episode_0150

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I was planning to show Rufina right away how the virtual space, where time only passes slowly, has changed. Before that, it was decided to activate the 2nd Megacorp Security trainees that had been transferred first.

“Could you please press the button there? Rufina?”

“This is what you mean. President of the Association…!”

Academy students who agreed to receive special training for a week were placed in capsule pots filled with nutrient solution. It was the same as the frozen warehouse where Rufina’s original body was stored, but the location was different.

This is not a warehouse area. This is a maintenance room for the management of academy students who will wake up and be trained in custom full-body prostheses created by Megacorp.

The appearance of the academy students included was so similar that it was difficult to distinguish them except for a few characteristics. The evidence was that there was no capsule port containing small-breasted Rufina.

“…Individual identification number…2-1. Identifying name…Ema. Ready for operation. Begin the conscious awakening sequence..”

When the capsule port, which contained all the nutrients, was opened, sentences entered from the mouth of the bear girl inside began to be printed.

The Megacorp’s emblem flashed on the visual module of the cyborg body, which began operation for the first time.

“How are you feeling? Miss Emma? Did you sleep well?”

“President of the Association… I feel fine… but where am I? Why am I in a place like this…”

Rufina, who was given the original body of the personality core, is shocked to discover the difference from a simple full-body body. The work to be done is fixed.

When I entered the elevator to go down to the operating room, I passed out like Supreme Fox. I woke up in a new body with a status bar at the bottom of the screen and explained my current status in an easy-to-understand manner to the academy student who was confused by everything.

“This is the 3rd basement floor of the Megacorp Hero Association. Did you hear the explanation from Yuna? Training space for cyborgs belonging to the security forces”

After remodeling surgery. He informed me that in the maintenance room here, fine adjustments were being made until synchronization between the biological brain and the prosthetic body was completed.

The video showed that the original body, which the academy student who woke up in a new body was most worried about, was safely stored in a frozen capsule.

“Is the surgery already over? I don’t think even an hour has passed…”

An obvious question came back to Emma, whose brain waves remained inactive while fully synchronized.

“It feels so natural that you don’t even notice it, right? Check it out with your own eyes. Miss Emma. Is it okay if I touch you?”

He pointed with his finger at the chest of Eva, a prospective academy graduate who was wearing nothing.

“Because Emma will be using the body for a week anyway.”

“My…body?”

The bear girl, who tilted her head and looked down at her chest, understood everything. And he accepted his condition faster than Rufina, who was created from scratch.

“This…this…uh…this…my body? Like…a mannequin…”

The overall white and smooth synthetic plastic skin without any fine hair looked one step removed from a human.

The person who helped the bear girl with her clenched fists understand the situation was himself, who understood that the feel and the force applied were different from usual.

As Emma puts it. There was nothing on the cyborg trainee’s chest that was not a custom full-body body created by processing the original body.

The Megacorp Hero Association’s emblem and trainee identification number were clearly engraved on his chest and shoulders.

“Did you see Emma last time? When a disciplinary committee was held due to an accident while practicing as a police officer.”

“Please…forget about that. President of the Association.”

The academy student, who was so deliberate as to sign up for police training to become stronger, thought, ‘What did you do to my body?!’ It was different from the female protagonist who said the same thing.

Although Emma was embarrassed. Like a magical girl who understood the happiness of being used as a personality core, she accepted her new state.

The calm attitude was because there was a condition in the contract that it would be safely returned to the original body at the end of the training period. It was enough for Rufina, who had never been human, to have doubts.

“Ah…Ah…Are you okay? senior?! It’s not like a mannequin, it’s a mannequin! It’s worse than a mannequin… the bar code and the identification number… this is a complete… treatment!”

“Rufina. Did you say that? I know it’s strange, but That was the first condition.”

Explaining the situation to the trainees who will wake up one by one in the order that synchronization was completed. I left it to Emma.

It would have been okay to wait for everyone to wake up and then go to the simulation room together. It was because I remembered some advice to give to Rufina.

In the simulation room, Megacorp Security’s combat cyborgs, including Yuna, were already connected to the server through the capsule port.

“You said that epinephrine’s practical experience is important, right? The same goes for cooperation. Of course, formal training was still possible in a virtual space with only a white floor.”

There weren’t many empty seats. Among them, Rufina was guided to the capsule port where the red auxiliary module was installed.

“That…is…Rufina…who was a magical girl…”

Even Rufina, who didn’t know what the personality core looked like, seemed to understand it based on the atmosphere.

The personality core that was a magical girl was removed from the device.

With a happy heart, I placed the personality core that powered the customized personal simulation calculations on the palm of my hand.

I handed it to Rufina so that she could see how the light that came in softly as it was deactivated went out powerlessly.

It was not the simulation’s job to teach Rufina about the feelings of items that had lost their purpose, such as magical girl camouflage units for capturing magical girls, staff units, and operation assistance terminals.

“Is there a reason to sympathize with Rufina?”

“Ji…what are you talking about…?”

What I could say to Rufina, who was about to have a special experience, was to represent the feelings of a satisfied magical girl as a personality core.

“It’s pitiful. it should be hard. Isn’t the expression appropriate for the item? Wouldn’t it be nice if it were a slave?”

“This is not the magical girl ‘Rufina’ who became the personality core. It’s called the ‘personality core’ that can become Rufina.”

“Do not feel sorry or pity. Treating it with care like an object and using it a lot is the greatest happiness for Rufina today.”

“I don’t know what the president of the association is saying…!?”

When asked not to deny the magical girl who had accepted her position as a personality core, Rufina’s eyes darted around and her appearance was identical to that of the heroine who had fallen into a state of confusion.

Although he did not understand the meaning, he seemed to understand what the personality core he was handed to him and holding it with both hands was.

The real magical girl’s nipples, which had barely been able to resist rising above the bodysuit, gave up resisting when Ruffini pushed the personality core he was holding into the capsule port terminal.

The first mission goal that Rufina received in the virtual space that implemented Sky City was to subdue the real magical girl Rufina.

The process just didn’t look good. In the end, it was not difficult for Rufina to achieve her goal as she succeeded in defeating the real one.

“….♥”

Rufina’s body, whose consciousness is connected to virtual space. It reacted as intended by the personality core, which was to let objects know that happiness exists as objects.

I flinch… The moment I received the server’s command. Rufina’s heart shook greatly as if she was happy.

The magic girl’s magic began to mix with the capsule pot filled with highly concentrated nutrient solution.

I reacted the same way at the moment I remembered how to wear the latex body armor I learned as a cyborg trainee to achieve my goal, and at the moment I agreed to the simulation’s command to take off the thin bodysuit I was wearing to put on the equipment.

Rufina’s behavior became more and more natural as she began to feel a sense of loyalty despite the simulation’s commands.

**

The shabby magical girl’s body moves every time Rufina moves to achieve her goal in virtual space. I surrendered to the solid satisfaction that came with each step.

Same goes for the body. It was the same with my heart.

Rufina’s steps were as if she had deliberately forgotten how to walk in order to look like an ordinary academy student. It regained its original appearance in an instant.

There was no shame in the Megacorp cyborg, who was moving with his thighs high and confidently stepping on the metal tiles of the floor.

[This one and the last one all seem real?!]

“It’s not like the real thing. Because it’s real. Rufina directly connected the personality core, right?”

Questions were asked only after the simulation prepared just for Rufina was repeated three more times.

The reason the question came in was because the mission objective had changed.

From simple suppression where all you had to do was defeat them, whether by manipulating the beam beat or defeating them from a distance, or using a tool to suppress magical girls created by researching Yuna’s magic circuit. It was changed to kidnapping to bring Megacorp.

“You know that it was the personality core that created this simulation, right?”

[Well… that means…]

There was no reason to deceive from the beginning.

It was the personality core operating as the server’s auxiliary computation module that set the mission goal to kidnap the magical girl Rufina and brainwash her into becoming a Megacorp combatant.

It was Rufina’s personality core that was directly manipulating the target of brainwashing, Magical Girl Rufina, instead of using a prepared program. It was also a personality core that prepared a brainwashing device that lowered the headset from above as soon as you sat down.

In the briefing that explains the situation before the mission begins, Rufina’s role has already been set as a cyborg who has been brainwashed and controlled by Megacorp. It was Rufina’s personality core that even displayed the flashing notification sign to read.

It was Rufina, who accepted herself as an object, who kidnapped a magical girl named Rufina and created a situation where she had to brainwash her into a cyborg doll soldier of Megacorp.

[…I understood everything. President of the Association. If you want to be treated like an object like that…no.]

[In this simulation, I am not Rufina, but a combat cyborg doll soldier created by Megacorp…]

Rufina, who had lost all of the guilt she had toward the original, was assigned reinforcements to help her easily achieve her mission goals.

[Yu…Yuna?]

Looks like Rufina is embarrassed. It was faster to give special remote controls to training classmates who were waiting on the same server.

[Security drone. SD01. command]

[Security drone. SD04. Waiting for command.]

The purpose remained the same. The idea was to let Rufina experience the mindset of an object.

Not a cyborg experience. The support troops, who were also part of Megacorp’s equipment, did not need to be postponed.

All I had to do was put in my self-awareness as an academy student that had appeared on the surface.

That’s what the vision module that was lit in purple meant.

In a simulation where heroes are set to patrol the streets. If Rufina uses that remote control even once to grant the personality core’s wish. To be fair, I was planning to include Rufina as a support troop in other trainees’ simulations.