Chapter 121 – Episode 15. Acquisition of PMC
As Seari Sawayanagi entered her laboratory, she felt a sense of déjà vu. It must have been her first time at this lab, but something felt familiar to her.
“This place…”
“Yes, this place is built in a similar way to the laboratory we were locked in. Komisawa Renya, you’re doing this… ! “He is truly the worst man.”
When Sawayanagi Seari realized what she was saying and mumbled, Sawayanagi Tobe nodded her head, turning Sawayanagi Seari’s realization into conviction.
Yes. The form and atmosphere of this laboratory were similar to an unidentified laboratory in Seryutai in the past where war orphans were experimented on as test subjects.
It was obvious why Renya Komisawa built this research institute, either unconsciously or intentionally. It may be because of the study of supernatural powers. Sawayanagi Tobe was so enraged by Komisawa Renya that he entered the laboratory and began brutally killing everyone he met.
In order to hide his identity, he had to kill everyone he met, but he began killing not only guards but also researchers who had no resistance, using his physical abilities enhanced by Steelskin.
Kiyona Hori didn’t say anything, but he seemed to be angry and started shooting everyone with a low-noise submachine gun that anyone could see. Seari Sawayanagi closed his eyes and asked the wind for directions in order to focus on saving Azuma Sawayanagi.
Mimata Chieri was not actively participating in the battle, but was collecting data by plugging a hacking USB into the laboratory computer. Then, he sometimes protected the Seryu Tais by firing a check when the lab security came behind the Seryu Tais.
The lab was like a game stage, with each level going underground, the number of guards increased and the guards’ equipment got better.
However, Seryutai’s agents were excellent soldiers, so there was no problem at all until they reached the third floor. It was difficult for the guards to stop Seryutai’s agents and Mimata Chieri, an excellent assassin, who were constantly fighting in the field. Moreover, since Tobe Sawayanagi was using his supernatural powers to his full potential, the guards were helpless.
But it was different from the 4th floor.
From the 4th floor, I don’t know if they were agents of Black Tech or somewhere else, but they were soldiers who had experienced enough combat. Moreover, the troops were fully prepared as they had already received reports that an infiltration rescue team was coming.
“There are three over there!”
“Okay! “I’ll be blocking your way, so get behind me!”
However, the cooperation of two superpowers was difficult to stop, even for those who were prepared. In addition, Kiyona Hori and Mimata Chieri, who were non-superpowered, also had excellent fighting skills, so they were able to easily penetrate the 4th floor.
“I received a call to tell me what the current situation is. I will reply that everything is going well. “Judging by the fact that they are telling me to contact them if anything happens, I guess the situation outside is also bad.”
Chieri Mimata said, sending her line to her smartphone.
“If things are going well outside, you don’t have to worry about the future.”
Kiyona Hori said with a relieved expression. While Chieri Mimata and Hori Kiyona were sharpening their magazines, Seari Sawayanagi found her way down to the 5th floor. However, Sawayanagi Seari’s expression was not good.
“What’s going on, Seari?”
When Kiyona Hori asked, Sawayanagi Seari answered with a slightly frightened look.
“There’s something scary on the 5th floor…”
This was the first time the wind had given a warning like this, so Sawayanagi Seari was slightly frightened. The rest of the people also wondered what on earth was on the 5th floor that made Seari Sawayanagi so scared. But what about Chieri Mimata, who doesn’t know what powers Seari Sawayanagi has? She stood with an expression on her face.
But in order to save Azuma Sawayanagi, he had to go down. The group gathered their minds and opened the door to the passage leading down to the fifth basement level.
The moment she opened the door, a bloody smell hit her nose. Sawayanagi Tobe, who was at the forefront, frowned at her and stepped into the fifth basement level.
“Why are all the researchers here dead?”
Most of the researchers on the 5th floor had died with all of their internal organs gone, as if they had been eaten by animals.
“Careful… !”
The moment he shouted, “Be careful,” Something attacked Sawayanagi Tobe. That something was something ugly. Perhaps this was a laboratory to create combat chimeras. It seemed that the experimental chimera had escaped by taking advantage of the commotion caused by the infiltration escape team above.
It must have been a fairly thorough study, as steel armor was added to the chimera’s gray skin on critical areas such as the chest and abdomen. It had two heads, and the steel armor and raw muscles were forcibly connected, so it looked disgusting with pus dripping through the armor.
Fortunately, the chimera’s teeth and claws could not pierce Sawayanagi Tobe’s steel body. However, the monster had a strong tenacity that did not even flinch from Sawayanagi Tobe’s punches.
As the situation continued where they were unable to damage each other, Chimera gave up chewing on Sawayanagi Tobe and started targeting Sawayanagi Seari and Kiyonahori who were standing behind her.
“Where…” !”
Sawa Yanagi Tobe held the chimera’s torso tightly to prevent it from moving towards her companions. Chimera! As she walked away, she struggled to reach Sawayanagi Seari and Kiyonahori.
Sawayanagi Seari and Kiyona Hori started shooting at the chimera. Because the shot was fired as close to the unarmored area as possible, the chimera’s flesh exploded and her bodily fluids scattered around. However, as if they heard the sound of shooting, several more chimeras appeared.
Meanwhile, Chieri Mimata was sending lines to Ryuta Taira.
Cherry🍒: Junior! It’s dangerous here, so don’t come!
Cherry🍒: Photo
Cherry🍒: There are monsters like that, so if we don’t contact you, retreat and contact Tyra’s group.
Mimatachieri put her smartphone in her pocket and joined her gun-toting trio and started shooting her gun at her chimera. So she didn’t see Taira Ryuta’s reply right away.
Master❤️: I’m going down now.
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“Phew… ! “Why are you hiding so tightly?”
I took out the last of the five hiding people and sighed. In fact, it only took about 5 minutes to find them, but they went back and forth to the 3rd floor with all their might to find and kill 5 people.
The last one was smart and tried to escape through the first floor entrance while I was up to the third floor, but he couldn’t overcome my speed and was caught and died from a broken neck.
I was quite exhausted after sprinting for 5 minutes, so I rested my butt on the ground when I heard a vibration in my pocket. When I opened it, it was Mimata Chieri.
Cherry-chan★: Junior! It’s dangerous here, so don’t come!
Cherry-chan★: Photo
Cherry-chan★: There are monsters like that, so if you don’t hear from us, please contact Tyra Group.
I woke up tired after seeing the photo Chieri Mimata sent me.
First, I sent a line saying I was going down and ran at full speed. There was an elevator going down from this building. That’s because the guards can join us.
Those monsters were the ones that appeared in the latter half of the story, named as Experimental Subject β. Was the source of that monster black tech? I know it’s not… Or maybe BlackTech received the technology from somewhere.
Contrary to the tangled thoughts in my head, I ran as fast as I could and reached the elevator. You said earlier that it was okay up to the 4th floor, so it must be on the 5th or 6th floor.
Since I said it was the 4th floor earlier, it’s been quite a while, so I guess it’s the 6th floor?
After thinking for a moment, I pressed the 6th floor.
The elevator carrying me went down at high speed and opened the door on the 6th basement floor.
“Uh?”
When the elevator door opened, dozens of pairs of eyes met mine. Many researchers were looking at me in the elevator. As I walked out of the elevator, the researchers took a step back. Behind the researchers was a huge glass tube, and inside it was a blue-haired girl floating in liquid.
It was Azuma Sawayanagi.
So I guess the floor where the monster appeared was the 5th floor. I need to quickly rescue Azuma Sawayanagi and go up to the 5th floor.
“Get that girl out of the glass tube right away.”
As I spoke furiously, several researchers tried to operate the machine, but several middle-aged researchers who appeared to be senior researchers came in front of me and shouted.
“Do you dare give orders? “This is no place for an ignorant guy like you. Get the hell out of here!”
“Okay, get out!”
Are they crazy? What is so confident about these guys who are conducting forbidden research? Rather, we are the victims, not the perpetrators.
“On the topic of being an accomplice to kidnapping…!”
I sympathized with the senior researcher who came forward and strangled those who told me to go away with my shadow. After some time, several researchers fell to the ground with a crashing sound. The rest of the researchers, seeing him being strangled by the shadow, gasped! I was terrified.
“Open it quickly. “I’m busy so I have to go up to the 5th floor now.”
“Yes, four!”
After seeing their colleague die before their eyes, the researchers opened the glass coffin by manipulating the machine so that their hands were not visible. First, the water filling the glass tube drained, and then the glass tube was opened. I entered the glass coffin and hugged Azuma Sawayanagi in a princess hug.
Azuma Sawayanagi kept his eyes closed while being held by me. Well, I can’t come to my senses right away.
“Where should I go to the 5th floor?”
“Well, you can’t just leave.”
What does that mean? After listening to the researcher, he said that the triple steel wall was lowered to prevent the chimeras from the 5th floor from entering. I’m actually glad I came to the 6th floor first instead of the 5th. If I had continued down, I would have been blocked by the triple steel wall and would not have been able to save Azuma Sawayanagi.
“I’ll only spare the one person who opens the door. Open it quickly. “I have to go.”
As soon as I finished speaking, the ten or so remaining researchers quickly began typing on their keyboards. For a moment, there was no sound here other than the sound of the keyboard clicking and breathing.
“I-I opened it!”
“No! “I opened it!”
“No, it’s me!”
It quickly became chaos. I saved everyone equally and sent them to the Daughter of the Abyss. By the way, I sent a few people alive earlier, but seeing that there was no response, I guess living tributes are worse than corpses? I headed up the passage to the 5th floor, thinking about the tastes of the Daughter of the Abyss. The triple steel door was open. As expected, they were all good researchers who didn’t lie.
“Is that it?”
When I got to the 5th floor, there was a shadow walking around. It looked like the monsters I had seen in the pictures. I decided to hunt down the monsters as quickly as possible. I had to catch it as quickly as possible. This was because the time limit for the shadow beads was less than 5 minutes remaining. I stuck a shadow skewer into the monsters’ heads and stirred their brains. If this happens, one hit will kill you. The weak point of any monster is usually its brain.
As I ran, whenever I saw a monster, I looked for Chieri Mimata and the Seryu Military Company’s group. Then I saw about seven monsters gathered together. Sawayanagi Tobe was blocking as many as five monsters, and Sawayanagi Seari, Kiyona Hori, and Mimata Chieri were avoiding two running monsters. But it seemed like the slowdown would soon catch on.
“Over here, you monsters!”
At my shout, the eyes of all humans and monsters focused on me. During that brief moment, I knocked off the heads of the two monsters chasing the women with my shadow blade.
And the remaining five monsters were easily defeated by whipping their brains with a shadow skewer, just as they had done up to this point.
After killing the seven here, it seemed like there were no monsters left. Even if I concentrated my master’s senses as much as I could, I couldn’t sense any sign of us.
At that moment, my body seemed to have lost all strength, as if the duration of the shadow beads had ended. The abyss decreased by 5 and the level of Shadow Control decreased by 5. But there was nothing gained at all.
LEVEL UP!
Please select a characteristic.
I have mastered the art of mastering the upper shadows. The level of Shadow Domination increases by 2.
Oh, that sucks. In addition to leveling up, the shadow control level is also up 2.
I definitely felt it this time. Abyss is a very useful stat, but it is also dangerous. Even though we had the same will and shame, they made human sacrifices and killed people so freely, so it was clear that it had an impact on my psyche. However, if it were not for the widening abyss, this case would not have been solved.
If I used Shinkaiyatsude and all my abilities, I could defeat these monsters right now, but I wouldn’t have been able to defeat them as easily as before. If you fight, there will eventually be a victim, and you can’t guarantee that that victim won’t be me or Chieri Mimata.
So the conclusion was to first apply as much will as possible and then invest little by little into the abyss.
“Umm… !”
I was thinking for a moment when Azuma Sawayanagi, who was being held by me, opened her eyes. Azuma Sawayanagi seemed very surprised that this was not inside a glass tube, but in my arms.
“Boo, there are definitely five men…”
“Do not worry. We worked together to save it… ! “Inhale!”
It was Azuma Sawayanagi who suddenly kissed me. What kind of situation is this again?
