My Artificial Intelligence Has Become the Devil

＜ Chapter 97-Invasion (7) ＞

Chapter 97 – Invasion (7)

“Currently, we are trying to figure out how to release the sealing ceremony through the captured prisoner, Kaim.”

“yes. Don’t bother showing it.”

Having achieved results, Lucy, as always, started working right away without a moment’s rest. The process would be no different from before, so I delegated it to Lucy without bothering to look at it.

In the first place, you can’t just hold on to your phone all the time. But I couldn’t completely turn it off. If Lucy fails to get information from Kaim, the black orc king, he has to come up with a countermeasure.

“What is it, Jiyeon Lee didn’t go out today?”

“Yes. The plan was suddenly canceled.”

It was then that someone approached the vending machine where I was standing.

His name is Go Jun-hyeok, a middle-aged man with a short stature and a chubby body. He is the manager in charge of Awakened who is doing the same job as me and is also the motivation to join the company.

“Everyone thinks that being in charge of one person would be comfortable, but I think I won’t be able to do it when I think of walking around in dangerous places with Lee Ji-yeon. Not even single.”

He took a drink from the vending machine and glanced at me. As he said, the pros and cons are clear. Being in charge of a strong Awakener will make things a little easier, but the risk of becoming dangerous increases.

On the other hand, if you take on a lot of weak people with low level of care, the risk goes down, but you get busy with a lot of work.

I was going to say that it was okay, but I kept my mouth shut because I remembered that I had recently killed the guy who tried to stab me. It certainly seems a bit risky. There is also a Constellation that encourages people to kill, so you never know what kind of crazy guy you will meet in the future.

“Really. Thinking of young children, I can’t do anything dangerous. Well, it’s true that this job is dangerous compared to other jobs in the first place. That’s why I give you more money.”

“I fully understand.”

“But if you have enough passion, you can do it. Whether it’s young blood, or… Kheum. Certainly, if people close to us work together, we might be able to endure it.”

I gave a rough answer, but he smiled at me and cleared his throat for no reason. Seeing that, the rumor that Oh Jin-hyeok mentioned suddenly crossed my mind.

Are all the people you know misunderstood? Go Joon-hyeok also seemed to misunderstand Lee Ji-yeon and me, but I wondered if he would believe me even if I explained this.

“Aren’t there any new members on the team by the way?”

I forcibly changed the subject. In fact, it wasn’t forced, I was originally going to say this as soon as I saw his face. It’s just that he missed the timing when he opened his mouth first.

“A new member has definitely joined. how did you know?”

“I was looking for some inside information.”

When he opened his eyes wide and asked, I looked around moderately.

It is true that it was confirmed by inside information, but in fact, the first was the Internet. It was information that one person I found while looking for people with abilities related to sealing had recently joined our company. After that, using the company’s internal information, we found out that the person had joined Go Jun-hyeok’s team.

“It’s Kim Seo-yoon, and there was probably even an article about it. He awakened at the site of the gate and saved his life as well as the Awoken team that was in danger.”

“I also found out after reading the article and looking for it.”

“He sure has a mysterious power. It’s so amazing to see those abilities, it’s like a game.”

Go Joon-hyeok blew information with surprising ease. Why did she choose to fight monsters, why did she come to our company, etc.

“Are you leaving now?”

“I have work in the afternoon. Kim Seo-yoon, whom I just talked about, today is your first activity.”

After that, Go Jun-hyeok emptied all the soda cans and left within a few minutes. With the words that Kim Seo-yoon, who was the subject of the story, will go to the official practice for the first time today.

For now, it’s enough to know this far. Lucy will only find it if she really fails.

“Do you think it will be a little late?”

“It has succeeded in acquiring the desired knowledge completely, but it will take some time to transform it and apply it one by one.”

It was only that evening that Lucy heard the news that it would be delayed.

***

“You seem to have learned something somewhere, but try it a hundred days. Will you?”

“There are still 3148 combinations possible.”

When Lucy made the law of destruction and applied it to Raon’s sealing ceremony, Raon laughed at it. It was because of this that it took time.

Lucy could create numerous combination formulas at once with her own calculation power, but it was essential that it took time to apply them one by one.

“There are over three thousand ways to try, which is quite a lot. I’m sure you deserve at least one of them. But how long will it take to try them all out?”

Knowing that, Raon’s mouth did not rest. In a state where you can’t move, you understand exactly that such a provocation is the only means to shake and damage the opponent and use it.

Originally, such a provocation would not work for Lucy, but Lucy instinctively hates inefficiency more than anything else in the world.

The last screen I saw was Lucy’s face distorted violently, and right after that, the screen suddenly switched, and the images of laborers wriggling hard with an unexpectedly large amount of food and resources were displayed on the screen. It is a screen transition video used in entertainment programs without fail as long as a suitable background sound is played.

“Are you okay?”

[·······.]

After that, on the screen that came back, Raon was still laughing, and Lucy was regenerating her broken arm in anger.

When I asked if she was okay, Lucy didn’t answer. It seemed that he had decided to keep his mouth shut rather than lie.

[I want to throw it into the boiling lava of the volcanic field as it is, or bury it hundreds of meters underground and seal it forever.]

However, Lucy, who couldn’t control her emotions, eventually kept her mouth shut and told me her honest feelings only to prevent Raon from hearing them. It was clear that he was angry.

[sorry. Even though it’s not good if it’s late.]

“You don’t have to beat yourself up too much. We keep running at the end, so when we hit a wall, it makes sense to pause.”

Seeing Lucy like that, I made a decision.

I could take my time and wait, but I thought it would be foolish not to even try when there are other options.

“I will send someone to you. But you can’t learn anything from him. Awakeners don’t learn and use their abilities. So, make that person use his ability directly on Raon.”

[Then, after that, treat him with nutrients…]

“Oh, no. can’t kill That person is innocent.”

Embarrassed, I corrected my plan. It is the taking of innocent people by force. I couldn’t even go so far as to harm her.

[However, that would leak our information to outsiders.]

“That’s what I’m worried about. Is there any way?”

The biggest stumbling block is that the moment we send Kim Seo-yoon to Lucy as planned, our identity is exposed to Kim Seo-yoon. I really didn’t want to risk even a single possibility as long as there were already forces connected to the other side of the world on Earth.

“What, no amnesia magic or anything like that? You ate a lot of wizards.”

[Such magic does not exist in data.]

The most comfortable way would be for Lucy to erase her memory and send her back to this place, but that kind of magic didn’t seem to exist there either.

“Let’s inject the parasite Brain Maw Alpha into the brain and threaten it? that’s what hurts no. Leave that as a last resort and other methods first. The same goes for carving a magic circle on your body that can explode at any time… Is there really no answer?”

However, after rejecting several of the methods Lucy suggested for one reason or another, there was really no way. In the end, I am at a crossroads of choice.

Then, for my purpose, is it right to sacrifice Kim Seo-yoon, whom I have no one to know?

“……A magic circle engraved on the body. I have no choice but to threaten you with it.”

It was an agony that stayed up all night. And as a result of that decision, I ended up making a lopsided choice. Having watched Lucy’s actions in the meantime, and keeping in mind that there are no noble sacrifices or legitimate exploitation, I had no intention of justifying my choice.

“This is my choice without any excuses, but at the same time, I believe in you and made it for you. I believe that one day you will grow up to be able to hide all these sacrifices and show the results.”

[I know enough.]

“You are one with me. Lucy.”

Looking out the window at the gradually brightening dawn, I smiled bitterly. Lucy, who learns a lot from me, such as her way of thinking, thinking patterns, and emotions, is becoming more and more like me. On the contrary, now that I entrust many things to Lucy, I am becoming more and more like Lucy.

Compared to the beginning, both have changed a lot.

***

“Chief Joon-hyeok Go’s team? Would you have gone out now? There is an urgent request for assistance in the area where the gate occurred.”

“So, I understand the phone… anyway.”

Early in the morning, as soon as I went to work, I found Go Jun-hyeok. It was to approach Kim Seo-yoon, who belonged to Go Jun-hyeok’s team.

But when I heard from other staff, they were already dispatched. I guess I’ll have to wait until it arrives.

“What’s going on?”

“No, because of what we talked about yesterday.”

Lee Ji-yeon had doubts when she saw that, but I hid the truth from her this time. It has nothing to do with her. It wasn’t a good thing, so I didn’t want her to know.

“This.”

“Emergency Assistance Alert.”

That’s when the beeping alarm started going off like crazy. A system in which notifications are sent directly to the company in case of an emergency through an application installed on the employee’s mobile phone.

“Mr. Jiyeon, we don’t have work right now, but as per the manual, wait here for now…”

“Come on!”

There was no time to dry anything. Lee Ji-yeon kicked out of the office and ran out of the office without taking on her outerwear as usual, and I ran after her, kicking my tongue.

“What the hell is going on?”

[Something seems to have happened in the area where the gate occurred. But now, the area where the emergency notification arrived, seems to be the place where our goal, Kim Seo-yoon, was dispatched.]

Lucy checked her phone on her own and told me what notifications had arrived. The place where the incident happened is the place where Go Jun-hyeok’s team was dispatched.

Suppressing my anxiety, I got into the car with Jiyeon Lee and started running.