D-Genesis: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 14] by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Nouveau Mare, B2

“Hm?”

A loud clanging sound echoed from the other side of the second floor.

“That’ll be the JSDF opening the gate,” Miyoshi answered. “Raid time.”

“Then it’s time for us to go”

“Hold on. We still have a little time. I don’t know what kind of gear they’re bringing, but it’s not like they’re going to start firing missiles.”

“I don’t know. If I were in charge, I might just try that and hope it worked.” Was a situation like this time for military command to play it cool?

“And it’d be your head on the chopping block when it didn’t and you just wound up with more cleaners.”

Right, the improbability of responsibility in an all-or-nothing plan. Rather, the people with responsibility wouldn’t adopt such plans in the first place. All-or-nothing risks with no mitigation were the province of gambling addicts, those with self-destructive tendencies, and people who just plain didn’t think things through, not JSDF COs. I guess that made me...

“Someone who doesn’t think things through?” I mumbled.

“What are you talking about?”

“Never mind.”

“Anyway, up next is the resistance test you were so gung-ho for earlier!”

“‘Gung-ho’?”

“Anyway, we can’t go slicing them all into seven-cubic-centimeter chunks here in Yokohama.”

Even if one used explosives, cleaners at the blast’s edges would simply regenerate. In addition, the second floor was a parking garage. Pillars here and there, rendered indestructible along with the rest of the dungeon, would shield some monsters from the blasts.

As long as each blast destroyed more cleaners than regenerated, maybe their numbers would still go down over time. But with mistakes carrying such a high cost, it didn’t seem like a tack anyone in the JSDF was likely to approve.

“We’re still expecting that they’re weak to fire, right?”

“Well, it doesn’t seem like they’re weak to drowning.” Miyoshi pointed to a cleaner sitting leisurely in a tank of water.

“Even though they don’t have gills.”

“Weird. I guess they don’t need oxygen to produce energy? What a strange living organism.”

“Monsters don’t eat or reproduce. Is it even correct to call them ‘living organisms’?”

“These ones reproduce,” Miyoshi responded, pointing to the cleaner again.

“Okay, but then do they metaboliz—oh.” Converting other substances into D-Factors was definitely a form of metabolism. “Okay, then just these guys are living creatures.”

The definition of a living organism was simple. It had to be an individual life-form, had to possess metabolic functions, and had to be able to reproduce. That was everything. Although, to be fair, the exact definition was still a subject of debate.

“I couldn’t put any monsters into Storage, remember?”

“If Storability determines living-organism status, there are a few indisputable animals we might have to count out.”

If that was how we drew the line, then call the biology textbook publishers, because crickets and fish weren’t organisms.

“Whatever,” Miyoshi retorted. “Burn time.” She began pouring something that looked like lighter fuel over a cleaner in another tank.

“Hold on, isn’t that going to melt the plastic?” I asked.

Miyoshi lowered her shoulders, pained expression on her face. “You’re telling me. See, I wanted to use an oil drum, but.

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