Chapter 308 – #3-9.5 the Villain Was Furious (1)
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The hideout of the villain organization [Abyss].
Located a little away from S city, there is their hideout among the rows of buildings on the abandoned street called 【Closed Area】.
Number 13 parked the car a little away from the hideout just in case, went down to the basement and proceeded through the collapsed passages here and there.
A temporary passage made by modifying an existing underground passage.
After passing through that place and walking a little further, there is an exceptionally new iron door stuck in it.
Beep beep beep beep
Rattle! Kiyiyiyi——
Contrary to its appearance, I unlock the mechanical lock, open the door and go inside.
Beyond the door, a small space illuminated by small LED lights is revealed.
In the empty space, there is just a staircase leading upward in one corner.
13 and Violet climbed the stairs together.
“You’re back, boss.”
Climbing the stairs, we reached the lobby of the hideout.
There, Dorothy, who had been sitting in a chair brought to a position where she could see the stairs right away, stood up and greeted the two of them.
Violet was puzzled by Dorothy’s welcome, but accepted the greeting anyway.
“Why is Dorothy here? Isn’t this time he should be in the lab?”
“… I’m worried about the boss’s condition, and the fool has some business.”
Saying that, Dorothy looked at Violet.
Dorothy, with her monocle on one side, watched Violet carefully with blue eyes over dark circles.
“Is the boss okay? He’s been in a very bad condition since yesterday, and he went out with eyes that seemed like he was going to kill people like that… I thought that at least No. 13 would not come alive.”
“… Oh no, it can’t be More than that, yes, I’m fine now. Thanks to No. 13’s help, he was able to avoid making the wrong choice. … Sorry for worrying you, Dorothy.”
Dorothy shook her head at Violet, who said, “As expected, I’m disqualified from being the boss.”
“It’s not like that. It’s a natural feeling. Rather, it seems like he overcame it, so the boss feels even more proud. It’s a disqualification, please don’t say that.”
Normally, Dorothy is brusque, short-talking, and has a tendency towards social phobia, but this time she speaks in a wonderfully polite and straight-forward manner.
While No. 13 was a little startled, the two finished talking, and after Violet talked to No. 13, she said she was tired and went upstairs to her room.
I haven’t slept properly for almost two days, so after I go in and wash up, I’m going to go to sleep as if I’m dead.
See her Violet off in her foyer, and just like that she completely disappears from her sight.
“… Great thing I honestly thought it would fail.”
I even checked the funeral home, said Dorothy crookedly, returning to her normal attitude.
At the very least, I expected the ending in which No. 13, who went against the boss, was brainwashed and returned as Violet’s puppet slave.
However, judging from the situation, Unit 13’s plan to brainwash Violet seemed to have succeeded.
What kind of magic did you do?.
In any case, Dorothy was quite surprised, to the point of slightly re-evaluating the thirteenth issue.
However, as No. 13, he still had no real sense that he was alive, so he had no choice but to blurt out the answer to Dorothy’s words.
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Geeeeeing—
Clap clap clap
Dump!
Dorothy’s personal space.
The door to the lab opened, and Dorothy strode into it and sat down in a nearby chair.
Number 13 also entered after Dorothy, brought a suitable chair and sat in front of Dorothy.
“How are you really alive? When you were stubborn to the end, I thought you were just impatient to kill yourself.”
“… Well, how do you live?”
Dorothy suggested to No. 13 to brainwash Boss Violet.
No. 13 agreed with Dorothy’s opinion, and talked with her about her situation and made her plan.
Of course, Dorothy had already heard and knew that No. 13 had abandoned the safety measure of launching an all-out offensive with brainwashed heroes, saying that it would be impossible.
Like that, like that, like that.
Like that, he told No. 13 to eat his heart hard.
However, in the end, No. 13 was left to heaven’s luck, and in the end, the finish was very weak.
At the point of brainwashing Violet, she had already fallen as low as she could, but what the hell was she missing?
It’s really unexpected, but it seems that there is a delicate side that doesn’t go well with the appearance.
“No, rather than betraying the boss’s trust with guilt, I just wanted to be sure that it wouldn’t be bad for the boss to kill me and become a thoughtless puppet slave. It’s not just because you’ve been kicked out.”
“Were you No. 13 Mazo? Didn’t you just want to be the boss’s slave?”
“Honestly, the situation so far has been like slavery enough… Well, that’s done.”
#13 waved her hand at Dorothy’s reproach and said,
“Rather than that, am I really alive? That I was actually a ghost here, or that I had already died and only my soul was floating here… Isn’t it like that?”
I somehow survived, but I can’t really feel it.
It was when I was eating Violet in that abandoned warehouse, but I didn’t think that because it was the point when endorphins were pouring out.
As I got back to this place, I gradually calmed down and gradually realized that something truly outrageous had happened.
I couldn’t really feel that he was alive, so I touched his neck and pinched his cheek, but in any case, I couldn’t find any evidence that he was a ghost or that he was dead.
“I’ve never seen anything like a human soul before, so I don’t think you’re a ghost.”
“Then am I really alive? How did you live?”
“How do I know, idiot. Is this something you should tell me?”
It happened.
Issue 13 omitted most of the details and briefly conveyed the situation.
In other words, her plan was successful, her brainwashing of Violet was finished, and her anger and her hatred that had been bothering her right now were somehow resolved.
“Well done anyway. The boss looked very tough, so it was a pity to see him from the side.”
“Come to think of it, you’re older than the boss.”
“It’s a year difference. I wasn’t really trying to be her older sister, but——”
Dorothy, who was talking about her, cut off for a moment, and she continued the rest with a distant look in her eyes for some reason.
“Because I understand that feeling to some extent… I think if I was in the same situation, I would have done the same.”
Dorothy’s eyes through the monocle contained a special feeling that No. 13 could not dare to understand.
Only then does #13 recall a certain fact.
The story of Dorothy’s family, which I heard from Dorothy one day.
Like Violet, Dorothy recalled the story that she had a sister.
Dorothy, who once got drunk and talked about her sister, said that she was very proud of her sister, and that she was very precious and precious, more precious than her own life.
He said he was sorry he didn’t do it right, and he said he missed the kid who really followed him.
… And his brother.
Unfortunately, Just like Violet’s younger brother, he was ‘processed’ by the heroes as a runaway 『Awakened』.
The end of the 『Awakened』 Who cannot maintain his spirit and harms those around him with that power is obvious.
Those with superhuman strength, there are no facilities in this land that can easily subdue them and imprison them for life, so it is common to kill them so that they do no more harm.
There are no human rights for the 『Awakened』.
There are no human rights for those with special abilities.
The world has given up treating those who are not ordinary, those who do not work with the common sense accumulated over thousands of years by humans, as human beings.
In the dark period called 【Great Disaster】, that argument was even more powerful, so it was common to be killed regardless of the level of danger when it was said that it was an “Awakened person”.
Anyway.
In order to protect the safety and peace of ordinary people, the boss’s younger brother and Dorothy’s younger brother were sacrificed.
It was unavoidable on the balance of society to maintain society, and there would have been no other means other than that.
However, for those who are the blood relatives of those who were sacrificed like that, the words ‘I had no choice for the sake of society’ do not work.
The words ‘I will have to kill your family for us’ have no way to work on those who are being harmed…
“What are you thinking?”
Number 13 was lost in thought for a moment, but Violet’s words brought her to her senses.
Violet got up from her seat at some point and was taking out a plastic bottle of barley tea from the refrigerator in the corner of the lab.
He brings a beaker that has been placed nearby, pours barley tea into it, and pushes it this way.
… Dorothy always serves drinks in beakers, which is also a bit of a burden even though she sanitizes them properly and cleans them thoroughly.
When he worries that drinking will burn his throat or stomach, Dorothy silently presses him.
Eventually, he took the beaker in his hand and sipped the contents.
… First of all, it seems that there is no such thing as sulfuric acid.
“Anyway, it’s fine. The boss was brainwashed, there was no needless blood, and nothing the mysterious assailant asked for was ever fulfilled.”
“It didn’t go well. My heart is in tatters because I betrayed the boss.”
“I heard you did something dirty to the boss, so what?”
At Dorothy’s words, Number 13 averted her gaze with a stabbed heart.
Certainly, this is not what No. 13, who used the favor of the boss to satisfy his desires, would say.
“… Noisy. Rather than that, it’s a matter of what to do next.”
Number 13 looked away again and said while tightening her eyes.
It’s a pity what happened with Violet, and it was a wish fulfilled for him.
But anyway, this time, for No. 13, it made the most important boss suffer.
An unknown, mysterious person.
After being swayed and swayed by the message sent by that person and the note he left behind, he eventually made No. 13 betray even the trust of a precious person.
A precious person.
Touched violet.
I was going to do something bad.
That fact alone was enough to make him furious with #13.
Because Violet is an element that is like a reverse for #13.
Bang, Do.
Number 13 put down the beaker of barley tea and looked at Dorothy.
“If you know the cub, you will be confused. I’ll tear it limb from limb and throw it to the pigs.”
“If you did it to me, it wouldn’t matter.”
“Whatever you do to me, I can forgive you depending on the circumstances.”
“But touching the boss, crossed the line.”
“Such is the case with the staff. … I don’t know what happened to the staff now, but in some cases, I’ll put an end to it thoroughly enough to regret being born.”
“I will definitely make it into a miserable situation.”
No. 13 says
No. 13 says
No. 13 declares.
“That bastard. I will definitely, definitely kill it with my own hands.”
Number 13 roared violently.
A rare lifelike figure of No. 13.
Dorothy, who was sipping barley tea from Beaker, narrowed her eyes at his appearance and his remarks.
The monocle in front of one eye faintly reflects the light from the ceiling light…
