The Land of Steel and Faceless Humans – 12
The princess who followed, looked at the inside and let out a small sigh. The appearance of a small golem wrestling with a device suitable for her size stimulated her cute sensibility.
But for a while, he discovered that the golems were dealing with countless documents. The princess’ complexion changed. This is because, as a person who leads the resistance, he realized what the documents were.
“Is this the identity of the headquarters? Numerous golems are the true form of the headquarters… ?”
“No way. Of course, there must be someone who rules the golem.”
Shiati doesn’t have the sensibility to admire the fairy tale scene. Instead, there is only a sharp forged hostility.
“And he… It’s real black. This is what made me, this army.”
Shiati’s voice trembles. He is trembling at the fact that he has found a treasure or game he has been looking for for a long time.
The princess, who felt a sense of crisis at Shiati, who seemed to rush at any moment, carefully pointed it out.
“Hey, Shiati. We didn’t come for a slaughter, we just followed Huey-sama negotiating… .”
“Don’t say nonsense. What kind of opportunity is this? Will you go on like this without asking any more questions?”
Shiati grabbed one of the golems with her bare hands. He gave him a lot of force as if he wanted to rip it off right away, but with a broken finger, he couldn’t break even a single finger of the steel golem.
But Shiati did not disappoint. Because she still had a thumb left.
A finger of black magic that can defeat anyone at once.
“The command should know the pain. You, who decided everything about the military as if you were a god, should also know the pain of those who are abandoned and dying!”
“Siati… .”
“I cannot miss this opportunity. I will surely make them feel the same pain as me. That’s why I came all the way here!”
Shiati, who refused even the princess’s disapproval, shouted so that all the voices in the headquarters could be heard.
“Come out if you call me! You want to talk?! Surely you didn’t call us to talk through the golem!”
Surprisingly, the military, who had never answered the call in their entire life, answered Shiati’s call.
The door opened. It was the second door. She walked out of the door that seemed to have been frequented by people, where there were unusually few papers piled up in front of her.
Shiati asked with her eyes wide open.
“You finally got it. Are you the commander of the military?”
“denial. The main building is not like that.”
Her answer, expressed in a very plain and ordinary way, opening the door and walking out, was as clerical as an clerk who had no passion for his job. She answered with a dry voice that seemed to handle the task given to her.
Shiati frowned.
“Not the commander. How do I call you? generalissimo? General? Or, the President?”
“denial. There is no such position in the military, and the main building does not have such a position.”
“Then what are you… .”
Shiati was speechless.
The military has a hierarchy of ranks. Every soldier is assigned that position according to the duties assigned to them. Those of higher rank make their ranks known to all and gain the authority to give orders to those who are lowered.
The being in front of me was also a figure belonging to the military system. She was wearing the captain’s epaulettes and uniform. However, that uniform is not the uniform of a general or a high-cost uniform… It was an ordinary uniform.
Shiati, who had confirmed the opponent’s status, asked in an absurd way.
“Captain?”
It’s not a lower class. That’s enough to keep your head upright in any city.
But just that much. The rank of captain is too low to be part of the command that moves this country.
Even if only captains from all over the country were gathered, a village could be filled, but if all of them were members of the national headquarters, the country would have been torn in all directions and sentenced to death.
“You’re just a captain?”
Shiati asked if she, who was only a captain, was a member of the headquarters, but with that in mind. The captain in front of him immediately accepted those words.
“Positive. I’m Captain Ivy, a military correspondent. I have stood in front of you in my own body to convey my words to you.”
And I made eye contact with the captain. After checking the other person’s face and thoughts, I scratched my chin in a strange feeling.
that’s interesting.
Usually the person who speaks thinks about it in advance in his head. The mouth is the only means of communication, and the will is all done in the mind.
But the person in front of them was different.
‘It’s been a while. How was your few days away? As a communicator, I’ve heard all the stories. You must have been as busy as me.’
What the hell happened to Captain Abbie?
It’s different from lying to hide your true feelings. Liars are intensely reminded of the truth, and truth and lies are two sides of the same coin.
In contrast, the woman in front of her was different. The words you want to say and the words that come out of your mouth are completely different. It’s like someone grabbing your body and forcing it to move.
This… More like a golem than a human.
“no. It doesn’t really matter who the opponent is or what they are called. There was only one thing I wanted to ask from the beginning.”
While I was in a moment of confusion, Shiati grabbed her and looked around. Scattered papers, the golems gathered there. The contents of the document, even the story of a signalman delivering orders. Inside Shiati, information was combined one by one.
Is it because of innate sense, or is it because of the sharply forged aggression? Shiati quickly came up with the answer.
“In the military, all orders issued by the command are transmitted through the signalmen. right?”
Captain Aby nodded in front of Shiati.
“Positive.”
“What this communication headquarters is dealing with is information that contains confidential information from all over the military.”
“Positive. The information processed by the current headquarters has different security levels depending on the content.”
“Is there any information about the taboo?”
“Positive.”
“okay. It will be.”
Shiati, who murmured calmly, raised her prosthetic arms ominously. shudder. Striking the device built into the prosthetic arm, Shiati glared at Captain Abbie.
“The incident in Hameln. Do you remember?”
This is not a normal inquiry. The last gate to brand the opponent. Timing to deny it, Captain Abbey replied frankly and foolishly.
“Positive. Signal soldiers memorize or record the military’s large and small information.
“Then you know. Allowing Nicholas to use a taboo. are you?”
“denial.”
Shiati’s hand, who was preparing something, paused for a moment. But it was only for a short time.
『The use of this taboo is at the discretion of the person in charge. The signalman only handed over the relevant information.”
“under!”
The feeling of hesitation for a moment has now completely shifted over there. Shiati laughed out loud and looked at the captain again.
“okay. it would have been Nicholas wouldn’t have figured it out himself. Instead, someone gave the information, gave him permission to use the information arbitrarily, and when something unexpected happened, he took control of the information and deleted all records.”
The captain did not answer. Shiati didn’t even ask for an answer. He just licked his lips and smiled.
“okay. communicators. it’s you A command that grasps everything from a seat and gives orders to numerous soldiers at once. It was actually a communicator. no?”
“… that.”
“Don’t answer. it doesn’t matter if After all, it is clear that you are the most important part of the military!”
“Chiati!”
Without time for the princess to stop, Shiati charged with her left hand hidden inside her prosthetic arm. If the opponent resisted, he would break his finger to incapacitate it and pierce the empty chest with a blade.
In front of her like that, Captain Abbey remained silent. With a bunch of morning glory stems wrapped around his body, he couldn’t even move and was on the verge of receiving Shiati’s hatred.
“stop!”
Of course I didn’t leave it that way. I walked through Shiati’s leg with a nice tackle.
Shiati fell miserably. Fortunately, the pile of papers just slipped and he didn’t get hurt. Instead, he stared at me with eyes that were overshadowed by evil.
“day off!”
“Stop it.”
“Are you going to rant again?! How much patience must I have!”
“Don’t be patient. I hate being patient too. But before you use your last finger, take advantage of this opportunity.”
“Enough already! The signalman is also something I need to get my revenge on! If you want to stop!”
Shiati unexpectedly kicked the ground and swung his fists at me. It’s a fairly sharp attack, whether you’ve been training consistently. It would be enough to call it resistance.
But the ability to read thoughts allows us to deal with these sudden attacks.
pension conversion. Diamond 2. Versatile hook.
While Shiati muttered, the transformation had already been completed. Tossed cards with fingertips. At the same time as the hook digs into the paper, hang the toe and set it aside. The paper stuck on the hook slipped and slipped on the foot of Shiati, who was just running.
As soon as Shiati lost her balance, I dug into the outside of the prosthetic arm and knocked Shiati down. She grabbed the back of her head, which had fallen to the ground, and suppressed it, and spoke to her shaking back in succession.
“Can you use black magic only when it is in sight? If you can’t see it, you can’t write it. So, please forgive me if I hit the back of the head.”
“You, uh… !”
“sorry. But in order to grant your true wish, you must not leave it alone.”
“Your colleague said it too! You must be the first to beat this place down! If it’s a signalman here, we’ll have to destroy it!”
Ah, the returner did. This is said to be one of the key facilities of the military. Even in the midst of the uproar, Shiati remembered it.
“right. But breaking it the way you think is useless.”
I looked at the captain, explaining calmly. The captain came out with an expressionless expression and just watched the battle of Shiati.
‘You don’t have to save me. After all, who I am now, I am half-forsaken… It’s going to disappear after being used like this.’
Wrapped around the stem of the morning glory.
Inherent magic is the embodiment of an image. Depending on the type, some are visible to others and some are not. The Captain’s own magic was invisible to the naked eye because it did not involve any physical phenomenon.
The captain’s body was covered with morning glory stems. It was like a rope that tied her body, or a tendon that moved her body. In any case, the morning glory stem that grew from her feet wrapped around her in a large circle, and a beautiful bud bloomed.
The flower buds hanging there… total twenty-five. And every bud is pointing to the door. The petals in full bloom were receiving information and will from someone inside.
That’s the way it is. I laughed inwardly, crumpled the paper with my other hand and rolled it into a ball.
“Siati. Did you want revenge on the military? But I’m lost because I don’t know what the military is.”
“I am not lost!”
“I am wandering. Rather than feeling angry at the captain, you found a reason to be angry and became angry. Can your wish come true that way? Is it the way you want to be executed after you give reasons why you should be angry?”
“That’s it. What else are you doing!”
“The answer is this.”
The bundled paper was tightly wrapped with a thread and tied tightly to form a simple ball. I shouted while spinning a paper ball over my head.
“Aji!”
“bruise?”
“Pick it up!”
“bruise!”
A paper ball was thrown, and Aji ran over the paper. While the cut pieces of paper were scattered like snow fog, Aji, who rushed fiercely, bit the ball with her mouth.
slamming the door with your body.
The military is efficient. It was not necessary to attach a high-level alchemy steel door to the communication headquarters where no one could enter without Aimeder. Aji’s new model disappeared as the door was torn apart with the sound of a roar, and a dark hallway was visible within.
cell. Someone’s voice came from a small room that only one person could barely fit in, with a cot and a drinking fountain.
“Ugh… !”
Shiati frowned as he sensed another favourite.
“… officer?”
“This is the communications headquarters. But is there only one signalman?”
They’re all communicators.
With the unique magic of ‘synchronization’, he is moving Captain AB. Another twenty-five signal operator.
Yay, Abbie is back!