Volume 3 Chapter 3 (1/2)
As soon as I made that announcement, the unmanned weapons that looked like an to move My vampire older sister and zombie little sister stood on either side of me to face them
”Ayuuumi-chan?”
”Uuh… S-sorry, okay? Fuguu But you really were keeping his Class Rep to yourself, Onee-chan! And you turned her into a Dhampir!!”
”Only because a completed anti-Archene and it wasn't clear where Satori-kun had gone Why wouldn't I want a bargaining chip in case e?”
Wait What? Huh?
”I'm really confused, but what is the Ghost!?”
”As you can see, it's the systee of this abandoned hospital Even after everyone left, it continued searching for a corammed to It would be a tear-jerker in an SF story, but it's only a nuisance in real life”
”Then as that about you two bringing in a diesel generator to power the place?”
”Have you found any reason at all to trust what it's telling you?”
”Wh-what about the Class Rep beco a Dhampir!?”
”That part's true A high-quality artificial hunter is exactly what the Ghost would want, so it wouldn't want to let that get away, right? But at the same time, this is no more than a coincidental success It would probably want to chop her up and thoroughly investigate this success to find a way to mass-produce them”
Kh…
I felt dizzy Was I really in reality here? I felt like I andering through endless ga mirrors
Meanwhile, my smartphone did not receive even a word fro to be him Was that because I had revealed its identity or because the act was no longer necessary now that its hostage (me) had reached my sisters
A storm of destruction swept across the roof
On one hand, the Horse Knight unas-operated pile drivers to push back the highly-infectious Archenemies
On the other hand, the vampire and zombie stars could spread their infection across continents if they tried
As the steel vanguards approached from every direction, the Archenemies stood back-to-back with me at the center and they danced They danced with a crazed beauty Each tis twisted, the precise industrial products built to military standards were split, crushed, or smashed
…Had ?
Strong enough to overwhel a frail hu us?
At that point, I brought a hand to my forehead
Don't let it overwhelm you Trust them Don't reject reality just because it doesn't seem to fit your assumptions This isn't a virtual reality
I crouched down and operated ht But I wasn't just swiping with er like norround information
…Where had Maxwell been replaced?
It was obvious once I checked Maxas a hand up a container in Kukyou City, but all I had was a conal from the container to the snal of their own
It was like crossed signals on a TV or radio They hadn't actually broken into the systeiven Maxwell a virus
I set up a rando used pi for the randole frequency to break through, I was sure to catch his sanal
”Maxwell! What's my fetish!+?”
”Sure A dancing swilasses childhood friend classmate class rep You pervert”
Good It seemed I had connected to the usual Maxwell The abandoned hospital's Ghost would be working to drown hi for the band being used, ould be continually ju to the next candidate band out of a hundred or even two hundred options The Ghost could never interfere unless it could predict the rando
”Use encryption sync Dr09 Cut off all other signals”
”Sure”
Even if there was souish between them to an extent But most of the commercial apps wouldn't work in this handmade mode, so the increased security had its downside Even the SNS I was using only barely worked
”Maxwell, my recent memories are a mess thanks to the abandoned hospital's Ghost continually overwriting my short-term memories I need your support Does it look like you can win a cyber-battle?”
”If youcontrol of the entire system, then no But if you mean a less permanent solution, then yes”
”What exactly do you mean?”
”Sure Based on what I can see through the s a little nuts trying to show off to you, but I could interfere with the signal controlling the un”
”Do it”
The result was as dra a fish's backbone The deadly ave an unnatural jerk, lost their balance, and collapsed one after another
”Huh?”
”O, ow… Onii-chan, did you do so?”
My sisters brushed back their hair or let their hands dangle down as they viewed Maxwell's shockingly perfect handiwork
The current threat was gone
I felt like I had greatly simplified the information and situation
In other words…
”So we have to fight the abandoned hospital's system over the Dhampir-ized Class Rep, huh?”
We had to explore the eerie abandoned hospital, rescue the captured Class Rep, and remove the curse placed on that princess
It felt like the plot of a video game Was that because the ram?
”Erika, where is the Class Rep?”
I had found a secret roo the Polish Vampire Princess's cursed coffin
And since the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital's Ghost had plenty of those Auto theer hidden area
”On the top floor”
”Hm? That's a pretty conspicuous location…”
”Oh, is it really? Satori-kun, do you kno many floors this convalescent hospital has?”
Huh?
Now that you mention it…
”Isn't it four or five floors?”
”But no one knows exactly No one really cares even if the elevator never stops there They're satisfied just speculating that it's the director's office or VIP rooms, so the hospital can easily set up another world so close by but so far away”
We had been guided there by the Ghost, so we had not made any detours on the way to the rooftop We hadn't paid any attention to the top floor and ouldn't have thought it odd if it had been closed off by a fire door
We all left the roof and descended a floor to the abandoned hospital's top floor My sisters could see in the dark, so only I was reliant on ot to work on the fire door blocked by a pile of trash There was apparently a trick to the spring holding the door in place, so Erika reached up and earbox that had an arm attached to the top of theunlocking …The structure of the lock and the material of the door were different from a normal fire door, so this had apparently not been installed in case of a fire
I shi+ned ht inside and found an awfully clean hall
There was no avoiding the normal deterioration that ca around and there was no dust Al it over and over like a machine
There was so like a blue will-o'-the-wisp at my feet
I quickly aimed my smartphone down and sahat looked like a thicker frisbee crawling along the floor like a bug
”Onee-chan, are there cleaning robots in here?”
”See to reach the charging boxes”
It re announcements even after the destruction of the human race
”Hm? Didn't the hospital only have power because soht in a senerator?”
”Are you still believing anything the Ghost said after all the lies it told you, Onii-chan?”
”You lied to hiet back on topic, the hospital sees like solar, hydro, and wind power Those facilities exist here and there where the forest has been unnaturally cleared I couldn't track down exactly how h”
I wanted to ask what those were for, but the ansas obvious enough when I thought about it
…To keep it off any official records Even if you round chae were recorded There was no hiding that data when reliant on the city government and facilities, but the only alternative was to set up soainst the data
”But this feels a lot different froht Cross They were a lot more blatant in what they did”
Erika and Ayuht Cross because they both sighed
”Fuguu Well, that's obvious enough froround tunnels and that it's way out in the forest leaving it barely even inside Kukyou City My guess is it was a frontline data-collection base for a rival coht Cross”
”It means the anti-Archenemy industry isn't a ht Cross had the upper hand when it ca Archenemies This place seey and talismans”
Yes
Even if all the people were gone, this was an anti-Archenemy research institution And yet h it The unmanned deadly ht direction since machines weren't infected when bitten, but they were no use in actual coht Cross coht in virtual reality had been stronger At the very least, both Erika and Ayumi had been hit by them
…We ht just be fine here
Unlike those dark tunnels, I didn't sense that sticky darkness that threatened to drown you if you peered too deeply into it Unlike the Colosseuliness that sed up coed crazed passion and exciteht to the death
I had a vaht Cross If this convalescent hospital was on a sht Cross, it was possible the Ghost would be entirely helpless In fact, it ht have been that helplessness in a direct battle that had led it to confuse things by i Maxwell
”Oh, right, right” Erika clapped her hands together in front of her large chest and sounded like she had just re ”As I said, I think Class Rep-chan is on this floor, but, um, be careful, okay?”
At first, I had no idea what she meant
But…
”Class Rep-chan is on a bit of a rah so that she can probably break free and escape even with her ars chained to the bed”
A loud sound of destruction caht that way in surprise and saw so my way It was a reda bloody dress No, no, wait! This is…!?
”Class Rep!!”
It was surprisingly hard to tell when every last centi seemed off compared to what I had seen in the virtual reality, but then it hit me: the skirt was a lot shorter And that led to the realization that what looked like a red dress was actually a girl's school uniform And that led to further realizations: her hair wasn't silver and she earing glasses
And as the forehead glasses Class Rep froh force to not just bite s but tear the flesh and bone from my throat, my sisters took an extremely simple action
They kicked her
Theydown a door
The treer than I was tall The Class Rep's small body doubled over as she flew backwards She rolled backwards and even destroyed a counter sectioned off by a transparent acrylic panel, erous country's bank than a nurse station
”C-Class Reeeep!?”
I shouted without thinking, but there was no human response Also, her skirt fluttered up as she flew, revealing her panties quite spectacularly, but she showed no sign of caring …Hmm, but what color were they? They were soaked with red, but I doubt that was the original color This feels like scoring a goal in soccer but having the ref say it didn't count I can see her panties, but it just isn't the same…
But this told
In the virtual reality, the Class Rep and the bloody dress girl had been separate people Since the Ghost that ran the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital had repeatedly overwritten my short-term memory with false information, it must have wanted to hide this fact That way, it could keep the Dhampir Class Rep as the fruits of its research and dissect her to find a way to mass-produce her