Rebuild World

Akira and the others await the arrival of the reaction captured by the vehicle's enemy equipment on the side of the camper (buckwheat). And a little while later, a large wilderness spec car, the source of the reaction, stopped nearby, and two men came down. Both hunters. They indicated that the equipment they were wearing came from more eastern regions to Kugamayama City.

Carol looked familiar to that one man. It was Babalodo who was a guest in the side business. Guess the other guy from there too. As Carol guessed, it was a guy named Zeros who was in the viola story.

Zeros gently checks Akira's equipment, etc., and then asks.

"Are you Carol?

Carol returns her spare grin.

"That's right."

"You didn't have to explain our errands, did you?

"Um, did your (your) friend tell you about my side business reputation and you gave me a (deliberate) leg lift? Then I'm sorry. I'm not taking customers all the time, either. Sorry, can you go home today and make me an appointment later?

Carol was intentionally acting like she dared (ah) to pretend after she figured out what to do with them. The intention was correctly conveyed to Zeros. Zeros also answers as he explores the extent of his opponent's understanding of the situation.

"Actually, the money that Barbarodo put into your pocket is from my team's operating funds."

"Oh, did you? I didn't know that. Oh, my God. So, no way, that's why you're here to tell me to give that money back?

"In some cases."

"Are you serious? I just got the money from him. You just took money from him. He's the one you're claiming. It's not me."

"Well, normally it is. I told you, in some cases."

"Heh. In what case?

Until then, Carol and Zeros continued their exploration in a light way. But here Zeros changes his attitude. While not seeping through the intimidation that will make the space itself, it begins to push the field air with its own temper, even though it is quiet under the pressure of a high-ranking hunter.

"If you've been using Barbarodo with the intention of causing damage to my team since the beginning."

Carol's expression still keeps smiling. But there was less room than earlier. Slight but also cold sweat.

Zeros joins forces with a threat to Carol to hang his hand around Barbarodo's neck.

"I don't care if you say this guy got his hands on the team's funds, if it's a small amount, you can squeeze this guy. Even with a little more forehead, you just need to squeeze more. That's it, we're on the team."

Zeros' gaze at Carol increases sharpness. It also strengthens Barbarodo's ability to hold his neck. Barbarodo's face starts to look distorted (boiled) with fear.

"Except that this guy leaked confidential information about the team outside. Those who receive that information also need to be suspicious. I know you bought our information from this guy because he cracked his mouth."

Zeros' expression toward Carol turns into something that passes through intimidation (how).

"Ask them to answer. What were you gonna do with that information?

Carol managed to survive the high-ranking hunter intimidation with her mental strength and accustom to sideline business related crap. Answer lightly with a loving smile for sales.

"Especially, nothing"

"Refuse to respond," you interpreted?

Zeros' attitude toward Carol approaches the danger zone. It's an area already close to battle. Akira is also raising her guard. I have already started manipulating my physical sensory time, and I am in a position to react immediately even when things start.

But Carol dares to (ah) answer with a smile.

"No, I'm not. It really means the way it is."

"What do you mean?

"I did get your team's information from him for the price, but I didn't want it. Whatever was worth the price I was supposed to pay. I didn't specify anything about it. He's the one who made that information about your team. It's not me."

So Carol turns her expression into something very serious.

"Ask them to pay for it exactly more than they did their job. If you don't have any money, I'll have it paid for by something else. I'm not willing to lower the cost of my job because I'm not in trouble with my money. I am not willing to devalue my work from myself. You, too, right? No?"

Zeros could not be said to be any different to lead a team and to show his people that he was doing enough work to risk his life as a leader than he was risking his life to run a hunter. Indicate consent.

"Well, yeah"

"That's the thing. Whatever you get that's worth the price. Money, things, people, information, whatever. Even if I had absolutely no use for it after I got it. This time it was occasional (by chance) information. That's all."

Zeros showed understanding in Carol's statement. Signs loosen and are no longer in a state of war. So Akira eased her guard, too.

But that didn't clear up all suspicions about Carol. Turn your gaze lightly towards Akira as Zeros continues to think.

"It's a pretty strong attitude for being suspected of being an enemy of my team, but is that why he's so strong?

Carol puts her expression back on her smile.

"Well, maybe half."

"What about the other half?

"It means that without Akira, my response will remain the same. I have a lot of trouble with this hand. I'll deal with it the same way."

"Heh. Well, let me ask you about how to deal with that."

"You (you) are also my customer to solve the misunderstandings. On the bed. I can mostly solve misunderstandings."

…… As long as it takes. "

Zeros comes up with it again. Based on Carol's story and attitude, determine if he is the enemy of his own team. Then add to the judgment material assuming Akira's power to be beside him. And to conclude, I laughed in a cheerful manner.

"OK! Okay! That sounds like a misunderstanding over here!

And apologize to Carol on a light note.

"No, I'm sorry. Given everyone's safety as a team leader, I have a lot of doubts. Sorry. Sorry."

Carol also laughs and flushes on the surface while his inner mind is quite relieved (mostly).

"It's fine. Never mind. As is often the case, I'm used to it. So, what do you say? Keep an appointment?

"No, I won't. I'm out of money because of what I just said."

"We'll keep it cheap at first, won't we?

"No, no, that's the kind of relaxation that's responsible for the squandering. We need to keep our heads tight."

On the face of it, the comfort of those accustomed to the havoc continued. During that time, Barbarodo stayed away from Zeros grabbing (or) his neck, but here he is let go. He fell slightly and fell ill, poking his knee at the ground due to the fact that his leg was released from the ground.

Zeros tells that Barbarodo in mild condition.

"You were listening? That's the thing. So do the setup yourself."

Barbarodo showed a blatant wolf.

"Hey, give me a minute. Just me?

"That's right. If it's an enemy of the team, we'll deal with it as a team, but it looks different. That's why I'm not helping. Well, I won't interrupt, so good luck."

And I took a few steps back like Zeros said I had nothing to do with it.

Barbarodo, who took the form of a stand-off with Carol and the others by herself, brings to mind the unique look of a cornered human being. And I pointed my gaze at Carol, who didn't seep in a hurry.

Zeros said take it away, but that's to reclaim the price Barbarodo paid Carroll for the side business with his hands on the team's money. And if I had judged Carol to be the enemy of the team, I would have crushed Carol with Barbarodo and then got my money back as well.

But more than not being an enemy of the team, Zeros was taken by Bavarod and Carol had nothing to do with it. And even if Barbarodo robbed Carol of his money by doing everything he could to pay him back, it was a whore's affair and a customer's affair, and Zeros had nothing to do with it. Combined with that proclamation, Zeros was falling back.

Carol also realizes to that extent. I was thinking of a way to deal with it with a commercial grin. And he puts on a troublesome face while keeping a grin.

"Hey, are you serious? It's pathetic, isn't it?

"I'm sorry. This one sucks, too. I would have paid you plenty. I'll give it back later. So now give it back."

The extent to which you can recover the money you paid will determine the extent to which it will be carved from zero. I can't afford to worry about the shame on Barbarodo being hunted down. Plus, I think back on the amount I've paid Carol, and I distort my face.

"... number one, it's too expensive. Not even the last forehead! Ten billion aurums a night, isn't that right!?

Akira, who was listening alert to how the other person came out, blew out on her unexpected forehead. Carol laughs joyfully at that Akira reaction and then tells Babalod back with her spare face.

"The value of a woman's body increases by as much as it costs. Besides, I didn't mean to force you to pay. You paid for it because you were convinced of its value, too, right? Even if they told me to give it back after I had fun."

"... Still!

Barbarodo steps closer to Carol. I'm breaking up the story and trying to exercise my strengths. Carol saw it and mixed the options of engagement with how to deal with it. And I try to make a decision, but in the meantime Akira stepped out in front of Carol.

"Carol. Do you think you can handle robbery anymore?

Carol shows off her bare gesture like she's lost a little, then laughs and answers.

"Mm-hmm. Well, okay. So please, I'm not saying you can't, but if you can, don't kill me, don't hurt me too much, take me down in peace."

"Any reason to take it down in peace?

"Because that would be better money. He'll have to pay for working with Akira as an escort."

Copy that.

Akira pulls out the blade and confronts Barbarodo, not the gun.

The black blade part of the blade, decorated with gold lines, is an option for Akira's CA31R reinforced clothing. But the part of the handle is a modification of the knife pattern that Siori gave me.

The sword's body collapsed in a previous battle at the ruins of Kuzsuhara Street. Yo (more) should have worn a replacement body. But I have killed Katsuya, and I wondered if I would ask Siori to arrange a replacement for me again and again.

Once the sheath repair function is used, it is also possible to create a replacement body from scratch. However, it takes time and cost to generate it rather than repair it.

So when Akira remembered that there was a kind of blade in the reinforcement clothing options, she asked if she could use that generic blade around for airplane sales.

It cannot be used as is because the standards are different, but it is possible to modify the pattern slightly. Having heard the answer, Akira asked Akira to make a modification to the aircraft because she thought it was just the right opportunity to repair and inspect what she had been unable to do in the battle.

Both the pattern and the sheath (saya) needed to be modified to match the general blade made on the aircraft, as well as the duration of the transport, and the modified item did not meet the request for escort of the transport vehicle. But I made it to the other day to redeploy my gear. And he came back to Akira again with a new set of gear.

Seeing Akira set up the blade, Barbarodo also takes the stand. Your arms will stretch to the point where they are likely to reach the ground and your joints will disappear. Lift both arms and gently forward. A freely moving arm of an infinite joint, like a snake, or a whip, took on a structure that was impossible in the human skeleton and range of motion.

Hunters who don't use firearms like that in the game against monsters are a minority. Inevitably, the chances of a firearms-free melee fight are also diminished. Still, there are quite a few who learn that hand combat technique as a basic technique. Because hunters have the opportunity to showcase their skills, such as when they engage with each other in moderation.

With the skill of that hand, it is easy to limit your belligerents to each other in times of little trouble, etc., and you can shoot bullets at each other to prevent imitations that scatter the aftermath of battle all around you. If you fight with a degree of unwillingness to kill but you don't mind dying, tacit consent close to the flow and routine of the field can cause battles to occur without guns. It's just right to cut off the opponent's will by fighting in action without killing him. Without guns, they can sometimes be licked by others, and many high-ranking hunters were able to fight firearm-free melee fights.

At Carol's request, Babalodo muttered and agreed to a firearms-free battle to distract Carol.

Akira and the others continue to gaze at each other as they confront each other. The rigidity of the situation persists. So Zeros, who was turning to the side of the game, snapped his fingers, hating the continuation of the situation. The sound signaled the simultaneous movement of Akira and the others.

Barbarodo's knife strikes Akira. Shake the right arm that had already been flexed and travel through the universe at high speed. At the same time, he extended his arms further, stopping his legs on the spot and, at first glance, rolled out a steel knife to an enemy completely out of time.

The knife glows slightly when it wraps around the Force Field Armor. Hardening the whole increases its power dramatically, making it a blow that easily rips through thick iron plates and hits its target.

Akira quickly swings herself aside and dodges the knife. While recognizing the speed and power of the knife by experiencing the feeling of the shell rushing through the side (buckwheat), if you quickly twist (twist) yourself with less evasive action first, you will chop yourself into the other's extended arm as its momentum continues.

However, the blade resistance of Bavarado's protective clothing, the movement of the arm pulled back at high speed, and the exquisite euphemism and flexion of the arm prevented Akira from passing through the blade tip of the sword. Spark-like impact conversion light splashes from the point of contact between the arm and the blade.

Barbarodo pulls his arm back. The knife at the tip of the shrinking arm, its thumb stretched out to the side. Hardened fingers strike Akira from behind in a move to pull her arms back. But Akira quickly gave herself up and stuffed her way forward at the same time.

Towards that Akira, Barbarodo's left arm stretches at high speeds as he flexes. It is a movement (to) seal the movement of the opponent, not the knife, and the arm of the infinite joint is about to wrap around Akira's torso in an attempt to grab (or) Akira's head. Hard to avoid.

So Akira swung the blade vigorously and bounced off Babalod's left arm. Even if it doesn't cut, Akira's fortified clothing output is powerful enough as a blow. The blade was also swinging in a motion that prioritized flying the target with an impact rather than the target cutting.

At that time Barbarodo had already released the poke again with his right arm, which he had pulled back once. The interval between the next attack is so fast and short that it is too late.

But Akira similarly blew the bullet. Bavarod's high-speed streak is also slow enough in Akira's extremely compressed body feel time. Forcefully supported the posture that had collapsed in the avoidance behavior of the previous attack with the body's posture fixing function, which applied the physical ability of the clothes and the fixation function of the scaffold, forcing the target to impinge on the shock that he would otherwise be blown away by recoil due to the difference in weight.

Akira fills Babalod with distance once and for all, when he breaks down with his arms heavily bounced. Place the blade on the upper level while jumping lightly.

That's where Barbarodo smiles. Barbarodo's series of moves was an invitation. Forcefully fix the position of falling from the side (for) with the posture control function of the body. Simultaneously move your arms at the highest speed and attack Akira from left to right in an arc-drawing motion.

The opponent has limited movement in the universe. The force field armor Force Field Armor function is applied to create scaffolding in the air, and this attack is not allowed to evade even if forced to do so. Concurrent attack at highest speed from left to right. Eat the other face (decent), even if you have one bullet. Barbarodo was convinced of his own victory.

As Babalod read, Akira couldn't get around it. But the certainty of victory from there was overshadowed.

Akira releases her hand in the air from the blade she was holding with both hands. And he unleashed an exact poke to the left and right without even looking at the goal with his free arms, intercepting simultaneously a handknife that came toward him at high speed. The thrust was carried out at an exquisite angle with the physical ability of the new fortified clothing, at a very high speed, avoiding collision with the target's knife from the front, while ensuring that the target could fly.

Barbarodo's thoughts are filled with amazement. He can't move his arms with bullets to the left and right. And in front of me, Akira in the air grabs the blade again. And there was nothing Barbarodo could do about it, and the blade swung down.

The blade tip stopped in front of Barbarodo.

Neither Akira nor Babalod were willing to kill their opponents, and in a way they were both out of hand. But this less than a few seconds of defense made both firmly understand that even if we really killed each other, we would not have covered our victories and losses.

Babalodo, who lost his will, cuts his posture control function. The immobilized body lay on the ground in a collapsed position.

"... my loss. Shit!"

And bitterly, give up seeping. Point your face at Akira.

"You've been hiring these escorts! Anyway, you must have hired me for the money I paid! How much did you hire?

With all this strength, the escort fee should also be quite high. Even if I had won, Carol wouldn't have the ability to pay because of the payment. What I said as if I threw up was a given up word because I thought so.

Answer while Akira dances the blade.

"A million aurums a day."

Barbarodo shouts surprise and dissatisfaction in his face, screaming as if he had abandoned himself (quit).

"Wait a minute! You, you're not hired at such a low price! I'm the fool who lost!

"Even if they say so."

Carol laughs and pinches her mouth from next to Akira, who seemed not to have found out, to the side (buckwheat).

"For once, in addition to what I just paid for, you can hold me as long as you want during the escort period."

For Barbarodo, who knows Carol's body, the words were convincing enough. Unexpectedly scream with enough convincing.

"That's what I mean! Damn!"

Akira, who was not convinced the other way around, had a surprising face. But now that I'm at work, I put the questions that have arisen aside.

"So, Carol, what are we gonna do with this guy?

I defeated Bavarod, but even if I lost my will, I still have enough power. I was told it would be more gold not to kill, but I don't know exactly how to convert it to gold or anything. I also thought it was out of the scope of the escort (Han-chu) to keep securing the opponent in this state.

Carol answers with a laugh.

"Hmm? Wait a minute. 'Cause I think maybe it's time to come."

"What's coming?

"It's okay. It's not like they're backing up. Don't worry. Oh, here I come."

Beyond the wilderness, one armoured personnel carrier was approaching from the direction Carroll pointed his finger. The vehicle stops near Akira and the others, and the crew descends. Corbe, Levin, Elio and the others. Unlike Corbe and Levine, who are showing their familiarity with the situation, Ellio and the others were war-torn.

The last time Viola came down. Viola walked up to Carol's side (by her side) in a fun way, knowing exactly what was going on just by looking at the scene.

"Sounds like it's been pretty easy."

Carol puts her intentions back on her spare smile.

"Sort of. The escort I hired was excellent and helpful. And the time is perfect. Were you watching me somewhere?

"No way. Coincidence."

Carol hasn't told Viola that she hired Akira. But when he was held up as a bargaining agent, he decided that he had been grasped with fairly close precision because there was no confirmation of that hand after he turned it down and because he really came here in good time. It was not known whether that grasp was based on definitive information or whether it was based on the result of sharp inferences. But for once, I returned the smile that I knew this one.

Viola laughed, as usual, at how that Carol was doing.

"Carol. I've gotten to this point, too, and you won't leave the negotiations after this to me, as usual?

"Right. I asked for it."

"Oh, that's light. If it was that light, I wish you would have agreed to it then."

Carol laughs deeply at Viola, who looks a little strange.

"At that time and now, the conditions must be very different, right?

Now that the negotiations with the Zeros ended with Carroll and the others winning, including the Barbarodo case, and that time when everything was undecided, Viola's level of intervention becomes as if it were different. It is a necessary effort to negotiate, as well as a situation that is changed by Viola's arms.

As a friend of Viola, Carol has many places where horses fit each other as poor quality people. But now I wanted to avoid making things easier for Viola's taste as a result of the negotiations. So I wanted to reduce the extent of Viola's intervention, even though I took some account of my dangers at that time.

To what extent is Viola aware of her situation? Carol laughs as she knows, half exploring it.

"So I'll have the bargaining costs reduced properly. Later, then. Akira, let's go back."

Carol is going back to the camper. Akira gets a little lost and sees how Babalod is doing. Barbarodo was in the process of being fitted with a restraint-like object from Levine. There is already no will to fight, and I have made a big deal out of it without showing how to resist. Ellio and the others had a more convulsive face on Ning's lucid hunter escort. Akira followed Carol when she decided this would be fine to go home.

Viola was laughing with pleasure, as usual, as she watched Carol and the others go back.

After returning to the camper, Akira was asked to explain the situation in detail again. Ask him with a surprised face what he was quite concerned about there.

"Hey Carol. Is it true what he said about 10 billion aurums a night?

"Hmm? It's true."

Hearing Carol's reply with an attitude of being too natural, Akira pulls it off unexpectedly.

"Oh, really?... No, but a billion, can you pay?

"Instead, you sold me 10 billion orum worth of classified information because you couldn't. A few times before that, with another piece of information, right? That's why the team leader came all the way out here, right?

"No, well, I guess so... What the hell kind of information do you sell that kind of amount..."

"There is certainly some ambiguity about the value of information. Suppose, for example, there's someone hostile to them, and knowing that can put them in a deadly situation, right? And assuming you have enough money, how much can you pay to get that information? From that point of view, it would be a price criterion. So there's no need to think of Akira's value as a piece of information worth 10 billion orum."

"Hmm. That being said, it's worth a billion... It's worth a billion, and my feeling is that it's going to go down awfully, overnight, right? Hmm."

Akira keeps roaring to understand what she doesn't understand. There was a strong confusion in that face. Ten billion aurums a night. It was a story of a world that Akira's common sense could not understand or convince.

Laughs as Carol perceives Akira's mood and invites her.

"If you don't understand, you just have to experience Akira once too. What do you say we taste 10 billion aurums of body a night?

Akira answers with a slight cramped smile.

"Don't hesitate"

"You're not getting along. It's okay. I'm not taking any money from Akira. At least not during the escort."

"I don't like it. I don't care what you think, try it once or get it for free. You just saw that end of the road, and you think you're gonna get your hands on it?

"For him, that was all a fascinating experience. That's all. I don't think Akira will be like him if she gets used to tasting it fully during this free period. Because I also recognize Akira's strength, even though she was supposed to get that kind of money, she's making an awesome concession that it's especially free? Are you sure you don't have another chance?

"Say no."

"Really, I can't."

Carol laughed with pleasure at Akira, who was even showing light vigilance.