episode_0107

There are many ways to become a Sky City hero.

Like Supreme Fox, who was reincarnated after being hit by a truck, he could become a hero without graduating from the academy.

Even if the combat department was busy with practical training, it was possible for non-combat academy students, who had advertisements for the next Humanoid free aptitude test posted in the hallway, to register with the Hero Association.

If you could join the Hero Association and prove your performance, you could enjoy the same benefits, including permanent housing rental, as adventurers who came from other worlds after hearing about Sky City’s aggressive policies.

Among the nomination requests distributed by Sky City to the Hero Association, there were many requests for non-combat skills in addition to regular patrols that would likely encounter villains or brainwashed combatants.

Like building safety inspections, the work of visiting store buildings and periodically checking to see if safety devices are working properly was recognized as a solid performance.

Sky City also provided support-type heroes who could assist other heroes’ activities, such as electrical engineering or hacking, even if they did not have combat skills.

Rumi was a unique academy student who was able to become a hero of Sky City even though he was a non-combat academy student thanks to Sky City’s policy.

Although I am a third-year student in the Academy’s non-combat department and have not yet graduated, I was able to receive permission to register as a hero.

The exact opposite of the image of a shady hacker covered in a blanket in the corner of the room. Attendance, grades, and class attitude were flawless.

If it had been a private academy attended by girls with blonde hair in a bun, there might have been more to learn, but the biggest reason was that this was an ordinary national academy.

“Ugh… I don’t want to drink this…”

Sky City’s E-class hero. Rumi’s honest impressions, who were members of the Merging Point Association, were revealed.

Contrary to his grumpy words, his hand, which honestly accepted his head’s command, was already opening the mini-refrigerator on the desk, but he still didn’t like it.

It had to be that way. Performance-enhancing supplements for cyberimplant users were tasteless.

Aside from the taste itself, the color was also strange. It was a gray liquid that looked like molten metal.

Of course, the taste was just as fishy as it looked, like licking an iron plate.

Even though it was a supplement made for cyber implant users, the ingredients were a problem.

Since it was a drink made from cheap nanopaste used to supplement the nutrition of Humanoids and low-cost maid robots, I felt bad because it seemed to drop to the same level every time I drank it.

-Cheek!

Still, there is only one reason why Rumi is sitting in front of the computer, gulping down two cans of the nanopaste supplement she hates.

It was because of a small mistake I made a while ago.

**

In Sky City, androids that meet established standards are guaranteed the right to purchase themselves.

It was a deal with a very large artificial intelligence group that, in exchange for providing Android manufacturing technology, would give a chance to a self-consciously high-performance Android.

High-performance androids, which have self-awareness of who they are from the moment they are created, are treated differently from Humanoids or low-cost androids that are delivered in a case.

Self-conscious, high-performance androids have only one goal. It was to raise funds to buy himself back.

I was free to get a job for a client who placed an order at a factory, and although there was some supervision, I was also free to find a job myself.

You can choose to work as a maid at the mansion of a wealthy person or at a maid cafe.

Although it is safe, there are cases where people choose a workplace that requires them to work as robots for humans for at least three years.

Although it was dangerous, there were many cases where they became adventurers who were able to quickly revive themselves due to their high income.

“Rumi. Can’t you do it right?”

‘Lumi’, one of those high-performance androids, was being scolded that day as well.

“How long do you plan on doing that? Didn’t you want to become a free android as soon as possible?”

“I’m sorry. Rumi… lady.”

‘Rumi’ was being scolded by ‘Rumi’.

He is a genius hacker who is already active as an E-class hero in Sky City, even though he is a non-combat major whose homeroom teacher recommends that he take the mechanized labor company transfer exam. It was Rumi.

They had black hair, red eyes, a headset reminiscent of a cat, and even their height and weight were the same.

The difference between humans and androids was also indistinguishable thanks to the genius hacker Rumi drinking supplements made from ground nano paste.

On the day I drank the supplement, which I did not want to drink again because it tasted like licking metal, ‘Lumi’s’ skin also had the shiny shine typical of androids like ‘Lumi’.

Both Rumis were third-year non-combat department students attending Sky City’s local academy.

**

“You told me to take a request, but I said I didn’t want to listen to the academy classes?”

“Yes…it’s here. Miss Rumi.”

There were two reasons why the created high-performance android Rumi was decided to be hired… leased to Rumi, an academy student.

“There is. Sure?”

One was because he didn’t like the workplace of the person who requested him to make it.

The material costs were high from the beginning, and the factory that produced it probably wanted to extract a lot of commissions, so to become a free android, you had to work as a maid in a mansion for five years.

If I check the sex processing option, the period will be cut in half, but I didn’t want to do that. So I refused.

While I was standing there wondering if I should look for a part-time job at a maid cafe, I received an offer from a similar-looking academy student.

The job description is to play himself at the academy until he graduates.

In short, it was a hassle to go to school, so I asked them to go to the academy instead.

The price was freedom.

As ‘Rumi’, it was a contract that would allow her to become a free android upon graduating from the academy.

Although I am dissatisfied with the attitude of my employer, who subtly added actions that were not in the contract, such as asking me to call you miss or cleaning my room. Just as they looked the same, their way of thinking was also the same.

I thought it wouldn’t matter as long as I didn’t get caught.

And I got caught.

**

“Mi…you’re crazy…”

Crazy guy.

This was the evaluation given by Rumi, a genius hacker and veteran cyber implant user, to Kim Hyun-woo, president of the Megacorp Hero Association.

What I knew was that the moment the android sent instead signed the document confirming that it was the person, the fox doll security unit was called in and subdued.

The biggest reason why Rumi gave such an evaluation to the president of the association was the attendance request that arrived in his mailbox.

It was an email sent not from Megacorp Hero, but from Sky City’s security organization.

I didn’t even separate it, but it was in my important mailbox.

He was not a suspect. I was qualified as a reference to say there was something I wanted to find out. Not yet.

Reporting it to the security forces as is meant that they had no intention of resolving it through personal contact.

I tried sending an email, but it was blocked.

Instead of returning the android ‘Lumi’, which was submitted as evidence, it was handed over to the Sky City Free Artificial Intelligence Association as an expression of such intention.

Up until this point, Rumi might have been considered a bit strange, but after accessing the Internet, she found out information she didn’t want to know.

The association president seemed to have sent all the adventurers who had threatened him while he was working as a porter to the Small Business Exchange.

Even if a lawyer with high persuasion skills was hired, it was of no use.

Because the evidence and circumstances were perfect, all adventurers who came to court were taken to the Small Business Exchange.

Money was not the object.

After receiving back only the stolen portion, the entire amount was donated to the Porters’ Association and the police force.

Such a person reported himself to the security forces.

I just had a line in my head and the cyber implant stopped working.

Since I only sent an android instead, I thought I would have to pay only a small amount of compensation at best, but there were many charges listed in the appearance request form.

The charge of fraud was understandable. I honestly admitted that I had deceived the other person and even got caught.

“Confidential…? Patent…?”

The problem was that confidentiality was accompanied by allegations of patent leakage.

Even if he went out according to the attendance request to explain, the other person was a monster who sent all the people involved to the Small Business Exchange.

Rumi, a smart and intelligent hero, guessed the answer that he didn’t want to know again.

I don’t know if the Megacorp Hero Association is making a one-sided claim. The party who sent the attendance request was admitting the charge of leaking confidential information.

I also found out why.

The Megacorp Hero Association was periodically sending emails to its affiliated heroes.

These ranged from warnings to be careful of dragons that would dress you up in strange armor and kidnap you as a bride, to items drop probabilities in dungeons.

It was not an ambiguous expression such as a certain monster dropping a specific item or once or twice out of ten.

The email detailing the drop probability in percent was enough for the security forces to recognize it as confidential.

“Hi…heehee….hee…”

Rumi, who had quickly been accused of being a spy from a rival hero association, made an obvious decision.

ran away

I ran away before the email asking me to visit as a reference changed to a request to appear as a suspect.

Of course, I gave up the housing I received as an E-class hero.

There is only one place where Rumi, who has temporarily put aside the benefits he received as a hero, can escape to. It was an academy.

Rumi, who played a model student using an android, was able to get help from her homeroom teacher.

This was because he honestly acknowledged what mistake he had made and explained in detail what efforts he would make to resolve it.

In the end, Rumi’s decision was the correct one.

Even though she made a minor mistake and quite some time has passed since the day the Megacorp Hero Association recruited heroes, Rumi was not caught.

Of course, the Megacorp Hero Association did not forgive me.

It was thanks to the change brought about by the red magic tower owner who threw away the nomination request and entered the dungeon, eventually becoming a security drone.

As the news spread that special abilities could be obtained by sacrificing old, special objects and memorial items to the altar, most of the security forces were recruited to guard the museum.

The Megacorp Hero Association was also unable to freely enter the Academy, which basically maintained a stance of prohibiting entry except for those involved.

Rumi’s plan to gain some time was simple.

It was a plan that even the teacher who hid Rumi at the academy agreed to.

1. Let everyone know that it is not a mistake that deserves to be taken to the small business exchange.

2. Provide compensation that is acceptable to those around you.

“Biryeo…”

Rumi, who came up with a simple plan, drank the supplement again today.

Now it feels so bitter that it’s not just dirty, but I persevere and get over it.

As the nanopaste seeped into her body, Rumi’s skin became shiny like an android’s synthetic plastic.

There was no choice but to complete the requests I had received, from site creation to security testing.

It was natural that if you couldn’t compensate for the damage, you would be taken to the small business exchange.

“Still… just a little more…”

Rumi, who reduced her sleeping time to the minimum, almost achieved her goal.

This was the initial shipping price including tax for the high-performance Android ‘Lumi’.

It was a so-called stop loss.

High-performance androids that committed crimes had no need to keep their promises as they destroyed their personality modules.

Since I used as much as I used and then threw it away, it was close to profit.

It was a perfect plan: buy a high-performance android with its personality module removed, hand it over to Megacorp, and ask for forgiveness.

Although he wasted all his hard-earned money, his status as an E-class hero remained, so he could earn it again.

As some store owners deliberately hire academy students instead of Humanoids for convenience stores, cyber implant user Rumi had plenty of work to do.

-bang!

“Heek?!”

The iron door of the unused night room was forcibly opened.

The sound of a hard hitting metal was made.

“You were hiding here?”

A security drone appeared in front of Rumi, happily carrying out orders to act as an academy student.

The information about Yuna, a transformed heroine who is a second year student but has received permission to register as a hero, disappeared due to the security drone’s declaration.

“Identification name SD01. I will carry out my mission♪”

The barcode engraved lower than the lower abdomen was shiny, just like Megacorp’s fox doll weapon.

“Now, now, wait a minute! I just need a little more?!”

“Please go and tell me that in person.”

It was impossible to persuade the shape-shifting heroine, who was proudly showing off the imprint of a possession she should be ashamed of.

Rumi, who could not persuade Bipum, was caught.

“Do you see this? Senior Rumi?”

“Eup….Eup…?!”

The non-combat academy student’s meaningless struggle was lost to the transformation heroine’s beam sword emitting pink light.

He continued to resist, so I just lightly touched his hair and he passed out.

“Suppression complete♪”

Rumi, who fainted, was put in a box case and sent to the Megacorp Hero Association.