Chapter 61 - Tying Up Loose Knot

Standing on top of a skyscraper overlooking a desolated city, Adam stares indifferently at the underground city, one of the three remaining cities of the United States of America.

"The preparation is ready, Master. It's time to make the announcement." Agent appeared from behind him and informed him of the progress.

"Good. I'll do it now." Adam turned his head to her and nodded before turning back to the city as the look of disgust returned.

"You are connected right… now!" Agent hacked into the whole Earth through Orbital Fortress.

Adam stares at the drone that floats in front of him, knowing it's the camera.

"People of this Earth. I will be as brief as possible. I am extremely disappointed and angered by the treatment of the Cursed Children. Know that now your time has run out and you are given two choices. Kill yourself and spare yourself from this hell or live to witness the hell that will soon unfold." Adam spoke solemnly and snapped his finger as multiple holographic images showed up of the army of mechs accompanied by a group of first batch Cursed Children from Remnant. They appeared on every single surviving civilization on this Earth. "To all Cursed Children, I will open my invitation to every single one of you a ticket to a new world. A world free of Gastrea. A world free of discrimination. A world where all of you will live as a proper human instead of tools, weapons and lab rats to this rotten humanity."

His voice literally echoes through the world. Drones, mechs and his people scour every inch of the ruined world, every single stone is flipped and none left untouched to find every Cursed Children. He will save all of them and he will do it even if he has to exterminate the remnants of the governments and people in power that are definitely opposing his goal since Ad is threatening their position and hegemony.

Indeed, not long after. Just a few minutes later, he received numerous notifications from his forces all across this Earth that his Mechs and people are being attacked and labeled terrorists. Even this very city he is overlooking. The army deployed on top immediately engaged the Mechs army that were trying to rescue the Cursed Children inside the city.

"Mark all the hostile cities." Adam ordered.

Agent nod and relay the command to her other body onboard the Orbital Fortress.

"Planetary Bombardment is ready, Master." Agent bowed solemnly, holding back a wicked grin as Adam became more and more like the Master she envisioned to serve.

"Destroy all their military assets." Adam gave the order.

Crippling their expensive jets, Heli, tanks, etc. Their military forces will be reduced to nothing. Their guns are nothing against his Mechs. What they have left is just the Civil Servant, the Promoter, Cursed Children that are used mostly as tools, as sacrifices to keep the already dying civilization alive like a stubborn disease.

Like shooting stars, numerous streaks of lights fall from the sky and target the military assets of the remaining nations that dare oppose him like this underground city of Washington state. The entire military forces on top of the underground city were glassed by the tactical fusion nuke. The entire top was reduced to nothing but burning and scorching slags.

The Mechs army marched into the underground city unaffected by the devastation and disabled what remaining military forces in the city while the Cursed Children are being saved by the girls that Adam specially asked to participate since they will be trusted way easier by the Cursed Children they will be saving. The same occurs all across the world.

Of course, it didn't go as smoothly as some were like the HYBRID of Ayn Rand, they were Cursed Children either Indoctrinated or made to serve their Master regardless of their true will. For them, Adam tries to save them but if they are beyond saving, they will be put down either by him or by his Servants that can use a Quantum Teleportation device on board the Orbital Fortress to move around Earth with near instantaneous speed.

Unexpectedly, the problem popped up that was different from what he expected. Adam sort of forgot about the main cast of Black Bullet series. The protagonists of this world, Satomi Rentaro and Aihara Enju.

"So, the protagonist buff is real…" Adam mutters with great curiosity at how the MC of this world is able to seemingly fight against overwhelming odds and emerge victorious. Folding his Mechs, Cursed Children with Aura and a heaven defying luck to survive tactical nuke blast. If that's not Plot Armor, Adam has no other idea to identify it.

Agent sees Adam's expression and knows what he was about to do next. She felt it was unnecessary for someone in his position to dirty himself for something this trivial.

"Master, may I try to shoot him down with beam cannons?" Agent suggested but Adam immediately shot it down.

"No need." He said while shaking his head. "I will take care of it myself." Adam replied and vanished from the roof.

The reason why this happens, Adam already has his guess. He didn't know why his interference was allowed towards the world. But he is no different to the Outer God if he tried to significantly change the world like what he is doing right now. What he did is no different than dooming the world, this universe by taking away the ability of humanity to resist the Gastrea for the sake of the Cursed Children's happiness. His action is killing this universe and Satomi Rentaro and Aihara Enju are perhaps a retaliation or a dying struggle of the universe to preserve itself.

Anyway. Basically, to defeat the Chosen One of this world and this universe. Everything is useless against its plot armor. Even if Adam throws Rentaro into the sun, he's gonna survive through whatever bullshit the Universe can fabricate.

So, are we fucked? Is Adam fucked? No. He isn't gay. So what if the Universe is gonna give Rentaro bullshit plot armor? He can just nullify it. Whatever reality bending bullshit the Universe tries to pull, it won't work on Adam who is immune to any of those effects.

Adam reappeared on the outer edge of Tokyo. His arrival was immediately noticed by those on his side. Namely Tanya and the girls. The other side also noticed him and were stunned because a moment ago he was still in America, a whole nother continent. Then the next second he is in Tokyo, Japan.

"Are you alright, Tina?" He asked Tina who is filled with bruises and scrapes. Nothing too serious but Adam fixed it in an instant using his skill before he ruffled her hair. Tina blushed and her serious persona immediately crumbled like a sand castle to a wave.

"I am fine, Nii-san. But Lilia, Lili, Lyvia, Chole and Saffi need treatment. They were injured by that ruthless man." Tina glared venomously at the masked man in red tailcoat suit, Kagetane Hiruko and the deceivingly cute but stabby happy psychopath loli.

Adam turned to look at the mentioned girls which were brought before him by other concerned girls. Their state is indeed not good. They were either full of stab wounds or suffered severe internal injury like ruptured rib cage or spine.

Like before, he simply uses his Medic skill, the Advance one and heals them up mostly. He could only heal the physical injury. The shock or concussion is beyond the ability of his healing skills.

"Let them rest. They will be alright after that." Adam said to those worried girls and gave each of them a headpat before he sent them away.

Then Adam turns to the Civil Securities of Tokyo and the soldiers who are staring at him like he is an alien. The battle was interrupted by his arrival and had been like that till now. No one dared to restart the losing battle and hoped they could simply negotiate their way out instead after they had tasted how hard the steel plate they were kicking at right now.

However, not everyone is logical and rational. Especially the main character. They were usually the craziest daredevils that have the plot armor hard carrying their life expectancy.

"You! Who are you! Why are you attacking a fellow human? What are you trying to gain from this insanity?" Rentaro pointed his finger at Adam, demanding an answer with his blazing righteous fury.

"Me? I was simply doing the right thing. To save the oppressed Cursed Children that this world does not deserve." Adam replied and a look of surprise appeared on Rentaro's face.

"To save the Cursed Children? Are you saying that all those needless deaths are all for the sake of saving the Cursed Children?"

"Indeed. I asked 'nicely' but it's your rotten government that started this needless battle. If there's anyone you need to blame, blame it on those rotten politicians." Adam said which caused a temporary silence before an explosion of murmurs spread across their ranks. It's not difficult to see the truth in his worlds. Definitely not after he hacked every single electronic device down to the coffee maker machine to spread his worlds.

The captain of the soldiers received a sudden order through his earpiece and his face became stern. "Don't listen to the lies of a terrorist! Soldiers! Kill him!" The captain roared before leading a charge to attack and the Mechs retaliated immediately. His action undoubtedly reignited the temporarily paused battle and those unwilling to fight were forced to because they cannot disobey the government. They were stuck with enemies at the front and death if they dare to retreat because it counted as desertion.

Moved by the invisible hands of the corrupt politicians, they were merely the pawns on the chessboard. Adam didn't need to do anything as the Mechs and girls took care of the Civil Securities and the military meanwhile Adam was still stuck in a three way staring match between him, Rentaro and Kagetane.

Rentaro is having an internal struggle. He couldn't deny what Adam said. But he is bound by not just duty but his loyalty too to stop Adam's attack on Tokyo. The situation is solvable actually but he could only curse on the fate he is just a low rank nobody without any influence on this battlefield. If he is the commander, he could at least prevent any more unnecessary deaths and just give Adam what he wanted. But he is unfortunately stuck on following order only, order of the corrupt politicians that are willing to continue this pointless bloodshed.

The unexpected developments were when Kagetane approached Adam and bowed slightly as a greeting before explaining that he and Adam share the same goal of trying to save the Cursed Children. Though, how true the claim was will remain unknown with his dubious and morally questionable actions in the past. But Kagetane was passionate about joining Adam and joining his crusade against the rotten humanity and saving the Cursed Children.

Seeing that a powerful person like Kagetane jumped ship, the Civil Securities hesitated. Most of them aren't idiots and definitely invested in him after he crashed the Civil Security meeting about the Legacy of the Seven Stars.

Hiruko Kagetane is not just the former IP Rank 134, but also members of the now defunct JSDF from the Gastrea War, a war veteran of a war with sky high mortality rates near 99% and become chosen as candidates for New Human Creation Plan which select only the best of the best to create a monster of their own to combat the Gastrea.

Someone as legendary as that, jumped ship and now opposes them. Those who know how fucked they are, had already fled the battlefield, execution be damned. Not like the government will live to see another day with enemies like this. Why should they fear the punishment then?

Seeing how their forces are crumbling, the Defender of Tokyo slowly falters. Authority loses its grasp on the people and the onsite commander losing his mind screaming execution for the deserters isn't helping to maintain the Authority of the government.

Seeing this, Adam decided to act. He is against senseless murder. His objective is only to save the Cursed Children. But if the government wants to stand in his way then so be it. He was never afraid of battle.

"To those unwilling to fight for your corrupted government can leave. Do not worry, I assure you they will not live to see the next daylight. I will personally crush them and anyone standing between me and saving the Cursed Children." Adam made his statement clear and those that still want to fight are in for a delightful surprise.

"What about you, Satomi-kun?" Kagetane suddenly stepped forward to talk with Rentaro who was torn between his duty and his conscience. "His goal is only to save the Cursed Children. Something you also aspired to do. Are you going to stop us or the corrupt politicians that advocate the Cursed Children's suffering?"

Rentaro was in great confusion. He couldn't decide. He knows what Adam is doing is good. But something in his head said, whispering that he is evil. What he was doing was evil. His actions will ruin the world, doom the whole humanity. Like a ghost, those whispering voices possessed him.

"No… Even if what he's doing is good. Doesn't mean it's right. He is saving those Cursed Children. But he will doom other innocent people to death! Without the Cursed Children, how are we going to fight against Gastrea?!" Rentaro said with rising hostility.

"Hmn. So, you are saying that even though you hate the exploration of the Cursed Children. You were advocating it because it's necessary? For what? For these so-called innocent people who turn blind eyes on their true defenders?"

"You disappoint me, Satomi Rentaro. You are no different than those rotten politicians. No, you are even worse. They at least were fully rotten as human beings. You. You! Still have virtue and righteousness but it was twisted." Kagetane pulled out his double black and silver Custom Beretta pistols and charged into battle against Rentaro. His daughter, Kohina grinned creepily and chased after her prey, Enju.

"Somehow, I feel like my presence wasn't needed here." Adam mutters as the situation sort of resolved itself.

"That's not true. We feel very happy to have Nii-san/father to lead us!" Tina and the girls said after sneaking up behind him.

"Do you all really need my help?" Adam frowned as he looked at what remained of the Civil Securities and soldiers. None of them look like a threat for Tina and the girls.

"Yes!" They replied determinedly and even holding his arms, afraid he might leave.

"I guess… I would?" Adam sighed and relent to their wish. Besides, it might be best for him to stay around in case the Universe tried to pull a fast one on him.

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