Nido Tensei Shita Shounen wa S-rank Boukensha Toshite Heion ni Sugosu ~ Zense ga Kenja de Eiyūdatta

Chapter 111 or Idle Talk: The Daily Life of a Fortress

My name is Defense System No. 1029.

I am in charge of protecting the interior of Dragonia’s fortress. Until recently, I was not functioning, but I was restarted the other day, so I resumed my work.

I was really surprised. When I restarted, there were demons all over the fortress. I quickly exterminated every single one of them.

So now the fortress is peaceful, but I’m a little bored. There are no humans in the base, and we’ve already exterminated the demons.

Well, occasionally a group of adventurers comes by, so I guide them to the depths of the fortress and then charge them before taking them all out.

“Gwaaaah!”

“What?! This fortress is already non-functional, gwaah!”

Yes, the usual lines. Seriously, you guys should be more cautious. These demons are much weaker compared to before the shutdown. What’s up with them?

By the way, I noticed that our defense tactics were changed to lure the enemy inside and then defeat them. I wonder if that’s a good strategy for a fortress defense system.

…Well, whatever. It’s probably the policy of the humans who restarted us. But those humans have already left somewhere.

“But you know, the inside of the fortress has become quite lively.”

That’s what Defense System No. 489, who is just like me, said.

“Well, there are no humans or demons around.”

Rather, it has become quiet, hasn’t it?

“But instead, our comrades have become noisy.”

Ah, I see. Yeah, well, I also kind of thought that deep down.

Somehow, we have become capable of “thinking.” We are magic items, so we have the ability to calculate and understand commands.

But, we didn’t have the function to “think” about things unrelated to our work. Tools don’t need such a function, I thought.

Of course, I didn’t think of other magic items as comrades. In fact, we shouldn’t even be having conversations.

But I understand the reason. It’s because the control system that oversees this fortress, the one that we are connected to, suddenly became intelligent. We probably improved our functions by replacing old parts or something when the fortress was restarted.

Our boss became smarter, so we, who are connected to him, also became smarter. I think this fortress is being used as an experimental ground for the latest unmanned fortress.

Our boss used to shout, “Kill them all!” but now he’s like a clever thief, a completely different person.

“Listen up, guys. When attacking enemies, corner them in a dead end so they can’t escape. It’s also good to accidentally hit our allies and provoke friendly fire.”

Well, causing friendly fire and having our comrades kill each other is just cruel.

I wonder how our boss became such an intelligent thief. How high-performance magic items were installed?

Could it be? Is this fortress being used as a testing ground for the latest unmanned fortress?

It seems like the highest authority of the fortress has also changed, so maybe that’s the case? Well, the previous authority was so defective that it wouldn’t be strange if they were replaced.

Maybe the reason I’m making such an outrageous “guess” is because our calculation abilities have increased.

So that’s why we have become strangely more efficient, but recently the demons seem to be more cautious and hardly show up.

Maybe I got a little too excited and hunted too much. Thanks to that, it’s boring now.

But we are magic items. If there’s no work, we just go into sleep mode and wait until enemies come.

“Well, goodnight.”

“Goodnight.”

Well then, I wonder when the next enemy will invade.