== Bioloid Detailed Analysis Report ==
[Basic Information]
Unique Name: Laika
Model Name: Angela TYPE-15 (Manufactured by Halo Company)
Role: Frontline Assault Type (Defense Specialized)
Phase Resonance Rate with Commander: 29%
[Key Stats]
– Durability: B+ / A
– Strength: C / B+
– Agility: D / C
– Phase Sensitivity: B- / S
– Combat Proficiency (Overall): D+ / B+
* Shield Operation: B / A+
* Melee Strike (Shield): C- / B
* Tactical Judgment: D / C+
– Synchronization Rate (Main Weapon: Training Shield): 88%
[Key Components]
– Skeletal Frame: HALO-15
– Sensor Unit: Delicacion (Sensitive Type)
– Core: AT-10
– Phase Resonance Circuit: Red No. 3 & Blue No. 1
– Skill Module Slot 1: Lv.1
– Skill Module Slot 2: Empty
– Skill Module Slot 3: Empty
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……These are Laika’s stats.
Again, they were both impressive and critically severe.
To elaborate, the potential of her key stats is high, but they haven’t been developed at all.
Her combat proficiency, in particular, suggests nothing but a wasted body.
But let’s put that discussion aside for a moment.
There’s an even more absurd part.
Namely, the combination of her components.
“Just in case, have you ever replaced any parts?”
“Huh? No?”
I thought so.
Because all her components are precisely assembled with a single purpose.
It must have been like this since she was shipped.
Having figured that out, I murmured like a sigh.
“So, she was released with a rampage setting from the start.”
“Huh? Rampage setting?”
“Your body, I mean.”
I transferred the data to my PDA and showed it to Laika.
Of course, Laika couldn’t understand what I meant just from that.
Bioloid component settings are so complex and varied that even three years of academy training wouldn’t be enough.
It’s not even a field bioloids typically need to worry about.
So, to help Laika, a layperson, understand, I began pointing to each component and explaining.
First, the HALO-15 skeletal frame is specialized for strength and durability despite her small stature.
The Delicacion sensor unit, as described in its supplementary explanation, is a type that reacts keenly to stimuli.
The AT-10 core usually has low output, but it shows an explosive reaction when conditions are met.
Its biggest drawback is its brief duration.
Furthermore, the resonance circuit uses a mix of opposing red and blue.
They must have considered controlling the outpouring energy.
The fact that can be understood by combining these facts is——
“What is it? What can be understood?”
“……From here, try to think for yourself.”
I grumbled that but still gave the answer.
“All the components of your body are focused on enduring momentary overloads.”
“Huh, that means…….”
That’s right.
The bioloid named Laika was specifically designed with the potential to go wild in emergencies.
In other words, a rampage setting.
And to enable this rampage, the manufacturer, Halo Company, kindly even installed a skill module.
“You see this module called ‘Rampage’ here?”
“Uh-huh.”
“If you activate this skill, your stats will dramatically increase for a short period.”
Specifically, all stats increase by 1.5 ranks.
Considering that even half a rank requires significant effort and cost to raise, it’s an amazing skill.
That being said.
Skills don’t just have advantages.
Skills are manifested by distorting reality with phase pressure.
Distortion comes with a price.
For instance, in the case of Rampage, you can unleash immense power during its duration.
But once the skill activation ends, your energy will drop, making you weaker or even causing you to faint.
However, there’s an even bigger problem.
“Control is difficult.”
While true for all skills, Rampage is particularly difficult.
When activated, you become completely oblivious to your surroundings.
It’s easy to forget the purpose for which the skill was activated and just go wild.
Especially if the skill level is low, you might not even be able to control the activation timing itself.
Even if you don’t intend to activate the skill, it might trigger on its own due to highly emotional factors.
“……Then, when Laika got angry and went wild?”
Laika asked in a dazed voice.
I shrugged and answered.
“The skill just activated, that’s all.”
Laika looked disbelieving.
“But…… if that’s the case, what about before? When the first commander was alive, that never happened, did it?”
“Because she would have been emotionally stable back then.”
From what I’ve heard, it seems Laika would unconsciously activate Rampage when she felt a certain level of anger or more.
However, it would have been difficult for her to experience such situations when Seo Serin was alive.
More than that, she probably wouldn’t have known the anger that comes from ‘failing to protect someone’ back then.
The first time she felt that much anger was probably.
“During the last operation, wasn’t it?”
“……Yeah.”
Laika replied softly.
“Even then, I couldn’t see my surroundings at all.”
That must have been the case.
The subsequent rampage incidents were the same.
All of them were just the skill activating in response to Laika’s emotions.
However, Laika downplayed it as purely a matter of her own bad temper.
The commanders who took her on also made no effort to rehabilitate Laika and make use of her.
As such mistakes and misfortunes repeated, Laika became even more convinced that ‘the root of the problem is myself’.
Eventually, she probably even deteriorated to the point of genuinely causing problems herself.
But fundamentally, Laika, as a bioloid herself, was not at fault.
Her body wasn’t particularly flawed either.
It was simply configured around a somewhat unique skill.
And there simply wasn’t a proper commander to tell her that fact.
“……Um.”
Laika, who had been listening quietly, suddenly spoke.
“I roughly understand what the commander is saying.
So, Laika, so to speak, isn’t that her mindset is messed up, but rather her body itself is designed to go wild when she gets angry, right?”
“That’s about right, isn’t it?”
“Then, the cause is just different, but going berserk is still the same, isn’t it?
No, more than that, in some ways, isn’t it even more serious? Because it means it can’t be fixed…….”
That’s simply not true.
Because it can be fixed.
“Huh. It can be fixed?”
“Of course.”
If it couldn’t be fixed in the first place, a setting centered around such a useless skill wouldn’t have been created in this world at all.
In that sense, Laika’s problem is simply that the Rampage skill’s level is too low.
“The skill level is low……?”
“Here.”
I pointed to the skill module on the data sheet again.
I didn’t mean for her to look at the name ‘Rampage,’ which Laika already clearly recognized.
What I wanted to emphasize was the level written next to it.
The Rampage skill level displayed on Laika’s data sheet was merely 1.
“What changes depending on the level?”
“The higher the Rampage level, the more control you gain over yourself while in Rampage state.”
When it reaches the maximum level of 10, ‘rampage’ is just a name; it becomes controllable to the extent of merely being aggressive due to an adrenaline rush.
On the other hand, at level 1, there’s no control at all.
You’ll merely focus on expelling energy without even the minimal objective of defeating enemies.
No, more than that, you can’t even control the activation of Rampage itself.
It simply activates at any time, swayed by the explosive emotions of that moment.
In Laika’s case, Rampage would typically activate during situations where she was most emotionally vulnerable, such as ‘allied injuries’.
From that perspective, one might say Laika’s belief that her own ‘mindset’ was the problem wasn’t entirely wrong.
Though I don’t know for sure.
“Anyway, you just need to raise the Rampage level.
It’s a problem that can be solved just by doing that.”
Specifically, even raising the level to about 5 would make her reasonably usable on the battlefield.
It’s a problem that can be solved with just that.
Laika’s rampage, that is.
“……I see.”
“Feeling a bit empty?”
“Yeah.
Maybe a little empty.”
Laika chuckled, ‘Uh-heh’.
A moment later, she added.
“Setting aside other commanders, even my first commander didn’t know.
That Laika’s body was set up for rampaging.
That raising the skill level was all it took.
It’s like…… I’ve been doing something foolish my whole life.”
“That might not necessarily be the case.”
Because just because a body was designed with a specific goal doesn’t mean it absolutely must be operated in a particular way.
One should make the optimal judgment depending on the situation.
Especially the Rampage skill can easily have a negative impact on the user’s emotions and hormone balance.
Perhaps Seo Serin decided to just use Laika as she was, rather than activating the skill to boost the performance of a Laika who was already complying well.
“……Well, to speak coldly, it was probably due to not knowing how to operate bioloids properly.”
Seo Serin, as indicated by her service number, was a ‘supplementary officer’.
Supplementary officers are a type of commission created to meet the demand for commanders being ground down on the battlefield.
Fitting that purpose, supplementary officers do not receive specialized training.
It’s more like, ‘Go in and figure it out, whether you live or die’.
So, Seo Serin would have been severely lacking in terms of specialized knowledge.
Despite that, Seo Serin formed a close relationship with Laika and operated her well for a year.
She did so purely through stats and on-site command, not relying on specific skills.
Supplementary officers are often ignored by bioloids and frequently die within a few months.
Considering that fact, Seo Serin was, in some ways, remarkable.
And the year spent with Seo Serin was by no means wasted time.
“……Commander, you’re good at sugarcoating things.
Uh-heh.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment.”
Saying that, I returned to the main point and summarized the discussion again.
“Regardless of that person’s intention in operating you, you’re in a critical state right now.
Furthermore, your Rampage skill currently pops out at the slightest provocation.
For me, there’s no choice but to refine it, assuming the Rampage skill will be used.”
“So, you’re saying we should raise the level?”
That’s about it.
To be precise, simply removing the module and using her without Rampage is also a method, but……
Then the module that was painstakingly installed would be wasted, wouldn’t it?
Moreover, since the body itself is configured for Rampage, there’s a risk of lowering her growth potential.
“Hmm-hmm.
Indeed, indeed.”
Laika, with a dazed expression that made me doubt if she truly understood, conveyed that she understood.
Then, a moment later, she tilted her head and asked.
“Then, how can I raise the level of that module?”
That’s simple.
“You have to train.”
“Huh.”
At that, Laika’s already lacking motivation seemed to vanish again.
“Whyyy…… Isn’t there a more efficient and rational method, like buying a module with a high level from the start and just swapping it in?”
“That wouldn’t be efficient or rational; it would be a way of solving it with money.”
Separately, there isn’t even a way to solve it with money.
Because modules with high levels don’t exist at the shipping stage.
More precisely, a module’s level isn’t its own inherent ability.
Rather, it’s merely an indicator of how well the bioloid it’s installed on is synchronized with the module.
To increase that synchronization, there’s no choice but to install it and accumulate combat experience, including training.
“Even without the module, you need to train a bit.
Because your stat loss is too severe.”
“Stat loss~?”
“It means your current performance is far below the maximum output your body can achieve.”
For example, Laika’s durability is listed as B+/A rank.
This means that while the maximum durability estimated for her body reaches A rank, Laika’s actual durability is only B+ rank.
In other words, she has a half-rank stat loss in durability.
Even that stat loss in durability is relatively good compared to other stats.
Agility had dropped by a full rank from its maximum of C to D, and strength was in an even worse state.
This would be impossible for a typical military bioloid.
When I pointed out that fact, Laika conspicuously slumped her already listless shoulders.
“H-huh, why would that happen…….”
“Don’t ask when you already know.”
Because there’s only one reason for stat loss.
Laziness.
When I told her that, Laika scratched the back of her head and chuckled.
It seemed she couldn’t argue this time.
“So, I’ll have to undergo intense training starting now, right?”
“Yeah.
No choice, huh.
I’ll start training slowly from the year after next.”
“Don’t just casually insert ridiculous preconditions.”
“As expected, was it ridiculous for Laika to train?”
Don’t pretend you don’t know when you clearly do.
“What do you mean ‘training the year after next’?
You can’t even guarantee you’ll be alive in three months.”
“But~ Laika takes a long time to recharge her motivation~”
“Compress and shorten it.”
“By how much?”
“I’ll give you five minutes.
That’s about how long it’ll take to get to the simulation room.”
I answered without a moment’s hesitation.
Laika, similarly, began whining without a moment’s hesitation.
“Waaah~ You’re definitely planning to exploit me under the guise of helping me overcome my sad past~ A malicious gaslighter who preys on a girl’s weaknesses and manipulates her~”
Even as she said that, Laika was meticulously organizing her electrodes.