Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Both the brother and sister had passed out.

The conversation couldn't continue. This was the perfect opportunity to complete the rest of the task while the protagonist was unconscious.

"The latest Stigma Battlesuit has been integrated. Now it's just a matter of seeing how well he can fuse with it. The Kaslana family's hereditary Stigmata is truly the most superior in the world. Its combat power directly reaches a level I can't even comprehend. It's clear how strong-willed the Kaslana ancestor who first inherited this Stigmata must have been."

Tesla marveled at the past glory of the Kaslana family, but a sliver of doubt remained in her mind.

'Such a powerful spirit must have been matched by equally powerful physical strength. So why is there no trace of it in history? Was it a power passed down from the Previous Era, or did the existence of the Stigmata change something?'

If Tesla had to choose people to trust, besides the Sovereign of Anti-Entropy and her good friend Einstein, it would be Noldrei.

It was strange, but Tesla had the surprising feeling that Noldrei wasn't the type to look down on "primitives." The reason he looked down on them was because he knew things that people of this era didn't.

To him, that knowledge was like a piece of paper, but when he tried to communicate it to others, it felt like a wall to them.

It was like a parent watching their child struggle with addition and subtraction under one hundred. Conversely, when he faced a student who learned quickly, he would become quite amiable.

But the guy himself didn't seem to look down on humanity's existence. He firmly believed that everything he threw out was something humanity could one day create on its own. In this regard, he was a staunch believer in human potential, with unwavering faith in the future intellectual level of the human race.

Even the Honkai wasn't worthy of being compared to humanity; it was just a small, dangerous tool on the path of development, used to complete human progress.

What normal people saw as a threat was no threat at all in his eyes.

But Tesla didn't know why Noldrei hadn't specifically condensed a so-called Stigmata. If a Stigmata was the genetic information expression of human will, then logically, Noldrei should also be able to create a Stigmata as modern people understood it.

But he hadn't. He didn't even want to use a non-material method to complete the process.

"The body's changes always precede the mind's. Soon, he will learn that his 'self' originates from his own needs. An infant initially has no self-awareness. In an infant's world, it and its mother are one. It's the unfulfillment of its biological needs that gradually makes it realize that it and its mother are not the same individual."

Noldrei examined the new body. He set Hikigaya Komachi aside for the moment, even using his own clothes to cushion her head so she could lie there comfortably.

"Find someone to send her back later..."

He continued to explain, "Soon, the person who possesses this new body will undergo a qualitative change, just as you, Tesla, can see the electromagnetic radiation flowing in the air. The interaction between electric and magnetic fields creates electromagnetic waves, which radiate into the air. The electric displacement vector, which you used to need calculations to see, is now as clear to you as a large rock on the ground."

"Tesla, you should understand that a person's needs are born from their perception of matter. When your needs are not met, you will involuntarily gravitate towards an individual who can satisfy them."

Noldrei didn't seem to think he was talking about himself at all. He even considered it perfectly normal.

Tesla frowned in dissatisfaction and retorted, "You make me sound like some kind of infatuated pervert."

"No, you're just an obsessed person."

Noldrei's assessment was quite accurate. Anyone who could be so ruthless as to experiment on their own body was indeed an obsessed person.

"Then will there be any changes to this young man's body?" Tesla decided to change the subject. She did indeed have an extraordinary craving for that tentacle now, because she knew what was inside it. To her, it was a divine domain that could satisfy her eternal desire for research.

"A person's needs go through a process of satisfaction, addiction, disappearance, reproduction, and re-satisfaction, and so on, until the instinct for self-production is castrated. Let's assume we install a perpetual motion shenlong on a man. Do you think he would feel pleasure during normal intercourse?"

Tesla stared at him in shock, as if looking at a demon.

No woman on earth could handle a perpetual motion machine. A person's stamina has its limits. If it were possible...

Wait...

"Doesn't that mean... he'll never be able to find a compatible partner?"

Tesla suddenly felt sorry for the young man. He had obtained a near-eternal mechanical life, something many men desired, only to find himself theoretically unable to find a matching partner.

It was too tragic. She couldn't even imagine what Hikigaya Hachiman would do when he realized this in the future.

But before that, he would most likely treat his girlfriend with extreme care, if he ever got one...

Noldrei smiled. "You see, just like that. After we satisfy a part of his needs, the drawbacks brought by that satisfaction will become his new needs. In this process, this young man will gradually realize how great the rift is between him and original humans. Only a rich person's gift is considered charity; a poor person's financial gift is called mutual aid."

Tesla asked, puzzled, "Why on earth did you create something so cruel?"

"Cruel? It's only cruel when he's the only one who gets it. When everyone gets it, it's no longer cruel." Noldrei thought for a moment and replied, "It's like the 'ism' I talked about. Many people don't understand 'ism,' thinking it's just a simple system of thought."

"But to us future people, an 'ism' is a very objective thing. An 'ism' is 'the expression of a living collective's inherent limitations.' The result of that expression is, 'I want to solve our own limitations in this way.' So I have to tell you my things, to make you also believe that this solution is correct."

Noldrei caressed the new body and said slowly, "My idea is actually very simple. I want to see if the inevitable failure of this ideology is an endless nightmare that haunts humanity."

He sighed, "Even we future people haven't been able to escape it. In comparison, I'm more interested in seeing what difference the Will of the Honkai can bring to humanity."

"If it's just as useless as we future people are, then its existence is irrelevant."

Tesla was certain. This son of a bitch Noldrei was truly, terrifyingly dangerous. What sounded like arrogant posturing was actually a statement of incredibly dangerous content.