Rebuild World

There are Akira and Cheryl and the others in the room that leave traces of the raid in colour. With Akira repelling her enemies, Cheryl and the others were once and for all calming down.

Cheryl asks with a harsh look.

"What's the damage?

Alicia answers with a spicy look.

"... five people are dead. There are many wounded. I don't even know if Elio can help."

"... yes. Hurry up and get the wounded to the clinic. Give me and Mr. Katsuragi's name when they ask me about the cost of treatment. 'Cause we're supposed to be talking."

"... yeah"

Akira was listening to Cheryl and the others while treating her injuries. Look at the box of healing pills at hand and speak up gently to Alicia and throw in the healing pills that still have plenty of contents left.

I am surprised to see the recovery medication Alicia received. Because I know this recovery pill will do as much as two million aurums a box. Alicia can see that it means it's good for Cheryl's men to be treated, but if she thinks about being charged later, she'll hesitate to use it.

Tell Alicia that Akira is troubled by her sad expression.

"Discount the price and keep it on Cheryl. This is the situation. I'll keep it cheap."

Talk to Alicia as Cheryl smiles to reassure her.

"Hurry up because you can run out. We won't be able to make it."

Alicia, once she saw Akira and Cheryl, lowered her head and hurried out of the room.

Cheryl bows her head to Akira to thank her.

"Thank you. I'll sit down. I think this will help more kids. … how much should it cost? I don't know when I'll be able to pay, but I'll pay for it."

"Decide what you want. I just said it to keep you from thinking that you only had (but) a healing pill, for better or worse. I know I don't have any money, but I don't care if they collect it."

"... ok. Now let me sweeten Akira's generosity."

Cheryl bowed her head deeply to Akira again.

Akira continues her own treatment. Swallow the healing pills to reposition the broken bones while the analgesics are working. Take off your fortified clothes and apply a pasty restorative to the area where your skin was peeling due to friction with the fortified clothes. Visual alone was likely to convey pain to apply the muscle fibers where they were exposed, but I patiently proceed with the work.

Wear fortified clothes again after you have finished wrapping the bandage around yourself with the hand you are used to. Akira was moving her arm a little to check the condition of her broken arm, but there she felt uncomfortable and gave a slightly surprising look.

'Something's blunt about your arm. Is this the price of that impotence, too?

Alpha answers with a slightly more serious look.

"I have some unfortunate news about that."

'... Huh? Is my arm that creepy? I was gonna take quite a few recovery pills, but you can't?

"If you're still alive, you can rest in peace. The unfortunate news is the damage to the reinforced clothing side. I was in a pretty damaged condition originally, but I got sick all at once in the fight earlier. Some parts are partially faulty, so in order to reduce malfunction, the method of operation of the reinforcement clothes was changed from partially readable to follow-on. That's the only thing that's slowing it down."

"Was my fortified clothes in such a harsh state?

'Cause the monsters ate me, ran down the building, got hit, got me running at full capacity in the Sertantal Building, and so much more. It was already damaged. "

Akira recalls those memories. I did continue to treat it pretty rough. It's natural that things will get worse. I get a little anxious and ask.

"You're not out of Alpha support, are you?

"That's all right."

Alpha stabs the nail once at Akira, who showed relief.

"But it doesn't make any difference that the performance of the fortified clothes has been greatly reduced. Until you get new fortified clothes, be careful not to be as impotent as you've been before. '

'Okay. I intend to stay in the city until new equipment originally arrives. I'll take my time. "

Akira was treated, dressed in fortified clothes and re-equipped with a gun as well. I can't say it's no problem at all, but I'll regain quite a fight and switch my consciousness to it as well. And turn your face to those who have kept you waiting. These are the four survivors of the raiders we've been abandoning.

"You kept me waiting. Well, let me ask you a lot."

The raiders were naked, stripped of everything they were wearing, with their hands and feet firmly tied with sheets. They were all already awake and watched Akira with a rugged look.

They remained calm without panic and noise after understanding the situation. Nearby are rolling four bodies killed by Akira. They're all miserable. It can also be seen as a material to intimidate (and somehow) survival, but it can be judged that there are already enough bodies to kill as a show. If they hadn't been killed, they'd have decided it was worth keeping alive. I guess there's room for negotiation. That's what they were judging.

In addition to the surviving men in the room are Akira, Cheryl and Cheryl's men. Cheryl's men stare at the men, but that didn't frighten them.

Akira and Cheryl are the only negotiators. You don't have to worry about any other elements. They understood that. And because the negotiating partner is a child, I was hoping that there would be a lot of gaps in it.

One of the men asks Akira with caution.

"If you talk to the adults, will you help us?

Akira answers normally without being particularly awesome.

"At least I kill the one who doesn't talk. I don't have a hobby for torture, so I'll kill you with ease. If you don't want to talk when you're dead, keep your mouth shut."

The normal tone and attitude of Akira, who felt neither hostile nor murderous, told the men that what she had told them was true.

"I get it. What am I supposed to tell you?

"Right. In the meantime, that's why we attacked here."

Akira and Cheryl pulled as much information from the men as possible about this raid. Summarizing the reason for the raid, it became commonplace in Slam Street that it attacked a loose security store that seemed to have artifacts that were likely to sell high because it wanted gold. After consulting with him on the basis of all the information, he ended up attacking Cheryl's store.

Some of the information included stories of hunters guarding the store. The hunter who guards the store, after the child's sleigh robbed him of his money, tells him that the child he knows rarely pulls back, and that he is not very strong. Probably information I got from an informant selling duck information to Suri.

As soon as that story came out, Akira was in a rapidly worse mood. But Akira managed to regain her peace. The men were frightened, but that's not what Akira found out.

Sometimes I didn't know. I'm talking about the source of the information that Cheryl's store has expensive artifacts, and the vendor who sold them. The man who told the story to the surviving men had been killed by Akira.

The man is Zalmo. According to the men's story, Zalmo had joined the men's story at some point, getting a lot of information and (about) collating the relic sales. None of the surviving men knew more about Zalmo.

Although Akira was a little concerned about the matter, it was impossible to capture Zalmo alive, and as there was nothing she could do, she stopped hearing more from the men. Akira didn't look like the men were lying. That was what Alpha agreed with.

Akira shrugged as she finished listening, looking at the men with a little pity.

"You know, it's important to have the right information."

Cheryl also speaks uncomfortably with her consent.

"Right. As far as I can tell, rumors (rumors) confused me or deceived me by false information, is that what it feels like? Good annoyance."

The store has relics of the old world worth hundreds of millions of aurums, and the owner of the store, who does not know the value of the relics, hires the hunter of the trinkets for security. The men's stories were based on various sources of information, and they ended up talking like that.

If that story is true, no wonder a powerful man like Zalmo raids Cheryl's shop. Akira was convinced in a way.

Akira and Cheryl explained the mistake to them, but the men didn't believe it initially. The reason was in Cheryl's outfit. Cheryl had enough grounds to affirm the men's mistakes. Cheryl and the others were judged to be making so much money (already) that they could buy such expensive clothes for buying and selling expensive artifacts.

But when Akira gave it to her lover, Cheryl, and found out it had nothing to do with the store's earnings, the men were stunned. Because it is not uncommon for a money-making hunter to give a high-priced artifact to his lover or something else along with an exaggeration of his or her strength.

The men understood that they had attacked the exact opposite of what they had expected, not a store with big, thinly guarded money, but a store without tightly guarded gold. Understanding and discouraged by that, their condition was enough for Akira and Cheryl to remember pity.

But the pity Akira and Cheryl remembered to them is far from writing off that they attacked this store. Akira recapitulates and asks them.

"I'm done with what I want to hear. So what are we going to do with you guys, but pick whoever you want. Pay to be released. Kill me on this spot. Which way? In the latter case, I'll kill you with ease. I told you, I have no taste in torture."

The men look at each other. One of the men asks Akira on his behalf.

"... how much should I pay?

"Are we good to make up our minds over here? That's 10 billion aurums per person."

The men who hear Akira's offer cease to exist. One of the men answers with more anger on the table than in a hurry.

"Don't be ridiculous! There's no way you can pay for that!

"Then how much do you pay? I'm telling you, you attacked us with the intention of killing us. This one says," Let's get it done with money. "If you can't offer me a convincing amount, I'll kill you and dance."

The men tremble at Akira's intimidation. What Akira is serious about is already proven by the miserable (mug) corpse of four people rolling nearby. If you don't pay the money you're convinced, the men will join the corpse.

One of the men complains to Cheryl, another negotiator.

"Hey, is that good? There's nothing good about being greedy, is there? Killing us isn't gonna be money, is it?

Cheryl would be easier to give than to deal with Akira. That's how the man decided to speak to Cheryl.

But that Cheryl answers with a smile.

"I don't mind. Please die."

"Huh!?

"If Akira says so, I'm not willing to stop"

"Oh, you're not the boss here!? I guess that guy is just hiring for security!?

"That's right. But that's it, this is this. Besides, I've been murdered by my men, and there's no reason to stop them."

"... the ones who killed them would all be dead, wouldn't they? It shouldn't be us."

"Isn't that why you guys are saying it's okay to do it with money?

Cheryl tells the men to die soothingly. He smiles softly after learning that Akira is not convinced by the end money and understands that it is impossible for the men to present a convincing amount of money. He told me to die.

The men were cornered. One of the men talks harshly about his complexion.

"Wait. You don't have any specifications for killing us, do you? I've been dead long enough to show off. The rest should be kept alive and turned into gold. Rethink."

Akira asks again.

"So how much do you want out?

A man answers in horror.

"... million aurums"

Akira, hearing the offer, looks at Cheryl in silence. Cheryl shakes her head sideways in silence. Akira answers instead of Cheryl.

No, I can't.

"... 1,500,000 Orum!

Akira sees Cheryl again. Cheryl shakes her head sideways again. Cheryl has decided Akira is trying to raise her payment, so she had no intention of shaking her neck vertically.

Akira answers again.

"It's not enough. And I don't mind raising your forehead, but say it along with the payment method. It's hard to be told that you're going to pay 100 million aurums in 100 years, one million aurums at a time."

The men start to shut up. Because it makes it very difficult to open your mouth when you are told to present it, including your payment method.

Akira opens her mouth instead.

"Does that silence mean changing your choices to those who are killed on this occasion? Or are you going to pay, but you just can't think of a way to do it?

Or, I'm thinking about it.

"You're willing to pay, aren't you?

"Of course."

The men snorted. Because it's life-threatening if you don't stay.

"Right. Then give me a minute."

Akira takes out the information terminal and starts contacting someone.

There is a human voice connected from Akira's information terminal.

"Akira. What are you talking about, making money?

"That depends on the cuttlefish's business talent."

"Then make money (already). So, what can I do for you?

It was the snail that Akira contacted.

When Akira finishes hearing about the situation, Katsuragi returns a surprising voice.

"... I see the situation. I also found that they needed money.... Why should I lend them money?

"There will be no need for a snail to lend it to me. Wouldn't a rattlesnake have a story with the financier?

"Well, there's a story, but if I referred them to a financier, how could that connect me to my profitable story? You're telling me to take an intermediary fee, too? My business talent is not for lending money. My business is selling hunter-based equipment, right? Tell me something about my business talent."

The snail seems pretty dissatisfied. Akira answers without worrying.

'Cause that money is going to pay for all the gear and stuff I buy from the snails.'

After a little silence, the snail completes the assumptions of the total price, the profits to be gained, how to squeeze them out, and other related matters and asks them in a cautious voice.

"... the full price?

"Full price."

Akira's answer was content enough to convince Katsuragi. The snail replies in a good mood.

"Except for the story if that's the case. Sure, it's about my business talent. Okay. I'll arrange it right away. So what kind of gear do you want? I need to hear your hopes in advance. But Akira's getting ready to buy gear in my shop."

"No, it's not my gear. It's Cheryl's gear."

"Cheryl and the others'?

"That's right. I want you to be able to protect yourself on your own even when I'm gone. Gear for that. Talk to Cheryl later about exactly what you're selling."

Katsuragi wanted to sell his gear to Akira if he could. Shop sales will also jump if hunters who make money are customers. If they become the source of equipment for hunters who buy large quantities of 2 million aurum a box of restorative drugs, they can be expected to make significant profits. Katsuragi plans every day to make Akira a customer somehow.

But this must also be a big business opportunity. Katsuragi decides to give priority to his immediate interests.

"Well, if my product sells, I don't mind that much. I'll be over there in a minute. You got it."

"Okay."

As Akira tries to finish the story, one of the men she was listening to rushes to pinch her mouth.

"Wait a minute! You're selling us!?

Akira answers the man with the call connected.

"I just helped raise that money because I say I'm willing to pay but I don't have it. Pay with that money. Good luck with your repayment."

"It's just like selling us! I know about the end of the debt line! I'm not kidding! Then you'd better be dead!

A man screamed desperately. The man understood the end of a great deal of debt. The sight of that end of the road floating in the man's brain was making the man scream desperately.

Gunshots sound. A man who was screaming was struck through the heart and collapsed and died.

It was Akira who shot him. I think I made a man's request.

From the other side of the information terminal, there is a surprising sound of a snail.

"... Hey Akira, what's that sound now?

"I killed him because he said he'd rather die than be in debt. I'm not trying to force you into debt."

I can hear the snail tongue pounding. He asks in a slightly grumpy voice.

"How many more people are alive?

"Three."

"Don't kill them. There's a good chance we'll get more settlement money if we live. My profits will be diminished. I'll persuade you this way. Look, don't kill me."

Copy that.

That's how Akira answered and hung up the call. One less, three surviving men looked at Akira with a fearful, distorted look.

The cuttlefish who came to Cheryl's base are quickly carrying out various kinds of work. The cuttlefish had come to base in quite a few large numbers.

Katsuragi and Cheryl discuss a lot with each other. There's plenty to discuss about the settlement, the delivery of the equipment we buy with that money, the handling of the artifacts that were wasted in the fighting, and the cost of treating the wounded Cheryl's men.

Tomezima is talking about debt with the surviving men of the Raiders. The creditor brought by Katsuragi was Tomezima. Tomezima was slightly suspicious of behavior when she saw Akira, but she was relieved (mostly) because Akira's reaction was faint.

Tomejima and his men do a lot of things to capture the state of the base that was vandalized in the wake of the raid, and to store the bodies of the raiders in a body bag.

Akira watches the cuttlefish work as she takes a break. There are also the appearances of Corbe and Levin there. Corbe is Tomezima, and Levin is brought here by a snail.

Levin is packing a corpse bag of raiders tragically killed by Akira. Seeing Akira for a moment in the middle of that task, he makes his expression rude and speaks to Kolbe.

"Hey, Akira did this, didn't she?

"Seems so. Don't stop. Just do it. The gear is packed in association with another bag. Collect scattered parts of the body properly."

"I know, I know."

Levine will collect the scattered parts as instructed. Everything like that, such as the parts of the split arms and the chipped integrated circuit with some of the splashed brain plasma, is packed in a body bag. And I mouth my thoughts on the human being who created this tragedy.

"... but I'm talking about repelling eight armed like hunters by themselves, is that true?

"As far as I can tell."

"... if I don't pay my debt from the snail properly, can I take it from that one"

Levin was looking at the body bag with complicated feelings. Katsuragi said he would ask Akira to take it up in the worst case scenario. Sometimes if you do it badly, it means we're gonna be ourselves tomorrow.

Corbe will try to suggest it.

"What do you want me to do, put your debt in one piece for my vendor? I don't think they're gonna take it from Akira, do they?

"... that's also true, because the cuttlefish don't have interest rates, so you don't have to figure out what the interest is."

"Well, it's your debt. Whatever you want."

Levin's debts seem far off. Corbe saw how Levin was doing and somehow thought so.

Akira looks in the room in her spare time. I'm left wondering if I'm going home alone in this situation, but to be honest, I wanted to go home and get some rest.

"... I knew it was creepy (first) to go home"

Alpha answers Akira's whining.

'Though I think I can go home otherwise. Actually, Akira's the only one who struggled, so I don't think Cheryl and the others need to be forced to hang out. Rest because I'm tired of fighting. I think it's a good enough excuse, and I'm not officially being asked to get paid, but there's no point in someone complaining.'

'Really? But hey...'

Akira would have gone home in silence without any concern. Akira is starting to change a little bit too.

Alpha has trouble getting Akira to be extra hospitable. Extreme story, because if Akira becomes a discerning good person who doesn't hesitate to put herself up to strangers and shelter herself, there can be a major obstacle to Alpha's purpose.

Earlier, Akira turned the money she could for her own to pay for Cheryl and the others' gear. If Akira made it feel like a kind of investment, no problem. But if you went with a sense of gratuitous goodwill, you need to be careful. Alpha decides so and asks Akira invincibly.

"Hey Akira. It's for Cheryl and the others' gear, but that means you lent it to Cheryl and the others, right?

"Hmm? Well, yeah."

'Is there any prospect I can collect it? Did you lend it to me because you thought there was?

'... well, what the heck, Carol also said that selling artifacts would make money (already), and I feel like Cheryl would go pretty well (well) if he was doing that customer service, and I don't think it's a bad chance he'd return it.... Why are you asking me that?

I guess Akira doesn't think there's any prospect of recovery either. answered to misdemonize (sesame seeds).

Alpha answers with a meaningful smile.

"As far as I'm concerned, I'd like Akira to prioritize improving Akira's equipment to complement Akira's strengths in order to accomplish my request. I'm not saying I can't. '

'That being said, I'm not willing to buy gear from a snail, and I wouldn't even try to help a snail unless I put in a condition like that. My gear pays 400 million aurums from Mr. Sizka to buy it. Equipment would be better that way. Well, that's good. I can't escort Cheryl all the time either, including on that side, if you think it's a little investment. If you're lucky, you'll get it back. My luck isn't bad for Cheryl, either. Can we just hope?

"Yes, that would be good."

Note that Alpha decided that about Akira's swing of goodwill, without even putting shards (shards) on her face.