Chapter 114 (2/2)
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Looks like I am still too soft.
A group of kids formed around the girl named named Toria, who was mentioned in past entries, and were planning to escape.
Naturally, I did not let them get away and apprehended them all, but this is a serious incident.
They are just a bunch of kids that otherwise would have spent a meaningless life without accomplishing anything. It is truly hard to comprehend.
Their lives were about to be given some meaning and they just betray the expectations put upon them and run away…
Anyhow, it appears that training should be more severe.
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An order for the subjugation of the Hero now turned into the Demon Lord was published by each nation on the continent
Looks like the Hero that was not needed anymore after defeating the Demon Lord was framed.
It appears that the Hero was saying that after defeating the Demon Lord, he intends to widely spread otherworldly technologies for which the Grond Trading Association has an almost complete monopoly at the moment.
I was pretty sure that Master would not allow to make waste of such technologies that are bringing him an enormous profit, so I was wondering what is he going to do and so it became like this after all.
Well, the Hero was given purpose and was able to fulfill it so he should be satisfied with this ending.
The Demon Lord is feared for he controls Demons and a certain portion of Monsters, but the Hero is just one individual, he is bound to be crushed by state power in the near.
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The cultivation of soldiers goes well.
From simple kids, they are turning into the soldiers loyal to our commands.
The「Ramune」 that they were absorbing for a long time.
Without mixing it into the meals anymore, I am just giving it to them as pills.
Of course, even a child can understand that this is a drug, but they have already passed the stage of addiction at which willpower could be effective.
Has increased the number of children that in order to obtain more 「Ramune」 were training voluntarily outside of everyday practice hours.
Because the only way to get more 「Ramune」 aside from what was given to them regularly was to show good results during practice.
A number of children that were trying to snatch 「Ramune」 from the others had now appeared.
Truly an excellent trend. Even if they are bound by a drug, to make them more suspendable to our control, I would like their suspicion for everyone else to deepen even further.
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A problem has emerged in a plan that was going smoothly so far.
There started to appear those that were unable to endure the toxicity and addictivity of 「Ramune」.
It is something that was expected from the beginning but its control is more difficult than I imagined.
However, they turning into quite capable assassins.
After that, there were a number of replenishment for orphans but those that came later were breaking, unable to withstand the poisonous influence of 「Ramune」 at an increasingly higher rate.
As expected, since I got the first batch of kids accustomed to it by giving them really small doses, they get more resistant to it down the line.
Through even if I proceed with a cautious dosage, by the time they reach their completion as soldiers, they will only have from one to three years left to live.
Well, as was planned, we collected plenty of data on Ramune so there is no issue at all.
Most of the first specimens are kids that had almost a purely experimental purpose.
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Along with a replacement for kids that died during the training, I received from Master a new type of 「Ramune」.
Compared to what was used before, its effects have been weakened slightly but its toxicity to human body was reduced by a good measure.
Since it has plenty of strength for brainwashing which is the main purpose of its use, I will switch to it from now on.
Children that were brought this time will in true meaning become a private army of the Grond Trading Association.
To be honest, children that were brought here first were reasonably good material. I was careful with adjustments but the fact that they could last this long is good evidence.
It is a bit regrettable but nothing can be done. One could say that this is their fate.
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I received a demand from Master to swiftly get soldiers to a level of real combat.
As I was told, it seems that the Hero escaped to this area. And for a test, I should throw them at him.
It is that soft and naive Hero we are talking about, he just might actually lose to those children.
But in the current situation, the status difference is way too large for them to be able to do anything.
As I reported that, I received a reply that 「It is fine to completely ruin them for this」.
Indeed, with improved 「Ramune」 kids from the early stages of the experiment are no longer needed.
As prototypes, they are superb but for a finished product, they are complete failures.
But even so, if they intake a large quantity of the 「Quick Growth Drug」, they should get enough status to stand against the Hero.
Their bodies are already badly tattered anyway.
If they don’t have long to live anyway then going out in flames is the salvation of its own.
Since there is no value for a person without a purpose to live anyway.
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The record ends there.
I throw the document that I picked up into the flames.
A desk from evergreen oak.
On top it was a paper with a list of names, almost asking me to look at it as well.
I was thinking that it is a list of children that were the first subjects for this experiment but it was not.
「Fegner, Orouley, Lidia, Adlon, Sivi, Bodhi, Jude, Monika…」
I see. I’m not sure if it was Fegner or Grond that left this here, but they sure hate me a lot.
Written there are likely the names of employees that worked here.
Those are people that were either subordinates or servants of Grond.
Among unfamiliar names, there are also those that make me instantly remember their faces.
He always maintained courteous demeanor. She is a cheerful woman.
Such obvious provocation.
If I go after their lives, my own will be put in danger.
So there is no point to continue reading this here.
There is no point, but I cannot stop myself.
And at the end of it as if laughing at me were the names of children deemed as failures, written in ink.
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I did not want to take this list outside.
But I also did not want to forget the names written here.
Therefore I just stood there, looking at the list until just a moment before this room would crumble down.