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Epilogue

Guided by Miile, Hayato and company headed straight to the room where the core was and which was the heart of《ZERO》.

On their way there, while Hayato and the others walked——they heard about the things that Diff, the older brother of Miile, caused and her thoughts about them.

The one who spoke was Miile, of course.

– In other words, Diff resented the people who didn't understand even when he tried to prove his innocence, resented those who used his talent as they pleased for the country and eventually he began to curse all the world and reached the point where he's thinking of destroying the universe?

– It is exactly as you say.

After the story of Miile ended.

Miile answered Emilia who asked.

–  For that reason, he created《ZERO》and 《V》new——the《Planet X》and the Savages as your people call them, and that is how we arrived at the present.

– If there's nothing beyond the destruction, then persuasion might be difficult too…

Latia said like mumbling.

Certainly, the opponents who have stood in their way, in front of them up to now.

Even Vitaly, Serivia and especially the Olfred brothers had a clear purpose somehow or other. That's why and regardless of the result, she thought that they might be able to persuade him, if that was possible to attempt.

However, if he had no objective other than destruction from the beginning, then there was no point in persuading him.

This meant that they had no choice but to defeat the opponent with all they had.

– He's the same as the Savages.

It was Emilia who dropped so.

Ryuuto inclined his head to the side.

– The Savages…?

– Yeah.

Nodding, Emilia continued.

– Charo was saying it earlier. Even if you analyze the Savages, you can't feel an objective other than destruction. Certainly, at that time, Hayato got that too, right?

– Yeah——

Changing direction to him, Hayato nodded.

At that time, Charlotte was saying that if there was a goal other than『destruction』it was 『evolution』.

But Hayato remembered well what she was also saying, that in the end, they wouldn't pass through『evolution』for the sake of『destruction』.

The energy of the Savages was supplied by the Variable Stones which were their cores.

The energy loaded in a Variable Stone was considerable, the supply would hardly ever run out.

If so, then why did the Savages turn up prey on mankind?

Emilia was the one who raised that question to Charlotte.

It wasn't just a rumor, as there was also remaining video data where the Savages actually gulped down people.

According to that, Hayato thought that Emilia would end up being eaten when she was caught by the pincers of the Savages.

However, Charlotte told them that the Savages only did such kind of during the First Attack and the Second Attack.

In addition, as the research of the Savages didn't progress so much at that time, many researchers concluded that the predation of human beings was for energy replenishment, but nowadays everyone denied such conclusions.

The mainstream of the current thinking was that they were preying upon mankind to analyze and understand the other party.

In other words, that was a conduct for the sake of evolution.

It didn't mean that all the Savages could do it, but it was suspected that among them that kind of Savage existed, the one that had a high possibility of collecting data, then that data was shared in some form and as it was said, it was brought back to the place similar to a production site.

Either way, the Savages just existed to annihilate all beings living in the planets and to evolve for that cause——their existences were as simple as that.

To sum up, there was nothing else, since Diff created the Savages while thinking of nothing but the destruction of the world.

That was the thought of Emilia.

Nobody had a different opinion.

Hayato was thinking so.

Of course, Hayato himself hadn't a different opinion.

However, there was only one person who was feeling doubtful.

It was Claire.

– I have just one question, if you allow me.

Breaking the ice with that, Claire presented her doubt.

– If he's acting just for the destruction of the world like the Savages as you say, then why didn't he eliminate us immediately?

Hayato thought that it was exactly as she said.

On this planet《ZERO》, Diff was an existence similar to God.

When seemingly thinking so, they could be easily eliminated by《ZERO》——on the contrary, the view of Claire said that he should have been able to adopt an aggressive method to eliminate them from this world.

– Even so, he only does things like playing with us on the palm of his hand——

– Are you perhaps saying that because he likes games or finds them enthralling?

Ryuuto cut into the conversation.

Certainly, that was also true.

Although he used the avatar of a woman, and that it was a terminal, Diff said so many times to Hayato and the others, and Hayato himself also heard so directly many times.

– There's no doubt that he's enjoying this situation, doesn't he? At first, I thought he was just like a murderer for pleasure. However, and when listening to the story of Miile a while ago, it is certain that I felt like he wasn't only that nanodesu.

– Can I hear why did you think so?

– He has always been alone till now, he must have felt lonely…

Claire replied to Miile who asked.

A solitary genius that was understood by nobody.

As a result, he gave up on being understood and continued fighting against the whole world all by himself for almost an eternity, embracing nothing but resentment.

He felt lonely.

For this reason, he felt that he wanted to play with intelligent life who appeared before his eyes even for a second longer.

That was the thinking of Claire.

– … I think he did.

Replying and casting down her eyes, looking sad, Miile continued.

– Simultaneously with that, he wanted to be loved, he wanted to find companions——Nii-san should have thought that he wanted you to understand him.

The majority of them was able to understand the meaning of those words.

That was because he revealed anger when they talked about companions and lovers during the conversations with his terminal.

There may be feelings like hate because other people had things that he couldn't obtain.

But, deep down his heart, he wanted to join those companions.

Maybe, he was thinking of wanting to be understood.

– In other words, that feeling may be the weak point of Diff——of your Onii-san.

– … yes.

Miile nodded to agree with the words of Emilia.

Immediately after that.

-H-huh!?

Ryuuto raised his voice suddenly.

When they looked ahead of his line of sight, they could confirm the figures of robots appearing one after another from the back of the passage.

——6 in total.

All of them have 3 legs with a size approximately the same as human beings.

A single eye was attached on the trunk, two manipulators were springing up and they could see that a golden shining sword and shield were in those manipulators.

Those were the security robots of the same form as the robots that Emilia and Liza fought already.

Those security robots shot beams almost at the same time their eyes shone.

– Uwaah!?

The Slayers dodged the shot beams, scattering.

Hayato also dodged the beams, making sure to roll on the ground.

And then when he got up, and the moment he grasped tightly the Hundred in his hand to deploy the armament to oppose the security robots.

– Please leave this to me.

It was Miile who raised her voice.

Not only she came out in front of Hayato, but also in front of the Slayers who were about to deploy their armaments like him. Miile continued her words.

– The network of this planet and my brain can be connected by the hair ornaments attached on my head and the machine parts attached on my body. So——

Immediately after Miile casted her eyes downward for a little and made sure to put her neck straight, closed her eyes.

All the security robots that were about to shoot beams again stopped moving abruptly.

Latia saw the situation and asked Miile while blinking incessantly like saying "what the hell happened?".

– … what did you do?

Opening her eyelids, Miile replied.

– The security robots are controlled by the network of《ZERO》. So, I transmitted a stop command using the network. And——

Immediately after Miile slipped out a giggle.

– Whaa!?

It wasn't just Latia who raised her voice in surprise, Hayato and the others were also amazed. It felt like electric current surged from the bodies of the security robots in a visible form and exploded one after another.

– Just now, by changing the control of the internal circuits of the security robots, I made them self-destruct. The network around here is not under the control of Nii-san, for now. As such, it is possible to go forward, defeating the security robots that will come to attack us like this. Let's hurry without delay.

– Wait a minute.

After she finished the explanation, Emilia called out to the back of Miile who started running to guide everyone.

Miile turned around, stopping her feet.

– What is it?

– If you can penetrate the network, then you can communicate with Charo and the o——with the spaceship, or you can't?

Currently, communication between Slayers was possible, but they couldn't communicate with the spaceship as usual.

The thought of Emilia seemed to say that that would make easier to deal with anything that may happen from now on, if that became possible.

– Please wait a moment.

Replying, Miile closed her eyelids.

Silence continued for a few seconds since then.

– Unfortunately, that is impossible.

Opening the eyelids, Miile replied.

– The security of the barriers that seems to impede communication is very strong, they can only be destroyed physically.

– If so, can't you hijack the security robots and physically destroy that barrier?

Emilia suggested again.

Miile answered immediately without being silent or closing her eyes this time.

– I was thinking about that now. Rather, there are signs that people of the spaceship side attempted to destroy the barrier to make the communications come back.

– Ah, I see.

– As a result, it seems that Nii-san spread a considerable number of particles to interfere with communications. As long as their effect persist, it will be difficult to communicate now.

– is that so…

In the end, it appeared that it was impossible to communicate with《Charlotte No. 1》for some time.

– By the way, and like Miile did with us, it's complicated to talk to them with energy. That's also probably due to those jamming particles.

It was Liza who said so to continue.

This was really a "there's no other way" situation.

– If so, then let's go ahead. To do the only thing that we can do.

There was no one who yelled "objection!" against such words of Claire.

Then again, they started moving towards the room with the《core》all together.

The security robots attacked several times after that, but Miile destroyed them all.

And then at last, Hayato and the others finally arrived in front of the room where the《core》was——the thing they could say was the deepest part of《Planet X》aka《ZERO》.

– What a huge door…

Aila muttered, looking at the door in front of her.

As those words said, it was really a huge door.

An elephant could easily pass through it.

Miile said as the Slayers looked up at the door all together.

– The key of this door——the security lock is already removed. More precisely, it was easy to remove.

– Does that mean that there was no opposition?

– Yes.

Miile nodded to the question of Claire.

– In short, is he trying to show us in or something?

Emilia muttered.

It was very probable that nothing but traps were set beyond this point.

Everyone surely thought so.

Miile said to affirm that.

– The security beyond this door should surely be stronger. There may be a lot of security robots, and other things may attack us as well. So everyone, please be careful.

– Does that mean that unlike so far, the power of Miile alone can't deal with them?

– I think that it will be possible if I spend time doing so, but even if I defeat them like this, and as long as we don't destroy the《core》, it will end up creating new enemies one after another.

It looked that with the thought of MIile, the situation ended up getting gradually worse and worse.

– So, I will focus only on cancelling the barriers that have been deployed to the《core》from the onset.

Having to deal with the cancellation of the barriers of the《core》and having to deal with Hayato and company——that was the plan of Miile. It didn't matter how much a genius scientific Diff was, because it should be a burden to do two things in parallel at the same time.

That was also the plan of Miile.

– I will absolutely defeat Nii-san and cancel the barrier of the《core》. During that time, please endure the attack of the security robots. I am counting with you.

Miile finished saying so.

It was not difficult to destroy the《core》if it was done only with the cancellation of the barriers.  If they did an all-out attack at the same time she cancelled them, then everything would end with that.

After listening to the story, Claire said.

– I understand what we should do, but can I ask one last thing, just to be sure?

– What would that be?

– What should we do in case we couldn't defeat your brother?

That was only a "just to be sure" question.

– … well, the only things I can come up with are either to withdraw from this place or destroy the《core》by sheer strength.

Replying, Miile lowered her head.

– I am sorry but, I am counting on you.

– I understand.

Clare, who nodded, looked towards Hayato and the others and,

– The decision of withdrawal or attack falls on me masu. Whatever it is, you will obey it——understood desuwane?

– Yes!

The Slayers, including Hayato, nodded and showed feelings of agreement.

Right after that.

Liza raised her voice.

– One last thing——I wonder if you can hear me a bit? Rather than that, there is something that I want to check with everyone else.

Liza asked Miile, as if taking confirmation while Hayato and the others were wondering "what would be the thing she needs?".

– If we destroy the《core》, your life that is unified with this planet will also end up vanishing. Is that correct, Miile?

– … yes.  It is correct.

The moment she answered, a silent curtain came down between Hayato and the others.

A few seconds later.

Miile broke silence.

– But, please don't worry about it. I have lived way too much already. Besides, I prepared myself for that when I brought everyone to this place——

Miile smiled sweetly.

That smile was somewhat fragile, it also seemed sad for Hayato and the others who looked at her.

However, she had a strong will.

And to prove so, Miile continued her words.

– … rather, I want this to end. Allow me to make up for Nii-san——and for this world.

– Understood.

Her——.

Liza responded to accept the feelings of Miile.

– I don't have a problem with that. I will respect Miile's will. Do you guys have no problems with that as well, I wonder?

– …

Hayato couldn't reply immediately.

At any rate, destroying the《core》meant they will also indirectly kill people.

He didn't want to do such a thing if possible.

But——he thought.

If he was in the same position as Miile, what would he do?

The answer was simple.

Even if he were to lose his life, he should try to do what he can do against this world.

Precisely because of that, he couldn't object to the decision of Miile.

It would be rather discourteous.

So——.

– Understood. I will respect it.

Hayato replied firmly.

Everyone else seemed to think the same.

They nodded all together to sympathize with Hayato.

Still, Claire was the only one who hadn't expressed her deliberation yet.

When Hayato and the others turned their gazes,

– I think the same as everyone desuwa. I will treat with discretion her——the feelings of Miile masu.

Now that Claire answered so, the resolution of everyone was settled.

The thought of everyone was one.

One purpose.

Claire told them to proclaim that.

– In order to save the world, we shall properly do each one of the things that we can do. Well then, let's head towards Operation Save the Universe, towards the final battle masuwayo!

– Yes!

Nodding, Hayato and the others replied.

Emilia and the rest also nodded and answered in the same way.

All that remained was to head towards the other side of the door.

– Well then, I will open the door.

Miile extended her hand towards the door.

Thus, the door of the last battle was finally opened.

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