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It hurt
I’htly
There’s sharp pain searing through my entire body Blood continues to flow out of the wound that
pierced through , I’ll certainly die of blood loss like this
Dynamos won’t move anymore Dammit
“Kugh…”
I lost coain, I was defeated
“Don’t joke with me…”
Blood spewed out of my mouth each time I spoke but I couldn’t stand it I couldn’t accept this
conclusion
Then I’ll just have to turn it back No matter how many times it takes
I raisedmy decision A throne could be seen far away It didn’t have even a
speck of dust on it amidst all this dust storm
And a beautiful queen sat on that throne Mechanical doll ever so close to a hu
“Just you wait…!”
Still shaking, I stood up I ht die if I tried the jump with this body but it didn’t matter
If I lost this time, I just have to win next time
“I’ll coet you for sure Eve!!”
Countless, innumerably
To the point where there was no point in counting anymore
I fight again,
Is defeated again,
And fail to reach her
Even so, I start again
A fight that I’m sure to lose
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1 Climax from the start
He
Add opened his eyes and habitually scratched his eye patch He could feel the ht
through the hood that covered most of his head
“How much time has passed?”
“You were asleep for around one mealtime”
Add removed his hood to look up towards the source of the reply The intense sunlight made him
squint Add saw a silhouette standing high above hihtly taken aback but didn’t let it
show
“Why are you standing up so high?”
The girl standing gently on top of tip of the spear smiled amiably
“You never knohen eneht? I’ll be able to see further if I’her”
Was her nairl showed such an innocent sh she had
only known him since yesterday
Just with a single glance you could tell she was a good natured and innocent girl Those traits would
probably make her likeable by most people But Add wasn’t too fond of her
“I’ll be able to see inside your skirt if you’re up so high”
“Huh…?!”
Ara’s face reddened after hearing Add’s remark She hurriedly tried to pull down her clothes But of
course, she would lose balance if she tried to do that while standing on end of a standing spear
“Kyaaah!”
Flustered, Ara fell towards the ground But contrary to her screale
soround
Still, she looked quite shocked as she was blushi+ng and breathing fast Ara’s face reddened even
happened and started wiped the dust off his clothes
“T, that was sowatch while MrAdd slept!”
“Why are youshorts?”
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Receiving Add’s blunt reh of relief Her
because she quickly pouted and asked Add
“Were youfun of me just now?”
“I said I’d be able to see inside your skirt, I never said you earing one”
Annoyed, Add replied accordingly and started to walk forward Ara recovered her spear and
followed Add as she diligently scouted the surrounding area
They shouldn’t need to go out of their way to be cautious since the two of the in an
open field
‘Well, you never know…’
Add let fly forwards one of his Dyna area
Seeing Ara become amazed as she watched the Dynamo fly around made him feel a bit better
HisAra become so amazed at his
creation gave him some pride as a developer
“Kuku, there’s no bandits around this area We should move ahead”
“Others will beas well Let us hurry so we don’t fall behind!”
Ara tried to hasten her pace but Add gestured his hand to stop her
“They areon their own”
“Hmm? but”
Ara looked surprised but Add was serious Bandits here were all weaklings; there was honestly no
need for everyone fighting together
Even Add by hiirl alone could defeat all the bandits in this area and
complete their mission
“All we have to do is look out for any that try to escape”
Ara naively believed what Add said and nodded Then she returned to diligently scouting her
surroundings again Add assumed that the entire mission should have been resolved by now but
didn’t bother to tell her
These bandits eaklings that he could take care of with just one hand That hy Add was
lazing around and even finding the leisure to take a nap
‘Hm?’
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Why did I assuain?
Add looked around the area to see if he had inal
conclusion that he wasn’t mistaken
“…Well everyone is strong”
“Pardon me?”
“I was just talking to myself”
After replying bluntly to Ara, Addaway the tree branches in his way
Even this eirl was an individual with exceptional skill You could tell even without
having to fight her Her aura and her ordinate posture… she was a person you couldn’t
underestimate
Bam!
“O…”
Ara cried out when she was hit by one of the returning branches that Add had pushed aside to get
past Shethe area that she was not aware of things in
front of her
“…I, I’!!”
“…”
…She is strong… right?
Add stared at Ara i forwards It
hasn’t even been a day since they were for for him But
there was a good reason for Add to include hiroup
They were the El Search Party
They were right now in the middle of their first mission to defeat the Ruben’s bandits
Just as Add had predicted, the bandits turned out to be bunch of pushovers
“Haa, Hiya!!”
Ara had gone in front Each ti her spear she sent three or four bandits flying
Even though the fight was 1 versus 15 and she was surrounded by bandits froht, Ara
dodged all of their attacks s water all the while effectively counterattacking
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Such elegantMost people wouldn’t be able to avert
their gaze at such a spectacle
“Yawn…”
But her tea It was 1 versus 15 because Add didn’t
join in the fight
“I defeated everyone!”
In the end bandits’ advantage in numbers didn’t matter at all They were all defeated before they
could even graze a piece of Ara’s clothing Ara withdrew her spear and looked around with a
troubled expression
All of Ara’s attacks were non-lethal attacks utilizing only the shaft of her spear So these bandits
were merely unconscious
“What should we do about these people?”
“We can’t move around with all of them, just leave them be”
“But our mission was to defeat the bandits… Would it really be okay to leave them be?”
“Vermin tend to all scatter when their leader falls Kukuk”
Ara nodded although she was still unsure what Add had meant It almost seemed like she didn’t
realize how Add had left her alone to fight by herself
‘…Huh what’s with this boring reaction?’
Her skill with the spear was astounding but she ay too naïve Just in case, Add decided to
purposely bring up the issue
“So how did it feel to fight by yourself? Kukuk”
“Oh, it’s been a while since got to ! It was quite thrilling and fun!”
“…”
She’s not getting the point
Add had purposely tried to get Ara riled up but only ended up getting an absurd response This
wasn’t going to be very cool but let’s try directly provoking her
“I was resting co Kukuk”
“Were you able to rest well MrAdd?”
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“…”
Add’s head started to ache after hearing Ara’s innocent response Wasn’t it noret
angry if your squad ?
But Ara continued to retain her peaceful expression
“Is she stupid? Or just really strange…?”
“Pardon me? What did you say?”
“It’s nothing We move forwards Their boss should be deep inside the forest”
Dyna hi terrain Add quickly stole a
look back at Ara while h the path that looked like it had been used by the
bandits
Ara was still looking around the surroundings nervously It seeht
alone was completely erased from her mind already
‘…is she an idiot?’
Her skill with the spear was great but she was unbelievably naive Add had tried to peer into her
mind to prepare for a case when she became an obstacle in the future…but it was futile
“Still, sos me…”
“What do you mean? Did more bandits appear?”
Add ignored Ara who hurriedly tightened the grip on her spear He got a strange sense that
so was off whenever he stared at Ara It made him uncomfortable to face her… he still
couldn’t figure out why though
For now let’s just rery
“Found the”
“Where? We should hurry up and go help!”
“We don’t have to hurry for those weak opponents”
Ara tried to hasten herself but Add’s steps didn’t get any faster Ara staring confusingly at him
annoyed Add so he gave a reasonable reply
“There ht be other ambushes so we have to be careful”
“Oh I see! I’ll be careful too!”
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Seeing Ara scan the surrounding trees with such serious expression was a bit funny but Add turned
off all his attention towards her
His ht in front of him
When Add and Ara leisurely moved forwards for about 50 meters, they finally came upon an open
field There were tens of bandits on the ground groaning in pain In middle of those bandits, there
stood a girl with the impressionable silver hair
She stood expressionless in the middle of all the fallen bandits It almost felt like she was void of any
emotions Even Ara who had tried to run over to her was startled for a moment
But to Add that girl was an existenceelse in the world
After walking up close to her to the point where he could tell the emotions from her eyes, Add
stopped Despite knowing that Add was approaching she just stared blankly
“Kukuk”
“…”
An unpleasant expression passed through the girl’s face for an instant in reaction to Add’s laugh But
this reaction made Add even more thrilled
An ability to read other person’s eh and output an appropriate
reaction instantaneously…… in a machine!
This machine was so infinitely close to a human The ultimate Nasod!
“MsEve! Are you hurt?”
“…”
While Add was feeling joyous inside, Ara who had been startled earlier hurriedly ca and
asked the girl Anyone could tell with a single glance that bandits weren’t able to touch a single
strand of this girl’s hair But it seemed Ara acted faster than her ability to examine the situation
“There’s no problem”
The girl called Eve, a target that Add had praised as an ultimate doll replied to Ara with a practical
voice
While Ara was letting out a sigh of relief, Eve suddenly turned her head and looked over to the
other side of the field
“But there seeht problem over there”
“Huh?”
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Upon closer look… Two people were facing off in the middle of the field One was a boy with red
hair and another was a one-eyed e build
They both looked extre heavily withouta
move
“Y, you’re not too bad old guy!”
“Y,you too brat!”
They were taking a slight break froht to recover their stamina But the boy’s
shoulders were bleeding coe man who had no visible injuries It looked like the
boy was at a disadvantage
Ara quickly detered in front with her spear gripped tightly
But even before she could take three steps, gears that were floating around Eve flew in and blocked
Ara’s path Shocked, Ara stopped and turned towards Eve to protest
“MsEve?! Our coo help fast!”
“He said he wanted to fight by himself”
“But he looks exhausted”
Eve was silent to Ara’s protest and continued to watch over the faceoff Add gave his input after
seeing Ara hop in anxiety
“Leave hiive up too if he loses here”
“But…!”
“What do you mean ‘but’’? Kukuk, That brat is weak”
Ast the current El Search Party est and consequently the
weakest Everyone already knew this fact even though they had just formed yesterday
“Or could you possibly be saying that that brat is strong?”
“T, that’s…”
Ara’s words trailed She also see about
Martial artists could identify other h Ara had such naïve personality, she
was a trainedand weak
“But what if he gets hurt badly…”
“You don’t have to intervene”
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Even Eve agreed with Add for some reason Oh, she’s rather easy to talk to? Add felt uplifted
because Eve had agreed with him
“Because I don’t think he’ll lose”
“EH?”
Ara looked honestly surprised but Eve just continued to stare at the boy with an unwavering gaze
“That boy in”
“Kukuk, really? That’s totally not how I see it”
For her to e that Eve had made
a flawed judgeument
“Anyone can tell he doesn’t have th to hold
up his sword”
Eve stiffly continued to watch despite Add’s cynical rehtly irritated by Eve’s lack
of reaction so he sneakily sent his Dynamo forward
Eve’s gears ca instantly to intercept the Dynamo
“I told you to observe”
“I was just trying to help because he’s going to lose like this”
Provocation that hadn’t worked on Ara worked on Eve Eve turned her head and stared at Add
coldly
“I don’t think he will lose”
“If you honestly think that way, shall we make a little bet?”
“What kind of bet?”
“If that kid loses…”
Just when Add was about to bring up the terathered his breath and stood up
straight while holding his great sword
“Alright! That’s enough break! Come at me Banthus!!”
“Don’t h brat!!”
The boss of the bandits, ripped his weapon and fixed his form The break
was now over; they were both gathering their final strength to finish this fight
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“It wasn’t me that defeated these bandits”
Eve’s gaze averted from Add and returned to the red haired boy Red haired boy didn’t realize that
Eve, Ara and Add atching hiaze was solely focused on the enemy in front of him
The boy looked tired but he had a smile on his face
“He said he will defeat them all by himself, and then defeat the boss by himself too”
Ara and even Add was slightly surprised That young boy defeated the tens of bandits lying down
here? But he clearly looked like he lacks the skills… How did he?
Eve told the at the boy
“He in”
Add looked at Eve who continued to stare at the boy
“He promised he will beat them all”
“Here I come!!!”
The red haired boy, Elsword charged at Banthus with a shout
“Bring it on!!”
Responding to Elsword’s charge, Banthus shouted as well and swung his sword doith a
powerful force With their difference in size, even getting grazed by Banthus’s attack will be fatal for
Elsword
“Ha!”
But Elsword continued to charge forwards without any fear of the sword falling above him The
ed the beat of his steps and threw
himself forwards deeply
Thud!
Because of Elsword’s round His
expression now shrouded in fear, Banthus hurriedly tried to pull his sword up and turn around But
Elsas faster
“Flame Geyser!”
With a shout, Elsword’s blade hit the ground; the ground cracked and criushed out
“Uwooh! T, this is? ic?!”
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Banthus had expected to defend against a sword attack He widened his eyes and tried to back up
But his reaction was too late to completely avoid the attack
“Kuu kaagh!”
Banthus screamed as his body was roasted by the flaround and
panted Elsword also looked very tired because he just perfor front roll
wound on his shoulder But he was still clearly standing on his two feet
It was clear who had won
“See, I won!”
“Don’t uard”
Clenching his teeth, Banthus tried his best to get up but he no longer had any th left to
fight Elsword shook his head in annoyance while leaning his sword against his shoulder
“Give back the El you stole and reflect on your actions”
“Do you really think I’ll hand over the El to you guys after all the trouble I went through to get it?”
“Kahaha, it ended up like this today because I was careless But just you wait next time… That is of
course if there is a next time”
“Where do you think can run off to? The match is already…”
“Go!!!”
With Banthus’s shout, soed towards Elsword
Surprised, Elsword instinctively swung his sword to hit the target
“W, what?”
Elsas sure he defeated all the other bandits! But… the target wasn’t human He had first
thought it was a Phoru… But that wasn’t it either
It was a Nasod
“What? Why is a Nasod…”
No tie the Nasod’s attack Elsword quickly moved out of the way but the
Nasod continued to track and charge recklessly at Elsword This Nasod’s main method of attack was
tackling
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Elsword dodged left and right while swinging his sword But Elsas too exhausted to deal
significant dae to it
“Kahahahaha!!”
Banthus was using this chance to run away That coward! I had him beat!
“Stop right there!”
Elsword’s attention diverted to Banthus and the Nasod didn’t miss this opportunity The Nasod was
already in front of Elsword by the ti full speed towards him
I’et hit!!
“That was pathetic!!”
Just when Elsword shut his eyes to prepare for the upcoears suddenly flew in and
struck the Nasodit away from Elsword The Nasod convulsed and exploded
after hitting the ground After narrowly avoiding the danger, Elsword ly
“I could have beaten it by myself”
“You would have lost like that”
Eve, who had just saved Elsword gave her cold evaluation Elsas about to protest that he
could have won by hi Ara and Add come towards them
Others also saw hi
“MrElsword, that was i like that!”
“It was nothing”
Elsword responded bluntly to Ara’s honest compliments He had beaten Banthus but couldn’t win
against the Nasod that appeared afterwards
The joy of victory had already left the boy’s heart
“No, it was really ier in no time like this!”
“I still have ways to go…”
Ara and Elsere having this kind of conversation But Add wasn’t listening
His attention was solely focused on the Nasod that just attacked Elsword
Add squinted his eyebrohile picking up the Nasod’s fragments
“……What’s this Nasod doing here?”
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“It’s a Nasod miner but I’m not sure why it’s here”
“Strange Aa Nasod? That should not be”
Add was about to say so to Eve but stopped He had all his Dynaht now
That was clearly a mistake
It should have been standard procedure to scout the area for additional enemies whenever a new
enemy appeared He could already feel various presences on other side of those bushes
Around tens of enemies They were surrounded
“Kukukuk, it doesn’tthem all”
Eve was already ears Ara also noticed the situation and fixed her spear They
couldn’t expect anything from Elsas already too exhausted
“Ara, protect the brat”
“Who’s a brat?! Don’t look down on me!”
“You et in our way Know your place”
Furious, Elsword tried to get up but he had no strength left to do so Add didn’t give an eye to
Elsword panting in vexation and spoke to Eve
“What will you do? You can stay with the brat if you want”
“That’s not for you to decide”
Judging by her cold response, Evefun of her But that kind of
response hted
A norular simple decisions However, Eve
clearly had a will of her own
“Then coh them all Kukuk”
Nasods charged towards the group soon as Add declared the start of battle
Add wasn’t even slightly startled when enemies appeared out of the bushes He instead increased the
output of his Dyna of space swept over the
Nasods
Following Add’s hand gestures and instructions, Dynamos fired a shockwave that destroyed the
Nasods Aftershort work of 10 Nasods by himself Add looked behind him
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“Explosion Impact!!”
Eve shouted and swung her whip An explosion engulfed and destroyed all the Nasods in front of
her Ara as beside Elsword also easily dispatched the Nasods co up behind her with a
swing of her spear
“This is too boring…”
20 Nasod Miners that just ambushed them were all destroyed before they could even touch anyone
Add sighed and examined the remains of the Nasod Miners
“What are you doing?”
“Exas orking with the bandits?”
Eve was staring at him repulsively but Add continued to examine the Nasod remains without any
concern
He hasn’t encountered any Nasods froe’ before but machines all tended to follow a
functional structure
“These don’t have any cogitative abilities They can only do a si to be precise Thus,
they couldn’t have carried out orders unless soitative
abilities should also mean they couldn’t carry out complex orders…”
Add was pondering bunch of possibilities then all of a sudden… he grinned The ground was
shaking
“Kukuk Now this is more like it”
“It’s a giant enemy”
Eve must have realized the abnor at Eve’s
sides Add abruptly asked
“Isn’t Nasods destroying other Nasods fratricide?”
“They are currently follorong orders”
He had poked a bit to see if Eve would get disturbed but there was no particular reaction Come to
think of it, this , he had never seen
her express any emotions
“Do you have any emotions?”
“I don’t need so so unnecessary”
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Eve sharply cut off the issue Add was honestly surprised this time No way She can even lie? Add
couldn’t even begin to fathom how similar this machine was to a human
“Let’s stop the s seems to have arrived”
WRRRRRR!!! They could hear the mixed sounds of caterpillar tracks and rotation of a drill Pushi+ng
through the forest, destroying all the trees in its path was the culprit that had ordered the ambush
attack earlier
It was a Nasod Driller
Add let out a slight laugh looking at the giant spinning drill There was no reason to be afraid of
such a pri bunch of Nasod
miners…
“I’ll take care of the drill; you take care of the others”
“It’s dangerous, I recommend tactical retreat”
“Stop nagging Kukuk, There’s no way I’d get beaten by them”
Add declared arrogantly and moved his Dynahly
as a response
“Go!”
Upon Add’s coy to shatter the space and destroyed a portion of the
Driller’s body
Witnessing that their boss was daed at Add
“Illusion Strike!!”
Eve ears and fired them at the miners But there were too many to filter them
all for Add Add was slightly startled when all the Miners ignored Eve and only charged at him But
Add still ed control his Dynamos in response
“Void Field!!”
Alternate space opened up around Add and all the Nasods charging at him stopped at once This
ability to unfold alternate space allowed him to restrain his enemies temporarily and attack safely
meanwhile
“Hmph… Small fries”
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Add had expected them to split up since Eve was here as well He didn’t expect all of them to focus
only on him Just when Add was about to close the alternate space for his next move, he heard a
strange noise
Beep Beep Beep
The sound was coot close to him earlier but were stopped by Void
Field
A chilling sense of danger ran down Add’s spine as he quickly tried to dodge but it was too late
Booom!!
Nasod Miners self destructed causing a large explosion!! Not just one but 5 self destructed at once
and encased Add with an explosion
“MrAdd!!”
Add could hear Ara raising her voice froed
to fall back and ency defense mechanism But the
ar
“Kukuk I didn’t think they’d be able to self destruct…”
It was a ht on by lack of information Did they not use self destruct earlier
because…they wanted to use it as a trump card?
Just who could have come up with that kind of plan?
WRRRRR!
That piece of junk spinning its drill loudly caical plan? Add
couldn’t believe his own conclusion but this wasn’t the time to be indecisive Nasod miners were
attacking again
The Driller wasn’t standing idly as well It was periodically shooting spitfire bombs out of its battery
towards Add There were too s to pay attention to
“Tch!”