Sacrifice
"Yukikaze, what did you find out?"
It took half a day to return to the imperial capital.
"Well, I heard you were near Ulfrika. How did you get back?"
"Just by running?"
"…What about Shelbim?"
"He fell midway through, but it's not a problem because Wince was with us."
It seems like Shelbim was overdoing it after all.
He was out of breath when we reached the front of the imperial capital.
"By the way, how many days do you think it would take to get here by train?"
"By train? …How many kilometers does a typical train travel?"
"It'll take three days even if the train ran non-stop... Well, whatever. I've finished analyzing all the genetic information on the monsters we took care of at the Imperial Palace."
"Did you find anything interesting?"
Yukikaze probably knows that the situation is dire due to an emergency, but her face is grinning a little.
I guess she's happy that she could analyze the unknown.
"There are four types of monsters on the ground that have similar genetic patterns."
"What types?"
"Elves who immigrated from Tuega, synthetic dragon, the mad soldier who caused the collapse of the continent, and Shiro.''
"Me too?"
"To be precise, it's Ain's genes that is a copy of Shiro."
"Wait, when did you get Ain's genes?"
"Just a little bit while he's on the ground."
It's scary, I don't even know when my body was harvested.
"So, Ginkei made an interesting assumption… Ah… Correction, it’s not an interesting assumption at all, and the nightmarish truth is occurring with a high probability."
"It's kind of scary. Should I not ask?"
"There's no problem with Shiro. Definitely, maybe, definitely, probably."
My self-confidence is dropping rapidly and I'm scared because she's not going to stop
"Mana, based on this assumption, I will call it Almana Quantum. Do you remember the scientific properties of this?"
"Scientific? Isn't it supposed to ignore the laws of physics and serve as a bridge between all kinds of molecules?"
I heard that it is an extremely dangerous property that stabilizes the bonds between molecules that either never bond, or even if they bond, they separate immediately.
I'm not a scholar, so I don't know the details.
The children who she raised unanimously said that this trait was too dangerous to handle.
Among her students are many scholars who left their mark on history.
"It was simulating what would happen if Shiro and an elf's genes were crossed using that bonding property."
"Who said that?"
"Ginkei"
"From when?"
"I think it was about three years ago?"
"I didn't know!"
"I didn't informed you. It's hypothetical, a simulation. There's no way it could be done in reality."
"......Haa ...It's okay for now, so?"
"The results matched this monster."
"That means…"
"There's a high probability that these guys are Ain's children."
He said that he had a child with an elf in Elfriade's home base.
"He said he wanted to show his child the world below, but he sent them here in the worst possible way."
"I wonder if that kid was naive. He might have objected, you know?"
"But this is how they're falling. They're tough and hard, and their weak points are all different. It's too much trouble."
"At the cellular level, I found a weakness."
"What's that weakness?"
"Oxygen."
"Oxygen… breathing?"
"Yes, it can't function unless it has a suitable oxygen concentration, but it won't die. It seems like you can't kill it with a railgun, but if you drop it in the ocean, it won't swim and will sink."
"But it won’t die, right?"
"Well, it'll only buy us time, but that's fine."
And Yukikaze spreads out a plan on her desk.
"The only environment with a suitable oxygen concentration is on the ground. The plan that Shiro devised came in handy here."
"...I didn't think of it for something like this."
I was just thinking about moving to another planet.
"Think of it as a blessing in disguise."
"Are there any countries in the southwestern continent that are against immigration?"
"There are, but it decreased rapidly."
The southwestern continent seems to be even more hellish than the empire.
It seems that we only talked about the emigration plan to the representatives and important people from other countries, and received a strong backlash...
"Many people seem to want to evacuate to the central, deep world. The royalty and nobility, who had been opposed to the idea, are contacting us, and the emperor is exhausted."
"My condolences..."
"It's easy just because there's no risk of death. We're in a hurry to develop the Deep World, so we should be able to escape while the Imperial soldiers and knights are blocking them."
"What about the knights...?"
"I’m sure there’ll be no small sacrifices. Everyone’s prepared to go to another continent, so you’ll have to understand that will."
Don't go to help. That's what Yukikaze tells me.
I know
My top priority is to protect the Empire and the entrance to the Deep World.
How much easier it would have been... if it had been that easy...
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