After saving the falling Alifade, Gens immediately used the ability he had been studying, among them being Lumora. Lumora is a light element studied by Gens Sheyan from the book given by Yananaig. Lumora has the effect of rendering the recipient unconscious for 10 minutes, except for the person who summons the Lumora. After the Lumora light was emitted, of course, Alifade immediately fell unconscious.
"Is it done, Gens?" Touzen asked with his eyes closed.
"Of course! You can open your eyes now, Touzen!" Gens replied.
"Alright then, take this, Gens! Then quickly tie up and lock that person's body!" said Touzen while handing over the equipment to restrain Alifade.
Gens took the tool and used it on Alifade. Gens was still unsure if the thing would really work. What if it didn't function? But Gens had a solution if that happened; he would simply throw him out of Touzen's plane window. Therefore, Gens placed Alifade near the plane window.
10 minutes had passed, and Alifade woke up...
"Finally, he's conscious (in his heart), huhhh.... Okay, I'll get straight to it. Are you willing to answer my questions?" Gens asked Alifade, who had just woken up.
"Hey Gens! Aren't you being too hasty?" Touzen asked, trying to stop Gens.
"Of course I'm in a hurry, because I think doing this is just a waste of time... right?" said Gens while staring at Alifade's face.
"Alright! I understand! You think your effort will be futile asking someone like me, right?" said Alifade in a very soft and weak voice.
"You catch on quickly! So how about it? Are you willing to answer a few questions from us?" Gens asked Alifade.
"Don't assume the worst of me like that! I... will answer anything you ask me!" replied Alifade.
"Oh, really? Okay, let me ask you directly. Who are you? What is that robot? How did you create a robot of such an unreasonable size? And lastly... why did you fall from your own robot?" several firm questions from Gens to Alifade.
"Hahaha, if I still had the will to live, maybe I would rebel and not answer those questions! But now it's different.... I... my name is Alifade, part of the Geniuses in this country. That robot is just a giant robot with very special intelligence. I created it by assembling its machines one by one over 15 years. After the machines were completely gathered, I combined them all in a place that no human even knows about. That robot... the giant robot I painstakingly created for 15 years, might now be out of control..." Alifade answered honestly, with a very low will to live.
"O-out of control?! What do you mean? You're not joking, are you? What will happen to this country if a robot that big goes out of control? You have to take responsibility!" said Gens with surging shock.
"Hahaha, damn, I don't know either... Most likely it happened because of my own negligence. The Genius I fought... threw my serum, which functions to manipulate the minds of thousands of people. But... I had modified that serum, where the serum would also work if inhaled, and... it shattered right on my robot's nose. Of course, besides being inhaled, maybe the liquid was also absorbed by my robot's machinery. Damn! I thought the serum I made wouldn't work on robots," Alifade explained weakly and tiredly.
"BASTARD! Damn Genius! What the hell do you want!? Was the life you've lived so far not enough for you? And... a place that isn't known by a single human? What does that mean?!" Gens asked with a heart filled with anger.
"My life... not enough, you say? You say that to me? When you yourself rebel against the Country's rules that we made! Doesn't that sound like eating your own vomit? Regarding the place you asked about.... I cannot tell you about that!" Alifade answered, with a bit of his strength starting to recover.
"Oh, is that so! Thank you... and see you again! Genius Alifade!" said Gens while kicking Alifade out through the plane window. Alifade was confused and disappointed; he thought Gens would save him, and Alifade had tried to honestly answer all of Gens's questions. But why? Why did Gens throw him out? All Alifade could do was give Gens a disappointed smile.
"Hey Gens, why... are you so cruel to me?" Alifade asked with the strong wind blowing in the air.
"Sorry, but the cruel one isn't me! It's the world! That's what you're thinking, right?" was Gens's short reply.
Alifade could only resign himself to his fate and plunged downward towards the ground.
"W-where-where is Master Alifade? And... what's with those robots?" said Gusa, staggering as he saw the giant robot and his own robots leaving the place (in front of the Forest of Karunia). While Gusa was searching for Alifade in a staggering condition, Alifade fell from the sky to the ground.
Sfx: Thud...
"T-that's... Master Alifade!" Gusa screamed while rushing to approach the sprawled Alifade. But unfortunately, at that time, Alifade was already gone. Gusa was sad and didn't want Alifade to be gone; he continuously shouted with a trembling voice, "Don't die! Don't die!" the screams he let out.
Meanwhile, Gens, who directly dropped Alifade or could also be said to have killed Alifade, could only stand upright with an empty gaze. Gens felt as if the sky of this world had collapsed on his head.
"Gens! Hey Gens! Why did you go silent? Hey!" said Touzen while snapping Gens out of it.
"Relax, Touzen, I'm not dead! Just... does this mean I'm now a murderer?" Gens asked with immense guilt.
"Ah, of course, Gens! You just threw that person out! Which means you also killed him!" said Touzen innocently and straightforwardly.
"At least you could calm me down or something! But facts are facts, you're right, Touzen! I-I really didn't dare to throw him down, but... after I found out he was a Genius, somehow inside me it felt like something was controlling me, and automatically kicked him down... I... have now truly been enslaved by my own naive desire....." said Gens while looking at the dark sky through the plane window.
"Naive desire? What is that?" Touzen asked, just now learning that Gens had a goal.
"I'll explain later when we get to the place of my group's vice chairman (Fesly Okaza)," Gens answered briefly.
"Eh? The group you have turns out to be quite serious, huh? It even has a vice chairman.." said Touzen with an admiring feeling.
"Ah, not really like that..." said Gens while continuing their flight.
But in that situation, there was something strange, noticed by Touzen Ishigari who was piloting his plane. The 200-meter tall giant robot had disappeared somewhere!
"H-hey G-Gens... where did that big robot go?" Touzen asked while staring blankly at the place where the giant robot was a while ago.
Gens's mind was filled only with confusion and negative thoughts about the missing giant robot. Only one question occupied his mind: what is the meaning of all this?
Meanwhile, Fesly Okaza hurriedly called Yananaig because there was an emergency situation.
Sfx: ring ring ring ring....(the ringtone of Yananaig's cellphone)
"Eh, a call from Fesly? Hello, Fesly, what's up?" said Yananaig, receiving the call from Fesly.
"Y-Yananaig, d-disaster! I got news from Syamseong, Barga, and some other Shayan members," said Fesly with a violently trembling body as if the planet Earth was shaking.
"Why do you sound so nervous, Fesly? Tell me what happened!?" said Yananaig very calmly.
"T-they, gave me information that... there are thousands of AI robots attacking this country! They first realized this when they heard the sound of very th-thundering iron footsteps!" Fesly answered in a broken voice.
After Fesly said that, Yananaig sank into silence. He thought about several things regarding Fesly's information because it was very impossible for such a thing to happen. Yananaig spoke again and asked Fesly a question, but unfortunately, the phone call from Fesly was disconnected.
To be continued
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