Chapter 27: The dedication to do bad

The Bavarian Illuminati were the true masterminds behind the second and third season bosses. While they outwardly dealt with the girls, their ultimate goal was to use alchemy to control the world. Their leader and founder, Adam Weishaupt, is a demon who has survived since the era of the Custodian.

He desires world domination, but the Custodian, his creator, was more powerful. After the Custodian's departure, Enki created the Curse of Balal, preventing Weishaupt from achieving his aims. Therefore, he sought to break the curse and absorb divine power to wipe out humanity.

Ironically, the moment he breaks the Curse of Balal, Shen-ha will achieve full power. Even if her physical body is destroyed, she will instantly revive and kill him. However, knowing him, he's likely unaware of this. As for my current situation, I was inside a room where a president was supposed to be.

He was the president of an ASEAN country, targeted because of his corruption. I've already eliminated several corrupt politicians and high-ranking officials within ASEAN. I also intend to go to Africa, as the Bavarian Illuminati are active there and S.O.N.G. has a mission there due to deals made with certain leaders.

Come to think of it, my motivation for all this stems from absorbing their souls to fuel the Philosopher's Stone, which requires human souls. Why not use these corrupt individuals? However, even if I succeed, it doesn't guarantee a better world. The sudden loss of politicians, officials, and even a president could plunge a country into chaos.

Yet, based on my experiences in my previous life, this outcome is preferable to allowing these corrupt individuals to remain in power and spread their influence. Perhaps I'm being hypocritical, but using my ninja techniques and the Morgan relic carries the risk of being identified. Therefore, the one who carried out the deed was a clone.

Since I can transfer my consciousness to the clone, it was a perfect opportunity to experience killing for the first time. Strangely, I felt no nausea, despite my aversion to gore and blood in my past life. This raises the question: is it because my new body is different, resulting in a stronger mental fortitude? Or is it because this body is a clone, and I don't truly feel the act?

Ultimately, I didn't dwell on it further. I need more lives to reach the desired performance level. Thousands, perhaps more, will likely die before I'm satisfied. There's also the possibility that the power won't be sufficient for the girls to achieve their Amalgam forms, especially since there are ten of us instead of the original six.

I'm also curious about the Amalgam forms of Miku, Kanade, and Serena. They died in the original world, and in parallel worlds, the Bavarian Illuminati don't exist, meaning the Philosopher's Stone was never created, and they never attained their Amalgam forms.

I've often wondered what an Aegis Amalgam form would look like. Or a Holy Grail Amalgam form? What about a duo relic Amalgam form using both the Aegis and Holy Grail? As far as I know, there isn't an Amalgam form for duo relics. There isn't even a duo relic form of the Ignite module, though I somehow managed to achieve it. The only other form of duo relic is an X-drive form, and if I remember correctly, Hibiki is the only one who managed to achieve that.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if this is the first time I've killed someone. To be honest, I don't feel anything from my first kill, even with blood dripping from my hand. This is clearly different from my past life, where I couldn't stand any gore. Even seeing blood would make me uncomfortable. A little blood was fine, but if there was more than a glassful, I'd start to feel nauseous.

Honestly, I've probably killed a lot of people. If my mental state is okay even after killing so many people now, I wouldn't be surprised if I'd killed a lot of people before. If it was a world with only two Symphogear users facing Karma-Noise, the world would already be doomed, which tends to reveal people's true nature.

While there are good people at heart, the same goes for bad people. The only way I can think of to survive in that kind of world while protecting the girls is murder. So at this point, adding more murders is fine by me. Besides, just because I'm killing bad people doesn't mean the world will become a better place.

After all, even while corrupt, they are still the top leaders of their country, and suddenly cutting off their leader doesn't mean things will improve. I just hope whoever replaces them cares about the people below them. Sometimes, for a good person to be a leader, they need to do bad things, like kill a few to save many. To be fair, that's alright, since they're still normal humans.

Thinking like that, I slowly sneak up on another corrupt official. Seriously, sometimes it takes a lot to take care of the bad guys. You reap what you sow, I guess.

I slowly glance at the crystal, which is still dripping with fresh blood. It's a pity, I guess, since I'm somehow starting to enjoy it...

Looks like I'm broken if I'm starting to enjoy slaughter, even if it's of bad people. But I've already prepared for this. If it's to give the girls a good ending, I won't care if I have blood on my hands. So I start to fly back to Fine. This is a secret that only the two of us know.

Though now that I think about it, I should have used Garie's method. Killing them like this feels inefficient, as there's blood everywhere. But doing it her way requires me to do kissing and other naughty stuff, since her way is kind of like how succubi from my past life do it, which is called life drain.

Somehow, I feel like I can do it, but I also feel like if I did, I'd fall in a way that I know from a lot of the hentai stuff I read in my past life. While thinking about all of this, I've arrived at one of Fine's former research labs that she hid and never mentioned to S.O.N.G., which surprises me. Though, remembering Fine, this somehow makes sense.

"Oh, you're back."

Fine greeted me slowly with a hug. Somehow, knowing that I was a daughter of her and Enki from a parallel world, she started to see me as her child as well, which surprised me. Though I won't judge, since she has lived for more than millennia, I wouldn't be surprised if she wanted a child that was completely hers. But I wonder if even a parallel one still counts?

"Fine, here's the sample."

"Mei, I told you, when we're alone, call me Mom."

"Hah... while indeed I am your child, that is a parallel version of you. Besides, why have you become so bold recently?"

"Well, my daughter is doing some dangerous stuff, so in the end, I started to not think about other small stuff and try to protect her instead."

"What about Enki?"

"Fufufufufu, knowing him, he will accept you with open arms if he knows about you being his daughter from another parallel world."

Hearing her say that, I just let out a sigh. While it was indeed my doing that she still lived, who would have thought that she is one of those types who like to spoil their children? But somehow, I feel like Enki was the same too. Since they are from different races, they have no child, which just makes me think about my parents in this universe. Like, how do they do it?

In the end, I gave three heart-shaped crystals to Fine while slowly walking outside, only to meet Carol, which reminded me that her term was over because she was one of the girls who had info about the Bavarian Illuminati. Well, thanks to her, the members got revealed pretty early compared to the anime.

"What?"

"Nothing, still never thought that you would work under Fine. I thought you wanted to work with Elfnein, since while she is your creation in a sense, she is like your sister."

"Tch... that place's happy-go-lucky aura doesn't fit me."

"Ahahahaha, you're right about that, but they will be the ones that stand by your side when needed the most."

I patted Carol's head before slowly walking toward the secret exit, but then Carol's voice stopped me.

"Are you fine after killing so many people?"

"Oh, a surprise from Carol. But yeah, I'm fine, and just like I told you before, if it is to protect those girls and make them shine brighter, I will gladly sacrifice everything, even my soul."

While I don't know what Carol's reaction to my words was, I continued to walk outside before transforming and going to my dorm. But yeah, while the clone is perfect, I never thought that when infused with the Morgan relic, it would really become like Naruto's shadow-clone jutsu, where when the clone disappeared, all the knowledge and feeling was transferred to the main one.

Well, thanks to that, I haven't gotten found out by the girls and others, but maybe I was going a bit too far, since now there is news about my actions, which is giving Genjuro a headache.

"We're stretched incredibly thin right now, and now the UN is requesting we investigate the serial murder of the politician who was also the president of Southeast Asia, killed in the last few weeks."

"Is it the Bavarian Illuminati?"

"No, based on the scene evidence, I don't think it was them. But, at the same time, they believe it was something no regular human could create, as the killer bypassed all security measures, even the infrared."

Well, that was a tough one, I tell you. I was pretending to think, but somehow I felt like Genjuro was gazing at me for a minute before slowly shaking his head. Still, that alone tells me he has a suspicion toward me, which, to be fair, when you go on a killing spree, certain habits start to appear.

While I don't know what that habit is, Genjuro is somehow starting to link it to me. Well, good thing he doesn't have any proof. Still, this just gives me a sense of dread because that means unless I'm prepared to face the consequences, which I think should be after the main story is finished, I have to forbid myself from using clones far away from me.

Since, so far, I've made them think I can only use clones near me, and because that is how Shinji's technique originally works, they trust it. But it's not bad to be overcautious, so I was making it look that way, and since it works, I will set it aside for now.

Besides, while the explosion inside the Treasure of Babylon did wipe out most of the Noise, there is still some left. Well, that was expected because the Nephilim are different from the anime. When he explodes, only a small part of him is left, compared to the anime, where his whole body still exists.

But because the Solomon's Cane was inside that space, the normal Noise spawn is now really random. But luckily, when the portal opened, it left a huge amount of energy that can be read, so far there is only a minimum amount of damage has been done though when I catch the gate I want to enter and retrieve the Solomon's Cane just in case.

Since that space is special after all, while it does contain Noise, it also contains a copy of every relic known to man, even the fantasy ones, though I don't know if that information is true or not since I only watched the anime and never really went to the game. While the wiki does provide a lot of knowledge of the game, most of the time, it barely contains any story of what happened.

Well, if it works like the Gate of Babylonia in Fate, then it will be awesome and explain why there is so much Noise inside that space since if all copies of relics are inside of it and just left as is, then the amount of energy produced will be a lot that I won't be surprised if every second there is a Noise spawn there.

Wait, I wonder if that is the reason in the anime they decided to straight up destroy that space using the Nephilim who is about to self-explode?

Well, for a writer, that's probably the easy way to wipe out Noise since if it doesn't wipe out Noise, then the decision the girls make in the end, which is to give up their Symphogear crystals, will be useless since Noise will still appear all over the world.

Besides that, there's a plot hole. The anime explains that normal weapons don't work against Noise, so how hasn't the world been wiped out? Most of the Symphogear users are in Japan, and while Maria, Shirabe, Kirika, and Chris were initially from outside Japan, they later mainly stayed there. So, the world should have been overrun.

Maybe that's why the early creators decided to eliminate the normal Noise...

Well, my mind has wandered from what I should be focusing on, but at least my expression shouldn't make Genjuro suspicious. In case he is, I should keep my clone visible near him while I continue killing.

While the philosopher's stone we have is enough, I'll have Fine and Carol make more. I need to be prepared for anything that might go wrong, since things have already diverged so much from the anime that I'm essentially going in blind.