Qualia watched as Mind’s head fell and rolled on the ground.
At that moment, he stopped calculating optimal solutions. He froze.
“Screwin’ with me!! Screwin’ with me!!”
The beast person who beheaded Mind on the other hand, was still infuriated.
He spat at Mind’s head and stomped his feet in frustration.
“Uraaaaaa!! Outta my waaaay!!”
“Uwah!?”
His power was great even among the others in Azure Skies.
Many knights pressed upon him with their swords, but in a moment, he cut down both the knights and their attacks with his big sword.
No one could hold him anymore.
“Dammit! You coward!! Lettin’ go of the hostage like that! Traitor, damn traitor!”
After hurling abuse at Mind’s severed head, he glared at the scared hostage girl, and stretched his muscular arm towards her.
“Come here! You’re gonna be a hostage and a shield ’till I get away! I can’t stay here! I’m gonna get outta here even if I’m the only one…”
“Eliminating.”
A streak of light pierced the beast man’s head from the side.
“Ne, ne, ne, ne, ne…”
“Confirming termination of target’s vital activities. Continuing to eliminate.”
A hole was opened in the beast man’s head, and his giant body began to convulse.
In front of him, Qualia had his eyes open wide, and he activated his 5D printer.
“Type SWORD.
Type SWORD.”
Qualia was already done calculating his optimal solutions.
It was a conclusion reached as a weapon of destruction whose protocol to not eliminate opponents had been temporarily suspended.
The beast man who was twice as big as him had fallen to his knees, and was no longer breathing.
Regardless, Qualia pierced his body with his two photon weapons, let go of them, and activated the 5D printer again.
He was not done.
Something inside him told him so, and whirled around his shorted thought circuits.
“Eliminating.
Type SWORD.
Type SWORD.”
He created a third and fourth photon weapons.
And just as the handles were formed, beam blades pierced the beast man’s abdomen and melted his organs.
“Eliminating.
Type SWORD.
Type SWORD.”
The fifth and sixth beams of light pierced his head.
“Eliminating.
Type SWORD.
Type SWORD.”
Seventh and eight.
“Eliminating.
Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD. Type SWORD.”
In the end, twenty-six beam blades destroyed the body completely until it did not resemble its original shape anymore.
But Qualia was not done.
“Eliminating.
Type GUN.
Type GUN.”
Qualia held two photon guns, and immediately fired several hundred shots in just a few seconds.
The beast man’s body was melted, and now it was completely torn to pieces.
Only the fricative sounds of the beams running and hitting could be heard, sounding like tear filled hiccups.
If someone who had no idea what happened looked at it, they would never guess it used to be someone’s body.
At this point, one could only call this a beast person’s body in the past tense.
“Eliminating.”
But it was not enough. Not enough. Not enough. Not enough.
The bug that prioritized destruction ran wild inside Qualia’s brain, as the light of the charged photon weapons shined on him.
“Type GUN. MAGNUM mode.
Type GUN. MAGNUM mode.”
The barrels of the photon weapons extended, and two big beams concentrated in their muzzles.
Qualia’s face was completely straight, as he forgot all about optimal solutions and was about to fire more than enough heat to completely obliterate what was left of the beast man’s body…
“That’s enough!!”
Spirito, who was smaller than him, held his arms behind him.
Qualia recognized an emergency situation, and quickly stopped the beams.
They dispersed, and flowed between them like cherry blossoms.
“Qualia is wrong.”
He looked at the wreck that was a pile of meat until just some moments ago, and the fallen photon weapons.
His breathing was accelerated, and his visual information blurred. It was clear there was no need to keep attacking.
This was not the optimal solution.
“…Analyzing situation. Analyzing situation. Analyzing situation… Error occurred in memory function. Cause, unknown. Forcing stoppage of combat operation.”
The two long barrels fell to the ground with raw sounds, as they were stained with Mind’s blood.
The sight of Mind’s head flying overwrote and made a mess out of the steel circuits that made up Qualia’s perception.
At that moment, all optimal solutions were burned away. Even the protocol to not kill, which started with Ina’s words, evaporated.
There was no need to kill. In any other situation, Qualia would have simply shot an arm.
“Situation understood.”
He had regained composure, as the knights and beast people could do nothing but stare at the blood stained Qualia.
All eyes were on him, as he suddenly remembered Ina’s words, with the sour expression of a lost child trying to look tough.
When he attempted to eliminate Arrows, Ina held him and stopped him.
He remembered what she told him then.
“Is this what ‘heart dying’ means?”
After this, all beast people in the upper area surrendered.
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