Who, you ask? ...... Jin Nido. You're a scary man, aren't you?
The mood changed dramatically, and Markitas said in a barking voice, "I was wondering if you might be a .
"I was wondering if perhaps you have more than one personality."
Multiple personalities. Today we would call it dissociative identity disorder, but in the case of Markitas it would be more appropriate to call it multiple personalities.
After all, there really are other personalities lurking in there.
"<>. Well, in my case it would be <>.
Jin looked at Markitas with a strangely satisfied face,
"I see. You have been inconsistent and incoherent."
"What do you know!"
Markitas was furious.
But Jin is not silent either. He borrows a word from Jin D and says what he wanted to say.
"You can despair of the world all you want, but don't bring others into it!
But Markitas is having none of it.
"He won't listen to me."
"...... if you don't stop."
What are you going to do?
I'll stop you by force.
Markitas laughs.
"That's all right. Let's see what you can do.
"You ......"
* * *
Jin frowned in discomfort in the Horaijima command center.
"I knew it, you're crazy."
"You don't understand either?
"I guess so."
He said he had a dual personality, but as far as Jin felt, it was more like a triple personality,
"Markitas with a desire to destroy and ......"
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"Yes. And then there's the one who denies material civilization, Markitas."
But the last personality is very ambiguous and relatively sane? I had the feeling that I was about to be swallowed up by the relatively sane Markitas and the Markitas with a desire to destroy.
"I can't help it if I know that, though, can I?"
Jin was a little depressed.
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A word of command from Reiko would have done the job in an instant. However, Jin was afraid of this way of settling the case.
"It's arrogant of you to think that I can judge ......."
He wanted the to make a judicial decision if the nation was to be governed by the rule of law and not by the rule of man.
"If it were only the origin golem, I wouldn't hesitate to do it.
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Jin did not want to get used to the idea of taking a life face to face.
But fate was on his side.
* * * *
Jin Nido, you dare to stand before me!
Yes. To protect this world.
Yes, to protect this world. - Yes. You defy me so foolishly, when all things are doomed to perish.
Something has gone wrong with Markitas' puppet-slave-doll.
Lord Malchitas!
The support golem is acting strange too. He seems to be in a panic.
Several support golems of the same type have appeared, and to Jin's eyes, they seem to be moving left and right.
"Father, could it be that something happened to the main body of Malchitas?"
"Oh, I see."
Reiko seemed to be right, Jin thought.
"Uh, a support golem, right? Where is the main body of Markitas? I can use some healing magic.
I called out to one that was nearby,
[You're the one? ...... please wait a moment.
and the support golem stopped moving. No, the other five golems in the vicinity had also stopped moving.
"What are you doing? ...... might it be ......?"
Jin wondered and came up with a hypothesis.
"Does this support golem share consciousness or knowledge?
And this is confirmed by the report from the old man.
"Okay, thank you."
Jin thanked him and returned his attention to the support golems. Just then, they began to move again.
Jin Nido, you will come with us then. And I ask you to heal Master Malchitas.
"Okay."
Jin D. headed for the next room, surrounded by support golems. Reiko tries to follow him, but the support golem stops her.
I'm sorry, but I need you to stay here.
It seems that he has correctly evaluated Reiko's fighting ability.
"But I'm ........."
Reiko, I'll be fine. You know that, don't you?
Before Reiko could say anything, Jin D interrupted her.
"...... yes, father."
Reiko nodded reluctantly.
If Reiko really wanted to, the walls of this base would offer only paper-thin resistance, but even so, she was reluctant to leave Jin D's side.
However, since it was not Jin himself, I obeyed him, albeit reluctantly.
In the next room.
In the next room, there was Markitas lying on the bunk.
His head was covered with a helmet or a mask-like magi-machine, but when Jin D. and the others approached, the helmet was removed and his face became clearly visible.
"Is that Markitas? ......"
He looks a lot like a puppet doll......, well, the puppet doll did.
But she looked much older. In other words, the man in front of me, Markitas, is old and about to run out of life.
Two support golems were attached to the left and right sides of his bed, and seemed to be monitoring his condition. One of them asks Jin D. "Can you fix him?
Can you fix him?
"Let's try ....... <<
Jin D. tries both medical and surgical healing magic, thinking that if it is a life expectancy, it is only a comfort .......
But fortunately, Markitas' condition seems to have improved a little.
"<><>"
He tries again to cast a healing spell on her.
His condition has stabilized a bit again.
says the support golem that has been accompanying him.
Thank you, Master Jin Nido!
Jin felt that this was an unexpected turn of events.