episode_0142

‘Minota’, the chairman of the Taurus Colony, cut off communication with Maria and raised his massive body.

“As expected, Chang Se-su. It’s not easy.”

“Master….”

Near Minotaur, there were a lot of women wearing headbands and spotted underwear that looked like they were cosplaying as cows, casting pitiful eyes at him.

Only the parties involved will know whether it is concern for the owner, Minotaur, or for Chairman Taurus, the highest authority in the Taurus Colony.

But it doesn’t matter.

No matter how big and fat this man is, if he fawns next to the power that holds the hegemony of the universe, hundreds of millions of credits will fall on the moon.

“Fifty. How did Maria’s clones go?”

“Based on data about Captain Maria’s physical body when she was 20 years old, about 90% of it has been implemented. As for the personality part…”

“It doesn’t matter. If you can play with it in moderation, you can just enjoy it.”

Minota raised his wine glass.

“Congratulations. For those monsters that will disappear along with the nuclear weapons.”

The moment when Minotaur held a wine glass towards the screen.

Pa–ang!

The paladin clashed his fists.

And the world instantly turned blue.

“……?”

The moment Minota opened his eyes, he could not understand the scene that unfolded before his eyes.

“What is this…?”

In the monitor.

Everything had disappeared.

Nothing was visible, as if the screen was reflecting somewhere in another universe.

“Ka, camera! What happened to the camera!”

[Mr Chairman!!]

A signal from a subordinate general suddenly echoed in the room.

[The entire aircraft…reaction was lost!]

“……What?”

[All friendly aircraft in the battle area have been lost! Signal…Lost!]

“Are you kidding me?”

Chairman Minota had no choice but to say such a thing without realizing it.

“I need to come to my senses and look like I’m going to appear in front of people under my original name. Huh?”

[Mr Chairman! This is a real situation now! The data screams so!]

“Answer with common sense!!”

“Aaaah!”

Chairman Minota threw his wine glass on the floor.

Shards of the glass splashed around, damaging the skin of the nearly naked women, but Chairman Minota did not pay any attention to them.

“All gases disappear!!”

[Yes, it is exactly as I said! Suddenly, the Paladin clashes his fists together and releases ether as if he is expanding a huge sphere…!]

“So what!”

[……Except for the Paladin, the signal has been cut off for everyone.]

Beep beep.

The screen gets bigger.

I thought there was a dot shining blue.

Beep beep.

The screen becomes even larger.

I thought the image quality was broken in the classification of ether, but the dot gradually became an accurate representation of a single gas.

Beep beep.

Make the screen large enough to clearly see the other person.

Flashing.

The other person turned his gaze this way.

“Hee, hee hee…!”

A Paladin, a machine that seemed to have clearly noticed your gaze.

Around the gas, which had a different form than any previous gas, blue-green ether was sparkling as if quantized.

“Ma, that’s ridiculous.”

Chairman Minota collapsed in his seat.

“Erasing everything around you? What is this…!”

“It is the power of the Creation Water.”

Sigh.

The door to the secret room opened, and a woman appeared.

“You, you…!!”

“Hello, Chairman Minota. No, I have to call you something else now-”

Ta-euang!

Chairman Minota suddenly took out a pistol from his drawer and pulled the trigger.

The lead bullet that flew from the gold-decorated pistol hit the woman right between the eyes, but-

“Oh my.”

Thanks to the etheric shield shining in front of the woman, she suffered no damage.

“If you made it this far without any injuries, you should have noticed something strange.”

“Guy, the security is…!”

“Everything has been processed.”

The woman pointed below her.

In her hands were unconscious men in suits who looked twice as big as her, holding their backs.

“In the first place, there is no way that humans could defeat the Creation Tree. Isn’t that right?”

“This, this…!”

“So why did you ignore the Galactic Charter? Why did you forget why the Zodiac Alliance decided to hold a friendly war through the students of the Academy?”

“You, you…!”

“He treated me very comfortably. Right?”

“This is a monster, not even a human!!”

Ta-ang!

The bullet flew forward again.

However, the bullet grazed the side of the woman’s head and unexpectedly lodged itself in the wall.

“What…!”

no.

The bullet was aimed exactly between the eyes.

However, before it reached the forehead, the bullet slid sideways, drawing an arc across the woman’s face, as if something had changed its trajectory.

“Sweet, Cypher…!? Superpower…?!”

“You still don’t know who I am?”

“, Chairman! This monster bitch…! If you have ruled the Zodiac Union for over 60 years, just disappear…!!”

“Oh my. She is dead.”

The Chairman covered his face with one hand and removed it, revealing an old woman.

“Mother Lalaa, the mother of the entire universe, passed away 10 years ago.”

“What…?”

“And here I am, the head of the 12 Zodiac Union, which calls itself that name, and the current chairman of the union. ”

Crash.

“Sharpie. It is called a sapphire unicorn.”

Chairman, Sapphire Unicorn took out a small pistol and pointed it forward.

“……Paladin’s, Creation Beast?”

“Oh my. Did you think that the Creation Tree was simply an animal? I’m sorry.”

Jerk, jerk.

“Do you think we can create a new world through nuclear weapons? Why do you think World War 3 occurred? What do you think is the first threat that humanity and the Creationists identified when coming into contact with each other in the 21st century?”

“Ugh…!”

“It’s a nucleus. yes. that’s right. Humanity has always used nuclear weapons as weapons. And we had a perfect response to nuclear weapons.”

Chairman Sapphire shook his head.

“They always try to do something to us using nuclear weapons, but it’s always like this.”

“This can’t be like this…! This is ridiculous…!”

“How many more people like you do you think there have been in the last two centuries?”

“……!!”

“There was only one Paladin for two centuries, but during those two centuries, there were many beings who tried to rule the universe by force, nuclear or otherwise. And all of them….”

Ta-euang.

“It was removed like this by the Creator.”

“…….”

“Die, dictator.”

Chairman Minota chuckled at the hole in his solar plexus.

“What a monster.”

“You are the real monster. A person who wants to rule by killing fellow humans by turning the battleship itself into a nuclear missile and throwing it into the opposing colony.”

“We…were slaves of the Creation Tree from the beginning…?”

Fuuuuk.

Blood flows out of the hole.

Unlike ordinary human blood, blood and sap made of ether mix together and flow out.

“What do you mean? We have coexisted with humans from the beginning.”

Chairman Sapphire laughed at Chairman Minota.

“Ah. It would be unfair. You know, I thought that I could destroy the Creation Tree with a nuclear weapon. Well, all of that history has been erased up until now, right? I am afraid that humanity will become frustrated and despair and lose the desire to advance into space.”

“…….”

“But it’s okay now. Because a ‘deterrent’ more powerful than nuclear weapons has been created.”

“…Ha.”

Chairman Minota fell to the floor and sneered at the corner of his mouth.

“Paladin…how long do you think he will survive…”

“…….”

“Paladin is immortal-”

“That’s right.”

Chairman Sapphire smiled broadly and aimed his gun again.

“So I really appreciate you. Because he came here in person and made me feel like shooting him to death in a human way.”

“What…?”

“Thanks to you for starting this war, the Paladin retired from being the Creation Beast and became one with the Creation Beast. It’s me, Sapphire.”

“This…!”

“Adios. Although I feel disillusioned with humanity every time I assassinate someone like you.”

Ta-euang.

“Thanks to one just being, we cannot give up on humanity. Huhuhu.”

Bang, bang, ta-ang.

In an instant, the gun is pointed at the women in the room.

Without a chance to escape, they fell to the floor with a hole in their heads.

“Then….”

After firing off every last shot, Sapphire turned around and threw the pistol at the dead Chairman Minotaur.

“So that our pilot can enjoy the joy of victory, I will leave at this point.”

Weeeeing.

“Hello, see you again. Humans.”

The door was closed.

Approximately 13 minutes later.

“Mr Chairman!!”

Taurus Colony executives quickly broke down the emergency door and entered, but they had no choice but to close their eyes at the blood and ether splattered on the floor.

“….”

Chairman Minota’s hand.

There was only a golden Walther pistol lying in his hand.

* * *

Wide-area nuclear control and etherization.

The simplest and most reliable technology that changes all substances within a certain distance into ‘ether’.

That’s why there’s nothing around me right now.

There is only the Paladin’s body.

“…….”

Consciousness is locked.

Having consumed so much mental power, I can no longer concentrate on the battle.

I feel relaxed.

The fact that I am so relaxed in the first place means that my brain is recognizing something.

The battle is.

finished.

My role in this battlefield ends here.

“…….”

Far away.

Two aircraft are rushing towards us.

I closed my eyes comfortably in the familiar colors of red and purple.