3 Appearance of mastermind




 Where am I?

 I'm conscious, but I don't see anything in my vision.

 It's as if my whole body is wrapped in something........floating.....

 If you want to compare it to a rock bath? Wrong.

 I had never experienced either gold bondage or spacewalking, so I was in a state of metaphorical distress.

'Hurrah! Eburi-Badie! Good evening, [Chaos] people!

 I hear a high-strung girl's voice.

'I know you have a lot of questions, but you'll have to wait another ten hours! I'll be right with you then!

 Then, unilaterally, the girl's voice was terminated.

 Then, every hour after that, the girl's voice was delivered.

 Wait nine more hours for the content! Give me eight hours! It was the same as it was, only decreasing for an hour.

 However, I was grateful for the situation. A minute felt like an hour, and an hour felt like a day, and I felt as if my mind was going to break. If I had waited for 10 hours in that state, I would have gone mad for sure.

 And now, finally, wait another hour! The voice of the

 With one hour to go, he would finally be able to break free of this situation that could be called a prison of the soul.


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"Hey! What's that? Some of them are broken. Don't you dare!

 The usual girl's voice delivered a different word. She was still high strung as usual, but the content was quite egregious.

''I'm going to have everyone in [Chaos] help create this world! People can afford it because they're freedom and chaos-loving people!'

 I know you love freedom. Everyone will love freedom more than bondage. But what is the love of chaos? To begin with, I don't use the word chaos in my daily life and I'm not aware of it.

''Aaaaaaah! Already, listen to me first! Gukunu........ It's natural for this to happen when you're a [Chaos] who loves freedom and chaos!''

 The girl's voice goes crazy.

''Ok! Copy that! Antsy tandoos! I was going to explain to you at the end but this time I'm going to explain what happened to you all and why.''

 From the girl's words, I can't see or feel it, but the people of [Chaos] who would be around are probably asking the girl a lot of questions.

''First of all, the phenomenon that happened is--【World Salvation Project】! Huh? I don't understand? Hear me out!

 The girl's voice starts to get angrier and angrier.

''Well, you see, the world you all live in will, roughly speaking, be destroyed in about 20 years!

 Huh? In 20 years, I'll be 38 years old...

''Huh? Does it bother you? Mm-hm. I'm in trouble too! So, the World Salvation Project is to avoid that destruction! Specifically, the world as it is now, or rather, you humans are totally screwed! Dame no more! Low birthrate and aging population? Have a baby! Earth pollution? More wisdom to be squeezed out of you! Unmotivated? Huh? Why are you alive?

 The girl's anger accelerates.

I'd actually like to watch the destruction quietly, but I also feel that we've developed to this point, so I'll help you out just this once! That's what I'm saying. By the way, you know what happens when you guys are at your best, right?

 A time to work hardest?

 I look back on my life.

 -- studying for exams?

'Yes! There's a bunch of idiots in here! The correct answer rate is a whopping 23%! Love? Idiots! You've never had a second of her in your life! Exams? You just got into a college of your choosing! Work? You were just following your boss's orders!'

 The girl's caustic words continue.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I digress. It's too much trouble, so I'll give you the right answer! It's time for you humans to do your best! The answer to that question is conflict.

 Conflict?

You humans do the best-- the best time to evolve is when you're fighting. Yes! It's time for a war!'

 'I remember hearing that technology advances significantly during the war,' he said.

'Is erotica the next best thing? Really, you humans are such snobs. But I digress. So, you humans are going to have to evolve to save the world! That said, your technology is a little too advanced for that. And in a bad way. What's wrong with that? Nuke! That's a definite no-no! I could have asked you to have a normal war, but that would have killed your world, or rather, this planet, in no time at all.

 The girl's voice is heated.

'If you continue to spend your time in stagnation, your world will slowly die. However, if you start a war, your world will die out in a matter of seconds.''

 The girl tells him of two endings that can only have a bad ending.

'There! The World Salvation Project] is the solution to all of these problems.

 So what's the [World Salvation Project]?

I'll explain! The [World Salvation Project] is a project to divide all humanity into [Rowe], [Neutral], and [Chaos] and have them fight each other! To be precise, it's [Rowe] and [Chaos] that are in dispute. The opportunistic, helpless humanity, the humanity that ignored all the hard-won suggestions from me from the beginning, is [Neutral].''

 --? What are you talking about? Dispute? 

 I'm [Chaos] now. So, you want me to start fighting with people from [Rowe] tomorrow?

 What's that for? To save the world? Huh? It doesn't make sense, does it?

I'm okay! I've planted the seeds! All you have to do is kill the human race that's attacking you!'

 Huh? What? Are we going to be attacked? And killing a [Rowe] person?

 With a faceless [chaos] person?

'I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The [Chaos] aren't on each other's side. The [Chaos] here will fight each other too, right?

 I don't get it. I was attacked by a [Rowe] person and I have no allies?

'So many questions..... Anyway, where should I start..... Yes! First of all, the human race with the aptitude for [chaos] like you guys are in the minority. If things continue like this, it's going to be a one-sided development, and there's no hope for human evolution. That's why I've explained the details of the [World Salvation Project] to you guys first as Handi, and I'll give you abilities just a little more powerful than the [Rowe] humans.

 The topic of the girl's speech changes. Are they being driven by the flood of questions from the [Chaos] people?

'Aaaaaaah! In the meantime, you guys are consolidating your territory of control! Defense! After that, you can use your family members to take away someone else's territory of control! What's that?

 Do you understand?

 Can you do it!

 So after that (although unrecognizable), a series of questions were asked of the girl by the people of [Chaos], and the details of the [World Salvation Project] were gradually revealed.


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 A question and answer session that lasted for several hours followed.

 By the way, the girl didn't reveal her name, so I decided to call her the mastermind.

 The [World Salvation Project] that I was able to grasp is--.

 (1) Humans in this world are classified by the three aptitudes of 【Row】, 【Chaos】 and 【Neutral】.

 (2) 【Row】 and 【Chaos】 humans will fight, evolve humanity and save the world. Frankly, it doesn't make sense.

 (3) The [Chaos] people own the dominant realm, and the [Rowe] people invade the dominant realm. If the [True Core] at the farthest point of the dominant realm is taken away by the [Lowe] people, the dominant realm is liberated, and if it is taken away by [Chaos], the dominant realm itself is taken away.

 If you imagine what the mastermind explained, the humans of 【Chaos】 are like demon kings or dungeon masters. The humans of 【Lowe】 were like brave warriors.

 (4) All dominant domains will be liberated or dominated by the same 【Chaos】 human, and the 【World Salvation Project】 will end.

 As a supplement--.

 (1) It is too important an element to call it a supplement, but the 【Chaos】 people will lose the memories of all people before they became 【Chaos】. Also, [Rowe] people also lack all the memories of people who have become [Chaos].

 Simply put, the humans of [Chaos] were made to erase their very existence, which could be rephrased as.

 According to the mastermind-- ''We can fight without any hesitation now, right?''

 (2) The people who had the aptitude for [Chaos] are in the minority. To be more specific, it seems that 0.02% of all human beings. It wasn't just a minority. By the way, the total population of the world today is about 5 billion. Calculating from that, the number of people in [Chaos] was one million.

 3) The humans of [Row] and [Neutral] would inevitably die out due to lack of food if they didn't release their dominant territory. They are said to be attacking us to death.

 (4) The humans of [Rowe] will know the details of the [World Salvation Project] in a month. Until that period, all human beings cannot invade the territory controlled by others.

 About the elements that I don't understand--.

 I'll list the elements that have been explained to me, but I don't understand them.

 (1) The point of increasing the dominion realm is the military family.

 (2) Introduce the reason for the destroyed world. Something that was explained to me in a variety of incomprehensible words, but to put it simply, you can use special abilities like magic. If you defeat your opponent, you will grow. This is common to both 【Row】 and 【Chaos】. Only [Chaos] will grow even if his subordinate defeats the opponent.

 [Neutral]? The mastermind says: "I won't even take care of the humans who don't listen to me.

 3) It seems that modern weapons have no effect on the humans and their subordinates in [Chaos].

 Finally, as an important element--.

'I've optimized the logic of the ruined world so that you guys can handle it! Well, in a nutshell, I've planted a special app on my smartphone, so you can check it out.'

 They say that when you get out of this extraordinary space, you can look at your smartphone.

 And then the mastermind has the last word.

"Now, I'm going to evolve you! I can't veto it! Well then, good luck saving the world~. Whew!''

 The last thing I heard was the voice of the light-tongued mastermind girl - my consciousness sank into nothingness again.