＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

Ark of Death · ■ of ■ Part IV

□ [Armored Pilot] Hugo Receps

A little after breakfast the ship arrived in the city, the next berth, where Mr. Manigold's business associate boarded.

"So the terms are acceptance as a Dragnomad citizen and 10 million lire to start a business, right?

"Yes...... Best regards,"

The business partner was a man with a little daughter.

Only for a moment when I first saw it, Emily and the man who took her...... I associated myself with the two men who were disguised as parents and children.

Soon after, however, I identified myself as someone else with the item Mr. Manigold had.

"We have a deal. Let's keep the immediate cost of living on this ship. I also take the cabin. The opening fund or the house you live in over there, you just have to sign this letter and go to Dragnomad's office desk."

Mr. Manigold gave him the wipes and keys that seemed to contain the gold coins, as well as one [contract] already signed by Mr. Manigold.

"From what to... thank you"

"Welcome. Thanks for the smooth deal."

That's how they shook hands, and the deal was done.

It was a light development.

However, there was one thing I cared about......

◇

"That's a paragraph."

After the business meeting, only me and Cuco and Mr. Manigold remained in Mr. Manigold's room. Isala leads men and daughters to a second-class room on a separate block.

Mr. Manigold is spraying a cigar with a bead he bought from a man in one hand.

…………

"You heard something, didn't you?

You guessed from my expression, Mr. Manigold asked.

"Yes, of the business negotiation... about the consideration of the beads"

"Opening in Dragnomad. Ten million lire is a sufficient sum for that funding. I also prepared a house to live in as a citizen. But I know what you're trying to say. 'Couldn't you have gotten more out?', right?

".................. Yes"

"Let's answer. I can give you ten, maybe a hundred times that. Well, there's no limit to the money we've got. If that's where we were looking to hoist the amount, we'd be ready to meet that."

Mr. Manigold removed the wallet-shaped item box from his nostalgia, flipped it over and sprinkled the contents on the table.

Not only did the item box overflow with gold coins… but even rarely used ultra-high currencies (10 million lire coins).

... Just a little look, but I don't know how many billions there are.

"But it's the other choice that scared me and reluctantly didn't lift me. In business, there are some stories that are dumb enough to hold up the purchase price here."

... Indeed, Mr. Manigold may be right.

"Then why didn't you connect with that one?

"There are people in the world who can't be objects."

In response to Cuco's question, Mr. Manigold answers, smoking cigar smoke.

"You can't be a bump, Ningen?

"It's natural to live more normally than to be cautious... and you're a person who can't hang the accelerator of desire even before the greatest chance of life"

The words seemed to fool an earlier man who could not produce greed, but Mr. Manigold's voice and expression were not such an atmosphere.

"But it's not about fooling around, it's about a kind of virtue. Overall, I feel happier."

After seeing Cuco's strange face and laughing a little, Mr. Manigold explained the intentions of the words to me.

"A guy called Happiness hurdles up enough to taste lavish. More delicious, more fun, more pleasant, more wonderful...... There is no limit to a person's desire. But it costs just that much. Especially if the hurdle of desire that can be bought with gold goes up, so does the expense to satisfy it"

"I buy what I can buy with gold with gold," the person said in Australian, taking one of the ultra-high currencies on the tabletop and playing it with his fingers.

"Desire escalates as you get rich and luxurious. Luxurious and disfigured more than you earn. There's gonna be 50,000 of those stories, right?

For some reason, Mr. Manigold said so, looking at me, not Cuco.

"... right"

"So I've decided to do all the luxury over here (...), too. In real life, I just delivered a newspaper."

…………

There is no connection between Mr. Manigold and the term 'newspaper delivery', which is like the totalization of luxury by making it an object, and there are no words.

"I'm a tough piece of shit over here, and the brakes on my desires remain broken. In that sense, he's the right man to live with his brakes properly."

Somewhere delightful, Mr. Manigold laughed.

Maybe that was the heart of Mr. Manigold, who seems to be more luxurious than anyone else here and living in extreme poverty in real life.

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I was just listening to Mr. Manigold, and I remember something.

My... my (Yuri) father.

My father, too, used to be a man who fulfilled his desires with wealth.

And it was what Mr. Manigold called the "broken brake of desire".

He built wealth in a generation, married his mother, who was a stage actress, and lived lavishly in his personal life.

I spent more money than I had to, boasted of others like that, and was content with myself like that.

He said that he was the only person who seemed to do so from a third party, and that he was the object in the metal... No, even from my mother's point of view, I hear it from my mother's mouth.

I guess my mother hated my father to the point of breathing bad language into my child.

Still, he was always a kind father to me.

Besides, after my sister evaporated and my mother and I left the house... they stopped living like that.

Whether the reason is loneliness or a different reason...... I don't know. I haven't even heard from my father who was in touch.

But I remember my father's voice talking to me on the phone from time to time... seemed happy.

It wasn't until before Christmas last year that I could hear my father like that.

My father...

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"It's a different story, but I have my doubts about the guy I'm dealing with."

Mr. Manigold's words draw back my consciousness, which was about to be shed in memories of the past.

It's a more serious voice than when we were talking about greed and ourselves before.

"... what's that?

"Too normal (...). Run away from the state where beads exist and threats, desires and resentments will be targeted, and I don't even think I'll be able to get my daughter to this [Eltram] safely. You know how insensitive Cardina is to those beads now, both on the surface and on the back?

…………

The Cardinian people know that behind the tragedy of Cortana there is the presence of beads flowing from the Yellow River.

And also that it's still in Cardina some of it.

In my master's story, I heard that even fakes made by processing [Jewel] began to appear.

"Mr. Manigold said that that parent and child were suspicious...?

"They have no problems with themselves. That's for sure. But..."

Mr. Manigold shrugged as he watched the view outside the room… away from the rear of the ship.

"- Perhaps there are beings who have protected and guided them so far in the shadows"

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■ [Eltrame] aft deck

Around the same time Manigold voiced his concerns.

One man had his comms in his ear as he dropped off the flowing scenery.

The man looked familiar to the place, but if you look closely, his right arm can't see the scalp with long sleeves and bandages.

"Looks like the business deal is done, Mr. Rascal."

Man - [Great Spiritual Taoist] Zhang Funeral Qi told his correspondent that.

"Oh. I hear you've been safely delivered."

"Yes."

Zhang affirms Rascal's words.

Zhang, a support member of IF, protected merchant men and their daughters from being noticed by those who were after the beads and sent them to the ship.

Shortly after my work at Cortana, I was turned to this job.

"I have already circulated information about the beads. The bead-catchers should reach the ship, or Dragnomad, soon. You're gonna have to stick around and collect the data."

"Yes."

What we do from here is the same as when we were in Cortana.

It will cause disturbances around the beads and take useful information, including the battle data of the fierce men who have gathered.

"Perhaps, not so far away, the activities of < IF > will also become full-scale. I would like to complete a list of potential threats and potential invitations to support members within the moment '

"I understand"

Zhang, himself a mouth scouted by a disturbance centered on beads, was well aware of it.

"And... Me and Makina are going there this time"

"Mr. Rascal yourself......!?

I kept my voice down because it was communication, but Zhang couldn't turn it off until I was stunned either.

Rascal comes out that never even came out when Cortana or until induction.

Zhang worried if he should ask why.

"Why..."

'Not a big reason. I'm sure I'll smash it (...) or take it (...) or I'll just have a shitty substitute there later.'

"Then I..."

'If it's you, the choice becomes' break 'only. I'd like to collect it if I could. It's a precious item. "

"What? I'm sure I can make it." As a matter of fact, it would be a Tenryu type power reactor.

'... although you would be the one who said' Cost like an asshole '. Besides, I think I hurt my stomach when I saw the recipe you gave me after you finished making all three (...) grounddragon shapes that cost less. Deplete some of the rare supplies...'

"Yikes!? You're going to have a little kid. Stop fooling around! Oh, I'm done......!?

'To quote, "Ah. It's good to have two units in the fuselage balance. It was an extra one. Tehepero" …? Are you kidding me?

"Ahhh......!

Zhang was worried with a serious look on his face about whether words should be pinched for the kind of interaction he could hear from across the comms machine.

"Anyway. It's up to me to make up my mind. Until tomorrow, it's too close to Dragnomad to be a hassle."

"Arrival in Dragnomad is… tomorrow at noon by appointment"

'If the timing is unknown, the rescue over there won't even make it. They also pay for people who can travel long distances in a short time. All that's left is [King of Toys] Grandmaster and [God of Fight (The Fight)] RAN, and their heads (owners).

"Are you paying?

Rascal's words, Zhang is surprised.

Dragnomad is the most important city with the Cardina Congress and the home of < Sephiroto >.

There, what do you mean there are only three of them?

"Of the other members, [Prodigal King] Manigold is on that ship as you know it"

"Yes."

Zhang, who was escorting a man with beads in the shadows, naturally also knows that his business partner is Manigold.

"And three guys moving west. [King of Terminators] Alberto Schwartzkaiser, [Divine Knife Doctor (Godhand)] Iliou Dreamroad, [Divine Beast Hunt (Godhunt)] Carl Rulelu. But they ran into the Legendarians on the road."

Zhang questioned how he was grabbing that much more information, but understood that he and the same support members would be everywhere in Cardina.

"And the three [Gods of the Earth (Dj Earth)] Fatum, [Gods of Cannon (The Canon)] Eve Serene, [King of Shots Down (ACE)] AR I. CA are in Vensale, the southern lake city"

"Why are you in such a place...?

'It's a pre-war gesture. It won't unfold. "

Cardina is a central country with most of its fighting power and many clans large and small.

Therefore, if we do not have a longer advance preparation period than elsewhere, a large number of people will be caught up in the sudden development of the War Conclave.

Regardless of its power, its impact economically should have been avoided.

"What country is war and... no, the South means..."

Zhang was confused by the information he was told, but soon realized the answer.

"Oh. The Gran Barroa guys who grabbed the bead info finally landed. It's all people who can move on land."

Zhang is shocked that Granvaroa put in as many as four.

'We're negotiating now, but it can't be established first. Soon the south will be a wide-area annihilating hell. "

…………

Imagine a cold sweat flowing down Zhang's spine.

Because that's a terrible face.

AR · I · CA on flying using the Future Prediction Super Embrio.

Eve Serene has the longest range.

And a man of unparalleled magic that never depletes.

A "magical most powerful” Fatum that makes a name for itself all over the continent.

All of them are fierce men who make a name for themselves inside and outside Cardina.

But Gran Barroa is no worse.

Miroslava Swampman manipulates the Super Embrio of a giant combat weapon for both surface and surface use.

Scala Edwards drives supersonic speeds.

Mode Edwards releases an Absolute Tracking Ability.

And a man who turns every liquid into explosives and wipes out even the waters.

“Human bomb" … a man also known as "the strongest of the four seas”, soy sauce antibacterial.

The wins and losses of the battle cannot even be read by Zhang, a war-torn tian.

But there was no doubt only that the battle would be a storm of great destruction not in the realm of men.

"... shouldn't we go and collect your data?

But Zhang, prepared, advanced so with a sense of duty.

When it comes to collecting combat data, there is no better environment than Vensale after the collapse of negotiations.

Regardless, there will be no guarantee of life in the widespread annihilation of Super.

'Don't make your life crude. I told you before. If you feel your life is in danger, you may abandon your mission. Naturally, I don't send this one to any environment below such a beat. To the south, we decide to turn the change. "

"... thank you"

Zhang thanked Rascal for his life-conscious words.

'Fine. Oh, and a bunch of Tians might also attack that ship. I think my aim is to wear it with me. Intercept me in some cases. "

"Understood."

'Well, if that happens, Emily might move on her own. Oh, is Emily equipped with the accessories she made me deliver?

Accessories are new equipment brought for Emily by a contact person from Rascal (revamped).

"Yes."

"That accessory is a countermeasure item made by Makina. Not to be the same development as when Cortana was born. '

To the words, Zhang looks bitter.

In Cortana I could not do anything, nor could I help Emily, who was in distress.

Now I renew my determination that I will not be such a body.

"Don't worry. I only had two with that accessory. I crushed one of Emily's weaknesses'

Emily has few weaknesses.

Pure combat power doesn't extend to the "strongest" class, but Emily still has unlimited resuscitation capabilities.

Keeping knocking Emily down until she runs out of residual equipment, whether it's "strongest” or not, is highly challenging.

Therefore, there are only two ways Emily can be defeated.

One of them is prolonged detention, like they did in Cortana. Without being able to move or log out, it is to wait until you have to choose Compulsory Logout….

However, the shortcomings were overcome with the accessories given to Emily.

And there are too few who can practise another means.

At the moment, the proven users are as good as the [martial arts] namesake of the Yellow River.

Therefore, I can even say that there are no longer any weaknesses.

"If there is no incident on the way, it will move as soon as I arrive tomorrow morning.... and take care not to let Emily run wild until then. '

"Yes."

That's how the communication with Rascal ended.

Soon afterwards, I felt someone pull Zhang's sleeve.

"... Grandpa. Have you eaten?

That was Emily.

By Zhang, they were waiting for the phone to finish.

He's grabbing Zhang's sleeve as he pumps his sleepy eyes somewhere.