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“Now, wait a minute?!”

As a trainee who completed the cyborg full-body manipulation method, I was taught not to panic even if a brainwashed combatant suddenly appeared. There was nothing I could do this time.

‘Thank you for being Rufina.’ Or something. Personality Core Rufina, who thanked me once again for taking such a useless stance to avoid being reported missing, was stationed at the reception desk as Staff Unit N34, so I thought I wouldn’t be kicked out.

“Now, wait a minute?!” Wait! Register as a hero! Because I came to register as a hero!”

I didn’t expect a welcome message like ‘Thank you for visiting the Megacorp Hero Association’. I never thought I would receive the same treatment as the academy teachers who refused to give up and came down to create opportunities for graduates.

The evidence was that the personality core that was once Rufina was placing its finger on the call button for the security drone SD02, which, unlike staff units, was capable of suppressing outsiders by force.

When Rufina was being trained as a trainee who was allowed to move freely within the facility, the staff unit assigned to the reception desk behaved in a completely identical manner to outsiders.

He asks what his business is, gives a bit of a sarcastic comment asking if he didn’t even read the notice written on the ground, and then calls in a security drone and sends it out.

“Are you talking about hero registration? Rufina?”

“That…yeah! Register as a hero! This is the Megacorp Hero Association, right?”

“Rufina, as you probably know… I was sorry. The Megacorp Hero Association does not accept new hero registrations.”

Even though he said he was grateful, he was quite uncooperative.

After receiving an answer as expected from the personality core that had made an inexplicable expression of pride as an object, Rufina got straight to the point.

“I came to meet the president of the association.”

“If you need repairs, you can go to the Humanoid Service Center. Do you have any financial problems? Rufina?”

There wasn’t really any other option. I didn’t want to talk to Core, who changed his attitude the moment he saw himself holding the training certificate folded up with his damaged arm.

It was simple to contact Megacorp Hero Association officials through the staff unit.

All it had to do was not be something that a staff unit created as brainwashed combatants could handle on its own.

Although he is wearing the same latex bodysuit and visor. It didn’t matter that it was a personality core that was smiling and looking forward to Rufina’s next answer, unlike the staff unit standing next to it.

“I came to meet the president of the association.”

“On the schedule is a meeting with Rufina-”

Rufina held out a crumpled piece of paper to Core, who was embarrassed to even look at it because the proof of her status as a staff unit was engraved lower than her stomach.

The document that was folded neatly in Rufina’s hand, like the certificate of completion, was a certificate of performance.

It was a document issued so that the security forces could be sure of when, where, and what activities were performed in Sky City, where heroes and adventurers fight over whose contribution is greater.

It was issued from the time cyborg trainee Rufina left Megacorp until her return. The purpose of the activity was to eliminate a brainwashing villain organization.

“…Is it okay if I check to see if it’s true? Rufina?”

“Do you have permission? Should I at least call the magistrate?”

Two sheets. The request for an interview with the academy’s Combat Department student, who presented him with a certificate of accomplishments for two single-handedly eradicated brainwashing villain organizations, was not something that could be rejected based on the staff unit’s personal judgment.

I won the battle of pride with the real Rufina, who sarcastically told me to go to the Humanoid repair shop instead of coming here if I was hurt. There was one variable that Rufina could not calculate.

“Yes! It’s just as Rufina said! An incompetent magical girl like me must have been brainwashed straight into becoming a brainwashed combatant! Sorry♥”

The real Rufina felt relieved that she had become a core personality by making fun of the fake who took her identity. It has been a long time since it was completed to the point where happiness as an object can be found even in the disdainful gaze of a fake who has succeeded twice in clearing out a brainwashing villain organization.

“I… I was convinced of this. Than me, who became a personality core without being able to do anything. Rufina. It’s really Rufina.”

I flinch. Bipum’s remarks, which turned even humiliation into happiness, did not make me feel sorry at all. The apology of the body lying face down on the cold metal floor tiles was enough to make Rufina step back.

“Lu..fina? I came because you called me.”

“Pynephrine Commander!”

The person who appeared in the report that the staff unit’s processing authority was exceeded was the black panther cyborg who gave Rufina the certificate.

“…”

The trained fake reacted as soon as his name was called and made a saluting posture with his broken arm. The other Rufina did not react.

That was a given for fixtures operating as staff unit N34.

In response to the instructor’s question about what happened. I really wanted to hear the story of the real Rufina, who started confessing that a lot had happened. This was not something Rufina, once a magical girl, wanted to hear, even to the point of giving up her pride as an object.

“Waiting number 54.”

“Can we meet this time?”

The personality core that was Rufina called back the waiting number of the cyborg who lost his turn to Rufina.

The cyborg’s expression was full of dissatisfaction after being robbed of his turn by a girl who looked a bit like a staff unit. There was nothing that could be done.

As such, the Megacorp Hero Association was full of cyborgs in similar situations.

It was thanks to Rufina’s unintentional performance.

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After completing practical testing, Megacorp Security began its activities in earnest.

He performed night patrols instead, which heroes were not allowed to do because they did not make money.

Although the brainwashed combatants caught in the process were reprogrammed into Megacorp’s staff units, there were no major problems as they were treated as trophies from the beginning.

Although the scope of activity was small, surrounding the association. From that day on, Rufina’s encounters with Yuna, a combat cyborg belonging to the security forces, had definitely decreased.

It was on such a day that Rufina, who had changed her clothes to look less like a magical girl as much as possible, encountered a brainwashed combatant who looked a bit unique.

The ordeal that should have come to the heroine of the hypnosis brainwashing game or to those who were reincarnated in Sky City came to Rufina.

“What…what is it? Really?!”

Black and purple latex bodysuit. The opaque visor was identical to that of the Megacorp Hero Association’s staff units, but its actions were different.

Brainwashing combatants were installing a metal choker-type necklace around the neck of a woman who had clearly fainted after being hit by something blunt.

He’s wearing only a latex bodysuit that makes me feel embarrassed just by looking at it. Although there was nothing in my hand. I could tell that Rufina was even treated as a brainwashed combatant.

Latex is used as armor that hardens instantly upon impact. The brainwashed combatants were not wearing the bodysuits that Rufina wore when she was a trainee, but were ‘applied’ like paint, but the effect was similar.

It was clear that in order to cut down on production costs as they were caught at random and made as they were, they were dipped in a wide dripping container up to the neck and then taken out.

The visor over the eyes was not a decoration.

The purple pulse fired at maximum power to prevent the brainwashing from breaking was engraving the indelible imprint of the brainwashing villain organization on the empty pupils of the brainwashed combatants.

A device strapped to the neck was turning its victims into brainwashing combatants.

A thin needle shoots into Rufina’s sound receiving module, which was created by combining protein powder, magical girl from the Small Body Exchange, and cyborg technology! I heard the sound coming out.

As the drug, full of side effects that lowered mental resistance, seeped in, the emotions disappeared from the woman’s face.

The woman, whose expression had become so blank that she had no idea of her past, family, friends, or even where she was walking just moments ago, was taking for granted the visor that the brainwashed combatant placed over her eyes.

In an instant, with a happy smile, ‘Brainwashing is complete. A brainwashed combatant was created who muttered ‘awaiting orders’.

“That’s it!”

“….??”

Unlike the people who were reincarnated in Sky City, it was only a matter of time before the transformed heroines appeared behind Rufina, who was staring at the purple pulse that neutralized the cranial nerves of the biological brain and reduced mental resistance.

Although he was trained as a long-distance combat cyborg using beam beats, he was also trained in the bare minimum of close combat methods as a full-body combat-spec cyborg, so there was no reason to panic.

The person who appeared to Rufina, who avoided the bad ending of being captured by brainwashed combatants and disappearing by not investing in mental resistance, was a transformed heroine.

There is only one transformation heroine attending the combat department, Yuna. I only knew that the rest were attending the non-combat department to help the doctor with his research.

“For the salvation of innocent people! Give us the strength to get justice! Lucia! transform-! Why..why are you blocking me?! I finally found it!”

Rufina, who studied with her body how Sky City’s brainwashed combatants were treated, stopped the non-combat department and the transformation heroine who lifted the transformation device.

To be exact, she was not hospitalized due to an accident, but she had a hard time escaping from the dungeon and on her way back, she finally found her partner who had been kidnapped by a brainwashed combatant, so she blocked the ‘declaration of battle’ of the transformed heroine who had asked him not to stop her.

As the president of the association said, it was Sky City, where everything could be taken away if you were even a little distracted.

Just like Megacorp’s transformation heroine did. He claimed his rights as the first person to discover the brainwashed combatants.

“If you have any complaints, follow Sky City’s rules.”

“Uh…maybe it’s okay. Doctor! If this continues, Liana! Liana!”

It was an extraordinary effort by a transformed heroine to save a friend who had become a brainwashed combatant. To Rufina, he only seemed like a thief trying to quietly steal the ownership of brainwashed combatants that were being paid for at a high price at the small business exchange.

‘I’m sorry.’ came from the mouth of a brainwashed combatant who had been sorely beaten. Even when the words ‘I hurt everyone…’ came out, there was no feeling of guilt.

“Well…there was a method like that. Doctor! All you have to do is say later that you weren’t a brainwashed combatant…! It’s dangerous, but… I’ll do it for Liana’s sake. I will!”

At Rufina’s provocation, the doctor, who remembered the logic that brainwashed combatants are not trophies, taught the transformed heroine a method that may be dangerous.

“No. What…what are you doing…right?”

Whether Rufina asked or not, the transformed heroine boldly cut off the inner suit that covered her belly button on the street as the doctor instructed.

They can’t take you unless they’re a brainwashed combatant. All I had to do was break the brainwashing right here.

Since he was in the non-combat department, not the combat department, I thought he was a technician like the president of the association. There were no tools for removing the brainwashing chip or devices for removing the brainwashing.

A transformation heroine who is not worth remembering named Lucia and the doctor. A different method was used to treat the brainwashed transformed heroine.

Brainwashed combatants wearing latex coating. The belly button of the transformed heroine, who was smiling happily while wearing a visor that was still emitting purple light, was connected to the belly button using a plug port.

Even Rufina could understand the doctor’s explanation coming from the communication terminal switched to speaker mode.

The logic was that you could go directly into the mind of the brainwashed transformed heroine and break the brainwashing state.

For Rufina, who was planning to sell it on the small business exchange before doing so, it didn’t matter whether that was really possible.

“Are you really not going to help me? You said you would give up all other brainwashed combatants!”

“Are you crazy? Why me?”

Even if the other transformed heroine hadn’t taken out the beam sword, Rufina, who would have escaped this situation, gave a certain answer.

Of course, I declined the request of the transformed heroine who presented me with a multi-use cable designed to allow all the transformed heroines present to connect at once.

A squad of combatants created by brainwashing transformed heroines appeared in front of Rufina, who succeeded in avoiding the bad ending of becoming a combatant once again.

Transformation heroines who were screaming at me to get out of my mind, clutching their heads or trying to pull out the cable connected to their navels, had their palms pressed to their thighs like mall mannequins.

“We may be villains, but we are Sky City’s villains.”

This time, Rufina, whose thinking circuitry could not keep up, received an offer from a brainwashing villain organization that used the voice of a transformed heroine.

The request was to deal with a villain organization that was brainwashing the heroes who protect Sky City into cyborgs and using them as furniture.

What if each person was connected to one brainwashed combatant? He said that he did not want to waste the transformed heroines, whose brainwashing would be released after a few hours because they all logged in together.

“A vicious organization that uses the guise of the Hero Association to trick heroes who want to become stronger and turn them into cyborgs! I don’t know if this is the case, but we are an organization that doesn’t do anything that would get caught in Sky City!”

wee. A hero association came to mind, but it didn’t seem to be there.

Although everyone involved was proud of having chosen pure white instead of ambiguous gray. From the beginning, the Megacorp Hero Association had been rejecting new registrations.

“What…really…”

“Don’t worry, we’re not targeting the people of Sky City, but only reincarnated people from other worlds!”

Rufina is like the other brainwashed transformed heroines. They attacked the Hero Association, which converted heroes into cyborgs and then brainwashed them.

In the absence of a peace officer, the neighborhood quickly became a mess.

It was an accurate description of a neighborhood where brainwashed combatants did not disappear due to the inactivity of Megacorp Security’s cyborgs.

To help Rufina, who was outnumbered, the brainwashed fighters who had been hiding to prevent interference from the security forces all came out at once as if they had promised.

Heroes who were deceived into becoming cyborgs by being told they could become stronger, but who did not have the absolute obedience program installed, also joined.

Thanks to this, he was able to subdue all the heroes who had been converted and controlled into cyborgs.

The only thing that Rufina, who accidentally succeeded in blowing up the building of the Hero Association, which was a villain organization, overlooked was the only thing that was overlooked. The only place where I was educated about what cyborgs were was at the Megacorp Hero Association.

From Yuna to the epinephrine instructor, there is also the president of the association who can pass off all decisions as success. Even Supreme Fox. The problem was that most of the beings Rufina encountered were cyborgs or similar beings.

In addition to the academy teachers who asked to accept graduates from Megacorp, there were also many adventurers who came for the purpose of prosthetic transformation.

It was just because a custom shell processed from the original body was the best fit. In Sky City, where such difficult modification surgery was not possible in the first place, it was common to store the original body in a frozen capsule.

The villain organization did not dispose of material that could threaten the hero who resisted the brainwashing program first.

From cyborg management facilities. Control system server. It was Rufina’s only mistake, blowing up the Hero Association, where the original bodies of the modified heroes were stored, without a trace.

Even if it was just a little bit late, it was clear that the cyborg who had blown a hole in Rufina’s right arm would have stopped Rufina first, so there was nothing that could be done.

Although all the modified heroes were safe. Since he lost his original body, he had no choice but to live in a cyborg body.

Rufina swore for the first time that day as she remembered the maintenance she needed to receive to live as a cyborg.

A low-level robot that can be repaired at a repair shop. Humanoid and Cyborg were as different as their positions.

Rufina received two performance certificates. One chapter is about the Hero Association, which brainwashes and transforms heroes into cyborgs. The other chapter was a brainwashed combatant villain organization that went into hiding on its own.

Even the equipment for maintenance was blown away, and cyborgs from Megacorp Security appeared in the street where cyborgs that were not long before their functions were scattered around were lying around.

After giving simple first aid to the cyborg heroes who were about to stop functioning, he disappeared.

That’s what Rufina went through before she gained freedom and returned to the Megacorp Hero Association. This was the reason why the cyborg heroes, who were about to cease functioning at the Megacorp Hero Association, which did not accept outsiders, were anxiously waiting for their turn.

Instead of the president of the association ‘notifying’ the modified heroes of the conditions one by one. This time, it was also the reason why epinephrine was put in charge of trainees who were only experiencing cyborgs by transferring their biological brains to prepared full-body prosthetics rather than equipment.