Chapter 90 About the Hero Squad
Someone was talking. The supervisor, still half asleep, instinctively tried to shrink deeper into the covers; he still wanted to sleep…
Wait, why does that voice sound so familiar? Isn't that my own voice? Is he talking in his sleep?
X laboriously opened his eyes a crack and looked in the direction of the sound.
The first thing I saw was a large expanse of white. My brain, which wasn't fully activated yet, took a moment to process what it was before I realized it was a white fabric. Upon closer inspection, I noticed some white threads. What were those?
The snow-white figure seemed to sense the gaze from behind and stopped talking.
The case is solved! The thread-like object is hair, and the ghost in his room is Adam. Looks like he's sleeping in the wrong way; let him try again…
X closed his eyes, silently counted to three, and then opened them again. Adam was still there, and not only that, he was moving closer to him.
Is it a horror movie, the kind where if it happens again, it'll just come right in your face?
It seems I'm dreaming. Otherwise, why would Adam be here? He should be sitting in the monitoring room facing the anomaly.
Ahem, Ms. Carmen sent him a notice: As a qualified adventurer, companions are essential. Adventurer from another world, hurry and find your companions!
Looks like I won't be able to sleep. X, with his hair all messed up, sat up, looked at Adam who had suddenly appeared, and asked:
"Shouldn't you be at work? What will happen to the company if you come here?"
“Hmph,” Adam said, as if he had completely anticipated X’s question. He hadn’t skipped work. “Abram has taken over my position.”
The other person who had just been talking to Adam also came over; it was Angela.
“Manager, Mr. Adam will be taking over from me from now on. I will go back to assist Mr. Abram. Please don’t stay up all night like before—” The secretary emphasized the last sentence, but maintained her unchanging smile.
Abram was originally a better candidate than Adam as the supervisor, but when she visited him this morning, she was rejected. He said he would rather go back to work. As a result, Adam was laid off, and Lobotomy Corporation welcomed its second acting supervisor.
"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Adam."
Before leaving, Angela glanced back at the two identical faces except for their expressions. Even though she didn't have a heart in the true sense, she felt uneasy.
Won't there be any problems if these two get together?
However, she needed to go back to the company to figure out some things about the clock that had been taken... The secretary left with a heavy heart and unease.
Warlock Adam has requested to join the party. Should you accept?
Carmen hasn't given up on being the voice-over for her RPG games, and has even given Adam a somewhat inexplicable job.
Can I refuse? X asked herself.
This is a character given away by the system, dear. We do not support returns.
As if afraid that X would refuse, Carmen did something in the next moment, even creating a sound effect similar to blowing a trumpet, the kind of magical sound effect of a small plastic trumpet that children play with.
Congratulations to the adventurer on gaining a new companion!
Wow, what a surprise... X thought to himself, his face expressionless.
At the moment Carmen announced that the warlock Adam had "joined the party," the white-robed man asked hesitantly, "Carmen?"
He had just heard Carmen's voice accompanied by strange background music; in his memory, he had never heard her voice so vibrant since Enoch's death.
X observed Adam's reaction and knew that he could also receive Ms. Carmen's signals.
What is this, is it team-wide voice communication?
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"manager."
Because of the morning work of judging the birds, commonly known as feeding the birds, the Holy Prophet, who, like another version of himself, was shrouded in the guise of a righteous judge, quietly emerged and mysteriously said:
“Mr. Verlaine, whom you brought back yesterday, seems to have found his kindred spirit.”
"similar?"
Something seems off about what Dazai Osamu said. Aren't his kind human beings? Humans aren't everywhere, are they?
"He seems to think that the aliens are his own kind."
X initially felt that his idea of using execution bullets was a bit off, but upon closer reflection, it didn't seem to make much of a difference.
According to the definition of "leader," anomalies can also be considered human, or even the same kind...
"Actually, what he said wasn't entirely unreasonable."
Just then, Rimbaud, along with Verlaine and Camus, stepped out of the elevator and overheard X agreeing with Verlaine's statement that he and the Otherworldly were of the same kind.
Camus, now a young man, wished he could knock out the Norse god in front of him and tell him not to listen.
He and Rimbaud had already tried to persuade him to give up, or at least verbally give up, the "search for relatives" plan, but as soon as they arrived, they heard confirmation from the monster leader.
Did he realize something? Did he know that Verlaine wasn't actually human? The problem is, he and Rimbaud had ruined everything.
Sure enough, Verlaine, who had initially dismissed X, looked at X, who now agreed with his point of view, and for the first time felt that this frail, ordinary man had something to offer. Then he heard this ordinary man continue:
"In fact, all aberrations originated from humans, so under certain circumstances, they can all be categorized under the concept of humans."
The golden-eyed youth adopted the demeanor of a good teacher and began to educate Dazai Osamu, who had only come to share gossip, about the fascinating facts about alien entities.
They continued talking as if they hadn't noticed anyone coming from behind them, until another white-haired man arrived.
Why don't you give the real answer to the foolish?
Ah—he forgot that Adam, the substitute supervisor with chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), had switched places with Mr. Abram. He shouldn't have told the supervisor about it. Dazai Osamu suddenly regretted it.
Sure enough, Adam proclaimed his ideas as if spreading the gospel:
"The aliens are the most authentic human beings; they are the purest human beings."
X was about to retort when he was interrupted by another, somewhat unfamiliar voice: "Are you saying that they are the ones who are human?"
Rimbaud was completely unaware of Adam's arrival, but he knew that both Adam and Paul had somewhat strange thought processes, and if they actually clicked, Paul would be in big trouble!
The thought of Verlaine possibly becoming a second version of a delusional, delusional charlatan made Rimbaud feel like the sky was falling. Hang in there, Paul! Don't let yourself be led by the nose!
“That’s right, as long as they regain their freedom…”
Taking advantage of Adam's pause in speaking, Rimbaud activated his supernatural power and shoved X, signaling him to come over. Camus, not knowing Adam, was completely unaware of the seriousness of the situation.
"What's wrong?" X was unaware of Verlaine's background, let alone that his origins were actually quite similar to those of the Abnormal.
"Manager, Paul..." Rimbaud quickly revealed his partner's secrets to X, otherwise the kid would be completely fooled by Adam!
"So, he and the Abnormality are actually quite similar."
That explains the bird's earlier unusual behavior; it probably saw Verlaine as someone who needed protection, which is why it relentlessly pursued him.
"That child has always denied that he is human."
Camus also joined the parenting experience group. He was more attentive than Rimbaud. Rimbaud was concerned about what had just happened underground, but Camus had seen it all along: Verlaine did not truly accept his human identity.
However, he is willing to pretend on the surface, but if he finds what he considers his kind, he will shed his last layer of disguise and may even stand on the opposite side of people for the sake of his so-called kind.
"So, supervisor, quickly tell Mr. Adam to shut up." Rimbaud couldn't say anything more, since Adam could be considered his superior, but X was fine. It was said that they almost got into a fight before.
However, it was too late. Just as X was about to shut Adam up, Verlaine and Adam had a falling out.
Ms. Carmen swore that it was definitely not her this time, and that she had done nothing.
Adam didn't expect that the conversation would suddenly turn so distorted, but he was actually quite pleased with it, since this was the real human being.
The house was not pleased; a violent storm swirled around the Norse gods, wantonly destroying everything in its path—in other words, the house flew away.
Even if it's a distortion, it's a distortion at the level of a transcendent being. Rather, it's more like, compared to a regular distortion, it's as if Vivier, with Verlaine's mindset, has completely taken over this body.
"Wow." Dazai Osamu, who had never actually witnessed Vivier's rampage, exclaimed in amazement as he looked at the massive storm and the giant beast within it.
Those who actually saw it said no, they paid a huge price to destroy it, how did they manage to make Verlaine go berserk in such a short time?
free
Those living under the shadow of this storm heard this word; it was Verlaine's deepest longing.
Adam's words undoubtedly deepened his desire. He wanted to become human, but his deepest longing was for his fellow human beings. If only he, who had gained freedom, was human, then why not unleash his instincts? Why should he associate with "humans" when he was clearly the one who was "human"!
"Look! This is the true nature of humanity!"
Adam stretched out his arms like a villain, showing X his masterpiece, but the villain's movements stopped the next moment.
Ms. Carmen issued a squad mission:
Oh no! The warlock's unintentional words have caused innocent residents to mutate. Please suppress it as soon as possible, and don't forget to apologize properly after everything is over!
Adam's smile vanished completely. If he remembered correctly, the sorcerer in the gate of Carmen was himself.
Even though X knew he shouldn't laugh in this situation, he seemed unable to hold back, and it only made him laugh more when combined with Adam's expression.
"What do we do, Warlock?" X asked the Warlock in his party.
But after laughing, X looked up at the behemoth in the sky and was in a dilemma. It was too high, and the existing weapons could not hit it. He wanted to bring out the End Spiral as the commander of the anti-aircraft gun, but he could only sigh in despair.
Inside Lobotomy Corporation, Bai Ye's nanny was going in to chat with him every now and then, as usual. But this time, after entering, the employee's mind went blank. Where was Bai Ye? Where did Bai Ye go?
Bai Ye also wanted to ask, "He was having a good chat, how did he suddenly see the light of day again?"
The red-eyed Magatama spirit remained within containment, slightly flapping its wings. Just as it spotted two identical golden-eyed supervisors below, before it could even exchange a word, a fierce gust of wind nearly blew this "master," who actually carried very little weight, away.
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Author's note: I played the randomized version of Lobotomy, and it was either W or A, haha, we're doomed!
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