Ys - First Side Story
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I am Ys, a combat automaton designed to fight for my master.
My present master is Innocentus Grigory, chief of MIDAS.
Even I, who's always by his side, couldn't understand what my master was thinking.
My master, invoke an intercepting spell while I ready the portal that would take Mr. Xertia back to the library.
After sending Mr. Xertia back, I inquired my master's reason via telepathy.
"Master, why did you misdirect the portal I created?"
"Fufufu~ I wonder why~. Even myself doesn't know why~"
My master always acts like this. Whenever I dont understand his logic, I'll inquire yet he'll feign ignorance.
Since I was made a machine, I couldn't understand how human conscience and emotions works. I always use the most efficient way to do things. My previous master said that killing is the most efficient way to punish someone, but my present master doens't permit me to do so. Always saying that I should learn how to understand people. He also said that I was designed to accomodate human emotions. He explained to me that my core is something human. If it was the case, why don't I feel any remorse to kill people during the war?
He said something like this.
"If you know how to understand happiness, you'll understand how to be sad. If you understand to hold something dear, you'll understand the fear to lose it."
From that line, I comprehend that I wouldn't feel remorse since I don't have something I want to protect. Understanding human emotions is really difficult.
Since I was curious of the destination of the portal, I transferred a half of my consciousness to a spy sattelite owned by MIDAS. I could do it easily since I hold a permission to access all technology owned by MIDAS.
I located him on his school. But to be cramped on a locker without any error is amazing itself. To be cramped in such manner, some people may miscalculate and make a person's part of the body be attached to something hollow. I always see amazing things like this when I'm at my present master's side.
As I see him escape, I also detected some magicians opening a wormhole. I also notice that there's a little girl in the center of the formation. I see pain in the little girl's expression. Huh? what is this pain in my chest? It feel like its being pricked by something.
As I tried to scan if there are problems within my system, I found out that my core is reacting. I tried to cool it down by covering it with my artificial mana. But before I do that, behind me, my master placed his hand on my shoulder and gave me an order.
"Try to watch it without cooling down your core."
He looks very serious while saying that line. I couldn't defy my master so I followed what he ordered me to do.
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I watch the scene until I saw Mr. Xertia exit the building. It seems like he also noticed those magicians, so he acts cautiously while grasping the situation.
While he was preparing, I noticed that every second that the ritual progresses, the little girl's face worsens every minute. Every time I see her face being inflicted by pain, the pain in my core becomes much stronger that I want to act myself. I don't really understand what is happening within my own core.
After understanding the situation. Mr. Xertia starts to act to save the little girl. It might be fast, but as a machine, I could see every movement he delivered to save the girl. After he gave some of his mana to the girl, my core also cooled down by itself.
"Really splendid~! He acts cautiously and moves precisely if given an opportunity~ As expected of my "Mercenary"~"
My master also has this hobby to attach weird nicknames on Mr. Xertia. I was wondering how he could perceive what happened without any assistance of MIDAS' technology.
When I inquired how did he do that, he always responds with his left hand holding his hip, and his right hand's index finger was placed on his lips, and pointing upwards, and other fingers are coiled and says:
"Its a trade secret~"
My master is such a mysterious person.
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Then, after praising Mr. Xertia, he pays his attention to me and said:
"Did you see all what happened? Now this is my order. Try to identify those emotions you experiences during the confrontation."
"Yes, master."
I was given a task by my master. Whenever I tried to comprehend his order, I always find it unnecessary. But since its an order from my master, I'll try to finish the mission he gave me.
I accessed the World Wide Web. Its a convenient technology created by ordinary humans to make the exchange of knowledge much easier. From what I witnessed a while ago, I identified those as "Pity", "Anxiety" and "Relief".
I reported to my master what I discovered, then he says this line.
"Good~ It looks like you could understand human emotions little by little. Its a good decision to make Sora take a little detour before resuming his date~ I'll give him a reward when he comes back~"
My master is in a good mood today. My master really is an interesting person.
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Maybe i'll post another chapter within 3-12 hours if I won't get asleep. Its 10PM GMT +8
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