episode_0079

Entering the Universal Century, the human population has increased exponentially.

With the development of medical technology, people who should die are no longer dying, and with the development of androids and the emergence of bioroids, the number of people who have their brains scanned and live as pseudo-humans is increasing. If I exaggerate, the population of the entire universe is probably around 50 billion.

Even that figure is a moderately reduced figure.

It is not an exaggeration to say that if the number of people who actually died during this time, whether from explosions or assassinations, was small, the entire solar system would have hit 100 billion.

Someone may have mass-produced clones of himself.

Also, someone increased the human resources needed for the colony by increasing the number of children through an artificial womb.

If you were born with 50 billion won, but you didn’t die with 50 billion won, you would have ended up with just 100 billion.

Ether technology has brought about the development of humanity, resulting in the human population increasing approximately 6 to 7 times in 200 years.

Well, at one time, the population of the Earth was said to be 7 billion, but as a result of ether analysis, the number of ‘living’ people who were not officially registered was added, so the figure could be said to be 6 to 7 times higher.

anyway.

There are really a lot of people in the space century.

Through genetic manipulation, there has been an increase in the number of people with talents that are above average in various fields – and even those have already been upgraded, and an era has arrived where abilities that are helpful to the universal century are valued more than humanity.

thus.

Human waste also increased with the increase in population, and the number of outlaws who abandoned humanity and had no sense of ethics increased too much in the universe.

They are greedy idiots.

By killing so many people, they should have realized that they too could suffer the same thing, but these are puppets who lost their lives simply trying to steal from others or receive money through requests without such realization.

they are dead

By the red moon of Arya.

Unlike the space pirate fleet’s black nose-haired ships that were all neutralized and exploded by Lavender, all AS that tried to secretly enter Starlight Colony through the stealth function turned into space dust.

Instructor Aria warned.

They’ll start shooting, so break your stealth if you want to survive.

The enemies could not have known that the shot was a blow equivalent to an artillery strike, and that it was an attack close to a wide-area charged particle cannon fired through the red moon.

Still, Aria gave him a chance.

Break the stealth.

Of course, I didn’t say later, ‘If I release stealth, my shooting is ether-reactive, so it will end in shutting down the ether.’

‘Aria didn’t intend to kill everyone either.’

She had no intention of annihilating it.

If at least one person had been scared and had released stealth, the aircraft would have been swimming in outer space with the ether shut down, and would have been captured by the AS dispatched from our colony and surrendered.

No one came forward.

Rather, the Lavender side packed the automata into the carrier and sortied to take control of the disabled battleship.

Instructor Aria’s side was literally wiped out.

There was nothing and no one in the red moon’s diagonal line.

thereafter.

“Wow, gasp, gasp…!”

After the battle.

Is it because of the pressure and guilt of killing so many enemies with his own hands?

“Wow…!!”

As soon as Instructor Aria got off the Red Moon, she immediately ran to her private room and vomited in the bathroom.

“Instructor Aria.”

I approached behind her back.

Although the door was unlocked, thanks to a prior arrangement, I was able to enter Instructor Aria’s private room right away.

“You don’t want to get used to it. Killing people.”

“This…did you feel dirty?”

“Yes.”

Taking a life is never fun.

“2754.”

“…….”

“Red Moon Weapon, the moment I pulled the trigger, the numbers seemed to flow through my veins through my hand.”

And humans, who become the owners of the Creation Tree and become sensitive to the ether, become even more sensitive to killing others.

“I just clicked the trigger once. That number of people died.”

To be exact, 2754 people.

As it is nothing more than a ‘kill score’ analyzed by Red Moon’s own super AI, there is no error whatsoever in the number of lives lost in Instructor Aria’s bombardment area.

Literally, kill score.

The Red Moon may have conveyed the number plainly, but it must have been a number that seemed to eat away at the spirit of Instructor Aria, who had killed a person for the first time.

“…I’m afraid. How many more deaths will I have to make in the future?”

“I guess so. If the number of idiots who come to die like this time increases in the future, it will not disappear at all.”

“Cloud instructor.”

Aria stands up.

“Originally, I was going to ask you to hug me, but I can’t do that right now.”

“Why. Because it’s ugly?”

“No matter what…”

“That’s a noble person.”

I hugged Aria from behind.

“You did your best and dedicated yourself to others. Your murder is not a matter for ethics or law to judge. In the universal century, it was the bare minimum self-rescue measure to protect one’s home, oneself, and one’s family, neighbors, and friends.”

“So…you brainwashed yourself?”

“Actually, the best thing is to just forget or not care.”

“…….”

Instructor Aria’s trembling gradually subsides.

“Instructor…how long did it take you to get used to it?”

“I didn’t get used to it.”

“Yes?”

“After killing someone, I still have nightmares. Recently, I haven’t killed anyone while on AS, but when I was on active duty, I lived with nightmares every day.”

I tried everything to escape the nightmare.

“So, I decided to think of an expedient method.”

“Expedient…?”

“Okay. It’s expedient.”

But in the end, there was only one best way.

“I decided to blame someone else.”

“…Yes?”

“The enemy is the reason I killed the enemy. You could say it was a kind of mental masturbation, but if you look at it, it wasn’t my fault, right?”

When he killed the man who had taken the people of a colony with a population of 100 million hostage and wanted to set off an atomic bomb attack, I thought he had done something that would kill him.

I thought it was his fault when a colleague from the Galaxy Unit who tried to steal the Genesis Water imprisoned me and boarded the aircraft himself, and when I melted in the cockpit due to denied access, I thought it was his fault.

“When I killed the people who were trying to kill me, I brainwashed myself into thinking that it wasn’t my fault that I killed them, but that it was their fault that they tried to kill me in the first place.”

“That’s not brainwashing…”

“That’s right. In a word, self-justification. But is that wrong?”

There may be those who say it is wrong.

Personalists with strong convictions or the bereaved families of the dead may say that this is clearly wrong.

“I admit to killing him. But there was a reason for my murder. Even if you can be criticized, there is no reason to be criticized.”

“…….”

“How could this be any consolation?”

“…I think I should have come to my senses somehow and cried in bed instead of showing my ugly side like this.”

Aria grabbed my hand with a trembling hand and pushed it back.

“Next time…not like this.”

No matter what kind of woman she is, she doesn’t want to look ugly.

“Thank you for your continued support. That…senior.”

“Senior?”

“As the owner of Genesis Water, you are a senior, right?”

Click.

Aria immediately closed the bathroom door.

“…Well, it’s not wrong.”

But then, does that make Aria Lavender’s junior?

It doesn’t say that.

Those are unnecessary words for Aria now, and what she needs is time to wash away her filth.

“You don’t have to worry as much as you think.”

thank god.

In the worst case scenario, I was wondering how to use the ‘Mary style’.

Maria style.

She also resolved her guilt about killing people with carnal desires and pleasure.

“…….”

Of course I know it’s a bad method, but wouldn’t it be a good thing if I could relieve the guilt or sense of killing someone in some way?

The dead have no words, and the living must live.

okay.

Those who will live must live.

And for those who survived, now is the time to respond.

[Cloud instructor.]

“Yes, Commander.”

[From head of the faculty to captain, are they now called commander?]

“Now that you are also the commander of the Starlight Colony Defense Force, I should call you commander now.”

Commander Edmund called.

[What about Aria?]

“No big problem. If you wash and rest for a day, you will be fine.”

[…Have you ever done it?]

“What do you think of Instructor Aria? Instructor Aria is not a person weak enough to control her mind with such physical lust.”

[You didn’t?]

“Yes. What do you mean? It’s as if he wants me to talk to Instructor Aria.”

[Hmm… What happened inside?]

“There was nothing special. I just vomited.”

[ah.]

Commander Edmund sighed, as if he realized something.

[but. I can’t do it in that condition.]

“????”

[It’s nothing. Rather, I would like you to come to Shelter Area B as soon as possible. I need your opinion.]

“If you say Shelter B…”

[okay.]

Someone to buy.

survivor.

[40 medium-sized space pirate ships suppressed by Fenrir. AS was in it. The number of people there was around 2,000.]

“…….”

[What would you like me to do?]

“Well, ”

People who must prove their lives in order to survive.

“[Mattress] Shall we do it?”

Space century.

The weak cannot survive.