Chapter 320 – 1. Kumamon (6)
“Hello kid. Goodbye”
In her life, which was filled with only dull gray light and darkness, as she watched her brother David, who could be said to have become a little bit of light, leaving at the coming-of-age ceremony, Yuria felt a big emptiness in her heart for some reason.
But why?
Why did I only ask David’s name?
Watching David leave like that, YuRia wanted to say something, but she couldn’t.
At the age of 17, I couldn’t hide my bitterness in the classroom, where I was left alone after sending my last motive away.
Learning something too. In fact, he didn’t need any more training or education because he was the best to learn, but he couldn’t go to war without legally becoming an adult, so the only thing left was to wait here indefinitely until he turned 20, and the last remaining David brother As soon as he left, the demonic beast that had been reaching out unnoticed called out to himself again.
This plot with a large Erez tree.
A room like a nightmare in which he manipulated and repaired himself at the genetic level, one by one, as a child.
From a spaceship belonging to an unknown government to a training center here. This room, which he had shared for so long that he now felt like his own home, was the most resentful and hateful room as he was familiar with it.
As of today, however, after coming to the military academy, except for the biological experiment and human body modification time, I moved my room to this place again, and it seemed that Yuria would cry in front of the door of this room.
Now, how many times do they cut, cut, stab, dig, and play with their own bodies again?
Looking down at her own body for a moment, Yuria let out a small sigh.
Just like older sisters and older brothers who graduated as adults, their body has become closer to that of an adult than a child, so there is a place to come out and a place to go in. It was becoming embarrassing to be naked.
Of course, the shame didn’t last long because of the pain tearing her body apart, and her shameful appearance soon turned into fluttering organs and muscles, so shame was shameful.
So she came into a room with a huge Erez tree and a silver-white operating table soaked in her own blood. Even though she hadn’t climbed on the operating table yet, tears flowed without her knowledge.
The day began with a morning marked by screams, and Yuria went to the PX today as well.
The only thing that soothes oneself in this place where everything is hell is a small instant food in PX.
When she saw this instant food called meta aquatase, Yuria seemed to be possessed for some reason. She put it in the instant cooker, cooked it hot, and ate it in a hurry.
Because people can feel this way too.
I can be so happy with just one food, but I am so sad that I wonder why my life is so dark.
Even so, she cried because the taste of the food was so delicious that she cried because she was happy with the taste. The happiness she had tasted was so short-lived that she cried again.
Since then, she has found PX every day at every meal and eats it with it. Although she didn’t cry like that then, she thought she was really happy at this moment in this hellish life.
If there is heaven, wouldn’t it be the one with the newest automatic cooker in a room full of meta aquatase without a large Erez tree and an operating table?
Apparently, the newest cooker goes beyond simply defrosting and reheating, and it is said that it does ‘cooking’ in a true sense.
YuRia, who was slurping and eating her noodles with a fork, said what about her Abel who appeared in front of her own eyes? She looked up.
“Aberia”
“It’s been a while, Abel”
“Are you not regretting leaving the director?”
At Abel’s words, Yuria quietly avoided his eyes.
“I’ve already come too far to have regrets”
YuRia, who swept the remaining metaquartase into her mouth in a container made of heat-resistant film and tossed the remaining container into the recycling container, swallowed it in one gulp before savoring the taste and looked at Abel.
“The more you expect something, the more painful it is.”
“…”
“If you can tell the director, tell him. Forget about me and live happily ever after.”
At that, Abel thumped and slammed her fist down on her table.
“You… Did you say that now?”
“Then what can we do? Orphans like us don’t have any background, and the director has some personal connections. I looked into this and that, but in the end, all the director could do was hit the egg with an egg in front of the rock.”
She wasn’t wrong.
Obviously he was right
“Look”
Unlike Abel, when Yuria slammed the table down with her fists without her psychic ability, a large hole was formed in the table.
“You…”
“Now I’m not weak anymore. The Averia you knew is no more.”
However, Abel, who saw this, made an even more painful expression.
“What the hell… What have you been through?”
“Everything from the inside of the bone to the inside of the intestine. Everything has been overhauled. Even the sequence of genes if necessary.”
“What do you want to be by doing that?”
To those words, Yuria couldn’t answer anything.
“Your dream… Isn’t it anymore?”
“The childish Marchen of a child disappears when you become an adult.”
“… There really isn’t any Averia I know.”
Abel quietly rose from her seat.
“Okay… I’ll tell the director. There’s no longer the Averia we used to know here, only cold dolls left.”
“Do whatever you want. They told me to stop doing dangerous things because of me.”
“…”
As she watched Abel leave the PX helplessly, YuRia felt a deeper depression than usual, but she ignored it.
Okay. It’s done with this.
There can’t be anything like heaven in front of me anyway, right?
Experiments and surgeries like that. Repeating her training and education, Yuria was losing her humanity more and more.
Mental education that is no different from brainwashing and the obliteration of individuality that destroys personality…
Having a cold-hearted fantasy about the honored position of the military.
But still.
Recalling the coming-of-age ceremonies of the older sisters and older brothers who were recognized as a truly decent adult and celebrated by everyone, while the only remaining fantasy about him remained in a corner of her heart, Yuria gradually became a living robot with the spirit and ego of a ‘soldier’ rather than a human being. Was becoming
Whatever the higher ones want. When ordered, he obeys without questioning anything, and puts the orders of his superiors as the highest priority over his own pain and safety.
From one day she started acting as a temporary instructor herself.
Judging that further training and education was meaningless, they came to that conclusion in order to use themselves somehow, and Yuria obeyed.
Even if she couldn’t go to the battlefield because she didn’t reach adulthood, she was already a soldier, and if her superior’s orders fell, she had to obey them.
Is it because of that? He faced Abel more often than before, but Yuria didn’t care about him anymore.
Abel looked very confused, but in the end, his expression seemed to have given up on everything.
YuRia, who was reborn as a decent soldier by putting down unnecessary parts for the remaining soldier today, unwillingly went to combat.
– An emergency has occurred! EMERGENCY OCCUR! A group of Devil Shrimps are on their way to the main ship.
-All instructors are in combat readiness. Evacuate students in an emergency!
The decree did not prevent fighting even under circumstances like this.
Unconditional exclusion from battle is sometimes the same as giving up the right to live, so if you have a certain ability, you are allowed to fight in defense of the house (spaceship) you live in, so Yuria, as ordered, is nervous about the first actual battle prepared for battle.
In fact, this broadcast was like a mistake.
Since he had never used a minor as a temporary instructor before, the broadcast that had never been modified was just broadcast.
However, the order given by broadcast ended up including Yuria.
Unlike the other instructors, Yuria, who did not even have proper combat uniforms and equipment, stood among the other instructors who had been thoroughly prepared and came out into space, and the instructors who saw her flinched and looked at Yuria.
“You, little boy?”
“Temporary instructor Yuria. Following the order, I went on a defensive mission.”
The instructors looked aghast at YuRia’s will.
「This, this… I can’t brush kid. You stand near the battle turret on the bridge side and act as a fixed battery. You, who are not even equipped with combat uniforms, will be split in two if you mistakenly brush against the Devil Shrimp.”
“Is this an order?”
At YuRia’s words, the instructor hesitated for a moment with an expression as if he had bitten a cow, then nodded her head.
“Okay. It is an order as a superior. As much as possible, under the cover of the battle turret, fire support at allies. The basic location will be near the bridge, but I will allow you to move the location autonomously depending on the situation.”
“All right”
The instructors let out a sigh of relief as they saw the girl waving and leaving for the vicinity of the bridge where the battle turrets were concentrated.
「I’m glad. I hope you won’t die today.”
“Hey. In fact, aren’t our noses stone now?”
“… 」
Thinking of the Devil Shrimp, they certainly worried about that kid, but their lives weren’t safe right now.
If you didn’t have a combat uniform, your body would be cut in two even if you brushed against it, but even if you had a combat uniform, it was the same thing if you were hit by a Devil Shrimp straight away.
“It’s enough to exchange bodies for the first time in a while.”
“Okay… In order to properly replace my body, I must properly stop those damn shrimps.”
In order to transfer to the spare body stored in the freezer, I had to hope that the spaceship was intact as much as possible.
“Should I tell the little boy to take care of them first if shrimp enter the ship?”
“Fuck it. Are you doing this knowing that it’s the most dangerous mission?”
“That too… 」
It is dangerous even at the moment when it quickly flies like a bullet, but once it penetrates the inside of the hull, there is no situation as dangerous as that time.
It was because their carapace was unblemished by moderate psychic abilities, and their claws had a feature that nullified psychic barriers.
In fact, it was best to defeat it in a situation where it was not approached as much as possible.
In the distance, a hazy group like a red mist came into view.
“Damn, this is the second time I’ve seen it, but every time I see it, it’s disgusting.”
“Are you lucky? This is my third
Seeing that terrible space shrimp flying around, the instructors all raised their Psi launchers and aimed them at the Devil Shrimp running towards the spaceship.
“Ten seconds until the first wave arrives, 9, 8, 7… 」
Waiting for them to come to the distance where they could form the most optimal fire network, they gulp and spit as they felt the battle turrets behind their backs charge energy by receiving not only the power of the engine but also the psychic energy of all the crew members and students in the school. Swallowed
“I’ll see you live, friends”
「Razer」
“Fire Cross line reached. Launch!”
Kyuhwaahak -!!
Against the backdrop of tens of millions of beam stems fired from a gigantic body over a thousand kilometers away, the instructors shot beams one after another toward a group of crimson shrimp flying far away, infusing psychic energy with the psychic launchers in their hands.
Pop! Beep!! Perbung!!
“It’s spectacular.”
“Shut up and shoot! If you miss even one person, you’ll be screwed.”
Kuhwaaang!! Kyu Hwa Aang!!
As they shot the launcher in succession, they flinched from behind and saw a lot of psychic energy flying in a sharp line.
As they ordered, the little guy was standing near the bridge where the turrets were the most concentrated, creating a huge psychic orb and shooting countless bundles of beams out of it into space like a projectile.
“Holly… 」
“How old did you say Jae was?”
“Hey, are things from ten thousand years old already suffering from dementia? You said you were 17.”
“You know that’s not the case! Since I conveyed it through my intentions, I should have been able to convey what I meant, but are you like that!?”
Even as Shilsaeup hit the beam launcher, they couldn’t believe the girl’s firepower.
Battle suits too. The girl, virtually naked in outer space, without any combat equipment to support her Psi abilities, was unleashing the firepower of a battalion supported by the fortress, fully armed alone.
“The military academy’s defense system and all of us combined can’t do it alone?”
“… 」
In the middle of thinking about who was worrying about whom, Saaeng -!! They say, Oops! Did
“Shrimp!?”
The battle turrets turned their orbits like crazy and fired beam shells, but the red shrimp that broke through the defense line rushed toward the ship like a darting arrow. Ran towards the ship.
And.
Before she knew it, her head and torso were entangled in the long Psi spear that rose from Yuria’s hand, which stood in front of the shrimp, and the body stopped right in front of Yuria’s fingertips.
Everything, everything! Dakak… Choo Woo-wook…
YuRia, who converted the Psi Spear into a blade and immediately cut her body vertically, returned to the vicinity of the bridge and continued to fire support for her allies as ordered.
Seeing this, all the instructors became mute and silent, and continued to fire their beam launchers at the red demons who were still endlessly approaching.
I thought at least a hundred of those here today would die, but today the tension is really dropping, and it’s actually getting more tiring to keep it up.
To that extent, the girl’s support was terrifying.
Enough to change the game of war.
Q- Kyu-Kyu-Kyu-Kyu-Kyu!!!!
YuRia maintained her huge psychic orb and continuously fired huge bundles of beams at the red shrimp flying in black from the front.
Cosmic disasters that love well-refined metal so much that they often attack the fleet.
They were even more troublesome because they didn’t even look at low-level alloys, and they were the worst pests of mankind.
Demons who try to avoid them as much as possible, but once they meet, the spaceship becomes a rag and the damage is enormous.
Monsters flying around at crazy speeds like coil gun shells despite being creatures.
Although she had received education about it, it was the first time she had actually seen it, so Yuria was quite excited.
As I have learned and trained so far, I use my psychic ability to replace atmospheric pressure with my body, and oxygen to carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide to oxygen. Using the vast amount of light reflected in outer space as an energy source, YuRia continuously fired light bullets.
Pop! Buff!! Perbung!!
The psychic energy intense enough to make the whole body tremble from the giant battle turrets caused ripples in time and space, and was shot into outer space and flew away. Thousands of tens of thousands of psychic light bullets flew over the instructors who were fighting for a long time in outer space. It swept away those cosmic shrimps that flew in and turned into .
Yuria was a little relieved at the battle, which was developing quite differently from what she had learned, but she did not let go of her tension.
If you miss even one and break into the ship, you know what will happen from what you have been trained for.
Like moles, they burrowed here and there inside the ship, messing with the ship’s functions, wandering around places that people can’t easily access, and attacking people from unexpected places.
The prey they love as much as fine metal is creatures with high psychic powers or power reactors with huge psychic energy.
These goddamn shrimps were also highly advanced creatures that evolved to use psychic energy in a way different from humans.
If the shrimp burrowed into the ship, no matter how quickly they were caught, the severe damage to the hull could not be prevented.
So, in order not to miss a single one, my eyes wide open watched those red dots flying in countless numbers.
It was in the meantime.
What caught my eyes was a ray of red trace that broke through the instructors’ defense net.
The turrets changed the type of ammunition to interceptor instead of cluster ammunition, and started spitting flames like crazy.
However, that shrimp evaded most of the interceptors at that high speed, but in the meantime, it was hit by several shots, and even though about a third of its body was blown away, it continued to fly without slowing down at all, unlike a living creature, and it flew at the highest density of the turret. Was charging towards the enemy’s flank.
At that moment, before anyone could say anything, Yuria immediately threw herself to the side and changed the psychic orb, which had been charged with psychic energy, into a spear with a Chinese character at once, stabbing the shrimp in the head that was about to crash into the ship.
It was a very risky adventure.
The shrimp’s charge was strong enough to crush even the special armor of the ship, and the shrimp’s claws were a dangerous substance that could easily tear apart the psychic barrier.
But fortunately, the shrimp’s body barely stopped just before the tip of its head touched the tip of her finger, and Yuria changed the spear into a blade and turned the body vertically, seeing the shrimp’s tenacious vitality that was still moving and snapping even in the situation where the body was threaded like that. After dismembering it, it immediately returned to the vicinity of the bridge ordered by the instructors and resumed its support fire mission.
After that, there were about three dangerous moments, but Yuria’s first real fight ended safely without any damage to her luck.
And.
“Temporary Instructor Yuria Averia, come forward”
Amidst everyone’s applause, Yuria went up to the podium.
“I will award the Crimson Equipment Exchange Voucher to Yuria Averia, who made the biggest contribution in the defense of the vicious Devil Shrimp.”
Crimson equipment.
It refers to equipment made of a very special material made by refining the Devil Shrimp’s carapace and claws.
This material was the ultimate luxury material because only 1g came out of a single shrimp, but it was also a valuable item.
By the way, the equipment exchange coupon?
It’s usually a material used to make alloys for the armor plates of top-class spaceships or main weapons, but you’re going to use such extravagant materials as main materials instead of alloys and provide them as equipment?
It was an exchange ticket, but it actually meant ordering the equipment I wanted.
It meant that the material extracted from the shrimp caught this time would be given to me first.
YuRia was troubled.
What kind of equipment should I get?
YuRia, who had been thinking about it for a long time, put her decision on hold.
She hadn’t even once thought about her own dedicated gear.
And when she was trying to decide something for herself, she had no idea. YuRia, who was agonizing over her troubles, eventually found her instructors and asked them.
She asked what kind of equipment would be best to get.
“Demand a suit”
“Suit… You mean?”
“Yes. If you’re like me, you won’t need any other equipment, and you’re too tall to choose just one.”
The instructor said that it would be best for me to choose a suit if not all armed series can be obtained.
Even for assistance and control of abilities.
And even on the defensive side, which I lack the most.
“It’s not just a normal suit, it’s a battle suit. Don’t forget it.”
“All right”
So, as the instructor advised, I applied for a battle suit and soon received a large red prize.
Looking at the red combat uniform, which was made to be resizable to some extent so that I could use it even after I became an adult, Yuria fell in love with the coolness for some reason.
Ah yes
Is this what a soldier’s sensibility is?
Stronger equipment. More robust equipment.
This practical and outstanding design.
It was an art.
And seeing Yuria like that, her instructors couldn’t hide their bitterness.
Normally, such values are formed naturally after becoming an adult and going through a certain amount of training, but that child was forced to make it too early, so he could not help but feel bitter.
In this battle, especially because I knew that no one was killed thanks to that little boy, I couldn’t help but bark all the more.
That’s why the instructor prayed.
I hope that the little boy will be safe in the future, so I hope that the recommended battle suit will protect the little boy well in the future.
