From then on, it was a one-sided violation.

With one arm in her grasp, even Elena could not do anything about it.

"How dare you, you little doll! Do it!

At that command, the battle golem slammed Elena to the ground.

"GUN!"

With the first blow, the sword flew from Elena's hand.

With the second blow, Elena's right shoulder cracked.

With the third blow, Elena's face was crushed.

"See, this is what happens when a mere doll defies you.

"...... why?"

"Why?"

"Why are you ...... doing this?"

"Doing this?"

"You do ...... criminal acts with glee. There is something ...... wrong with you."

But Guillermo Marchitas brushed it off.

"Hmph, clever logic. What is a crime?　Is it a crime if you go against the laws you have made up?　That's funny."

Elena realized at this moment. Guillermo Marchitas was not of normal mind.

"In the first place, justice and evil are relative. The laws you make are designed to suit you.

Even though she thought the other party was crazy, Elena couldn't help but to argue.

"That's not true. ...... In the first place, laws have been enacted over the years, and when there are flaws in them, they are corrected.

"It's been corrected and then what do you get? It would be better to tear it all down and rebuild it."

Are you going to destroy the ...... world?

"Hmm, that might be interesting."

At this point, Elena realized that she had bought enough time.

Using the emergency warp gate, all members of the party had been evacuated. She could have taken out the most important classified materials.

"What are you going to do if you destroy the world?　People cannot live alone.

But Guillermo Marchitas laughed arrogantly.

"Ha-ha-ha, that's not what I say to a man who has despaired of the world.

"...... despair?"

"Oops, I think I spoke too much. ...... Elena, you said, I'd make you my slave too, but you're too broken to fix. ...... do it."

"E...... kyaa!"

Elena was slammed to the floor once more and kicked away by the battle golem.

Elena's body is crushed so badly that she is halfway into a wall, and she is rendered inoperable.

* * * * *

"......, but then, luckily, I was able to reboot and managed to crawl to where there was a warp gate for emergency use. ......, and here we are."

Elena's story ended.

"You've had a hard time, haven't you?"

"What a guy!"

Jin felt sorry for Elena. And Reiko was even more angry than Jin.

"Guillermo Markitas or ...... another psycho?"

Jin frowned. It's not easy when you can't communicate with people you don't understand.

And there was also the possibility that he was suicidal.

"It's not funny that he's going to kill himself with the whole world involved.

They have their own theories about criminal acts. This is the most troublesome person to deal with.

"...... The , which had lost its momentum for a while, came back to life when Guillermo Marchitas showed up, didn't it?"

Rhodes said.

"Hmmm......... But then, like Golbert Malkitas, this Guillermo Malkitas doesn't know his origins, does he?"

"Yes."

"Suddenly, he appeared as an adult ...... and Guillermo Marchitas as an old man, or ......."

Then Jin thinks for a moment.

"Elena, earlier you mentioned the possibility that these two men are the same person?

"Yes.

How likely is it that they are the same person?

I'd say it's more likely that they are one and the same person.

"Mr. Jin, but humans don't live that long, do they?"

Rhodes countered, but Jin shook his head.

"That's true, but that doesn't mean there isn't a way."

"What?"

"Under special conditions, it should be possible ...... to sleep for a long period of time while maintaining one's physical age."

He was only half joking earlier, but he decided that Golbert and Guillermo, the two , must be the same person.

Jin once told us that <>......600012 was a <> of Archelle. Jin recalled that <600012 had once tried to create a homunculus of Archel.

I was thinking a bit aggressively about traveling at nearly the speed of light earlier, but then I thought of homunculus and wondered if it would be possible to pass through the long years by <> in such a <> solution.

On the Earth where Jin lived, artificial hibernation had been studied, and there were many such stories in science fiction novels.

"<>, right?　...... Anyway, it's not impossible."

Jin himself has realized many things that had been considered a dream by science alone, with the help of magical engineering.

"Yes, ....... If you dismiss it as impossible, that's the end of it, isn't it?

"That's what I mean. That's what I mean. ....... If Guillermo Marchitas and Golbert Marchitas are the same person, why did they hibernate ...... in the middle of the story?"

It is very difficult to guess what a non-normal person thinks. Jin and Rhodes, after five minutes of pondering, gave up thinking.

"It's more about what we're going to do now."

"Right."

At this point Elena joins the conversation.

"If that's the case, we'd like to join you.

I'm sure we'd be happy to join you.

"Well, then, is Jin-sama the master of the legendary , that , Jin Nido himself?

Jin thought about it, and confided in Lelia and Arrietta.

"I guess you could say it's him ....... Well, think of it as a transference accident that sent me back from the past.

"So you thought Guillermo was the same person as Golbert Malkitas, didn't you!

"Well, that's one way of looking at it.

Jin decided to cut to the chase, thinking that he was not wrong in the broad strokes and that we could talk about the details later.

"First of all, what is the current state of the nostalgia party (nostalgia)?

Elena seemed to agree with him.

"Yes, Lelia, Arietta, how are things going?

Elena had not been aware of the state of the organization since the wreck.

"Yes. Let me explain."

Leelia opened her mouth.

"Since the fall of Elena-sama, the organization has been in a state of collapse.

"Of course. ......"

It was the fate of a huge organization to fall apart when it lost its centripetal force.

"Today, the members led by Arrieta and myself are probably less than one-fiftieth of the original number. Most of them are relatively young people who were able to escape at that time.

"That is the current Nostalgia, isn't it?"

"I guess you could say that."

Leelia and Arrietta nodded sadly.

"So, the members absorbed by the <> are probably about one tenth of the total. The rest are scattered, some have found new jobs, some have started their own businesses, and some have gone into hiding.

Now Arrietta began to explain.

"There are also quite a few who have been reemployed in <>."

"I see."

The current <> is not a secret society, but a private volunteer organization.

It is understandable that those who came from the < are given preferential treatment.