The Doctor's Plan
"This is the Management Bureau...."
"For you... well, it's been a while, hasn't it?"
As the Guardian of Absolute Victory said, I'm visiting after a long time.
Normally, it's a place I'd look down upon from the Guardian Headquarters.
No, now that I think about it, I came once when I picked up the device from Doctor Aerus.
So, roughly three weeks must have passed.
"Alright, alright, don't just stand there, come this way quickly...."
She lightly pushed my back.
...Somehow, her hurried demeanor is unsettling.
"Oh my, hello? Are you visiting today because of a request again?"
As I entered the Management Bureau, an unknown woman spoke to me.
"Ahahaha.... Yes, well, something like that. But I'm busy right now...."
"Oh, excuse me! I'll greet you again next time!"
"...Ahem, ahem."
She awkwardly cleared her throat.
"...You, how long have you been here?"
"Ah, well, a bit... it's been a while, hasn't it?"
"...It's not good to get too involved in the human world. If you form personal relationships...."
"Ah~ I get it, ...no, no. S-sorry. But could you hurry up a bit now?"
"...."
As expected, it's suspicious.
Surely she hasn't noticed my scheme?
...No, that's impossible.
For now, noticing it is realistically impossible.
The so-called 'Global Eroge-ification Operation' to turn the world into an eroge.
For this, I must first corrupt Harin.
At least one person must be completely corrupted and made into a 'vessel'.
...But she still has not been corrupted.
Even if she has noticed the eroge-ification plan, it's not a legitimate reason to take Harin and the eroge from me.
*Swoosh—*
'Still, for now... it would be good to be prepared.'
No one knows a person's fate.
Using the power of life, I stimulated her instincts.
Although it's very slight, she will now become aroused.
For an ordinary person, it would be effective enough to make their whole body burn.
However, for her current self, it merely induces lewd fantasies.
'For the next hour... that thought will keep coming to mind.'
If this happens, at least she won't act recklessly.
It's a kind of putting on the brakes.
"H-huh...!? W-what is it? Was it this cold here? Ahahaha...."
As she was walking, she paused for a moment.
"What's wrong? Cold, you say? You, of all people, saying such a thing...."
"Oh, it's nothing. L-let's go quickly...."
No matter how excellent a person is, they are bound to become powerless in front of embarrassment and Sense of Shame.
This is a very simple problem.
Let's imagine. Whether female or male, regardless of gender, can an aroused person make normal judgments?
The answer is impossible.
Following her, who was so tense, we arrived at a quiet laboratory.
"H-here it is... *Hmph...*"
What is it?
More than I thought, the arousal effect seems strong.
Did I fail to control my power?
...Well, it doesn't matter.
Anyway, if she had noticed, she would have noticed much earlier.
"Come on, quickly.... ...H-haah."
*Click.*
As if she couldn't endure it any longer, she hurriedly opened the laboratory door.
Then, pitch-black darkness spread out.
A dark space, to the point of feeling a sense of incongruity, greeted me.
—*Thump.*
And that was when it happened.
"Quickly... Get innnn...!!"
She abruptly pushed me into the darkness.
"...?"
I could have resisted, but I didn't.
Because I thought it was something the aroused her had done inadvertently.
But what was important was the next moment.
*Click.*
"...What."
She closed the door.
I could even hear the sound of her hurriedly locking it, what on earth is she doing...?
I slowly approached the locked door.
She can't stop me with something like this.
'Seriously... has her mind broken?'
...If so, that would be a bit of a big problem.
For reference, an artifact that can neutralize a Guardian does not exist in this world.
No, from the start, her very existence is an artifact.
'It seems I'll have to lower the arousal concentration....'
Thinking that, I grabbed the doorknob.
*Thud.*
But at that very moment.
The lights in the room turned on, and a sound came from behind me.
"...Seis."
Hurriedly, I turned my body towards the voice.
"Let's make a deal."
"W-what...?"
Golden eyes and pure white hair.
"You...?"
A moment ago, the Guardian of Absolute Victory, who pushed me into the room, was before my eyes.
'...Teleportation?'
...No, for her, no other superpower exists other than Absolute Victory.
"What is this? Are you trying to give me some kind of surprise gift...?"
"No! T-for now...!! *Ugh...*"
Her face flushed red, she trailed off at the end of her sentence.
'...It can't be, right? Surely my plan hasn't been exposed or something....'
However, an unexpected remark popped out from her mouth.
"F-first! Turn me back into a man!"
"...?"
"H-hurry!!"
"What the...? In the end, for such a trivial matter, you called me here...."
*Click.*
"No, it's not that!!"
That was when it happened.
Someone interrupted me and cut in.
It was a sound from behind my back.
Moreover, the owner of that voice was the same Guardian of Absolute Victory.
...?
It was indeed the same person.
"Quickly, that... bring out the naked Harin!!"
Behind my back, looking exactly like the woman in front of me, was the Guardian of Absolute Victory.
And just now... she said 'naked Harin'.
"W-what did you say?"
"Eek...!"
Before I could even grasp the situation, the woman standing in front of the door reached out her hand towards me.
*Vwoom vwoom vwoom...*
A small energy orb.
It appeared in her hand.
At a glance, the intensity of the magic could be felt.
*Bang!!*
"...!"
*Swoosh—*
Reflexively, I waved my hand and dispersed the magic.
The magic orb disappeared.
*Whoosh—!*
Just like that, I charged towards the woman in front of the door.
Whatever was happening, she was not the Guardian of Absolute Victory I knew.
"H-huh!?"
Even her surprised expression was not hers.
"W-wait, just a moment! S-stop!!"
Coming from behind, another voice.
'...Was that just now Aerus's voice?'
However, there's no need to pay attention.
I don't know what kind of trick this is, but until you pay the price for attacking me, I have no time to listen to your voices.
*Whoosh—*
But at that moment, my vision was completely filled with white light....
...
- - -
"Good grief. So that's how it happened."
"S-sorry. I couldn't show my female appearance to the others... so I sent someone."
"And that's this guy."
"...."
The incident was concluded for now.
It turned out that instead of herself, she sent someone to call me.
Meta Mask, you say? Does that mean it can change appearances?
Also, some of the Guardians seem to have created strange items....
'No, wait. Just now... what happened?'
「She used psychokinesis to pull me, who was charging, down.」
「And after simply knocking me out, she slowly explained the events up until now.」
'Is it the power of Absolute Victory...?'
But even knowing this fact, nothing changes.
「That I was defeated by her is an undeniable fact.」
"So, about that...."
"No."
"...Huh? I haven't even said anything yet?"
"What are you talking about? You already said it. 'Let's swap the Harin robot with the real Harin'."
"...Ah, right."
As if realizing something, she bowed her head.
"...Or can't we swap her with someone else?"
"No."
"She's the Doctor-nim's precious assistant! But it doesn't necessarily have to be Harin...."
"Surely you haven't heard? If we hand over this eroge to STW as is, the world will become a giant eroge."
"...W-what did you say?"
She couldn't attend the meeting.
Of course, Memory could have conveyed it separately, but wasn't she 'female' now?
Perhaps she deliberately avoided contact with Memory.
Well... she was a woman from the start, but.
"So, if that device is handed over to the Management Bureau as is, no one knows how the world will turn out. If things go wrong, World War III might even break out."
"T-that doesn't make sense...."
"In other words, rather than unnecessarily taking risks, it's better to maintain the current state...."
"T-then how about this?!"
At that moment, the Doctor, who had been silently listening beside us, dared to interject.
"Let me contact Harin. At least to confirm the safety of my assistant...."
"Hah...? Contact?"
I sarcastically opened my mouth.
"I'm sorry, Doctor, but you should consider your assistant Harin gone."
"......What?"
"It's all for the safety of the world. Sacrifices are being made somewhere even now. Just think of it as Harin-yang's turn has come."
"...."
The Doctor quietly raised his head and glared fiercely at me.
...Unexpectedly, I felt an intense aura.
"Well... I understand your feelings, but this is according to the providence of the world...."
"A toy."
That was when it happened.
"...Seis. What do you think of humans?"
"What did you just say...."
"I know guys like you well. Guys who only look out for their own interests within power."
This guy... what is he suddenly saying?
"How a guy like you became a Guardian, I don't know, but in the end, without your superpowers, you're nothing."
"...I can kill you right where you're standing...."
"Then kill me."
"...Huh?"
Instantly, a chill ran down my spine.
"If you kill me, let's see how the world turns out."
Doctor Aerus.
He has no superpowers.
If an excellent brain is a superpower, then it might be, but even that cannot cross the line of a Guardian.
Thus, the only question that arose in my mind was one.
'...I don't know.'
What on earth is he relying on to act like that, I can't understand at all.
Surely he's not relying on the Guardian of Absolute Victory next to him?
Even so, me killing that guy is only a matter of time.
The Absolute Victory ability lies in me not being able to defeat her; it can't interfere with me killing the man in front of me.
On the contrary, his back is clearly visible.
Even though I could just snap my fingers and turn him to dust, an extraordinary aura overwhelmed me.
"...You speak well."
I exhaled slowly and took a step forward.
"Ah, everyone...! S-stop it!"
Don't worry, I don't intend to kill the Doctor anyway.
* * *
"Someone like you, I have no desire to kill. We always act for the greater good."
At the word 'greater good', my eyes unconsciously narrowed.
"So, I'll withdraw now. ...However, it would be best not to try any tricks."
I silently stared into his eyes.
"...."
Guardians, after all, act to prevent war.
And the sacrifice of a few is unavoidable.
That guy used every justification he could present outwardly to plausibly package his evil deeds.
"Ah, and you, you said Meta Mask? ...Daring to infiltrate the Guardian Headquarters, I won't forget that crime. Of course, she might have had a hand in it, but."
With those words, Seis suddenly disappeared.
"Haa... The situation has become more complicated."
"Hoo...."
A deep breath.
First, my heated head must be calmed down.
"But Seis's words have a point. If it's connected to World War III, it's not good to act recklessly. Harin might truly be an unavoidable sacrifice...."
"Then Harin unavoidably has to stay inside that machine?"
"Uh... hmm... Y-yes, that's right."
If so, there's still a way.
An opportunity to use that naked Harin robot.
"Meta Mask. What happened to that makeshift teleportation device? ......Meta Mask?"
The other operation I entrusted to Meta Mask.
It was to throw a makeshift teleportation device into the Guardian Headquarters and leave it there.
...But for some reason, his mind seemed unstable.
"...My hero name isn't Meta Mask, it's Phantom.... *Ugh...*"
Specifically, he couldn't take his eyes off the Harin robot.
"T-the teleportation device, I threw it well and left it."
Anyway.
As long as the job was handled properly, it doesn't matter.
"...Huh. What did you say, Doctor-nim?"
"Don't worry. I'll be able to protect both Harin's safety and the safety of this world."
If I can't bring her out of the game, then I just have to protect her within the game.
'Deploy the Harin robot and directly access the game....'
That is my plan.