“Wait, this is actually pretty cool...!”
Seeing Doctor Babylon’s garden diorama up in the lab, I couldn’t help but be amazed. Brunhild’s castle town was perfectly recreated—the only thing missing was the townspeople. Well, there were people, but the vibrancy of the real thing was missing. I wasn’t sure why—maybe they were holograms—but they looked like actors in a black-and-white film.
“There can be issues if you make things too realistic. Though if I’m honest, I just didn’t have the time to get around to it. Thinking about how long it would take to put in the data for each individual civilian gives me a headache.”
I could imagine, and really, I wasn’t going to ask her to do that much for something that was only intended to be a children’s training exercise. Color aside, the townspeople were walking around the town and having fun, just like the real deal. As fake as they might have been, it was easy to mistake them for actual living human beings.
“What kind of training are you even going to make them do here?” I asked the girls.
“We thought up a lot of scenarios, but we feel it might be best to teach them restraint,” Linze said.
“Restraint?”
At my confusion, Linze and Yumina both started explaining.
“Their power is not the same as a regular person’s, so they need to learn how to hold back.”
“If they go too far against a monster, the most they’ll do is render parts unusable, but if they were to accidentally go too far against a human, then the result could be much worse.”
“Oh...”
I understood what they meant now. Our kids were definitely strong, but one wrong step and things could go very wrong very fast.
If it were against criminals who had committed heavy crimes, like bandits or raiders who would plunder and slaughter, I didn’t personally think they needed to hold back—but then what if they accidentally killed someone who had committed only a minor offense like running off with someone’s stuff or leaving a restaurant without paying? We had healing magic in this world, so as long as they didn’t die, we could do something about it—ignoring the fact that the medical fees could be pretty high, that is. But that still didn’t make it okay for them to go all out.
“I see. So you want to teach them how to arrest criminals?”
Hilde nodded in understanding.
“I think Yakumo would be able to disarm an opponent with the back of her sword, I do... Or, wait, perhaps she would end up breaking their bones, she would...”
Yae simply frowned at her inability to find a defense for her daughter.
“Linne could most likely apprehend them with [Gravity], but...I can also see her putting too much force on them and squishing them...”
“Steph too, even though I think she could use [Accel] for more than just tackling people...”
Linze and Sue both looked just as conflicted as Yae did. Theirs were certainly the kids that seemed the least likely to be able to control their strength.
“If they’re learning how to capture criminals, do their outfits have something special installed?” I asked.
“Beyond the cognition disruption, the clothes themselves also have slash resistance, blunt resistance, heat resistance, cold resistance, and magic resistance. Oh, and also has an effect that lets your body feel lighter. As for the staff...”
Doc Babylon took a short pastel pink staff and pushed it into Tica. A small noise was emitted, and a ring of light captured the gynoid.
“Master?”
“As you can see, you can also capture people like this. You do have to be able to touch them, though, so if the target is moving, they might easily escape your grasp. It means it becomes necessary to immobilize them first.”
Damn, that seemed like it would be great for our patrolling knights to have on hand. It could become a replacement for handcuffs.
“You can also hold the perpetrator up against the wall and use it, and it’ll secure them there.”
A second ring of light wrapped around Tica and attached her to the wall.
That’s useful.
She tried to escape, but she couldn’t budge an inch.
“Master, why are you capturing me?”
“Because we’re about to go visit the kids. Dangerous creeps need to be secured.”
“You set me up!”
Tica began wildly moving her head back and forth to try to escape.
Jeez, she’s desperate.
No wonder Doc Babylon set her up like she did. Weren’t the Sisters developed using fragments of her personality, though? Wouldn’t that mean she was just as bad deep down...?