Rebuild World

cyborg body relinquished.
It could be said that he was treated awfully.
But that also meant that he was paid more than usual.

Carol was a bit curious as to why Viola even needed a high-ranking Hunter like Babalod to protect her.
Though, when she thought about it, Babalod was a good replacement for her.
Thus, she did not let herself get anymore worried.

After that, Carol accepted a storage device containing the information that Viola promised.
She then took a look at the data inside that special storage device, which was made to not connect to the network.
It was to make sure that the secret information that Viola was handing to her would not leak.

After looking through the content, Carol raised her eyebrows in surprise.

“…Viola, is this for real?”

“Have I ever handed over fake information?”

“…You have a good point.
And this is indeed something that you can’t afford to send through the network.”

Carol lightly covered her forehead.
Viola, who was watching, cracked out her usual smile as she said.

“If you’re happy with the content, I want to proceed next to talk about the price.”

“Wait, I’ll let Akira know first.”

Carol opened up his information terminal and tried to contact Akira, but it only ended in failure.

“…Out of range? What’s going on? Viola, I’m sorry but…”

As Carol was going to ask Viola to try to contact Akira in her place, she immediately stopped when she saw what Viola was doing.
Before she could even ask Viola, Viola had already guessed what Carol wanted and was already trying to contact Akira.
However, she had the same bewildered look as Carol had as she was looking at her information terminal.

“My information terminal… Is also completely out of range? But that’s impossible…”

Viola’s terminal was a special information terminal that could connect through the old-world domain.
Normally, it would be impossible for it to be ever out of range.

Suddenly, the whole facility shook violently.
It was then immediately followed by a blaring alarm and a facility-wide broadcast.

“We’ve detected a large-scale battle outside and that some kind of signal jamming is in effect.
As such, the facility will enter self-defence mode.
For the Hunters who are willing to take on this defensive mission, please accept the SOS request through the facilities’ inner network.”

All the Hunters inside the facility started to get busy, in the middle of that, Carol glanced at her own information terminal.

“Wait… Don’t tell me…!?”

The information that Carol received from Viola was that the Lion Steel Eastern District third ward branch was preparing to negotiate with Akira and was even planning to go as far as to use violence.
The reason why Viola could not hand it over through the network was because it included many other secret information regarding other corporations behind it.

Many people reached their foul ends because they refused to buy information from Viola, Akira was one example of that.

However, Viola was also obviously caught by surprise.
This meant that even she did not expect this to happen.

Human personality was something that could be manipulated to some extent.
By changing the way how an idea was presented, it was possible to make one’s train of thoughts, principles, and way of life lean toward a particular direction.
Alice, who had rebuilt the new Lion Steel company in the current era, used this approach.
She had to prepare humans who were used in place of automata.

The sense of debt for saving them from a harsh lifestyle.
They were then provided for in an educational institution.
Shelter, food, and clothes were of a different level compared to where they originally came from.
While quenching them with necessities, they were fed with information.
The feeling of loyalty toward the main company was nurtured through indoctrination, educational environment, peer pressure, and repeated training.
They were then evaluated based on their loyalty.

People who had gone through such education were extremely loyal to the new Lion Steel company.
They were born as humans, educated to be tools for the company, and were used like expendable items.
Even so, they saw it as something to be proud of.

Currently, these human tools were in the middle of a fight against Akira.
As they were educated, they met their ends as expendable items.

Akira jumped upward to get away from their line of fire.
If he was only simply jumping up, he would not be able to move freely in the air until he returned back to the ground.
Normally, this would be a fatal move that would make them a free target.
However, for Akira, this was nothing. 

He created footings under his feet with his augmented suit and moved around rapidly.
Up and down, left and right.
It was as if the words top and bottom did not mean anything to him.

Even so, Chloe’s men were still able to follow his rapid movement.
They used the same technique as Akira to move freely in the air and continued their assault on him from all directions.
The maids behind and in front of him, as well as the butlers on his left and right, engaged their forcefield shield.
They were trying to trap him.

Akira kept shooting two LEO multi-rifles while spinning around.
His extended magazine allowed him to release a close-range highly intense barrage.
That attack hit the forcefield shields around him, causing flashes of light to break out.

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The forcefield shield had chucks being broken off but that was not enough to destroy them.
They were connected to the energy pack of the maids and butlers’ augmented suit, pushed to their utmost limit.

In exchange, the augmented suit did not serve as anything more than a piece of fabric.
One shot was enough to completely decimate their users.
In the middle of that, the maids and the butlers were not only facing Akira’s bullets from the front; they were also facing bullets from their allies behind them.
There were also missiles that were falling on top of their heads.
In order to hit Akira, who was moving at high speed, their teammates could not afford to be precise with their shots.

Even so, they did not hesitate to reroute all the energy output to their forcefield shields.
They were willing to give up everything in order to trap Akira and stop him in his tracks.
They moved exactly as they were educated, which was to prioritize the objective of the whole team even when it meant sacrificing their lives.

If he had to run away, the only escape route available for Akira was up.
He kept avoiding his opponents’ line of fire by making high-speed manoeuvres haphazardly.
Since he moved around by creating footing under his feet, it was rather difficult for him to execute a high speed downward move.
Even if he did, he would have to sacrifice some of his speed.
If he slowed down, he would become an easy target for them.
If he jumped up, it would be as his opponents had predicted.
He would be trapped in between the forcefield shields if he continued to stay here.
So, he only could go up as his only means of escape.
There was a good chance that they were already lying in wait to ambush him though.

The ideal option was to defeat one of the four people surrounding him.
After that, he could quickly take more of them out.
However, they were closing in on him.
They were resolved of their death and would do anything to trap him, so, it was impossible for Akira’s 2 LEO multi rifles to eliminate them in time.

At this rate, it would be the end of him.
Akira knew that and quickly released his grips on his 2 LEO multi rifles.
In a high-speed battle, letting go of his rifles like that was nothing more than a suicidal move.
The enemies who saw that could not comprehend what he was trying to do.

But right at the next moment, Akira quickly swung his blade with the full might of his arms.

Akira used his forcefield armour to create a temporary powerful footing under him.
It was so strong that the platform became visible.
Akira then used it as a pivot to make a full spin.
Using the full might of his augmented suit, he swung the blade in his hands.

The blade released its maximum power for its anti-forcefield armour.
But even so, it was still not enough to completely shatter the forcefield shields.
If they were that fragile, his LEO rifles would have been enough to destroy them.

However, Akira compensated for the lack of power with the physical strength enhancement of his augmented suit.
Instead of cutting, he swung the blade toward the four forcefield shields with everything he could muster.

The light shields were shattered to pieces.
The people behind them were blown to smithereens.
But that still did not mean Akira was safe.
Just like the now decimated maids and the butlers that had the resolve to throw away their lives, the others also had the same resolve.
After executing such an extreme move, Akira turned slightly sluggish for a moment.
Naturally, his enemies took that opportunity to start simultaneously shooting at him, without caring even if they hit their allies.

Akira understood that he could not evade them on his own.
So, he turned his attention to something else that might help him.
The 2 LEO rifles that he had let go, released shots at the same time his enemies started shooting.
Akira had turned off their recoil compensator as they released a non-stop barrage.
The kickback threw rifles back and were sent flying toward him.

Akira did not try to evade them and just took the hit.
The rifles threw his body away from where his enemies were targeting.
Immediately after, countless bullets zoomed past where Akira was a moment ago.

Akira could not predict where he was sent flying after his rifles hit him.
Likewise, his enemies also had trouble predicting where he would land.

Using that opening, Akira quickly switched to his remaining rifles and fixed his stance before continuing the high-speed battle just like before.
Although the number of opponents had no doubt decreased, their killing intent had not.
These people, who were willing to sacrifice everything to take him down, did not slow down at all as they kept pursuing Akira for his life.

—–

Pamela was filled with shock when she arrived.
In front of her, Akira was kneeling on the ground, while the rest were lying dead around him.

Akira tried to push himself up with the help of his blade.
But the blade could not stand the stress and broke to pieces.
Although he stumbled over, he did not fall.
He then placed the blade, which was now nothing but a handle, back into his pocket and stood up straight.
In the middle of all that, he had his sight fixed on Pamela.

Akira’s augmented suit did not have much energy left.
The medicines that he had stock inside his augmented suit had already run out.
The high-speed combat had put his body under immense stress.
Under normal circumstances, it would have crushed his bones and flesh into a liquid mess.
He was only able to maintain his body thanks to the expensive medicines that he had been using.

The time compression and the reality manipulation left his head banging with severe pain.
It was screaming at him, that he was at his limit.
It would not be strange for him to faint anytime, but the dark emotion welling inside him prevented him from fainting.
And that dark emotion was expressed extremely well in his tone.

“…Where is she?”

Pamela tried to hide her vigilance toward Akira as she exasperatedly looked at him, and completely ignored his question.

“I did not expect you to be still alive.
To think that you’ve pretty much killed everyone… It was the right decision to evacuate Milady first.
Though, I didn’t expect it to end up like this and confirm it with my own eyes.
After all that, it seems that you’re close to your limit already.
So, what are you planning to do next? If you change your mind here and let us have the card, I don’t mind withdrawing now, you know?”

Akira also completely ignored what Pamela said.

“You still refuse, huh… You’re really stubborn.”

After that, a short silence waded in.
Akira was only standing there in silence in order to have as much time to recover as possible.
He had no idea why his opponent had not started the fight yet.
However, if he could buy more time, he was happy to oblige.

Pamela also only stood there in silence.
She was buying more time for Carol to get away as far as possible from them.
With the rest of Chloe’s men in the area essentially dead, it confirmed that Akira was way stronger than she had predicted.
It hadn’t been long since Chloe evacuated.
Akira might defeat her too and chase after Chloe.
Thus, Pamela wanted to buy time so that Chloe could get away as far as possible from this place.
So, for now, she was allowing Akira to recover.

It was Pamela who was the one to decide when she had enough.

“It seems that you will not change your mind no matter what.
In that case, I will need you dead.
Milady has ordered us to kill you, so we will accomplish that without fail.
It would be bad to keep Milady waiting for the after-report, after all.”

Akira, who wanted to have a bit more time to recover, finally opened his mouth.

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“Didn’t you say that you’ll leave if I give you the card? Was it a lie because of your master’s order?”

“No, that was out of my own volition.
And, I did not lie, you know? If you say that you are willing to give it to us, we will leave.
It is indeed regrettable that everyone failed in their mission.
Though, that only means they are allowing me to inherit this opportunity to make up for their failure.”

“What do you mean?”

“This is what I mean.”

Pamela smiled and said.

“Wake up.”

With that order, Chloe’s men started to rise.
No matter whether they were still alive or not, all of them rose up.
Even those who lost their arms or even their head.
So long as they had their legs, they stood up.
Seeing that, even Akira could not hide his surprise.

“Everyone here is so earnest, aren’t they? I’m really proud of them.”

Chloe’s men were equipped so that they could fight to their very last.
Whether it was through a remotely controllable powered suit or control device.
They were made such that someone else could control their body even when they lost consciousness. 

These people had given the control rights of their bodies to their superiors.
Of course, it was for the best if they could control their own body, but in case they could no longer do so, their superiors would be able to control them.
Be it too fatigued to move till outright death, their bodies would still be utilized.

Since Pamela was the superior of the maids, she normally would only be able to control the maids, but since Latis lent his rights to her, she could currently control the butlers as well.
Therefore, there were quite a lot of bodies she was controlling.

Akira had no wish to kill any of them when they fought.
In the first place, Akira’s main objective was to render them unable to fight.
Killing them was his second priority.
After all, he did not have the leeway to go around and finished off those who were already gravely injured.
Nor did he have the chance to destroy all of their limbs to make sure that they would not be able to move.

“To be honest, I might not be able to win against you if I fight you alone.
I don’t believe I am strong enough to take you on.
But this is fine, everyone is here to help me.”

Although she had the privilege to freely control others’ bodies, it was normally a difficult feat to pull off.
Such skill needed comprehensive training, after all.

But Pamela was able to control multiple bodies.
It was exactly because of this that she was assigned as Chloe’s right hand.

“Well then, you can die now.”

The headless bodies readied their rifles.
But they suddenly stopped.
That was because their controller, Pamela, was confused by Akira’s reaction.

Akira was smiling mockingly.

Akira had no idea why the corpses started moving again, but that did not matter to him.

“…Even that guy had his head blown off and returned back alive.
When I judged him to no longer pose a threat to me, he survived.
I see, so you would go that far to kill me, huh? To move again even after I killed you.
I see, fine, fine then.
I get it.
I guess dying is no longer enough, huh?”

Akira’s smile vanished.
What was left, was only the dark emotion that filled his face.

“I’ll tear you to pieces.”

With that sentence, Akira started to make his move.
Pamela also immediately responded accordingly.

Akira’s dark emotion fuelled his already exhausted body, to the point he was able to fight just like before.
He did not even notice that Alpha was nowhere to be found ever since the fight had started.

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