Vol 4 Chapter 4 (1/2)

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at 22nd of March 2019 07:44:23 PM

Chapter 4

“N-no! Spare me!” (???)

On the roof of a particularly tall building within the royal capital…

There was aprone on his stomach and dressed in black fro onto a sniper rifle and looking through the scope

For the majority of this world’s population, this inally, the sniper rifle was an item that si as so them either

This uild had given him this weapon and trained him to use it

“Oh? Then, by all means, do it quicklyIt hurts, doesn’t it? It hurts so much it feels like death is just around the corner, doesn’t it?” (Young Wo sniper, there was a young woloves

“N-no! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!” (??? -> Sniper)

“Is that so? Well then, your actions don’t make very much sense, now do they? You say you don’t want to kill the target, but in order to escape from the pain, you don’t have any other choiceWell, this time, how about we see what happens if you try to kill hi that you don’t want to kill hi Woman)

There was a ned to create sensations of pain via re inflicted upon thewoman was completely in control of it

“Th-there’s no reason to even try that! It’s obvious ill happen!” (Sniper)

Previously, she had prepared snipers that didn’t know anything about the target and had them attempt to carry it out

But this ti little differentShe had chosen one of the higher-ups frouildIn particular, a man that knew the finer details about this particular assassination job

“That’s probably correct, but we’ll never know unless we tryThis job will never succeed if we don’t collect data on hi to the point where youto die either ouldn’t it be better for you to die quickly and spare yourself fro Woman)

She slowly increased the severity of the pain that the device was creatingOf course, she wasn’t trying to kill himNonetheless, if the pain continued to build up as it had been, the oing to be throay sooner or later! The boss is just delegating all of the planning to you! Do you really understand what that means?!” (Sniper)

“Of course I understandWhen soet, they dieSo the question then becomes: Just how far does this cause-and-effect relationshi+p go? If someone was ordered to kill him, will the one that commanded it die too? If someone shoots at hier is the one that diesBut, let’s say there’s a robot that’s programmed to carry out spoken coet, who dies? The person that gave the order, or the robot itself? How about a situation where so to kill the target in particular? What would happen if the target accidentally gets caught in said trap? In the end, as long as I don’t know the answers to these questions, I have to take asWoman)

“and you’re just okay with that!?” (Sniper)

“It’s the er of Dark Garden, Miyanaga RyōsukeIn order to ensure his own personal safety, he wasn’t involving hiiri

So far, the only people that died were the ones that carried out an action with o so farBut just to be safe, he still instructed for this young woman to plan out the assassination and choose whichever subordinates she needed in order to carry it out

“aaaagh!” (Sniper)

Crying out once again, the er, the sniper put his finger over the trigger of the gunRight as he did so, he stopped et’s ability had taken effect

This atteood as wellIt seemed like no matter the state of mind, the moment you tried to kill hiedShe wasn’t expecting very much from this man in the first placeAfter all, he was just one part of the experiet from the rooftopThe boy would usually irl as the two of theetherHe seemed to be in a cheerful mood

They were just over three hundred meters awayIt would be effectively impossible for a nor distance aith the naked eye, but for the young woman dressed in red, it was a simple ned in the shape of a humanAn existence that had been created by Ryōsuke’s unique ability to duplicate things

There was no point in trying the saan to run a calculationShe was investigating the possibility of successfully killing the targetGoing through every option available for the sake of continuing the experi Wo woman issued instructions to a sniper she had on standby in another building

Theseveral monitors lined up in a roithin his second-floor office of the flower shop he ranUtilizing a e office desk, the monitors were spread out in such a way that they surrounded Ryōsuke as he sat in his chair

The entire set-up seemed out-of-place, but that was because it had been created with Ryōsuke’s duplication abilityRyōsuke’s had the ability called Iinal world and recreate it within this one

A live stream of the scenery around the royal capital was portrayed on each of the e was taken frohout the city

The target, Yogiri Takatō, was displayed in-full on one of the monitors

Up until just recently, the boy would usually wander around the city without really doing anything in particular, but today was differentToday, he had a companionAs this companion of his was quite the beauty, it was possible that the two of them were out on a date

It was clear that there was still a delicate feeling of distance between the two of theht see other than a er she was in

Ryōsuke would observe his subordinate’s continuous trial and error atte the instructions specified in the request, he had started things out by instructing one of his subordinates to take care of the jobThey had attempted to kill the boy with one of Ryōsuke’s replicated sniper rifles

However, this adequately trained subordinate then suddenly died on the rooftop of a building quite a far distance away fro prone on their stoh the scope of their rifleThey died the instant that they took aiet

Ryōsuke was perplexed the first time he saw such an unexpected resultAt the same time, this outcome made it clear why the request specified that it needed to be handled by one of his subordinates

Even fro distance away, the boy was still able to notice that he was being targeted and counterattacked

The child was clearly a dangerous existence that, if possible, must be assassinatedRyōsuke was suddenly much more interested in the request, but he still ordered for another subordinate to take charge

It wasn’t an order to killHe ave theh explanation of the situation, and told the forward

After that, Ryōsuke sat back and watched things play out

If you take aier, you die

But if you just aim at him, you don’t

If you turn on the safety to prevent the gun fro to kill him

You also don’t die if you just shoot near hiet creative and try to hit hiardless of whether you intend to kill him or not, you still die

Landmines don’t explode when he steps on them, and the person who sets them doesn’t dieApparently, the landmine just breaks instead

It’s the same outcome when multiple people attack him at the same timeEveryone that attempts to kill hiic, there are slightly different resultsIf you have to chant to cast a spell, you die just before you finish saying the last words of the ic incantationIf you have to use a staff to cast the spell, it seeic

If you atteic, it doesn’tfor him, you dieIt even happens if the caster is unaware that the target is there in the first place

If you attach a boet close to hi he’s close to, he sier and leaves the areaIf you set it up so perfectly that he’s unable to escape in ti rubble