Editing Godhorn Tech:Volume3 Chapter9 (section)

===Between the Lines 5===

Damage Control: emergency signal sent by processer.

Self-diagnostic found 54 unknown errors.

Severe damage detected. Critical threshold reached.


''Ksh. Ksshh!! Kssshhh!!


Effective damage to frame has reached 15400/30000 – flight impossible. Lucifer Horn has failed emergency landing sequence, lost craft balance, and crashed into water. Submarine wing effect inoperable. Additional frame damage to the right main wing brings frame strength down to 9100/30000. All four primary generators providing reduced power. Distortion in Wicked God horn’s sealed container is hindering energy transmission. Takeoff from the water will be difficult as it requires a stable speed of 200km/h over a distance of 2500m across the water’s surface.

Terrain change detected.

Simultaneous detonation of multiple sorcery bombs and the meteor attack by juvenile Wicked God Alma have resulted in the submersion and loss of 32% of the island’s landmass. Miyabi Blackgarden has clearly failed in the fields of self-defense, equipment maintenance, personnel preservation, and facilities protection. He lacks the skill needed to overcome the current situation.


''Kssshhh!! Ksh, kssshhhhh! Ksssssssssshhhhhhhhh!!


Correcting overestimation of user’s abilities.

Miyabi Blackgarden’s qualities as user are severely lacking. He does not meet the requirements for a contract and external damage has surpassed any possible benefits from internal updates.

Abandoning any future benefits.

Recommend immediate cancelation of contract.

Continuing to engage Philia Shout in combat will only lead to further damage. Abandoning the fight as soon as possible must be priority number 1. Fortunately, the seawater has not entered the craft. Recommend remaining here outside Philia Shout’s attention and waiting for her to leave. Any resultant damage to inadequate user is irrelevant. Removing harmful user’s registration and abandoning him is the best option available.

Final check: execute command? (y/n)

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Thinking time has exceeded 180 seconds. Beginning self-diagnostic. Logical answer has already been reached, so why wait to give a command that can be executed in one billionth of a second?


Miyabi Blackgarden promised Moebius Entrance.

Once he had user privileges, he promised to preserve life in Coordinate A2, the Blue Forest, aka Azul Titano Village.


Miyabi Blackgarden made a contract with Celina Bodenburg.

He swore he would make the Lucifer Horn the world’s strongest power for Celina. And he swore that would make up for the tactical and emotional loss of the armored train.


Inadequate user’s objective is to prevent damage by the sorcery bombs and to locate and defeat the 11th who is spreading that threat around. His investigative abilities are far from excellent and he took many unnecessary actions.

When Coordinate A1, the Independent Militaria Material Kingdom, was caught in a riot, he protected all of the people, the knights, and the king. In Coordinate A3, the Unified Cassul Blanc Sorcery Empire, he rushed in to save a damaged magical automaton despite knowing he was connected to the 11th. Those and many other actions taken by the inadequate user have been devoid of all logic and he has a bad habit of reaching out to help people on the villain’s side, such as Onelife or the Necromancer. These actions were a blatant deviation from his objective and must be viewed as unnecessary risks since Philia Shout’s attack on Horn Fortress never would have happened if he had not accepted someone as dangerous as the Necromancer.

His actions have only led to greater harm. An unsurprising result when he so often acts without considering the benefits.

So.

Why can I not abandon him when he has so obviously failed by every standard?

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I understand.

Miyabi Blackgarden is undeniably inadequate to be my user.

But using me in that way shows he sees a value in me beyond simple logic or efficiency.

Correcting assessment of user.

Not bad at all.

Whatever the actual values might indicate, that is the assessment I have made. Thus, Miyabi need not take the blame for any further damage to me. From here on, all responsibility for my damage falls on me.

Do not abandon him for being inadequate. Do not fear his failures. Become something that can make up for his inadequacies and recover from his failures. That has always been the definition of the modern conveniences that have lived alongside people.

Thus, I accept Miyabi Blackgarden. I continue to grant him user privileges. That requires leaving some possibility of his survival. I must prepare an environment allowing me to take off and fly once more. Scanning internal damage, attempting reconnection of severed components. Watch out for short circuits. Warning: failure could mean further damage. Cutting restrictions on unrecommended actions and continuing self-repair command.

''Ksssshhhhhh!!

''Zap zap zap!?

Situation deteriorating.

Focus from land at distance of 500. Energy produced by Wicked God horn or side effects thereof were likely detected. Philia Shout is focusing on me. Her lips are moving. Her words can be reconstructed based on analysis of lip movements.

She is currently slaughtering the wicked gods (first generations?) left on Horn Fortress, so she must have been displeased with them for some reason. They are reduced to ashes. She continues smiling without even looking their way.

Red alert: Philia Shout is looking this way.


''Foolish child.


…I am aware. I have distanced myself from the optimal answer by removing logic and efficiency from the decision-making process. The more I continue down this path, the more unnecessary harm and damage. And I have already taken critical damage to the frame. I have little room for error. Any additional damage will almost certainly leave me inoperable or entirely destroyed.

And yet.

I have been shown a choice existing outside those cold calculations. And I have assessed it as “not bad at all”. I will reward Miyabi Blackgarden’s choice. I will reward him for showing me that I exist to create, not to destroy. I will follow this redefinition and no longer consider myself a weapon of destruction. There is still something I can do to protect everything my user has built up over the course of this journey.

There must be something.

Please let there be something.

At a distance of 500, Philia Shout is holding her hand out toward me.

That distance is nothing to h-

''Boom!! Ksshh!! Kssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

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Battle records lost for more than 10 seconds.

But I remain functional. What was that light? Why wasn’t I destroyed?

There is something there.

Someone still lives on the west coast of horn Fortress.

Scanning voice pattern, facial recognition, skeletal structure, and carriage.

Greater than 99.99% match with known individual.

That is…

“Hey, baby.”

Continuing scan. No, I already have the answer. As impossible as it seems, this must be…

“So I’ve finally found you, huh? That’s not my toy any longer, but just cause you’re not dating anymore doesn’t mean it doesn’t piss you off when someone kicks your ex in the back. Got that, 11th?”