Chương 179: Chapter 59: “The Mad Scientist: Orted Realance”

I've heard about him from my mother. A man who teamed up with a FabL named Walter and committed every atrocity imaginable. But I heard that with Lenks's cooperation, he was certainly defeated by my mother's own hands.

"Mom talked about you. She said you were the worst scum imaginable."

"What a terrible thing to say. Though she wasn't wrong about anything."

"You don't deny it?" Then, finding something amusing, he began to laugh cynically.

"Kukuku. Deny it, you say. Kid. Let me teach you." Raising both hands exaggeratedly, he declared boldly.

"This world needs evil. There are those who are saved by it. Those who profit from it."

"Even if there are far more who suffer!?"

"You're young. I merely pushed forward a righteous civil war for the further development of humanity on this planet." He trembled his hands slightly, distorting his face in pleasure.

"Ah. It was fun. Watching humans drop dead like trash by the weapons I developed." Just seeing that face gave a glimpse of his despicable humanity, and I felt unreasonably angry. I heard he caused a massacre too unspeakable for words. Because she couldn't stand watching it, Mom decided to stop you.

"But there were those who threw cold water on it. A FabL named Lenks Stanfield. My rival scientist Lewis Baget. And your mother, Yuna Hoshimi." Tapping the center of his chest as if pointing it out, he shrugged.

"Back then, my heart was certainly shot through. It was a splendid skill. Enough to make me fall in love."

"You should have just died there...!" Plato, in his painful state having lost one arm, roars. Orted ignored him with cold eyes as if looking at mere scrap metal and continued.

"But miraculously, I survived. Even if I had to turn more than half of my body into a machine."

"Even after that, you were supposed to be dead."

"That's right. I dared not do anything foolish that would stand out anymore. I couldn't handle them coming to defeat me again."

"Then... why? Why did Estotia perish?"

"Resource depletion. Advancing declining birthrate. The feeling of entrapment of the times. It seems even the hero who saved the world couldn't do anything about this." I see... Mom also occasionally murmured somewhat sadly. That changing people's hearts is more difficult than anything.

"After that, I just had to wait for that woman to leave and encourage them a little from the shadows, and that was enough. After a few decades, the people of this world were excitedly engaging in wars of aggression, interestingly enough." I looked at Plato. He didn't deny it either.

"Do you understand? It's not just my responsibility. The times demanded war."

"That's why it perished, isn't it..." It's sad, but I had no choice but to admit it. That the humans of this planet made an irreversible mistake. And it seemed this man thought so too.

"That's right. I'll admit it. It was a failure... I went too far." Orted speaks. The accelerated fever of the space war didn't stop anywhere. How to steal efficiently. How to win conveniently only for themselves and impose misfortune and disadvantage on others. Around the time when only such things came to be praised.

"Finally, the idiots got ahead of themselves and provoked the Dyler Star System."

"Dyler Star System?"

"Hey, hey. Otherworld traveler, don't expose your ignorance too much. The strongest interstellar union claiming hegemony over the universe."

"Those guys..."

"That's right. And everything ended. This planet was burned to the ground by countless Baragions that invaded. It happened in an instant. The rise and fall of glory is just like that after all." Orted, speaking as if he had just seen it now, frowned hatefully. Behind that demeanor, it seemed there was some feeling of helplessness hidden.

"The few surviving humans were forced to restart from below zero." Then, he suddenly started laughing as if he had blown a fuse. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.

"It was disappointing! The humans left on this planet were frightened, crushed each other on their own, and died for me! Until the very end, they were truly a bunch of idiots!"

"And only the meaningless system remained." Plato points out bitterly. Orted stopped laughing abruptly.

"Wrong. It was completed. A giant testing ground named Elntia, existing solely for me."

"What testing ground. Don't get conceited, mere administrator."

"Hmph. Anyway, it doesn't change the fact that I am the de facto ruler of the system now."

"Administrator, you say?"

"That's right. I am the current Administrator of the system, and this scrap robot is the Observer. Hey, accomplice." Being spoken to mockingly, Plato turns his face away abruptly. I stepped forward to protect him involuntarily.

"Don't blame Plato. Being threatened with something like Baragion, anyone would have had no choice but to do so."

"... Hoh. Good for you. Getting sympathy." Orted directs contemptuous eyes at Plato.

"I already defeated that Baragion. Orted. Stop this already."

"Kuku. Stop, you say. Do you intend to preach?"

"Is it wrong!? Estotia perished long ago. Enough already!"

"Hahahaha! Are you an idiot! You're a happy-go-lucky guy just as the computer analyzed! Your mother looked at things much more severely."

"... Kh."

"In the first place, stop what? These guys are mere objects after all. How humans treat tools is up to humans, isn't it?"

"Wrong..."

"What?" I throw my heartfelt thoughts at him. What I wanted to tell the humans of this planet.

"Humites and Natura are people. Not objects."

"Mere puppets."

"Wrong...! They rejoice when there are fun or happy things. They grieve when it's painful or hard. They get angry if someone is hurt, and cry at death." The emotions transmitted during the battle with Baragion were never fake. No, even without such an ability. What I have seen through these days. What I have felt is—!

"Everyone has a heart. They have precious things."

"Ridiculous."

"Whether they were created in the beginning or not doesn't matter. Everyone is already a splendid human! I cannot forgive trampling on that!"

"... A difference in values, huh. After all, we can't understand each other. Me and you." We glare at each other. It seems words are useless after all.

"Certainly, you defeated that Baragion. You who can cause such a miracle are indeed that woman's child, even if rotten. But—" He smirked.

"Do you think I did nothing for these two thousand years?"

"What?"

"As I thought..." Plato mutters in a dark tone. In contrast, Orted was in high spirits.

"For what purpose do you think I made them engage in troublesome killing? Data analysis through enormous war simulations brought truly great fruits."

"You...!"

"If I have two thousand years. Research could proceed as much as I wanted."

"Don't tell me...!" Simultaneous with my gasp, he announced despairing words.

"The Reproduction Type Baragions are already almost complete. Just a few hundred or so for a start." No way—! Just one was barely manageable with everyone doing their dying best. And he says hundreds of them...!

"Do you understand? That your lifespans have only been extended a little bit."

"Making such dangerous things in mass, what do you intend to do!?"

"It's simple. I'll start it again. War. The era of humanity—my era."

"Just by yourself?"

"... Yeah. That's right. Only I am the one and only ruler." Is that... is that your wish...!? But there is a slight shadow in his tone. You, why are you so... While anger and feelings that cannot be expressed just by that well up, he continues to talk about his ambition to the end.

"The beginning of New Elntia. Of course, I'll have you obey me. Forever."

"Like hell I'll let you do that!"

"Outsider. Don't interfere. Originally, humanity is the legitimate ruler of this planet." Those words sounded terribly empty, contrary to his own wish. This man probably knows too. Knowing it, he dares to behave like that. It looked like that.

"... The era of old humans is already over. You must know that already in reality! Beyond the winter of two thousand years. We have to welcome the dawn of a new era."

"... Not yet. It's not over yet. As long as I am here. This planet is mine forever. It must continue to be so." Seeing his presence change, I also draw my Qi sword and ready it. —Tough. Too much. I click my tongue inwardly. Because the exhaustion from fighting Baragion is terrible, the shine of the Qi sword was already weak.

"I have countless grudges against that woman. I will give you a gruesome death." There, Plato warned me with a serious face.

"Be careful... He uses matter annihilation ability...!"

"Matter annihilation!?"" 《Niltenser》. A weapon flawless in both offense and defense." Orted answers triumphantly. I see. So that's why Plato's left arm disappeared entirely. It's an extremely troublesome ability just by hearing it. How should I capture it? Damn. If I put out a Qi sword, I wobble just by standing. I can't fight for very long. One time. I have to decide it in one go. He thrust out his hand. At a glance, just a movement with nothing. I shuddered. What an attack. The trajectory is hardly visible.

From the way the ground is scraped just a little by the aftermath, I can barely understand that that place is "disappearing." And quite fast. It was an instant that the wave of annihilation approached right under my nose. At that timing, I launch a technique combining offense and defense. 《Passtrive》 With the technique that helped me many times, I went around to right behind the enemy in one go. As expected, I don't feel any burden on my body.

I don't know the reason, but it seems I have completely mastered this technique. I put maximum Qi into the Qi sword. However, there was no spare power left to turn it pale blue anymore. It can't be helped. Slash at him as is! 《Senkraze》 However. Something outrageous happened there. Just when the sword tip was about to touch his body surface, the sword began to disappear from the tip in the empty air in front of him. Hurriedly stopping the sword, I use 《Passtrive》 again to escape from the range.

I couldn't suppress my intense agitation. What is that...! If I had slashed a little deeper, my arm would have been blown off along with it. Damn it...! Is this guy a constant deployment type too! At that moment, Orted suddenly changed his aim. Towards the direction where Plato is. Plato was trying to concentrate on attacking with all his might without caring about Orted. Over there, I can see a big white tower with an antenna. No good! Help won't make it in time!

Plato's beam rifle pierces the white tower, and an explosion sound echoes. Simultaneously, his defenseless body—almost half of it—was erased by Orted.

"Eyesore. Die first."

"Like hell I'll let you!" This time I warp ahead and pick up Plato in his pitiful state. Good. His head is barely safe.

"What are... you doing... You will die too... Leave someone like me... alone..."

"There's no way I can leave you alone! I promised Lilna too!"

"... Idiot."

"Protecting a burden and dying together? That's fine too." Orted readies the annihilation wave again. At this rate...! At that moment,"Me" called out to me.

'It's frustrating, but let's run for now.'

'But how?'

'Actually. I realized just before the tolerance dropped, and I have one teleportation magic on standby.'

'Really! You saved us.'

'Yeah. But before that, let me say a little greeting too.'

'Yeah.' Switch to"Me".

"Wha... You...!" Orted froze on the spot as if frozen. Simultaneously, he is glaring at me with eyes exactly like looking at a foe. Well, that makes sense. Because I look exactly like Mom when she was young. A karma that has continued unknowingly since Mom. Only this guy. An opponent we have to settle things with. Intending it as a declaration of war, I gave a thumbs down.

"We will absolutely stop you." He must have guessed that we were running away from this place. Wondering what he thought, he returned words like a declaration of war too.

"I'll wait at Estcage. Come. Let's settle the karma of two thousand years." 《Teleportation Magic》 I teleported to Diesnatura, taking the battered Plato with me.

"... Ran away, huh." Orted muttered that with almost no emotion.

"Tch. Since it's been a while, I talked too much idle talk... Well, fine. It's about time." And he stopped moving just like that.