Chapter 709 – E113 Sonia Enters the Underground Hiding Place of a Villain Organization
“It’s cleaner inside than I thought…?”
“It’s similar to the place where Aoi was. Is it the same inside?”
A vague offer that cannot be considered as additional compensation for the Doctor, who was requested by Sonia, the hero of Sky City, to protect Aoi.
He tells them the location of the material hideout of the villain organization that kidnapped him, and who have all run away or been caught by now, and suggests that they take whatever they can with them.
The outskirts of Sky City with an ambiguous suggestion that if there were any security-related issues, it would be okay to take Aoi, who was registered as a member and assistant. Sonia headed to the factory complex.
It’s a factory complex, and it’s not that it’s close to other companies’ factories. It’s a single factory building with zones divided into one area: Cyber Life, Bestia, another area, Shinohara Heavy Industries, and a small and medium-sized business area. As for the other factory buildings, there was nothing around the factory where the two people had just entered, as security and the company themselves had set up additional boundaries to prevent information leakage.
“Is it too big to be called a hiding place? Hmm…”
Obviously, the temporary shelter where the contract fighters I met when I set out to rescue Luce, the party leader and leader of a party who lives as an adventurer in Sky City, was just a small room in a concrete back alley… Of course, the difference between the center and the outer factory area is However, there is only one underground elevator visible in the empty factory.
Even if you don’t think about it, it’s clear that there is a well-made temporary shelter for villains at the feet of Sky City’s hero.
Sonia was excited, hoping that she would have something to take with her.
“Aoi. Of course that won’t happen, but… You’re behind me, okay?”
“(Flap flutter)”
He lowered his head as if interested, but his light blue hair was fluttering.
An elevator that clearly goes down to the basement. There is only one button to press. Even if you press the button after getting into the naturally open elevator, the button with [B1] Written on it says ‘I pressed it…! I pressed it…! If you press it one more time, it will be cancelled!’ Sonia is puzzled that it doesn’t shine brightly.
The elevator was just standing there with no buttons or lights, perhaps because the electricity or the power itself had been cut off. Sonia thought, perhaps absurdly, that this journey, which was more like reconnaissance and collecting scrap, might just end here.
“Excited… A different underground that Aoi doesn’t know about…
… But… When… Move…?”
Well… I saw Aoi, the light blue haired protein powder graduate, hugging Sonia, who had been standing in the elevator since a while ago after telling her to stay behind, enjoying her first outing in her life, but Sonia was satisfied with just that fact. Since you are here, it is a good idea to take everything you need with you.
Shake…! Tick… Tick… Tick…! Cheeeeek…!
“That’s right. Ah-it…! Huh?!”
An elevator without a safety device, just keeps going down, as if it lost power. As the elevator went down, not even a single glimmer of light came from the lamps or buttons. Sonia and Aoi were inside that elevator.
Sonia, a hero with above-average strength and endurance, and Aoi, a protein powder born with an intentional purpose, were created during Charam’s research on the next generation of combatants in a bodysuit with a power pack attached to her back.
“Are you okay Aoi?!”
“Yeah… Sonia… Are you okay too?”
Both of them suffered shock damage as the submerged elevator hit the floor, but they were not in a state of harm from such a minor impact.
“Uh… Uh… I can’t see anything…”
“Wait a minute… The communication terminal flash mode is… Ah. Here…!”
Of course, there are many better specifications, but Sonia’s latest communication terminal definitely does not make you feel the need to buy a better communication terminal.
Sonia’s communication terminal has the association’s symbol engraved on it in addition to the general communication terminal design, perhaps to prove that it was a gift distributed by the association.
Two people coming down in an elevator.
You can’t see any lights, but you can feel it with your skin, the elevator that wasn’t there before, the open space you can feel from the direction you came in, and the sound of the wind blowing.
When looking at the black space that the two people are looking at, the flash mode light of the communication terminal held up instead of a flashlight reveals the hideout of the villain organization.
I haven’t even entered it yet, but the wallpaper is neatly lined up, and the floor is finished with a smooth material, as if to prove that it’s not just a one- or two-room hideout used for low-level contract combatants to rest or hide.
The floor had a slightly uneven feel, but it looked like it had been intentionally finished with thick, sticky paint.
Two people standing in the entrance hallway of an underground cache. All that can be seen is a dark, elongated hallway leading inward that cannot be fully illuminated even by Sonia’s smartphone, and as if digging into the hallway, a room where security guards can be seen through a glass panel.
“Something happened… But it seems like it wasn’t that long like the doctor said.
The switch… The switch…”
A pot of orchids live in the hallway and liven up the atmosphere, as if the members who were there had recently left.
Of course, the more I knew and understood that fact, the more I left! -〉 There’s a lot to take with you! Sonia was smiling, but it was Sky, who was pursuing safety both on battery and searching the villain organization’s hiding place, which had become a dark place, relying on the flashlight of the communication terminal, as if someone had turned off the power or just flipped the switch. A strategy that doesn’t even suit the city’s hero, Sonia.
I have a feeling it should be around here…, Said Sonia, fiddling with the neat paper wallpaper she bought from Daisso. When Aoi sees Sonia like that, she looks at her with interest and follows her, then opens her mouth.
“… Sonia. What are you doing?”
“I’m sure there’s a button to turn on the light… I’m looking for it, Aoi.”
“Ugh… Tell me what it looks like, and I’ll help Aoi too.”
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“This…?”
As soon as Aoi finished explaining that it was a switch attached to the living room of the nest, a button that turns on an LED fluorescent light when pressed, she discovered the switch that turns on the lights, hidden behind a scary fresh orchid pot, although I don’t know if it was hidden on purpose or just in a strange position.
Tick.
“Oh! Sister, sister! Can we go in now?”
Tak…
“Eh…?”
The hallway lights up brightly when you press the button. Perhaps this switch is connected to the fluorescent lights of a room like a guard room beyond the glass plate, or the villain’s underground stash shining brightly all the way beyond the hallway.
I don’t know what the principle is, but the switch turns off again on its own before I can even understand the location of the illuminated underground base.
The switch turns off again every time you press it, whether it’s broken or for some other reason.
Usually, if it was an adventurer party of at least four or five people or an old classic game, I would have gone inside, leaving one person behind to keep pressing the switch…
“… There’s no way around it.
It’s a field I’m confident in…!”
“I don’t know what it is, but cheer up, sister.”
Sonia is not a scientist, but of course she is not as good as a professional engineer, but she is familiar with this kind of work. The villain’s underground stash becomes brighter when the switch panel is torn off with pure force and the wires are lightly fiddled with.
It didn’t turn off again like before. Of course, it would be difficult to turn it off again since the switch itself was torn off, but it wasn’t a big problem since I could just fiddle with it again when I left.
“Then… Let’s go carefully. Aoi?”
“Yes.”
Aoi clung to Sonia’s waist from behind, nodding at the light blue fur at the end as if it were a basic posture.
The obstacle blocking the two people who were trying to search the room, such as the nearest security room, by walking step by step, was more accurate as the hero’s steps to root the security room stopped when he heard a sound rather than being physically blocked.
The sound coming from the mini speaker across the hallway, as if it had an emergency warning notification function.
[Welcome to visit. Please tell us your identity. Are you from Sky City?]
If Sonia had been in the basement training room of a large company equipped with cutting-edge security programs, or at least an association with high security, she might have been familiar with it, but when she came in, she heard a harsh mechanical voice…! Sonia is surprised. Aoi didn’t know why she was surprised, so she just hugged Sky City’s hero, Sonia, by her waist.
Actually, I wanted to hug her breasts with my arms, but because she was short and the chest size of the hero in front of her was greater than the size of Aoi’s arms, Aoi ended up compromising with her waist.
“…?”
A security program installed in this facility that requires identification…? A hero who thinks in a dazed manner without answering questions.
It’s true that it’s definitely not an altered sound, but a real synthesized sound from a program… With that in mind, Sonia introduces herself and says what comes to mind instead of giving yes/no answers
“… Please tell me your identity… Since this is a villain organization, don’t say ‘unauthorized visitor… I found an unauthorized intruder’…?
… Isn’t this Sky City…?”
[… That’s also true. Could you please come in here? Sonia?]
If it was a simple security protocol, it would be like, ‘Let’s hate it!’ Chimipja found!’ It may have sounded the same, but the inside of the door, which looked like a security room, was visible through a glass panel in the hallway. It seemed to have been locked, but the door clicked and opened on its own, and a synthesized mechanical sound told me to come in.
I’m not sure, but it was Sonia who felt like this search would take a long time.
