Chapter 412 – Terrorism
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I called Celestia and together we headed to the restaurant car of the train.
As it was a luxurious train with luxurious cabins, of course it was equipped with a restaurant.
We don’t even have to eat rice.
Chaos and Sunni aren’t human in the first place.
I’m also born as a human…But now I have a problem seeing it as a normal human being.
Not to mention Celestia, the great devil.
You can live without putting anything in your mouth.
But even so, it doesn’t mean that you can’t feel the taste.
Eating may be something that remains like a habit, but I didn’t want to change it.
I don’t know how long I will live, but I don’t want to throw away that pleasure on purpose.
I didn’t want this timeless pleasure of eating delicious food to disappear.
In addition to us, several passengers were sitting at tables in the clean restaurant and eating.
“You said you found a house? Isn’t a hotel okay?”
“Still, it’s not more comfortable than my house! And the hotel bill is expensive, right?”
“It’s not worth worrying about that kind of money, is it? And I don’t know how long it might be here.”
“My hunch is that it will last quite a while. And shouldn’t there be at least one house in the metropolitan area so that I can live with my shoulders a little more stretched?”
It wasn’t entirely wrong, but…
Who the hell are you leaning on…
But since they seemed to want it, I had no intention of saying anything.
“Master, look! This is a house. Wouldn’t it be better than a hotel?”
Suni raised a bird’s eye view and a perspective view of the house in front of me. Her earrings sparkled, projecting a hologram of her.
The building seen in the hologram was a three-story house on the beach. The roundness seemed to claim that this was the house of the future.
“Didn’t you say it was the capital?”
If it was the capital, I expected a more complicated scene…
“It’s because it’s a bit far from the city center.”
“Why are you out there?”
It’s probably not lack of money.
“Ugh. The house price in the city center has increased by dozens of times… Of course, more than that, the city center is an area where no one can live, so I got it safely to the outskirts.”
“It doesn’t matter to you. You don’t go out well in the first place.”
Celestia spat out words that were slightly hurtful.
“Doesn’t the owner have a hard time going to and from the hotel capsule room?”
It wasn’t hard, but it was annoying.
“I’ve also ordered a virtual reality capsule exclusively for Pantera! By the time we arrive, the owner’s capsule will be perfectly installed.”
In the first place, they told me not to be allowed to do anything and to do it on my own… So I didn’t have any complaints.
As I talked about the small schedule with my party, food came out.
A person who looked like a robot to anyone with shiny metallic skin served.
It was the first humanoid robot I had ever seen.
Is it Android?
“Were there robots like that in the previous city?”
“There was. The owner didn’t seem to see it because he was only in the hotel, but he said there are more if you go to the metropolitan area rather than provincial cities.”
However, it is more disappointing than expected.
What I thought was an android that looked almost human.
Well, walking and moving well is great in itself.
Shall we say that it is a bit disappointing compared to the technology of the demons who even create giant robots called majanggi?
“That’s probably because the regulations on learning-type artificial intelligence are very tight. And, to a large extent, they don’t even allow them to look like demons.”
“Why?”
“I know it happened after the demons rebelled in the past.”
Chaos and Suni seemed to have accumulated quite a bit of knowledge about the demons while investigating Helena.
Demons lived a life of slavery to demons in the past. No, they say it was almost like a toy.
It wasn’t called a devil as it is now, but I heard that it was called differently… Maybe Ruth?
Anyway, Helena freed those demons… And it is said that a significant number of demons died in the process.
Since then, the regulation on creating objects with personality has been considerably strengthened for demons.
The taste of the food in the restaurant was okay.
I ordered something like a steak… It seemed to taste like beef, and it was a bit more tender meat.
As I was cutting the steak, I glanced around, and among them, I saw a customer that stood out to me.
She was a man and woman who looked like lovers, but the woman had human skin, not blue skin like the demons.
“Is that a real human?”
“Do you think that’s right?”
“…Really?”
“Yes, it must be a human from the Pantera side. Maybe a slave?”
“Slave?”
For a slave, the treatment looked… Pretty good.
Honey drips from the eyes of a demonic man looking at a woman.
The woman’s face was a bit dark…But she had a decent beauty.
She is also wearing a dress that looks expensive.
The accessories hanging from the neck or ears also look quite expensive.
“Hmm…How can I explain it… Ah! It’s also on Earth, isn’t it? An owner who takes care of his pet? Doesn’t it make sense to think of it like that?”
Thinking like that, I think it makes a little sense… I haven’t seen one or two owners who love their puppies while having a baby.
“And the owner saw it too. The slaves in the Great Devil Castle. Among the demons, Pantheraine seems to be traded at a very high price.”
There were humans who came before us and lived as slaves in the Great Devil Castle.
Come to think of it, the lives of those slaves were not bad either.
The horse is a slave.
He was living a more affluent life than most demons living in the city outside the palace.
It wouldn’t be because Bloana or Gromgal were especially considerate of them.
Thinking that it was an expensive item, I would have left it in the palace without thinking.
Although I sent those slaves to the adventurers who came with us.
There was a slight ripple in the water in the cup on the table.
“Hmm?”
I felt the train stop with a slight vibration.
The passengers didn’t seem to notice, but the women in the party seemed to notice.
“…Have you arrived?”
“It can’t be. It hasn’t moved even half of the scheduled arrival time yet.”
Chaos resolutely denied it.
“Is there something wrong?”
Suni tilted her head and gave her a questioning expression.
Shouldn’t there be an announcement if there is a breakdown?
Just then, the door to the restaurant opened and three armed humans entered.
The faces of the passengers who saw them hardened.
It was because they were wearing black suits and helmets that covered their whole bodies, and they were holding weapons that looked like submachine guns in their hands.
I couldn’t see their faces because they were wearing helmets, but I could guess that they were two men and one woman because they were wearing suits that were tight to their bodies.
When I saw them, I naturally had an association in my head.
…Hijacking? Armed robbery?
“Don’t do anything stupid. If you stay calm until we go back from our business, no one will get hurt.”
The man who seemed to be the leader spoke in a modulated voice. Passengers were watching them as if they were fixed in their seats.
It seemed that he had no intention of resisting.
It is true that all demons are awakened, but they are not as strong as I thought.
It was just a level of awakening.
There may not be strong players, but should I say that they look much less than I expected?
In order to protect those weak, a force that made it difficult to use magical power was acting from the moment I got on this train.
Of course, it was at a level that had almost no effect on me and the others, but it seemed that there was a device installed to suppress magical power.
The armed robbers approached a human and demon couple that I had seen in amazement.
“Won, what do you want? Even, if it’s money… I’ll give you any amount. Please save my life.”
The demonic man spoke to the armed robbers in a cold sweat with eyes trembling with fear.
“What we want is not such trivial things.”
Money is insignificant.
Did that guy live less in the world…Or was he a gold spoon.
“Well, then… What do you want?”
The gaze of the robber, who seemed to be the leader, turned to the human woman.
“Oh, no! He, she is precious to me!”
“Precious existence? That must be your opinion. Shouldn’t we ask her thoughts as well? We are Rebellion.”
“Lee, Rebellion!!”
Astonishment passed over the face of the male demon tribe, stained with fear.
“You’ve probably heard of it at least once, right? Choose whether you want to live as that man’s pet or live as a human.”
An armed robber who identified himself as Rebellion said to the woman.
The woman alternately looks at the demonic man and the armed robber. Conflict flashes on his face.
Have you made up your mind?
The woman bowed her head and spoke in a small voice.
“…Sorry.”
The woman could not bear to look at her master’s face.
“Lee, Lina…”
The demon man seemed shocked, but he lowered his head with a desperate expression.
Whether they did or not, I was interested in the other side.
To the woman who appears to be a group of these armed robbers called Rebellion.
It was because she felt a strange familiarity with her well-toned body that was revealed over her suit.
‘That body…’
I used my head for the first time in a while to relive the memories of the past. And I remembered.
I noticed her body in the pool for several days.
‘Cowra…’
She was Kaura, whom she often contacted and met even in virtual reality.
