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