Vol 8 Chapter 2 (2/2)
Queen Landred narrowed her eyes
“Project Babel……isn’t it”
“Exactly But, this is the tool of the Gods Using it as we pleased is a violation of rule In the first place it’s not so possible However this time AU collision that even the God didn’t predict occurred Due to that, soot mixed into Atlantis”
Kizuna put his hand on his chest
“My Core, Eros caht?”
Nayuta nodded as if to say ‘you done well’
“Exactly Originally using Eros with other Core at the saic power suppleree and ability expansion, that is to say the function of Heart Hybrid and Cli that was in the specification It is a way of using the Core that is outside expectation even for the creator”
Himekawa nodded in comprehension
“So thethat cain……”
Hi beside her Noticing that stare, Kizuna also stared back
“I guess……even miracle has proper reason”
“Heart Hybrid, Climax Hybrid too, that’s why……ah”
Perhaps Himekawa remembered about the specific of the act, her cheek blushed and she averted her gaze hastily
Kizuna recalled numerousin the rule It surpassed the original function, so that was exactly a Limit Breaker
“Repairing the tool of the God that is Genesis is possible using the function of Eros However there is another problem”
Nayuta looked over all present like a teacher waiting for her student to react
“If the Genesis is repaired, the creator that is the God will notice, that’s what you ht be okay if it’s just a trivialthe destroyed Genesis, furthermore it was done not by God’s hand, such phenomenon would surely be reported to them as a serious error In that case, the God will surely come without fail”
Reiri crossed her arms and scowled
“And that’s the felloho introduced themselves as Deus ex Machina then”
“Exactly If Deus ex Machina know about the fact of Heart Hybrid and Genesis’s restoration, then surely they won’t tolerate us as a blasphemy toward the God”
Inside the heavy at
{Professor Nayuta, you knew about the co of Deus ex Machina Despite so then why did you make us carry out Project Babel?}
“It’s for the sake of calling them, the Deus ex Machina”
All present were shocked hearing that sentence Kizuna lost his head and pressed his question at Nayuta
“Wha……just wait a second! Kaa-san said just now that Deus ex Machina co by calling them here!”
Nayuta closed herof what to say, such condition was so really rare for Nayuta
Kei’s coed her keyboard on her chest Before long Nayuta opened her mouth reluctantly
“……I lost to Kizuna and the others I planned to hideI did on purpose Imyself However, it was inadequate to obtain the same ability like the creator……it was imperfect”
Nayuta closed her eyes after saying that reluctantly
“……The cause was obviously lack of data If that’s the case, I can get close to perfection if I obtained the authentic data That’s why, there is a need to have their existence that is the original to come here”
Zelsione directed hateful gaze at Nayuta
“For so that our world was destroyed for that!?”
Toward Zelsione who glared at her with angry look, Nayuta answered with a composed face
“If at that time Project Babel wasn’t carried out, Genesis wouldn’t be repaired and Atlantis would surely collapse together with Le out Project Babel left behind survival chance even if just for a little”
Reiri spoke as if spitting out
“But the summoned Deus ex Machina erased the world In the end it’s the sa”
However Nayuta shook her head left and right
“No There is a large difference It was only a part, but I touched the Deus ex Machina and accoreatly change the development from now on”
Even while feeling fed up, Kizuna couldn’t help but being in admiration
“So you pretended to be dead and made us took on Deus ex Machina While that happened, you accomplished your objective successfully……that’s what happened”
Nayuta tilted her head and smiled sweetly
“Yes Kizuna really did well You were no h”
“It’s just as you said but, how irritating……”
When he looked back, even when he was fighting Hokuto, it beca time so that Nayuta could take counterh that saved them, he couldn’t be fully satisfied of that for some reason
“But, thanks to that I was able to browse their data without braving any risk A data”
{Interesting……you say, what is that?}
“The configuration information of Atlantis and Lemuria”
Kei’s expression stiffened in shock However the other people didn’t understand theof that sentence
“To make it easier to understand, itup the world is converted into numerical for this is?”
Nayuta looked at the face of all present onceface
“If that information is used, the world can be reproduced exactly like before you mean?”
Nayuta clapped her hand with shocked expression
“My, Reiri-chan What’s the roise?”
“I’ll kill you!”
“Ne, Nee-chan-!”
Kizuna restrained Reiri onceher
“Let go Kizuna! Tha-……I, idiot-, don’t gropethe confusion!”
“Eh!? I don’t have any intention like that but it’s easy to grasp……wait, that’s why don’t struggle!”
Looking at their situation, Nayuta chuckled in amusement
“I understood fro experiment I don’t understand what is their objective, but they created our world, and observed what kind of evolution and development we accomplished That observation is preserved as data”
{And you obtained that data?}
“Yes”
While restraining the struggling Reiri, Kizuna yelled
“Then, quickly return the world just like before!”
“Didn’t I do it already? It’s this Ataraxia”
All present looked at each other
Kei typed on her keyboard and projected the bird eye view of Ataraxia on the wall
{Currently, this is everything of the world we are in}
That was the iic state from the attack of Hokuto, but there was no doubt that it was Ataraxia However there was Megafloat japan, other than Ataraxia there were only sea and blue sky
Kizuna looked up at the screen and feel on a daze spontaneously
“You call this just like before! There is nothing except Ataraxia here”
“But, this is not a dream or illusion It existed physically, this place is really the authentic Ataraxia just like in the previous world”
{In other word……this is all the data that Nayuta Hakase obtained?}
Nayuta shrugged her shoulder at Kei’s question
“Exactly What I could do was only recovering the data of this Ataraxia That was already they best that I could do”
Nayuta pointed at Ataraxia in the screen
“I created this world froave fake memory to all of you and made you to live here”
Kizuna frowned and showed a dubious expression
“Why in the world did Kaa-san do so like that?”
“First reason, is that I needed tie that I bore”
Kizuna recalled the dae that he inflicted on Nayuta by his own hand
The final decisive battle in Vatlantis Kizuna beaten up Nayuta who had evolved into a different living thing black and blue until she looked nothing more than a corpse Even for Nayuta who became an existence close to Deus ex machine, it was doubtful she could endure that without problem
“Second reason, there is a need to have everyone fight Deus experiod so that everyone who until noas fellow eneether in coentlythat shaves off life”
Nayuta then clapped her hands together as though she re
“Aah, also Until now you have continued to fight in succession, so there is also my intention to express appreciation for your hard work This is my spirit of service to make you all to have fun in an enjoyable and leisurely vacation”
Zelsione spoke as if to spit out
“Messing around like that……”
However Nayuta didn’t even pay that any esture
“This world is a place of rest in order to take a brief breather An e from the hand of the Deus ex Machina……this is a world where you won’t be bothered by the outside world and you can obtain peaceful and calm mind That is to say, this is Ataraxia” (TN: Ataraxia is a Greek term used by Pyrrho and Epicurus for a lucid state of robust tranquillity, characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry)
However Nayuta’s shoulders suddenly dropped
“But, this place is found out by Deus ex Machina too It’s unfortunate, but the rest is over”
Landred crossed her are breast
“And so, that……Deus ex Machina, you say? They will soon come?”
“I moved Ataraxia’s coordinate so it’s safe for the moment I also prepared several traps However it’s only a problem of time before we are discovered”
“……What is the way for us to survive?”
Zelsione’s question aze to Kizuna, and then to Reiri
“Kizuna, Reiri Won’t you join hand with me?”
However, Reiri kicked away that invitation without a single moment’s delay
“Don’t screith me! You are someone that is cannot be trusted the most Who can cooperate with you after all this!”
“My objective and yours are different However although our objectives differ, the mean to accomplish those objectives is in common”
‘――What?’
Kizuna told hi However he was strangely bothered by what Nayuta was trying to say
“What’s……theof that?”
“In order for me to obtain all truth, I want to become a perfect life-form, the existence that achieved ultiuration information of the Deus ex Machina And then the objective of you all is to take back the previous worlds It’s possible to recreate Lemuria and Atlantis like before if it’s with uration information of the previous worlds is needed”
{The configuration information of the erased Lemuria and Atlantis, is in possession of those Deus ex Machina}
Nayuta nodded at Kei’s words that were typed in the
“That’s right I’ the data of the configuration infor the data of Aine and Yurishi+a too”
“What!?”
Kizuna unconsciously leaned forward
With a pale face, Zelsione also roughly yelled with a force that seized at Nayuta
“Like that, doesn’t that mean that they are the prisoner of those machine Gods!”
Zelsione gritted her teeth and her shoulders trembled
It was a rage toward unreasonable fate Kizuna also understood well that feeling
‘――We reunited after overcoht with Vatlantis also finally over, I thought that we can live happily after that, yet’
Kizuna clenched his fist and let out his voice as calm as he could
“Aine and Yurishi+a……they are still alive?”
“Yes If their data is taken back, it can be resolved”
“I see……”
Kizuna desperately pushed down the anxiety spreading in his heart
Aine and also Yurishi+a were still alive They could ain That was how he convinced himself
“Then, what is the way to save Aine and Yurishi+a?”
“It’s simple It’s fine if you just defeat Deus ex Machina”
Nayuta cal at all
Everyone held their breath
‘――She said to defeat those monsters, no, those machine Gods that is actually worthy to introduce themselves as God?’
Reiri crossed her arms and looked down on Nayuta
“You said those Deus ex Machina are God right? That they are our creator”
“Yes”
“Then, isn’t it i God?”
“Even if they are God, they are nothing more than existence that evolved farther than us We too will reach that territory eventually, even they are not perfect In reality, they even committed a miss to have their data stolen by me even if it was just ten percent of the whole Also, as far as we can see from their communication, they also have inefficient eination ht have unexpectedly childish weakness or flaw, that’s what I think”
Kizuna suddenly reely showing hu power So dark shadow in her heart, it was like Hokuto herself orrying about that Her expression at that time certainly looked far removed from the existence of an omnipotent God
While Kizuna was thinking of such thing, Reiri was also falling into a deep valley of thought She frowned and racked her brain regarding the proposal of Nayuta
She understood the logic
However her emotion couldn’t tolerate it
But, after being showed an overwhel power of thatby their own strength
“Reiri You have coiven up haven’t you?”
Nayuta sighed in provocation
“Whether I give up or not, this talk is not so you whether there is any realistic method or not!”
“Reiri”
Suddenly the tone of Nayuta lowered down So up Reiri’s spine It was a tension as though a blade was pressed on her throat
Yes This was the feeling that she always felt when she was facing her mother since she was a child
“To suainst their parent Are you fine with that?”
Reiri was taken by surprise Reiri’s expression became defenseless for an instant
But that was only for an instant
Whether it was froe or rinding audibly And then, she yelled as if she was going to cry
“Children will surpass their parent!”
Nayuta accepted Reiri’s piercing gaze right from the front
“That’s obviously provocation, but I’ll take it on! If you said that you are going to beco it on We will defeat Deus ex Machina, then ill defeat you for the last! Just prepare yourself!”
Nayuta smiled in satisfaction
“I’ll look forward to that, Reiri”
Part 3
Islands were floating in the world where there was nothing but sky
There were islands in various size big or s On the big one there wasdown fro to the sky
At that island, long and narrowtall in row Theon the moss At the feet of those mountains was beautiful lake likeit And then there a plain below the e city
The city that was orderly divided into districts looked like integrated circuit if one looked from the sky In each of the district there was town, there were street and house, there was everything needed for people activity
There was a large street going through the center of the city A single girl alking on that street
“A―, as I thought here is where I can calm down the most―”
Deus ex Machina Hokuto showed a wide sain
High buildings and low buildings were s were two or three storied, but as with ’s rooftop was roofed with red tile and had their ends curved The wall’s color hite, giving beautiful contrast with the roof, a coloring that made one felt warmth
“Thanatos’s world is e at all Osiris’s place is dusty, and hot But it’s still better compared to Odin’s place I think”
What could be seen fros there so old that it was going to collapse, there were also buildings with repair repeatedly perfor froht as the result of the people living here searching for convenient way that was easy to live
Hokuto really liked this city where such temperature of people could be felt
Hokuto alking while peeking at the stores facing the street The two sides of thisstreet In order to support the livelihood of great nu side by side Even a them, the kind of shop that had thetea
“Right! NoEven Thanatos and Osiris cannotof my world Especially Odin, she is just out of the question!”
While speaking delightedly, her feet stopped in front of a store that was lining up cooking Meat and egg roasted on iron plate, stew filled with a lot of noodle with stea from there
“Whichever of the!”
After talking at the front of the store where there was no one, she began to walk again
There was no one on the wide street
A huge and gorgeous city In this metropolis where ure of human
Suddenly smile vanished from Hokuto’s face
“So delicious……how does it feel I wonder?”
Hokuto advanced through the ait
After walking for a while, a huge palace surrounded by tall fence could be seen When Hokuto approached the gate, the door with height of ten ate and walked on stone paving road She advanced with sure steps inside the palace where there wasn’t a single hu she came out to a wide courtyard
Once large nuathered here
Such thing flashed inside Hokuto’s head She climbed the stair inside the courtyard where a throne was put at the highest step Hokuto sat down there
And then she stared at the vast city, and whispered
“Yup……today is fun too! I am happy everyday! That’s why……”
Hokuto smiled
“Everyone……you are all happy too right?”
That smile, was a smile that seemed sad somewhere