52. No way, let’s shoot
Just as the duel started, someone knocked on the door.
I was wondering if there was anyone who could come right now, so I opened it, and there was someone I hadn’t even thought of.
It was Shaara Phrygia, a student who was shorter than Atlas, which is very rare.
“Russell, are you…”
Phrygia stopped abruptly while speaking her words to Lucia.
“… No.”
“..What happened?”
“No big deal. I’m sorry I came in all of a sudden.”
Frygia quickly closed the door and left.
‘What happened…?’
I couldn’t understand what had happened.
It’s clear that she dared to come to the room and try to talk to her, but she didn’t know what she wanted to say.
After the unexpected guest left… Amy, who had been watching the hologram, hurriedly stood up.
“I… I’ll go out for a while..!!”
“Amy?? Where are you going!”
“Uh… Tue… The bathroom!!”
Even though she said it herself, Amy blushed as if she was bewildered.
“Uh.. I’ll be back soon!!”
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Amy chased after Phrygia.
At the academy, she did not take out her weapons when hunting demons, but
She had the two pistols she used to hunt demons tucked in holsters in her bosom, from where she got them now.
-It looks like he messed with the control room. Phrygia seems to know something, so let’s find out.
“How did you do that…!”
The condition of Atlas was strange.
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River was worried that Atlas might be in bad shape because he stayed up all night, but he knew that wouldn’t make sense to Amy, who knew he was the Master.
Will the master, who is a superman among superhumans, get in bad shape just because he barely stayed up all night? A person who was fine until morning.
As she ran with a quick stride, Amy saw her long strands of blonde hair worried that she might be dragged to the ground.
Unlike usual, she was running somewhere in a hurry.
“Mr Phrygia!”
“Ha ha.. Ha.. Exam entrance student…? I’m busy right now. What’s your business with me?”
As soon as Phrygia saw Amy, she slightly frowned.
With an angelic face, gasping for breath and blushing cheeks, a few strands of hair like gold threads stuck to it, making it sensational.
But the expression on her face was the exact opposite.
She was revealing her deep irritation and disgust to Amy without filtering.
She didn’t flinch because of that.
Because she is a test taker, living at the academy is something she often experiences.
“You just came in… Is there any device in the arena?”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
Ignoring Amy’s words, Phrygia turned around and tried to run away.
Her body, which was smaller than Atlas, seemed to lack her stamina, and she was already out of breath with how much she ran.
Phrygia is running until she draws on her stamina, even though she says it’s not a big deal, and her companion calmly analyzes her duality.
-Is she going to stop talking after she came running like that?… Even though she came all the way to ‘Russell’, it’s also a concern that she took a step back.
-Then there is a high possibility that there is a problem related to the family or interests.
“Isn’t Atlas involved?”
“…!”
Her little shoulders twitched.
“If it’s about helping Atlas, I’ll help too. It’s okay if I don’t have to go into detail, so tell me the situation.”
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She calmed her panting breath.
Amy, a freshman with bobbed hair like a tomato, can be seen running down the aisle at a speed that cannot be compared to Shaara.
She told Pergia When she heard that assumption, she was in such a tense moment that she didn’t even think of having someone do it.
The students in the same class she used to act like limbs lacked the trust to do this,
It took a while to make contact with reliable limbs.
This moment was very inconvenient, as students were not even allowed to bring their direct subordinates from their families, unless they had a direct title, such as the head of the Newspaper Club or Count Malcolm.
Originally, I planned to ask Lucia Russell about Albion’s whereabouts and ask for help.
Since she is a sure ally of Atlas, she was sure that if she told him the situation, she would definitely cooperate.
But that thought disappeared the moment she looked up at her.
Her head, which had been emotional because it was about Atlas, became calm at once.
‘If you tell Russell… There will be a war…’
Albion, who assisted Lemnos, had many quarrels with Russell.
Really, Lemnos and Russell are on good terms, but Albion was particularly quarrelsome with Russell.
It was a fact that only the five pillars knew that there had been several rough quarrels between the two families recently.
The five pillars are enduring with an internal promise to ban disputes, but what if this becomes a fuse…?
‘She attacked Atlas-sama, whom she was supposed to protect, in Albion… If Russell uses this as an excuse to go to war with Albion… ‘
First of all, we must secure the facts.
Yes, we still can’t be sure that Albion did it.
You can contact me separately after checking that…
If Albion really cheated, she had no intention of going over it any further.
She dared to play tricks on Atlas.
At best, the difference between the VIP room and the control room in the basement is about 5 floors, so if she has her physical abilities, she should be able to arrive in no time.
Rather than making a fuss about something that is not clear for nothing.. It was necessary to obtain accurate information first.
At that time, it was Amy who approached Shara.
As soon as she saw her, her expression frowned.
Amy is one of the people Atlas often keeps by his side.
Shaara doesn’t even meet people properly because there are a lot of people around her. Even though that test entrant is in the same class, she can be with Atlas almost all day.
‘To the subject of an unknown villager in the remote area who can’t even get a letter of recommendation…’
I thought so, but I couldn’t get it out of my mouth.
Because I knew Atlas would hate that.
But even Char didn’t like that kind of Amy.
She doesn’t have to see her hatred right in front of her eyes… She just tried to ignore it, but she said that Amy wants to help Atlas.
I was a little shaken when he said that there was no need to explain the situation.
‘I don’t know my skills… But if you’re a test student, you’ll be above average…
It’s for Atlas-sama, so I can trust it more than the other kids. There’s no background, so there’s nothing to get rid of…
I just need to cut it if I have to.’
If I just did what I was told, there would be nothing to hold me back in the current situation.
When she was suspected of manipulation, she ran away at high speed.
Looking at her back as she walked away, Chara thought.
“To call Atlas-sama without honorific titles is to call her ‘Atlas’… You’re being arrogant about being an exam student…”
No matter how much it is, it seems that a person’s personality cannot change so drastically overnight.
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I couldn’t accurately grasp it with only the hologram, but it was clear that something invisible in this space was interfering with Atlas.
It was a randomly generated environment and if there was no manipulation… I could not help it, but I was sure that I would never be a companion.
– There is a ‘pattern’ in this space of the special stadium no matter how random it is. If everything is random without any rules, there may be a result in which this space does not even exist.
As soon as she separated from Phrygia, Amy was running towards exactly one place.
How do you know? My companion had a very high understanding of the special stadium.
The special stadium has 5 control rooms.
The five separately constitute the elements of this space, and each consists of four types of terrain, creatures, penalties, and buffs in the center and four directions that synthesize everything.
The first place Amy ran to was the living room.
-This is a simple elimination method. First of all, if the center that controls everything is messing around, the principal will be the first to notice.
It wasn’t even a forest, it was an open terrain like a volcanic area, but I couldn’t see anything but two creatures.
It’s not even a buff or a debuff. If the master had a debuff that would make him stumble like that.. That is, if there was a magical effect, the master’s own exorcism would resist and sparks would arise all over his body.
It is most likely that he is touching the creature.
“…The door is open.”
-I guess you were right.
The door to the control room where the creature was set up was left open.
Originally, it should be locked, but it is wide open without any locking device.
As I slowly went inside, I saw someone.
A long-haired blue-haired handsome man… It’s Zeke Albion.
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“Why… I inhaled so much gas but didn’t collapse… Didn’t it work properly…?”
Zeke Albion was watching the duel through the hologram as well in the control room.
Edgar Lemnos is attacking and Atlas seems to be having a hard time.
Every time Edgar’s attack missed, Zeke’s fist trembled.
In one corner of the hologram, a giant plant-type monster could be seen hiding under the ground.
That monster must be the one attacking Atlas.
‘That amulet… Right?’
-Yes, it must be an amulet that sets the direction of the creatures that are created…
When I glanced at it, there was a blue amulet attached to the box with the hologram coming out.
Zeke showed how focused he was. Even though he entered confidently, he didn’t look back and focused on the duel.
-It looks like they are changing the settings after creation… In that case, it is possible to return it to its original state by removing the amulet.
Now, looking very defenseless… I can finish it in one blow.
I grabbed the automatic pistol from the holster with both hands.
-Clap
As the slide was pulled back, the cold friction of metal collided, but Zeke focused all his attention on the hologram in front of him.
Now is your chance.
“!!!”
-Bang!!!
Amy’s pistol aimed at Zeke burst into flames.