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A man with thick black hair slicked back, dark features beneath, a thick jawline, broad shoulders, and brute strength that was incomparable to that of an ordinary person.

A soldier who has not only the appearance, but also the actual experience of fighting and winning on the front lines where wild monsters are attacking.

Marquis Gaston.

Gaston, who was hunting monsters with a few knives in his hand, did not think he could possibly defeat the girl in front of him.

Whatever it is, the moment it touches the ceiling, it is pulled up, shrinks to a point, and then bursts and disappears, a terrifying sea ripples.

Just now, it came down in a square pillar shape as if it had been cut from a cake and fell on the escort standing next to it.

Even though he was wearing armor that was strong enough to withstand even a monster, he was floating in the water like a piece of meat and iron mixed together.

How do I win this?

Gaston was now standing within three seconds of jumping in, but he didn’t have the courage to try.

Where did the laws of this world go? A square pillar hanging from the ceiling is rattling. Can you win even if you turn your magic into your body and jump in?

No, from the beginning.

Is it really human to use the ability to cover the sky with water?

There is still a considerable amount of the Marquis’ army that he can move, but even with all of them combined, the chances of defeating this are slim.

So, in order to survive in this situation, Gaston decided to sell out his opponent.

“Pride Industries, Rocketmobile Company, Gunn & LeFou Company. These three companies offered me a million dollars if I would just cover up a minor incident that happened in Bern City. So if you ask me why, I can only say it was because I was dealing with them.”

Gaston, who had been speaking confidently, immediately lowered his tail and lay flat on the floor when Victoria’s eyes became sharp.

Pride Industries. Starting out as a company that makes mainframes for wind-up machines, it has become a global conglomerate that has absorbed all of the related heavy industries.

Rocketmobile Company. A global conglomerate with subsidiaries including Cogni Transport Company and other companies that use wind-up machinery. They are essentially one entity, as the Rocketmobile Company ships the products manufactured by Pride Industries to its customers.

G&L Company. A company that handles the programs of wind-up machines. It is a monopoly company that manufactures not only software but also specialized hardware, and its products are used in places where smart wind-up machines are used. Of course, if the hardware is not used, the software does not work, and it is a multinational company that maintains its monopoly by making it impossible to oppose.

Corporate ethics have not yet developed. Therefore, it is an era where people think that they have seized huge capital through monopolies and oligopolies, and that corporations have become more powerful than the state.

In reality, even if the king ordered an investigation, he would bribe the nobles in charge of it and lead it in the direction he wanted.

And Victoria knows those three companies.

Because Victoria is studying clockwork engineering. If you put those three together, it would be almost like the entire clockwork machinery industry, so it would be strange if she didn’t know.

The wind-up machine runaway incident that occurred in Bern City.

Victoria, who had been through that, thought this.

The three companies are trying to bury the damaging incident, but the person who is doing it is in front of them. Therefore, if they do something about the person in front of them, everything will be over.

No matter what they try to do behind the scenes, the group with the most power in Bern City right now is the Marquis Gaston.

Victoria, who knew a lot about machines but little about politics or conspiracies, judged too hastily.

But there’s no one here to point that out.

“Huh? I thought I saw you somewhere, Victoria. Victoria Bet, right? The girl who lives in my city. Oh, I see. Hey. You have a family inside, right? If that’s what you’re worried about, I can lend you my strength. Look. I’m the owner of Bern City, right? So, please clear this water away.”

So at the moment when he thought that if he could arrest this man and report his crimes to the royal family and the press, everything would be over, Gaston made a fatal mistake.

He recognized Victoria. Since the royal family had done so much publicity about the harvest season, it was not strange for Gaston to recognize Victoria. In fact, he couldn’t help but recognize her.

But it was a mistake to speak in a contemptuous tone without realizing the other person’s true identity.

If you say so now.

“I hate it.”

Gaston’s words were mean, but Victoria took them as a threat.

The price for slipping up was high.

The water pillar crushed the three people present, including Gaston.

Instead of just one person, the entire room sank to the ground, and three people disappeared without even being able to scream, leaving behind only a small lump.

Victoria rose up into the water. To Victoria, who could control water, the water in this place was like her own body.

It would be easier to understand if I say it in simple terms as Full Armor Victoria.

And in that state, he moved towards Bern City.

The sea that flowed backwards slowly disappears from the sky as if the tide is going out.

Those who were trapped between the ground and the water, prepared to die, breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the sea move away to the southeast.

Sitting on the debris left behind after the tsunami has passed, I look up at the stars and moon in the sky and realize that the nightmare night is over.

For the survivors, this was neither a protest nor a natural disaster.

Ghost story.

No matter how you look at it, this was not the reality that people had to experience.

And in the middle of that village.

His left hand, which was only up to his shoulder, twitched.

He moved his fingers like a bug called an arm, approaching the half-cooked lump of meat that was burnt red and squashed on the back of his head and back.

And then a faint crack appeared in the world.

As if a crack had formed in a window, the cracks were the same shape and spread out like a spider web wherever you looked.

Immediately after.

Instead of a half-cooked chunk of meat and an arm crawling alone, two girls with white skin and purple hair appeared.

Evil miracles do not disappear.

***

lol.

It’s warm.

Wow, Victoria is great! I love you!

Who would have thought it would send this much warmth!

Plus, I’m currently heading to Bern City on a giant water drop. I can’t wait to see how many people will die if this continues.

It will continue to bring me lots of warmth in the future.

This is harvest time!

Anyway, that’s that.

I didn’t know that even if only my arms remained, they wouldn’t be ejected outside. When the light really flew in, I thought I was doomed, but the soldier made of a harvester protected me and pushed me, so one arm was ejected outside the light and didn’t evaporate.

It was kind of funny that he could still move in that state.

I still don’t know if this is a human arm or a created body.

You have to be careful when you enter another world or the next doll.

anyway.

I also see the world from Victoria’s perspective, so when I saw Victoria getting really angry and pulling the sea, I immediately stopped changing my body back to normal.

I was curious to see how far Victoria could go.

And I was satisfied.

Plus, it’s great that he has no hesitation in killing people, perhaps because he’s already experienced extreme situations.

When a person is consumed by too much power, their value becomes less than that of an insect.

It happens often.

So, along with a lot of warmth, memories came to me.

The Harvester can obtain warmth from the killed opponents, but some of their memories are broken.

Still, I figured out a few things.

First of all, Marquis Gaston.

This is really great. In what sense is it great? It’s because they are perceiving reality in their own way.

Perhaps because they heard screams coming from the south, they sent a letter to Gaston to investigate.

I want you to investigate whether there have been any unusual incidents in Bern City, or whether there have been any incidents of mass deaths south of Bern City.

Gaston sent his investigation south of Bern City.

What is happening in Bern City right now is a common occurrence, so it is not something that needs to be explained to the King, so he ignored it.

Because they sent people from multinational corporations to make secret agreements faster than the king.

To prevent any actions that would lead to the truth being revealed and to investigate the incident that occurred in Bern City.

If no rumors about the company spread in Bern City, 5% of the contract deposit will be paid every month for 20 months.

So, since the city of Bern was doing well in profitable business, I figured there was nothing wrong.

It’s really amazing that you believe that.

Of course, it was Gaston who immediately started massacring the protesters after they spread information about the events that had occurred in Bern City.

And then, citing a minor setback in business, we renegotiated with the company and cut off all connections between Bern City and the outside world.

All these incidents are minor troubles that occur during business, at least within Gaston’s household.

Looking at this part, it really seems like the royal family has nothing to do with it.

Rather, I would like to ask whether it is functioning properly as a country because it is too soft. Or, whether too many manpower has been poured into that area to deal with witches.

Still, it’s really amazing that there’s a good chance that Maleficent couldn’t be stopped.

As I was organizing my thoughts, I said hello to Polaris, which had just reached harvest time.

“How are you feeling?”

“How are you alive?”

“You won’t die even if you only have one arm left.”

Polaris frowned at my words, then turned her head to look across the sky. She sighed deeply as she saw the sea moving in the distance.

“That’s Victoria, right?”

“Yes. How did you know?”

“The day we first met. She used water, right? No, but was she able to do that?”

Like a spider, many legs extend out from the river and the sea, continuously supplying water to the sea floating in the sky.

“I didn’t know Victoria could do that either.”

Other people know.

As the world developed and the harvesters gained more knowledge, the level of fire handling changed.

Although it may seem like the same ability to handle fire, it may actually be an ability that operates on completely different principles, but the more knowledge we accumulate in the world, the more the person who uses it can apply it.

Based on that, I guess superpowers are relatively dependent on a person’s imagination. In other words, if you can’t imagine such a sight, you can’t create it.

It’s not because they lack strength, but more likely because they don’t know.

If you ask where I saw such a sight, it was the first time. She was almost drowned in the harvest season. So it would have been easy to imagine.

Polaris just looks at me and Victoria with a lost expression, but doesn’t say anything.

Judging by the whiteness of his skin, the burns weren’t life-threatening. Polaris wasn’t just strong, he was also tough.

But seeing him hesitate like this, I can tell he’s still a child.

“The lesser Victoria drowned.”

“Yeah… … . Then Bell. What will Bell do from now on?”

“We have to follow Victoria. What are you going to do with Polaris?”

In a life-threatening situation, he is the kind of person who uses himself as a shield rather than someone else as a shield.

If you force me like this, I know what choice I will make.

Polaris remained silent for a while, then lowered his head.

“Victoria, let’s go get her. We have to go and find out what the hell is going on. We came all the way here, and we’re in this state, so if we just go back, we’re losers. Let’s go.”

As always, humans repeat foolish choices.

That’s the kind of person I believe in.

“Yes, let’s do that. Polaris.”