Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint

EP.273 The Country of Steel and Faceless People – 14

I left Shiati and stood up to talk to the telegraph operator over there.

“You should know that Captain Abbey and I have an old acquaintance, but why did you put the captain first? hostage? Or are you so shy that you can’t talk to people unless you have a pinch hitter because your memory of meeting them in person is so long ago?”

Signal Soldier IA kept his cool even when Aji broke down the door. The agitation I pulled out was only brief. The communication soldier, who fully grasped the situation, unleashed his own magic again.

Unique horse cobweb.

Dozens of thin, thin threads stretched from her center. The thread reached and intertwined with numerous telecommunication soldiers nearby.

Memories and sensory information flow through thin threads. Although the effective range is not as long as Captain Aby’s Morning Glory, it is a type of unique magic sword that connects more closely than anyone else at close range.

The IA, connected as one with all the signalmen in this module, got up and came out.

“different. This is our message.”

Even though it was her first time coming out of a dark room in several years, IA finished her appreciation with a slight frown. IA said in a dry voice not much different from Captain Abbey’s.

“At this point in this module, we have judged that the cost of recovering from your terrorist activities has outweighed the military’s cost of secrecy. I have decided to reveal my identity in order to speak with you.”

“I am a bit disappointed. I thought that if it was a military country I knew, it would keep its secret even if it beat me to death.”

“Of course, it is not a simple decision. There was a disagreement in the calculation process. Originally, there would never be a conflict of opinion between sympathetic signalmen…”

Captain Abbey’s flower bud touched the thread extending from the IA. IA, who took information and emotions from it like a butterfly sucking nectar, looked at me.

“Because of Signalman Ivy’s strong argument, this module has unanimously agreed to lead you here.”

“Oh, it seems that Captain Abbey has put in a lot of effort. You must be high-ranking, right?”

“There is no hierarchy among signal soldiers. Because everyone agrees and is equal. However, there is a difference in ability for each individual.”

IA touched one of Captain Abbey’s flower buds with her thread. Inherent magic should not be visible to others, but communication soldiers seem to have a much closer relationship than others. The flower bud forcibly bloomed while looking at IA.

“Ab. Closest to the original A, she is one of the strongest communications soldiers. Her unique magic is Erosion-Type Wide Range Synchronization. Near Far Range The number of tuned objects. None of them have above-average stats.”

“oh. Did you convince them to accept me with that ability?”

This is why people have to lay out at least one string. As expected, this is my political victory after discovering Captain Abbey first and then opening my face….

“It’s different. The signal soldier is many, but one, and one and many. No matter how great her ability is, there is no meaning of strength in synchronization magic. On the contrary, by nature, the stronger you are, the more you lose. And she put up an unwinnable resistance.”

is not it? Was it to no avail?

“Could Captain Abbey have become like that…”

“When she didn’t accept her opinion, she tried to stand up to all the other signalmen. However, it is impossible for a single communications soldier to resist the module. Especially if the ability is strong. After tenacious resistance, Abbey’s seat was usurped, and she is assigned to a vacant position in the inner circle module and is engaged in work.”

it’s double It’s practically a puppet.

For some reason, morning glory vines were forcing the captain’s body to move. It was because of the backlash from the synchronization magic that he was tied up.

Right now, Captain Abbey is no different from a golem. I’m glad it wasn’t disposed of immediately… but I didn’t expect it to turn out like that.

“Then it is strange. If Captain Abbey’s attempt failed, why did I call?”

“…so that’s it. piper man. I don’t know how you poisoned her mind, but if she’s mind-polluted, confidentiality towards you is meaningless.”

“What kind of disease are you treating people with?”

Apart from the grumbling, I understood IA’s words. Since I already know the identity of the signalman, there is no need to keep it confidential.

“You are eating away at the military inside and outside at the same time. We hereby demand an immediate cessation of hostilities from you.”

“Hmm. what the heck If this is a deal, do you have something to offer? What will you offer?”

“First, I would like to know your requirements clearly for smooth negotiations.”

“A captain or something like that would grant us our demands? Okay, call someone higher up.”

kya The day will come when the captain will be called only. i have grown up a lot But isn’t it a bit strange for the captain to take the lead in front of a human who might destroy the army?

“Specifically?

“well. At least the highest ranking military commander. If you bring in a member of the headquarters, won’t we be able to talk a little later?”

“Command? Is that enough?”

“Because there is no one higher than him.”

I demanded to call the person in charge, stretching out recklessly like a true customer. Because only they can satisfy the curiosity of me and those present here.

However, IA’s reaction was very unexpected.

One of the webs extending from the body quivered. IA, who read the information from the minute vibrations, passed by a very slight astonishment. However, even for a while, IA instantly regained her composure and read the information that had been passed on.

“Then tell the headmaster. Qualification is sufficient.”

IA brought out the most secret and secret information of the military.

“Because Command is really ‘us’.”

The ripple effect of mentioning the headquarters was great. Shiati Princess Historia. Everyone’s eyes widened at the unexpected truth.

“Strictly speaking, there is no single individual or group of people who command and give orders to all signal soldiers. However, if the command refers to an existence that combines information and makes value judgments beneficial to the military, it is nothing other than a signal soldier.”

Therefore, IA’s argument that the signal soldier was the command was the same. Even Historia made a face of disbelief at the unexpected information.

“So far, the headquarters that has moved the military… has been a signalman?”

“It is not an order given voluntarily by an individual signal soldier. The information transmitted from the dispatched signal soldiers passes through the signal soldiers in various parts of the military country, completes the veracity judgment, and is transmitted to the module to find the optimal future through simulation and spread the corresponding orders throughout the military country. In other words, what is called an order from the headquarters is the consensus of the 500 signal soldiers and the meaning of the existence of signal soldiers.”

I once compared a signal soldier to the nerves of a military nation. It was because he was an existence that relayed orders to every corner of the military through golems.

The analogy was actually accurate in a slightly different sense. Because the head of the military was a collection of many nerves intertwined like the human brain.

“-so that. If you are looking for the head of the military. The target is inevitably ‘we’. This is because the communications officer monitors and controls all information and decides whether it is confidential or not.”

A command that never appeared. Similarly, a communications soldier who was invisible to anyone. The command of a military state appears only as an order. Like a ghost or a metaphysical being that is no different than a god.

However, his identity was revealed through the confession of the signalman who stood in front of us.

“The military was an ideal. A country where everyone is ordered by someone.”

From what I have seen while living in the military state, only innocent people live in the military state.

Citizens suffer from all kinds of harsh rules. He works like a cow with a nose and fattens the nation. The soldiers who seem to be feeding them are in fact only working on orders from the headquarters.

In the meantime, the party giving orders to everyone was actually a communications soldier.

“But to all soldiers. The communications soldier who gives orders to the absolute force of the General Staff is only a captain. Poor, pitiful creature confined to that little room, communicating only through the golem for the rest of his life. What should I do, Shiati?”

“You don’t have to worry about their circumstances!”

Shiati, who still did not understand the inside story, burst into anger.

“What does that matter?! they killed my friend I swore not to forget them! The military must repent of its mistakes. If not voluntarily, even unwillingly!”

Suppose someone commits a murder by brandishing a knife. There is no sin in the sword. It just falls on the person who wields it.

However, the military treats all human beings as tools.

Every human being is a tool. It does not work according to someone’s order, but only functions. Therefore, all human beings in the military are innocent.

Even this signalman who seems to be giving orders…

“Shiatti.”

“why!”

“Would you like to ask her age?”

“What’s the difference if you know?!”

“huh. it will change Pretend to be cheated and do it. Really, this is the end.”

Shiati, who was glaring at me, clicked her tongue briefly and looked at the officer in front of her eyes. There was an existence in front of her eyes that seemed to embody all the militaries hated by Shiati, who was looking at her with emotionless eyes in a stiff uniform.

“okay. That’s how old you’ll be written on your tombstone before you die. Age is?”

A conversation that is common in everyday life. Asking and evaluating the age of the other person and the time they have lived. In a way, the question seems to add a little to the old bad habit of seniority.

“Twenty one.”

But even this much makes a huge difference.

twenty one. Even after the birth of the military state, children born three years later became signal soldiers.

It has to be. Because the existence of a communication sickness itself can only be obtained by suppressing and educating children in a perfectly controlled environment.

So in other words.

“Younger…?”

Shiati’s burning anger. Even if the ability is not, even if the anger alone is strong enough to devour the military.

In front of her younger and whiter face, he has no choice but to lose his way and wander.

At the time of the incident in Hameln, they must have been receiving harsh instruction at the Communications Headquarters.

“If you’re twenty-one, what about Hameln’s case?! You say you remember…?”

“I remember it as information left by the former communications officer.”

“Then where is the communications officer from the squadron?!”

“The former squadron signalman’s whereabouts are confidential, so the head office doesn’t even know.”

But I have no choice but to know. What would the military do if this precious talent, which is virtually no different from the headquarters, had become unusable?

“I must be dead. Willingly or unwillingly.”