Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 8 Prologue

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Prologue - Precursor to chaos and conflict

Part 1

There is a group in the world called COCOON.

The secretary general and chairman of the "new United Nations" that formulates the international policies and the ideal nature of the current world. As well as the chief executives of the alternate world institution Babel.

These handful of people can be said to be regulators of the entire world.

Children * Of * Cross * Over * Other * Nations.

Out of all the returnees to this world they have an overwhelming strength.

Even a single individual has enough power to surpassing the military force of a large country.

What is the best way to describe these troublesome people? The answer is very simple.

They are the strongest of this world--That is COCOON.

Part 2

"- JPN Babel went into quarantine?"

The man who received the report abruptly narrowed his golden pupils.

This young man is the new chairman of the United Nations and the leader of COCOON that rules the world.

The strongest person in Cocoon, Michael • Arcruid.

At the headquarters of COCOON in the United Kingdom.

Michael is sitting on luxury leather chair, looking at the woman standing across the desk in front of him.

She is Retia • Crisis, second in command to Michael, but also the secretary general of the new United Nations. This beautiful and talented woman is looking down at the tablet in her hands.

"Yes, This happened about fifteen minutes ago when JPN Babel suddenly suddenly cut off connection with the "Apocalypse" server and is denying other Babel institutions as well as our own login."

"Was the system hacked from the outside?"

The security of the system of COCOON's headquarters and Babel is the best in the world.

In addition to the ordinary security programs, magical fail-safes were created sufficient enough to prevent all intrusions from the outside world.

There aren't many people able to decode these conceptual barriers, probably only the writers of the program within COCOON can, and if a presence greater then COCOON exists.

Strictly speaking, the only possibility is "Crimson twilight" the world's strongest terrorist group comparable to Cocoon. They are said to have recruited many experts in information-gathering and conceptual magic.

Moreover, there is also a report that some of the members of Crimson twilight have permeated the self governed region within Japan.

Therefore it can be reasonably speculated-JPN Babel had suffered a hacker attack and went into quarantine as an emergency defensive maneuver.

But ......

"Although that possibility is not zero, however ...... Its probably wrong."

Retia starts to talk.

"The program's log shows no signs that JPN Babel was hacked, but fifteen minutes ago the system suddenly went into quarantine."

"Meaning ......?"

"I'm afraid that Kyoya probably cut JPN Babel external connection, allowing it to operate independently."

"......"

Michael is trying to speculate what Hikami Kyoya has in my mind.

Kyoya speaks very little at COCOON's round table conferences. His attitude is always composed, and always has a cold smile on his face.

......But......

Michael Arcruid was reminded of an incident that took place a few days the Japan Summit.

The Summit was held amidst JPN Babel school's ranking tournament and experienced an unexpected interruption.

After an intruder damaged part of the system, it even transformed into higher-dimension being–a fire breathing dragon.

At that time Kyoya was participating in the Summit and not on the campus. They had to depend on Ousawa Akatsuki to stop the fire breathing dragon, resolving the crisis.

However, after the conclusion of the Summit Michael was alone with Kyoya and tossed out a question:

Why do you refuse to help yourself? "Y Plan" is after all is COCOON's ultimate goal, in order to make this plan reality, some sacrifices are an necessary evil.

Having heard what was said, Kyoya coldly replied to Michael's question:

--Moderate sacrifices – including your brother?

That was the first time in front of Michael, Kyoya showed such a provocative sheer attitude.

If that is the case then what are Kyoya's untold ambitions ... ...

"......"

Michael couldn't help but get lost in thought. Perhaps Kyoya already knows a certain secret.

Not long after Akatsuki attended JPN Babel school the training program went out of control.

In a video conference with Kyoya, who is responsible for relating the story about Akatsuki, Kyoya's face and tone seem very strange.

Michael didn't know how both of these things were related to the current situation.

But he was sure that Kyoya is acting arbitrary, and there must be hidden purpose behind it.

In order to achieve this goal, Kyoya didn't hesitate betray COCOON.

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