Day 501-510/Day 505

Day 505 / 35th day
We're going to take a closer look at the destruction of "Ia Depardos" that took place in just one night.
According to the information from the neighboring residents, they were attacked by a myriad of something.
In the main residence of Mr. Depakadora, the leader of "Ia Depardos", there were only a few traces of the battle, and all kinds of items including furniture were missing.
He is a former member of the group who turned himself in and was taken into custody by the security services, but they are unable to conduct a detailed interview with him because he only repeats the words " Demon, demon ...... " in a delirious tone.
It's a good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for.
The mountain road has been temporarily closed due to the discovery of the mountain barbarian dragon Akemunara in an icy state on the "Adram Mountain Road".
The Diablotron Toad, an annual event that occurs in large numbers in the "Tesla Thunder Plains," has been destroyed overnight. It seems that there was a more violent thunderstorm than usual, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
The whereabouts of Naltra Kaja, a high-ranking pollution teacher of the 【Fallen God Religion】, and her group of followers, who were on a pilgrimage, were lost in the vicinity of the 【Madralen Mission City】.
According to Andrei, an adventurer who ran up a rocky sky tower that suddenly appeared a few days ago and stretched in a straight line to the sky, "the end of the tower was connected to the sky island". It may be a new trade route.
　The articles on the front pages of the magazines and evening papers were mostly about the attack.
　A number of information magazines were covering similar topics at the same time, and it seemed that activities were intensifying outside, both inside and outside the city.
　While reading through the magazines, which contained a variety of other information of interest, I was sucking out all sorts of information and techniques from the madman I had bound.
　The madman was a bloodless beast that looked like a humanized version of a groundhog, and he wore a white coat that was stained with blood and some kind of chemical. 
　He has six arms with fake arms on his shoulders and armpits that can be manipulated with precision as if he were alive. 
　The eyes are artificial eyes made of a special magic item, and a translucent reinforced glass tube containing an additional brain is attached to the back of the head.
He is a genius of some sort, and his knowledge, skills, and ideas are so outrageous that he can only be described as a madman.
I heard that he was unable to stay in his former research facility because he had no sense of ethics, but I can't help but think that's just as well.
As for how to extract information from such a madman, I had initially thought of torturing him.
Or rather, I did.
However, torture was useless because the madman had made it possible for him to block his sense of pain and other senses almost completely by his own will.
This was inefficient, and if we overdid it, we would die before we could extract any information.
I judged that and stopped early, wondering what to do now, but when I asked him about the modification technique in the usual way, he answered without hesitation.
Apparently, the madman was more interested in the development and exploration of modification technology than in his own situation.
He doesn't like the idea of being killed himself because it would prevent him from exploring and developing, but he's fine with it if someone else can take over his ideas and technology.
After listening to him to a certain extent, I asked him about the difference between his technology and that of the madman based on my knowledge of his previous life's modification technology, and he told me that there were many ideas in there that the madman did not have.
He was very interested in the topic and would talk about it endlessly, raising the tension just by presenting his own ideas and new ideas.
He is a troublesome type of personality. It's very tiring to be around him. However, it is worth it to put up with him for a while if he becomes talkative.
I don't want to have a long term relationship with him, but once I knew how to handle him, it was very easy to control the madman.
There was too much information to pull out, and it would take time, but we had our work cut out for us.
The anthropoid boys would be rehabilitated to become independent, so we had some time to spare.
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“三十五日目”　／　“五■五■目”
たった一夜にして起こった≪イア・デパルドス≫壊滅事件に迫るッ。
近隣住民からの情報によると、無数の何かに襲われていたそうです。
≪イア・デパルドス≫の首領デパカドラ氏の本邸には戦闘の痕跡が僅かに残されていただけで、調度品などあらゆる品が無くなっていた。
出頭し治安維持機構に保護された元構成員ですが『鬼に、鬼に……』と譫言のように繰り返すだけで詳しい事情聴取は行えない状態にあるそうです。
先日の襲撃事件にも出た宝石鎧鬼、その正体は一体何なのかッ。
≪アドラム山道≫にて山蛮竜アケムナラが氷付けの状態で発見され、山道は一時通行止めになっています。
毎年恒例、≪テスラ雷平原≫に大量発生するディアブトロン・トードが一夜にして壊滅。普段よりも激しい雷鳴が轟いていたらしく、それが関係するのか？
巡礼していた【堕神教】の高位汚染教師ナルトラ・カジャと信者一行の行方が≪マドラレン宣教都≫付近で途絶えました。
数日前に突如現れ天に一直線に伸びる岩の天塔を駆け上った冒険家アンドレイ氏曰く『塔の先は天空島と繋がっていた』そうです。新しい交易路となるのやもしれません。
　号外や夕刊の一面を彩る記事は襲撃事件についてが多かった。
　幾つもある情報誌が一斉に似た話題を取り上げ、外では表裏両方で活動が激しさを増しているらしい。
　その他にも色々と気になる情報が掲載された情報誌を流し読みしつつ、俺は束縛した狂人から様々な情報と技術を吸い出していた。
　狂人はハダカデバネズミをヒト型にしたような血色の悪い獣人で、血や何かの薬品の汚れが目立つ白衣を羽織っている。
　改造手術が一人でも問題なく出来るように自分自身も他者と同じく改造していて、生身のように精密操作できる偽腕が肩と腋に追加された六本腕。
　目は特殊なマジックアイテムの義眼で、後頭部には増設脳が入った半透明の強化ガラス管が引っ付いている。
色々と外見からしてぶっ飛んでいるし、溢れ出る知識と技術と発想は狂人と言うしかないレベルが、狂人は間違いなくある種の天才である。
倫理観が無さ過ぎて元居た研究施設に居られなくなったそうだが、それも仕方ないと思うしかない。
そんな狂人から情報を引き出す方法だが、当初は拷問でもしようと思っていた。
というか実際にした。
しかし狂人が自分自身の意思で痛覚などをほぼ完璧に遮断出来るようにしていたので、拷問は意味がなかった。
これでは非効率的で、下手にやり過ぎると情報を引き出す前に死ぬ事になる。
そう判断して早々に中断し、さてどうするかと思ったが、改造技術について普通に聞いてみたら呆気なく答えてくれた。
どうやら狂人は自分自身の境遇よりも、改造技術の発展と探求にしか興味がないらしい。
自身が殺されるのは探求も発展もできなくなるので嫌らしいが、誰かが思想や技術を受け継いでくれるのならそれはそれでいいらしい。
ある程度まで話を聞いた後、俺が前世の改造技術に関する知識を元に狂人の改造技術との差異について質問すると、そこには狂人にもない発想が多分に含まれていたらしい。
食いつきが凄く、自分の考えや新しい発想などをポツポツ提示するだけでテンションを上げながら延々と語ってくれる。
面倒なタイプの性格だ。付き合うのがとても疲れる。しかし饒舌になるのであれば一時的には我慢しようと思うだけの価値はあるだろう。
長い付き合いはご遠慮願いたいが、扱い方が分かれば狂人を制御するのは物凄く簡単だった。
引き出す情報が多すぎて時間が必要だが、一先ずの用事は済んでいる。
蟻人少年達には自立に向けてリハビリしてもらう事になっているので、時間も少し余裕があった。
暫くは狂人に付き合って、情報を全て【電脳書庫】に記録する作業が続きそうだ。
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