＜ Episode 140 ＞
Doo doo doo!
As the mother body burns, vibrations full of urgent emotions resonate, stimulating emotions.
The resonance with a strange beat continuously touched the heart, and created a ripple in the hearts of everyone who became capable through repeated training.
Pity, life, sorrow, woe.
Although the mother did not cover the means and methods to somehow survive as the emotions that could make her feel sorry for her opponent were stimulated.
Fu science!
Quarreung!
Warheads flying ruthlessly hit the mother body, and the flames full of human malice increased their momentum again.
Roaring!
Doo doo doo!
A reverberation full of urgency filled the nest, and while the startled soldiers were adjusting their expressions, John just put the magic wand over his shoulder again with a calm expression.
“… that’s really amazing.”
He does not lose his composure under any circumstances and makes every effort to complete the operation.
Isn’t the figure of finishing without being vigilant until the end of the end really like the symbol of a soldier?
Strydom admired John’s appearance, but Caidel stared at John’s cold face with a strange smile.
‘I don’t know what I heard, but I’m angry.’
Caidel has reached the stage of influencing those around him just by expressing his emotions outward.
In Caidel’s eyes, it seemed that John was holding back a burning rage behind his cold expression.
Fuquahak!
And Kaidel’s prediction was not wrong.
Qurrr!
clap.
John, who was reloading the warhead with mechanical hand movements and pulling the trigger, was in a very angry state right now.
***
The moment when the mother body’s mental waves filled the nest and everyone protected their minds in their own way.
The mental waves focused on John instantly led him to another world.
It took a moment for him to feel like he was about to lose his mind at the dizzying sensation, but soon after, John opened his eyes and recognized himself floating in a space made entirely of starlight.
“…similar.”
A space similar to a witch’s shop where she went to get information from a dying player and obtain supernatural powers.
That intense experience is not easily forgotten, and he realized at once that the environment he was in was similar to that time.
John was aware of himself, but narrowed his eyes and focused on the environment, which seemed to blow his mind out of the slightest distraction.
Uh.
An organ clearly located deep inside the brain, but not observed in any way, vigorously exuded its own presence, and John was able to put on a satisfied expression.
It confronts incomprehensible situations with this ability.
If the previous John was infinitely helpless in this space, the present John had at least the strength to struggle.
John’s ability to see through the microscopic world radiates out in all directions, encroaching on the space that seems to float among the starlight.
The power that spread out from John’s center occupied the space, and the occupied space was colored with John’s color, so John was able to further solidify his existence in the occupied space.
– Impressive.
A voice that seemed close yet far away, seemed distant yet seemed infinitely near, crossed the sea of stars and stuck in John’s ears.
At the end of the gaze, which naturally returned, a figure entered the dark space with only starlight.
It looked like a brightly shining sun, or a human figure with two arms and two legs, but John saw something else.
The space overwritten by John’s superpowers filtered the illusions being conveyed to him.
What was reflected in John’s eyes was a shining figure in the form of a large cocoon.
“matrix.”
The words came out without realizing it, but John felt that it was the correct answer.
– That’s a name given to it by humans.
John asked in an emotionless voice, even though the crisis of life was clear.
“Then do you have a different name?”
It was a nonchalant question, but the body was silent and emitted only light, and John intuitively knew that this was not a simple matter.
A name defines existence.
By receiving a name, they engrave their existence in the world and become a full-fledged member of the world.
A person who cannot define himself cannot lead a proper life.
The mother body was excluded from the members of the world before it had a proper name, so there was no way it had a proper name.
It was an abstract concept that they wouldn’t normally think of, but John and Moche were able to understand this concept at once, and it was clear that it was possible because they were in this space.
Silence continued and how much time had passed like that.
The mother’s voice resounded in the silence that seemed short and seemed like an eternity of time had passed.
– ······Right. After all, am I a stepping stone?
“It’s a stepping stone.”
It was a bottomless story, but John understood it at once.
A stepping stone to alert Luna.
It was clear that the mother body and the mutants were chosen as a stepping stone to unite Luna’s scattered powers and fight against destruction, and the situation after that would change greatly.
– Why didn’t you help me?
Anger mingled in his voice, which seemed to be infinitely cold.
“Why should I help you?”
It was an absurd question from John’s point of view, but Moche continued with an exasperated voice.
– You, too, must have come on a mission. Your purpose and mine are not different. But why didn’t you help me?
All the emotions mixed in the raging voice became tangible and tried to push John, and the stars that seemed to shine endlessly in their place shook greatly.
The light of the stars that are supposed to shine brilliantly and guide the traveler turns ominous, and the stars that are expected to bring bad luck just by looking at them shine from all sides to pressure John, but John has already built his own territory with this ability. didn’t blink an eye.
“It’s a mission.”
The environment, where you can feel the mysterious energy just by looking at it, turned hostile in an instant, but what appeared on John’s lips was a cold smile.
“You mean the mission the guy who brought me here gave me?”
– Yes!
The smile on John’s lips turned even colder at the echo full of betrayal.
“Are you talking about the thing that was thrown into the world without any warning or foreshadowing and was not even given direction? Are you talking about the fact that no milestones were given in an environment where a momentary twist would lead to death?”
The cold voice is getting more and more enraged, and the anger that has been suppressed deep in the heart begins to erupt.
– ······what?
As if he was embarrassed by John’s appearance, the emotions he had pushed through quickly faded, and the embarrassed emotions soared.
“I expected it.”
John continued with eyes that blended coolness and anger.
“The existence of the player was confirmed and I knew that there was such a thing as destruction. Then I thought about what it could be.”
A monologue hidden deep in the heart of a cold solver who always keeps his cool and produces the best results for the mission.
Concerns that cannot be shared with anyone have been released here.
“You can’t use any of the player’s privileges. If I hadn’t been lucky, I wouldn’t have gotten this ability, and then I would have died or rotted in the slums without anyone noticing.”
Hwareuk.
This ability is the power to respond to the mind.
A fire broke out in the space occupied by John’s superpowers, illuminating the dark space.
A brightly burning flame roared as if it would burn everything in the world, and it was an ominous color completely different from Odin’s divine fire.
The dark red fire burning with the momentum that only wanted destruction and left no ashes was like John’s life.
“Are you following that guy?”
From the depths of his heart, anger constantly welled up, and fueled by that anger, the flame expanded its momentum without end.
– ······ Umm.
Beyond the space occupied by John’s power, the flames that devour and burn even the ominously shining stars naturally remind you of destruction just by looking at them.
– But you are doomed. The destruction that must destroy Luna!
Suddenly, the flame that took over the space spread to the surroundings of the mother body, which seemed to be infinitely far away, and an urgent voice rang out.
“yes. It means destruction.”
I don’t know what the mother body knows, but John defined himself as destruction, and John didn’t reject that opinion.
the power he had in his hands.
I have obtained the ability to embody the most destructive forces mankind has ever created, and if I set my mind to it, I could blow up a city called Luna at once.
No complicated procedures, processes, or time are required, but if you just make up your mind and snap your fingers, all kinds of disasters condensed with human malice will fall while no one can react.
If this is not destruction, what is destruction?
That is why John did not deny that he was destroyed.
– Do your duty! Fixer! John Doe! fall!
The voice became a force, pressuring John, and the flames that seemed to burn with great force and consume everything in the world stopped.
The light from the mother’s body began to push the flames out, and John’s eyes narrowed under the intense pressure.
“······yes. Are you showing up now?”
What John sees in an incomprehensible space, facing an incomprehensible phenomenon.
I could feel and see the presence that was passing power through the mother body.
And perhaps that being is the one who summoned John to Luna.
– Do your duty John Doe! Destruction that burns the world!
Now, the voice of a completely different being, not the mother’s voice, became a huge pressure and was trying to choke John’s mind, and the dark red flames that seemed to burn the whole world shrank rapidly, only revealing only John’s surroundings.
If this continues, John’s will will disappear and he may become a puppet who only thinks of Luna’s destruction.
Although he was in a desperate situation where he might lose the meaning of his existence, John’s expression did not change, and his cold smile remained.
“If you’re going to do a commission, do it right.”
– ······what?
“I do not accept personal requests other than through my broker, Miller Bird. Besides.”
clap.
Suddenly, the large revolver in John’s hand was pointed straight ahead, and the dark red flame that had shrunk back into flames began to spread its momentum.
“I do not accept requests from people with personal feelings.”
Roaring!
Dark red flames moved to the extremely cold gun barrel, and the will to burn the whole world was fully loaded.
“I said destruction.”
John’s presence grew more and more, and the light of the shining mother body withered as the flames raged.
“I’ll be happy to.”
Kirik.
The hammer of a pistol too large to be called a revolver was lightly pulled.
“I will be your destruction.”
The light of the mother body trembled at the unknown anger hidden in the calm words.
bang!
The trigger, which was pulled so naturally, advanced the hammer and fired a bullet, a 50 BMG bullet splitting the world of burning stars.
shot.
In the blink of an eye, the bullet that was supposed to suffocate its target flew slowly enough to be recognized, and it signaled how far the space between the mother body and John was.
Kinetic energy is finite and bullets must lose power and fall before reaching their target, but this is a space far from common sense.
Hard.
Dark red flames were transferred to the bullets that split the stars and flew, and they gradually grew in size and eventually became the size of a group.
The slow-recognized bullet gradually accelerated, and now the bullet that had turned into a meteor turned into light and was embedded in the center of the body.
– aaagh!
Pain and frustration, anger and sadness, betrayal and astonishment.
A voice filled with all sorts of negative emotions resonated in the space, and at the same time, the size of the mother body rapidly shrank and lost its brilliant light.
Ting.
There was no floor, so it was normal not to hear a sound, but the sound of the shell casings falling resonated resoundingly.
“It was a useless story.”
The fixer, who had regained his composure before he knew it, muttered with a cold expression.
＜ Episode 140 ＞ End