Vol 4 Chapter 4 (1/2)
A tragedy isn't when an incident occurs
When an incident doesn't occur, it's a tragedy
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What Professor Shadou Kyouichirou said as too dirty for the Lady of Kunagisa, what assistant Oogaki shi+to said as Haunted Mansion, were not exaggerated at all If anything, they were incredibly fitting
It was a such a building that onely had never been touched up since its construction, such that it may have been built as an experi stood at the back of the forest, so it could only be an object of fear It would be host to not appear in this inn
Of course, our group consisted of Suzunashi+ Neon and Kunagisa Toly showed no reaction at all, or if anything see pleased Suzunashi+-san said, ” I wish I could take a photo, Asano would be overjoyed,” in a cool fashi+on, and she see enuinely frightened
An abandoned building or which could also be described as a three-story inn We were to stay on the second floor, through the three doors that were aligned right next to the stairs Kunagisa took the first door, Suzunashi+-san took the second door, and I took the third door Given the outside, I thought I should not expect much of the interior; however, the interior was actually relatively alright Of course, alright was still si that extreo insane, unleashi+ng all of her pent-up stress, is what I absent-ht
We finished our belated dinner, then laundered our lives by taking a bath in order (Suzunashi+-san → Kunagisa → Me was the order we took a bath By the time I went in, there was alht), and then after isa's room
Kunagisa was lying around on her bed, Suzunashi+-san leaned against the hile al why Suzunashi+-san's pajamas were a china shi+rt
”Hmmm Hmmm hmmm hmmm”
For whatever nuroaned
”Really, what to do-”
”What to do-, you i?”
That had come up in our conversation many ti a bath It was a topic, but of course no solution ever came forth There would never be a solution for that And I said,
”There is nothing that can be done, is there?”
The sa our discussions to this point
”If the obstacle were only Professor Kyouichirou it would be one thing, but -- if Utsurigi himself does not intend to leave, then it would be i him out”
”That's the thing -- that's why I' in a bind-”
””
Utsurigi had apparently said to Kunagisa
Indeed, by being here I end up in the shape such that I am subarbage can compared to when you were the leader, when I was surrounded by members like Cheetah and Double Flick
But that's because you had, and they had immeasurable talent, and so this place isn't too shabby Professor Kyouichirou pursues things I think of Isn't that enough? Two people thinking is always better than one person thinking, after all
It was a truly reasonable answer
It was a truly far-too-reasonable answer
Reasonable such that it could not be true
”Sacchan isn't the type to say so iisa rolled over on the bed ”I don't knohat, but he's definitely hiding so, that Sacchan”
”So -- that is probably related to Professor Kyouichirou's confidence That steadfast confidence,” I said ”However, whatever he is hiding and whatever he is not hiding, either way Utsurigi has no intention of leaving that building, right? Let us say we soi out from there But then ould have to coht? Given the conversation earlier, I cannot help but feel like that is also impossible The phrase inflexible and obstinate senior fits hiht be iht be soether? There is nothing that can be done”
”Impossible and iht Sacchan was always an unpredictable factor, but I had already prepared a way of dealing with that one But, I didn't think he'd actually still be holding a grudge toward boku-sae-holder”
Kunagisa squir upward, so that looked rather eerie Or rather, this was the first ti on their back
Kunagisa scrounged through her belongings, and then pulled out soht it withcaught it, so I could not read its contents just by that I asked Kunagisa, ”What is this?”
”According toat the ER Program, I can deduce this to be a circular disk”
”Yup well, if you couldn't deduce that h life ahead”
”CD-ROM Hifts and tomorrow?”
In other words, Kunagisa's wild card
”Actually that's not a CD-ROM, but, exactly Egg-zact-lee”
Kunagisa swung her hand up and down It seemed she wanted it back I tossed the case back like a frisbee, but Kunagisa did not catch it with her hand, instead taking it in the face
””
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”It hurts”
Well of course
”So you anting to exchange the contents of that with Utsurigi Gaisuke However, data that can be coi Gaisuke, an ex-member of Team or an ex-member of Cluster the Professor did not seem the type to accept such an unbalanced trade”
”Inforet fooled by nu, in a lot of ways Forget 700 MB, there was a genius ht electronic darkness onto the entire world with a ram”
”What is that Green Green Green?”
”-- even Sacchan wouldn't do sorievous Sacchan knew of limits -- just knew, but anyways he knew But that never bothered learning about limits The one who did that wasn't part of Team Rather, it was like part of the extreme opposite”
Kunagisa's expressionvery unpeaceful It was the sai Gaisuke, when she was confronting Professor Shadou Kyouichirou
”It wasn't a hacker or a cracker, or any branching issue like that -- you know, Ii-chan There definitely are, in this world For a slight whiht, without the least of effort, inhumane ones that want to stoic and theory and tactics and strategies that our human side uses are completely and utterly useless One that far surpasses the Cluster exists -- no, once existed, that sort of being The existence called Desert Fox--”
I felt as if a cold breeze had swept through the room However, before I could realize that this was just a false feeling, Kunagisa returned to her carefree tone and expression, and she said ”well, leaving those outlier cases aside,” while picking up the case
”But Ii-chan's worry whiffed either way This disk has plenty of quality as well as plenty of quantity This is called a C3D and is media that boasts a memory capacity of 140 GB It's not produced for practical purposes yet but it's probably a question of tile byte, of data Chii-kun and Acchan helped me, too”
”So the suspicious activity that you had been doing while cooped up in your room is that,” I nodded ”I see a wild card Certainly and certainly that is not ordinary Then that h value to trade of the intellect of one genius”
After all, it is an extreme work of art produced by three former members of Tea never seen it e were to see it, if a scientist specializing in infor or mathematical theory were to see it, they would see infor for And that caabytes Even that stubborn Professor Kyouichirou's wall ht--
”-- then why are you worried? If you have this, then the first probleht as well already be dealt with”
”Yup But Ii-chan probably deduced too, having spoken to the Professor, but -- Ito see Sacchan? That the Professor's progressed even more”
”You did say souely about a scientist's duty or lifestyle or so ”And?”
”So, that's what That's that,” Kunagisa sighed ”Boku-sama-chan was careless, too careless -- there's no real point in saying this now, but I thought soe That someone like Shadou Kyouichirou -- this isn't sarcasht now, boku-sa a -- that so like obsess over Sacchan's intellect, I could never figure out the answer The Professor is plenty genius without doing so like that, and he wasn't the type to have any interest in honor or status or anything”
”But Utsurigi's level of genius is on a higher plane froht?”
”It's not a question of high or low Higher plane isn't soenius And, you probably understood this well from the conversation earlier, but -- that person, is quite proud Right?”
”Right, but” or rather, I felt like that attitude leaned more toward the side of abnormal ” so what?”
”People with a lot of pride, they have a lot of problems, but that's one area where you can trust them”
”Hmm Well I would have to nod to that”
Indeed, someone who cared for honor or status would probably not stoay deep, deep, deep in the mountains like this That was not just for the Professor, but for all the other researchers as well
”However, then why is Professor Kyouichirou so fixated on Utsurigi”
If, just if their stated reason was truly just a fake Then as the Professor trying to do, accepting such a dishonor?
”He was still cute when he was researching artificial intelligence and the possibility of artificial life but I see, that's without a doubt Mad Deht process is very inhuisa suddenly sat up and then looked at in with, what do you think a Demon is?”
”? A deht?”
”Yup That's one way of looking at it That's certainly one way Ii-chan's way of putting it raphy, where the Professor resides, it holds a differentA Demon is a process that waits and carefully observes for a certain condition, and waits and waits and waits and waits some more, and then when the condition ured functionperhaps the Professor, sinceboku-sa -- for this type of chance A mad demon -- an insane process Well-stated Sacchan's preferred psycho and logical way of thinking is far better”
””
Kunagisa said all of that with a very serious tone, but I did not understand in the least what Kunagisa was saying Not talking about the saisa's feeling of danger was not coether at all However, even so, there was noout for the worst
”I don't get it But basically,” Kunagisa said ”That chance that finally appeared, that chance, that opportunity that finally appeared when he became sixty-three, whether the Professor would trade that for one or two of these discs is actually very dubious”
”Does thathas more value than the contents of that disc, which was created by Team, Cluster?”
”That's not it I'll guarantee that in terher A hundred of a hundred people would answer that way, and it would be the same if we raised the nu the difference in absolute value and relative value is hard to calculate Not to steal the Professor's words, but one scientist threw his entire life -- an entire single life into that research I think that's irreplaceable, that can't be traded for anything If I were to think about it froic or fair trade”
”Really? I would have to disagree,” I questioned Kunagisa's lines ”I do not think a scientist would say such a ro to a result and deflecting everything else, right?”
”My, Inoji That's an odd thing to say The entire profession of a scientist is a romanticism, isn't it?”
Suzunashi+-san, who I had thought was already in her drea into our conversation
”Without being a ro a rocket to theperfect marks on a test, too, is after all just a boy's romance, isn't it?”
”Romance”
That ht of one scientist that I met this April, and nodded at Suzunashi+-san's words However, I could not iine that old man Shadou Kyouichirou was so simple He was far away from such si it, so it ht
”And you know I thoughtan outsider, so I tried to stay quiet, but this conversation is still really messed up, Inoji, Ao-chan,” Suzunashi+-san continued ”Inoji, first of all, you said let us say we somehow miraculously succeedearlier, but that isn't a probleht? Why is Inoji the one dictating Sir Utsurigi's will?”
”No, that was just part of the conversation”
”Hah, part of the conversation What a handy phrase,” Suzunashi+-san laughed, dryly ”And then, Ao-chan”
”Uni?” Kunagisa twisted her neck toward Suzunashi+-san ”Did boku-sa odd?”
”So odd no,back to a girl as smart as Ao-chan, but I'll say it anyways,” Suzunashi+-san paused for a i himself says he doesn't want to leave this place, isn't that fine? If Sir Utsurigi is fine being here, then why do you want to push hi hii wants to re in”
”But Suzunashi+-san,” I could not restrainto Chii-kun, Professor Kyouichirou has blacki And based on our conversation with the Professor, I feel like thatrestrained here In other words, even before his physical i locked in place by an invisible chain Then -- in that case I would not be able to call it his oill”
”Even so Did Sir Utsurigi say to Ao-chan or Ii-chan please help me, or even show it in his demeanor? If so, I would understand Fine, in that case even I would try to help Not to steal Asano's words but a man must show his dutifulness -- this is what any person would do”
She said, and then Suzunashi+-san stared straight through us
”However, right now you two are wrong Co the wrong way So wrong, so wrong, that you're on the opposite extrei's pinch from Chii-kun's information, received help from Acchan to create a plan, and arrived here at the Shadou Kyouichirou Research Facility Now, Inoji, where are you saying Sir Utsurigi Gaisuke's will lies? Or perhaps Ao-chan wants to say that because they were friends soi is thinking?”
””
”Suzunashi+-san, you are going too far”
Kunagisa went silent, and I noted that and turned to Suzunashi+-san However, Suzunashi+-san did not h”
”This isn't far enough at all,” and this time Suzunashi+-san turned solely to me ”Then, how about I say -- what if miraculously and incredible and unexpectedly”
Because this was a serious htman
”Sir Utsurigi actually wants to leave this place Let us say that he really wants to leave but for reasons he cannot Let's presument However, despite that desire, he remains here -- imprisoned do you want to call it? That's what he's doing Then I think you should respect his decision”
”Respect?”
”Respect Because an adult le life in order to re to someone who's less talented than he, but he's fine with that, isn't he? Then isn't that alright? There's no reason at all to interject It see to correct you on this, but Sir Utsurigi isn't a child If anything, it's you tho've lived about half of him--”
Suzunashi+-san pointed at isa, in order
”It's you tho are children”
Children
That is true
Until it was pointed out to us, I was about to forget, that of coursewith her childish appearance, were both just children A child of nineteen years and maybe three or four extra months
”-- yup”
After a while, Kunagisa nodded She had an expression of seriousness that I had never once seen before
”I think what Neon-chan says is correct I truly think that what Neon-chan says is correct About that And honestly, even boku-sama-chan, if Sacchan really thinks that it's fine, I wouldn't bother interjecting”
”Hmm?” Suzunashi+-san opened her eyes wide ”What do you mean by that?”
”I , then that's fine on its own Boku-sa in to Sacchan's business more than needed But, Neon-chan, the probleoal of Mad DemonProfessor Shadou Kyouichirou”
” what do you mean?” this time I asked ”Of course the Professor seeoal, do you ?”
”That's why -- or rather, Ii-chan, don't you think it's weird? That there're only six researchers in this enormous facility? Add the assistant shi+to-chan and you still only have seven When boku-sama-chan went to the Hokkaido facility with Nao-kun, there were at least thirty researchers”
”Well, I thought it was odd, at least -- but that just ht?”
This sort of research activity differs fro superior nu hts, and causes things to lose clarity Athletic prowess has a differentiation between top and bottom, too, but it is still s abilities and process
”Yup, right, exactly So, Ii-chan Don't you think that the nu a s secrets?”
”I understand that, but this facility does a sufficient job of keeping secrets, does it not? Is there any point in reducing the number of people on top of it?”
”On the other hand, you could deduce that the Professor is doing so that requires secrecy to that extent, don't you think?”
” you look like you deduced so”
”Yup Just a guess, though”
Kunagisa paused
”But, you know, you would have to be guessing to think of so like this But you know, the architecture and placeathered -- Koutari Hinayoshi+, Neo Furuara, and Miyoshi+ Kokoroether with Chii-kun's information -- and then do some mental ht”
””
”The reason for locking Sacchan -- Utsurigi Gaisuke here isn't to perfor advice Professor Kyouichirou isn't treating Sacchan as a researcher”
”-- not a researcher?”
”Using Sacchan's power because of his own lacking -- that was the wrong assu Ii-chan What Professor Shadou Kyouichirou is conspiring to do,”
Kunagisa
Looked atlook
”Is to create an Ultra Hui Gaisuke himself as an test body”
Jump up↑ Super Abnormal Human Construct Research
2
It is time for philosophy, curtain two
According to what I heard fro biological scientists that the most powerful life form on Earth is, without a doubt, bacteria Bacteria exists everywhere on Earth and has propagating abilities full digits better than any other If one considers bacteria's propagating abilities a 1, then even sos would rate 1/100,000,000,000,000 That is a number that mathematically is synonymous with zero In other words, froht as well not exist
However, bacteria have no intelligence I cannot deterence, for I have never experienced being bacteria myself, but I assume I can make that conclusion And if you think froence Therefore, it should be said that humans are superior life for a computer to enjoy the internet? is a question that naturally appears I think that is a perfectly fine way of looking at it Regardless of whether the culture and inventions that huood or evil no, being that they are good and evil, it is the truth that theyvaluable
However, I think that this wouldthe say conservation For exa C, I would first go to a bookstore to buy a book on C, no, I would first buy an introductory book, read that, and then turn the coe, and coisa Toi Gaisuke, hackers that were part of Teamdo? Simple, they would simply make the application How to do it, what to do, they do not think of such things It is like riding a bicycle, and there is not even a trick to it That is how veterans work They do not even think In the end, the reason why good s like this exist They do not even need to remember
But no matter how superior they may be, what they can do is the same as me
Is there actually superiority when it coether culture, society, research, technology, and academia in order to survive, and when it comes to bacteria which just live? Of course, I do not have even an inkling of intent to look up with reverence at the smallest of life fors What I aence itself, but the why of intelligence If no matter how , then what is it that you ht seek?
”Such questions should be stated once you have actuallyyourself, so so that would si cry Philosophy over”
I mumbled, and then opened my eyes
It was past one in theThe place is the courtyard of the Shadou Kyouichirou Research Facility -- a bricked area surrounded by the research wards -- and I sat there alone Afterwards I left Kunagisa's room and returned to my room, and went to bed at once, but in the end I was oddly awake -- or rather I had too s to think about -- and so, unable to sleep, I sneaked out of the inn and walked all the way here
It was not raining yet The rain clouds see, as if they would rain anythe afternoon, but once it beca so deep in thewith the air circulation, it becaht, why did you walk out despite it being so cold? as I kept trudging forward
Suddenly, I turned my head I faced the third research ward The third research ward In other words, the abode of instructor Miyoshi+ Kokoromi I wondered if that human dissection s (although there were for the inn) lacked s, so there was no way to tell if there was lighting inside
””
Researchers who lectured at the ER Prograalaxy of peoples, and as a result, classes were taught in all sorts of languages, but when it would coed to be Kokoromi-sensei As such, as a japanese, and at the saion, I naturally beca with Kokoromi-sensei a lot
Of course, there were a good nuners who understood the Western japanese dialect), but iven to Kokoro talent after another to drop out of the Prograiven to me, the lone student to not drop out under Kokoroe was Harakiri[1] masochist
” huh?”
Now that I thought about it, I feel like I was given the more terrible nickname
” however, well, really, to end up ain in a place like this”
This trip was supposed to be a reunion of Kunagisa and Utsurigi Gaisuke, but it ended up beco a reunion for me as well
I remembered Suzunashi+-san's words The words Suzunashi+-san said towith sensei And Suzunashi+-san was coisa what I did over there Probably for the saisa and Utsurigi and the others were
”Y'know, I feel like I've become a really nasty person lately was I always like this?”
In other words, that couldtorn off
Just then, I heard the sound of an ani As for where, in this darkness, where it was hard to even see myself, I would not know unless it were the enormous size of the research wards I tensed up to so Just as I thought I ain fro voice -- no, sound
”Can hear the voice but cannot see the figure yet not hiding that odor”
It was probably wrong to say aloud such an unfitting, joking line, as for just a moment, my concentration waned And before that moment ended, that -- no, they jumped at me
One from behind, one from ahead
”--!”
Of course, I was pushed down I cruht-side down, and hit round I was able to cushi+on et back up soon No, even if I could they would not allow th, and then -- licked my face
””
And that hen I realized
” dog?”
Dogs Two, black and large enough to be the size of a rowled as they licked my face Saliva covered my face, and to be frank it was inordinately unpleasant, but they pinned s -- and the two of them both, at that -- so I was unable to le to break free, and could only let them do what they pleased
I see, I could not see them because they had jet-black fur and melded in with the darkness, and the reason why I could not discern where the groas co individually I cals
”-----------t”
A voice
I heard a human voice, this time I was not able to hear as said, so I lifted my head a bit, and turned in the direction of the voice Because of the darkness I was unable to see very clearly, but I could tell at least that so there
”-- stop it”
It was a woly clearly enunciated, voice The s stepped away from me And then they quickly trotted to where she stood I was finally freed, and placed round to lift myself, and shook my head, and wiped the saliva off my face withpaw-prints, like you ht see in a comic It felt more pathetic than pitiful
”Sorry about that, boy,” she said with the sa about at ize, like so”
It was a way of speaking that had no intonation whatsoever There was not a single punctuation But even so, it is a bit hard to explain but, her pronunciation and voice were as clear as a singer, and so it was not at all difficult to understand
”” I slowly stood up, and stepped closer to her ” no, I do not mind”
”A strange boy to say you do notthat much saliva on your face”
She laughed a little And then she came toward me herself, and wiped my face with a handkerchief she took out of her pocket I felt oddly embarrassed (in the sense that I can wipe my own face), but all I could do was let her do what she wanted
While letting her do what she wanted, I observed Lab coat In other words, this means she is a researcher I , and I do not think there is any obligation to alear these things in a research facility, but it seemed in this Kyouichirou Research Facility, the researchers all had a habit of wearing a lab coat
That means, this person
” yes Muchan old lady, and put her handkerchief back in her pocket ”I'a -- but you probably already knew -- are you the ruisa Tomo?”
”No The inexplicable kid”
”Ahh, the acco boy who came back to japan Now that you mention it your hair isn't blue And you're a boy You're a boy, right? I'm sorry I couldn't tell because it's dark”
She nodded, and stretched her right hand toa handshake I hesitated a bit, but decided to take her hand
The two enorai's feet, as if in servitude to her Now that I looked at theht they had adorable faces What is their species? They looked like Dober for that They were one or two sizes bigger than Saint Bernards or Pyrenees Given their large size they ht even be ant air about them
”I think it's quite dangerous to walk about at this hour,” Kasugai-san said with a stern feel to her voice after our parting hands ”This is a research facility with sos Wouldn't you prefer not having a painless stoh? Or did you have business with someone?”
”Yes, well” I responded with a stuttered tongue, in co to reht now”
”Trying to remember?”
”I have bad ot why I left the inn”
”You like jokes I see, despite how you look You are that Miyoshi+-chan's disciple, after all”
Kasugai-san laughed with just her lips, ”ufufu” I was not joking or anything, but nothing good would happen if I were to try to persuade her by replying with so like, ”no, really My memory is like zero, so it is basically zero I a would be alright but so So in that case ative When I was in ele next toand caused her to get a zero, that is how stupid I am” I felt like it was better to be considered a joker than an inconceivable fool, so I simply said, ”perhaps”
”Are you walking your dogs this late at night?”
”I like the night These triplets also like night Or at least, more than noon anyways”
”Triplets?” I looked at the dogs at her feet oncein decimal ”They are a triplet?”