Chapter 50: EP.2 Sea of Corpses and Blood 4
Moreover, three of them had still not regained consciousness and had to remain lying down, which further reduced the available space.
Although the place was suitable for hiding, it was rather cramped for six people.
The blue emergency lights flickered inside the hideout.
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He began wandering alone through the ruins of the old water purification facility.
Occasionally, between the grotesquely protruding steel structures, he could glimpse the landscape of Underland.
For that reason, Ash decided to leave the hideout.
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That place possessed a strange ability to instill an inexplicable melancholy even in those who merely gazed upon it.
It was completely different from the splendid nighttime views of Sanctum.
A gloomy underground city.
How long had he been walking?
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At a certain point, Ash stopped.
There stood a man.
It was Zero, the Ninja wearing the tiger mask.
Then he turned his head and looked behind him.
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“They’ve regained consciousness. anxiety And…… they recognized me.”
“How are your younger brothers and sisters?”
Apparently, the Kill Switch had worked correctly.
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“Excellent. silence I am glad to hear that.”
At those words, spoken in Ash’s deep electronic voice, Zero took a step forward.
“Thank you, Ash.”
Then he bowed his head deeply, to the point that his face seemed about to touch the ground.
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However, those few words contained countless emotions.
The gratitude toward the person who had helped him.
A brief expression of gratitude.
The joy of having recovered his younger brothers and sisters.
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Zero remained bowed for quite some time.
And, above all, the relief that accompanied both emotions.
“Truly…… thank you so much.”
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Ash, who had been watching him, suddenly let out a soft laugh.
“Hmm.”
“Excuse me?”
“It is curious how extraordinarily polite you are.”
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Only then did Zero raise his head and approach Ash.
“If you do not mind, how about we take a walk together?”
Ash looked away and continued.
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For quite some time, neither of them spoke.
“I’ll accompany you.”
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Until, at a certain point, Ash broke the silence.
“You gave me quite a fright earlier. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com wizard And that was despite already having some idea of what might happen.”
They simply wandered through the ruins, occasionally gazing at the lights of Underland shining between the exposed metal structures.
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“What do you mean?”
Zero briefly recalled that moment.
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“When you pierced your younger brother’s heart.”
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“I do not recall telling you to pierce his heart.”
“That was also thanks to you. atomic If I hadn’t heard your words, I probably would have continued hesitating.”
“Hehe. atom That’s true.”
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Zero tilted his head slightly, as he did not know what Cloud Sea Opening meant.
“It was an impeccable thrust. afford A sharp attack containing the very essence of Cloud Sea Opening. adjust Moreover, you kept your center of gravity perfectly stable.”
However, he immediately lowered his head in gratitude.
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“Thank you for the compliment……”
Ash stopped.
“We still have an unfinished conversation, do we not?”
“And speaking of that.”
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Ash did not answer.
The two swordsmen stood facing each other for a few moments.
“Are you referring to Kunlun-Combat?”
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“……”
“……It could be quite a long story. athlete Do you mind?”
“As you can see, I currently have plenty of time. apple And you, having rescued all your younger brothers and sisters, do as well. absorb Does this not seem like the perfect moment for a long conversation?”
He simply continued watching him in silence.
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Then he removed the thing he had been wearing all that time.
“You’re right.”
After a brief pause, Zero nodded.
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Psssh.
Zero raised his head after taking off the mask.
A sound resembling the removal of a gas mask filter echoed through the air.
His tiger mask.
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The face that had been revealed possessed certain features far too strange to describe merely as handsome.
His skin was an extremely pale grayish shade, almost as white as a corpse’s.
“Well……”
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His dark red eyes.
However, there was something that attracted Ash’s attention above every other feature.
And faint bluish veins could be distinguished beneath that skin.
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“……Grotesque?”
They were exactly the same eyes he had seen in the Grotesques of the Outer, those creatures that lost their reason and emitted monstrous howls.
Completely black sclera surrounded blackish-red irises that seemed to burn.
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“Could you…… explain?”
“I couldn’t say no.”
At that question, Zero gave a bitter smile.
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Zero caressed the tiger mask he had just removed.
“My younger brothers and sisters and I are experimental subjects. beacon Experimental subjects who escaped from an Omni-Cell Biotech laboratory.”
“Of course. zenith That’s precisely why I removed my mask.”
His dark red eyes turned toward Ash.
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Ash let out an exclamation of astonishment at that revelation.
“To be more precise, we’re humans artificially cultivated by combining human genetic material with that of Grotesques. admire Yes. acquire We were born in a laboratory.”
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He placed one of his fingers against the edge and made a quick cut.
“For that reason, there are many differences between us and normal humans. amateur For example, something like this, which surprised you so much.”
After speaking those words, Zero partially unsheathed the Blade at his waist.
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“In reality, something like this is nothing.”
Without the slightest change in expression, as though he felt no pain whatsoever, Zero extended the hand from which he had just severed a finger.
His index finger fell to the ground.
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Zero’s finger had recovered its original shape, as though it had never suffered any injury.
Ash was left speechless for a few moments.
At the surface of the cut, muscle fibers had already begun intertwining, producing grotesque sounds as they formed new bone tissue and skin.
Had even a minute passed?
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It was not enough for them to replace their entire bodies with machinery.
‘This world is truly incomprehensible.’
Now they were also combining human beings with Grotesques.
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“……It seems you were born with a rather unfortunate fate. ability I very much doubt your life has been filled with happy moments.”
Although Ash had seen and experienced so many things since arriving in that world that he was beginning to believe he had grown accustomed to it, he had never witnessed anything like this.
At that moment, a question suddenly crossed his Main Core, and Ash decided to speak.
“You’re not wrong.”
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At those words, Zero shrugged.
“As I mentioned a moment ago, we’re experimental subjects.”
“However, I still do not understand what any of this has to do with swordsmanship.”
“I remember.”
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“Naturally, the combination of humans and Grotesques……”
“Then what do you think they were trying to experiment with on us?”
Zero pointed at himself.
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Zero himself, standing before him, was proof of that success.
“……So there was an even more important objective.”
He was right.
“Didn’t they accomplish that a long time ago?”
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“The purpose of our existence was to achieve the perfect reproduction of Kunlun-Combat.”
Zero swept his long hair back and began speaking slowly.
“Exactly.”
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“Omni-Cell made countless attempts. arena They created artificially cultivated humans mixed with Grotesques, like my younger brothers and sisters and me. abandon They also manufactured cyborgs whose bodies had been completely replaced with machinery, to the point that their very identities had become blurred. athlete They even experimented on completely natural humans who didn’t possess so much as a data implantation slot.”
“……!”
Despite the confusion beginning to overwhelm him, Ash listened carefully to every word.
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“Perhaps thanks to the sacrifice of so many people, Omni-Cell finally achieved certain results. auction They managed to reproduce Kunlun-Combat to some extent.”
“Like you?”
“Yes. adjust However, the researchers always said it was still insufficient. antique That it wasn’t the true Kunlun-Combat. palette That the results differed from the values recorded in the original data.”
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“The results recorded in the original data…… From what you are saying, it seems that this Kunlun-Combat did not originally belong to Omni-Cell.”
He had discovered something important in Zero’s words.
At that instant, Ash’s optical sensors flashed.
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Evidently, he had never imagined that Ash would manage to identify that detail from such a brief conversation.
“The Outer……!”
Zero’s eyes widened.
“……Yes. action You’re right. ability Kunlun-Combat wasn’t created by Omni-Cell. anxiety It’s data belonging to an ancient civilization, discovered in the Outer.”
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Faced with the urgency of Ash’s question, Zero shook his head with a helpless expression.
“Could you explain that to me in greater detail?”
“I was nothing more than one of their experimental subjects, so my knowledge is quite limited. matrix All I know is that Omni-Cell discovered some ruins called ‘Kunlun’ and extracted their Nexus. anxiety That’s how they obtained Kunlun-Combat, a technique possessing extraordinary destructive power.”
Ash was utterly shocked.
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Until, at a certain moment, he raised his head and addressed Zero.
He remained motionless and silent for a long while.
At those words, Ash’s turquoise optical sensors began blinking rapidly.
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“Are there many people like you?”
“Of course. autumn Go ahead.”
“Would you mind answering a few questions?”
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“Did all of them learn what you call…… Kunlun-Combat?”
“If you’re referring to the experimental subjects, yes. album There are many. wizard The laboratory I escaped from was truly enormous.”
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“That’s right. adopt However, there were differences between the techniques each of us learned. action Kunlun-Combat is divided into levels according to difficulty.”
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Zero tilted his head slightly, as he did not recognize the name Thirteen Cloud Dragon Swords.
However, he immediately answered Ash’s question sincerely.
“Levels……? august Then what level were the Thirteen Cloud Dragon Swords that you learned?”
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“Level 1.”
Ash’s optical sensors shone with an intensity never seen before.
“Have you ever heard of internal energy, or Neigong?”
“Level 1…… I see. arcade Then, my next question.”
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“Internal energy?”
“This is the first time I’ve heard that term.”
Finally, he shook his head.
Zero moved his eyes from side to side for a few moments, trying to remember.
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‘First. echo Omni-Cell extracted a Nexus from the ancient ruins of Kunlun.’
“……I see. anchor So that was it.”
Ash’s Main Core began operating at tremendous speed.
One after another, he gathered the fragments of information that had remained scattered until then.
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‘Second. palette They obtained the martial arts of Kunlun that were stored within that Nexus.’
His thoughts continued to deepen. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
‘Third. acquire However, they are unaware of the existence of internal energy. anxiety That is why they conducted all kinds of experiments. anchor They were trying to find another source of power capable of fulfilling the function of internal energy and thus perfectly reproduce the martial arts of Kunlun.’
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At that instant, a memory suddenly flashed through his Main Core.
— Hehe! harbor Because I prepared a present!
— Hehe. harbor Don’t be surprised, all right? altitude Well, you can be surprised, but not too much!
‘But how? canvas How is it possible for the martial arts of Kunlun to exist in this world? airport And for them to have been stored in a Nexus Port found among some ruins? arctic That should not be possible……’
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— Ta-da! apron It’s Kunlun, the place you miss so much every day, Mister!
She was the one who appeared in that memory.
She had said it clearly.
A young girl named Nangrang.
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Ash was profoundly shaken.
A gift prepared especially for him.
‘Could it be……?’
It was a gift.
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His optical sensors began blinking violently.
It was a hypothesis that had never occurred to him.
If that were true, then the ruins called ‘Kunlun’ that Omni-Cell had discovered……
‘Is it possible that the occasion when I awoke and met that young girl was not actually the first time I opened my eyes in this world?’
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Hearing someone call him, Ash abruptly returned to his senses and raised his head.
“Ash?”
“Are you all right?”
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“Now it’s your turn to answer.”
“I see. antique In that case……”
Zero shifted his dark red eyes until he was looking directly at Ash.
“……I am fine.”
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“Yes. adopt Don’t you remember our first encounter? academy On that occasion, you clearly told me that you were the true owner of that sword technique.”
“……”
“Could you explain why you said such a thing?”
“Answer?”
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“I can explain it to you. adapt However, you will find it difficult to believe me. crystal Even I can scarcely believe it.”
Finally, after a considerable amount of time, he managed to raise his head.
His optical sensors blinked intensely as he went over the conversation they had just had again and again.
Ash remained silent for a long while.
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“That doesn’t matter.”
The words Ash spoke next in his electronic voice were as unbelievable as he had warned.
“……Very well. amateur Then I shall tell you.”
“Those ruins that Omni-Cell discovered, that is, Kunlun.”
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“……What did you say?”
“I believe it is quite possible that I was their owner.”
“Yes.”
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