183. Failed




 Sametylene suburbs, looking around a lot, checking more carefully than usual.
 After I was clearly convinced that there were no humans around, I put down the drop items and hatched the hagremonos.

 The air changed completely, Dungeon Master Satanakia appeared.

''Repetition!''

 Cast a spell in the nick of time.
 It is the strongest round-the-clock magic repetition that kills monsters once defeated unconditionally.
 It's a good idea to have a good time with them.

'Fufu......'

 I was a little relieved.
 I checked my surroundings carefully, and as soon as I got out, I killed him instantly with the repetition.
 It's because Satanakia has a special ability to control women.

 It's not so bad if you're just strong, but if you're able to manipulate people you have nothing to do with, it's just too tricky.
 I killed him instantly before it became a problem.

 Haglemono's Satanakia dropped something.
 As he got closer, he saw that it was an earring.
 The moment I picked up the earring, the effect flowed into my head.

 Satanakia's earring, deactivating the ability of the woman equipped with it.

'...... hmmm,'

 I jerked my head back and snorted.
 Somehow I understand. The demon Satanakia, which controls all kinds of women, and its drop product is ...... which suppresses women's abilities, is somehow understandable.
 However, the effect is far too subtle to be effective if you look at the drop items from the previous hagremonos.

 I'm sure it's a good idea to give it to a woman who's going to be your enemy and have her wear it as a gift.

It's not something that I would dare to use.

 There will be the occasional outlier.
 Even if it's a Dungeon Master's drop item, it's not a great effect for anything.
 Celeste's Dungeon Master Bicorn's Bicorn Horn, which Celeste has, only allows her to use beginner level magic infinitely.
 It was a perfect fit for Celeste, but it was inherently subtle.

 It might come in handy somewhere someday.
 With that in mind, I shoved the earring in my pocket and started walking back to Samethyllene.
 I walked halfway through and met a woman.

 It's a strange woman, she's right in front of me, but she has no presence, as if she were not there.
 The presence was so faint that if you close your eyes, you would lose sight of her.
 I've been in this world for a certain amount of time, and I've gradually mastered the skill of detecting a presence.

 Even so, I can't feel the presence of the woman in front of me.

 Don't tell me it's a ghost--? What a brusque moment.

 The woman who was walking carelessly stopped in the open and took something out of her pocket and placed it on the ground.
 Immediately after, a magic circle spread out around the placed it.

 The purple magic circle, poisonous light reflects diffusely like cocktail lights.

 A presence - was born.
 It's not a woman's presence, it's that of a magic circle.
 More like a consciousness.

 Killing ...... destruction.

 Such words appeared in my brain, and I jumped out of the way.

 Thump!

 I dove in, but was flashed by a purple bolt of lightning at the edge of the magic circle.
 My outstretched hand is sore, my flesh is taken away in a sneaky way.

 It's still a bad magic circle, I don't know any of the details, but it's clear that if I stay inside, the woman will disappear.

'Hey! What are you doing, get out of there!

 I shouted loudly.
 The woman turned around quietly.

 I perked up.
 I was startled, I was caught off guard.

 She turned around and saw her eyes - no, her face.
 She was a completely emotionless doll.

 Even while I was perturbed, things were developing.
 The magicians are eating (,,,) her.
 Her long hair is getting shorter and the clothes she wears are being erased.

 There was not a moment to lose!
 My head was in full swing.
 What's happening, what's happening.
 What I have, what I'm capable of.
 All of these things ran through my brain in a split second.

 All of them combined to burst into a single possibility.
 I no longer had time to think about it.

 I pulled out my two pistols, loading each one with a flame round and a frozen round.
 They immediately became a series of firing ...... fused annihilation bullets.

 The annihilation bullets gouged the ground - multiple annihilation bullets ate the magic circle.
 The missing magic circle rapidly lost its effect and the purple lightning stopped.

 Eventually, the area returned to the natural outdoors.
 The woman - she was safe.

'...... style'

 I let out a big breath.
 The spur-of-the-moment idea, the idea that this was the only way to go, somehow worked.

What's wrong?
'What's the matter with you! What the hell are you doing?!

 I couldn't help but yell at her.
 I don't know what happened, but from the side, it was suicide for her.

'Master's orders,'
Orders? Master?
Master says it's junk in the landfill. He wants you to go in there and clean it up yourself.
...... What?

 I felt my stomach churning and boiling.

     Stars.

 I talk to her while loading up my flame freezing rounds to warn her of another suicide attempt.

'What is disposal, anyway? You know, people who use that word for human beings are insane.
It's not wrong.
What?
'I am an artificial life form, one without an invented soul. So disposal is the right word.
"Artificial ...... life forms?

 I'm speechless.

"You mean like a robot or an android or something?
A rag? 'Antai-doroids?'
'Oh ...... golem? And homunculus? Is it a target?

 The woman nodded quietly.

'Very close, Nearly Equal.'
How could that be: ......
...... a question to the purpose for which it was manufactured?

 The woman tilts her head with an emotionless face.

'Oh.'
For the dungeons.
The dungeon?
"I was created to artificially produce Drop A. But it failed. The drops are all F. And they don't grow. So it's a failure.

 The woman spoke up slowly but without stuttering.
 I shut my mouth there because I had explained everything.

 I could almost understand the situation.

''So, since normal adventurers have varying levels of productivity, you're going to produce an artificial life form with drop A, which is the highest, to stabilize the drop.

 The woman nodded.

'That failed ...... d*mn it.'
Why are you angry?
It's...
Why are you angry when you're getting rid of an irrelevant, failed tool?
Ugh. ......

 I gulped.
 Because when you say it that way, it sounded like the other side was seemingly right.

'Well, that's still no good. Anyway, I'm not going to allow you to destroy yourself with that .......
I don't want that.
Why?
Master's orders. We must execute them.

 That seems like a fair question.

"Can you change the master?

 I heard it almost like a spinal reflex.
 In these cases, changing the master is the only fundamental solution.

You can.
What do I do?
'Place your hand on my chest. I will pour more magic than the previous master. I will overwrite it.
So?
That's it.
That's it?
It's a prototype, so we can easily change it.

 All right, all right, I'll tell you what...

But...
But?

 His outstretched hand stopped.

'My power source is the Master's magic, and just by existing, I consume a little bit of the Master's magic--'

 I reached out and placed my hand on her chest.
 The magic power flows as I was taught.

 I don't know if the magic power is MP or intelligence in this case, but it doesn't matter which it is.
 It's because she's an SS that far exceeds the humans in this world either way.

 Her body glowed for a moment, then quickly calmed down.

'How's that?'
Master change complete.
Okay.
Are you sure you want to go to ......?

 I saw the first expression on her face.
 It was almost expressionless, but a level of confusion appeared if you looked closely.
 'You're asking if it's good for eating MP,' she said.

'Yeah, no problem.'

 And it's a lot better than being self-determined in front of me.
 Above all.

 It was annoying to be forced to do such a thing for the (,) unilateral convenience of the top (,) and I didn't feel like I had to intervene.