Wise Wise Human
"Damn, why I cannot find it?"
Two hours had already passed since the start of the experiment, and I began to feel a little impatient as I could not find the guard's head at all.
"Hey, where's the head? You look for it too!"
"I know, I know! But the clone may have already found it."
"What? Are you going to take part in the robots?"
"Oh, no. I'm sure the murderer wants the clone to win, so possibly he's giving hints or something like that to clones only."
"Damn! I'll kill all the clones myself if I have to."
That was Hisashi Ōnuma, who was in the same class as me and in the karate club. The other is probably a middle school student.
"Huh? Hey, Shūhei. You shouldn't just stand there, either. You should be looking for it too!"
Ōnuma punched the wall right next to the middle school student with all his power.
"I’m going to kill anyone who loses the will to look for it."
Ōnuma glared at me, then at the middle school student. The hatred, or rather fear, was clearly directed at us. Me and the middle schooler left the place at the same time.
"We don't have to fight. Keep on killing indiscriminately, that's exactly what the killers want."
"Argh!"
As I was quietly walking down the hallway alone, I heard someone yelling.
When I turned around, a male student, who appeared to be a middle school student, came out of a nearby classroom wielding a knife toward a single clone.
The clone remained expressionless and dodging every middle-schooler's sword strikes and punched one in the stomach.
"Ou…"
After making sure the middle schooler was down, the clone now took the knife and approached me.
I quickly braced myself, but the clone quickly took my back.
"Oh, no…!"
But the clones just kept moving away from me.
"The clone has no intention of fighting… maybe this time it's just a treasure hunt, so as long as it doesn't take orders from Anzai, it'll be fine."
I saw a middle school student passed out in front of me.
"Still, I can't believe that it can instantly thrust into a knife-wielding student. Is the real body of that clone a member of any martial arts club or something? But that face and body looked like he isn't talented in playing sports. So… does that mean the clones themselves are becoming self-aware and evolving? If they continue to evolve, it will really become what was the culprit's saying... sin, synchirality? Anyway, the only way to stop that evolution is for us humans to show the clones what we can do. To do so, we must emphasize that the humans are better than the current clones. So..."
"Oh, Shūhei. Did you find anything?"
Someone interrupted my words.
"Kazuhiro, Keisuke."
"What happened to that student? Did he hit his head?"
Keisuke saw the middle school student lying on the floor.
"No the clone did it."
"What, do the clones attack us?"
"No, it seems like this student attacked the clone because he thought that by reducing the number of clones, we humans would have a better chance of finding the head."
Kazuhiro turned his cold gaze on the middle school student as if he were ridiculing him.
"Oh, and also it seems like the clones are beginning to develop one's self."
"You mean the clones have developed a unique way of thinking that is different from the originals?"
Kazuhiro accurately read my poorly worded guess.
"Yes."
"Then, if we don't wrap this up soon, we're going to get wiped out."
Kazuhiro looked as if he had seen where this was going with just my speculation.
"Yeah, so I think the key from now on will be to make effective use of our unique wisdom, common sense, and experience."
"Well, that's a very clever thing for you to say. I am impressed."
"Oh, thank you."
I was not sure whether I should be honestly happy or not.
"Then, let's use that theory to win."
"Bzzz."
Kazuhiro's smiling face hardened as soon as we heard that sound.
"I would like to give a status report, but no one is dead yet. This is not a valid experiment to prove that humans are evil, so we have a powerful helpers here! I have invited the relatives of all of you who are still alive to the school grounds. They too are manipulated by the frequency I have invented. They will sabotage you all. The only way to stop them is to kill them or make them immobile. At first glance, this may seem simple, but here is a warning, so listen carefully. They have greatly improved their ability to think with my frequency. They also think the clones are the real and try to help them. That means your relatives will going to impart human-like wisdom to the clones. Until then, it has only been the outward appearance and the physical body, but the results of this experiment will prove that wisdom can also be created artificially. Well then, good luck to you all."
The voice from the broadcast room was a bit hyped up, as if he was enjoying the situation.
"I wonder if this is finally the end of us…"
Kazuhiro blurted out.
