Ace left Clearance and searched for Qualia, and then stopped.
She found a place where the foot traffic was clearly odd. One facet of people’s psychology that was registered in her magic stone was that when they came across something that instilled fear in them, they tended to run in the opposite direction.
“Detecting an irregularity in people’s patterns. There is a chance that a big problem has appeared nearby. There is a good chance it is related to Qualia and puke.”
She followed this judgment as she went against the flow of people, and found a beast girl cowering.
“Please explain. What problem occurred nearby?”
The scared girl pointed with a trembling finger.
There were dull dissonant sounds in that direction, one after the other. They were the sounds of Qualia’s violence on top of Backdoor.
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“Bu, ba, bu, baba, Helb, I’m, dyin’, bufuah.”
Backdoor had no teeth left. Three just barely hung from his mouth. But Qualia did not care, and fixed himself with his legs to continue raining down fists on Backdoor’s face.
Every time they were swung down, the back of the hands creaked as they hit bone. There were no abnormalities.
Pain piled up and ran with intensity. There were no abnormalities.
After hitting him over and over, a bone in a hand finally cracked. There were no abnormalities.
He activated the 5D printer to perform emergency maintenance. He fixed both hands, and kept hitting.
“…Eliminating. Eliminating. [N/A], eliminating.”
Qualia’s body was seen as a failure in the Sandbox domain to begin with, so if he was not trying to make him faint, his fists did not have much power behind them if he just punched.
“Bo, bobobo, no, I’m in, bo, bo, bobo.”
Backdoor’s right eye was crushed. There were no abnormalities.
Backdoor’s face was swollen to the point of being hard to recognize. There were no abnormalities.
Blood sprayed from his mouth and nose. There were no abnormalities.
Qualia was stained in his blood. There were no abnormalities.
Backdoor’s vital activities were close to ceasing. There were no abnormalities.
He was on a path to eliminate him, not apprehend him. There were no abnormalities.
He felt he was erasing something important. There were no abnormalities.
Qualia continued pouring his anger out. There were no abnormalities.
There were no abnormalities. There were no abnormalities. There were no abnormalities. There were no abnormalities.
There were no abnormalities.
There were no abnormalities.
There were no abnormalities.
There were no abnormalities.
There were no abnormalities.
There were no…
‘Does the concept of death exist in relation to a heart?’
A bright red spark.
Echoes that showed destruction.
Signals running from both hands.
The pooled blood smelled like steel.
Once he licked it, it tasted like steel.
It was not tasty.
‘Yes, once your heart dies, you won’t know the concept of pain…. And you’ll hurt a lot of people. You’ll do everything it takes to live, no matter who dies.’
Qualia remembered a conversation, along with Ina’s worried expression when he protected her from Arrows, and she taught him about hearts dying.
That conversation became more vivid the more he hit him. Her sad face became more vivid the more he hurt him.
Backdoor’s mimicry of Ina was not active anymore, but a strange bug covered his vision subliminally.
But still, Qualia did not stop his fists.
He cracked another cheekbone. Flesh compressed, and bones broke each other.
Every time he remembered Ina, every time he saw her sad face, his body moved towards revenge.
Every time he saw Ina, he hit the already hurt Backdoor.
With the word ‘unforgivable’ in his heart-
(Ina, request explanation.)
The subliminal image of Ina, Qualia’s memory, offered no response.
(Ina, request explanation from you. Demanding your voice.)
Ina did not respond from the subliminal image.
As a result, Qualia was on his own.
He was left alone in a dark world, continuing to hit his opponent with a black heart.
(Qualia is removing the threat. This is a big threat that will stop a lot of ‘tasty’ in the future. That is why eliminating this threat is seen as very important from the point of view of Qualia’s role as a member of the guard knight chivalric order Hello World.)
Ina did not respond from the subliminal image.
And Qualia kept repeating. Eliminating, eliminating, eliminating, eliminating, eliminating…
(But Qualia cannot calculate a result that makes ‘tasty’ possible. There is no ‘tasty’ here. What you gave isn’t here.)
Ina did not respond from the subliminal image, and Qualia did not stop.
His heart sank into a jet black darkness with no stars or hope.
(Qualia is wrong. But it is judged to be impossible to stop.)
Ina did not respond from the subliminal image, and Qualia’s right hand cracked again.
But something else cracked inside him as well.
(So Ina, demanding your voice.)
Ina did not respond from the subliminal image.
She was sleeping, and might never wake up again.
Her voice from his memories did not reach him anymore either.
(Ina, request confirmation of Qualia’s heart…)
Ina did not respond from the subliminal image.
But something approached him from behind. Something that embraced him and brought him back to the human side that found things beautiful, cute, and liked them.
“Qualia, your actions are wrong. Request that you cease.”
Something small held his right arm that was pulled back.
It was Ace.
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