Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Chapter 253: Cocolia: This is All for the Sake of Humanity!



"Did you know? My body, in practice, is actually incredibly superior."

Cocolia wasn't spouting nonsense. The pony transformation that Noldrei had set up for her was like a strange form of genetic information recombination, allowing her to revert to her pony form even when her spirit was shattered and her body destroyed.

It was strange, almost as if her genetic and physical data were sealed within some form of information, and when needed, it would communicate with the material world to reassemble itself.

Under these circumstances, even if she were crippled and on the verge of death, as long as she was quick enough, she could switch back and forth between human and pony form to recover.

This led to a curious effect. The problems and training stages that others had to face with extreme caution, Cocolia could completely ignore, repeating them endlessly without fear of pain or danger.

It was like playing a game. She could only feel a certain palpitation from the danger, but she couldn't feel the pain of death or the disappearance of consciousness.

After the sensation of pain gradually faded away, she began an endless cycle of self-training.

Cocolia forcefully stacked up her training progress with the Stigma Battlesuit, completely unconcerned about any damage it might cause. At the same time, this inevitably had a strange effect on her.

As her sense of pain dulled, Cocolia involuntarily began to seek out things that made her feel uneasy. This was the root of what she had become.

"If consciousness cannot disappear, then what follows is a numbness to pain. A person will constantly crave the existence that makes them feel danger. Second Herrscher, I think you should be able to feel it too. A lion uses its full strength even when hunting a rabbit, but when you become the lion, hunting the rabbit itself loses its appeal to you."

"Using one's full strength is precisely a behavior that is deliberately trained to resist nature."

Cocolia's words did not make Sirin lower her guard. She thought this woman was already a little abnormal.

No, wait, Cocolia was never a normal woman to begin with.

Even Sirin understood that human experimentation was not a good thing, because she herself was a victim of it. But under Noldrei's influence, Cocolia's sense of ethics had begun to shatter.

If, at the beginning, Cocolia was still trying to alleviate her own moral collapse by adopting orphans, letting them call her mother, and accompanying them, then the current Cocolia had almost completely shed such things.

"Have you completely abandoned your self-identity as a human?" Sirin found Cocolia somewhat ridiculous.

Cocolia shook her head. "Since this world allows for the existence of cold-blooded and ruthless humans, it means that humans are born with the talent to become cold-blooded. It is precisely because I still identify myself as human that I have decided to become this kind of person."

'What kind of bullshit theory is this? Because there are bad people among humans, she chooses to be a bad person herself?' Sirin found Cocolia to be utterly absurd.

"What exactly are you planning to do?!" she tried to pull the topic back.

In terms of being human, the Second Herrscher considered herself to have an extremely low moral standard, having killed so many people. She never thought she was particularly noble, but now, in front of Cocolia, her eyes had been opened.

"Theoretically, a Honkai Herrscher can create a Great Honkai. By the same token, you should be able to summon countless Honkai Beasts. But that's not my goal... because you can't beat Tesla and Noldrei."

'I know I can't beat them, but you don't have to keep emphasizing it, do you?! Are you sick?!'

Sirin was on the verge of cursing her out. Did they restore her original body just to have a verbal punching bag?

"So, I want you to do one thing for me."

A smile appeared on Cocolia's face. She gave Sirin an answer that shocked her.

"I want you to find a way to lure out the next Herrscher, and then have her be force-ripened in Academy City."

Sirin thought this was absurd. She retorted, "Impossible! If I could create the next Herrscher, how could I have lost in Siberia back then!"

Cocolia once again mocked the Second Herrscher's intelligence. "Haven't you realized that you yourself are a force-ripened Herrscher? In this era, a force-ripened Herrscher does not possess great power."

"Why...?" Sirin was now completely lost.

Cocolia, on the other hand, looked at her strangely. "Haven't you noticed? For me, an immature Herrscher is the best. And for His Majesty the Emperor, the most conflicted and pained Herrscher is what he wants most. He wants to see the Will of the Honkai infiltrate human society, feel all the pain of the world under layers of immense pressure, and thus have the Herrscher bear the burden of destroying the most painful part of human society."

"But I believe that if it really comes to that, the Herrscher will become the ultimate weapon that would even dare to self-destruct on the spot to destroy humanity. The most pained person would take everyone with them even if they had to die."

"I just don't want so many people to die..."

Sirin's eyes widened, revealing a stupidity untainted by knowledge.

She said incredulously, "You... you... you want to summon a Herrscher in advance just to make fewer people die? What kind of bullshit reason is that?!"

Sirin thought about it. It seemed that Cocolia wasn't lying.

"But, but you're loyal to him, aren't you? Why are you doing this?"

Cocolia also thought this girl was a bit slow. "I'm only loyal to the future world he speaks of. I never said I would be loyal to a future world that doesn't include me. If he completes his creation of a new world, but the conflict in that era is too intense and I get killed, then what's the point for me?!"

"Noldrei wants to see a Herrscher who hates human society's ethics and all forms of living communities. He doesn't even care if there's a human society made up entirely of new-type Herrschers. I admit that the individuals in that world are indeed very powerful, but before that..."

"I have to take control of the direction of the Herrschers' birth."

"I don't think..." Cocolia hesitated for a moment. "I don't think a new Herrscher will bring him any surprises. In that case, it's better to let him be disappointed with these Herrscher life forms from the beginning."

The smile on her face seemed distorted.

"Second Herrscher, you know this, don't you? Any attention from him brings about an insane amount of mental pressure. Anyone he takes a fancy to and pays attention to, whether voluntarily or forced, will walk the path of the new human."

"To condense tens of thousands of years of development into one, to compress tens of thousands of years of pain and change and place it all on humanity, what kind of madness would that bring to human society? Can you even imagine?"

Of course, Sirin couldn't imagine. Her education was simply not sufficient.


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