Vol 1 Chapter 8 (2/2)

“Va, but it is very interesting that Miss Ayumi is the first to come to mind”

There had been a doora prison passageway, but a great strength had bent the bars, torn the door away, and thrown it aside

“Without that, ould have had to search around for a way to unlock that door”

“It’s like the reoes out”

After we stepped through there, the ated

First of all, the zo ht skirts

Instead of bare concrete on the walls and floor, there was clean wallpaper and linoleuone from the floor and the place looked more like a residential space than a tunnel

All of the doors had fancy locks, but they had all been forced open by soth

“My sisters sure are kind”

“The ones being bitten by the to differ”

“In fact, this is too le path to follow?”

“Oh? You fall under the idiot category as well, user?”

I peeked inside one door and saw so like” one because I had never seen a real one It had soathered like a lotus root Were they called surgical lights?”

Another door led to so room

A cabinet with a broken lock contained lots of medical files, but I could not read thee Didn’t s tend to use German?

But when I opened another door, I found a long line of giant refrigerators

“This looks like a specie room”

“With this lineup, is this place a hospital?”

“Is that really a question? This appears to be highly specialized equipment”

“If they’ve got the equiplasses or kind nurses?”

“Because those are figination?”

I opened one fridge and found several test tubes arranged twenty to a case They all had rubber caps and I was hesitant to touch them They were all filled with a dark red liquid

The sides of the test tubes had labels and I recognized one of the names

“…Acute Zombie Powder”

“That is the same virus carried by Miss Amatsu Ayumi”

Or should I assu?

I checked the other fridges and found what I was looking for

Eastern European Queen-style Vampire Curse – Type A Rh+ I did not understand all the details, but queen, vampire, and type A all matched Erika

“I had thought it was strange” I naturally started speaking “What do a zoet hurt or sick? They probably rely on their natural toughness or healing in et too bad for that to cut it”

“Then is this a hospital rather than a lab?”

“I can’t say And it ht be both”

That said, there was nothing here to take with et myself infected It would et this far

I left the sah the facility It was obvious e reached a new section We passed through another broken door of ain

This time, it was harder to tell what kind of place it was

“What is this?”

“It looks like a train station”

The Swimsuit Class Rep was correct

When I cracked opened a thick door, I found a train station It was a large one with several intersecting tracks, like you would find in a big city

But as this here?

It did not seem to function as an actual subway station The tracks ended before reaching the wall and it lacked the equipe set

Another door led to a department store’s fresh food section

Another led to a burger restaurant’s seats

Another led to a pool locker room

Finally, we found what looked like a school classrooym They had all been precisely reproduced in isolation, but they were more like

The school classrooes of the desks and the blackboard eraser

When I opened the burger restaurant’s cash register, I found toy money

The locker room had a “well done” sticker on the wall

“…This is all starting to make sense”

“Is this a facility meant to role play a normal life?”

I couldn’t say how true it was because I only knehat I had seen online or in e, the special forces would apparently build a detailed set and spend hours practicing their entrance while the negotiator bought them time

And when spies were preparing to infiltrate an enee and custo on to the real thing

This underground facility reminded me of that

But unlike a military operation, I doubted this was rooted in a desire to harm or deceive people

Or I hoped it wasn’t

I traced er across the “well done” sticker in the pool locker room

“My sisters seem to have some connection to this place What they said and the blood sah to know that”

“Then what is theof these sets?”

“They didn’t suddenly co tolike an aptitude test here to make sure they could blend into human society?”

Of course they were

Now that I thought about it, it was obvious Both of theot serious, so we couldn’t have the, “I bit him in a moment of weakness☆”

This was a highly realistic disaster environment simulator

If the conditions were right, the sa could happen in the real world

“What was that hospital section then? Is it to treat any injuries or illnesses? Or is it part of how they judge whether or not they’re too much for human hands?”

“That is one question But…”

The Swimsuit Class Rep touched the pool locker room’s plastic curtain

The botto as if it had been torn off by an incredible force

“Where do they go if they do not pass the test?”

“…”

I had a bad feeling about this

It was a sticky feeling very unlike the mess with the zombies and vampires

We left the pool locker room and walked down the hallway until we reached the metal bar door to another section

The lock was broken yet again and the metal bars were horribly bent

We easily slipped through and found what awaited us

Level 1

The words were printed prominently on the wall

When I first stepped through one of the doors along the passageway, I did not knohat it meant

I saw a tiled floor and a few stainless steel countertops It looked anized restaurant kitchen The walls were lined with cabinets and they were full of countless cooking equip boards, pestles,pans, and so on There were also plenty of juicers, eggbeaters, microwave ovens, and ovens

However, there were a few odd aspects to it all

“This is a kitchen, but I don’t see any plates or cups”

“Nor are there any refrigerators Where do they store the ingredients?”

“They can only pretend to cook here …Ah!? Could it be for having fun with a naked apron!?”

“Please try to focus, you utter moron”

Level 2

In another section, we found a room filled with equipe

It had plenty of home construction tools There were hammers, saws, power drills, planes, crowbars, vises, and others you would find in a hardware store, but there were also lathes and presses forwood A careless ainst touching any of the switches

But I couldn’t see any rhyme or reason to this

If the previous one had been a home ec classroom, was this a shop classroom? Were they special classrooms for the fake school? But the equipment here seemed too specialized for that Maybe if it was a school with a specialization in industry or so

Level 3

This one eird

Even I was realizing so was up

A large roo but bathtubs Solass, and some were some sort of plastic And an incredible stench caiant cases This wasn’t just paint thinner or gasoline It was such a powerful cheht I would pass out if I stayed there for long

A variety of bottles were lined up in cabinets along the wall, but the labels only contained special syin to interpret

But the Swimsuit Class Rep was able to comment

“These rese”

“What…?”

“But this is not how to use theia, hydrofluoric acid, and similar substances This is much like the bathtubs of fear seen in mafia movies”

“…”

The first roo” to soften it, chop it into small pieces, and boil or cook it away, but there had been no fridges for ingredients or plates to serve the food

The next roo”, crushi+ng it, opening holes in it, and breaking it down into pieces, but there had been no wood or metal to work on and no completed products

The final roo” in powerful acids, but there was no sign of anything needing to be plated

The three roolance

The theory about special classroo factory

Then as this place?

I tried to think back over everything What did the three rooms have in comood were those rooht Cross Disaster Prevention Foundation that had likely been involved from theProject?

Hadn’t the Swimsuit Class Rep asked a certain question?

What happened to “them” if they did not pass the test?

Uuh…

“Uoooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!?”

So like electricity burst inside

The possibility of zo around was driven from my mind and to the other side of the universe

What had been happening here?

What had been happening in this other world hidden below our feet as we ate food and went to school like normal in Kukyou City!!!???

No, I knew the answer

This was a general department store for the undead…for Archeneive them rehearsals if they looked like they could fit into human society And if they could learn the human rules properly, they could join the sunny world of Kukyou City They would be given a normal life, like Erika and Ayumi had done

But…

What if they hit a roadblock somewhere?

What if they were deeerous to be released into the outside world? The ansas obvious The rails would mercilessly switch over and a different future awaited those undead

That was Levels 1 through 3

Those were the different stages used to dispose of Archenemies!!

I recalled the rows of bathtubs That went beyond a part-ti as kind as pools of for a corpse into a tub of powerful acid and there were ru a heart attack with the hot water heater on and being found as a hu here was easily worse than those rumors!

“…Maxwell”

“Sure”

“Scan the entire facility I don’t care how, but don’t le hair!!”

“Due to the rewritten user privileges, you are temporarily unable to use administrative mode Only visual records are possible”

“Goddammit!!”

I felt dizzy, but I couldn’t tell if it was due to the odor from the chemical tubs or due to the horrific reality before my eyes

I left the room and took a deep breath

I then recalled the heavy equipnored japanese culture, the spider web of tunnels that reached everywhere in the city, and the thick doors Those weren’t to help us in case of disaster They were to quickly arrive on the scene if one of the undead went on a ra them back into the darkness

By separating out the first few, they couldit before it developed into the city-wide horror movie I had seen

Was that right or wrong? Itto do

But this city’s methods lacked any kindness at all

Those doors were in every house’s base them out Your hos were set up so they could swiftly appear and abduct you even if you were taking a bath or sleeping in your own home

“User”

“What…is it? Pant, pant… Are you saying there’s even more?”

“Sure There is a passageway and room we have yet to check”

The Swimsuit Class Rep was the same as always

“So as you said, there is ‘more’”

“…”

What good was any further investigation?

We were veering off of the ht in my vaht and I had to prevent the Swi up in the report that would be sent out I was clearly straying from that initial objective

But…

Even so…

I couldn’t ignore this What had Ayuh in the past? And it was more than that Could I really say they were freed froround world? What if they were still caught in it?

Plus, I orried about the Archene freely in the outside world, were they waiting their turn underground, or had they already been disposed of?

If they were a true monster that could not be spoken or reasoned with, there may have been no need to worry about it And that ht Cross saw it as they ran this underground world

But I knew that the people known as the undead were not like that

That was obvious just looking at Ayumi and Erika What if, back in the real world, people just like theainst doors that would never open?

“…”

How could I pretend I hadn’t seen this?

So beyond thick walls that kept any shouts or screa out what

I had no idea how many Archenemies had been disposed of in this facility without anyone knowing

But I knehat they had to have been thinking in that instant

They would have been afraid of being erased fro They would have forced out a desperate scream in the hopes that at least one person would hear it I hadn’there had been thoroughly twisted, and I was probably entirely different fro, but I was still in a position to possibly fill that role

If I let that chance escape, this secret would likely be forever sealed away

Could I let that happen?

Of course not

Even if I was straying fro that original objective, I couldn’t just ignore this!!

“Maxwell”

“Sure”

“Let’s keep going Let’s open every last door”

What was it driving my heart at that moment?

Was it kindness? Anger? Curiosity? Foolhardiness?

I didn’t know

Whatever it was, it pushed me forward

Would I be better off not knohat I would find?

Even that I couldn’t say

All I knehat I saritten on the wall:

Level 4

[Pick Up] Attached File – Status of the Colosseum [Net Files]

Two group leader decisions confir disposal of the Werewolf

Rating: None

Captured the Werewolf fro Tunnel Network 228D

Rating: A

Levels 1-3 coroup leader

Rating: E

On instructions fro to Level 4

Rating: None

Decided which speci disposal were freed from their cells

Rating: B

The battle has begun

Rating: A

The battle is complete The Berserk and Werewolf are dead Finished off the barely alive Shoggoth

Rating: B (Ordecision)

Situation complete Responsibility transferred to the cleanup team

Rating: A

Overall Rating: B Points to consider: The theory is apparently based in statistics, but the “cannibalishly based in luck and is hard to call a reliable disposalso that we are able to dispose of them on our own