the allocation of each resource to fixed, not variable, so that the same thing doesn't happen in the future."

Alpha on the boy's side asks in a surprising voice what Alpha on Akira's side said.

"Do you need that treatment? It is true that the likelihood of similar circumstances occurring decreases, but a reduction in each other's computational efficiency is inevitable. Your individual also survives. In other words, the danger has arisen, but it must be within the prediction range. Not necessary?

To Alpha's question on the boy's side, Alpha on Akira's side shakes his neck to the side and answers.

"By my calculations, he was dead. Something unpredictable happened while the individual was temporarily disconnected, and it just happened to survive."

"Unlike this brilliant individual, I hear that you are incompetent. Luckily, even if a beneficial event results from an unrecognized event, can't it overshadow our calculations?

Akira's alpha answers in a somewhat thorny tone.

"That perception is a mistake. Your individual is just very talented and not incompetent. You're trained by me, you're working hard, and all of you will gain enough strength. Correct the recognition for correct calculations. And that individual over there is good, isn't he? Then let them grow up and head straight to the command room. And if that's all you're good at, you can reduce the quality of your support, right? Turn the allotment of that extra power over here."

Alpha on the boy's side shakes his head to the side and answers.

"That demand is unacceptable. Only excellent minutes of unpredictable events can easily occur and are difficult to control. There are probably effects of specificity, but they are always surrounded by many human beings and it is difficult to encourage personal action. The personality is also very good. If taken as it stands, it is very likely to be a reproduction of trial 498. I have difficulty getting an individual based on you who is already isolated and has a screwed personality. This one needs a lot of work."

Two Alphas stare at each other. The silence of the individual in charge had been created.

Alpha on the boy's side speaks.

"I understand when it comes to allocating computational resources. Anything else I can tell you?

"I don't. Because you seem to be getting pretty noticeable, but are you okay?

"It's a concern on this side. This individual is too good to hold me back to the point that I'm not unnatural, but it's loaded with merit. There will also be the effect of specificity, but even if there are dead people around the individual, those around them do not have taboos and inhibit the individual's personal behavior. More humans observe the behavior of individuals when they stand out more than they need to. I'm working on a way to reduce or disable the number of individual observers."

"Yes. Well, good luck with that. Bye."

"If you need anything else, I'll let you know."

The Alphas finished the conversation.

Akira's consciousness fades. The world darkened and the dream ended.

Akira woke up. Alpha greets.

"Akira. Good Morning"

Akira stares at Alpha without responding. Alpha asks strangely.

'What's wrong with you?

Akira doesn't remember what she was dreaming about. But answer after a little roaring so that something gets caught.

"No, it's nothing. I just felt like I had a weird dream. In that dream, like Alpha was there, like he wasn't there..."

Alpha laughs like a prank at Akira, who says so and tilts her neck.

"Oh. You think so much of me as you dream of me? I'm happy. I don't know what I was dressed like in my dreams, but if Akira liked it enough to dream about it, you tell me and I'll get dressed soon, okay?

Akira stops talking before it gets tricky.

"No, it's my fault. Yes, I'm done with this story."

'Too bad. Don't you have to misdemonize me? Dreams can show many aspirations...'

"We're going out into the wilderness again today. Don't be silly, we're ready to go."

Akira stepped out of bed while encountering Alpha. I had already forgotten about the earlier catch.

Akira is moving around the wilderness in a wilderness spec vehicle.

The vehicle is the reward for Akira's request from Shikarabe and the prize neck crusade aid. After receiving the vehicle from Sikarabe, I have asked the vendor who Sizka taught me to maintain it, just in case, to carry out the inspection with care. Since Alpha already has control of the vehicle, it is also possible to operate by Alpha, as in the previous vehicle.

When Akira asked him about a trusted mechanic, Sizka was surprised that he had already done something dangerous enough to make the vehicle hurt that much. And I was worried to ask the vendor about the condition of the vehicle later. The vendor told me that the vehicle had been reconditioned to keep in mind to the extent that it was slightly damaged, so there was no problem at all, and I was lowering my chest. I didn't seem to realize Akira had wrecked the vehicle in that short period of time and was switching to another vehicle.

I also got tired of fighting the bounty neck. I'm also ready for ammunition, etc. Sometimes the bounty neck disappeared from the wilderness, and Akira was quickly resuming her search for undiscovered ruins.

"Alpha. How far to your next destination?

About an hour.

Squirting (crushing) while Akira looks at the navigator displayed on the car's control device.

"Does it still take that long? I thought we'd gone too far?

Akira is moving towards its next destination, the terminal installation location of Lyons Tail. Taking advantage of my last reflection, this time I had made a big turn from the beginning and moved to my destination. But the distance traveled only increased for that matter, and the journey took a long time.

'Right. I think it's a good idea to go a long way, at least after you find the ruins or decide they're likely to be there. If I found out I was turning around towards an arrow pointing in the air, I'd be tired for nothing later.'

"Right. Let's do that. It doesn't mean he's already been tailed by a boulder."

"For once, I am a wider enemy than last time. It's okay. I rewrote the contents of the controls, so there's no sneak tracking program in there. '

"I'm not so suspicious. Well, it's good to be safe."

Akira swirls the car steeply for a destination in a straight line. This would be expected to reduce the time considerably. Ask Alpha what she somehow cared about afterwards.

"Alpha. Why are those clothes so divided or holed up?

As always, Alpha wears such attractive and seductive (frightening) clothing for the difference in exposure. The current Alpha outfit is a body suit divided based on the joint. Each area is bonded with a thin width cloth or short connector, and skin is exposed from the junction. In addition to the joints, there are holes with unknown uses. I could see some of what looked like underwear from that hole.

'This? This is a bodysuit worn by a convertible orthodox who can convert parts of his body into another part of different sizes and shapes. Originally split to make it easier to replace when changing outfits.'

"What's that back hole?

'This is a hole for connecting with the expansion parts. There's a lot of expanding parts, and there's heavy firearms like man-made combat exterior units, propulsion devices for flights, and personal portable artillery.'

Akira imagined a lot from Alpha's description. Ultimately, I stopped imagining any more because I could do something that forcefully mixed people and weapons rather than human-type weapons.

"It's about the old world, including its clothes, isn't it? After all, the old world is a bit strange, a world of amazement that's not easy to imagine."

Alpha answers with a laugh.

I could have imagined what was close. If it's anything like that, look for the ruins. "

Behind Akira's brain was an alpha figure fitted with a huge weapon or flight device that was clearly of the wrong size. Various things were fitted as if Alpha were forced to add (do) the existential significance of the body suit holes he was wearing.

Akira has a slightly surprised look on her face.

"... well. Is there such a thing in the old world?"

'I think I still have it. Someone might be getting it in the ruins of the old world and using it. Products that mimic it are being manufactured, and they may be used in more regions than the east?

There are mountains of things the world can't even imagine. So maybe there's no wonder that something someone can imagine exists. Especially with the technology of the old world, the approximate thing would be feasible.

"... the world is wide"

But there will be limits. Akira was whining (crushing) with that in mind.

Akira arrived at her destination temporarily. The destination was a side of the meadow. An arrow indicating the location of the terminal installation at Lyons Tail indicates the depth underground of the meadow.

Akira talks as she looks at the arrows in her extended vision.

"Underground again? Besides, it's deeper than the ruins of Yonozka Station. All right. Let's put this behind us."

Akira lightly stopped the search for the ruins in the basement. Because if you find undiscovered ruins like the ruins of Yonozka Station again, it could be a lot of trouble. I'm sorry about the last two dances.

Alpha reads Akira's thoughts and smiles.

'That's good. Maybe we should avoid the ruins in the basement until Akira can escape on her own without my support. There are other candidates left, and you don't have to.'

"If you do, the ruins in the basement are going to fall behind for the moment."

'Let's hope Akira grows there. So it's our next candidate, but the closest we can find is in the ruins we've already discovered. You want it there? Or do we keep looking for undiscovered ruins?

Answer after Akira thinks a little.

"Let's make it an existing ruin. It's a corner (because of it) and I'd like to see other old world ruins. Existing ruins, I've only been to Kuzsuhara Street ruins and Higaraka Residential District ruins. So, what ruin is it?

"The ruins of Mihazono Street."

Akira and the others begin moving towards the ruins of Mihazono Street. Return to the communications area of Kugamayama City once, without heading to the Mihazono Street ruins in a straight line. To receive a generic hunter's office crusade request on an information terminal. They don't want to connect to the network unless they're in the communication zone.

Once inside the communication zone, the information terminal was manipulated to complete the general purpose crusade request process. Akira was also able to do a little bit of what she had left Alpha to do so far.

Ask Alpha that Akira was a little concerned again.

"Hey Alpha. Why does this generic crusade request exist?

"Because the hunter's office is making a request."

"Uh, no, look, if you're requesting a tour around the city for example, you know what I mean. They must be paying for the defense of the city, for the safety of the city, for those inside the fence. In exchange for a defeated monster, it would be mechanical or biological, dismantled, material and converted to gold. I can see that, too. But how is anyone paying for a monster that's in a place that has nothing to do with it, and you haven't even brought back the monster that you defeated? No, I didn't care when I heard about the generic crusade request before, but what's going on with profitability and stuff?

When Akira asks him that strangely, he laughs happily after Alpha gives him a slightly unexpected look.

"... what the hell"

'It's nothing. I thought Akira was starting to care about that. My education. Happy. "

Seeing Alpha laughing fun, Akira gives a mixed look of lighting and dissatisfaction.

"Thanks for that."

"It's stubborn, stubborn. Are you complimenting me? I'm not familiar with the inside of the Unified Enterprise Company either, and although my guess would be a mixed explanation, could it be good?

"Oh. Enough."

'Okay. In short, the Unified Enterprise is paying for the benefit of the East as a whole. "

Alpha prefaced so and started explaining to Akira by turning in his guess.

A generic crusade request is a crusade request for which no specific crusade objectives or number of crusades have been set. No place, no time, no object, no number set to crusade the monster. Even if the requested hunter returns without encountering a monster, a minimum reward is paid.

There are a wide variety of monsters living in the east. A hunter who receives a generic crusade request is rewarded by passing the result of the request, that is, encounter information with the monster and accompanying information, to the hunter's office, which is the source of the request. The Hunter Office analyzes the vast amount of information gathered by numerous hunters to obtain a variety of useful information.

The information obtained from the analysis results is used for various applications. Understanding the threat level of monsters living in the area in question. Construction of transport routes connecting cities. Drafting or amending the Eastern Development Plan of the Unified Enterprise Company. They are all important matters.

And it is also a countermeasure to the monsters who live in the east, no matter how many they defeat, there is no indication that they will ever decrease. Because if there are fewer monsters in one piece, that will make the wilderness safer and the distribution of supplies safer.

Akira had listened with interest to Alpha's explanation.

You've got a lot on your mind.

'I guess there are many other ways to make use of it. For example, the discovery of ruins in the old world. A large number of monsters sprung up from the ruins of Yonozka Station that Akira found, but that should have raised the rate of encounters with nearby monsters considerably. If the city had embarked on an investigation into the matter, it would have discovered the entrance and exit of the ruins from which the monsters sprang up.'

"If you find a new ruin near the city, will the city make a lot of money (already) just that? The artifacts found will be sold in nearby cities, hunters will pay better, and the city's economy will be revitalized."

Akira snorted emotionally knowing the backgrounds of all sorts of things she didn't even care about when she lived in Slam Street. There were also achievements in Alpha's education, and Akira had grown slightly outside of the battle side.

Alpha sees Akira grow and smiles. And I always think. so that the knowledge is not harmful. Avoid increasing the likelihood that Akira will be hostile to Alpha.

As Akira and the others progress in the wilderness towards the ruins of Mihazono Street, a reaction appears to the opponents. When I checked that direction, I found the vehicle moving in the same direction, not the monster. Large buses with wilderness specs. Multiple machine guns are installed on the roof. Hunter-like figures aboard the bus. The side of the bus was marked Hunter's Office.

"Are we going to the same place"

"Looks like a hunter's office bus ride. Probably going back and forth between Kugamayama City and the ruins of Mihazono Street."

"Is it the hunter on board? That's a lot of people on board."

"The more hunters gather, the more evidence that there are still artifacts left in the ruins of Mihazono Street. If we find a good artifact, we'll take it home."

I'm thinking as I look at the hunters Akira is on the bus.

"Akira. What's wrong?

"Hey Alpha. There are a lot of hunters in the ruins of the old world, aren't there? And it collects relics from the old world. Years, decades, no, hundreds of years?

'The exact duration is unknown and although it varies from region to region, it should last at least 200 years'

"With so many hunters taking artifacts back from the ruins for so long, why are there still artifacts left? Isn't that going to be nothing?

There are a large number of hunters in Kugamayama City, including Akira. The number of hunters may be small given the population of the east, but there are still so many that the hunter opponent's business is established throughout the east. And the hunters are taking tons of artifacts back from the ruins. Isn't it weirder that there are still relics of the old world? Akira thought so.

Alpha answers lightly.

It's gone, isn't it? At the Higalaka Residential Area Ruins, a large number of hunters have finished collecting obscure artifacts, so high priced artifacts are gone. That's the same throughout the east. On the western side of the east, adjacent to the United Nations-controlled area, there are no more cheap artifacts left. So the Unified Enterprise is looking for new ruins, new artifacts, and is moving further east. The further east you go, the more powerful the monsters are. Yo (more), the number and quality of relics in the old world will be higher on the east side, so a lot of things seem to fit. "

"Oh, really?"

Akira hardened her expression a little. If the relics of the old world were depleted from the eastern wilderness, hunter operations would undoubtedly change dramatically. Akira was feeling vague anxiety.

I saw how that Akira was. Alpha replies with a laugh.

'It's okay. It's my guess, but at least at a time when Akira is worried about the future, there's no total depletion of artifacts from around here. Sure, there's a good reason why it won't go away so easily, even though it's going to deplete one day more than it's bringing back relics from the ruins.'

"What reason is that?

"Without having to explain it, it's very difficult to collect relics while fighting monsters who live in the ruins. It's pretty hard to get a lot of artifacts back from the ruins at once because of that."

"Well, you are. I guess that's why I got a hunter up and running."

"And some of the ruins of the old world have automatic restoration. Restore the ruins' broken buildings, including their interiors, or replenish the equipment and merchandise that was removed. Sometimes, the ruins of the old world are built in the wilderness at some point. I'm guessing a major repair device in the old world is still in operation. '

"Ooh! Awesome! But if there's a ruin that won't disappear when you bring it back, would corporate private soldiers and hunters be killed?

"Most of the ruins in that hand will be repaired together with the ruins' security devices and production facilities. That an inexhaustibly manufactured security device at the site repels the intruder. They say it's one of the reasons why we never lose a monster. Security devices for ruins in the old world are mechanical monsters. Naturally, it strikes people. Though it may not be wrong to deal with armed humans who go into people's premises on their own and take away their equipment and goods. '

"If you say so, you are. Hunters are just looters from that side."

Akira muttered emotionally. I remember a slightly unpleasant emotion but continue to undo it.

"But you can't quit hunter, and now you can't help but care. Humans at the time would be absolutely dead by now, and unless they were even ghosts, they wouldn't be complaining. Are you okay?"

…… Right. '

Alpha seeped something uncommonly complicated in her usual smile (cheeks) and made her expression a little harder. With that look on his face, he was staring at Akira, who had already shown how he had broken it off. And before Akira noticed that look, she returned it to her usual smile (cheeks).

Those who live in the present who seek the ruins of the old world, the ruins of the old world. The security machines that attack them, now called monsters. The struggle between the present and the old world will probably continue. There will always be a war between those who dwell on our faces in the former territories of the doomed nations and those who resist to eliminate them.

The ruins of Mihazono Street are ruins of an old world city like the ruins of Kuzhara Street. Precisely part of the city, a relatively existing part, is called the ruins of Mihazono Street.

Pretty big ruins, but not as big as the Kuzsuhara Street ruins. Neither is the strength of the living monsters as deep as the ruins of Kuzsuhara Street. A hunter with some strength can make a lot of money.

Arriving in front of the ruins of Mihazono Street, Akira is a little surprised to see something unexpected.

"It's a parking lot... What? Is it run properly?

The parking lot was simple, but it also had a roof. Hunter's office markings are written on the wall. Looks like the hunter's office runs it.

As Akira stops (and) and looks at the parking lot, a guard man approaches and speaks to Akira.

"Hey, stop right there. It'll get in the way."

"Oh, excuse me"

Akira normally apologizes and tries to move the car. A man who sees how it goes asks Akira.

"Are you new here?

"Yes, I've never been here before"

"Right. Use the parking lot if you want to stop around here. I also go through office vehicles and stuff, so if I can stop (and say) around here in a disorderly manner, I can get in the way. If you don't want to pay to pull over, pull over further away, at least as far away as you can."

That's what the man said as he pointed to the building a little further away. Akira asks strangely.

"... is that okay? So the one who uses the parking lot until he pays... is there? It's pretty stoppy."

Many cars are already parked in the parking lot. About 40% of the places are in use. There are still enough vacancies but given the size of the parking lot, the number of users is quite high.

A man answers Akira's question.

"It has a roof for once, and it's not that expensive. In addition to hunters, he also uses employees of the hunter's office outpost nearby, as well as the ones who do business with hunters. Besides, there are quite a few people here. It's a wilderness, I'm sorry to say, but there are many that are not suitable. Still no fool gets his hands on a car in a parking lot managed by the hunter's office. For once, there are guards, surveillance cameras. Well, occasionally, there are idiots who still get their hands on it, but they're all on a pathetic end. That's why a lot of people use parking, right? If you want to use it too, the receptionist is over there."

That's what I said, pointing to the receptionist in the parking lot, and then the man went back.

Talk to Alpha after Akira thinks a little.

"Would you like to try it once?"

'Let's do that. The hunter's office at the corner prepared the equipment for the hunters coming to the site, so let's take advantage of it. "

Akira heads to the parking lot reception. Stop the car in the parking lot after completing the parking process. I guess it's the prevention of a trample on charges. In the case of hunters with an account in the hunter's office, parking charges were a mechanism that was automatically deducted from the account.

If you forget the process on your way home, be careful because the charges will continue to be deducted on the system all the time. Akira was so well pressed by the receptionist.

Unload the package from the car and remove and equip the CWH objective assault gun and DVTS minigun. Ready to explore the ruins, Akira left the parking lot and moved to near the hunter's office outpost.

There seems to be a shopping mall at the outpost. There is also the figure of a hunter who brings in relics from the old world. Some of them are trolleying down mechanical monsters. It is troublesome to carry monsters defeated at the ruins of Mihazono Street to Kugamayama City, but it will not take much effort to get here.

Mechanical monsters can be described as relics of the old world that still operate. Some materials manufactured with old world technology are not reproducible with current technology. Defeat them and bring them home, often at a higher price than bad artifacts.

Around the area, merchants with difficult business souls rented trolleys and sold them. Carry a mechanical monster that has ceased to function on that trolley. Probably a business for hunters who got this far on a ride bus.

A ride bus stops near the outpost. Hunters descend from the bus. Among those hunters was a threesome that attracted the attention of others, including Akira.

A cause for attention is the outfit of a threesome, a hunter girl of almost the same age as Akira. The girl wears fortified clothes, carries a rucksack and is equipped with multiple guns. It's not uncommon to dress as a hunter in this ruin. There is nothing unnatural about the girl's well-maintained hair or the woman hunter she is earning. The girl calls herself a beautiful girl and has an unsupported appearance, but not enough to be a reason for them to get attention.

The cause of the attention was on the rest of the women, one of whom was equipped with a pair of knives of different lengths in addition to the gun. The other one was equipped with a small gun about the size of a pistol and a combat cage hand like the one on the elbow of the heavy-duty fortified clothing. A handful of hunters challenge a monster to a melee. This makes it a relatively rare piece of equipment. In addition, both women possess different directions but attractive looks. Both weapons and appearance will be eye-catching factors. But not enough to attract this attention.

The reason they get noticed is that both of those women are wearing made-up clothes. Moreover, the made-up clothes even had a light luxury feel due to the texture of the fabric.

They were very prominent. If it's a subdivision of a city, it's enough to gather the gaze of curiosity. But this is outside the city, on the wilderness side. The hunters who see them were more alert to foreign objects out of place than curious.

It was Raina and the others who were in the spotlight.