＜Infinite Dendrogram＞

Episode 53 Magic Bullet

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I hear a voice inside his tympanic membrane.

--Useless.

I have a voice that blames him.

--I couldn't protect anyone while saying I would protect them.

It's not a word that someone throws at you.

--What were these hands and forces for?

The hallucinations of his heart (...) are unique.

--Isn 't it you (me) who killed everyone?

He has invisible eyes, unreachable hands, and ears that blame him.

He's not on his side anymore, he's on his side... and I don't have any friends left.

That's why he's... been alone for the first time in years.

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That's why he doesn't need words anymore.

You don't have to be mean to your enemies, you don't even have to be strong on your friends.

No need to scream, no movement of mind.

Now he's just... moving his hands for what to do.

I don't know what it's for, but it's not in blank thinking.

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□ ■ Northwest Kingdom of Alter · Forest

--Kasumi is dead.

Without a word, she died.

The moment he defeated the two underground with his own Embryo, he turned his smile toward Luke with a slight relief of tension.

It disappeared from this world without a trace.

--Fuji-no-Nin is dead.

Without knowing anything, she lost her neck.

She also breathed out after completing her work, but there was no haze where she was supposed to turn around.

The next moment I wondered about it.

From this world, I disappeared from my neck.

- Io's dead.

She saw it.

I saw Sole defeating two of my friends, shaking the blade with anger and fear.

The moment you knock on the blade of a Special Ability that breaks a Block Ability.

From this world, every weapon was wiped out.

- Marilyn was fatally wounded.

Marilyn was a wallman.

There were human holes (...) in the body.

The moment Nemesis' Counter Absorption, desperately trying to shelter Marilyn, was broken without a sound.

The viscera and skeleton were erased in the shape of a hole, and blood was exhaled.

Shortly afterwards, she was pulled back into [Jewel].

--Nemesis is dying.

Sole, who penetrated her Marilyn, bent the trajectory to target Nemesis.

Nemesis couldn't avoid the approach of the sole that the Counter Absorption couldn't prevent.

"Change!

And he turned himself into a great sword according to the voice that was heard in his ear.

Shortly after Sole passed, as she cut off a part of her blade, something invisible - Babi, who was "transparent" at Luke's direction, retreated from the scene.

As Babi fled, he blinded and fired a ball of fire, but the flame was swallowed by Aurora and vanished.

Losing sight of Nemesis and Babi, Sole headed for the next goal.

--Luke lost his left hand.

Sole killed three people in front of her and inflicted fatal wounds on them all.

Luke's eye-catching sole approached him with a supersonic maneuver.

Luke tried to avoid Sole.

I saw Sole kill three people with a kind of body.

I understood in an instant that I shouldn't touch the sole of light like Aurora.

However, Sole relentlessly pursued Luke, who tried to escape with Liz's evasive maneuver.

The moment they caught up.

My left hand touched the aurora and was wiped off.

"......!

The crest moved to the safe area, but the Wing Glove on the left hand was erased.

But if Liz hadn't done enough damage to Luke himself, his whole body would have been. I don't have time to think, "My right hand... it wasn't just the [Jewel] of the subordinate."

Liz forcefully stopped bleeding like a waterfall from her left hand.

(……………… Will this happen?)

In an instant, all but him were destroyed.

Luke doesn't even know what his face looks like at the moment he completely flipped the board.

Still, the battle is not over.

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The sole that passed Luke flipped without a sound and approached again.

Once it was far away, the shape of the sole was clear.

Sole was human.

A silhouette of Aurora light sticking to the human surface.

However, the visible irregularities in the light were only slightly skewed from humans.

It's like a powered suit or something.

(This enemy... is his power)

Luke's accelerated thinking analyzes the threat ahead.

From Luke's perspective, there are two possibilities for Sole.

An "immortal” Igoronak trump card or an unknown presence watching this battlefield.

And I understand that it is the former.

Because at the edge of Luke's vision... Vito is moving.

But his appearance was unusual.

He takes off his powered suit and keeps his eyes busy, more intensely bending his fingers.

It was obvious that Vito was moving the sole wrapped in Aurora.

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But I can't read my thoughts (...).

No, I don't think about Vito now.

Without thinking about anything, I tried to ruin Luke and the others with carelessness.

(overwhelmed (...))

The battle was almost within Luke's expectations.

You can say you've already won, including the target's crusade.

And... I won too much.

Luke deduced from the battle and behavior on the spot with the Tombstone Labyrinth, and determined that Vito was the easiest person to give out his emotions easily.

But I lost everything but myself... Vito has transformed.

Using an unusual trump card, there is nothing wasted on him in previous battles.

I'm not proud. I'm not lost. Nothing.

Receiving peripheral information and performing remote operation of the aircraft wrapping the aurora with almost a reflection.

Vito was originally a heretical owner who continued to move Igoronac in a state that should also be called second person shooting.

A man who moves with unstable information received from the video, rather than thinking about it.

Now he's piloting his own emotions to become a loser while gaining information from his five senses.

No, emotion breaks my heart... now is the result of a combination of self-defense and top priority actions.

But that's the best solution for Luke.

He is now something Luke can never read.

There was anger and sorrow at the death of his companions, and as many as he could express it in words and deeds.

It was also possible to create gaps or traps through conversations.

But not Vito now.

His loss was so great that he could no longer speak with each other.

It turned into a machine (machine) that can only kill visible enemies.

Luke can't read Vito anymore.

Still, I won't stop reasoning.

Remember all the damage you've done, including yourself, and think fast.

(None of them activated Brooch . Nemesis's skills have also been disabled. For these reasons, it is assumed that defensive skills are ignored or more similar to Io's special skills.)

Explore the identity of the attack while remembering your feelings when you were shot.

(I don't have a fever. No physical shock. It looks like fixed damage, but it's not. Does not diffuse. The part that really touches you is shaped (...) by touching you. I was only taken to the area touched.... was it taken (...)?)

Luke mixed up with his thoughts - listening to his intuitive voice.

…………

While desperately distancing himself from the sole chasing him, he turns his mind to the nuance that the word appeals to.

The flying sole creates traces on the looted ground and goes straight to Luke, wiping out the trees between Luke and himself.

There is no damage to the movement trail.

Unlike Luke's wound, there is no bleeding, so it is difficult to understand, but only the part touched is really gone. It wasn't destroyed... as if it had vanished somewhere.

It's like somewhere... it's flying.

(Metastasis (...)?)

Luke, who assembled the reasoning in his head, associates himself with an event that is also the reason they carried out this chase.

And that... was the right answer.

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■ War weapon

Weapon of War V, [Beldrion].

A giant human weapon that once emerged from the inside of the Three Powers and engaged Rockefell Adraster.

Its unique ability is named "Delvaster (Sub Sky)".

It was a hyper-offensive defense mechanism that flew objects touched by both hands from the contact surface into subspace on a molecular basis.

What touches both hands can be the body of the enemy or an attack, and the strength is shredded into subspace regardless of whether it is physical or even non-physical.

It is unilaterally destroyed without interference from anyone.

The strongest shield and the strongest spear.

Even the "Ultimate" would have been prevented had it been opposed to [Gloria], and it was a superweapon that the ninth generation of Flagman thought would have decimated its existence.

I lost to [Hegemon], but I am no inferior to [Acra Vaster].

However, from the perspective of the original flagman who designed the foundation, this [Beldrion] was far from the original specification.

At first, Flagman was going to give this capability to a human-sized aircraft.

The Delvaster will be deployed on the entire surface armor, not on both hands.

It has an overwhelming offensive capability, so size is not a problem, but rather a feature for jumping into and killing enemies at high speeds.

But even Flagman couldn't fit the super high power reactor to human size to run this superweapon.

Therefore, the power furnace was missing from the beginning and only batteries operating for a short period of time with external filling were implemented.

Even with that short operation, magic for more than 100 super people is required, and charging takes time.

In addition to energy, there is a problem.

If you really deploy Delvaster across the surface armor, it will transfer everything, including the surrounding light and sound, to subspace, so [Beldrion] 's artificial intelligence cannot judge the external situation.

The same applies when operating from outside. Whether it's magic or radio waves, Delvaster will suck you up.

Because of these unsolvable problems at the time, Flagman temporarily abandoned the completion and placed the prototype in the research facility.

After the collapse of the prototype, the plant that automatically develops the decisive weapon redesigned based on this airframe is called the decisive weapon No. 5 [Beldrion].

The fuselage was enlarged to the extent that the power furnace could be installed, and a large part of the internal structure of the main body was exclusively owned by the high-output power furnace.

However, Delvaster could not be used on the entire surface of the larger aircraft, and the problem of not being able to grasp externally was not solved.

Therefore, the deployment location was limited to both hands.

It was also said to be a bitter solution to solve the energy and control aspects.

As a result, he became invincible... and was destroyed by [Hegemon].

Thus, Decisive Weapon V did not have as much influence as it did in history.

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Now, the prototype named [Beldrion F] was developed by Flagman earlier.

[Machine King] Reinhardt investigated the aircraft found in the Imperial Palace.

Reinhardt learned of this as a prototype of the [Beldrion] from the anecdotes of the battle against the [Hegemon] obtained in the records and literature of the Ruins.

The missing portion due to aging was redesigned and restored based on the data in.

As a result, although the energy efficiency deteriorated slightly, the performance reached the same level as the original product.

And Reinhardt left the restored aircraft in Igoronac, “immortal”, with a certain intent (...).

Apart from the intention, there was also a math that they could operate.

A Hikaru with 300 times the magic of a magical superpower.

It is not a radio wave or magic, and can still be remotely operated even if it separates the inside and outside of the completely isolated Tombmark Labyrinth.

With these two, the prototype will work.

No, Vito can handle this as long as it is filled.

Therefore, the current situation... could be said to be within Reinhardt's expectations.

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For the record, the decisive weapon is meaningful.

A duel weapon once defeated by Ray Sterling and Ultimate A. Alter.

They were named after ancient languages of ancient civilizations.

[Accra] is "Shell" and [Vaster] is "Sky".

And [Beldrion] means "Kingslayer."

It is the function and name given to kill the most massive and robust incarnation.

So, what is the added F () of Rheinhardt who restored it?

It is not an ancient language of ancient civilization.