301. Astrid
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It seems like Elnor and the Prime Minister didn’t know exactly what I was doing inside, but they still seemed to clearly know what repercussions my actions had.
“So, please think about what to do next!”
“Your body is not just yours! “Just remembering that there are more than one person who is worried!”
“…”
You can see that as soon as I returned to my dorm that evening, I was disciplined for over 3 hours.
The chemistry between me and someone I normally don’t get along with is truly fantastic.
When one person closes their mouth, the other person comes out and verbally beats me up, passing the baton back and forth in unison.
“…I was wrong.”
When he muttered that in his exhausted voice, the two people who had been exasperated and angry seemed to have calmed down.
You can see that the topic has moved to a more constructive direction.
“…Are you confident you can win?”
“…”
When Elnor spoke in a serious voice, I had no answer other than silence.
[…Then you started a fight when you had no confidence in it?]
‘No, it’s not that I don’t have confidence…’
It would be more accurate to say that you don’t know anything about the other person.
Unlike my opponents, whom I have always managed to suppress with my superiority in information, I know very little about Magic Tower.
I think Marquis Bogut probably knows more about this than I do.
The good news is that.
“I know how to win.”
“How?”
Professor Astrid said that the goal is ‘data measurement’. He said that the more I push myself into intense situations, the better I measure my stored magic energy.
“…There will be a fight, probably.”
The professors prepared a ‘stage’ for me.
All I have to do is throw myself there and fight against the ‘enemy’ they have prepared.
Maybe it will work out somehow?
“…”
“…”
After hearing what I said, Elnor and the Prime Minister cupped their foreheads at the same time.
“…To summarize.”
“Yes.”
“The other side will designate a battle target to draw out demon energy, so you must fight against it.”
“Yes.”
“In a place where, as a single group, we can fight against the entire continent, we engage in a life-threatening struggle with an enemy created under the assumption of a ‘demon.'”
“…Yes.”
“…”
The Prime Minister and Elnor’s eyes narrowed at the same time.
No.
But somehow I have done well so far.
It may seem a bit difficult just listening to it, but it is still not possible-
“Are you saying that right now?”
“So, please think about what to do next!”
Additional 3 hours.
Not only is there nagging, but now it’s even a handshake.
Luckily, there was no help to save me from such hellish nagging.
“Excuse me? Dowd Campbell is in-“
The cyborg came in after knocking on the door and stopped.
That’s because the view from inside is a bit strange.
“…”
“…”
When Alpha saw me being cobra twisted by the Prime Minister and Elnor at the same time, he paused for a moment and scratched his cheek.
“Would it have been better if I had come a little later?”
“Yes?”
“I am prepared to respect other people’s tastes for the night, whatever they may be-“
“…Please come in.”
It took quite a while for the confusion to calm down and for people to start having civilized, gentlemanly conversations with each other.
“What’s going on? “You probably didn’t come here to laugh at me, who will be doing difficult work from now on.”
When he asked that question in a slightly prickly voice, Alpha tilted her head and answered.
“What is that malicious interpretation?”
“You probably didn’t know that this was going to happen from the beginning, right? “It seems like you were aiding and abetting it to some extent, seeing as they let you in without even giving a warning.”
“Didn’t I give you a warning? “You won’t see anything good here.”
“I don’t think he meant it would lead to such open friction.”
Actually.
This person was probably completely unaware of the situation I would be in there.
Considering the steps I have taken so far, I would not have guessed that this would lead to this result.
This is true just by looking at Astrid, who immediately jumped in and brought up something like ‘data measurement’ as soon as the angle came out.
In other words, it would be more correct to say that this cyborg and Professor Astrid ‘induced’ this situation to come about from the beginning.
Then.
“…What are you planning?”
A gloomy voice came from me.
It is not a very pleasant situation to fall into a situation that has been arranged by others.
At least I need to know something about that information so I can prepare a countermeasure or not.
“Looking at the way you look, I don’t think you’ll let me know easily, so then I have something to say-“
“Are you going to tell me?”
“…”
I was completely dumbfounded by Alpha’s words, which flowed out without a single moment of delay.
Atta, that.
I feel angry.
“…If you’re going to explain it that easily, why don’t you tell me from the beginning?”
“There were some circumstances.”
“…What are the circumstances?”
“I guess that’s not the only thing you’re curious about in the first place. Professor Astrid, don’t you have many things? “Why have you never come to visit me even though you’re alive and well? If you have come, why did you shamelessly show your face now, etc.”
“…”
It’s not that it’s not.
These are all things I thought of one by one.
Above my silence, Alpha’s words continued again.
“I would like to give you answers to those questions as well.”
After saying that, Alpha slowly stood up.
“Professor Astrid is looking for you.”
As soon as I heard that name, my face immediately frowned, and then a calm sentence fell again.
“Let’s go together.”
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“…Hmm…”
The research building used by Magic Tower professors has a very unique structure.
Actually, expressing this as ‘dong’ is a bit absurd.
As they are crazy people who can build a floating fortress in the sky, the size of the land allocated to one professor is almost as large as two giant buildings put together.
And inside, it is full of scenes that are no different from abstract paintings drawn with a twisted imagination.
A different world that feels like an artificially created ‘ecosystem’. Inside, it is full of creatures that look like they were created by combining two different races.
Cats mixed with dogs, elephants mixed with lions, seals mixed with seals…
“…”
At least there doesn’t seem to be any research using ‘humans’, but even if it’s an animal, it’s inevitable that it’s a sight that makes me feel uncomfortable without even realizing it.
I can’t help but think that the author called My Mother is also a professor at the Magic Tower.
‘-As expected.’
He is someone I cannot like.
“It’s not as dramatic a reaction as you thought, is it?”
While I was walking and looking at the scene outside the hallway window, Alpha, who was watching my reaction, laughed and said something like that.
“Reaction?”
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“No. Usually, people who come in here are scared or throwing up. Just by looking at it, it doesn’t look natural, does it?”
“…”
If you look at it, it seems like that might be the case.
Some of the things out there are bad for your mental health just by looking at them.
“Professor Astrid is a person who is particularly excellent at bionics within the Magic Tower. “The fact that such creatures can survive stably is itself a great achievement.”
“Is that so?”
I answer bluntly and look around.
To me, it only looks like a mad scientist’s exhibition hall with bad taste.
“Well, at this rate, he is the quietest axis among the research buildings.”
“…This?”
“Definitely. You can take my word for it. At least Professor Astrid has always vehemently refused to use people as research ‘materials.’
“…”
After all, it is a magic tower.
There is nothing wrong with being called a den of crazy people.
“And, as far as Professor Astrid is concerned, it’s not that she wanted to conduct research that would have put such ethics in the gutter.”
“…”
There are two things to consider from the sentence.
One is how do I believe that?
The other thing to say is that the research done by other professors, who are even more terrible than this one, was done ‘because they wanted to’.
“…Isn’t this place more trash than you think?”
“This is an incredibly brave statement to make in front of a human who is a member of the Magic Tower, but I guess I can’t deny it.”
The Magic Tower was tainted by evil.
The words Alpha said when I first set foot here are fresh in my mind.
Meanwhile, when I arrived at the end of the hallway, the automatic door in front of the door slowly opened.
What is inside is like the management office of this research building. You can see various control panels and electronic screens with numbers written on them.
But if it is something that stands out clearly among those things.
“…”
Someone’s ‘human body pieces’ floating in a test tube, with no idea why they are here.
The eyes, brain, and various organs are stored in a large container that looks like a culture tube and float in a solution.
“…”
Honestly, I wasn’t very impressed when I saw that crazy scene earlier.
To be honest, this makes me a little dizzy, too. I feel like throwing up.
“Why did you bring me here?”
It was probably natural for Alpha to raise a slightly resentful voice.
“The person who called me in the first place is not even here. “Maybe I should call a place where something terrible like this hangs.”
“What are you talking about? “You are there now.”
“…?”
What on earth are you talking about?
There are only nightmare-like objects that look like a living human being dissected alive and only the organs submerged. Where is the person here-
“…”
No.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Stand still and look at the ‘dissected pieces’ of someone in front of you.
“…No, right?”
And, before Alpha could respond.
The ‘brain’ contained in the culture tube flinched.
As if he was still alive. As if I was ‘active’ for something.
And at the same time.
In front of the culture tubes, a mechanical device came up from the floor.
It is a voice synthesis device. As if it was created to convey the words of someone who currently cannot speak.
-Hello, son.
It’s a familiar voice.
This is a voice that often comes from the mouth of the Steel Giant, who introduced himself as Professor Astrid.
-…It’s not that pleasant, is it?
“…”
Oh my god.
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So bogart is doing all this to raise mc’s status and power so that he can rescue his mother.
Damn he truly loved her.
Your mom is in a giant sci-fi tube