episode_0664
by fnovelpia
Even though I had my eyes closed, I could already sense the positions of the people around me.
My body was able to break down this level of sleeping gas on its own without me having to resort to any deep breathing techniques to expel it from my body.
I tried to secure my limbs with a tough cloth to ensure my safety while I was moving, but it was meaningless to me.
Boo-
He got up from his seat, easily ripping off the restraints by simply raising his arms.
“Huh?”
Those who heard the sound while talking among themselves looked in my direction and let out a bewildered sound.
I could see a woman with blonde hair tied up in a ponytail, mingling among them. It was the person I assumed had been talking to me through the speaker.
It wasn’t that difficult to distinguish her from the other people.
She stood at the front of a group of what appeared to be researchers wearing white gowns.
And everyone around me, except for the researchers, were heavily armed combatants ready to fight at any moment.
“M3772-U2 is… !”
“How can a human…?!”
“Not human! You’re an abnormality!”
“Damn, I definitely confirmed that the sleeping gas was passed through the biological response…!”
The guys were so surprised that they started talking loudly among themselves.
I muttered as I brought my slowed metabolism back to normal.
“You call people abnormal. What rude people.”
“Load suppression rounds!”
Of course, the guys didn’t pay any attention to what I was saying. On the contrary, they were a little flustered, but they didn’t hesitate to point their guns at me, which gave me the impression that they were experts at dealing with this kind of thing.
‘Even so, it’s not at a level that goes beyond human limitations.’
I used the Seopyeongwolun Kyung to lightly kick the floor. I don’t know what it was made of, but it was a solid metal floor, perfect for moving at high speeds.
“… … !”
The surrounding combatants were confused when I suddenly disappeared. They turned their guns here and there at a speed beyond human perception, searching for their lost target.
I followed the blonde researcher and called out to them.
“This way.”
“Oh no…! Emily…!”
“Emily. I guess her name was Emily.”
He raised his hand and grabbed the blonde researcher, Emily, by the neck.
It wasn’t a strong hold.
I was just thinking of taking the highest ranking person here hostage.
But their response exceeded my expectations.
“Shoot!”
“What?”
Ta-da-da-da-dang!
The guys pulled the trigger without any hesitation, even though they knew I had their boss in my hands.
Thanks to that, I, who had taken Emily hostage, had to block her path with my body.
“Kwak… !”
“Eok… !”
“Not this way! You idiot… Whew!”
Screams escaped from the mouths of the researchers behind me, who had been hit by some of the bullets that had ricocheted off their bodies.
Listening to what they were saying, they said it was a suppression grenade, but if they got hit that many times, they would definitely go to the emergency room, they were guys with no camaraderie.
‘No, camaraderie aside… if a woman named Emily had taken all this on her own, she might have really died?’
“What the hell are these guys doing? Hey, do you have any grudges against your subordinates?”
Emily answered calmly to my absurd words.
“… Because subduing an abnormal entity that escaped from containment is a top priority. If an abnormal entity is allowed to escape just because of a single hostage, the damage will come back hundreds or thousands of times larger. ”
“There is no negotiation with terrorists… ”
As Emily said, if there were such dangerous anomalies in this facility, it wasn’t completely incomprehensible how they handled it, but my impression that they were ruthless remained the same.
‘… How strong is your sense of mission?’
“Haa, that’s why I’m saying I’m not an abnormality.”
“Are you serious? The restraints you tore off are strong enough to tie up an elephant. And you can deflect a suppression bullet with your bare body. Usually, a being capable of such things is called an abnormal entity.”
I tried my best to restrain myself, but it seemed that even that was enough for them to judge me as something other than human.
I had a ridiculous misunderstanding, and I had no idea how to resolve this complicated situation.
“The suppression bullets do not work! Use of W-042 is permitted!”
“Yes!”
While I was pondering this, the combatants saw that the suppression rounds were not working on me and took out other weapons.
‘What is W-042? The name alone sounds like some kind of anti-rust lubricant…’
What the fighters pulled out, unexpectedly, was the swords they had been carrying on their backs.
A short sword that appears to be about 70 to 80 cm long.
The shape was ordinary with no special features, but it was obvious that it would not be a good sight if it was cut, as a mysterious black fog was vaguely rising from the tip of the sword.
It was assumed to be an abnormal entity used as a weapon by the combatants.
“Take it!”
Whoosh!
Two fighters rushed in with swords drawn.
I pushed Emily back to prevent her from getting hurt by interfering, and blocked the sword with my palm in self-defense.
Thud!
“Ugh… !”
“Eww!!!”
“What is this…?”
A gasp escaped me without me knowing.
Surprisingly, the fighters sucked the internal energy from the black self-defense energy in my palm that was touching.
Although it was just a little bit.
It seemed to be some kind of weapon that could absorb and subdue the energy of a black abnormal entity called W-042.
Absorbing energy. It was certainly a suitable trait for dealing with abnormal entities with various powers.
‘But it doesn’t seem to have no drawbacks.’
My gaze turned to the two combatants wielding swords.
Although it wasn’t visible from the outside because their bodies were wrapped tightly, the condition of the two was noticeably worsening as W-042 absorbed my internal energy.
In that short period of time, my heart rate increased as if I had run a marathon, and I could feel all the strength draining from my body.
‘Does it also consume the user’s power?’
Thud-
Even when the combatants finally collapsed from exhaustion, the self-defense weapon in my hand did not fade at all.
“… Why are things getting more and more complicated?”
I sighed and took the Healing Rosary out of my inventory.
Then he approached the fallen fighters and began to treat them.
If I was going to fight this organization to the death, I didn’t care if they died of exhaustion or if I killed them myself, but that wasn’t what I wanted.
My goal has been only one since I first arrived here.
It was about getting Scarlett safely away.
‘And… maybe I need help returning to my original world.’
Any organization that was able to isolate and investigate abnormal entities on this scale would surely have a lot of information I needed.
If you talk to Maria, you can hack her to get the information, but there may be anomalies related to information security.
In that case, Maria might be put in danger for no reason, so it would be better to ask for cooperation if possible.
While I was healing the fighters, the other guys who tried to approach were stopped by Emily, who broke free from my hand.
“… Wait. It doesn’t seem to be an abnormal entity that is hostile to humans. Let’s just watch for a while. ”
“But the principle is to subdue any resisting abnormal entity… ”
“This is my judgment as a senior anomaly analysis expert. You probably know that in the field where anomalies are involved, things that deviate from the principles often happen.”
“… Okay.”
In the end, I treated all the researchers who were rolling on the floor after being hit by suppression bullets in front of the combatants, including Emily.
And then he opened his mouth, looking around at the calmer atmosphere around him.
“… Now you know that I’m not particularly hostile to you. If you still don’t trust me after all this time, then I have nothing more to do. I’ll ask you one last time. What on earth is this place?”
“This is an organization for isolating abnormal phenomena and observing risks. ECHO (Enigmatic Containment and Hazard Observation). This is where people gather to protect human survival and freedom from crises caused by abnormal phenomena.”
“ECHO… ”
It was roughly as I had guessed.
“Then… is it like some kind of world government?”
“It is separate from politics. Our organization only wants the safety of humanity. The interests and conflicts of each country are not the concern of ECHO.”
“I see. I’m not really interested in that either.”
I wasn’t curious about how the countries of this world were run.
“There’s only one thing I’m interested in. The M3772-U1 you mentioned earlier. It’s where the anomaly is contained. ”
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