Chapter +0. Hereinafter, all payments have been made (4)[Complete]
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“….Professor.”
“professor!”
“uh? ah.”
“You are holding the screen too tightly. “Corduro is a drone that is well past its lifespan.”
It was only after Lazard spoke that I realized that I had held more strength in my hands than necessary.
Bex was walking through the cemetery holding flowers. The people who are still vivid in my memory, even at this moment, when I go out of this stuffy museum, I think I will see the dusty streets of District 47 and the smell of oil, but the reality is that their tombstones are reflected.
Old man Woojin. Jokas and Roe Deer. Holly and Ezel. Dana. And according to the will, the cremated ashes were scattered high in the sky, and even flowers were hung on lanterns for Heungan Mandu.
After cleaning and organizing everyone’s graves one by one, Vex headed towards the headquarters of the Hanger Church.
Bex, who took out a small shovel and a rather small bomb in the middle of the night, smiled as if he had returned to his younger days.
Kwaaaaang!
With the explosion, we returned to the part where the Vex appeared.
『This is the only video prepared. As Cheon Liu-je said, I really lived the longest. Everyone… left without any regrets.』
Huuu –
Bex’s hand holding the cigar trembled.
『Everyone worked really hard. I work really hard. Don’t be ashamed of you, don’t be ashamed of the life you gave me.』
『I… I didn’t live that well compared to other people. Because you guys went that way and it wasn’t that good. It was really, really bad.』
『That’s why I picked up the camera because I felt like I had to give you something. I don’t know what to do to live a brilliant life like others, so I’m going to give you some news about those people. I’ve been collecting records, thinking that I might be able to repay at least a little bit, but isn’t there something that keeps me from falling off every time I try to go? Everyone lived so well, Bex, I wonder what you did? Hepburn Joe, I was so scared of disappointing you guys that I couldn’t come for a while.』
『….And then I filmed something this morning.』
The old Bex with a gloomy face added a new data chip as if he hastily made an excuse.
A different video from before. The sky was transparently blue, and a hazy moon and brightly twinkling little stars decorated the cloudless sky.
Busy outdoor restaurant. Bex was eating a soft soup alone.
-phut!
The sudden sound of destruction made the dazed old man’s eyes change into those of a soldier who was crossing the line between life and death.
Wow! Clink!
At the same time as the explosion, the overturned table covered Vex’s body, and the hand holding the knife and broken dish was writhing with old tendons, preparing to rush towards the beast at any moment.
And Vex saw.
In the corner of the restaurant, an old man of similar age was seen out of breath behind an overturned table.
People younger than him, in the middle-aged youth group, showed signs of being wary, but they only got up from their seats. Children who went out to eat with their families with their younger parents said,
“Mom! balloon! Balloon!」
….I wasn’t surprised or nervous.
『That was the sound of a tire exploding on a car passing nearby.』
『After seeing this in the morning, I thought it was okay to visit you guys, so I ran over.』 『
…Are you watching Hepburn? “I understand what this means…huh?”
Bex was crying. I was constantly shedding tears without even trying to hide the tears streaming down my wrinkled face.』
『Children… I don’t know about gunshots.』
『I really don’t know. For those kids, the sound of something popping is the sound of a balloon popping at a birthday party, and the sound of rustling is just the sound of their mother cleaning fish… Ugh! Ugh!” 『
We did it… we did it. We succeeded in paying off all the debt you left behind for us… Uhhhh…』
That was the moment when 70-year-old Bex laid down the burden she had been carrying her whole life.
『I was so sad. You did everything you could but enjoyed nothing. You, who have lived harder than anyone else, can’t bear to see my friend Hepburn disappear without receiving anything…』
He shook his head.
『I wanted to prove it. What you did was right and it wasn’t in vain, so you proved it with the lives of those who survived. Even so, I want to do something for you, Hepburn… uhuhuhuhuh…』
The broken Vex put her head against the machine containing the data soul where I was stored and cried endlessly.
“thank you. “Thank you so much for doing so much for us.”
『It’s only now that I can finally speak. Like other friends, I can confidently say thank you to you… Fortunately, before I die…』 『I’m
sorry for coming here now… Professor Ian….』
I shook off all my burdens. The old man cried and fell asleep in front of me.
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“[Happy time. avi] It’s over ah-”
“…Vex. The old man who gave you this video….”
“The death was confirmed at the end of the video. The body was placed in the church cemetery next to the BDSM special hall of the facility.”
“….okay. “I’ll have to visit sometime.”
That’s how my story ended.
My life is over and the stories of the people I was connected with also come to an end.
How should I explain this feeling? How on earth should I explain this emptiness that comes from all the things I left behind?
“Latura… I cannot sympathize with how harsh it is to face such empty time, but…”
[That ancestor. Are you okay? Oh, I’m so embarrassed that I’m crying.]
Lazard and Farqu came to me to comfort me, but they waved their hands and pushed me away. This is not something anyone can comfort. 158 years after my death, I hear that everyone I know has died. Who can empathize with this?
“How on earth would we dare to inflict this kind of pain on the professor…”
….F. Hehehehe.
pain? Yes, it really hurts. Dana, who was too clumsy to love me properly, my friends who carried my death in their hearts all their lives, my daughter who I never got to hold my hand with, my foster daughter who never properly served as a father to me, old man Woojin, who I considered like a father, and Ian, who passed away one step ahead of me. Isn’t this pain of everyone disappearing the very moment I wanted to avoid even at the cost of my life?
“Hehehe hehehe giggle hehe hehe!”
“…Professor Kyo?”
But even as tears streamed down my face, what came out from deep inside my heart was,
“Oh my, these people are really…really…”
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“You really paid it all back! I tried to erase it forever, but I ended up erasing it all! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Keck! Hehehe hehahahahaha!”
It was a feeling of joy and accomplishment that filled me from head to toe and burst outward.
My feat began with my death, was completed through everyone’s lives, and was transmitted through the Vex.
“I really saved everyone.”
Saved everyone. Not just a few people or hundreds, but everyone in the world I live in.
As a person suffering from mental illness such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, it was an area I thought I would never reach.
Absolutely perfect. Even with Professor Park’s intelligence, which even Gedroitz acknowledged, he couldn’t even think of any other assumptions at this point!
“My world is cleared….”
….Saved. Everything.
The thirst that had never been satisfied since my parents passed away was finally quenched.
“Lazard, you are the one who follows my will! Are you listening? I said I saved it! Completely so that there can be no disagreement or doubt! “I led you to the next world with these hands!”
“Yes, that is a reasonable (ugh!) statement (ugh!) – it couldn’t be otherwise!”
“hey! Burn that too! space shuttle! “I’m going to visit Professor Park too!”
“Yes yes! If you wish, after the church is stabilized, you must-Ugh!”
The regret is that I can only enjoy this joy by shaking the shoulder of a devotee of Professor Park whom I just met. Bex Ian Dana! friends! Why did you die so early? To be honest, if we had done this moment, we should have shared a moment where I felt like I could really shine a halo! Live just a little longer! Just 100 more years!
Seuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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….Changerang!
After running around like a crazy person for a while, I returned to my usual sharp, rational, and moderately relaxed state and picked up an item that was displayed on the shelf next to me as ‘Tobacco that Professor Park used to smoke when he was alive.’
“That is a truly precious relic that expresses Professor Park’s history, which is so valuable that it can never be obtained now…”
“That history is currently progressing in real time, so what? If you need it, I’ll give you a few rolls. “It will be worth more in about 100 years, right?”
“You are welcome!”
Seueueu-
huuuu.
[I’m a non-smoker.]
‘Oh, that’s good. Basically, you learn how to drink and smoke from adults. There is no other adult like me in this world.’
[Children.]
Ah, the cigarettes are delicious. It tastes about 1,000 times better than the cigarette you smoke after taking a bath. I can’t help but feel relieved like this. I can’t thank you enough. I can’t believe I left such a miraculous moment in my life that ended a long time ago.
“…You idiots. “If you do that, I can’t just leave without giving you a treat.”
[What do you mean?]
“It means that I wanted to help you with all my heart and soul, rather than just doing it as a pastime.”
Tap-duk, tap-duk, wood-duk!
After burning the cigarette to the end of the filter, I relaxed my friend’s weak body by stretching. This is a circular joint, it’s flexible, and it’s all gone. If Bex had seen it, he would have tied it with a rope and pulled it away.
“Corduro. “Can you hear me yet?”
“Did you have fun? Ah-”
“Then it was fun. “It was so much fun that your little head couldn’t even imagine it, as if it was a combination of all the happiness of my entire life.”
“If you like the service provided by this AI, please leave a review on the Gedreuts Company website-” “
Okay, okay. “After the work is over, I will announce as my first official announcement, ‘Leave a review praising Corduroy on the Gedroits Company website.’”
“Uh, this is GC Housing DrawOn, which always provides perfect service….”
The guy’s voice, which had begun to trail off, eventually stopped, unable to continue to the end.
“….hey.”
“Be honest. Long ago, when we lived in a shelter together. What did Happy Time do? “That was all bullshit, right?”
Perhaps it was also to keep me alive. AI’s self-rescue plan to save the owner who is mindlessly killing himself. The method would be to learn the owner’s behavior pattern according to the input program.
Deceptive bluffing. Isn’t this our way?
“Before I leave work. “Give me the authority to manage the facility.”
“EEG data matching. “I am handing over the management rights of ‘Home’ to the owner. Ah-”
When I put it down on the auxiliary device, the faintly blinking light soon turned off completely.
“….Loyal guy.”
If Corduro’s personality is nothing more than a set of learned data, then how do we explain the fact that he preserved Vex footage even as his personality data was being worn out? No, wouldn’t it be funny for me to think like this, even though I’m just a clone of the personality data of the already dead ‘Professor Park’ in the first place? I’m a data soul?
“There is a story that when a person dies, the drone that was there first comes out to meet them. “I really like that story.”
[….Isn’t that a pet?]
“As someone who has seen it in person, do you think there is a difference?”
[….No.]
While I was talking nonsense with Farqu, who was standing blankly inside, I heard a notification that all management authority of the ‘Professor Park Museum’ had been transferred.
Then, I guess I should get ready to go out soon.
Cheer up! Cheer up!
“I’m taking this and this and this too. “The price of the glass must be charged to the church.”
“Oh, Lord. “They can’t even be compared to the beginning of the year before-”
“They were originally mine, but whatever.”
I took off Parku’s loud neon leather jacket and changed into my clothes that were on display at the museum. Even though the size is a bit ambiguous, I like it because it feels familiar like skin.
Rumble-thud!
– Bulkhead opening. Exhibition room 3. This is a special exhibition of Ian Desmont Ashfield Metal Joe. –
“Vex must be disappointed, man. “He was staying at a BDSM camp.”
Fragmentation grenades. Magnetic bomb. Is this acidic Cremore? Of course I took it.
“I paid for this, so why are you here?”
Cheer up!
Of course, I also brought a double barrel shotgun. Ah, gun case. I can put it here.
Rumble-thud!
– Bulkhead opening. Exhibition room 2. BDSM Special Exhibition-
“Ah Becks! Hey, I enjoyed the video! What a wonderful child! I’ve always preferred small ones, and this time I did something really great with chips the size of a booger! thanks!”
It was a space where a variety of firearms were on display, but there was only one thing to take care of.
A rag-like cloak that was stuck in a corner, probably because someone had sorted it out. The thing with lots of pockets that Bex carried around with all kinds of memorized information. I have to take this.
Rumble-thud!
– Bulkhead opening. Exhibition room 1. The great second life of creditor Professor Park –
-Warning! Traces of forced entry from outside were confirmed. The area has been closed.-
“Professor Park’s life… Oh, these are the clothes I gave Dana as a gift, right?”
I saw quite a few items filled with memories here and there, but with the unique smell of ozone from lasers lingering around, I didn’t have time to even look at the memories.
[Are you planning on going out now armed with this? Really?]
“Why. “What’s wrong?”
[Not because of why! With an antique like this, it’s certain that even the poorest killer bot will kill you, let alone a Zeta class combat weapon! Oh no! Give me my body! The bulkhead has been opened, so now all we have to do is get out-]
“If we get out. “Let Lazard and all the scruffy refugees be replaced by human oil?”
[That is…]
“Then, if our modern friends are equipped with the most cutting-edge equipment and various things at the moment, can we prevent something like the Gedreuts Satellite Disaster?
[No….]
“You can’t? “I did that with my bare body.”
You suck. I don’t even know what woke me up.
“Oh, it’s here.”
Cheer up!
I was worried that it might not be there, but fortunately, my church friends were very good at taking care of the items.
[….Gas mask?]
“My amulet.”
Lastly, I finished my preparation by wearing my father’s memento, which was the beginning of all of this, on my belt.
Rumble-thud!
-Exterior wall open. warning. Part of the exterior wall is damaged.-
-Warning! Hostile activity has been detected against the facility! –
Boom. Thump-thud! thud!!
“What kind of military facility is this? What kind of defense facility does a religious institution have-”
[Because the person who built it is from the Hwangmu City generation.]
“Ah. That’s right.”
Ddudduddud-
“Now that I think about it. “Why is your name Farquo?”
[….Is that a dispute?]
“They say they are my descendants. But why is the name Middle Eastern? Is it adoption? Or a cuckoo?”
[what are you saying…! Of course it wasn’t a tuning fork! These days, who uses Asian names as is? This is Park Yoo! The Chinese character “flowu” (流) is written as “bakyu”. When you say tuning fork, it’s Par’k-u!]
“Ohhh. Future culture. Park Yu. Park Yu. Pakyu. Pakyu….”
[Don’t do it.]
“Pukyu. Nice name. “It’s always better to feed taffy than to eat it.”
[I told you not to!]
Giggling. boy. cute.
-Cow!
Finally, several layers of outer wall went up.
“Oooh. Future city.”
[It’s going to spin, really.]
It really wasn’t a wasteland.
The high-rise buildings lined up in front of me – although half of them were on fire, they were a great reminder of the skyscrapers of the past.
The display located between the marble-decorated floors was talking about my history in three-dimensional images, and the flags fluttering here and there contained a symbol in the shape of a noose with a star in the middle.
The star and the noose. Well, since Jesus was nailed to the cross and it was a cross, Professor Park was hung in the sky, so it would be correct to use a star and a noose. It’s a tradition.
“And that thing in the sky is probably the ‘Debt Star.’”
When I looked up and saw the world for the first time in my life, there were two moons. This too is a tradition.
“Then-”
Boom! thud! thud! thud!
“Please save me! Please save me! please!”
Even women in crisis. This is beyond tradition and is a classic.
“….Tsk! “Even if you bring your own equipment, you are such a fool to bring such outdated equipment!”
Of course, a woman who takes a quick look at my clothes and then passes me by with cold eyes and runs into the building is not traditional at all. Think of this as an advantage and take it into account.
“It’s difficult to play a classic protagonist.”
[Don’t talk nonsense! The guy that that woman dragged is coming!]
Boom! thud! Nod-dud-thud!
While I was quietly watching, the guy who was approaching from afar finally appeared outside the corner. A majestic physique, highly efficient-looking curved armor, two unusually shaped inflow organ arms, and even an eight-legged walking form.
“oh. awesome. “Fully automated combat robot.”
[Damn it! It’s police! That’s for combat! It’s also the fastest type!]
[What should we do now!]
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Pop. Pop. Wow. Wow!
….Sea profit!
“That’s right. “It’s what I do every time.”
[What were you doing?]
“Uh. “I did it like I was eating a meal.”
police. It is combat equipment that is close to the standards of this era. It was just right.
“We met faithful debtors just now, so shouldn’t we now meet unfaithful debtors?”
Second mechanical revolution. If the same thing happens not once but twice, there is a high possibility that someone is behind it. I can assure you that there is a high possibility that he has lived the extra life this body has given him insincerely –
bang!
“I will have to take up the wand and control this body myself.”
[shit! I’ll do my best to handle this hacking attack… Ugh! Please just live! Please!]
“Hehehehe. “Look.”
[?!]
Cute guy. Even if you gently poke it, it responds well.
Seeing how clearly different I was from the so-and-so I had been living in before, I felt that it was definitely a different life.
Hyde is no more.
No Dana Ian Bex friends.
I remember Professor Park, but no one remembers me.
this. It’s not even my body.
“…It’s just right.”
I felt a sense of languid leisure somewhere. What did I say about this? There was a word that fit perfectly….
[Oh, here it comes!]
Kuuuung!
And the moment a battle machine appeared, with bright red lenses indicating that it was a hostile entity at a glance, the words came out of my mouth so naturally, following my friends’ hands stroking the equipment.
Oh yeah. It was this.
“It’s New Game Plus. friends.”
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[We’re all going to die.]
Uuuuuuung-!
Ta-ta-ang!
The muzzle spews fire, the laser gun heats up, and the screams of the weakling and my laughter mix together.
….okay. What happens happens, and when Professor Park wakes up, something world-class mayhem has been decided by someone higher up somewhere.
“-I’ll kill you with a time attack this time!!”
I’ll accept it. Anywhere, anytime.
There was no hesitation in the steps he took towards the deadly piece of iron.
I wasn’t afraid anymore. The world and I are nothing.
freedom. A true feeling of freedom that cannot be expressed in any words.
Pure freedom that was achieved after everything in life was fulfilled, not because of letting go of life.
“Down! Skynet!”
[Ugh! Please save my ancestors!!!]
“We are saving everyone! Including you!”
[Uuuuuuuu-!!!!]
That was my world clear reward that Vex gave me.
Tataang-!
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Shouting clear at the end of the world (complete)
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