At the time we were facing off against the Demon King Gandalf, Sakura was challenged to battle by the Demon General Suzuri in the name of drawing out an even greater battle ability than ever before, and was engaged in a one-on-one battle to the death.

　What Sakura sensed through that - she would hear in detail in the upcoming "Consultation".

　However, the interactions and events of that time were communicated to some extent before they withdrew from the fourth level.

　This is also one of the qualities of an adventurer that Sakura possesses, as she does not neglect sharing information in this area.

''(As I recall, what Sakura told me is ......)

　--All the dolls you've fought so far have been reduced to hiding functions.

　-- to hide in plain sight in the kingdoms of the earth and on the athropolis, no puppet could possibly conceal its full potential.

　--A degraded product that has been deemed so...

(...... This is what it looked like. It seems to contradict Norzuri's statement, but maybe not. I'm sure they're both right. (Just a different angle of view from each of them)

　According to Norzuri, the Night Ripper is a light infiltration-specialized unit, while the puppet unit led by the Hadary is a more regimented unit with a different direct combat capability.

　According to Suzuri, the Night Ripper and the Hadary-led Puppet Squad are both functionally reduced versions of the infiltration type.

　Simply put, one of them seems to be wrong, but it is quite possible to think of them both as compatible.

The Night Ripper's body as a puppet itself has been modified, allowing for a long period of unsupplied incubation on the ground, but it probably had to be degraded in terms of its fighting ability and armament.

　First of all, this is what Norzuri's testimony means.

　And the next is what Suzuri was trying to say.

'The bodies of the dolls that appeared in the neutral city (Athropolis) must have been of standard performance with no special modifications. It was assumed that they were going to disguise themselves as humans and retreat into their living quarters, so there should have been no need for such an elaborate cover-up.

　Once there, he cut off the words and took a deep breath to catch his breath.

'However, they were also mostly armed in the internal(-)storehouse(-)style...'

　I don't know everything about that battlefield either, so I can't say that it was without exception, but there is no doubt that the majority of their armaments were planted inside the body of the puppets.

　Even if they had armaments that weren't, they would never have been able to make large-scale preparations, as they needed to prepare for it without being distracted by the neutral city's (Asropolis) administrators (Fraxinus).

"Hadary and the others must have had the restriction of 'not being noticed by the neutral city (Asropolis) side'. That's probably why the majority of their armament was built-in.

　Theodore didn't try to interrupt me in the middle of the conversation, but listened to my words somewhat happily.

　So I continued to speak without reservation.

'Built-in armaments have the restriction that they must be large enough to fit into the volume of the doll's body (body). For example, even if my prosthetic hand was fitted with a crossbow firing device, it would surely be far inferior to a normal crossbow in terms of power and range.

　Alexia received a request to develop a 'prosthetic limb with a weapon in it'.

　I'm sure that no matter what form it takes, it won't be able to surpass the performance of a normal weapon made with the same technology.

"I think the advantage of having a weapon inside the body is the high degree of concealment and the ability to use a common soldier(s) in conjunction with a common weapon(s). But Hadary and his team did not take advantage of that advantage. I mean ......
''The dolls of the third level must be equipped with the same type of conventional weapons that surpass the weapons built into their bodies (bodies). So that's what it is.

　Theodore leans in with a bite.

　Apparently, judging from this reaction, he's not surprised by a hypothesis he hadn't imagined, but rather he's pleased that I've come up with the same idea as him.

''I guess I had an idea from the beginning, after all. You're still a bad person. Then you can just say so.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I was afraid that this might turn out to be a wild fantasy. ─ I am sorry, but now that we are in agreement, I think I can stand up for myself. Thank you for that.
I think you're overpaying for it.

　If it's around Alexia or Noir, it's not going to be much of a convincing thing for me to say anything.

　I decided to quench my thirst for now, so I sipped the sweet after-dinner drink I'd been neglecting for so long.

　Theodore had already drunk half of it while I was talking on and on, and Garnett's glass is long gone.

It's a little annoying to end up merely having to support a hypothesis, even though ....... So let me add one more hypothesis that you may not have thought of.
Wow, that's interesting. Could you please?
Me..... da... o... o...

　The moment I say that, a serious light dwells in Theodore's eyes.

''Demon Beast Skol, Demon Beast Muspel. They were using two medallions. It's hard to believe that this is 'all of their holdings', much less 'all of their usage'.
...... Is that, for example, like a wizard using the Hexenbiest Factor for physical enhancements, or fusing a Hexenbiest Hattie medallion to Lord Garnett?
It's possible, but the body is inorganic, after all. Whether they can do the same thing is an unknown quantity. At the very least, they have a better understanding of medallions than I do.

　He tipped his glass, stoked his post-dinner drink, and then looked straight back at Theodore's face.

'But I can imagine. For example, a physically imperfect magical beast created from a damaged medallion ...... that is supplemented with doll parts to give it shape.
I see ...... I knew it was a good idea to talk to you. Interesting idea.

　Theodore had a smile on his lips only and rang the bell at hand to demand more alcohol.