“Activating vital activity backup, Infinite Recovery, through 5D printer.”
Despite becoming a corpse, the voice continued to echo from Qualia’s body.
“Result of scan, confirming 82% of heart destroyed. Confirming 71% blood loss. Determining this error to be the cause of the stoppage of vital activities. Refining heart and blood. Activating 5D printer that was on cold standby for the purpose of backup.”
Qualia’s body then began to shine like a star, as the bluish white light of the 5D printer appeared on various points of his body, and completely enveloped him.
“No discrepancies found on the information of the design of the body known as Qualia. Continuing repairs.”
There was a small hole, from which his heart could be seen, and when the light was done pouring into it, the heart was back to its original shape.
Blood was pouring from the wounds that had stopped bleeding, showing that the 5D printer was replenishing the blood that had been lost.
Qualia complexion improved.
If he could repair his body, he could also regenerate blood and a heart.
A long time ago, humanity could create clones from a single hair. Creating a heart and blood was nothing new. It was simple biotechnology.
“I’m… Not gonna let that happen.”
It did not take too long for Liebe to realize that the heart he destroyed was being regenerated.
“I’m not letting you!”
Liebe pulled back his right hand to attack, and Ace reflexively began to activate a skill.
But neither would attack.
“Detecting hostile activity. Activating automatic intercept system. Type GUN.”
A photon weapon suddenly appeared in Qualia’s right hand, which pointed at Liebe.
The supposedly dead right arm moved. Once this reality hit Liebe, and once he saw the gun barrel pointed at him, he activated Stealth.
He retreated, and Qualia used that time to finish his repairs.
And then, Qualia laid on the ground, without a single wound on his body.
“Confirming repairs. Confirming removal of obstacles to initiation of vital activities. Rebooting Qualia.”
Ba-dump. His heart beat with vital activity.
At the same time, Qualia’s body bent and his back hit the ground, and he stood up immediately after.
The small light in his eyes proved he rebooted.
“Confirming reboot of vital activities. Checking hardware repairs… Zero issues remaining. Ending vital activity backup Infinity Recovery through 5D printer. Returning to combat activity.”
Qualia’s open eyes locked on Liebe, who was hidden behind the veil of his Stealth, and he held up his photon weapon.
“Request explanation. Qualia could not update information on the current situation while his vital activities were stopped. Were there any changes?”
“No, not particularly. The situation stands the same as before you died.”
“Situation understood.”
Ace was still kneeling behind Qualia.
She still had a confused expression on her face, with nothing but Qualia’s back in her vision, as he prepared to face Liebe again now that he had been revived.
“…Don’t screw with me.”
Liebe let out a heavy voice while pulling his own hair. His eyes filled with hate pierced Qualia and Ace like arrows.
His anger was such, that Stealth was lifted and his furious expression was fully transmitted to both of them.
“Don’t screw with me! Don’t screw with me! Don’t screw with me!”
A dark matter aura shook behind Liebe.
The outline of his body slowly became thinner, as it turned into the dark matter. And as it did so, Liebe became more erratic, and he continued yelling while sobbing.
“Coming back to life at this point. What a nightmare… And Ina… She never came back…”
“Ina has no need for that. Her vital activities are stable.”
“Are, you, still saying, that… Ina is…”
“Qualia asks that you stop your attacks and accompany him so you can meet Ina.”
“…?”
Liebe tilted his neck with his eyes wide open, unable to understand.
The darkness behind him gained more power and intensified.
“Ina is alive. You simply are not aware of this fact.”
“…No. Three years ago, Ina…”
“Insufficient data about three years ago. But judging by what you said before, it is assumed that you never saw Ina’s body. You assumed Ina’s vital activities stopped based on circumstantial evidence.”
“Cage, Ina, blood, lots. The last time, I saw her, she looked, close to death.”
The curtain of dark matter shaking behind him seemed like a representation of the violent fluctuations happening in his heart.
And suddenly, it stopped. Qualia did not let this go unnoticed, and looked up at it again.
“Error… Detecting the same values in the dark matter and Liebe’s face. Detecting human expression. But that is not suitable for a human expression.”
Liebe’s eyes had long seen nothing.
He just looked down, and mumbled with his hand in his breast pocket.
“…Ina, why, did you, leave, me?”
“Request that you stop.”
“Don’t leave me.”
Qualia spoke with a strong tone, as Liebe grasped the ancient magic stone.
At the same time, both Liebe and the dark matter vanished. He used Stealth again.
The radar showed he was heading straight for Qualia. He wanted to activate the black hole. He wanted to destroy that whole area.
Qualia fired the beam with his right hand.
The radar showed the reaction moving a little to the right and evading it.
But, as if predicting this, the gun barrel also moved.
He kept him in check. Everything was going according to the optimized solution.
Qualia was already done learning all of Liebe’s moves after he used Stealth.
“…Eliminating you.”
Qualia clenched his teeth a little, and the beam from the photon weapon pierced Liebe in the middle of his cranium.
“Ah, I see.”
And yet, despite the hole on his forehead, Liebe spoke.
He seemed serene, as if he finally reached an understanding.
“I died back then. That’s what happened.”
Liebe did not leave a corpse.
After saying this, his body flowed to the dark matter.
“Detecting abnormal stoppage of vital activities.”
The dark matter then left Qualia’s view.
It was not Stealth. Both the ancient magic stone black hole and the leader of Azure Skies completely vanished.
Qualia had a hunch.
Liebe was not there anymore, but that would not be the last he heard of him. Even if he was dead.
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Ah, so Liebe can just magically disappear instead of properly dying. Wow! How is Quailia gonna handle this later in the story? I’m excited to find out!