That night I received the award and HR issuance.

Ning was in an unexpected place with an unexpected person.

There, the more taxi you can get from Metallica headquarters, the more tidal you are. It was a luxury hotel bar in the heart of it.

Ning people have never been here like this. Luxurious thick wooden counter, leather chair.

There are countless unheard of bottles lined up behind the bartender.

We were supposed to celebrate the team's return to headquarters and FA rights tonight with Annis's proposal. No, it should already be done. The Nings were to participate late.

For some reason, on my way to the spot, I wanted to talk to you, because I was invited here.

"I won't let that take time. I don't think you're gonna lose anything by listening to me."

I had no choice but to be told that. but the miscalculation was that it seemed like such a fancy bar to be brought in.

A thousand yen a drink? You gotta be kidding me. Shit. I wonder if I can get enough money. and makes me think extra.

"... hey Ikeno. Did you have to be here to talk about it?

It was Reiji Ikeno, who joined the company at the same time, who brought the Ning people. Ikeno had moved to the Global Levels Management Department after the Planning Department as the youngest section leader, and with his outstanding abilities he had many successful and meritorious joint operations with forces in other countries. His current level is 4.

He is an unusual young management man in Metallica, similar to the Ning, but with a targeted background.

The Ning also know about his freshman strategy or the tactics he carried out. All of them were outstanding craftsmanship businesses. In some respects, I am impressed and respectful.

But it was the last time we argued at a joint meeting before the Harrison Strategy.

"I'm not talking about people being made to listen. I feel safe here. The Master is my acquaintance, someone I can trust."

No, then I think it's okay at the Oodle Store...

"What can I get you?

The master, Ikeno's acquaintance, has asked for an order.

"I got Gibson."

Apparently, there's no menu. Ikeno asked for a mysterious drink with a trick he was used to. Very sophisticated and cool. It made me feel.

"Oh, I'm... yam roasted... give me the same as him"

Maybe he doesn't have anything to drink.

"Yes, sir."

What came out was a small cocktail glass when I did it. There is something round in it.

"... Ikeno, this round thing, what?

"You asked me not to know? You, there's really nothing you can do. It's a pearl onion."

"Oni... onion? Seriously? You drink onions with booze?

……

"I don't mind."

Gibson, try to include it in your mouth.

Surprisingly, delicious.

"Tastes good. This."

"Ha, that's good"

Nevertheless, apart from Ikeno, he is not close enough to drink alcohol. Plus, I have to go to my buddies' celebration seats.

"So, what's the story?

So I decided to get to the core early.

"Oh, you, you took FA rights, didn't you?

Apparently, the same thing Ikeno wants to do just now. Without looking into the Ning people's eyes, Ikeno began to talk.

"... you're a boulder. How do you know that?

"A woman with a light mouth is useful. You'd better get along with the lady from the General Affairs Department, you too."

Apparently, this guy is hot after all. Confident. I don't find that objectionable, but that's not important right now.

"I'll remember that. So?"

"From the second half of the current fiscal year, the Development Office will be bisected"

"Huh?"

Development Office, an important department in Metallica that creates, improves and maintains modified humans and various types of armed and special equipment.

Phantoms and armaments sent to every department, including the sales department, are built here. Originally, Professor H was the head of development, but not now. He's left to what was the assistant to the professor after he got somewhat on track.

"The development room? You're telling me we're gonna split in two? Why not?"

"... the Development Office has been stuck for years. Not since Professor H, said to be a genius, became deeply involved in the operation of the organization and left the Development Office. A modified human being has been created to such an extent that he maintains the status quo based on the valuable data and materials he has left in the Development Office, but that is all. Metallica's fighting power is overwhelming."

Ikeno explains well. Then I listened for a while and the Ning also understood.

Based on the legacy left by Professor H, the current Development Office has decided to embark on a reform of its organizational form in order to break through the status quo, which continues to have a minimum track record. It puts the Development Office in Sections 1 and 2, competing for and developing different concepts of Phantoms, weapons proposals. That's what it is.

I also felt it was slightly rough, but it's a logic that the Ning don't even know about. Sometimes competition creates something better.

"You know that, don't you? Maki is in a competition for a modified human being."

I was really concerned that Ikeno was somehow abandoning Maki, but now I decided not to touch him there.

Gibson and Yara in his mouth, the Ning snort.

"That competition is narrowed down to the two remaining proposals. The concept of Mitsuki is one of them. The first job of the bifurcated Development Office is to settle this competition."

Ikeno drank Gibson in one breath and ordered another liquor, probably whiskey,.

Ning found a foreign beer-like bottle behind the master and asked for it.

So you're saying, "Let the two development rooms compete?"

"Oh. Right. And the Phantom Concept of the Winner of this Competition will be the future prototype of Metallica's remodeled man."

Ning's requested foreign beer is placed on the counter and poured into a glass of pottery. but I still don't drink.

"Wow, you."

I had no choice but to be impressed with the amount of information Ikeno had. But I have my doubts. Ning people threw questions here.

"So, what are you trying to say to me?

"... I have an internal decision to become Head of Development Office 1 with my next HR"

"... heh"

"And we haven't decided on a candidate for section president for Division 2"

"Become!?

So far, Ning also understood what Ikeno was trying to say.

Ning people are currently acquiring FA rights. If there is a desired department and there is a post in that department, the transfer will be realized. That's what FA rights are. So what happens if Ning people who are not supposed to know about the introduction of the two-division system of the Development Office want the Development Office?

Ikeno rang the whiskey glass karan and continued.

"The winner of this competition will have great power in Metallica in the future. Of course I win."

I didn't know. Ning people didn't know.

"Ikeno..., you, why are you telling me this?

Myself and Ikeno are in sync, but we're not close.

He was fooling himself, and I've denied his strategy.

Ikeno did not answer Ning's question, ignored it, drank up the whiskey, and started accounting, which would probably be for both of us.

"Hey."

Wearing the jacket he was taking off, Ikeno started going home, and he said this when he left.

"I don't like you. I don't even feel like losing. That's all."

It was like throwing up and throwing up.

The beer poured before the Ning was already warm.

The Nings somehow remembered General Lars and Professor H.

I wondered if villains were all the same.

No, something, I don't think so. Yeah, I thought so.

Reiji Ikeno hated losing.

Born into a wealthy house, he hated losing since he was a boy because of the nature of his birth.

Sports, grades, or even whether or not you're hot for a woman.

I don't know how long it's been like that, but I couldn't forgive myself for being weak. If you're weak, you're made to be good to someone who's not you. I have to live in a world I don't even want. If you're strong, you can stay in the world you want.

Praise, not disdain.

The spotlight, not muddy water.

Because I prefer the latter.

To be strong is to keep yourself. That's what I thought.

So he was a hard worker at the same time. I never missed academia, and I was keen on martial arts archery. I've been told by my parents that I'm off track.

He may have had talent, but he may also have had a shrug. The fruit of the effort was achieved.

Academic achievement dominated the nation's top level, and Interhigh in Kendo.

He cared about his smart waist and was hot on women as well.

You're a narcissist. I also know that I can't deny it if it is said to be.

What's wrong with that? I always want to be who I want. No effort is spared for that.

Instead, those who did not make that effort and desired light but kept themselves in the mud could not understand.

Am I abnormal? You guys are the weirdest ones.

'Oh, that's good. You're an elite. You're handsome, sports versatile, and you're in easy mode of life.'

Countless people have received such a gaze. Bug spit ran.

As a result of his search for strength, Ikeno came to Metallica.

It's the best place to wave your brains and arms that you've worked out.

There was a man I knew there.

At first, he looked like a man who seemed incapable of anything. He was the kind of man who tolerated his weak self, and I thought he was a fool and a natural man.

The next time it happened, the man was very different.

I've bumped into harsh, fierce opinions. The man, who is supposed to be weak, is declaring that he will change the world, he has strongly stated that anything that stands up will be thoroughly crushed, what is wrong with it.

The man said he would change the world by doing as much as evil.

Ikeno, while in Metallica, never really wanted to change the world.

There's no need for that. As long as I am strong, I have no problem with the way the world is. Because you can be yourself that you want.

Ikeno is proud to be outstanding. You don't have to take radical and outrageous methods or anything, you can make a difference in Metallica. That way I am confident that I will also benefit the Metallica to which I belong, by which I can be appreciated and be strong myself.

But that man is not.

The seemingly fine man, with only one weapon: malice, is trying to 'change the world better'. And it's going steadily.

That man is incompatible with himself.

So Ikeno hated a man named Ninja Komori.