Published at 1st of January 2021 09:07:10 PM
Chapter 110
[Collapse of Flower]
The room where the Observer was deployed was at the left side of the end of the passage, as Utsusemi-san said .
Its security is only a card reader .
I wonder if the protection is only this much because we are trusted .
No, perhaps it’s because there’s no meaning in using most kinds of security .
There are various ability users in the organization . Since there are ability users with absurd ability like Getsuri-san who can open and close anything, they might consider it meaningless to have pointlessly large amount of security .
“Ah~, I’m looking forward to it~ . ”
I look sideways at Utsusemi-san, whose eyes are shining . As he slowly swipes through the card reader, the door makes a pushing sound and slides sideways .
What unfolds before us is a pitch-black space . However, the lights of the lamps and electrical powers are blinking in here and there . And an unusually cold air leaks out of the room .
“Then, I’ll be waiting here,” Feeling the somewhat dangerous air, I say so and lean back on the wall .
However, Utsusemi-san grabs my collar and I’m dragged into the room just like that .
After I’m dragged in, the door of the room closes automatically and is locked again with a pushing sound, “What are you doing…!”
“Don’t be afraid . I’m an executive, y’know?”
Why was such a person appointed as an executive?
While grabbing my collar, Utsusemi-san steps forward . Then, the lights in the room turns on automatically .
For the time being, what enter my eyes is a large monitor in front of the entrance . Then the many equipment that surrounds us .
“It sure is unusual . ”
“Is Observer really here? Did you mistake the room?”
At least it doesn’t feel like there are people here . Heartbeat sound, breathing sound, and those sounds that you should be able to hear from a human can’t be heard from inside this room .
Utsusemi-san, who currently stocks Sound Control, seems to get that, as he lifts one of his eyebrows and looks around .
Meanwhile, I find a protruding acrylic glass shaped like a capsule among the equipment that completely cover the walls except the part where the monitor is .
A strange object connected to dozens of electrodes is in it, and it is gently moving up and down in a mysterious liquid .
“Utsusemi-san, what is this?” After approaching it, I look back at Utsusemi-san and ask .
Utsusemi-san stands behind me, sticks his hand and face on the acrylic glass and looks at it seriously .
“This is, a brain, isn’t it? Its shape is veeery distorted though . ”
Now that he said it, it does seem like a brain . But it’s too distorted and it feels like it’s very incoherent .
However, this is certainly a brain . After I concentrate on listening to the sound inside the acrylic glass, I’m immediately convinced .
“Why is a brain in such a place?”
“Let’s try break the glass and touch it . ”
“H-hey…!”
I move up and stop Utsusemi-san who is raising his hand .
Seriously, what the heck is this guy thinking?
“What do you think of doing? This is obviously something important . ”
“Haha . ‘course, I know that . I just tried to scare you . ”
…This person sure is annoying .
“But this is quite interesting . This brain, it is alive . ”
I’m aware of that too . Or rather, I’m surprised that Utsusemi-san noticed that .
But this person, does he already become able to hear the faint brain waves? Moreover, it’s through acrylic glass .
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This is bad .
“Maybe this brain is the Observer, hahaha . ”
Utsusemi-san laughs and says that, but he seems to be rather convinced of it .
Perhaps he wasn’t joking when he said that .
Until now, I thought that Observer was a person, but because it was spoken of like it was an object, I felt a little doubtful . I somehow felt that my doubt about Observer had cleared up .
“Isn’t this thing dangerous?”
“It’s fine, it’s fine . Instead, it’s not dangerous at all .
The truly dangerous thing isn’t this easily noticeable after all, right?”
No, I think that’s not the case .
This brain, is it a human brain? Or is it artificially created?
In any case, this brain is alive and active .
I’m feeling a little scared now . I think this is the part of Anonymous that I don’t really want to get involved with .
This information is too much for an ordinary member like me .
“But, what a disappointment,” He says so and straddle the deliberately protruded acrylic glass .
Then suddenly, the monitor lit .
“Hm?” Raising his head Utsusemi-san turns his gaze toward the monitor .
I also look at the monitor . To be honest, I want to get away from this place, but for some reason I get stuck there .
On the lit monitor, the eye beam cursor is blinking quietly at the left edge .
In the silence, I look at it for a while, then mysterious character strings are listed from the cursor at the left edge . When the characters spread to fill the screen, the listing stop there .
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I’m familiar with this scene . I had seen it in the monitor room during the attack on Nursery Rhymes . It looks exactly like the character strings at that time .
“Isn’t that the Observer’s communication? Oi Shion, read it . ”
“There’s no way I can read it, right?”
The only ones who are able to decipher this should be Boss, Shikkou-san, and Kemuri-san .
At that time, I hear a pushing sound and the door of the room open .
It’s bad . With that in mind, I try to hide myself, but there is no place to hide .
It is Utsusemi-san who carries me such me . He jumps to the ceiling while holding me and clings to it .
“Be grateful, okay?” Utsusemi-san send a voice only to me .
Now that I think about it, I shouldn’t have to hide . I was just dragged by this person .
Well, I’m aware that I did something wrong, that was why I tried to hide in a hurry .
“Let’s guess who will come in . There are three choices,” There is a sound of the door sliding . And Utsusemi-san says such a thing leisurely .
We, who are clinging to the ceiling with a height of about 5 to 6m, are just in a place where we can’t see the entrance area because the pillars and equipment are in the way .
The people who can enter here are Boss, Kemuri-san, and Shido-san . It is safe if anyone other than Boss comes in . If it’s Boss, even if the sound is silenced, I feel like we will be found by our presences, so it’s out .
Since there are traces of us, that is the character strings displayed on the screen of the monitor, either way, we have to escape from here somehow though .
When I thought so, hiding was a correct answer . If it is exposed that I got strange information, I’m sure my position will also be jeopardized . I don’t think I will be executed, but it will probably be difficult to maintain the status quo .
“I think it’s Kemuri-san,” the key card was stolen from Kemuri-san after all .
“It would be interesting if Hyde is the one coming in . ”
“Can’t you stop joking . ”
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*Push* There is a sound of the room door closing .
The footsteps coming straight from the entrance slowly . The person who is emerging from behind a pillar is a person that is not among the options .
It is a girl with pure white hair wearing robe-like clothes .
She goes to the middle of the room, then she turns this way and says,
“Ur… gent . There is no… time . ”
Then she collapses on the spot .
Seeing that, Utsusemi-san who is holding me takes his hand off the ceiling and lands on the floor .
“…What’s with this girl?”
“…I’ve never seen her before . ”
Is she a member of the organization?
Utsusemi-san also seems confused as expected, and he remains silent for a while .
Eventually he takes out a phone of his pocket and stares at it, then he says,
“Crap . ”
I glance at him . He doesn’t seem to be troubled at all .
“What happened?”
“It’s about time for the executive meeting . Shion, sorry, but please to clean up after this…”
You wanna die?
He leaves the room while I’m wondering whether to say those words .
This has become troublesome .