Chapter 272 – Negotiation (1) [Edit]

“Chaa!”

As soon as I realized that the one in front of me was X, I kicked it.
It wasn’t something he did with thought, but an act close to an animalistic reflex.
The iron spider-like X hit my foot, blank! It flew off and crashed into the wall.

“Omg… ! Omg… !”

Is this what the guy who said that machines don’t trade will say?
I don’t know why X, why did he come in front of me like this…A deal?
Ash did that to me a little while ago, but this time X comes and tries to do something strange to me.

[Sudden action, I don’t understand.]

After collapsing in the corner, X stood up as if nothing had happened, moving his small mechanical body.
He is disgusted by the sight of a large spider.
He kicked, but there were no wounds on X’s body.

What hurts is my foot.
I looked around while calling Esther and Grape in my heart.
Right now there is no Esther or Grape by my side.

It must have come to trick me and torture me like Ash.
Try to attack me
If you don’t, you’ll get hurt.

“Whoaaaaagh!”

I picked up a broken tile from the floor and hit X.
When the tile breaks, it grabs and throws an X the size of a laptop, then picks up the tile again and smashes it down.
Along with the sound of kang kang, X’s voice can be heard, indicating that he was embarrassed even though it was a mechanical sound.

[Panic, please calm down.]
“Lord, die! Die!”

If you don’t kill it, you will be killed.
No, X is a robot.
It’s not even killing.

If I don’t turn off the power… I can’t see anything like the power button.
I want to cut the wire, but there is nothing to cut it.
I picked up the X and pulled the wires between the joints with both hands.

[Calm down…Calm down…]
“Die!!”
[…Insertion of sedatives.]
“Ugh?!”

Something stabbed his left hand and injected a terribly dizzying liquid into his body.
I felt the tentacle in my left hand move violently, but it became quiet in an instant.
In my hazy mind, I realized that X had stabbed my hand with a spider-like toe.

“Uh…”
[The improvement is abnormally high, so I know it won’t last long. Can you hear me?]
“Uh…”
[…Do you think the reaction check and language understanding functions are sufficient, so I will explain.]

I sat blankly holding X, blinking his eyes and nodding.

[Currently, I am using a prototype automaton to communicate with you. This is the only aircraft that is fine, and I am now incapacitated, unable to resist even you. Do you understand?]
“Uh…”

X is incapacitated…Can’t do anything…That’s right.
Because X was completely… Smashed by Esther…
In front of my eyes, this is an automaton controlled by X…What is it…

[I can’t hurt you. Do you understand?]
“Uh… ? Uh…”

X… Put a sedative in my hand… ?
It’s not that I can’t hurt you… ?
Wouldn’t I have died if I had even injected air with the needle?

[You cannot leave this lab unless I give permission.]
“Uh… ?”

Is it?
Maybe.
No, maybe…Is it?

[I want to make a deal. Did you understand?]
“Uh…”

So… It’s a deal.
Instead of letting me go, they try to ask for something.
I nodded my head blankly, forcibly calming myself down.

[If you bring Reef’s corpse to the basement, I’ll get you out of here.]
“Uh?”
[The brain, heart, and womb must all be there, and be careful not to drop them.]
“Uh…”
[There is no time.]
“…Hmm.”

The dazed state gradually returns to normal.
The little bit of medicinal effect that was tortured by Ash catches and presses on the sensitive nerves.
I calmly touched my lips and thought about X’s words.

There is no time… ?
Time is of the essence to take the body… ?
Since he was his own master, if he wanted to weave a coffin… Time wouldn’t matter.
Then…Are you trying to do something with Leaf’s corpse?

“Why the corpse?”
[Information you don’t need to know…]
“What are you going to do with the corpse?”

The X zoomed in on my face, shining through the camera lens.
It’s a machine, but it’s a camera… I feel like it’s staring at me.
I met X’s eyes and grasped X’s situation.

The reason they don’t inject me with drugs anymore… They didn’t kill me by pumping air into a syringe, it’s because I need to be able to move.
X can’t kill me
Because we need to move Riff’s corpse.

I need Riff’s corpse, but I can’t carry Riff.
Asking to bring it even while making a deal means that X really has no means to move except for this automaton.
It is true that it is incapacitated.

I can’t go out…Now, I can’t go out.
There is no vision phone, only a chip with a hypnosis application remains.
Neither Grape nor Rapid can be called.

Esther also died.
However, Esther is resurrected.
It may take a few days to resurrect, but if I hold on until then… I can get out.

X needs my help.
X is urgent.
X, who had been glaring at me without saying anything, said with a noise like a sigh.

[The administration of sedatives seems to have been a mistake.]
“What are you going to do with the corpse?”
[You don’t need to know that…]
“What are you going to do with the corpse? I won’t do it if you don’t tell me.”
[…If you don’t answer, I don’t think you’ll worry. Is that correct?]
“Huh.”

X sighed, squeaks, the sound of an old computer calculating, and he answered, pointing the camera toward Leaf’s corpse.

[…Leaf can use mana fixation magic. The duration is 1 hour, and the magic power consumption is reduced to 0 for 1 hour, and then consumed in droves. If it was used in conjunction with life freeze and mind freeze, there is a possibility that it may still be alive.]
“…What?”
[So, riff for playback…]

I listened to X and turned my gaze to Leaf’s corpse.
The eyes, brain, and head were pierced and still gave off the smell of burning, and the ruptured womb had a hole in it, dripping blood.
The same goes for the heart and the waist… They are all tattered.

But that thing… Is alive?
You want me to bring you a body…To restore it?
Without hesitation, I picked up the broken tile on the floor.

[This is a bad choice. It’s too low intelligence to act like that now. It warns you of misbehavior. You are restless right now. Judged in a state of severe panic in fear of death…]
“Hey, let go of this!”
[This is a stupid move. Please stop immediately. This is the wrong choice.]

If Esther is alive, there’s no need to be afraid of Riff, but there’s no one by my side right now.
In the current situation, if Riff survives, it means that I will die.
Inevitably, it must be dealt with.

Noticing the meaning of my actions, X clung to me with his machine body and grabbed his legs.
I slam my spider-like leg joint into the floor and grab my ankle with the other joint.
I threw a piece of tile at Leaf’s corpse, trying to shake off the X.

[Please keep calm. You have been attacked by Ash. Leaf is attacked by Ash. There is a saying that the enemy of an enemy is a friend. Riff and you are friends.]
“What bullshit!”

[You use hypnosis. Riff also uses hypnosis. The two are friends.]
“Why am I friends with this bitch!”
[Please think wisely. You are trying to kill your friend.]
“Fuck it! An enemy of an enemy doesn’t necessarily mean a friend, both of them tried to kill me! Let go! Kill him!”

X repeated strange conditions over and over again, as if programming was wrong.
I scan the floor for a sharper tile, then turn my gaze to X.
There was something harder and sharper than the broken tiles in front of my eyes.

Realizing what I was about to do, X hurriedly rammed all his gadgets into the floor and held on.
I grabbed and pulled X.
Once pulled out, I plan to throw it right into the head, chest, and stomach of the leaf to make it a sure-fire corpse.

Now is your best chance.
Now, you have to kill Riff.
I pulled X off the ground with all my might.

Unusual power leaked out and I lifted X at once, grabbing the wires under the floor and lifting the dangling X over my head.
A wire cuts, and the mechanical sound of X is heard overhead.

[This is a crazy move. You are insane.]
“Keugh! Who is insane!”
[The infection rate is high. Harm due to negative factors, pain paralysis, loss of empathy, and abnormal behavior. There are not enough sedative ampoules. Please voluntarily calm down.]
“What?”

Raising the X above my head, I stopped moving when I heard the words X spoke in a mechanical tone.
What is the infection rate?
Paralysis… Loss?

“Come to think of it, I said that before…”

Reef said something similar when he dismantled my vision phone.
Level 4 negative, being parasitized by tentacles is not normal.
By the way, what is a level 4 negative?

[If normal thinking is possible, I wouldn’t do this. Please come down This is not human behavior. You are not fully negative yet. Humanity…Your aggression is not normal behavior. It’s not rational. You are negative.]
“…Tell me more.”

I lifted it to my chest and glared at X, and X moved the camera lens to focus on me.
X let out an arithmetic sound for a moment, then spoke to me firmly.

[You have already been eroded by the negative.]