Vol 1 Prologue (1/2)
It was already evening when the glaring sun set on the horizon, its shadows expanding across the territory The roads absorbed a lot of heat during the day, but released it back into the air at this tiht too warm to sleep comfortably
This was K city’s K district, a place where the above scene was commonplace
The city station was surrounded by skyscrapers, each acco a myriad of companies 'K Softworks', a mid-sized software company, sat on the 4th floor
In its cool air-conditioned office, several men stared silently at their computer screens The atmosphere was tense For a mid-sized company’s employees, their daily workload was always heavy, but today’s load was exceptionally heavy
”We only have 3 days left to finish it”
Aat one end of the officewith a ti towards an explosion, also known as a deadline Due to the downturn of the nation’s econoly accepted the contract, even though its de phase, the project ed by him had little room for error Repeated failures made it even more perilous; the situation could only be described as 'hellish' And there were evenissues
”Nakai Section Chief, Sato is down! He's not reacting even e splash him ater!”
”Nakai Section Chief, on'ttoday”
”Nakai-san, Takeda's desk has a resignation letter on it”
”Ah― Shut up! How can we s like this―!”
The ainst the corner, Section Chief Nakai, finally broke down He hugged his head and rested it on his table
There wasn’t any time to waste, but he knew the task was impossible with the lack of , but there weren’t any obvious solutions, pushi+ng his psyche to the breaking point
”Nakai-san”
”What is it now!?”
He raised his head after hearing soentle smile appeared
”I have finished the case on my side, and I am ready to assist you”
”Oh Kurata Are you fine with joining us?”
The pain on Nakai's face ept away, like a ht in the midst of despair
”I have browsed through the specification ist of the situation Can you let ement?”
”Of Of course, I h the ement folders too Take care of all that please”
”Eh, Nakai-san, I can'tback the progress, let me settle this”
Thewith Nakai, Kurata Tsubasa, sat down on the chair prepared by Nakai and started working immediately He typed in code in the editor, all-the-while reading the progress reports and the specification ues around him
”Ensure the testing machine is operational, test analyst-san, take this opportunity to rest Er Tatsu-san, can you complete 2 modules? Yes, I will do the other 10 Kiba, there are some weird parts in the specification ”
He was 28 years old, and considered a part of the younger generation within the workplace, but no one questioned his instructions This was due to his track record in the co here, he was commonly an inspiration to his half-dead coworkers Now that he was on the case, it ht Hu, they can endure it no h it is
”Alright, that should do it I will start coding”
”Hey, Kurata, will you be fine? 10matter”
”Nakai-san, did you forget? My actual profession is a programmer”
With his eyes half closed, a fearless sers on the keyboard, and all 10 fingers started dancing at a frightening speed He typed in code on several editors that were open on his screen, processing the data like a torrent Theopposite him, Tatsu, threw hi sound
”As expected of the ”Last Line of Defense” for the co all the troublesome cases so far I have to keep up”
Everyone put their heart into their work, and the sluggish battle improved dramatically
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The radio broadcast announced the tiet off work According to the co hours had ended, but Kurata simply stretched his back and rotated his tired shoulders
He had been salvaging this case for three days Today was the dreaded deadline, but the ater as desperate as it was three days prior The case was thought to be hopeless by everyone before, yet it was rescued under his expert hands
Thanks to hi in one day, and the other teaed to barely finish the product before the deadline Although Kurata finished so ed each part perfectly, a miraculous talent beyond co because he was always handed the troublesome cases
After the long series of battles, eravestones on his desk Looking at his side, he could see the warriors (test analysts) s peacefully, collapsed on bedshours to the bare minimum, and he too felt that it was time to rest up