Chapter 275 – Negotiation (4)

[This is the wrong move It’s wrong to destroy now carelessly. .]
“Uh?”

A large vibration is felt along with X’s panicked voice.
Along with a low, coo-gu-gu-gug, the sound of something twisting is heard.
The area being compressed was the room right in front of where I was, looking at the map again, it was a place marked as medicine storage room 1.

When I went outside from the archive room, where I was, I heard something bursting and twisting in the dark space.
In the room right in front of you, beyond the door, something is happening.
The creepy sound stopped completely after a while with the sound of a push.

[…30% of the medicine was lost due to your choice a while ago.]
“Huh? Uh, yes?”
[The time it takes to regenerate Leaf’s body has increased by more than 1000% due to the loss of key chemicals.]
“Uh…Ah, yes.”
[Are you satisfied?]
“Hmm…”

I don’t know what it is, but just listening to X’s words, I think I’ve done something tremendous.
By the way… Will it really be destroyed if I press it?
Approaching the door to the medicine storage room 1, I tried to open it, curious about the condition inside, but the mechanical door did not budge.

[…Closed spaces will not be open for more than a month for safety reasons. This device is a last resort, used only when faced with an unavoidable situation.]
“What is the unavoidable situation?”
[Experiment runaway, data deletion… If you want to check if it actually works, please ask me and activate it. A compartment that can be closed without problems…]
“Oh… I see.”

While listening to X, I looked around and found a pulley that was probably used to move things.
I went back into the archives and carefully lifted Riff’s corpse.
Lifting a tattered corpse without getting hurt was a much tougher task than I thought.

[Are you accepting the deal?]
“Wait a minute, take a look.”
[It’s a bad choice to put the riff on the tow truck. Damage from weak vibrations can greatly reduce your chances of survival. If you check the map and use the emergency elevator on the side, give permission so that you can go down to the manufacturing room right away…]

Ignoring X’s words, I put the dripping corpse on the tow truck, and in front of X’s eyes, I operated the tablet and closed the archive.
The door to the archives has already been broken by Esther and Ash.
This way you’ll really be able to see what’s going on inside the door to drug storage room 1.

“Oh…”

The broken door malfunctions with a push-push sound, and then the ceiling and floor come down and up, compressing one room as it is.
There is no need to turn things inside out to store them or hide them.
A section really disappears as if it were trash.

Crunchy and broken bookshelves, tablets, computers…Monitors…
Lights in the room flicker, crack, explode.
The last thing left was a solid iron wall with a horizontal line in the center.

“It’s really shutting down.”
[Are you satisfied?]
“Um…”
[Are you satisfied?]

Satisfied…Satisfied…Um…
Not only support, but also control of the base, giving admin rights… I don’t know if I gave real admin rights, but first of all, they let me destroy two compartments…
Will you be satisfied… ?

The pleasure of destroying the precious laboratory of the guy who tried to kill me… I can’t put an end to this.
The longer I delay Reef’s resurrection, the more time I’ll be occupying the position of temporary manager.
Seen impulsively or rationally, it would be beneficial to destroy this laboratory more.

I untied my hands, imagining the way Riff screamed when he woke up.
From where to where should I break it?
Sadism that knows no end rises.

“Which compartment should never be destroyed?”
[…Not all deep parts.]
“Deep section…”

In the deep part X mentioned, there were a main manufacturing room, a main computer room, a data and server room, a special item storage room, a special material storage room, and a generator room.
I closed all compartments except for the deep section and the medicine storage room.
As if an earthquake had occurred, the surroundings resonated loudly, and there was a sound of various things being smashed.

[With the current choice… No. Are you satisfied…?]
“Hmm…”
[Please move the leaf.]

If this is the case, I can say that I am still satisfied.
I also confirmed that the administrator’s rights are working properly, and even if it didn’t work, it’s my own revenge for destroying so many things.
I asked X with a more comfortable mind.

“Are there any more?”

De-stressing for a while to check the manager’s authority by destroying the compartment was relieved, and a deal is a deal.
You get everything you can get.
X, who was silent for a moment at my words, spoke with a strangely cut-off mechanical sound.

[Go out of D Settings, press X, please.]
“This?”
[You’re right. See the red X button at the bottom?]
“Yeah, this?”
[Click to delete me.]
“Uh…”

I am at a loss for words when X suddenly announces his suicide button.
So, this… I have nothing more to give, so if you won’t listen, just kill me.
It really seems like there’s nothing more to give.

“Ah…What’s wrong? Are you going to let Riff die?”
[Your actions have lowered the survival rate of Leaf from 20% to less than 10%, and it is still on the decline.]
“If Riff dies, will you die too?”
[If no action is taken within 24 hours of the death of the Reef body, I will be automatically removed. In addition, it is automatically removed even if there is no biological response within a month. The medicines and self-control necessary for regeneration were lost a while ago.]
“Hmm…”

I should have told you in advance if there were such important things in the area I was destroying.
It was X who said that it could be destroyed as long as it wasn’t in the deep layers.
No, I didn’t say never to destroy the depths, but I didn’t say not to destroy it anyway.

A little taken aback, I averted my gaze and grabbed the handle of the riff truck.
It seems like there’s nothing more to give… I’d rather have X help me if I can.
It’s good to erase things like CCTV records, and wouldn’t it be a good deal that you’ve got enough to gain?

“Okay, okay…I’ll make a deal.”

X did not respond at all when I said that I would make a deal.
I left the silent X behind and looked for an emergency elevator on the map on the tablet.
He said that he could go to the depths with this, and he said he would let me go down to the manufacturing room… I think I can just take the elevator.

“What are you doing? Orbit?”

When I urged it, X followed me by moving its mechanical body.
The dark corridor is strangely cool.
Feeling chills from the cold, I reached the elevator and boarded it.

# # #

I went down the elevator with X without saying anything, arrived at the deep floor, the manufacturing room, and got off the elevator.
The manufacturing room was far deeper than I thought, and had a different atmosphere than the one where I was held captive by Reef and X.
Unlike a place that looked like an operating room, this place had large pipes and wires scattered around, and conveyor belts and various mechanical arms were twisting and moving here and there.

[…Put it in a capsule, please.]

Following X’s instructions, I picked up Leaf’s corpse and placed her on a cylindrical bed that was installed in the corner of one wall.
Immediately, something like tempered glass came up from the side and covered the bed, and the word capsule became a suitable shape.
Subsequently, several tubes connected to the capsule began to vibrate and fill the capsule with a light green liquid.

“Is this regenerating the body?”
[Originally yes.]
“Originally?”
[Since it is a device that stimulates the magical girl’s life force and pushes her own regenerative ability to the limit, she will not react if she is completely dead mentally, physically, or magically.]

The capsule rapidly filled the pale green liquid, shaking and vibrating, ripping dirt off the leaf’s body.
Then, after draining the liquid, filling it with blue liquid again, drawing it out again, and finally filling it with red liquid.
It’s like looking inside a dishwasher.

As the red fluid filled up, Riff’s wound began to boil.
The head, heart, and lower part of the belly are hidden by the foam.
I pointed to the capsule and said to X that no one could tell that it was reacting to something.

“Looks like it’s not too late! You play well!”
[What is going on now is disinfection, stimulation, not regeneration. When playback is complete, the bubble disappears.]
“Oh yeah.”

Doesn’t that mean it’s playing anyway?
Having done everything I could, I looked around and found a hammer on the wall.
Sitting on top of the capsule, I was ready to hit it with a hammer and destroy it at any time.

“Well, first of all, I did everything I could, so…You have to do what I have to do, right?”

I came down with the corpse before X gave up the riff completely, and I had no choice but to do what X wanted.
I pay the price, and X has not given me anything.
The terms of the deal to put the leaf in the regeneration capsule have already been met, and all that remains is what X will do for me.

All I had to do in that situation was to blackmail X.
If you don’t want to see Riff die mid-play, then X must grant my request.
X spoke with a mechanical sound that cut off powerlessly at my appearance.

[Tempered glass.]
“Even if it’s not glass, wouldn’t it break if you hit something like a wire? Just remove the web cell or something.”
[That is impossible.]
“What?”

I hit the capsule with a hammer to see if it was tempered glass, but I looked at the capsule to see if it was cracked and turned my attention to X’s irresponsible words.
At that time, X’s body, which consisted of a camera and spider legs, suddenly collapsed.
Suddenly wondering why this was happening, I came down from the capsule, approached X, and tapped X with the tip of his toe.

“Hey… Hey? Hey?”

As if it had become a completely empty piece of scrap metal, X did not respond.
As if the soul had escaped… As if the connection had been terminated, there was no movement.
I grabbed the camera and held what used to be X with one hand and lifted it up.

“Could it be… That it splattered?!”