"Le-… Legion! Those scumbags have finally gone crazy!"

Everyone was outraged and shouted words I didn’t understand, but I couldn't afford to care about it.

The image of the girl wailing earlier was vividly engraved in my mind like a branding iron.

‘What’s this feeling? Why does it feel so familiar?’

This was definitely my first time seeing her. It wasn’t merely because she had a chain tied to her neck that I didn’t recognize her, but it was a face that I really did not recognize at all. I even looked through my [memory], but I’d never come across a little brat such as her.

-…What’s a Legion?

-Huh, you don’t know what Legion is? How have you been living all this time when you don’t even know such common knowledge?

Ares explained it in astonishment.

- Legion is an organization comprising purely of machines, beings born out of the Artificial Intelligence of the distant past that was almost too ambiguous to understand which are now [imaginable], unlike those born out of common Artificial Intelligence. Not only are they creative, they also have the ability to think for themselves, so it is possible for them to develop civilization. Machines are a good way of categorizing them, but they actually fulfil almost all the conditions to be considered a tribe, so they are sometimes also known as the Mecha tribe… Though it’s a first step, they are in a situation where the Union has not officially...