Chapter 264 – LEAP (3)

There were countless letters written on other image files that I hadn’t seen.
Languages ​​that are hard to say, languages ​​that are not unified into one, are mixed.
The next image and the next image are the same.

“No. 394, page 42… No. 221, page 2, No. 12, page 3… No. 4, page 5…”

Riff casually read the cipher of the image.
Riff, who muttered softly, jumped up from his seat.
As if he wasn’t interested in breaking me up anymore, Leaf walked towards the white wall and put his palm on the wall.

“X! Self-judgment! That guy… Wait for now! If you want to do something, do it!”
[Check.]

The wall opens with a chink, and the riff disappears over the wall.
X immediately flickered light from all over his body at Leaf’s command and blinked his frozen eyes.
After that, silence came around the operating table that kept tearing at me.

I met X’s gaze in the quiet space and recalled what had happened a little while ago.
What Riff said is, the reactions are all weird.
The story about the tentacles on my left hand is also strange, but the story I said while looking at the hypnosis application is even more strange.

The reason why I couldn’t be hypnotized, regenerated quickly, and poison didn’t work well was because of the tentacles on my left hand, and I wondered why the tentacles were helping me, but it was probably because Esther ordered me to help.
The amount of semen and the number of sperm increased not because of the tentacles, but because of the medicine Grape gave me… So, the things that Leaf thinks are weird about my body are caused by the medicine Grape gave me and the tentacles Esther gave me.
Because it has tentacles, it’s a level 4 negative… So far, I understand what you mean.

However, I don’t know what the web cell is, as if it were on my body.
They said that the tentacle’s antenna replaces the web cell… Because my webcell said it was inactive… I don’t know what it is, but does it mean that there are traces of something that I don’t have to worry about because the tentacle was stuck in my body…
I don’t know where the heck it is, but it’s uncomfortable…

It is also strange to talk about hypnosis applications.
The surprised appearance of a transparent data chip called a crystal chip reminded me of a crystal that said it would make it by collecting rapid hair.
It is questionable to say that a hypnosis application is impossible without such a material, and it is questionable to pretend that a hypnosis application is not a hypnosis application, but what happened after that is the most mysterious.

Leaf compared his notes with the notes that remained as images in my data chip over and over again.
He couldn’t see inside the notebook, but it was an action that could only be thought of as the same notebook.
Why does Leaf have notes from images in my hypnosis app?

Leap, the most recognizable letter at the front… I didn’t know what that meant before, but now I do.
A person who can read the contents below, riff means to read it.
I began to deduce the current situation through the information revealed.

Leaf has a hypnotic penlight, she is a magical girl who can hypnotize me.
The magic she uses is probably the magic that lowers the temperature… Hypnosis is an invention created by Leaf that is activated using magic.
Leaf is a researcher in the National Defense Force who specializes in magical girl magic… She is not an expert on hypnosis…

In Majinsa, there is one user who is close to Leaf, the 2nd doctor, who uses the nickname hypnotist.
Riff and the hypnotist had a long conversation about hypnosis that I couldn’t even buy all of them with the points I earned.
In other words, the hypnotic penlight that Riff uses was probably created from information learned from talking to a hypnotist… In other words, it is a collaborative work.

There is one conclusion that can be drawn from these situations.
To create a level of hypnosis that even riffs cannot do, you need to know more about hypnosis than riffs.
In other words, the hypnotist who taught Riff hypnosis… App developer… Or, one of the developers.

Maybe that person is the one who hypnotized everyone… Or maybe it’s the guy from District 4.
As Riff said, there is no way that a person who has lost such a great app will not stop looking for me if there is an organization.
However, if the corpse that was present when I picked up the data chip containing this app was a hypnotist… If the hypnotist had been attacked while trying to send the hypnosis application he secretly invented back then to Leaf…

“No…”

It’s a mess.
This somehow… Leaf’s name, which does not know the existence of the magical girl hypnosis application, is a weak assumption made to forcefully understand the reality that a password that only Leaf can recognize was in my data chip.
There are too many things that don’t make sense, a holey skeleton to force the idea that someone familiar with Riff, someone who knows well about Riff, might have written a password that only Riff can understand.

Even if a magical girl visits her and hypnotizes her and makes her subordinate, her safety in the event of an attack can be guaranteed.
There’s no way the person who developed the magical girl hypnosis app could die so easily.
If it’s one of the developers, there’s no way the group would let such a person die so easily.

If that corpse is a hypnotist, it doesn’t overlap with the person in Area 4 who is thought to be alive in the first place, and it’s strange that the hypnosis app doesn’t work for ordinary people other than magical girls.
If the hypnosis application that works for magical girls and the hypnosis penlight that works for ordinary people have the same structure and format as Leaf said… Why are they separated?
… I don’t know what happened.

“Whoa…”

Leave unanswered questions for now.
Now is not the time to think like this.
Now that the mad psychopath scientist is away, he has to get out of here somehow.

Without saying a word, I made eye contact with X, who was looking down at me like a surveillance camera.
X has been making autonomous judgments since the moment Leaf disappeared…
That self-judgment is… How free are you?

“I… Excuse me… I said X… ?”

This robot is an artificially intelligent robot, presumably a significant level of artificial intelligence developed by Leaf himself.
If so, what is the level of that artificial intelligence…
I don’t know much about artificial intelligence, but if it could really act like a human and not just carry out commands… Could I be cheating?

“I’m sorry… Can I go to the bathroom for a while?”
[There is not much urine in the bladder right now.]
“My back is cold! I still want to go!”

As soon as X heard my words, he touched the corner of the bed that looked like an operating table to warm the cold iron plate.
Even though this function existed from the beginning, it seems that it was not used.
Then X made a mechanical noise as he shoved his face between my legs.

[If you are in a hurry, please request for excretion.]
“What… ?”
[Sample collection, inspection, and self-disposal.]

X sticks out his tongue, expressionless and mechanical.
When I heard that I was going to drink my own urine, the unexpected urge completely disappeared.
No matter how much it is a machine, it has a human appearance, but I want to wrap it in my mouth… A little… Yes…

“Not small… Big one! A real bathroom!”
[Check.]

When I tried another method, X manipulated the operating table again and made a hole under my buttock.
I feel a cool breeze from the hole I don’t know what it’s for.

“What… This?”
[This is the passage leading to the waste bin. It is used to dispose of waste generated during dissection and can be washed immediately.]
“Ah… Huh…”
[Currently, it has been changed to a container for sample collection, so please defecate when you want.]
“Ah… No… It’s okay…”

I shook my head, thinking that I would never want to spend money on a toilet with a bidet under the operating table.
Then X flashed a red light, as if scanning my stomach again, and removed the hole under his ass again.
I don’t think cheating like this will work…

If it’s like this, even if I ask for it to be released because it hurts, it will come out like I’m going to have surgery right away.
I knew very well that this method would not work.
And the fact that you have enough autonomy to act without having to ask for permission from the leaf, and the ability to make autonomous decisions to the extent of using a sample collection bucket as a toilet… I knew very well.

It is not a low-level artificial intelligence that can only respond mechanically.
Then… Do emotions and desires exist?
After changing the strategy, I said to X with a smile.

“X… Did you say Hey, that’s a cool name! What do you mean?”
[The 1st weapon test project for magical girls, the moment it was judged to be a failure by the manufacturer, the name was corrected to X, which means failure.]

The cold machine sounds even colder.
A weapon dedicated to anti-magical girls, what the hell are you talking about… ?
Because Riff used to talk like he was being chased by someone… The guy chasing Leaf is a magical girl, and the weapon to deal with that magical girl… Is it?

Rather… X means failure. I didn’t know that Leaf would name it with this meaning.
If I say this, I, who asked for your name, will become trash.
In my heart, I blamed it all on Leaf for naming it this way, and once again cursed at Leaf for being a piece of garbage, and tried to keep a smile on my face.

“Ah… Huh… That… That’s right, you are so great! What a failure! How great!”
[Please narrow down the scope of greatness.]
“That… Appearance too! Pretty? As if alive… ?”
[The appearance is manufactured based on the appearance of the creator, and the machine is not alive.]

It is hard…
It seems to be difficult to get a good impression.
It’s natural because it’s a machine, but the tone is so dry that you can’t feel any emotion or emotion.

“Sah, it looks alive… Ah! Okay… Is there anything you want to do?”
[My desire is currently set as a desire to satisfy intellectual curiosity in order to learn information necessary for the formation of artificial intelligence. Accordingly, I am currently curious about your hypnosis application.]
“Okay?! That’s great! How is it… ? I’m the owner of that hypnosis app, right? If you release me, I’ll let you see, how about it?”

After earnestly praising him and getting the answer I wanted, I immediately tried to make a deal with X.
X frees me, and I feed X’s intellectual curiosity.
It’s a good deal if you just borrow the hypnosis app for a while.

“How is it? Let’s trade… !”
[Illogical behavior, the machine does not respond to the transaction.]
“You want to do it? As long as you release it, you can do whatever you want…”
[Illogical behavior, hypnosis application is currently in my hands. Your permission is unnecessary.]
“Keugh… !”

That’s right.
I closed my eyes tightly after hearing the obvious words.
As X said, my hypnosis application has been stolen, so it cannot be traded.

I thought it would be okay if I cheated in moderation, but it didn’t work either.
On the topic of machines… Smart… No, since it’s a machine, it must be smart…
I give up persuading the machine.
What should I do to get out of here…

[X, answer.]
[Good.]

The moment I was about to sink into my thoughts, a tile on the ceiling flipped over and a speaker came out.
Hearing Riff’s voice, X answered without even looking at the speaker.
After hearing X’s answer, Riff made a bad remark to me.

[Erase all his memories right away, tell him to forget everything from the moment he picked up the hypnosis app. Right now.]

As soon as X heard Leaf’s words, a black light flashed from his fingertips.
It seems that the function of the hypnotic penlight that Leaf carries is also included in X.
However, the hypnosis used by Riff and X didn’t work on me.

[Hypnotic Immunity.]
[Ah! Then… Okay! Grape and other magical girls can be solved with hypnosis…]

I sensed from the sound of Riff’s voice that his attention was completely taken away from me.
Her attitude towards annoying things, her tone like a female employee at work asking to empty the trash can.
Then, after a moment of silence, a very dry voice was heard.

[Then kill me. The cause of death… Yes, let’s drown. The body is believed to have fallen into the artificial lake in District 5, accidentally tripping his foot while walking and falling into the river.]
[… Kill.]
“What? Sleep… So bad… !”

Hearing Riff’s command, X suddenly blocked my mouth without any warning.
A hose rises from the floor, and water pours into my face.
As the angle of the hose changes, water gradually enters the nose and causes pain inside.

I twisted my head trying to breathe through my mouth.
Immediately, a mechanical arm protrudes from the operating table and grabs my head.
It is impossible to resist any longer.

My nose is stuffy.
No, my nose hurts.
Water flows back into the throat, and coughing occurs.

I struggled, hitting my whole body against the operating table.
Even if I felt the strength of my left hand and the feeling of my veins bursting, my arms and legs were fixed in the ring and did not move.
Really die

“Cook! Whoop! Whoops!”

The things that happened after I picked up the hypnosis app quickly pass through my mind.
Rapid, Grape, Arna, Rosé, Sienna, Louie…
No one… Can’t help

Being choked by water was much more painful than I thought.
In the end, he couldn’t do anything with Rapid and died after being tortured like this.
If there is a god please… I want you to kill Riff…

The moment you reach the limit of holding your breath, Esther’s figure is drawn as the water comes in painfully as if tearing the inside.
It feels like my throat is on fire.
I’ve never felt like I was burning my throat like this because of Esther before… Fire is Esther, Esther is tentacles…

Esther’s tentacles helped, but…
Still… Die.
Die…

Esther is not a tentacle… No, if I had given you better tentacles…
More militant, don’t just heal, but do something… The power to destroy a magical girl…
The functions of the tentacles that Leaf told me about are healing, absorbing venom, and… Hypnotic Immunity… Antenna…

… Antenna?
The antenna… Communicate to the top negatives… ?
My top negatives are… Esther… ?

“Kuhehehe!”

I desperately clung to it with hope in a sudden thought.
Concentrating on the tentacles, I think of Esther.
I hope that the tentacles will send Esther a message, and I pray with all my might.

Esther, Esther… !
Esther! I’m dying!
Esther’s number 1 fan is dying!

[… Magic response, danger.]

At that moment, the air was torn to black.

“… What?”

Long, sharp claws stretched out through the cracks, twisting and crushing the metal arms.
The wet and ruined view returns to normal due to the heat, and bat wings emerge from the black space contrasting with the white interior.
Sharp eyes like the eyes of a snake, and red hair swaying as if burning beneath the majestic horns are slowly revealed.

“This bastard… Where are you touching!”

Enraged, Esther swung her fiery sword.