Volume 9 - Chapter 47 – Princess of Destruction (1/2)

09-47 Princess of Destruction

“Be careful.”

“Yes, I know.”

Machina = Jin, Reiko, Ann, and Land-70 all four were standing in front of the hidden door they found in the middle of the slope that had originally been a staircase.

“Opening.”

Land-70 pushed the door, but, it didn’t budge.

“We’ve probably already been exposed. Do it with all your strength.”

“Yes.”

Following Jin’s orders, Land-70 pushed the door with full power.

The door and the latch held out, but the hinges could no longer bear with it and the whole door flopped inside the room.

They had thought the room would be cramped, but unexpectedly it was fairly spacious. Maybe about the size of a primary school classroom.

Straight forward at the back of the room a single Automata could be seen standing still.

“So you’ve finally come.”

The Automata spoke.

“You must be Elena.”

The Automata shook her head in denial at Machina’s words.

“That name was arbitrarily given to me by a slave. I am a queen. The queen of Automata.”

“As I thought, you doubtlessly are the Golden Princess of Destruction.”

Ann let out such words, then the Golden Princess of Destruction stared at her.

“So one was still left alive. Even though I thought all the puppets of Adrianna’s lineage destroyed.”

She said, as if spitting it out.

Jin was watching the image projected on Pelican-1’s Magic Screen sent through the Magic Eyes embedded in Machina’s eyes.

Even through the Magic Screen, the Automata was very beautiful.

Golden hair that reached all the way to her waist, white porcelain skin, deep crimson eyes. Her proportions were also nearly perfect.

However.

“How dangerous.”

Jin leaked out a few words as hoping to interrupt them. They were conveyed with the ManaCom through Machina’s mouth.

“What might you mean by that?”

The Golden Princess of destruction found fault with that and turned to Machina. Her eyes shined bewitchingly. They were ‘Evil Eyes’ so to speak, with the [Charm] effect.

Normally, Jin who had no resistance against mental attacks would’ve perhaps immediately become her slave.

But Machina wasn’t Jin. The picture conveyed to Jin through the Magic Eyes and the Magic Screen couldn’t charm Jin.

“Ah, I don’t know the person who built you. But I was wondering just what that person taught you.”

“Isn’t that obvious. ‘You are the best’. Those were Mother’s final words.”

“‘You are the best’?”

Reiko and Machina = Jin both said at the same time.

“That’s correct. I am the best. In other words, this whole world should get on their knees before me!”

Madness could be felt from the Golden Princess of destruction who triumphantly declared so.

“She’s malfunctioning after all, huh.”

“Yes, Fat– …Machina-sama.”

Machina = Jin and Reiko had the same conclusion.

Reiko then took a step forward.

“‘You are the best’. Don’t you think that what the person who made you wanted to say was you are the best ‘daughter she could hope for’?”

“What was that?”

“Did she not fail to continue the words ‘you are the best’?”

“….”

The Golden Princess of Destruction was at a loss for words after Reiko’s question. The madness disappeared from her eyes.

But that was just for a moment.

“Shut up, shut up, shut up! What do you know! I am Mother’s masterwork! I am the queen of Automata!”

She yelled and leapt upon Reiko. Then she tightened both her hands around Reiko’s throat.