Chapter 262 – LEAP (1)

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I slowly woke up, restrained on a cold iron bed, with nothing on, my mouth shut, and my whole body tied to something like an iron ring protruding from the operating table.
There are countless sensors and wires in the left hand, and something like an injection needle and Ringer’s solution in the right hand.
An unknown liquid is being injected into my body.

I looked around with only my eyes moving, and the ceiling, walls, and floor were all pure white, and I saw a spacious interior made only of large tiles.
The white space, which seems to make the sense of space strange, continues to flip and cover the ceiling and floor tiles over and over again.
When a tile is flipped over, a mechanism pops out from within, and when covered again, it returns to a clean surface.

A transparent hologram display is in the air, and small monitors connected to the machine continue to flicker around.
What appears on the screen are the results of sensors attached to my body.
I hear a voice I don’t want to hear as I look at the graph that I can’t understand.

“Semen volume, sperm count test yet?”

I turn my head in the direction I heard Riff’s voice and see the vision phone rapidly dismantling.
Each time the slender mechanical joints disassemble the vision phone with tweezers and screwdrivers and dip it in a special-looking solution, the monitor next to it changes the graph.
Leaf was staring at the monitor in front of the machine dismantling my vision phone.

[Sperm volume, sperm count, activity, production… Each 10 times the average.]

The moment I realized that I was covering my mouth while shouting what I was doing, a mechanical sound was played from the bottom.
I look down and see X propping his hand under my stuff on something cold like a hospital operating table.
As if using the scan function, the red light moves up and down.

“Okay, too! It’s not normal… What about deterioration?”
[Value 0.]
“What is the ideal?”
[Doesn’t exist.]
“Haaa… I’m really dumbfounded… Is this normal too? This kind of body is not a hybrid… ? Does that make sense? Check your blood again.”
[Blood drawn.]

My right arm tingles along with an incomprehensible conversation.
Along with the chill you feel when your balls touch the cold steel plate, the tube through which Ringer’s solution was injected turns red.
They’re drawing my blood.

[Shame, normal.]
“I don’t understand, really… Wait a minute, are the numbers perfectly normal? Brain waves?”
[Normal.]
“Aren’t you sleeping? Wow… You said you finished detoxifying sleeping pills already?”
[Positive.]
“…X, release the mouth restraint.”

Received Leaf’s order, X releases the object that was blocking my mouth.
Taking off the strange-looking mask that opens with a button, I turned my head to the side and glared at Riff.
The Vision Phone was completely dissected before anyone knew it, and each part was placed in its own container.

“This child… My, my vision phone… !”
“What is your current dose of sedatives? Did you increase the dose by 5 times?”
[Current sedative dose is 35mg, confession is being administered.]
“It’s ridiculous… I’m really dumbfounded…”

Leaf walked towards me, holding a thin tablet that looked like a vision pad from the table where he was dismantling the vision phone.
X stands on the left, and Leaf stands on the right, looking down at me like a test subject.
Leaf tapped the tablet with his hand as he looked down at me, anxious at the prospect of being dissected.

“Why do these numbers keep coming out normal… What about the change in magic attribute?”
[Magic power detection level, level 4 negative.]
“I don’t understand that either. What the hell is that tentacle on this left hand? The transition curvature measured here is like this, so does a 4th grade negative make sense?”
“What are you talking about earlier… !”

I spoke to Riff, who kept saying things I couldn’t understand.
Leaf placed the cold tablet on my belly, manipulated the screen, glanced at me once, and took out the hypnotic penlight.
A light flashed in front of my eyes, and nothing happened.

“Sensor value.”
[Halo generation level 0, mind barrier not observed.]
“No… Oh really… Hey you… What is your identity?”

Leaf, not knowing what he was doing to me, put the penlight in his hand back into his breast pocket, annoyed.

“The web cell is formed, but the infection level is low, it is a parasite on that subject, but the parasite does not work. In the subject who was, muscle levels are normal except for rupture…”
[Muscle figures, current healing.]
“Okay! That! Wow, are you really speechless? What the hell are you doing Why do parasites help you? Why don’t you take over the brain? Does that make sense? The antenna has not been removed, and the normal tentacles, which continue to emit fluctuating signal waves and continue to connect with negatives, help humans.”

I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I stared at the angry Riff, and when I realized that his left hand had healed, I twitched his left hand.
As Riff said, the left hand, which had been scratched by tentacles in the blood vessels, is completely intact.

“Look at this, you’re not answering… Doesn’t the confession system work?”
[No change in blood count.]
“Under! Really! How absurd!”

Riff heard X’s words and threw the tablet away in anger.
Then, the tile on the floor flipped over in an instant, and I took out a soft cushion and caught the tablet thrown by Leaf.
After picking up the scalpel from the pedestal where the tiles were flipped up next to him, Leaf pointed the scalpel at my neck and said,

“Tell me straight up, what are you?”
“Ji, putting a knife to a person’s throat while asking a question… !”
“What you did to me, you crap!”
“Hee! My name is Anger! The letters are A, N, G, E, R!”
“He deserves his name. Seriously, don’t make me angry again and blow everything openly!”

The vision phone needed to use the hypnosis application was disassembled, so I couldn’t even contact Grape.
The whole body is restrained, and cold liquids that are said to be tranquilizers and confessions are continuously injected into the body with the right arm.
A scalpel on the neck… No method.

Feeling helpless and defeated in a situation where I couldn’t escape, I closed my eyes tightly.
Right now, the only way to survive is to obediently follow Leaf…
I said weakly, twisting my head as much as I could to avoid the scalpel that gave off a sharp aura.

“Even if it’s fire… What, what…”
“Aren’t you hiding something? Tell me all about it.”
“If you’re hiding it…”
“Really frustrating! Yes, a hypnosis app… That! Tell me about that! Does that make sense?!”

Even if you tell me about hypnosis apps… I know nothing.
I had no choice but to say nothing, and Riff frowned and pressed the scalpel blade against my neck.
The sharp blade slightly cuts the skin, and drops of blood ooze out.

“What, what are you saying…”
“What first? Okay… Who gave it to you There’s no way you made that… What kind of guy made it!”
“What… I don’t know…”
[Truth.]

X, who heard my words, spoke right next to me and raised a hologram monitor filled with real-time moving graphs in front of me.
It was only then that I realized that numerous attachments on my forehead were detecting my brain waves.
It’s a lie detector.

“I do not know? Then how is that in your hands?”
“I picked it up… ! Who, who spilled it… !”
“Pick it up… ? Do you think that makes sense?”
[Truth.]
“Under?”
[Truth.]

After hearing X’s lie detection result, Leaf turned her head to X in amazement.
But, of course, the result of X does not change.
Riff looked down at me and muttered.

“You say… Don’t you know what it means to hypnotize a magical girl?”
“What… I don’t know…”
“Forced hypnosis is… Red sun doesn’t mean you’ll get caught, it means forcibly disarming your mind by creating a specific visual wavelength with magic light. Then what?”
“What… ?”
“… Do you really not understand the situation that a person who does not use magic is using a technique that uses magic?”

When I picked up the hypnosis app, I thought for a while.
What the hell is this thing doing, can it hypnotize a magical girl?
In the end, the riff stimulates the curiosity that gave up because no answer came out.

A hypnosis application can only be considered magic, and as Leaf explains, it requires a specific skill to use magic.
Ordinary people do not have magic, so they cannot use magic.
However, being able to use hypnosis, which is possible only by using magical powers, means that the defense force’s goal and challenge, the technology that can create an army to catch negatives by giving ordinary people magic weapons, was used in this hypnosis application.

“I guess you think it’s not that great because I’m saying it simply, but this is something I, a genius pretty girl doctor, can’t make yet.”
“Yet… ?”
“Because I can make it someday! Who spills such nonsense and picks it up? You’re not coming to find it? Do you think it makes sense?”
“There was a body right next to it! Perhaps the corpse… The former owner of the app…”
“Dead body? What did the body look like?”

If the person who bought it leaked it, they would have recovered the hypnosis app by any means, as Riff said.
However, if this hypnosis application was developed alone and the person died and passed it on to me… Thinking the same, Riff asked me what the corpse looked like.
Recalling the situation when I picked up the hypnosis app, I explained the characteristics of the corpse to Riff.

“It was split in half, dead, and the groin was pierced…”
“I don’t care how you died, tell me your face! What kind of guy… There’s no way I wouldn’t know if a developer was good enough to make this.”
“That…”

At Leaf’s urging, I frowned as I recalled the corpse’s face.
… I don’t remember.
Obviously, the face… I should have seen it, but I think I saw it… Even though the shocking scene remains vividly in my memory, the face is not drawn as if it were crushed.

“I don’t know…”
[Truth.]
“That doesn’t help, really! Garbage!”
“Cuck!”

Riff got mad at me and hit me on the head with the palm of his hand.
The physical strength of an adult male is weak for a low-level magical girl, but it hurts.
I shuddered at Leaf’s evil act of attacking ordinary people’s faces while being a magical girl.