Rebuild World

Day 3 of hospitalization. Binding surgery on Akira's arm began in the hospital room. Akira's torso side arm is already fixed to the operating table. The physician in charge removes the new arm from the tank and places it on the operating table, cutting the end and adjusting the length. The Akira side is likewise cut. Then connect the cutting surface with a coupling device.

The surgery has been performed with Akira's consciousness. My doctor asks me to gently move my hand around my nerves. Akira moved her hand away from the cutting surface.

"What do you say? Are you uncomfortable or something?

"Looks fine"

There is no pain in Akira because she has been treated in advance. The new arm, which is not yet fully connected, is also fresh with the healing drug effect. The work continues and the bones, nerves, and muscles become disconnected. After checking his arm movements several times along the way, he finally covered the binding area with therapeutic tape and the surgery was complete.

Akira moves all sorts of connected arms to complete the final check. He only paid for the expensive treatment, was uncomfortable, and it seemed like a lie (a lie) that he had lost his arm.

"Please refrain from intense exercise for about three days. Avoid also having heavy objects. We recommend the use of fortified clothing if possible. Good luck."

"Yes. Thank you. I sat down."

"By the way, there is interest in multi-arm fortified clothing, etc..."

"Yes, no, I won't"

"Really..."

Akira remembered something a little scary about the unfortunate appearance of the doctor in charge and quickly left the hospital in fortified clothing.

When Sizka had the store number, she found Akira entering the store without fear. I look at Akira, who has a slightly stiff smile, and laugh and invite her.

"Come in normally because you won't be angry."

"Oh, yes."

Sizka gently hugged Akira as she stepped out of the counter and stroked her head gently.

"... I don't know the details, but that sounds like a tough one. I'm glad you're okay. Looking good, most importantly. It's okay, isn't it?

"It's okay. I'm perfectly fit."

"That would be good. I'd be happy if you came home safe and well."

Sizka finally hugged Akira a little harder, letting Akira go and back to the counter. And smile, as usual.

"Now, do you want to go back to working like a store manager? Akira, what can I do for you today?"

"Yes, I wanted to ask you to procure another set of gear..."

I lost all my cars, motorcycles and guns, and my fortified clothes are about to break and need to be repaired or replaced. Sizka laughed a little bitterly when she realized she was no longer too surprised that Akira had fallen into such a situation again.

"As always, so is Akira."

"I don't like it either and I'm losing my gear. Well, it's already, to some extent, reopened. Fortunately, there's plenty of room on the budget, so buying safety with gold means putting in a note."

Shizuka smiled a little bit like a prank.

"The budget is plentiful. Orders are frequent. All I buy is expensive items. As it turns out, Akira has become a very convenient customer for me. I'm already making money, and I'm a regular customer, so I'll treat you as much as I can."

Thank you. I'll sit down.

When I saw Akira laughing happily, Sizka laughed in a good mood and returned it.

Sizka remembers yesterday as she hears Akira's request for new equipment.

"Oh, yeah, yeah. Does Akira have an interest in fortified clothing?

"Airborne, is it?

"The sales came yesterday. He wants me to put fortified clothes in my shop. I turned down the fortified clothing because it was off our product, but I was so eagerly recommended that I was offered favorable conditions that I thought it might be some kind of scam that I put it on hold. Specific terms are private, but he said he would offer a special discount on orders from hunters who meet certain conditions. So you might be able to buy it cheap, but are you interested?

Sizka suggested it lightly, but when she noticed the change in Akira's expression, she changed her attitude slightly.

"Do you even have any idea?

"Uh, actually..."

Sizka, who heard about Yodogawa from Akira, puts her satisfaction and admiration on her face.

"Is that what you mean? The point is, you're surrounding good customers. Sure, it would be advertising if we had high-ranking hunters use our products, and I know what it's like to keep a big mouth of customers who break down and buy one gear after another."

Sizka was not willing to pursue any further, either, as her own account had told Akira that it was not the only thing that would harm her or herself.

"So, what do we do? If Akira doesn't have any differences, I'm going to try to get a story from Akira. If you don't have a weird back, it's a good story for both my store and Akira. Strong and harmful, it means that Akira's future equipment may be biased toward machine-made products. Still, judging by that discount rate, it would be a cost-effective option unless other companies offered comparable discounts."

"If it's a good story for both Mr. Sizka and me, please do."

"Okay. I'll talk to Aircraft Sales about the details, so I'll just ask you about the budget first. How long is it this time?

"Two billion orum, please."

Expenses for ammunition, etc. prepared for large-scale site exploration. Hospitalization costs. Regenerative treatment costs. And this equipment bill. The account balance, once inflated by the sale of old world-made automatic dolls, etc., now returns to a very lonely amount again. Still leaves a minimum cost of living, but no less so than the previous digits.

Sizka laughs a little fun.

"Absolutely, Akira has become an amazing hunter. The plane will run to the enclosure."

Akira smiles lightly too.

"Sounds like..."

I'm a little surprised how Sizka is doing with Akira. Because I couldn't feel the inferiority I'd ever felt there. And I was delighted with Akira's growth by deciding that was a good change.

Yanagisawa has a safe house in the lower section of Kugamayama city. It is a place for sensitive conspiracies, such as secret talks with the Founding Fathers. There are safe houses within the fence, but even with the power of Yanagisawa, it's hard to get the Foundationalists inside the fence.

Yanagisawa shrugged (crushing) when she was in the safe house.

"But I didn't know Katsuya was dead."

Yanagisawa, who returned to the city after finishing a deal with Tsubaki, finished processing the situation as it was. Instructing his men to investigate Katsuya after cleaning up his immediate job turned out to be already dead. I was surprised by the unexpected and re-directed a detailed investigation just in case, but the death report remained unchanged.

(She didn't ask me to end the katsuya, not because it touches the terms, but because it already ended?... No, it should probably touch the terms. That's why I needed you to die in a way that didn't touch the terms. They broke communication, stripped their support from Katsuya, and caused the hunters to hit each other, causing an accident. At least I made it as likely as I could that an accident would happen. Is that the place?

Was the series of events a ploy by Tsubaki? Or is it just a coincidence? No matter how much you think about it, Yanagi Sawa doesn't know. But I will also think about going out with Tsubaki in the future and deepen my speculation as the former.

(How far is the Tsubaki trick, if it was Tsubaki's fault? Massive site exploration itself invites you in the first place? No, from the previous makeshift base raid noise? No, from the noise of a man-made monster? No, it's been a long time?

Let the thought run through the past and now line up all possibilities once and for all.

(… There was a noise when Hunter spotted an information terminal made in the old world. Is that where you came from? Those were flowing from the Tsubaki control compartment. That's confirmed. Tsubaki had flushed similar objects to the hunters in the past. That's why the Unified Enterprise General Relic Appraisal Bureau was able to find out where that relic came from. Because there have been similar cases in the past. Imagine where those artifacts came from, provoking a massive ruin attack, military action. A series of events, including the raid noise at the makeshift base, fuelled the interests and anxieties of the city and increased the size of the troops. Because Tsubaki temporarily gains enough authority to counteract the military operations of that large unit. And collapsed that unit to produce a large number of dead. In order to increase the likelihood that their handkerchiefs will die accidentally due to the confusion, it would have been more convenient to conduct military operations on the urban side on as large a scale as possible…)

Yanagi Sawa makes the grin worse. It's all speculation. There is no evidence. But I couldn't deny it.

(Fair enough. She and I are going to get along for the time being. I will not fail to be vigilant. That's good)

Not an ally, but not an enemy. Partially, but the interests are in agreement. And excessive vigilance creates disadvantage. Yanagisawa decided so and broke the conjecture.

A safe house security system informs the Yanagi Sawa of the visitors. Yanagi Sawa has allowed collaborators to use safe houses, but some of them frequently change their faces and body types due to various circumstances, so the security system does not use their faces or body types for identity determination.

For this reason, Yanagi Sawa does not have to be surprised if the name of the subject that the security system informs him does not match the face of the subject that comes to his mind. But when he saw his face, he gave him a surprised look. It is also a surprise factor to discover that you did not simply make your face the same.

"Are you, Katsuya? You must be dead. No, how'd you get in here before that?

The boy with Katsuya's face answers meaningfully.

"I'd like to say that the name was dedicated to the cause, but you can call it by the name you've always had."

Yanagi Sawa notices a lot in that response and makes his face a little more embarrassing.

"The so-called complete sense man may replace everything but the brain, but did he even replace it?"

"Though more important than other parts, the brain is also just an element that makes up the whole thing. As long as certain standards and conditions are in place, substitution is possible."

The boy was Nergo. There were thin marks on his face when the original owner of his head was amputated by Akira.

Yanagi Sawa turns a surprising gaze.

"What's going on with Katsuya's consciousness?

"He's already dead. At least there are no elements left to call him, including his personality and so on in this brain"

"Are you sure he's dead?

"What is death? It is a difficult problem. Technological developments continue to obscure that criterion. People don't come back to life. Resurrection is evidence that it was resuscitable. Which means he wasn't dead. But while resuscitation is theoretically technically possible, there is room for interpretation if we define resuscitation as a permanently prolonged state, a permanently inactive state"

No, that's not what I'm talking about.

"As you may know, we were partly dealing with Tsubaki and cooperating in spreading the damage in large-scale site exploration. That's when she strictly told me not to lay a hand on him while he was alive. I haven't heard any complaints from her since I got my hands on his body. I mean, he's dead by modern standards, by our standards, by the standards of the old world."

From Nergo's explanation, Yanagisawa decided that Katsuya was indeed dead.

"Hmm. That's right. So, what's it like to use Katsuya's brain? Sounds good?"

Nergo shakes his neck sideways gently with Nergo's expression, with a cute face.

"Unfortunately, I'm not doing what I expected. With his death, information to operate this brain as an old realm connector would also have been lost. Or (there may be) a problem on the hard side of some of the functions due to insufficient post treatment. Either way, I couldn't be an old realm connector with the same abilities as him."

"... well. Sorry to hear that."

Yanagi Sawa responds with a laugh, reinforcing her usual lightness.

"So, what are you doing today? Oh, you want me to ask you to manipulate that information because you dive into Drancam as a katsuya? You can do it, but I already know you're dead, and I think it's too late for a boulder. Do you want to just do it?

"No, there's a lot of people over there who belonged to his local network. They won't recognize me as a rash to the extent that my face and brain belong to a rash. You should unconsciously carry out identification and determine that you are definitely someone else. Nergo doesn't come near it either because it doesn't cause weird noise. I plan to change my face after this and act as someone else."

"Hmm. So what can I do for you?

"I stopped by to confirm something."

"Confirm what? If there's anything you'd like to ask, I wish you'd contact me normally."

"No, I wanted to check straight away. And that's confirmed."

"So what?

"The purpose of comrades looking for old realm connectors is not to secure the subject, but to eliminate it. I've made that clear."

Lightness disappears from the goatee sawa, a smile disappears, quiet intimidation and a peek into the depths of their minds.

"Know that, what do you do?

But Nergo was not one to be swayed by it.

"I'm not going to do anything in particular. The unknown creates various uncertainties. If you answer strongly, the goal is to eliminate it."

"Right."

Confront each other in silence for the time being. infer each other's thoughts behind it. And Nergo opens his mouth first.

"It's a different story, but isn't it time to reveal our comrade's plan to us? Comrades and we both think it's the same in that we're acting for a better world. And I also think that comrades, whether partial or sympathetic to our cause. It is a testament to the cooperation of our comrades, whether partial or partial. I think we can forge further cooperative relationships to realize each other's ideals."

Open your mouth carefully after Yanagi Sawa is slightly lost.

"... say no. I can't talk. At least not now. After I've acquired the means to accomplish my goals, I'm sure I can help a lot."

"Right. Too bad. Let's just say we wait in temper until the day the comrade's plan moves on and we get the means."

That's what Nergo left behind.

Yanagi Sawa relieves tension and exhales with a tired face.

"It stinks."

The Nergos are not afraid of death. But it does not depend on its immortality. Live, spend, kill, and die for great achievement. It depends on the values that place one's life and life beneath that idea.

That's why I think Yanagi Sawa is a hassle. If you rely on immortality, you can either temporarily lose it or drive it into a situation that misleads you to believe that you have lost it. I can threaten you enough. But even if they do die, those who laugh and die because of the idea, those threats will not prevail.

"It really stinks."

In a room where he was the only one, Yanagisawa continued to vomit stupidity with a troublesome face.

Nergo, who left Yanagisawa's lair, has a difficult face.

It's hard.

The reason why Yanagi Sawa stays in Kugama Yama City until he kicks the invitation of the Unified Enterprise Company (and so on) is to gain the means to accomplish his purpose. The means probably exists in the back of Kuzsuhara Street ruins, ahead of extending the rear contact line. The presence of old area connectors that cannot be managed on their own can be an obstacle to the acquisition of means.

Yanagisawa dared to make Nergo realize that in an earlier conversation. That's a Yanagi Sawa concession. On top of that, he warned me that if I interrupted the acquisition of means, I would crush them.

"Again, is it difficult"

Nergo had grasped the concessions and warnings correctly. On top of that, I kept coming up with a means to take in the Yanagi Sawa, but no good proposal came to mind at all.

Yumina was in a white world. Wandering in some blurred consciousness, I spot a rash a little further away. I laugh without thinking about it and run under the katsuya (originally). Then, trying to get to the side (buckwheat) as it was, I stopped my leg a little in front of it.

Yumina stared at the person undoubtedly looking katsuya and looked suspiciously distorted.

"... not katsuya. Who?"

"Do you still understand?"

The scratch disappears. And instead a woman appeared. Women smile very beautifully and lovingly. But Yumina cautioned her strangely.

"I want to make a deal with you. I want you to listen to me."

"Deal?"

"That's right. It's a very beneficial deal for those of you who lost Katsuya."

The woman began to speak gently with a smile (cheeks) showing her affection for Yumina.

Yumina wakes up in the hospital room. He woke himself up in an unawakened consciousness and looked around remembering the mild confusion. I felt like I was dreaming, but I couldn't remember much (most) of it anymore. I talked to someone and said no to something. Shards of that dream that floated hard also fade away with the awakening of consciousness.

"I wonder what it was..."

Yumina was blurred with a temporarily strange face. And when I regain my composure, I try to explore my memory. I had no memory of him standing in the middle of instructing him to retreat in the ruins building.

Yumina then got an explanation from Arabe, who came into the hospital room, to get an idea of the situation.

"Really...... Katsuya..."

"Unfortunately."

Yumina was cruel and heartbroken by Katsuya's death, but there was no surprise there. I don't know why, but I already understood Katsuya was dead.

"You won't be in perfect physical condition, and you'll have some sort of feeling. Slow down for a while."

…… Yes, thank you. "

Arabe sees Yumina carefully bowed her head and feels mild guilt, while breaking it off and moving on to her own work.

"Uh, so, I guess I should have waited until you settled down, but I'm at work, too, and I need to talk to you and do you a favor. I want you to calm down and listen."

When Arabe took out the settlement and gave it to Yumina in some creepy (first) way, she began the accompanying explanation. Yumina was listening to it in silence. And when the explanation was finished, he signed the settlement and returned it to Arabe.

After Arabe gives a slightly unexpected look, she looks at Yumina as if she were looking at something. Obedient only to the surface, and absolute vengeance behind it is most difficult to be expected.

"Uh, what, what did I ask you to say, is that good?

Yumina smiles at her temperament without seeping her grief into her expression.

"Yes. I really don't want to rub (or) any more in this matter. Plus, I don't think we want any more damage by steaming it back."

Arabe exhaled in relief (mostly) when this appeared to be okay.

"Helpful. As a matter of fact, there are quite a few who refuse. I guess just because I refused to sign it doesn't mean I'm going to attack Akira with that leg, but there's also a notification from the city, and it would be creepy (first) if I didn't do it right. I think putting it down for a few days will increase the number of consenting people, and in the meantime, I'm going to persuade them sharply, but if they still refuse to sign me by force, I'll have no choice but to kick them out of Drancam even over here. Honestly, I'm in trouble."

"Tell me who you don't like. I'll try to convince you later."

"Really? It really helps."

Arabe, who was tired of a lot of things, thanked him seriously and thanked him.

"Speaking of which, does Iri hate signing too?

Yumina just asked that somehow. But look at the Arabe, who changed his expression to something a little harsh, and remember the heartbreak and shade his expression.

"Um, Aili saved you too, didn't she? That's what I just heard..."

"... right. Shall I tell you? Of course, she has been properly treated and has nothing to do with her life. And I woke up a while before you woke up. I got that contact from the hospital, so I headed under her (originally) with a settlement. I was on my way..., I wasn't there."

"Wasn't there?

"Oh. Thanks for letting me out of the hospital room on my own, and they left the hospital as well. I asked for a search, but I haven't heard from him. I think it's due to some confusion..."

Yumina's chest noise becomes harsh. I even learned a slight glare (dizziness) because of the behavior. At that moment, a shard of a dream appears on Yumina's head.

You say no. [M]

That's what the woman said to Yumina in her dream. It showed in its tone that there were those who did not say no.

Aili is driving through the wilderness. I also check my gear closely. Neither the car nor the gear is on loan from Drancam. In case you suddenly kicked Drancam out, it was something I had prepared for you a little bit more closely (hissing).

I discovered a monster as I proceeded through the wilderness temporarily. When Aili got out of the car and pointed her gun at the monster, she pulled the trigger with no aim at all to meditate (crush) her eyes. Then keep shooting for a while, then open your eyes. All the bullets that had been shot out had been hit, turning the monster into a piece of meat.

There is a notification sound from the information terminal. When Iri confirmed the display, there was a woman there that Yumina had dreamed of.

"What do you think?

"... confirmed. The deal is closed.... What can I call you?

"You can call it right"

"... inconceivable"

"Then you can call it an alias. That's what we are."

"Okay. Aliases. Now."

"Welcome."

Aili returns to her car and goes on through the wilderness. Keep moving away from Kugamayama City. There was definite readiness and determination in that expression.