episode_0665
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Is it because I don’t want to do anything unless I meet Scarlett?
Luckily, ECHO guided me straight to Scarlett.
I asked, looking at the tightly shut iron door with no sign whatsoever.
“Is this it?”
“That’s right. M3722-U2, according to what you said, a woman named Scarlett is contained inside.”
“It’s a little different from the room with the mirage mirror.”
“Because it’s a temporary containment cell for humanoid anomalies. M3722, that is, it’s the first time a mirage mirror has spit out a living being.”
‘It seems like Scarlett is also being treated as an abnormality.’
I’ve given up on explaining that I’m not an abnormality.
Honestly, if I were in their shoes, I wouldn’t have thought of them as fellow human beings, seeing them tearing through restraints with their bare bodies, moving at speeds that the eye couldn’t follow, and deflecting bullets even though they were supposed to be used for subduing.
‘He even blocked the strange entity that was used as a weapon by wrapping a strange energy around his bare hand.’
A person who blocks an abnormal entity with his hand. There’s no way such a thing could exist.
You could say he’s a superpowered person, but in the end, by the standards of this world, he’s a kind of abnormality.
Just admitting it was a way to avoid annoying arguments.
I nodded and gestured for him to open the door quickly.
Emily opened the door by manipulating the security device next to it.
Clank-
As the door to the isolation room opened, the interior, decorated like an ordinary one-room apartment, was revealed, unlike the bleak appearance seen from the outside.
There wasn’t much furniture besides the bed, but it was fortunate that Scarlett didn’t have to watch her shivering on the cold concrete floor.
Of course, from Scarlett’s perspective, she may have felt anxious about being suddenly dropped into a different world and being trapped like this.
That’s what I thought when I saw her sitting on the bed, hugging her knees, still in the outfit she had been experimenting with.
“Scarlett.”
“… … ?”
Scarlett, who had been burying her face in her arms, flinched at the sound of my voice calling her name and slowly raised her head.
Then, he found me standing in front of the door and blinked his swollen eyes.
“Clan Master… ?”
Scarlett pinched her cheek a few times as if to make sure she wasn’t dreaming, then felt the pain and seemed to be convinced that it was reality.
Tears welled up in her round eyes, which looked like they had already been crying a lot, and flowed down like a faucet had been turned on.
“Ppuaaang…! Clan… Clan Master…!”
She stumbled out of bed, ran to me, and hugged me.
For some reason, I remembered what happened when I passed the third floor.
Even then, I hugged her while crying like this.
I patted her head as I felt two cushions pressing against my forehead.
“Yeah. I was surprised when you suddenly disappeared, Scarlett. But don’t worry too much, I came to save you.”
“After a while, ahh …
Scarlett snuggled into my arms and whined indistinctly.
Even though she achieved many feats in the third-floor exam thanks to me, her original occupation is an alchemist.
Since I didn’t even have a contract with her, her personal fighting ability is no different from that of an ordinary woman.
So that’s why I was dragged into this world, but I couldn’t resist ECHO and was trapped like this.
My heart ached as I watched her sobbing, tears streaming down her face and a runny nose.
I weakly aroused my power and stroked her back with my warmed hands.
“I’m sorry. I should have explained the mirror precautions properly. I didn’t think you’d get blasted to another world.”
“Sniff… ! No… I was supposed to just copy objects as they were supposed to do… But I got curious and… ”
Scarlett mumbled like that in my arms for a while and then fell asleep.
I think it was a combination of the tension from being trapped in an unfamiliar environment and the exhaustion from crying.
Now that I have come to rescue her, she has relaxed and fallen asleep as soon as she feels the warmth.
‘I guess I should make a contract after I come to my senses.’
There are just too many eyes watching these days.
Swish-
I lifted Scarlett gently, laid her on the bed, and covered her with the blanket.
And asked Emily.
“You didn’t torture him or anything, did you?”
I didn’t see any signs of that when I looked at her condition, but I asked just in case.
It was said that this was the first time that a mirage mirror had spat out a living thing, so I was worried that they might have been conducting some kind of experiment.
Fortunately, Emily said she didn’t do anything other than isolate Scarlett.
“There was no time for that. You showed up shortly after we isolated Ms. Scarlett. And ECHO is not an organization that aims to harass or destroy abnormal entities. We tend to be more lenient with entities that are deemed safe.”
“But why didn’t you know Scarlett’s name before I told you? When I tried to talk her out of it, why didn’t you listen to me and just sprayed her with sleeping gas?”
“… Among the abnormal entities, there are some that have a negative effect on humans just by talking to them or looking at them. That’s why the rule when making contact with a new humanoid abnormal entity is to give them one-sided instructions.”
“But we had a conversation?”
“I guess you felt like you were sharing.”
Emily raised her hand and continued speaking, pointing alternately between herself and me.
“Now that we’re talking face to face thanks to the emergency situation, direct contact with the first discovered abnormality is prohibited in principle. The conversation we had was basically sent to each other as text, and then converted back into voice and played back. You can tell if looking at it causes problems by checking the condition of the first discoverer, but you have to be a little more careful about talking to them.”
‘Isn’t that totally tts?’
It seemed like a way to prevent direct conversation by placing the computer in the middle of a conversation with each other.
I thought that perhaps the poor quality of her voice coming from the speaker was an attempt to hide the slight awkwardness of the voice converted from text.
“Well, okay. They each had their own circumstances. Let’s not argue any further. Scarlett doesn’t seem to be in any pain either.”
“We won’t claim responsibility for the clash, since we treated the exhausted combatants and the researchers who suffered collateral damage. We’ll have to do a thorough examination to see if the treatment was really free of charge… ”
“You’re meticulous. I can guarantee that.”
“No matter how meticulous you are about the above, it’s not enough.”
Emily definitely gave off the vibe of an elite researcher.
I heard he’s a high-ranking anomaly interpretation expert? I think he has that kind of title… Considering his calm demeanor when he was taken hostage, I don’t think he just has the talent of a simple researcher.
“So, do you have any plans for the future?”
Even though she must have heard the conversation between Scarlett and me, she pretended not to know and asked questions.
I shrugged.
“First, I’m going to find a way to return to the original world. Since I came here through the mirage mirror of another world, there must be a way if I look for it. Or, like when I came here, I’ll put my hand in and wait quietly.”
“The mirage mirror is isolated by ECHO regulations, so even researchers are prohibited from using it. You must write a thorough experimental plan and receive permission from your superiors. Even you are a humanoid abnormality. Since replicating an abnormality with a mirage mirror is strictly prohibited, there is a chance that you will be blocked from making contact.”
“Really? That’s a bit difficult… ”
If you try to forcefully take away the mirage mirror, there is nothing you can’t do.
But then we would be turning ECHO, a pan-national organization, into our enemy.
It was true that I felt a little reluctant to do something like that when I didn’t know how much longer I would have to stay in this world.
Among the anomalous entities they use, there are some that are of little use to me, like the W-042 I faced before, but there may be many more bizarre entities with stronger effects.
I stroked my chin with one hand, then a good idea occurred to me and I clapped my hands.
“Do not propose a deal.”
“Are you talking about a deal?”
“I’ll help ECHO with what he’s doing. As you can see, my abilities are quite strong and diverse.”
I am an all-rounder character who can not only have superhuman strength, but also provide support using the healing rosary.
If I, with these abilities, promise to cooperate, there would be no reason for the organization, which is busy managing various abnormal entities, to refuse, right?
“In return, ECHO will help me and Scarlett return to our original world. Not only can you borrow the Mirage Mirror, but you can also view and borrow the data on any anomalies that might be helpful.”
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