Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter4 (section)

===Algo’s Board Mode: Inside the White Castle===

'''<Algo’s Over Reload>

You are in the Top Level Hall, a Top Page of the Central Administrative Building, White Castle, South Amusement Park.

The current time is 2:34 AM.

The only thing in the 30yd room is red carpet and four windows each on the south and north walls.

You are standing by the south windows.

A single old-style NPC Body accompanies you. She is Alternative Kobayashi Asb. She is using a cartoony old-style NPC Body as a terminal for her Mind Lives.

She is seated on your left shoulder.

Algo: “I can’t see the adjacent Page since I’m in Sight, but I’m guessing it’s dark out.”

Alternative: <You love coming here at this time, don’t you?>

Algo: “The empty amusement park reminds me of when my mother abandoned me. It was also in an amusement park that I tried picking a fight with Master Ungyou when he was on a trip to America and got punched really hard.”

Alternative: <So it’s where you were betrayed and abandoned, but also where you were taken in and found someone you could trust?>

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Alternative’s eyes are closed but bent. She is smiling.

Algo: “My mother left me behind, but I wouldn’t have been taken in by my master or met you if she hadn’t.”

Algo: “They say some of the fairy species like the long lived still have a habit of making changelings. Because that change is supposed to transform one answer into another.”

Alternative: <Are you saying that our betrayal of Shouzou will eventually lead to another answer?>

Algo: <Does it sadden you that Aoe and Yuo are our enemy?>

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Alternative’s eyes are closed with the eyebrows drooping. She looks exasperated.

Alternative: <You had a smile in your voice when you said that, didn’t you?>

Algo: “It’s true. Because it makes me happy that Aoe is still searching for the ‘strongest attack’ even though he said he was giving up on fighting.”

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Alternative’s eyes are only partially closed. Meaning of the expression is unknown.

Alternative: <So what is the strongest attack he’s searching for?>

Algo: “Let’s see. Could you tell me what the strongest defense is?”

Alternative: <Eh? I guess it would be something that can protect against anything.>

Algo: “Yes. So the strongest defense is the power to eliminate your opponent’s attack power.”

Alternative: <So would the strongest attack be the power to eliminate your opponent’s defenses?>

Algo: “In the simplest sense, yes. But your opponent can keep fighting even if their armor has been shattered. They won’t accept defeat as long as they still have their attack power. But as attackers, we can’t steal their attack power from them. Normally, we would stop them by breaking through their defenses and taking their life.”

Alternative: <But that’s a “deadly” attack. What would a “strongest” one be?>

Algo: “The answer is tricky but simple at the same time. Think about how you can use your strength.”

Algo: “When you get down to it, a deadly attack is just another kind of strength.”

Algo: “As attackers, the strongest is an ideology that leads to the best possible result where we break our opponent’s spirit without killing them.”

Algo: “You could look at it like an equation of Plus and Minus – of attack and defense.”

Algo: “So the strongest would be an equation where the attacker achieves both at once. The question is what kind of equation will end a battle without either side going Minus.”

Algo: “But finding that answer requires understanding the equation and its meaning.”

Alternative: <Hm? The equation…and its meaning?>

Algo: “Yes, because people aren’t numbers. We can liken them to Plus and Minus signs all day long, but it’s the analog people who actually throw the punches. You can work out the perfect equation, but even that is only a guideline.”

Algo: “I feel like you can express anything as an equation if you use Plus and Minus signs, but you’re really just using symbols. To achieve the strongest attack, you need to consider the true meaning behind the equation. After all, is it possible for people to calculate out two numbers using symbols…and do they even want to?”

Alternative: <nowiki><I</nowiki> can’t believe you. Are we still talking about martial arts? You sound more like you’re telling riddles.>

Alternative: <This is what you were expecting Shouzou to figure out? You must have a lot of faith in him.>

Algo: “He hasn’t reached that point yet. Yuo must betray him again so that we can achieve the three factors. The Quartet said the past resignation will continue, remember?”

Algo: “And all through the program we built to recover Suedomsa’s memories.”

Alternative: <The program actually fully rewrites someone’s memories. It will erase his present self by overwriting his new memories with the ones that were sealed away.>

Algo: “No one knows what will happen then. Tomorrow, on the Day of the Oracle, if either Suedomsa’s 1st phase or our 2nd phase goes as planned, the two of us will live on. We will preserve our lives. Although with the 2nd phase, that might not count as living.”

Alternative: <Are you sure this will work? What about the Yard?>

Algo: “I’m sure some of them have noticed, but most of them should see our actions as a terrorist threat. …Oh.”

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You are coughing.

Alternative: <Are you okay, Algo? You had a bad fit when facing Shouzou during the day too.>

Algo: “I’m fine. I was prepared for this. This cough is the reason I can never return to the Plus World of reality.”

Algo: “Because it means I have taken on your Words Warn.”

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