The wedding of Fritz and Gloria was being celebrated with great fanfare in <.

<1-10......I must discuss with my lord what to do with those 10 automata. I have to discuss with the master (my lord) what to do with those ten automata.

The brainiac of Horai Island had not decided what to do with the 10 automata that probably belonged to the , which also belonged to the group.

In the former Leonard Kingdom, there are three sites that they are maintaining, including the one mentioned above, and if other sites such as Newell are included, there are a total of 12 sites.

For now, the three sites in the former Leonard Kingdom are being monitored by the old man as a provisional measure, but the question is what to do about the remaining nine sites.

There are several options, but each of them has its own merits and demerits, and there are many aspects related to human rights, so we finally decided to avoid arbitrariness.

On June 4, the day after the wedding of Fritz and Gloria, the old man was talking with Jin back in Horai Island.

"I see. So you have not decided what to do with those 10 automata for maintenance.

"No, that's fine. The old man has made this decision in our best interest."

Jin understood well what it meant for the old man to leave the final decision to him.

"Let me check. You have three choices. Leave, reconcile, or destroy?

Leave it.

It means to maintain the status quo.

Ten bodies are to be active every 10 years, so it can be seen as postponing the problem for 10 years.

The advantage is that .

The disadvantage is that we do not know what will happen by the end of the decade. What will happen if someone happens to find the ruins they are maintaining is unknown.

We do not know what kind of damage they will cause.

Reconciliation.

It sounds the best, but it is not so easy.

Conflict was successfully avoided in the Kingdom of Elias, but it remains to be seen if it will be so in the future.

<<>> was able to make sense, but it would be overly optimistic to assume that the same would be true for the 10 entities from 1 to 10.

After all, they are . We will see if they will listen to what we say.

If they do not, there is a high possibility of a battle.

If we destroy them, we don't know what kind of negative impact it will have on the remaining < in this world.

Destruction.

It seems to have no after-effects, but it is very risky.

As I said before, we don't know what kind of negative effects it will have on the remaining <> in this world.

"Hmmm, not to be a procrastinator, but what about 10 years from now, when they wake up and go around for maintenance, we can follow them and find out where the remaining ruins are?"

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"How about we keep a close watch on each area and if we find anything that looks like ruins, we'll take more careful measures ......?"

He thought about calling Marikka and having her recognized as his successor, but he hesitated because it was a gamble whether the automata created by the <> would recognize the other factions or not.

"I don't want to put Marikka in danger, ......."

In the end, Jin chose a method that would not put anyone in danger for the time being and would not further damage the <>.

"......We have now, and we don't want to do anything too conspicuous."

As far as Jin is concerned, all he wants is for the world to be peaceful and calm, and for him to be able to do what he wants to do with what he wants to make, but the reality is that he cannot even do that.

In the first place, I wonder if there are people who live by doing what they want to do and what they like to do .

Jin smiled bitterly at such a thought.

* * * *

Deep underground, near a lake that people call .

1: <>?

2. According to them, most of the stolen materials have been recovered.

1:《All right then.》

But there is one new piece of information. Someone who is not from this planet has created and is using a golem equivalent to those three.

1: "Well, that's interesting.

But our mission is to maintain the base.

5. We don't have to do anything other than what we're ordered to do, nor should we.

10:《No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No,No.　< and <2>, unlike us, are allowed some independent judgment.

9: "That's right. But isn't contact with the natives a violation of our rights?

6:《No.》 If they're not from this planet, they can't be called natives.

8：《Yes, indeed. Are they from the same planet as our master?

No, according to the three golems, they're from another planet.

7:《Wow!　That's interesting.

4: "From another planet than our Lord ......, that's interesting indeed.

1:《I think so. I wish the Lord were still here.

2:《Yes indeed. But it's no use talking like that now.

1:《Yes. What we need to do now is what to do with those who are not from this planet.

4. "Are you going to contact them?

1:《No.》 The time we have is longer than that of humans. Let us lie dormant once more, and when we next awaken and hear his name, we will look into it.

I see, that's good.

If <1> and <2> are good, then we have nothing to say against them.

10.

Shall we move to the dormant place then?

5.

Oddly enough, they came to a similar conclusion to that of Jin and the others.

Then, the ten warp gates are activated, and they step into the warp gate in order from the first, and then disappear.

No wonder you could not locate them.

They were not on this planet Ars.

And so, the ten bodies went to sleep for ten years.

* * * *

<.

The old man was trying to somehow locate the base of the 10 < maintenance automata, but he was interrupted by a warp gate.

However, the old man is also a . We will wait for the next opportunity and will not be in a hurry.

He turned his attention to his next target, Lake Aoba in Newell.

>.

The old man was thinking of ranking the importance of the <>.

Among them, the ruins managed by the 10 <> maintenance automata are classified as the most important ...... rank A.

Furthermore, the site where the 10 automata lie dormant should be classified higher, even rank S, but we could not identify the site.

The old man is slightly hoping for something to be gained from the visit.

And then the long-awaited time comes.

On the day that the ten < maintenance automata disappeared from Ars through the warp gate, the magical reactions of the deformed golems completely ceased.

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The 10 Shinobi troops begin to take action.