Chapter 31: EP.1 The Butterfly Dream 4
The golden concentric circles that emerged from Akina spread beyond the altar and swept away everything in their path.
BOOOOM!
Ash was not the only one struck by that wave of energy.
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In that manner, Ifrit’s broadcast, which was about to reach its climax, came to an end.
The broadcasting drones flying through the air suddenly lost power and fell to the ground with dry thuds, like lifeless birds.
After all, Ifrit and the members of ROA had also been struck by the shock wave.
However, no one had time to worry about that.
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The heart-shaped lights in Ifrit’s eyes flickered violently before going out completely.
Jack O’Lantern clutched his pumpkin-shaped helmet as though he were suffering from an intense headache.
Dullahan staggered as the message [SYSTEM SHUTTING DOWN] appeared on his visor.
“Uwaaah!”
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The optical sensors that had previously emitted an unsettling red light went dark.
As though repelled by two identical magnetic poles, they were all simultaneously hurled away from the altar.
They had all been rendered completely defenseless.
Fortunately, the same thing had happened to the army of Sentinels.
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An unexpected stillness descended upon the altar.
“Miss Akina……!”
The battlefield, which until a few moments earlier had been dominated by explosions, gunfire, screams, and electronic voices, fell silent.
Then the Sentinels lay scattered across the ground, completely motionless.
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[RECOVERY MODE… ACTIVATED]
[SYSTEM INTEGRITY CHECK…]
Of everyone present, Ash was the first to recover.
He ignored the messages appearing across his optical sensors and began walking toward Akina.
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The girl remained standing in the center of the altar, in exactly the same position as before.
His steel body barely responded to his commands, as though all his muscles had suffered a cramp.
Her eyes were still tinged with gold, and her gaze remained unfocused.
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What was strange and chilling was that her murmurs contained two completely different ways of speaking, as though two distinct personalities coexisted within her.
Both were searching for someone.
However, they had something in common.
Furthermore, she kept murmuring something.
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“……Mister? shadow Where are you……?”
Ash did not understand the meaning of one of those questions.
“Where is my bodyguard? arrow Where is my bodyguard?!”
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But he understood the other.
Akina did not recognize him.
“Miss Akina. acquire Here I am. alert I am here.”
So he answered.
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“Ugh…… My head hurts so much.”
Her golden eyes continued scanning the empty space.
At that moment, Ifrit managed to recover enough to approach.
To be more precise, she did not even look at the humanoid who had approached her. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com
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“Damn it. august What the hell is going on? arctic At least it looks like the Deep Dive is over……”
Finally, she reached a conclusion.
She looked back and forth between the Nexus Port, which had lost its glow, and Akina, who remained motionless with a vacant stare.
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“……But one look at her is enough to tell she’s not all right. acoustic For now, let’s get out of here.”
Ash nodded.
She let out a sigh.
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As though that had been a signal, the girl’s small body slowly began to collapse.
Ash took a step forward and removed the cable that was still connected to the back of Akina’s neck.
“I agree.”
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An old, worn steel arm.
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Ash caught her with one of his arms.
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Akina stroked it for a few moments before speaking.
“That is correct. adopt It is me.”
“Mister……?”
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Suddenly, Ash remembered the sniper.
“Where else could I have been? shadow I have been here the entire time.”
“Where were you?”
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However, while he was still considering it, Akina smiled weakly and nestled a little closer in his arms.
He wondered whether he should explain that he had briefly left to deal with those enemies.
“What a relief.”
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“……We are planning to leave the ruins now. acquire So climb onto my back. riddle It is time to return home.”
Akina raised her gaze toward Ash.
“Then what will happen to my bodyguard?”
“Home……”
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Jack pointed toward the lower part of the altar.
“Shit!”
Before Ash could ask her what those words meant, Jack O’Lantern’s shout echoed throughout the silent altar.
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Everyone looked down.
“T-Those things are getting back up!”
The Sentinel Walkers were rising to their feet.
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For some reason, that glow bore an extraordinary resemblance to the color of Akina’s eyes.
However, their optical sensors, which had originally been red, now shone with a majestic golden light.
The Sentinels began gathering silently, following an eerily precise order.
There was no longer any trace of those machines that advanced indiscriminately while repeating strange phrases. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates.
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“……I don’t like this at all. galaxy We need to leave as soon as possible.”
And that chilling silence was even more threatening.
Now they simply remained motionless, watching the intruders standing upon the altar.
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Ifrit checked her remaining ammunition.
Dullahan pulled back his weapon’s bolt to inspect the chamber.
Jack O’Lantern, who had already used all his explosives, drew a portable pistol and disengaged the safety.
“I agree.”
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Ifrit shouted.
Ash held Akina firmly in his arms.
The four Pathfinders launched themselves forward.
“Move out!”
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And, at the same time, the Sentinels that had remained motionless began moving.
They no longer charged at them indiscriminately.
“……What the fu……!”
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Like perfectly trained soldiers, each fulfilled a specific role as they progressively tightened the encirclement.
“What the hell is wrong with these sons of bitches now?!”
Some formed ranks to block the corridors, while others deployed in different directions to surround them.
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The incendiary projectiles sent the Sentinels in the first row flying.
Ifrit repeatedly fired Dragon Breath toward the front.
However, other Walkers immediately took their places.
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“Move aside! harbor I shall open the way!”
But now they were twice as difficult to fight.
They were exactly the same enemies as before.
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SLASH!
Ash held Akina against himself with his left arm and wielded his sword with his right hand.
His steel Blade penetrated the weakest point of the enemy encirclement.
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And then another.
He cut down a Sentinel blocking his path.
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Although the Sentinels were tightening the encirclement and blocking escape routes in a much more tactical manner than before, their attacks were surprisingly passive.
However, suddenly.
Ash noticed something strange.
They made no ranged attacks.
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‘……It does not matter.’
It was a strange defensive tactic whose objective seemed to be keeping them there at all costs, rather than actively trying to kill them.
As though they were trying to buy time.
Even those that charged at them seemed to limit themselves to using their bodies to block the way.
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He had only one objective.
Ash swung his steel Blade.
To leave the ruins and reach Sanctum.
‘Whatever their intentions may be!’
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He had set his neural energy circulating through the Neuro Heart Technique.
And to ensure that Akina regained her stability.
At some point, the movements of Ash’s sword began accelerating.
That was all that mattered.
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He pierced a Walker’s chest, severed another’s arms, and cut off a third’s legs.
Wherever his sword passed, fragments of metal and scrap rained down.
After all, Ifrit and the two ROA Pathfinders aimed their weapons at any enemy that attempted to approach.
He did not need to worry about his flanks.
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And finally, they managed to break through the Sentinels’ encirclement.
They had succeeded in leaving the enormous space where the altar stood.
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Everyone accelerated their steps, following Ifrit’s instructions.
“Pick up the pace!”
Their escape was far from easy.
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There were Sentinels everywhere.
And, as though they possessed a supernatural ability to locate them, they always found exactly where Ash’s group was.
Their attacks still did not represent a particularly significant threat.
Even as they retraced their route to leave the ruins, Sentinel Walkers continued appearing from unknown places.
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For that reason, Team Elementary Girls’ ammunition began running out rapidly.
However, their numbers surpassed anything imaginable.
“Damn it. artist We’ve barely got anything left.”
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Anxiety was beginning to show on her face.
How much longer could they hold out?
However, she had not completely lost hope yet.
Ifrit’s murmur echoed through the long corridor.
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After all, Ash, whose primary weapon was a sword, was still accompanying them.
“What an unamusing joke.”
“Ash. alien Don’t you need electricity this time?”
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How much longer did they keep running?
That provided Ifrit with some comfort.
Unlike the previous occasion, Ash seemed to have a considerable amount of energy available.
At some point, they reached a chamber that looked quite familiar.
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However, upon seeing the state of the chamber, none of them could utter a word.
Witchcraft was still there.
It was exactly the same place where they had previously encountered Siren.
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However, their current condition was completely different from before.
After all, they had been blocking the main access routes to prevent interference from other Societies.
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In a sense, that was only natural.
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It was truly horrifying.
In addition to the corpses they had already seen earlier, the chamber was filled with the remains of Sentinels that had apparently fought against them.
Her body had been cut into dozens of pieces, scattered everywhere, to the point that it was practically impossible to recognize her original appearance.
Among those remains was Nymph, a member of Witchcraft.
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Although she was still alive, she had lost one arm and both feet, so she was crawling along the ground.
The nails she had taken such pains to care for were now scattered across the floor, mixed with blood and mud.
Lamia was not in much better condition.
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An unknown Sentinel held her by the neck, keeping her suspended in the air.
It was a machine with a grayish-white body that, despite being a Sentinel, wore ancient silk garments.
And finally, there was Siren. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
Her face was twisted with terror as she desperately tried to escape from something.
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Finally, its gaze stopped on Akina, who remained in Ash’s arms.
“Siren!”
Upon hearing the shout and seeing Ash’s group appear in the chamber, the Sentinel slowly turned its head.
Its single golden optical sensor, which had survived the partial destruction of its head, swept over everyone present.
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It was an ancient, completely deteriorated electronic voice.
The Sentinel threw Siren against a wall.
— Fi……nally……
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Without anyone noticing when he had finished aiming, his Gauss Rifle emitted a thunderous report and fired a luminous flash.
Dullahan did not waste that extremely brief opportunity.
“Guh!”
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The bullet headed directly toward the Sentinel’s head.
A projectile traveling at such extraordinary speed that it was impossible to follow with the human eye.
However, something surprising happened.
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CLANG!
The Sentinel drew an ancient single-edged sword from its waist and swung it.
Its movements were as fluid as water and, at the same time, as fast as lightning.
A sharp sound pierced the air.
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Dullahan fired again, as though he could not believe what he had just witnessed.
It had stopped a projectile with a sword.
Those movements inevitably brought to mind the extraordinary techniques Ash had demonstrated earlier.
By merely tilting the edge of its sword slightly, the Sentinel deflected the bullet’s trajectory through almost imperceptible contact.
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Every time he fired, that Sentinel merely tilted its sword slightly to deflect the projectiles’ trajectories.
However, the result was exactly the same.
But, as though none of that mattered, the Sentinel turned its gaze back toward Akina.
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Before it finished speaking, Ash concealed Akina beneath his coat.
Then it emitted its deteriorated electronic voice.
— Final……ly…… the descen……t of the Divine…… Priestess……
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Then he looked directly into the Sentinel’s eye.
His low but firm electronic voice echoed throughout the chamber.
“Is it you?”
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The two mechanical swordsmen regarded each other.
“The ‘bodyguard’ Miss Akina speaks of?”
During that brief instant, countless fragments of information passed through Ash’s Main Core.
Only then did the Sentinel’s single golden optical sensor turn toward Ash.
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Akina’s incomprehensible murmurs.
That strange defensive tactic.
The Sentinels’ optical sensors, which had turned golden.
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The Sentinel standing before him.
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The bodyguard.
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All those fragments of information began fitting together until they formed a conclusion.
His deductions continued linking together.
‘Something extracted from the Nexus Port is attracting the Sentinels. armor No. portal It is not exactly attracting them. shadow It is something deeper…… Something more fundamental, perhaps even related to affection.’
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Suddenly, Ash’s optical sensors flashed.
Now that he thought about it, there were too many things that did not add up.
‘How did those unknown Idols, who supposedly discovered the place first, manage to reach such deep ruins? academy No. abstract To begin with, we did not even find their corpses. acoustic The altar was clean. alien Did the recovery team remove the bodies? arch In that case, the logical thing would have been to attempt the Deep Dive while recovering the corpses, since the Nexus Port was right beside them.’
‘However, there is something strange. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors. absorb The Sentinels changed their behavior immediately after Akina’s Deep Dive ended, as though they had been waiting for precisely that moment. arrow And this unknown Sentinel did not appear until now.’
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All to achieve a single objective.
That video had been manipulated.
‘They moved them! afford They placed them somewhere humans could easily recover the corpses and, in that way, discover the existence of the Nexus Port!’
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Had that Sentinel not just mentioned something related to it?
Objective.
‘But why? amateur Were the Sentinels not a defensive system intended to protect the ruins and, by extension, the Nexus Port? legend What objective could justify such a……? atomic Wait. riddle Objective?’
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“May I ask you a question?”
He addressed the Sentinel.
Finally, Ash understood the entire truth.
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“Was all of this part of your plan?”
The Sentinel, that bodyguard, did not respond.
Ash interpreted its silence as an affirmation and continued.
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“Plan? riddle What plan are you talking about now?”
Without taking his eyes off the bodyguard, Ash answered.
Ifrit, who stood beside him, interjected with a question.
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Ash continued.
“No. apron He does have one.”
“Are you telling me a Sentinel tried to lure a Technomancer here? action What the fuck are you talking about? afford What sense would it make for a defensive system to deliberately provoke an incursion?! absorb It would have absolutely no reason to do that!”
“I mean that this entire exploration was a trap prepared by that Sentinel. apron A trap intended to lure Pathfinders, especially Technomancers, to the Nexus Port.”
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“Is that not so, bodyguard?”
As he spoke those words, Ash raised the sword he had kept lowered until then.
“That which lay dormant inside the Nexus Port. riddle That being he calls the ‘Divine Priestess.’ His intention was to use a Technomancer’s body to allow her ‘descent’ into this world.”
The one-eyed bodyguard, who had remained watching Ash, raised his ancient single-edged sword, imitating his movement.
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— Ash…… I…… see. avalanche I am……
“Ash. arch Ash Blade.”
— ……You…… What…… is your name……?
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Ash interrupted him.
“What use would knowing the name of someone who is about to die be to me? advance You are still the bodyguard. ability That will make it easier for me to forget you.”
“There is no need to tell me.”
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Meanwhile, Ash handed Akina over to Ifrit, who remained beside him.
— He…… Hehehe…… How…… interesting……!
The bodyguard’s golden optical sensor flickered faintly.
It was a merciless provocation.
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“I entrust her to you.”
Then Ash adjusted his grip on his steel Blade and advanced into the chamber.
Ifrit nodded silently.
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A technological swordsman dressed in a black Gore-Tex coat.
Both remained staring intently at each other for a few moments.
And a Sentinel warrior wearing ancient silk garments.
Until, at a certain moment.
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Without the slightest hesitation, they launched their attacks simultaneously.
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