Vorpal Rabbit and Fortress Uncle

The next day, when I left Shiraka-an by myself, I was riding Yata Glass to Susano, and the Knights of the Eagles were visiting the home wing fort (Windford).

Luna and Tart already stood there when they came to the gate of the glorious iron lattice.

"Good morning, quick."

"Ha ha! We just got here."

"Good morning. Just now, I ran into Luna and talked to her a little bit."

Call Astra after greeting each of them.

Soon the bars opened and a blonde young man came running from behind.

"Good morning. In the meantime, please come inside."

"Good morning. It's hard to have a big base."

"Ahahah. It's a good exercise alternative."

The location is a meeting room that has been gathered before, so we bring up the conversation at a hassle of moving.

"How are Astra and the others doing?

"We stopped at Wing 46. The shrine we are currently attacking seems to be able to win exquisitely, so we are all considering a strategy."

I am surprised at the number said to be rusty.

They finally made it through the 40th and the second half.

"Maybe you've been up all night?

"No, I'm taking a break to avoid a forced logout"

"Well, that's mostly through."

Luna laughs bitterly at her hesitant remarks.

By the way, she hasn't changed since the 24th of her fangs when she met us yesterday.

"How's the tart?

"Um, I think our party was the best with the 17th nail."

"I see. That said, the tart usually worked at a fixed party."

Astra says to the tart who breaks his fingers and counts.

As he said, the tart usually acted as a fixed party of friends with whom he interacted in real life.

It seems that the band is not formed because there are four people, but so far there is no talk of including other members.

"Was the tart a guerrilla?

"Uh-huh. The leader is Kagura, who serves as a support (buffer) and healer, the sub-leader is Mutsuki, who serves as a saboteur (debuffer), and the attacker (attacker) Kisaragi and I are just members."

They're all good kids, and a tart that smiles softly.

They seem to be very friendly with each other, even though they are real.

"By the way, how's Reggie doing?

Astra opens her mouth as she boards the incoming elevator.

"I took the 13th of the horns and the 35th of the nails."

I think about last night and say it with a little tiredness on my shoulders.

"Eh!? Thirty-five, haven't you updated the grassland records?

"I don't know now, but at the time we took it, we were updating the records."

Luna nodded in surprise.

After I broke up with her, I was taken by Letty and ran around the grasslands endlessly, gradually challenging the shrine.

If there is a “shrine” along the way while being guided by the White Moon, you must stop by. If you lose, the momentum will not diminish. If you run out of supplies, replenish it in Susano and return immediately.

Hell's force lasted till midnight, and thanks to that we were able to significantly update our grassland progress.

Hey, Letty, you guys are out of line.

"It's too tight. Even though I'm a backup job, I feel like I've been dead for the rest of my life."

The elevator door opened at the same time as Luna sighed.

It is a round-table conference room that I saw one day when I walked down the hallway and dived through a heavy door.

"It had already begun on foot, but again. Today is the first day of the event, so let's start by sharing the information we have."

Once seated, Astra will take charge of the progress.

Although each person briefly talks about yesterday's activities, there are no notable points such as this.

Naturally, the topic shifts to the shrine outside the marker discovered by the white moon - the "decayed shrine”.

"Yesterday, after receiving a call from Mr. Reggie, I asked wiki editors in the area of regional surveys (fieldwork), such as Mr. Himamori and Mr. Mbito of the Centauri Snake Snake Corps, but they said they had never seen anything like a" decayed shrine. ”

"If Himami is saying that, I'm sure he is. Well, I don't suppose we could find any ordinary shrines until the event."

"This morning, Himazaki reported that he had investigated again, but he couldn't find anything other than the four found in the two grasslands that Reggie found in the waterfall."

Astra said with a difficult expression.

He should be doing more than just talking to the wiki editor, he should be investigating by several other means.

However, I don't suppose there have been any impressive results from this state of affairs.

"Even though it has been relieved considerably, the burden on the Ledge is still quite high. It's hard to go around all four fields and find all the rotten shrines."

"I wish there was some way we could find the decaying shrine...."

Tart looks at the white moon circling by my chair and says,

The only way to discover what is now known as a “rotten temple” is to be guided by the guidance of the White Moon.

"... I've been asked to develop tools and techniques to discover something for each production band."

"Well, if you don't show me White Moon, it's probably the system of the game, and it's hard."

Round off Luna.

Astra nodded without strength, as if she understood it.

"- Hey, can I have one?"

In the meantime, I'll raise my hand.

Because I wanted to solve the problem of getting caught a little bit from yesterday.

"What's wrong?

"I have one question. I think it's still at 18: 00 today, but it's an announcement from Amateur Terrace."

"Periodic information report?

Nod at Tart's words.

The progress of the survey of the “shrine” in the four fields is communicated daily at 18: 00.

It is almost certain that the number displayed as a percentage of each is the number of “shrines” that were attacked intact.

"Well, why is it a percentage?

"Why?

Luna leans her neck towards my distant summer source.

"Why is progress reported as a percentage? And that number matches the number of shrines attacked in the field."

Astra stood up with a deep breath.

"There are about eighty halls marked... If we don't know the total number of shrines is 100, the numbers will be even higher."

Nod.

"There it is. Although the number of shrines indicated by the markers is less than 100, the progress report is shown as a percentage assuming that there are 100 shrines."

"So Amateras knows there are 100 shrines?

Luna also raised her mouth with a pinch.

"If so, why not release the information? The official announcement didn't say," There are 100 shrines everywhere. "

There are two possibilities I've been thinking about.

I'll put two fingers up for Tart.

"One is the theory that I didn't disclose it because I didn't know the official location of the decaying shrine."

Honestly, I don't think this is "likely.”

Although we don't know where it is, it is not an airborne satellite, but a problem that the robotic dolls on the ground (us) should deal with with with in Man Sea tactics.

I don't know why I bothered to hide the information.

"The other theory is that the location of the decayed shrine is deliberately hidden."

The words surrounded the conference room in silence.

The three faces solidified, but their heads moved quickly.

"Is that so? I can't believe Amaterasu deliberately hid about the shrine...."

"I don't feel the need."

Luna and Tart shook their heads as if they were unbelievable.

For those two, I repeat myself.

"I've been thinking about it all yesterday. Why wasn't the shrine found until the event?"

"That's because... the start of the event was flagged as the appearance of the shrine..."

"Is that really a metaphorical reason? Does the operation of purposefully preparing trains instead of even a cheap warp for high-speed travel from town to town allow such a cheap reason?

Honestly, I can't wipe myself out of this game.

Maybe Luna was right.

But still, I wanted to choose who looked "fun."

"That shrine is a terribly weathered look that makes you feel history, even if it isn't a decaying shrine. Don't you think it's" unlikely "that 400 of those things appear in four fields at once at noon?"

"But then how did you hide it for what?

"Do you remember RoI: BSB and RoI: UC?

Astra answered the question.

"That's an important record. This is the keyword that appeared when Reggie manipulated Amatumara's device."

"Oh, BSB thinks it's Black Spirit Beast - the data about that black pig, which probably also involves the White Spirit Beast at this event. I still don't know anything about the other UC."

But there's only one thing I know.

"The amateur terrace must be doing research in areas we don't know. So we regulate the information that we don't need to know."

"Need to Know?"

Nod to Astra.

Our research and development robot doll is only one field of the Izanami project that is commanded and managed by the computing device incorporated into the development command ship Amaterasu.

Then we don't know - there's a lot of information that we don't need to know, and it's no wonder we knew about Amateur's top presence.

"We decided we needed to know about the shrine, so we took Vale from the Amateur side. That's why we were able to see the shrine at the same time as the event, the special development directive, was issued."

"But...!

The tart stood up.

I let my dripping dog ears get excited and said while moving.

"Wow, we've been walking in the field all along, and the wiki editor is especially staring at us. I can't believe you didn't find me."

"Yes, my eyes."

Intercept Tart's words.

Points to his own eyes.

"We see the world through these eyes. Gathering information. --That's why I thought this eye would show the truth."

"Well, what do you mean...."

Tart wriggles at my words.

"― ― There is a technology called optical camouflage. It's not as unusual in this world as it is in the DAF Snipers I operate."

"No way, the temple was optically camouflaged?

Luna said with her eyes that it was hard to believe.

Indeed, that makes no sense.

If we're going to put optical camouflage on the shrine itself, we'll need ground troops ahead of us until the exploratory doll reaches the field.

"No, we had the optical camouflage in our eyes.

We are getting information from the world through the eyes of machines.

We constantly collect and use color, topography, subject, site, and various material information to determine our behavior.

"Our eyes do not reflect the world itself. I'm just looking at the world through machine processing."

"Is that a skill?"

Nod to Astra's exact words.

"The skill's guide grid, the skill's weakness point lock, the skill enhances vision and improves accuracy, and the Lycan slope works at night. In the first place, we routinely use the UI displayed at the edge of our vision, and we use displays that are not real. All of this information was added by machines to the original world."

Yes, we are adding a variety of information by ourselves, and we use it heavily on a daily basis.

Then there is the opposite.

If we can uncover the weaknesses of protozoa and highlight the boundaries of the area to be cut.

Maybe you can hide what you want to hide and make it less obvious what you don't want to know.

"The shrine has been around for a long time. But our eyes didn't see it. The shadow of the shrine disappeared in real time and was replaced by a landscape without any change of philosophy. Unconsciously, the plane was manipulated and changed course so as not to bump into it."

We are not human in this world.

It's a collection of machine parts shaped by a steel body and artificial muscle fibers.

Then it is not inconceivable that information will be tampered with before we perceive it.

"- But suppose Mr. Reggie's theory is correct, we can't break it?

Astra, listening quietly, opens her mouth.

His opinion is correct.

Just because you know the principle doesn't mean you've found a way to resist it.

"Well, then, you just have to look into it thoroughly."

The three of them were stunned when they saw me with my hands on the ceiling and releasing words.