Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

"Achoo—!"

Kiana sneezed.

She hadn't sneezed once since getting her future-person body, which meant this sneeze was no small matter.

Someone must be badmouthing me. This body doesn't even have nose hairs, so how could my nose possibly itch?

"Your Highness the Princess, we have finished treating the patients here. We are also working on building more hospital wards."

Hei's words did not move Kiana. She waved her hand and said:

"Why build hospital wards? Just treat them in the open. Find a clean spot on the street and lay down a mat. As long as it doesn't obstruct traffic, it's better to treat these people on the street. Stabilize the Honkai sickness first, and let Cocolia handle the problems with Heliopolis Life Sciences."

What a wicked Crown Princess. She didn't even think of building two more hospitals.

Hei was slightly stunned for a moment, then quickly realized that the most important thing right now was to control the condition of the people in Academy City, not to build new hospital wards.

"Then what about the half-built ones?"

Hei asked a question Kiana hadn't expected. She pondered for a moment and said, "Let our own people use them first. It's not like they'll reach the people who truly need them anyway, so let our supporters use them first. As long as everyone doesn't die, there will always be a time for them to be cured."

Hei didn't know what to say. He wanted to argue, but he found that Kiana was actually speaking words of wisdom.

It was true. They wouldn't reach the people who truly needed them.

Your Majesty, you are truly wicked. Look what you've taught this innocent, underage girl to become.

Hei immediately went to prepare for his work.

Hei gathered his companions and contacted Hachiman Hikigaya via satellite communication.

Who knew that the moment the video call connected, it would be such a sight? Behind Hachiman Hikigaya was a starry sky.

Good heavens, everyone was busy in Academy City, and you went on a space tour?!

"Where did you go?! Hikigaya, can you still speak, Hachiman Hikigaya?"

"Yes, cough cough... I can still speak." Hachiman used vibrations to speak instead of his mouth, but his voice had a strange mechanical tone.

Hei didn't mind this small issue. He knew, of course, that Hachiman's body had been modified by Dr. Tesla.

"Can you come down now?"

"Wait a moment. I didn't operate my body properly just now. For some reason, this body's energy became particularly powerful, directly converting Honkai Energy into kinetic energy." Hachiman's face was written all over with the word "unlucky."

"Alright..." Hei didn't know what to say. After all, Hachiman was an unlucky kid.

"We'll talk when you get down. In the future, don't go on TV spouting nonsense like 'it's all because of my hard work.' Your other friends are still busy. Horikita Manabu has already taken in the stray Valkyries. You're the only one still playing in the sky."

Hei cut off the communicator.

At this moment, another person found him. It was Masamune Izumi, who was in charge of online media.

"Boss, isn't there something wrong with this news? Why do I feel like it doesn't quite match the facts?"

Masamune Izumi sent over a public opinion report that was being prepared.

The entire content was:

[The decadent old bureaucrats of the Far East, in league with the Self-Defense Forces, attempted to sell out the Far East's interests by peddling Academy City's high technology, and then brazenly triggered an artificial Great Eruption to create the Fifth Herrscher. The Herrscher has now been captured by Dr. Tesla, who will continue to lead humanity to the next victory.]

But those who knew the inside story were well aware that only a few organizations were capable of creating an artificial Great Eruption, and it certainly didn't include these useless Far East bureaucrats. They were completely incapable of doing something that would affect the future of humanity.

Clearly, this was to make them take the fall.

Whether they did it or not, Academy City was going to say they did. The goal was to purge this group of people who seemed to be working but were disobedient.

"This is the general arrangement of the board of directors. Just continue your work honestly."

Masamune Izumi was in a difficult position. He explained, "I just don't think it's right to deceive people like this. This Great Eruption is clearly directly related to the battle between the Herrschers in Academy City. And we still don't know who the real enemy is."

Hei patiently persuaded him, "Don't think so much. You're already in charge of guiding public opinion. How can you have any conscience left? How can you do political propaganda like this?"

"Besides, those people brought it upon themselves. If they hadn't destroyed Academy City's power grid, why would we be facing such a troublesome situation?"

"The stability of Academy City is paramount. Whether they did it or not, we need them to have done it! If you want to be a good person, you have to be even more ruthless than the bad guys!"

"Alright, I still have things to discuss with Horikita. You go on with your work."

Masamune Izumi hesitated for two seconds before finally temporarily abandoning his bit of unnecessary conscience.

After hanging up on Masamune, Hei contacted Horikita Manabu.

"Horikita, how's the situation on your end?"

Horikita said with a hint of excitement, "It's just as the teacher said. These Valkyries who left Schicksal are a better fit for our joint student council. They are closer to the lives of ordinary people, completely different from those Valkyries with their own ulterior motives."

Horikita's joint student council had lucked out. He had already, under Otto's arrangement, taken the initiative to meet with these stray Valkyries and invited them to join the joint student council's duty personnel, mainly responsible for the future training and development of student council members.

In addition, the joint student council's proactive actions during this crisis had left a good impression on them. Compared to their original tense work on the front lines against the Honkai, the work of the joint student council was more suitable for them.

Although one or two of them planned to leave, it didn't affect the overall situation under Horikita's command.

"As long as things are going smoothly on your end, that's good. We still need more people to establish the new Stigma group. By the way, check on the situation with the security team and see if there are any conflicts with your side."

The security team and the joint student council faced different directions. One was an internal disciplinary body, like an organizational disciplinary committee, while the other was responsible for managing the social environment outside the organization.

With this whole new set of operations, it was no wonder that the members of the old bureaucratic system of Nagazora City were dissatisfied and wanted to tear down the steel walls and escape.

No one at the age of thirty-five, on the verge of their prime, would be happy to find themselves replaced by a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old youngsters. The pain brought by this kind of situation was very troublesome.

Hei could sympathize with these people's thoughts, but the board's handling of the matter was clearly much colder than he had imagined.