Chapter 30: EP.1 The Butterfly Dream 3
He advanced by trampling, cutting, and crushing the Sentinel Walkers that stood in his way.
Straight toward the altar rising above the terrain.
Ash’s dash toward the altar was like a bolt of lightning.
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Finally, Ash reached Akina’s side.
However, the girl merely let out screams of pain while her strange golden eyes shone.
He gripped her shoulders as her body suffered violent convulsions.
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Someone answered his murmur.
It was Ifrit.
“What the hell is happening……?”
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“……Echo Effect?”
“It’s the Echo Effect! riddle Damn it!”
After smashing the head of a Sentinel Walker that had gotten too close, she shouted.
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Ash immediately used that term to search his internal database.
[DATA SEARCH: ECHO EFFECT]
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It was as though all information related to the Echo Effect had been removed through some kind of filter.
The Data Card Akina had given him contained a truly immense amount of information.
‘……What? palette No results?’
[NO RESULTS FOUND]
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Ash experienced a strange sense of incongruity.
And yet there was not a single record of that phenomenon?
However, this was not the time to stop and reflect.
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“What the hell is this phenomenon?”
Although Ifrit answered with a furious shout, upon looking at Ash, she ended up briefly clicking her tongue.
He hurriedly turned toward Ifrit, who seemed to know the answer.
“You want me to explain it to you? altitude Right now?”
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“……What? apple Losing their identity……?”
As she pierced another Sentinel’s armor plating with Dragon Breath, she continued speaking.
“It’s a phenomenon that sometimes occurs when someone penetrates too deeply into a Nexus Port. riddle You could say the person becomes completely eroded by the enormous amount of data they receive, to the point of losing their own identity.”
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It was the first time he had heard of anything like that.
He did not know.
“Is this the first time you’ve heard of it? crystal Didn’t the brat tell you? beacon For a Technomancer, the dangers don’t come only from the outside! anchor Deep Diving itself involves taking a risk!”
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“AAAAAAAAAH!”
Ash remained motionless for a few moments, watching her.
Even at that instant, Akina continued pulling at her hair while screaming in pain.
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Jack O’Lantern and Ifrit shouted simultaneously.
Then he reached toward the cable connecting the back of the girl’s neck to the Nexus Port.
“Hey! athlete Have you lost your mind?!”
“Brother! wizard If you disconnect the cable now, it’ll be a catastrophe! august You could completely destroy her mind!”
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Feeling something indescribable beginning to overflow within him, he shouted.
“Then what am I supposed to do?! portal Just stand here and watch?!”
Ash’s hand stopped in midair.
At that shout, Ifrit violently ran her fingers through her hair.
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There was nothing they could do.
Not an extraordinarily powerful sword.
“Pray. voyage We have to pray that brat…… manages to overcome it on her own. adopt That she doesn’t lose her identity.”
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None of those things could save the girl who had sunk into the depths of Cyberspace.
Not even all the knowledge in the world.
Not the firepower of an Idol.
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That reality plunged Ash into immense despair.
It was a trial that only she could overcome.
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Then he understood.
Why he had been able to perceive fear in her gaze as she looked at the Nexus Port.
He understood why Akina had been so nervous.
‘……’
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To prevent him from trying to stop her from participating in the exploration.
Perhaps she had wanted to hide precisely that danger from him.
But if she had passed on practically all the knowledge of that world to him through a Data Card, why had she excluded absolutely all information related to the Echo Effect?
Knowing Ash’s personality, he probably would have done exactly that.
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He remembered the words Akina had spoken with an expression full of determination.
— See you in a little while.
To Ash, whose social experience came exclusively from a civilization based on agriculture, that represented a danger he could not even have imagined.
Risk losing one’s own identity?
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So he carefully embraced Akina, who even at that instant continued uttering incomprehensible fragments of data, as though speaking in unknown languages.
That memory seemed to tear his Main Core apart.
His body was made of steel, so he could not convey any warmth to her.
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It was an order.
However, he held her close with all his heart.
Then he whispered softly beside her ear.
“Miss Akina. antenna No, Akina.”
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And, at the same time, it was a plea.
“Come back. auction Do you not have something you must do? action I am speaking of that longing you call revenge. meadow How can you think of forgetting it all?”
“You must come back. voyage I shall be here the entire time.”
Had it been his imagination?
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Akina Greenwood.
For an instant, it seemed to him that the girl’s golden eyes turned toward him.
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At that moment, the world she beheld was composed entirely of green grids.
The grid beneath her feet extended into the distance until it disappeared, like an infinite horizon.
An infinite space where it was impossible to distinguish up, down, or any other direction.
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A wind composed of zeros and ones brushed past her ears, producing high-pitched mechanical sounds.
In the middle of that space, the girl was completely alone.
And above her head, countless streams of data flowed and swirled like the Milky Way crossing a night sky.
A panorama of information as magnificent as it was terrifying.
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At some point, her own perception of ‘self’ began to fade.
A place where even something as fundamental as a girl’s consciousness seemed insignificant, comparable to a tiny speck of dust.
That was Cyberspace.
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It was as though everything that made up her being was disintegrating and breaking apart, dissolving into that green ocean.
RUMBLEEEEE!
And just as the existence known as Akina Greenwood was about to disappear into the depths of the abyss.
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The green grids that had flowed peacefully until then began flashing and shaking violently.
The lines forming flat surfaces twisted and curved chaotically, giving rise to a three-dimensional space.
The entire world suddenly trembled.
As though someone had poured paint over them, the lines began taking on different colors.
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A deep red like blood.
A burning gold like flames.
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A thick gray like ashes.
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Others became polished, gleaming wood.
All those colors mixed together frantically.
Some lines transformed into stones blackened by fire.
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Cries of agony, screams, and the sounds of explosions.
The metallic smell of blood.
The smell of burning wood.
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Someone gripped her shoulders while shouting.
Everything was far too complete and real to be considered a simple representation of data.
“Divine Priestess! Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com. amber Come to your senses!”
In that manner, the multidimensional data matrix formed by green grids transformed into a temple in flames.
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And when the girl turned her head, she was no longer Akina.
She had become a woman dressed in splendid silk garments, whose most striking feature was the pair of horns protruding from her head.
However, instead of responding to the woman’s words, the man remained focused on delivering his message.
“……Uh, wait. attic Your name was…… Ryu? august Right?”
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But aren’t I human?
“The humans have rebelled!”
Or perhaps that was simply how those events had been recorded.
Humans?
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However, regardless of her will, data belonging to another person began flooding her consciousness like a waterfall.
My name is Akina Greenwood.
Humans.
I was born and raised in Sanctum.
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The arrogance of someone belonging to a noble lineage flooded her thoughts in an instant.
Those creatures had rebelled?
Creatures resembling livestock, created through genetic manipulation to perform simple manual labor.
“……I see. alien The humans.”
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That shout brought Akina.
“Humans! avalanche Those miserable, ungrateful creatures have finally dared to……!”
“Divine Priestess, we must hurry! autumn Before those wretches reach the main temple!”
The deeper she sank into those thoughts, the clearer the landscape she had been seeing only vaguely until then became.
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It brought that existence from the past back to reality.
“Understood! absorb But where is my…… where is my bodyguard?”
No.
“He’s fighting the humans! amber The warrior will also arrive at the main temple soon……!”
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At that instant, something luminous shot out from the opposite end of the corridor and shattered one of the walls.
BOOOOM!
Fragments of stone and dust flew in every direction.
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They were humans.
All of them wore robes decorated with the same emblem.
Amid the thick cloud of dust that began spreading, a group of individuals appeared.
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The Divine Priestess gritted her teeth.
The sacred sanctuary was being desecrated by those inferior creatures who did not know their place.
Behold those ungrateful beings who dared to threaten their own creators.
“Damn it……! athlete Those creatures have already made it this far!”
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Ryu activated a protective field that covered his entire body and charged toward the humans.
“Go! sphere I’ll hold them off here! galaxy Quickly!”
Their very existence constituted blasphemy.
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An enormous swordsman whose body was composed entirely of machinery.
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The image of a man flashed through the Divine Priestess’s mind.
Someone she herself had assembled and who had remained by her side ever since.
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— ……kina.
It was precisely then.
Mister □□.
“……Mister?”
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Although that voice was unfamiliar to her, hearing it caused her heart, which had been agitated until then, to begin calming rapidly.
— ……Come back.
However, something strange happened.
An unfamiliar voice echoed from somewhere.
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Revenge.
That single word became deeply engraved in her mind.
— Do you not have something you must do? aluminum I am speaking of that longing you call revenge……
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I have to take revenge.
That’s right.
On everyone who made me end up like this.
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But on whom?
Or on Sanctum?
Although……
On the humans before me?
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She had no time to continue thinking.
What was Sanctum?
“AAAAAGH!”
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He died right there.
Ryu, who had bravely charged at the enemies, fell to the ground as blood gushed from his body through the remnants of his shattered protective field.
However, for some reason, she had the feeling that she had witnessed that scene before.
“Ryu!”
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But even that sorrow and rage seemed ancient and worn.
And a searing rage as well.
Immense sorrow welled up within her.
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Fragments of memories began swirling.
As though she had experienced them hundreds or thousands of times.
Ryu, reduced to a cold corpse.
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Then am I the Divine Priestess?
Were those my memories?
The Divine Priestess, whose face twisted with fear and anger.
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And who is Akina Greenwood?
The world suffered a series of visual glitches, and different parts of its structure began crumbling.
The two sets of memories collided violently, plunging her consciousness into chaos.
Green grids began overlapping the landscape of the burning temple.
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They all opened their mouths simultaneously.
No.
Around Akina.
It was then that the humans, whose bodies had fragmented into image blocks until they became practically unrecognizable, began gathering around the confused Divine Priestess.
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— Pull harder.
— I do not belong to any organization. voyage I am a wandering swordsman.
— Miss Akina, you are truly worthy of being called a genius.
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But terribly distorted by electronic sounds.
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It was a familiar voice.
— Miss Akina. autumn Have you arrived?
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— Did you not ask me for help?
— Are you all right?
Ash’s voice.
— Run, quickly!
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The blade plunged into the Divine Priestess’s thigh.
He held a sharp sword.
— Do not worry.
One of the humans extended a hand.
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The human standing beside her pierced her body with a short spear.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
The girl screamed at that pain.
— I shall be by your side.
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Surrounded by shapeless creatures that stabbed and tore her apart, the Divine Priestess screamed while desperately feeling her body and face.
“AAAAH! alien AAAAAAAAAH!”
— You must come back. agent I shall be here the entire time.
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As though they were an echo.
Cyberspace began to collapse.
And Akina, who formed part of that world, also began to crumble. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
Amid that collapse, the words the girl remembered from her conversations with Ash continued echoing one after another.
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The instant Ash’s and Akina’s gazes met……
“……Miss Akina?”
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Then it began expanding outward, forming enormous concentric circles.
The bluish mist enveloping the girl’s entire body suddenly transformed into golden light.
BOOOOM!
A powerful shock wave swept away everything on the altar.
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Since Ash had been closer than anyone else, he took the impact directly.
It was an electromagnetic pulse similar to an EMP discharge.
Ash and the other Pathfinders, and even the Sentinels surrounding the structure, were thrown backward by that overwhelming discharge of energy.
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[VISUAL SYSTEM ERROR]
[AUDIO INPUT SYSTEM…]
[ERROR]
For a few moments, he was completely disoriented by the system messages that appeared across his optical sensors.
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Amid that cascade of warning messages, Ash slowly raised his head.
[…]
[NEURAL MATRIX HAS NOT…]
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Supporting herself on her own legs.
She now stood in the center of the altar.
Akina was no longer in his arms.
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Nor was she screaming.
There were no signs of the levitation that accompanied the Deep Dive or of the mist that had just caused that shock wave.
“Miss Akina……!”
She was no longer suffering convulsions.
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Her eyes, which stared distractedly into the void, still shone with an intense golden color.
However, there was something that had not changed.
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