A super great writer in the second dimension

　He grabbed Ryunosuke Akasaka's arm and steadied him in place.

　"What are you doing?!"

　"Shut up," Sanzenin Arashi whispered, pointing to the roof. "Look there."

　Pretend to be a ghost!

　Ryunosuke Akasaka held back his words and looked up.

　I lie down!

　A handle-shaped object was pointing in this direction, with a round hole at the top.

　A bead of cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

　The world's most advanced defense system!

　Nima!

　This is a multi-barreled submachine gun!

　Sanzenin Arashi sighed and looked at the girl.

　"Mine Riko? What does this mean? Why would you do something like this?"

　Upon hearing this, Mine Riko revealed a slightly sinister smile.

　Just like the cruel expression she wore when she faced off against Aria from the original story on the plane.

　"You were prepared to lock Riko up in this place, weren't you?" The girl tossed her hair. "Although I don't know how you managed to bring Riko here... Confess everything to Riko, won't you?"

　Upon hearing these words, Sanzenin Arashi was suddenly startled.

　This Riko Mine... doesn't know she's an AI. She thinks she's attending Butei High School and then wakes up here?

　That's fucking... damn it!

　..

384. I've taken a detached view of life; I just want to get things done with everyone I meet.

　There are twelve weapons in the entire laboratory.

　These things form a defense system with no blind spots, and can carry out annihilation attacks against intruders.

　Under normal circumstances, it would be the most reassuring thing.

　However, it has now become a Damocles' sword hanging over one's head.

　"What should we do?!" Ryunosuke Akasaka asked in a low voice, his expression extremely tense.

　"Shut up, let me think." Sanzenin Arashi looked at Mine Riko.

　The girl was looking at him at that moment.

　"Tell me quickly, where exactly is this place? Is this an Iraqi base? It looks very heavily defended, what's going on?"

　Swish.

　Twelve machine guns were aimed at Sanzenin Arashi's head.

　Sanzenin Arashi remained silent.

　"Riko discovered this problem after she woke up. Interesting... A device that can project a person's personal consciousness into a program. You are the doctor's people, right? What exactly happened? If you tell the truth, Riko may give you a chance to live."

　Arashi Sanzenin frowned and pondered for a moment, unsure how to tell Riko Mine.

　You are an AI, something we created. Your concept is merely a setting?

　Who knows if those things overhead will open fire at once?

　Moreover... Mine Riko still doesn't know that she doesn't actually exist in this world, but is just a... USB drive.

　The USB drive is her true form, a piece of... code. Even now, she believes she is a member of the behind-the-scenes organization from the original "Aria the Scarlet Ammo" story, and that she has been captured by this organization and is undergoing an experiment.

　If she really found out, she'd probably go crazy, right?

　"Do you...think that Riko wouldn't dare do anything to you?"

　When Mine Riko said those words, Sanzenin Arashi's heart tightened.

　He felt a sound coming from above his head.

　He jumped to the side and rolled to the side.

　boom!

　Large-caliber bullets struck the steel floor, sending sparks flying. Sanzenin Arashi heard at least dozens of ricochets, along with the accompanying wind pressure.

　He looked at the ground, where there was a small crater and a wisp of smoke rising from it.

　"What are you going to do?!"

　"Hehe, not bad, Riko wants to play with you a little longer~"

　Four dark gun barrels were aimed at her. Sanzenin Arashi didn't have time to say anything more, and just kept moving based on her keen intuition.

　After a flash of light, a series of shots rang out as bullets landed behind Sanzenin Arashi, but none of them hit him. Sanzenin Arashi skillfully dodged them, and with the help of the steel structure as cover, he appeared slightly disheveled amidst the ricochets.

　Riko Mine gracefully tossed a strand of hair and chuckled softly. "Not bad, not bad. Riko loves tenacious boys like you the most. What angle should we shoot from next time? Hey, how about letting Riko out?"

　Sanzenin Arashi frowned. "Let you out? I can't do that."

　"Hahahaha!!" Riko Mine laughed loudly, "Then goodbye..."

　Before she could finish speaking, her expression changed.

　Arashi Sanzenin opened a metal cabinet and crawled inside.

　Then... he just slammed the door shut.

　……

　The view was completely dark, and outside, Riko Mine's loud, mocking words could be heard.

　"Come out here, classmate! Riko can do lots of things with you, you know!"

　"You can play with whips, dripping wax, and anything else?"

　"Riko, actually, I like people like you the most, so come out here~"

　Sanzenin Arashi turned a deaf ear.

　He gritted his teeth. "Stop attacking, I'm going out!"

　"Huh? What are you saying, classmate? Riko can't hear you~ Riko can't hear you~"

　Damn it!

　boom!

　Sanzenin Arashi slammed his fist into the metal inner wall, and a sharp pain shot through him.

　"Okay, Riko can stop attacking, but you have to release Riko."

　Sanzenin Arashi pursed her lips and said, "Let me think about it!"

　The gunfire outside the cabinet suddenly stopped.

　This can't go on.

　Akasaka Ryunosuke, you've really gone too far with your suicidal thoughts, damn it!

　No... I need to calm down and think this through.

　Sanzenin Arashi's thoughts raced.

　Find an opportunity to turn off the power?

　It's not that simple.

　...The laboratory had considered the issue of power outages and would automatically switch to a backup power source.

　At that time, the entire laboratory's local area network will be connected to the network of the large facility, and Mine Riko will be able to rule this kingdom effortlessly, just like a queen.

　Remove the projector?

　But that didn't work either...

　Riko's true form is a piece of code, not this projection. That projection is just something nice to look at, like a skin in an input method.

　Sanzenin Arashi examined the interior of the small locker, took out her phone, disconnected the network, and lit a lamp.

　Several computer cases were placed to the side.

　These enclosures are still powered on and maintaining basic operation.

　This locker was originally a place to put computers; it was a server rack.

　These mechanisms are specially manufactured, with rows of sockets already filled with plugs.

　Sanzenin Arashi put her hands in her pockets, biting her lip, feeling extremely frustrated.

　……

　"I'll come out, I'll let you out, just don't kill me!"

　Sanzenin Arashi's voice came from inside the cabinet.

　"Sure, you have to let Riko out, and then Riko will teach you lots of fun things~"

　In the original work, Mine Riko is portrayed as such a cunning and scheming woman.

　And... she's practically a little devil.

　'She won't kill me if I go out,' Sanzenin Arashi thought quickly.

　'Because she had no idea about her situation; she simply believed this was an ISIS laboratory.'

　Besides, she needs my help; it's a relationship of exploitation, I'm useful to her.

　'I want to...unplug her USB drive.'

　Thinking of this, Sanzenin Arashi pushed open the door.

　"Don't kill me." He pretended to be very scared, waving his hand and looking helpless.

　"That's great." The girl not far away smiled with satisfaction and even lifted her skirt towards Sanzenin Arashi.

　“Yes, I will release you.” Sanzenin Arashi smiled and slowly walked to the control panel.

　This console has several extra-large USB flash drive ports.

　He looked around and noticed a large mainframe computer on the other side of the glass wall in the middle of the laboratory.

　A large USB flash drive was plugged into the computer.

　Sanzenin Arashi widened her eyes.

　This……

　"Don't try to do anything bad," Mine Riko reminded him with a smile.

　Taking a deep breath, Sanzenin Arashi closed her eyes and pretended to operate the control panel, which Riko couldn't see from this angle.

　Final thoughts.

　A moment later, he opened his eyes and looked at the USB port.

　He suddenly burst out laughing.

　"I don't care what you say!"

　Sanzenin Arashi sneered, then suddenly pulled something out of his pocket and slammed it into the USB drive's port.

　The extra-large USB drive has the words "Sanae" written on it.

　..

385. Daddy~ Daddy plays games with Sanae~

　"Come out, Sanae!"

　Green light flashes!