Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 33

EP.33 Resistance – 8

The clothing packet is made based on the avatar information in the biological terminal. Therefore, when the clothing packet is inserted into the biometric terminal, it becomes a shape that fits the body shape or height and wraps the body.

convenient. You don’t have to bother putting on and taking off, and washing is easy. You don’t have to buy a new one every time your body grows or gains weight. There are cases where you can’t use it because it’s worn out or damaged by using it for too long, but that’s the same for everything in the world.

Military people were addicted to its convenience. The fact that few people opposed the military government’s policy to engrave biometric terminals on all citizens was due to the military’s convenience rather than its power. Most of the people willingly received the procedure, thinking that the country was doing something helpful for the first time in a long time.

The tacit consent of the majority naturally led to persecution towards the minority. At some point, it became a serious crime in the military not to engrave biometric terminals.

Thanks to this, the military has the ability to restrain most military citizens with one packet.

“no!”

Fibers wrap around Kanisen’s body. It cannot be removed or cut. The fibers come from just above his skin and bind him.

Armor is also clothes, and the military government made military equipment and weaponized clothing packets. Of course, it didn’t end there.

When I fell into the abyss, I was wearing a straitjacket.

A straitjacket is also clothing.

Then how did I put on the straitjacket?

Yes.

The military has also exploited clothing packets in other ways.

Handcuffs that come to life, a packet of clothing that cannot be taken off voluntarily the moment they are put on. with a straitjacket.

It is not for nothing that a regressor sees a biological terminal and grinds it. I don’t know if there is a sword that floats like a thousand cherry blossoms, or if it is at the level of strengthening the body with qigong, I don’t know.

Even animals that break rocks and eat people with bones cannot move when caught in a trap. If you’re human, there’s nothing to say.

Whatever.

“Thank you for your cooperation. You have been my best daily assistant.”

It was a pretty good magic show.

Words are a weakness, but in fact, how easy is it to insert packets into biometric terminals during a fight? It’s easier to just cut your wrists with a blade. While the other person is staring at you, how could you tear off the sleeves of your clothes and slap a packet inside them?

It wouldn’t have been possible if he wasn’t a magician like me and a former legendary pickpocket.

“urg! urg! Whoops!”

Both arms are tied behind the back and fixed. Both legs are also constrained and cannot move. A strong belt tightly bound and tightened each of the five fingers, and iron handcuffs wrapped around the wrists and led to metal rings.

I can’t even open my mouth. The automatically completed customized gag dug between the lower jaw and the upper gum without mercy. There are also eye patches that block the view.

It is a perfect restraint that makes it impossible to even think of the word resistance. Should I say it is also a military country? It is made with an ergonomic structure to block resistance at the source.

It’s a bit embarrassing, but even a magician like me couldn’t escape.

They say they cover their eyes to calm an excited beast. It was a concept common to humans as well.

Kanisen, who was blinded by an eyepatch and had to contemplate himself, realized after struggling for about a minute. That he couldn’t take off the straitjacket with his powers.

The act of closing your eyes and taking an uncomfortable posture has been widely known as a way to control the mind since ancient times. Did you say meditation? Carnissen, who is doing the best meditation at this point in terms of not being able to quit on his own, quickly calmed down and came to his senses.

‘Suddenly? Since when? Where were you hiding this packet? no i am why.’

good. You are now ready to embrace magic. I smiled and went behind him to remove the blindfold. Kanisen was furious the moment he saw my smiling face, but soon relaxed. It’s accepting defeat.

As expected, I always feel it, but there has to be something going for something to come. look. You became kinder when I gave you a straitjacket.

“Ego. look. I don’t just reveal my tricks all the time.”

I smiled and lifted the sharp skewer. Flipping it over and turning it into a card, I spread both hands while hiding it in my palm. In an instant, the long skewer hid in my hand and became invisible.

Kanisen’s eyes widened.

‘The thing I thought I dropped…!’

“answer! In fact, I was hiding it by replacing it with a card pretending to have dropped it! With this, I ripped the clothes and put the sleeves on! It’s good that you understand quickly!”

bladed skewer. Pickpockets carry around one thief’s tool.

The tip was sharpened, so if I gently stroked the bag while hiding it in my hand, I would reveal everything I had hidden inside.

‘Damn it I didn’t notice…!’

“Don’t beat yourself up too much. At one time I was an up-and-coming pickpocket. There was so much leather I cut through my stomach that at one point it got to the point where no leather bag could be sold because of me. After that, I washed my hands, but fortunately my skills haven’t rusted yet.”

‘Damn it… What the hell is it…!’

“Oh that.”

It was when I was about to say something. Gamma’s weeping voice was faintly audible in the distance.

“Captain? Captain? Are you okay?”

Kanisen’s eyes widened.

‘no. gamma! shut up! Plant a bomb and hit me somehow!’

However, Kanissen’s thoughts were blocked by a gag and did not come out. Unfortunately, Gamma is not a mind reader, so she cannot read Kanisen’s wishes.

Therefore, his thoughts are only audible to me. Only to me, who I don’t want to convey my true feelings the most.

“ah. right. There was that.”

‘no! Gamma quickly detonate the bomb! Now is your last chance! gamma!’

“I have to deal with it from there.”

‘please! gamma!’

Pulling on the belt of the straitjacket, I dragged Kanisen with me. Every time I hit the debris that fell on the ground, I was caught. I was annoyed by the force, but I strongly pulled on, believing that the carnisen bumping into it would be more painful. Honestly, this is because of Kanisen. Who wants to topple all the wreckage?

I returned to the passage to the basement. The rope tied to the pole is swinging pathetically. Just like a fishing rod that has lost its owner.

A rope draped deep underground in a broken crack. Tied up there, Gamma, who had been investigating the lower part, was now pulling the rope looking for Kanisen.

‘Why is there no answer from the captain? At best, I figured out the structure of Tantalus… but I have to plant the bomb quickly.’

Structure of Tantalus?

As I was about to cut the rope, I paused and read Gamma’s thoughts. now where how is the structure

uh.

Mmm.

uh huh really?

After thinking for a while, I removed the gag from the carnissen instead of the rope. The buttons were undone with a snap, and the spit-soaked gag fell to the ground. Carnissen did not understand the situation for a moment, then immediately raised his voice and shouted:

Meanwhile, I sat nearby and read Gamma’s thoughts calmly.

“It is an order! Detonate the gamma bomb!”

“yes yes?”

Gamma shouted, not knowing what to say.

“Captain! Please upload me! There is no place to step at the bottom, so I can’t go up unless I pull the rope!”

“I am defeated! There is no chance left now. Detonate the bomb right away before the rope breaks!”

“Ha, but. If it exploded here.”

“Now there is no chance! Burst it right now!”

“The artillery bomb is in my arms.”

“okay! The bomb in your arms! I mean blow it up right now!”

Gamma was a technician named Wickroll. He dipped his hand into the darkness of the military and saw the tools of his own hands used to take the lives of men. Feeling a great sense of guilt, he could not stand it and committed himself to the resistance. The promising engineer Wickroll became Resistance Gamma.

However, even after joining the Resistance, Gamma was an engineer. No matter how respected the commander’s orders were, if they were unreasonable, he would not obey them.

“There’s no point in blowing it up here! The explosion just escapes downwards!”

Gamma recalled the scene from below.

A management office littered with broken junk. If you remove the wide desk with broken legs, there is a passage leading to the basement below it. When they were attacked, the stairs also collapsed, so they had to rely on ropes to go down. Clinging to one of the ropes, Gamma squeezed through the rubble and slowly descended.

We arrived at an open space where we stood on our hands and looked at the plain.

At that moment, Gamma realized the structure of this Tantalus.

The first thing he felt was the pleasure of being an engineer. The thrilling sensation that arises when devices with unknown structures are aligned according to a single principle, and everything fits snugly. After that, the joy of breaking this prison, which must have been created by the military, came.

Only one case of bombs. With this alone, the astronomical cost the military had spent making Tantalus would literally disappear down the abyss. how efficient It’s an unbelievable exchange fee. If Gamma had been a merchant, he would have heard of a rare swindler.

However, the captain, who was ignorant of technology, was forcing Gamma an order he could never accept. Gamma shouted in rage.

“This tantalus is a structure similar to a tray supported at both ends. Not at the bottom of the abyss, but across the middle of the abyss!”

The way to break the worn plate is simple. If you remove the hanging part, it will fall down with nowhere to touch. The Earth Mother will take care of the rest.

“We need to break the explosives into three parts, one here and one at each end! Then Tantalus loses his balance and falls downward! That’s the only way to bring down this gigantic Tantalus!”

There is only one answer. The rest doesn’t make any sense. Gamma desperately tried to convince the captain.

“How many times do I say I can’t do that! I can’t hear you telling me to explode right away, Gamma! Explode it right now!”

“If I do that, only I will die!”

“I’m ordering you to die!”

“…yes?”

Gamma’s thoughts stopped for a moment.

“He’s nearby! Blast it now! That is the only way to deal even a small blow to the evil army and to the one who killed his comrade!”

“Ha, but. this.”

“T-t-ri-la-go!”

Gamma looked around. He is now hanging from the lower floor of Tantalus. The explosion diverges. If you try to explode it in a place where all sides are open, the power will spread down there in vain.

Climbing up the rope, inserting a bomb between the cracks and detonating them will do the damage. Even that would be far short of defeating Tantalus.

But more than that.

Gamma faced the fear that enveloped him.

What if you drop tantalus? Gamma will die someday, but it won’t be very painful. Since it is the abyss, the fall will be eternal, and there will be time to calmly accept death. Maybe you can meet up with friends while falling. While Gamma celebrates success with her friends and shares a meeting, she will crash into something and die in an instant. You won’t even feel the pain. The Earth Mother will embrace him very quickly and warmly.

Perhaps it is the abyss, and the fall may continue forever. If so, you will talk to other friends, laugh until you get tired, and eventually fall asleep from exhaustion. And never wake up again I will meet death that comes as if I am asleep in the dark.

But what if you explode a bomb? The body will be broken into pieces and scattered in all directions. Blinded by the emanating light, his lungs burned by the heat, and Gamma’s body torn to shreds by the explosion would be scattered into the abyss.

Gamma’s hands trembled.

He was prepared to die the moment he came down here.

He wasn’t ready yet.

I just read all my thoughts. I got up from my seat holding onto the skewer.

“Are you not ready? If so, I will help you.”

“no!”

Kanisen’s shouts and Gamma’s cries grew louder and louder. I shrugged my shoulders as if I couldn’t help it.

“I will pay for this sin in hell.”

I skewered the words that I would do my dick in the most religious way. The rope is broken. A bitter cry escaped from the captain’s mouth. Even outside Tantalus, the distant voice echoed.

Gamma became a lost child in the abyss with this. In the place abandoned by the Earth Mother, he will wander for eternity until he dies.

Until he fully accepts death and commits suicide.

Carnissen sobbed. Now nobody can make him succeed. I can’t stop him from cutting out his ugly side and bringing it right in front of my eyes.

“Isn’t it ugly? What you said at the end was an order to lay down your life more quickly. You only urged others to die while you were imprisoned and laid under me.”

“Kill! Stop insulting me and kill me quickly!”

There are only a handful of truly great people. Those who jumped off the edge of the cliff they reached while the rest were driven, as if they had chosen it of their own will. A lost child of the era who was neither a hero nor a petit bourgeois.

Unfortunately, Kanisen Riverwood didn’t make it into that handful. In the end, he too was driven and fell into the abyss.

“Self-justifying excuses. Meaningless repentance and confession. self contradiction. and hypocrisy. They poured manpower and resources into useless operations in order to self-defense saying they did their best. It’s a very luxurious suicide. Four young men were buried with you, and the rebels’ assets became your burial goods.”

“I’d rather kill you!”

Kanissen hit the ground face down. He wriggled his body like a bug and hit his own head several times.

It doesn’t die that much.

He put the stone in his mouth and chewed it. A broken piece of stone tore through his mouth. He swallowed the broken piece of stone. Let sharp shrapnel tear his body apart.

It doesn’t die that much.

cut off tongue His teeth cut through the soft flesh, and blood gushed out.

It doesn’t even die that much.

Wanting to be forgotten if he died, Kanisen continued to hurt himself.

however.

Even if it can’t be recorded in the history books. Even if it is passed down orally and cannot be engraved in the world.

Having read it all, I can’t forget him.

“I know you. What you saw and felt about your life. I read everything about how I lived for what. Because it was, and because it was, I won’t judge you.”

read

think.

life.

dream.

A fleeting eternity to reflect on life before death comes.

I read all the thoughts that pass through the kaleidoscope and weave them into one book.

“I am the smallest ossuary in the world. A library that commemorates those who will be forgotten. The ossuary does not judge the sins of the dead, and the library does not classify the collection. I just remember and keep it.”

The captain gave strength to his body for an instant. I shot one of the stone fragments in my mouth at me. The fleshy, bloody stone shard flew in a curve… and landed at my feet.

This is not an attack. it’s a protest

A desperate protest to end this pain, asking to kill me right now.

if you want

I grabbed the skewer and went back behind him. I sat down with my butt on his back and lifted the skewer with a tight grip. The pointy tip is sharp enough to be cold. Enough to dig into people.

“goodbye. Kanissen Riverwood. The last knight who grew up drinking romance by the beautiful riverside. Everyone in the world will forget you, but no one knows your end. I will remember you and the four young men who followed you.”

When do you think people die?

Opinions may differ on that, but at least Kanisen Riverwood’s death has been decided now.

He lost the will to live.

Because I had no intention of keeping him alive.

Kanissen Riverwood closed his eyes and raised his head. Hoping to kill him sooner, he pulled his neck.

He was always ready to die. He was also prepared to kill others. Even if he killed someone, even if he was killed by someone, he wouldn’t have blinked an eye.

He just lacked the determination to face his own ugliness.

There is no hell in this world. There is no heaven.

There is only one abandoned ossuary.

It’s not a comfortable place, but I hope you can rest comfortably.

He brought the skewer to his neck. pulled straight The blade moves obliquely. A person’s neck hangs in that trajectory. Its skin cracks and red life oozes from within.

When he died, did he feel pain or did he find rest?

no one in the world knows

Except for me.

A brief pain and an eternity-like kaleidoscope pass by. Before long, his thoughts stopped. What was Kanisen’s body has become a corpse. It’s trivial and meaningless.

A small period was stamped on one book.