Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Raiden Mei witnessed Noldrei turn the man into a woman.

After receiving Noldrei's permission, the now-woman happily left.

It was as if she had obtained some great treasure.

"Mei, look, this is the Enlightenment!"

Noldrei pointed at the back of the woman, now named Nakamura Anzu, and explained seriously, "Soon, people will realize that whoever controls the reproductive system in the future is the most powerful. These power-conscious people, in order to further improve the reproductive system, will use genetic currency as a dynamic link."

Raiden Mei really didn't understand. It felt like she grasped a bit of insight, but also like she didn't grasp anything at all.

'Reproductive system, cheap organs, genetic currency, civilization's right to conservation, what are all these things?'

She felt an unspeakable sense of dread, even more terrifying than the so-called cheap organs.

This kind of future was completely different from what she had hoped for.

Shouldn't it be like Gundam, where there are just different types of humanoid weapons, different social attitudes, and at worst, some adjustments or artificial wombs?

But the things Noldrei said only made Raiden Mei shudder.

"You're not planning anything bad, are you?"

Raiden Mei didn't understand. She now desperately wanted to snatch Kiana's body.

If she had that body, she could definitely get some useful information from it.

Unfortunately, Bronya didn't come along. Perhaps Bronya, who had read a lot of sci-fi novels, would have a better idea of what such a future would look like.

But she had gone back to play games, missing the key information to pass on to Miss Rita.

"I'm not planning anything bad. These are things you guys should develop naturally. It's just that I skipped the intermediate stages, and that's why you think something is wrong."

According to Noldrei's memory of normal history, nuclear war would happen first, then genetic currency, and then the cheap organ trading market and the establishment of a diversified reproductive system.

But Noldrei, having travelled from the future, had just dropped all of these things at once.

Naturally, Raiden Mei couldn't tell what the problem was.

It was like the superstitious commoners of the Qing Dynasty seeing a steam engine for the first time. Or like a bookworm seeing an industrialized capitalist society for the first time. Their feelings were basically the same.

"Think about it, if gender becomes fluid, organs become cheap, and combined with the power of genetic Stigmata, won't we have more powerful warriors who can better fight against Honkai? And we can even see a bright future for mankind."

"This process wouldn't even require sacrificing many people, allowing even more people to participate in battle, strengthening humanity's fighting force, and reducing the number of sacrifices."

"Don't worry. Didn't you see that the man was very happy when he changed his sex? When the opportunity arises, you can try becoming a man too, maybe Kiana would also like your male form."

Raiden Mei thought what he was saying was getting more and more ridiculous.

What did he mean by Kiana would like her male form? So Kiana was a lesbian with interchangeable preferences?

How did such a person become the crown princess?!

Especially, the more Noldrei said 'don't worry,' the more she worried.

"Will that woman be okay?"

Raiden Mei was worried about the woman who was casually thrown into the alley by Noldrei.

"She'll be fine. When she wakes up, she'll have brand-new reproductive organs. She'll go to the hospital for a checkup and will discover that she is three to four weeks pregnant. Perhaps some interesting things will happen. But those things have nothing to do with us."

"If I had to guess, she should be waking up soon. She won't freeze to death in this weather."

After hearing what he said, Raiden Mei was finally relieved.

She had been on edge the entire time, especially after Kiana was gone. If she could, Raiden Mei would even transform into a pony and carry Noldrei home as fast as possible.

He just casually performed dissection on someone, and then he just tricked a man into becoming a woman.

She didn't know what that man saw, but Raiden Mei felt that Nakamura Shin didn't even register them.

"Will that Nakamura Shin do something bad? I think he looked really abnormal when he left."

Raiden Mei was still used to referring to Nakamura Shin as 'he'. After all, only the body had been changed, but the mind was still that of a 'man.'

She couldn't accept this free switching of genders for now.

"I don't know. It's up to your police to handle that."

Noldrei didn't care about these things. He was just trying to awaken a certain power ideology within someone. As for how they would develop according to this ideology afterward, he didn't know.

He had a feeling that things might develop in a strange direction.

"Honestly, I think she's very likely to create some strange organization…"

Noldrei wasn't too sure. Maybe they would do something with Honkai?

Raiden Mei became even more worried. She thought Noldrei's actions were ridiculous.

She didn't really understand the social theory he explained earlier.

But she did understand the gist of it. That 'reproduction' and 'conservation' were a naturally overlapping pair of twins.

But based on Raiden Mei's understanding, reproduction was meant for the survival and development of civilization, so how could it become 'conservation'?

Did everyone have to become extinct to be considered 'radical'?

In that case, the unchanging gods and buddhas in those myths were the most radical of all.

Raiden Mei didn't understand the logic and decided to keep those questions to herself.

'What is he trying to do?'

'Cocolia, and Father…'

'Can they really use the future human's power?'

Raiden Mei felt her father was too arrogant. If it were her, she wouldn't even understand what the future human was talking about. And Cocolia and Ryoma Raiden were only doing things for their own benefit.

[You're casually exchanging rights you don't even understand, and you think the use of these rights is infinite and a given.]

Mei only remembered this one sentence because it resonated deeply within her.

Honkai energy, Herrschers, Stigmata, they were all powers she didn't understand. Cocolia and her father had casually used these powers on her.

'There will be a nuclear war in the future, and an even more brutal battle.'

'......'

Raiden Mei had previously thought Noldrei's casual modifications and instructions were a form of contempt and disrespect towards her.

And now, Mei felt that it was probably herself who didn't truly respect her.

'I thought Noldrei's modification of me was disrespect. But in his eyes, I'm just fixated on those things I consider to be disrespectful, and I don't see nor understand the things that he truly disrespects about me.'

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Noldrei argues that the idea of a peaceful "primitive commune" is wrong. He believes early societies were defined by an unspoken power struggle over reproduction, a power inherently held by women. Patriarchal systems emerged as a way for men to gain a share of this power through social constructs like marriage and family names.

He sees this struggle for control over the future of society—through reproduction, technology, or even war—as a fundamental driver of human history, and suggests that even seemingly personal choices about love and family are influenced by these larger power dynamics.

He thinks people in the present are blindly trading away control over things they don't fully understand, including their own genes and reproductive rights, and are setting themselves up for future disasters like nuclear war because they haven't resolved these core societal power imbalances.

(I ask GPT for this explanation.)