The wagon and adventurers soon disappeared from sight.
After seeing them off, the automaton, standing alone on the slope and facing the wind, quietly looked down at the sky, meadows, and collapsed stony mountains.
I didn’t think of anything other than my mission.
Is it because I lack computing power?
I was immersed in such thoughts, but someone called.
“Room 231, what are you thinking?”
Where the security automaton No. 231 turned its head was a bloody little automaton with a handkerchief on its head and bloodstains and burnt marks all over its body.
“Carrot, why did you stay?”
“Because you look lonely. And also for running races, and…”
Carrot with her hands behind her back looked down. You can see the cave of the collapsed mage guild.
“To watch the massive explosion of 10 magic crystal bombs.”
Room 231 somehow became pleasant. He lifted ten detonation scrolls.
“I want to see that too.”
“hehehehe! Oh right. do you know how to write this If you tear it up and snap your fingers, it explodes right away without counting?”
“All right.”
Tung…! Flash!
Before long, I spotted a red signal flare rising into the sky. The two automatons looked at each other, and in front of Carrot’s eyes, Unit 231 tore the 10 detonation scrolls in her hand at once and scattered them in the wind.
231 slowly raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
Just-!
So-so-so-so-so-so-so! Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash-!
A group of pure white light bursts through the cracks in the stone mountain. When the magic crystal bomb buried underground began to detonate, it was as if a star in the night sky had descended to the ground.
“It explodes! run!”
231 and Carrot quickly turned back and started sprinting.
“hahahaha! We win this time!”
“I will not lose again.”
Koo-gu-goo-goo…! Immediately after the two automatons run out, an earthquake occurs with a shaking of the ground. It was such a big explosion that it was so powerful that the ground collapsed.
In the end, Carrot couldn’t beat No. 231 this time either.
The villagers warmly welcomed them back to the city after moving again over three days. Some died and many were injured, but the adventurers who risked their lives and returned from adventures responded to their cheers with money.
“Because adventurers are in a significant position economically, right? There are more jobs that are expected of you than you think. That is why the treatment of injured adventurers and the recruitment and training of new adventurers to fill the vacancy are important.”
“Ohhh.”
In a small room inside the Adventurer’s Guild, Crank stood with his arms folded while Carot, who sat instead, looked at Orion, a guild employee in front of the desk.
As soon as they arrived, the settlement started with guild arrangements, and other adventurers lined up in turn at the guild lobby, but adventurers with automatons were called into separate rooms because of the difference in pay.
Orion took a money bag from the box and placed it on the desk.
Iron gruck…!
“Automaton companion adventurer reward 3 million Leeds.”
Iron gruck…!
“This is the promised protection for novice adventurers and the cost of field training. One million Leeds.”
Iron gruck…!
“uh? also?”
Carrot raises her head. Orion reached out and peeked at Carrot’s front hair. A black automaton frame and glass bead pupils were revealed.
“Doesn’t it hurt?”
“Orion is sentimental, Automaton has no pain beyond touch. does not it hurt.”
Orion smiled and said while handing out three bags.
“The last one is the guild special subsidy of 300,000 Leeds. It’s not enough, but use it to cover repair costs.”
“and! really? thank you!”
“I am not responsible for any damage to the equipment, but it is a reward for bringing the sprouts safely.”
Crank, who took the money bag, asked.
“What about the people you rescued?”
“Now everyone is hospitalized and receiving treatment. When they are fully recovered, they will be sent to find their families, or if they have no place to go, they will move to a temple or a pioneer village.”
“ah! that’s right! There is someone I want to meet!”
As Crank lowered his head, Carrot looked up at him and said.
“That limbless woman! you will be in the hospital Can I go and have a look?”
Crank heard the story as he came and nodded.
“I also have someone to meet at the hospital. let’s go.”
I am about to leave the room when Orion waves.
“Carrot, thanks for coming back.”
“huh!”
Carrot, who gave a thumbs up and smiled, went out to close the door. As Carrot and Crank stepped out into the lobby of the bustling guild building, a passer-by asked, startled.
“Carrot? what? Are you hurt?”
“Oh! Dude Milton! Automatons don’t get hurt! It will only break!”
Milton, wearing a longbow, hardened his face a bit when he heard that, then looked up at the crank.
“You have a nice automaton.”
“thank you. All the money I earned today is going to go towards repairing this guy.”
“I must feel sick to my stomach.”
Crank lowered his pitch without answering. Milton said with a faint smile.
“Thanks to your automaton, many of my friends have survived. Call me anytime, if you ask, I will risk my life for half the price.”
“There is no place to thank you for this.”
Leaving behind Milton, who was waiting for his colleagues, Crank walked to the hospital with Carrot.
“how is it? How good is the kimono of a man with long hair carrots?”
“Um, fantastic. I will praise you.”
“Ahem!”
Arriving at the temporary hospital behind the guild, Crank and Carrot grabbed one of the busy trainees who were dispatched from the temple and asked.
“Where are the dismembered women and the sullen women with teddy bears?”
“Ah, I’m a bit…”
Crank grabbed the trainee’s hand and handed him a 10,000-leed silver coin. The trainee’s face turned earthy and then he raised his head.
“Where are you?”
“Sah, the woman who had her limbs cut off is this, this way. I’ll look for the lady with the teddy bear. Please wait a moment.”
“yes.”
The place where the trainees followed was a large room with many beds, where most of the people who had been captured by the black mage were being treated.
And in a corner away from the others, there was something with a blanket pulled over its head.
Crank saw Carrot, and Carrot approached.
“Hey! Are you sleeping?”
When there was no movement, Carrot opened his mouth again.
“You saved me from the cave, right? I’m here to say hello. Beauty is a sleeper, but aren’t you sleeping too long? Get some sleep.”
“Cough Cough…!”
After some coughing, Carrot lifted the sheets.
“Hello Sister?”
It wasn’t long after it was moved that the dirty look was revealed. It also smelled bad. The trainee next to him sighed.
“He received divine treatment on site, so his condition is not severe, but he won’t listen to me when I try to wash him.”
The woman behind the uncovered sheet opened her mouth with eyes red from crying.
“…cover it.”
Carrot, who stared at her face, lowered the sheet again. A hoarse woman’s voice came out with the sheet turned inside out.
“…girl, are you hurt anywhere?”
“no! Automatons don’t get hurt! It just breaks!”
Few people in Argon are unaware of the Automaton Carrot. Even the trainee standing next to me knew about it. After the trainee went to find the teddy bear woman, the weak woman’s voice came out again.
“…Automaton?”
“Your spirit of sacrifice to save a little girl in danger, your justice, and your heart are still intact. I appreciate that. I will praise you.”
After a moment of silence, she opened her mouth again.
“Okay, now go.”
Carrot, who looked up at the crank, grabbed the seat and pulled it. A woman’s naked body, limbless, below the elbow and below the knee, was exposed on the white sheets stained with filth.
It was the body of a beautiful woman adorned with all the filth of the world.
Her gorgeous blonde hair was scorched and ripped in places, and her body was covered with scars.
The only wall that divided the world had been taken away, and the distraught woman screamed and cried as she stirred her half-remaining limbs.
“Aww! Sheet! Bring your sheets! give it back! give it back! hurry! Uhhhhh!”
Carrot narrowed her eyes.
“no.”
“what···?! oops! you···!”
Crank, who had been looking down at it, bent down to take the sheet from Carrot and put it back over the woman’s body. Whispers and whimpers could be heard from under the sheets, but no words came out.
said Carrot.
“Crank, can we put a limb on this woman? I don’t care if my repairs are delayed. This woman saved me.”
“That’s not allowed.”
Carrot looked up with a sullen face, and Crank was still looking at the woman’s silhouette covered by the sheet.
“You are first. This woman is next.”
“Oh! Can you attach it?!”
Carrot’s face brightens. Crank now turned back and sat down on the bed, lost in thought.
“If you do it this way…”
Leaving the crank lost in thought, Carrot leaned over and whispered into the woman’s head.
“I’ll put your arms and legs back on. how is it?”
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“…!”
The sniffles stopped.
“Your name?”
Crank asked, but there was no answer. Crank said as if talking to himself.
“Among the many fanciful stories, there is one about an adventurer who uses an automaton’s arm as a prosthetic arm. I thought it would probably be impossible because I had never seen the real thing, but seeing your pity today makes me feel the urge to challenge that impossibility.”
Crank turned and whispered into the woman’s head like Carrot.
“Let’s attach the limbs of the automaton to your body.”
Still no answer. Crank continued.
“Do you have a family? where to go You, who have nothing to hold on to, will enter the temple at this rate and become a nuisance to the practitioners.”
“that’s right. You can’t even go to the bathroom by yourself right now.”
As Carrot intervened, the seat lifted, revealing the woman’s face. His eyes were still red and his face was wet with anger. But he didn’t say anything. Carrot clapped her hands.
“Good! those eyes! Anger is much more constructive than tears! crank! They say something is positive!”
“good.”
“Uh, K, Crank! crank!”
Just then, the trainee brought a gloomy woman holding a teddy bear. Tuna, who had been depressed the whole time in the hospital, was overjoyed to see him again.
Carrot asked, staring up at her.
“Who is this woman?”
“My name is Tuna, and I will be in charge for the time being. I want to take these two.”
“Are you family?”
Crank pondered for a moment, then nodded.
“yes.”