Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter6 (section)

===Akalabeth’s Sight Mode: In DT Castle===

'''<Akalabeth’s Over Reload>

Akalabeth asked a question with her eyes on Suedomsa’s raised right hand.

“You said you need Yuo. You aren’t planning to make the same mistake we made back then, are you?”

Suedomsa did not answer her hurried question.

She sighed and her shoulders slumped at his silence.

And she said more with her eyes still on his right hand.

“Three things are needed to summon the great god: the Questron to receive the great god’s Lives, a reactor to extract them, and a vessel to contain them. I assume you plan to use the Questron stored below the castle and Babel for the first two. Reconstructing and maintaining them should be simple enough for your skilled servants.

“But,” she continued. “No matter how thorough your preparations, the process will take time. The great god’s Lives are extensive and the reactor can only be accelerated so much.”

He finally reacted to her words.

His bitter smile grew.

His shoulders shook, his raised right hand shook, and he spoke.

“You think time is a problem? Have you forgotten what today’s authorization was all about? Have you forgotten what settings we were changing? We will soon place a defense shield around the castle to preserve the peace. But once I receive the programs from you and acquire Yuo, the shield will be redefined to cover the area linking the castle and Babel.”

“You expect that to keep everyone out? Do you really think you can even create such a large defense shield?”

Suedomsa did not sound remotely concerned.

“Once the shield has been redefined, I will use your Portal Demigod Program to change the settings within the shield. I will increase the current 100x boost to a 1000x boost.”

Akalabeth frowned at the figure he provided.

“1000x?” She looked up. “That’s too much. It’s 10 times the current boost.”

“That it is. But DT can handle that with ease. Because we made it that way.” He clenched his raised hand into a fist. “And with that set, I will designate Yuo as the vessel. But not the current half-baked imposter Yuo who lives with you. I mean the full-on Minus Dropout Yuo who gave up on the world after seeing what people were capable of and left me while I suffered from Words Warn.”

He pulled something from his pocket.

'''<Akalabeth’s Over Zoom>

It was a program trigon with a question mark printed on the center.

“I created this from the program written to remove the seal on my memories. The seal you placed on Yuo’s memories is likely identical, so this should break right on through. But…”

“But what?”

“If her old memories are resurrected too quickly, her past and present personalities will clash. Her current memories will essentially be overwritten and erased by the resurrected memories. Her current memories will drop to the subconscious level and vanish.”

He meant the current Yuo’s memories would be deleted.

When Akalabeth realized that, she took a panicked step forward from the throne and took the first step down from the dais.

“Y-you mean…you don’t accept the current Yuo!?”

“The one you call Natas? She is no more than a half-baked imposter you cooked up. The Yuo I know was a dropout who was sick of the Minus. She was the kind of girl who would give up on her sick father because he couldn’t save her sister.”

“But! The current Yuo has even learned how to smile, so why would you take that away from her!?”

Once she was down on his eye level, she reached for the program in his hand.

She reached out with a cry of desperation, but he swatted her hand away.

And in exchange, he stepped forward and reached his left hand toward her.

It only took a split second.

He grabbed her throat while she reached her arm toward him.

She groaned and looked up at him from below.

“Don’t worry. This program contains reproductions of her memories from after the 1st Godtact Experiment. Memories of when she gave up on us and left us.”

“Y-you can’t just implant false memories in her head!”

Suedomsa barked a bitter laugh.

“''You'' are the ones who filled her head with falsehoods. I bring her the truth, Akalabeth.”

He shook his head.

<The Yuo who betrayed me and dropped out is the real one. I once shot her for doing that, but now I am ready to accept her. I will help summon her true form once more.>

He took a breath and then spat out more words.

“Now, the time to choose has long since passed. We are picking up where we left off 2000 years ago. Will you give up or will you stop me? …I will not be destroyed. And I choose to use my remaining life to hold a godtact experiment on the Day of the Oracle. I will boost this Minus World by 1000x at the time and date Yuo once prophesied.”

'''<Akalabeth’s Sight Mode has ended>

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