Rebuild World

271 Carol's Past

Akira was quite surprised that she was held up for negotiation by someone from Lyons Tail who hung her prize money on herself, but she was no match (I wonder) for the surprise that Flip, the Lyons Tail person, asked her to kill Chloe.

"Wait. Are you serious? Are you seriously gonna ask me to do that?

"We're talking about possibilities. First of all, I'm checking to see if you're the person to take such a request. Many say I'm a hunter and not a killer. But let me tell you something, if you're a bounty neck, some people kill you. As far as I'm concerned, I just receive the money differently, and I think what I'm doing is the same. Well, people have their own criteria around here. I am not willing to push my thoughts. So, what do you think?"

"No, even if they say so"

"I repeat, I have yet to make a request. If you are the one accepting the request, take the information back to the company and consult with the others to decide whether to actually make the request. Afterwards, you and I will negotiate remunerations, etc. and sometimes it will flow without reaching an agreement. This is the previous stage. If you're reluctant for reasons that don't fit the bill, you just need to negotiate to fit the bill. I don't think that's a reason to say no at this point, do you?

What you're saying is right. Akira was slightly troubled even though she thought so. And when I realized why I was worried, I shook my neck to the side.

"Say no."

"Why? You've already tried to kill Chloe many times. It will continue to be so. That shouldn't change whether you take a request or not. If requested, you can also receive our support as a reward. The situation seen by other hunters in their schematics, Individual vs. Lyons Tail, is also judged to be a protest between Lyons Tail branches. That would be beneficial for other negotiations. You must have only the advantage."

"I guess so. But I say no."

"Why not? Do you think it's too good to talk about a request that only has merit? It's just that you already bear the disadvantage of taking the request, that is, the damage caused by hostility with Chloe. The downside that should be has just been scratched (or erased) by the situation that it has already become a 50-billion-orum prize neck and has been monster certified by Kugamayama City. Such a peculiar circumstance only allows you to enjoy the benefits?

Akira still shook her head sideways. Flip exhales gently.

"... Well, it's anomalous, but it's a kill request. I can't force you. But can you tell me why? I don't suppose you have a grudge against killing now."

"Sort of. The neighborhood is now. Just..."

"Just?"

"I will kill him at my will. I don't want to mix the will of others there. That's all."

Akira ran out so clearly. It was very important to Akira and that was a good enough reason.

But look at the flip you're not convinced of and add a few more reasons.

"Later, when you get a request, I won't be the only one who can decide. When something happens and you don't kill him or you can't kill him, you may get in trouble for what you asked for. That's why I'm not asking for it."

"Even though you tried to kill her, you think you could change your mind? You think that's possible?

"I've got a lot going on, too. I'm used to running into things I never imagined. That's why I'm thinking it's impossible."

I laugh because the flip means something.

"Right. Well, let's do that."

"I'm not lying."

"When I'm also a branch manager, there's a lot going on. Never mind."

Flip laughed lightly and told the story.

Akira, who finished the negotiations, wanted to cross (again) onto the bike with Carol. Flip, who was about to laugh it off, calls out.

"The negotiations themselves have ended badly, but I have nevertheless been able to get along with you. Let's try to be good. Again, we're not going to be hostile to you. I mean, if you want our services, I'll accept them. There's more to the prize money than being hostile to the Sanqu branch."

When she is commercially enthusiastic, Akira returns a bitter laugh.

If you feel like it.

Akira disappeared straight into the wilderness as she ran her motorcycle, leaving so much to say.

After Akira left, the affection for the guests disappeared from Flip's expression. Instead the face of the person who keeps the branch appears.

"What do you guys think of his strength?

The butler's man's face, also near Flip's side, was a little harsh.

"I was wondering if I had enough strength to deserve vigilance. But when people ask me if I can defeat the Mechanized Soldier Bee in the report, it's hard for me to tell."

The lady in maid clothes also has a difficult face.

"I agree. But the earlier concealment was brilliant. Whatever his prowess as a hunter may be, I don't want to be too close to being entrusted with Master Flip's escort."

"Right. Then again, it was worth negotiating even if I could declare that I would not be hostile."

Flip, who then returned to the vehicle, was asked again by his men to explain the negotiations with Akira. Sit in the back seat and talk about it.

Akira, the bounty neck, threatens to harshly resent Lyons Tail as a whole. And he who sees himself as an enemy will have no mercy. If you flee to the area of the Fourth District Branch, there is a risk that you will be attacking the Lyons Tail facility because you are already hostile. So first, as a precaution, I made him realize that the Fourth Ward branch was not an enemy. Chloe's murder request was also made to reinforce it.

And I also thought that if I killed Chloe, I would be able to inflict some confusion on the District III branch. It is certain that Chloe is involved in some way in the fact that Representative Alice is visiting occasionally (on purpose). Therefore, if that Chloe dies, it is possible that the leap in the 3rd Ward branch can be suppressed. I wanted to keep the dangers of Zone 3 branches leaping forward and Zone 4 branches swallowed in as low as I could.

A deacon clothes man hears it and expresses concern.

"But the branch manager. Isn't it dangerous to get your hands on the San-ku branch at this time when the delegates are coming?

"No problem. If that is a problem, there will always be a notification from the Alice representative to the Sanqu branch that there is no need for handouts. But he hasn't come. Which means Rep. Alice is allowing us to interfere with the Third District branch.... Well, I don't know if it's recommended or tacit."

Flip exhaled after saying so.

"... but why is Representative Alice not informed of the purpose of the visit? I also see confusion in other branches. Isn't this just spreading noise..."

A maid of honor clothes woman somewhat oblivious to management as Flip's escort pinches her mouth without much thought.

"Didn't you check with HQ?

"I did. No specific reply has come. They haven't even told me I don't need to know. It remains unknown. If he would have taken on the request, he could have sent this person in for some information in the name of the reward... but I hope not."

Before Alice's visit, Flip's distress was constant.

Akira and the others motorcycled to the negotiating place with Flip because they would not involve the campers in the event of a battle. For Akira, who cannot return to the city, campers are important both as sleeping beds and as storage places for ammunition, etc. It stopped far enough away.

Still, if we run the bike vigorously and run through the universe, we will arrive soon, but we are slowly moving on the ground to avoid being noticeable. I left the driving to Carol on the way home, and Akira was grabbing (one) behind her.

"What do you think Carol said earlier?

"Hmm. Well, I guess it's good to know Akira's range of enemies is narrower than we thought."

Even though he tried to kill the Lawrence family, he was able to confirm that the company Lyons Tail itself did not turn to Akira's enemies. If that were the case, it is possible that even a prize of 50 billion aurum could be annulled if evacuated to the realm of a branch with a three-district branch and a bundle (Asuki). Because if you kill someone who has been prize-necked by the 3rd Ward Branch, you may be seen as hostile to the 3rd Ward Branch.

Akira looked convinced but unexpected when she heard those stories.

"As far as it goes. Do you have that idea?"

Carol gives zero bitter laughter to the way it looks.

"Akira. You went to negotiate without even having that idea?

Akira is behind Carol, but her gaze shifted to deceit. Then I had an eye contact with Alpha, who smiled (cheeks) with pleasure, so I shifted my gaze even further in the opposite direction.

"And this is gonna be my personal feeling, but it's good to know how Akira thinks,"

"Hmm? Anything wrong?

"Look, you said no to the kill request properly, didn't you? Even if there is no taboo on killing, so you can be a robber or a killer without feeling comfortable, so you can return them without feeling comfortable, it's not like that. Akira is the latter. Whatever the reason, I'd be the former if I undertook to kill him. If you want to do it, you can do it, so it's important why you don't do it or have it."

"Is that what this is about?"

"That's right. So, just in case, protect me and give back the enemy properly."

Carol said that and laughed to invite her somewhere.

Copy that.

Akira laughed and gave it back too. And I think.

"So what the hell is that enemy?

Carol listens back in some tough tone.

"... do I have to answer that?

"I don't force myself to ask. But, well, I'll tell you what, me and Carol have a lot of tough stuff right now, but I have plans to get some powerful gear. So if something Carol's on the lookout for strikes, that's more convenient after we get that gear. So I just figured if I knew who they were, I'd be able to predict the area."

"When do you get that gear?

"As early as a week, maybe three months later"

"You've got a long time."

"Well, there's a lot going on around here."

That I really don't mean to force you to ask. And Carol loosens her tone a lot because she feels she's allowed to convey information that can be fatal in some cases.

"I'm sorry. As I said before, I'm asking Akira to escort me (just to be careful), so it might be my struggle to get over it. So I have no idea when it's going to hit me either. There's a good chance that nothing will happen in the first place."

"Right. Then I'll be easy."

It's not even something important to Akira, so that's how the story went.

Akira and the others came back to the camper and stopped the bike. I would have opened the back door intact and went inside every bike, but Akira stopped it.

"Akira. What's wrong?

"No, kind of."

After getting off the bike, Akira grabs a gun in one hand and slowly approaches the vehicle with Carol on her back. Carol also stood guard and put up a gun from Akira's appearance.

Let's open the rear door of the vehicle and dance the bike. Use the bike as a shield to guard the inside of the vehicle for a while. Make sure nothing happens, then slowly move on. And as I entered the living room, a familiar face awaited Akira and the others.

"Long time no see. Sorry to bother you."

Shiloh welcomed Akira and the others with a laugh.

The opponent isn't holding the gun, he's not showing any will, plus he's a downhill heavy worker. From that judgment, Akira and the others lowered the muzzle they were pointing at Shiloh. Still, I didn't loosen my guard.

Carol turns her harsh gaze to Shiloh.

"... how did you get inside?

"I opened the door and came in. That's right. I'm sorry I walked in on my own, but it would be worse for you if I wandered outside and stood out, wouldn't it?

The security of this car is the same as it is not for me. Shiloh told him that in the dark and gave him an extra grin. Akira pinches her mouth there.

"Still, why don't you let me know in advance? That's what you've been negotiating with me about, isn't it?

"I'm sorry. Such imitation threatens to crack my place. Even today, if I didn't see you, I'd leave you a letter."

Sometimes found in Yanagisawa at the ruins of Mihazono Street, Shiloh was extremely cautious about the area.

"Well, I'm sorry I came all of a sudden and went in on my own. We have a situation. Miss me there. I need to talk to you today."

Carol is obviously surprised not to seep in a hurry.

"What's the story?

Shiloh, so asked, laughs sparingly as he shows his advantage as he looks at Akira and the others.

"Oh. I want to make a deal with the old realm connectors."

Akira reacts slightly unexpectedly. When I noticed it myself and was likely to react even more heavily due to the fact that I thought it was unpleasant (first), the reaction of another person scratched it off.

"No!

Carol was roughing up her voice. Unable to contain the exposed agitation, the appearance of fright (obsession), haste, tremor and distortion (yu) of the expression was equal to the absence of shards (shards) such as persuasion to the words uttered by himself, even though Ning confessed.

As your surprise deceives Akira's reaction, Shiloh also looks a little surprised by the opponent's excessive reaction. But Akira and the others couldn't afford to notice it.

"You don't have to be so surprised. You were expecting me when I came all the way out here to see you, right?

Don't be hostile, Shiloh. Carol is retreating with a frightened face in a rough breath. Seeing those two, Akira switched consciousness. Stand forward to shelter Carol and point the gun at Shiloh again.

"Carol. Is this guy a good enemy?

I don't know the circumstances, but at a time when the escort was showing a frightening appearance, even if the target was a downhill heavy worker, it was a reason to point a gun at Akira. Later, if Carol answers that he's the enemy, he'll be the reason to pull the trigger.

Shiloh realizes it too and makes his face look bad. Thinking that there is no wonder whatever you say from Carol's appearance, he slowly retreats, thinking he has failed.

"Okay. I'm not going to be able to tell you the truth, and I'll talk about the deal again. I'm leaving today. Bye."

Shiloh went straight back without turning his back on Akira and left the living room. And he opened the other doors of the vehicle and left. Akira was a little confused as to whether it should be stopped, but given Carol's condition, she prioritized the escort first and let Shiloh escape as he was.

"Alpha"

'It's okay. He's gone.'

Akira exhales loudly, de-alerting and lowering the gun. And watch Carol.

Carol was squatting like a coward.

Akira and Carol sit silently in the living room of the camper, already long after Shiloh leaves, and the beverage Akira put in front of Carol is warm (soaked). I've never had a hand in a cup.

Akira sat across from Carol and did nothing more. I just move my gaze to see how Carol is from time to time. He sat silently without a voice.

Time flies. The painful silence also becomes a quiet time without a voice if nothing continues to flow without happening. It was Carol who was cruel, but her surprise in the sense of a sudden situation faded slightly and gradually regained her composure.

And to the extent that he opens his mouth, Carol, recovered, asks Akira with a grunting (crushing) voice.

"... you won't ask?

"I won't force you to ask"

"............... why?

"Carol said you couldn't talk about the details, right? I took on an escort on top of that. That's why I don't ask. That's what I'm asking for."

"………, yes"

That interrupted the conversation once. Seeing how Carol shuts up again, Akira wonders if she has responded incorrectly again and adds a little.

"Well, I'm interested, so I'd love to hear it if I could."

"………, yes"

That's all Carol answered again. Akira wondered if she had made another mistake, but opened it for a little while before correcting Carol's posture.

"I'll talk."

I didn't want them to know. But I wanted you to know more than you've ever known.

"It's true I said no. At least that's what I think. I was an old realm connector. It should be different now. … maybe, but"

Carol slowly began to tell someone that if he told them, he thought they would be ruined if someone knew, and that he wanted to make it easier by telling someone somewhere in his mind that he had been silent.

When Carol hadn't named herself Carol yet, Carol, who was just a common hunter, passed out after a severe headache in a building exploring the ruins of Mihazono Street. Shortly before that, the vision was scratched (or disturbed) with various displays of augmented reality, making it so gutsy that it could not be seen before.

I woke up a few days later, where I passed out. He was unconscious in the ruins for days, but he's not dead. Even though I'm surprised about it, I try to go home with a sore head first. And out of the building, Carol lost her voice to the extra sight. Even though it was midnight, vision was filled with light of various indications.

The building is decorated with signs of light, and the road stretches endlessly with lines of directions stretching to the sky. Letters indicating the names of buildings and streets appear in space, and the ruins that are turning into mountains of rubble appear overlaid after reconstruction. Walls showing restricted areas were floating, various signs were displayed in the air, even something like a patrol route for security devices.

And I saw them. Severe headaches strike Carol again. Moreover, this time, I was not so embarrassed as to pass out due to the pain, but suffered from severe pain. Still, in this state, it is determined that it is creepy (first) to be in the ruins, and I try to go home somehow. But it soon became unbearable and soon returned to the building. Headaches are also mild in places with few expansion indications, and I manage to exhale.

Carol then spent a few more days inside the building. I managed to get home, try to find a light-headached spot even when I went outside, get out of other entrances and exits of the building, etc., but it all ended in vain. Wherever it came from, the headache was unbearably strong.

And one day, Carol, who was exploring the building with fatigue and lack of sleep, wondered if she had any means, passed out with a lot of pain when she saw something like a shadow in one room. I also felt like I had been asked something and answered something, but it wasn't in Carol's memory that I was in pain and not everywhere.

The headache was almost gone when Carol woke up from her fainting again, and I didn't see any expansion indications looking outside the building. Carol was relieved (mostly) while remembering an inexplicable confusion, and managed to escape the ruins with a body that was reaching its limits due to fatigue.

Carol then looked up for herself what had happened. And he temporarily concluded that he had become an old realm connector. I decided that what I saw in the ruins was an augmented reality feature of the ruins that I could see if I was an old realm connector, and beyond what I had already lost sight of, that was temporary, and I was no longer an old realm connector.

For once, I took a few trips to sites widely known as Ida Commercial Zoning Sites and other sites where the site extensions are still alive to see if I could see anything weird. And I was relieved to confirm many times that what I could see was not visible bare-eyed if I crossed the extension enabled information-gathering device. I have been a little awkward to go to the ruins of Mihazono Street again to make sure that I am not really an old realm connector anymore, so I made it good.

I have heard many rumors (rumors) that I will be looked up and grabbed just because I was misunderstood to be an old realm connector, but I am not an old realm connector anymore, so I guess I will be fine. That's what Carol thought. However, there was also a slight anxiety that he might suddenly become an old realm connector again one day.

And one day, Carol stopped by the ruins of Mihazono Street, where she had refrained from taking a trip, to hang out with a hunter she knew. And I was stunned. I don't have a headache, but I saw an augmented reality display that I shouldn't have seen bare eyes. Not enough to fill my sight, as before, but partially, to a slight extent, I did see something that was not supposed to be visible to the naked eye.

Carol, who was cruel and upset, managed to deceive his companions, who looked surprised at him, and cut the job off on the spot.

And Carol, who then took the time to re-examine his condition, decided that he would be close to the old realm connectors only to the ruins of Mihazono Street. Although limited, it was also found that various information can be obtained from the guidance panel through extended information on the site.

That state is a good reason for those who want old realm connectors to look for themselves. At least, if they find out, if they find out, they're in enough condition to get to the end of the story. There is even a risk of harsher (or worse) consequences due to the fact that it is not a clear old area connector. Having thought about it, Carol feared it and abandoned her past to keep it a secret. I feared that I would be explored for my condition even from past actions that were nothing, and I truncated everything.

I changed my name. I also changed my face. I even changed shape in the name of becoming a physical enhancement dilator. He also abandoned his track record as a hunter and re-registered as a different person. It was easy (yawning) for me to fall into a lighter status than a piece of paper with no credit whatsoever, and I had never been suspected of registering at a police station off Slam Street.

Living with a secret takes money. I also need money in case I run away. In order to get the money, a new hunter started a cartographer.

Sometimes it is even suspected that a competent mapper is an old realm connector. But on the contrary, it also means that there is technology to obtain information about the site even if it is not an old area connector. I used my condition to create and sell high-precision maps based on information obtained from the ruins, and pretended that people who were not former realm connectors were (to) boast of their own mapping techniques.

I also started selling my body as a side business. Then he gradually increased the selling value and began to imitate (well) it so as to elicit information instead of gold. Even if it is revealed that it knows information that cannot be known unless it is an old realm connector, it is because it is deceptive to hear it from other hunters.

Knowing the bad rumors, he began to engage with the likes of Viola. Even if you don't normally know, a friend of Viola might know. In order to obtain such a position. Yu (more) also felt unexpectedly comfortable with Viola, influenced by each other, and became known as the Bad Girl.

And those days did not distort Carol greatly. I started dyeing my hands by various means to hide secrets.

At the same time, the anxiety and fear of being sure to expose one day unconsciously hoped for a liberation from it, and made Carol want a ruinous thrill. The magnitude of the ruin he was carrying was enough to match it, and he wanted someone to lean on, and he lay his own blood and his life on top of the gold, and if he were ruined, he would have taken his place, and he would have remembered relief and joy.

On the other hand, I also did things that morbidly hide secrets, sometimes ruining them. I also started wanting to share secrets with someone.

In a way, Carol sells her body with gold at the end of her side of the business, lets her body fit in well, then increases the price exponentially, and begins to ask people who can no longer pay for information instead of gold because of the distortion.

I want to tell someone I can trust my secrets with. The hobby of Carol's man, who so unconsciously wished, became so hard-mouthed that he wouldn't break his mouth when he approached him with his body. I confused many men in search of that someone.

But whoever wanted it because of Carol's remarkably high ability in the sideline doesn't show up. Expecting it on its own, it went on to exhaust itself on the opponent, letting itself crack its mouth and disappoint, cutting it off and ruining it, raising Carol's notoriety as a bad girl.

Carol, who had been through those days, met one day a rare one who showed no interest in his body as if he were. It's Akira. No matter how tempting she was, there was something strangely stubborn about her, and at times she was an unusual boy who made crazy decisions and was oddly loyal to the requests she received.

If you are such a stranger, or (have) yes. Carol unconsciously thought so and was interested in Akira.

But before we can be sure of that, information comes into Carroll that a huge organization is looking for an old realm connector around Kugamayama City. I knew I wasn't looking for myself, but I also feared that I would become a part of the investigation network and expose myself.

So Carol asked Akira to escort her. Akira wondered if, once a request had been taken on, she would fight the capture unit of the old realm connector without retreating. And the prediction was correct, and Akira told me that watching the battles of those who caught Shiloh at the ruins of Mihazono Street would not imitate (well) getting off the escort.

Afterwards, Akira quit the escort once, but that was because (to) not to involve herself in the convenience of Akira, and in a sense it was judged because (to) not to risk (even) being escorted as an escort. And the subsequent renegotiation also allowed me to undertake the continuation of the escort.

Carol could also favorably interpret Akira's attempt to kill Chloe by prioritizing her own will. If you are hostile to a large company like Lyons Tail without pulling back, it is possible that your opponent will protect you without timing even if you are a unit of downhill heavy industry.

Being a prize neck of 50 billion orum was also convenient for some to think about. Because in such a situation, even if you are exposed about yourself, you may escape with yourself. Campers were also originally prepared as a means of getting around the east in the unlikely event. It was also convenient in that regard.

Carol is not cheating on Akira. I didn't even throw up a lie. But I tried to use it.

Carol told Akira that. I didn't tell the boulder (exactly) exactly what a man's hobby was or what he didn't even know. But the circumstances behind the escort request that I have myself, I'm done talking.

No more secrets.