Chapter 916: NO．39: This Is the Aruito Alliance of Our Boundary Gate Zone

NO. 39: This is the United Alliance of Ultrat from our Jiemen District

Small room.

In the small room kept dark for atmosphere, even deliberately playing that eerie, detuned piano piece "dynapiano01B" as background music, the few people who don't fit the set of Denkou Ou Wang are gathering.

"Hayato-chan?"

"Here!"

"Clara-chan?"

"Present!"

"Alright, everyone's here—no one's been exposed, right?"

"Of course! Even if Guinea Pig-kun gave Chazuke that corrupted Nautilus card, he couldn't possibly interfere with the sorcery I've deciphered from the cards!"

Holding aloft the card of the female giant with dual gold-and-silver framework, Arespeedo proudly displays her research.

From this perspective, she doesn't even blame Aumu for 'favoritism'—the card given to Chazuke is just that powerful.

After all, even with astonishing compatibility, actual operation still depends on individual ability; although the Gatanjea card has an extremely high ceiling, such immense power also means increased operational difficulty.

And yet... Gatanjea is actually a monster with very little technique.

Either release black mist, or fight with tentacles and pincers in close combat, or use Petrification Ray.

It stands out for not playing flashy—just playing the numbers.

At first glance, it seems Chazuke only needs to practice power control, but in reality, power control for such a stat-focused monster is often the hardest to achieve.

So Chazuke has been progressing bit by bit, in a turtle-pace training—though even incremental progress with Gatanjea's base stats would be enough to suppress Kalmira...

But!

Kalmira's abilities are far more flamboyant.

Light whips, energy rods, palm slicing, dark monster control, fingertip sparks from beam techniques, plus a whole suite including absorption, teleportation, and control—all part of the Curse of Darkness.

This is the true value of the dark giant!

Knowing how to fight people is far more proactive than just eating, sleeping, wrapping the world in darkness, and continuing to sleep like the darkened nautilus.

Though in the end, she was ruined by the inarticulate, clumsy man, wasting 28 episodes plus 2 specials.

But anyway!

Arespeedo is very satisfied with the energy and information contained in the Kalmira card.

Especially the information aspect.

It allows her—who hadn't really studied energy sources outside the Three Goddesses system—to, through short-term repeated experiments, quickly master several curse systems derived from the dark giant.

Even if she still can't counter the darkness Chazuke has mastered, she only needs to find a reason to break line of sight, and she can then unleash that teleportation technique from the dark curses!

This teleportation technique also counts as one of the reasons the three dark giants could last so many episodes—comparable to the smoke gun from the neighboring shed, allowing her to vanish instantly, safer than Aumu's usual Mefilas teleport.

But even with such a convenient tool, Arespeedo hasn't just settled down.

How could Guinea Pig-kun possibly restrict me from acting on this stage so perfectly suited to me, in this field so desperately needing my challenge!?

Besides, there's another source of dissatisfaction.

Dissatisfied that I've been excluded from subsequent actions, and with Guinea Pig-kun missing, my training for the next two days might again have to be supervised by those few seniors.

It's just utterly boring and infuriating!

And I still don't know when that guy will come back...

This Guinea Pig-kun—I must find a chance to strike hard! —though I think that, I still haven't acted rashly.

Arespeedo has her own unique scientific arrogance, but she hasn't swollen to the point of daring to challenge across multiple fields.

Of course, if she could form a team to make up for this gap, that would be another matter!

And so, right now!

The mad researcher Arespeedo, the god of monster creation Shinjou Akane, and Clara, the Kanekobashi daughter dragged in by her best friend!

Just like the old United Alliance of Ultrat, this mismatched trio—Aumu Alliance's three-person squad—has now been formed!

"Alright! Excellent work, Speedo-chan! Though, fortunately, most of Gilbalis's computing power is used in cross-universe calculations, so we in the Jiemen District aren't worth Him allocating monitoring resources to," Shinjou Akane said, turning to look at the woman in LED-lit attire in the darkness, "So, Clara-chan, have you prepared the things?"

"Uh, although I did prepare them... but you guys..." Kanekobashi Clara, placing a metal carry-on box on the table, though her hand rests on it, doesn't rush to open it, merely gazing at the two girls whose eyes glow faintly in the dark—unlike ordinary people—and awkwardly says, "You're not really planning to just go straight there, are you? Aumu will kill me."

"How could that be? Little Snake wouldn't do something like that—Little Snake loves Kanekobashi daughters the most."

"Huh? Really?" Clara blinked.

"Fake," Speedo said expressionlessly, "but your box is gone."

"Huh?"

Lowering her gaze, she saw the box beneath her had indeed been unfolded by Kanekobashi Clara's best friend, who lunged for it: "Akane! You can't do this! Aumu trusts Wave Company, which is why I'm allowed to manage the beacon components!"

"Oh come on, that guy Little Snake doesn't have any trustworthy organization," Akane snapped, pulling out several seemingly old machine casings and monitors from the box's cushioning foam, beginning on-site assembly, "He doesn't even trust the security at the Land of Light office—he only trusts you. And conversely, he also trusts me because I'm close to you."

As she said this, she slightly lifted her eyelids, glancing at Speedo, whose form overlapped with Kalmira's semi-transparent illusion, and at Clara, whom Speedo was restraining.

"What kind of twisted logic is that!" Clara's friend wasn't convinced.

"If you think that way, Little Snake and Gilbalis have already made so many plans—they definitely considered us. And as long as our action succeeds, it's as if he silently approved—you're fine~"

"You're clearly exploiting loopholes in Aumu's plan, and worse, using his own plan as a shield!"

"In typical children's shows, characters hearing this would back down—but as a monster girl, your brain is just too non-toku, this won't do~ Clara-chan."

Having already assembled that old computer, which was already highly complete, and plugged in the power, Shinjou Akane said, then turned back: "How about this—you turn on the recording function and watch me and Speedo operate from the outside; that way, Aumu won't say anything to you."

"You're really insisting on doing this? Akane, just leave it to Aumu—he always wins, and he even tidies up his tail afterward."

"Hah? Him maintaining my tail isn't like that," Speedo snapped, turning to glare at her own.

"... Is that even the same thing!?"

"This isn't just his concern—it's mine too, Clara-chan." Shinjou Akane said, tapping the old-style keyboard, eyes fixed on the precise coordinates appearing on screen.

Just as she felt, she could directly lock onto the coordinates of the world that once belonged to her.

"Since it was Aomo who had the problem, and since Suzi had also locked onto the Cuckoo Platform, I couldn't just stand by and watch—you're not unaware of this either, which is why you agreed to gather those old components for me, right?"

Upon hearing this, Mother Jinko Bridge fell silent and withdrew her hand, also allowing Suzi to be freed; she put away the cards and then ran over to turn on the lights, then sat beside Xitiaqi, pulling out the operation terminal on the lab bench beside her.

And Xitiaqi's eyes remained fixed on the pixel city he was dragging across the screen, her gaze holding a touch of novelty.

Because the Cuckoo Platform she had built in the past only existed at the Cuckoo Flower Terrace in Nerima, Tokyo, and as the destination of the class drift activity.

Aside from that, everything else was an unprocessed area filled with circuit boards and electronic wiring; but now, she could drag out land beyond the city—those were the new lands that, after Aomo defeated Alexis Kailifu, were covered by restorative light.

Though she had seen it before, that distant view felt nothing like the current sensation of modeling with a high-dimensional perspective.

Even so, she hadn't completely immersed herself, still pointing and commenting to her superior: "This Suzi guy—should I call it chauvinism or overprotectiveness? But warriors really are all like this."

"Rather than saying he's a warrior, I think Guinea Pig-kun is more like a ninja," Suzi offered her opinion, "smooth-talking and full of tricks."

"Resentful Ghosts are ghost warriors, after all, and what he wields in his hand has always been quite good," Xitiaqi said.

That said, but in fact, even before Aomo obtained the Love Ghost card a year ago, she had already been calling him a warrior online.

Things like "Rank up in the game! Climb the ranks! Warrior-san, let's go!" were phrases she had gathered as his most common lines; now, conversely, the Love Ghost and Rainbow Snake God cards he holds actually carry warrior concepts in their elemental makeup—so it's come true in another way.

"I'm saying, I'm in the recording, you guys don't care at all?" The one beside them, who had been completely convinced by them and allowed to go along, Mother Jinko Bridge, merely pointed to the light-screen camera beside her.

"By the way, let me make this clear first—even if you still have thoughts of going in, don't bring me along!"

"I'm not interested in that world."

"Don't worry, I won't do experiments I can't assess the risks of," Suzi said, glancing at the various monster models Xitiaqi had laid out in advance on the test bench, "but as for Xitiaqi-kun, I just can't..."

"Huh?" Looking at the empty space where that large person had vanished, Suzi turned her head suspiciously toward Clara.

"Did you see that?"

"I did," Clara said, blinking dazedly as she nodded, "She suddenly got sucked into the screen."

"What?"

Snapping her head back toward the ordinary city-modeling screen, Suzi didn't reenact that "Snipers outside! What? Let me take a look!" maneuver; instead, she instinctively rose and stepped away from the computer screen, then immediately turned her head toward Clara:

"Stop recording! Play back what was just recorded! Right, quickly contact Sai—"

"Whoa!"

"...", Suzi hadn't finished speaking when she heard Xitiaqi's gasp, turned her head, and saw her reappear in the seat, "What did you go off and do? No, are you Xitiaqi-kun?"

She recalled that other teams had previously reported seeing Xitiaqi appear in the Cuckoo Platform.

"I..." Xitiaqi stumbled slightly, raising a hand to support her forehead, "I feel like... I ran into... Alexis?"

"Kinda familiar, who was that again?" The horse girl without Crystal Element assistance still suffered from occasional forgetfulness.

"No!" She suddenly realized again, "Say something! Prove you're Xitiaqi-kun!"

"What the hell, how did you even get the idea that I was replaced?"

"Say! What were you and I talking about before?"

"The Suzi warrior topic."

"It's actually true."

"Why would I want to be replaced?" Xitiaqi said, laughing through tears.

"But just now, I should have been saved once by Alexis..."

"And his side seems to... actually have another me?"