137: The Monster That Seizes by Force

"Satou. What's the situation at Lord Nilianteck's main residence?"

"It seems the news of the lord's death has spread—chaos is starting to break out. Family members are being roused, servants are being gathered, all sorts of things."

Having returned to the ship of 'Sexy Mi Azuma,' we're now beginning our operations in earnest.

Memoqsi seems to be pushing the heretical machine intelligence from the cybernetic side, having connected to 'Sexy Mi Azuma' and completely halting the movement of the mechanical android, as if doing something else instead.

Joharis, meanwhile, is processing part of the intelligence gathered by the reconnaissance unit while simultaneously preparing 'Sexy Mi Azuma' for immediate launch in case of emergency.

And Vilegianira, while processing information several times greater than Johalis's, was searching for something—likely data pointing to the whereabouts of the heretical machine intelligence.

To top it off, she was giving me instructions at the same time. Quite astonishing.

No, perhaps it's more accurate to say the situation is that urgent.

"Satra. Direct the main unit to this room. And if anyone enters, detain them."

"？ Hmm, sure, I'll do it."

What was indicated by Vilijaniara... was something like an office?

Since the Nillianiteck viscount family is involved with Sw, there seems to be an office within the main residence, allowing necessary work to be done without stepping outside.

In fact, it's as if the blueprints of the main house—documents that shouldn't be shown—just casually appeared...

"Someone's entered. I'm going in."

"Please. I'll relay further instructions through the hair ornament."

Well, that's that—on to the job.

I altered the coordinates of the doll inside the 'Sexy Azuma' ship and teleported to the office of the Nilliani Tech viscount family residence.

"Impossible... my master has passed away... Hurry, I must carry the documents... Kyu!?!"

More accurately, I teleported behind the butler who had just entered the office, positioning myself as if throttling him.

The shield mod offered little resistance against strangulation.

Few people in the world can handle a technology like teleportation, which lies beyond ordinary imagination.

Since choking is a basic technique for artificial humans engaged in combat, it went smoothly.

So, no problem—complete suppression.

"Suppressed? If so, proceed with searching the room. There should be a hidden location somewhere in the room where they’ve gathered materials they can’t show publicly."

"Got it. Just wait a moment..."

I begin searching through the room.

As expected of nobles, there's no shortage of paper documents and books.

These physical information carriers are incredibly useful precisely because they're immune to interference from networks.

Especially strong is the fact that they can't be retrieved unless you go there in person—quite troublesome indeed.

"Ah, right. A safe."

While thinking along those lines, I continue my search for a while.

I discovered a safe built into the wall behind the bookshelf.

"Can it be opened?"

"If you don't need what's inside, there's no need to open it."

"That's... I see. You're quite the expert, Satu."

A mod was installed in the safe that would incinerate its contents if someone attempted to retrieve them without following the proper procedure.

In addition, similar physical mechanisms are installed to prevent anyone from breaking through the safe's walls or door.

Hmm, this is truly befitting of a viscount, I suppose.

Still, if it's not a cybernetic safeguard, then I can handle it however I like.

Using ink that disables mods, I destroyed the safe's mod.

Then, I created a transfer gate inside the safe and used a gravity-direction-changing mod to drop the contents into the gate, sending them all the way to 'Sexy MiAzuma'.

Even if the information terminal is set to erase data once it leaves the designated area, it shouldn't be a problem— and if it is, MemoKshi will surely find a way to handle it.

"How's that?"

"No problem. They were all physical documents—perhaps out of fear of unforeseen consequences. The content... well, it can't be disclosed lightly. It's far too influential."

I see. Since family members were the first to erase it, it must have been pretty dangerous stuff.

Well, based on what I've seen of the software update history and the history of doping-related crimes, it seems the Niliani Tech Viscount Family has been deeply involved with the 'Black Root' organization for quite some time now...

Anyway, when should I report on that?

I feel like we don't really need to go further, but... hmm.

Can you implant a device similar to a tracker into the person who was knocked out by Sata?

It's impossible. Since it's part of my body, it's living tissue. If I bury it inside someone's body without being detected, it'll just trigger a rejection response and cause death. Plus, there's no technology available to implant it elsewhere, and nothing suitable for swapping it out can be found.

"Is that so... Then, while I'm unsure about trusting that individual, shall we leave the matter to the intelligence unit inside? Satu, please return here once more. After that, we'll immediately send you to the next location."

"Understood."

A transfer to the next destination, then.

Probably found something from the Viscount Nerialnitek's documents.

With that, I transferred myself onto the ship of 'Sexy MiAzuma.'

On the way back, I can just use the coordinates of my homemade hair ornament from Virijianira, so it'll be easy.

"Where to next?"

"This point. Most likely, the heretical mechanical intelligence—Inakaini himself—is here."

And right after returning, I'll immediately teleport to the next location.

The place Virijianira indicated was a remote region on planet Nerialnipts 1.

A region deliberately left untouched for the sake of natural sports, appearing from above solely as a green carpet of forest.