Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Einstein had thought her friend was returning.

She hadn't expected the Herrscher of Thunder to be the one returning.

What was going on? Tesla, weren't you supposed to be helping out in the Far East? How did you suddenly come back as a Herrscher?

The beautiful clothes made of Honkai energy clearly showed her identity as a Herrscher.

Right now, Tesla was as eye-catching as a Spirit from Date A Live.

If only she could fix her foul mouth, who would like a 'Spirit' who just curses for no reason?

"I... I'm back... bedhead..."

The long flight hadn't made Tesla feel tired. Her current physical strength was somewhat unbelievable. The combat power and endurance of a Herrscher were truly astonishing.

"Whoa, listen to me..."

Tesla subconsciously turned her gaze to her longtime friend, but that one look made her head buzz and stop for a moment.

Strange, small black dots formed disgusting images in her mind.

Weird, peanut-shaped objects were constantly wriggling, and next to them were net-like things that looked like saw teeth.

Then there were strange, eyeball-like things. These 'eyeballs' were squeezed together, one next to the other, so densely packed that Tesla felt uncomfortable all over.

Her gaze was vacant, and she didn't look like the normal Tesla at all.

This made Einstein a little worried. She stepped forward, wanting to check on Tesla's condition.

"Wait, don't move, don't come closer! I don't know what's going on with me!"

Tesla fearfully pulled away from Einstein. Her current state made Einstein frown.

"Tesla, how did you become like this..."

"I, sorry, bedhead, I can't look at you directly right now."

Tesla endured the nauseating feeling, turning her back to Einstein to barely hold back the urge to vomit.

Tesla hadn't misperceived anything. Just a moment ago, she had used her ability to project electrons to scan all of Einstein.

The information that bounced back overloaded her brain with too much data.

Even the most brilliant physics doctor wouldn't be able to process so many images at once with their current brain.

"Is it the danger of becoming a Herrscher?"

Einstein looked at her worriedly. The high concentration of Honkai energy coming from Tesla made her feel a sense of danger.

"No, no, it's not related to the Herrscher... it's not related to the Herrscher... it's, it's my problem."

Tesla bit her lower lip. She didn't know how to deal with this situation.

The Herrscher of Thunder controlling projected electron beams and then observing electron diffraction seemed like a very normal thing, too normal... wasn't it?

'Is this what the world looks like to a Herrscher?'

Tesla was confused. She didn't know why she hadn't experienced anything similar when she first became a Herrscher.

This ability was indeed a good thing for her, even a great thing, especially when researching physics.

But that wasn't the point. She couldn't control her own sensory organs right now.

The images being relayed back allowed Tesla to clearly see every minute detail of her friend.

And those minute details were quite something. The densely packed biological forms made Tesla feel extremely uncomfortable.

Tesla was an ambitious physics scholar, and she didn't really care about things like gender identity, but her aesthetic sense was the same as a normal person's. She knew what was good-looking and what was bad.

In other words, no matter how much Einstein tried to dress up, in Tesla's eyes, she would always see the ugliest parts beneath her friend's skin, and she could even see the different molecules emanating from every part of Einstein's body.

Tesla temporarily spared Einstein and then focused her attention on the coffee in front of Einstein's desk.

"Plastic microparticles..."

"High-temperature roasted coffee beans... are the pores larger?"

Tesla muttered to herself, acting like she was possessed.

This was quite perplexing for Einstein.

"Tesla, what exactly is going on with you right now?"

"I saw things that humans shouldn't see, but I don't know how to avoid it. Right now... I don't dare look at you, bedhead... your oily hair, the dirt under your fingernails, the tiny mites in your pores, I can see it all clearly."

"I became the Herrscher of Thunder, but I didn't expect the Herrscher of Thunder could control projected electron beams and then have the images fed back into my brain."

Even with her eyes closed, Tesla could still perceive the minute details of the people around her.

She was quickly overwhelmed by this information.

"Bedhead, I feel like something's wrong with me right now."

Tesla turned her head to look at Einstein.

But Einstein noticed that her gaze wasn't actually on her. Instead, it was as if she was looking through her body at some distant existence.

"I was forcibly turned into a Herrscher by a... bastard, and now I know he didn't have good intentions at all."

Tesla punched the iron table, warping and deforming it.

Einstein didn't pay attention to Tesla's outburst. She was worried that her friend would be tormented if she continued like this.

"Can you see what's going on with your own body?"

"It's okay... it's okay... a Herrscher's body is different. I can control the minute electron beams to clean away the things I don't like on my body. But the problem isn't there. I need to distinguish which parts of my body I need and which parts I don't. But even the parts I need, they..."

Tesla pulled at the red twin tails that hung down by her ears, the ones she had always cherished.

She could clearly see a layer of oil on her hair.

When she couldn't see it, she didn't feel anything, but after seeing it, she felt like her entire head of hair had become extremely greasy.

Dirt itself wasn't scary.

But for the current Tesla, a small patch of dirt seemed to be magnified to her entire body, making it very scary.

The world in her eyes was collapsing in a terrifying way.

'Is this what a Herrscher is like? But when Welt was around, he never mentioned anything like this...?'

The Welt that Tesla was talking about was the original Welt.

Welt Joyce.

Unfortunately, the deceased Welt Joyce couldn't give her that answer.

The abilities that the current Herrscher of Thunder had gained were not the original Herrscher of Thunder's abilities. This high-precision electron microscope sensory organ was a special product that Noldrei had truly created.

Tesla's head was throbbing, and she was even a little unsteady on her feet. She knelt on the ground, tightly closing her eyes, on the verge of passing out.

Einstein quickly supported her friend, but just as she was about to further observe Tesla's condition, she saw a strange eye suddenly appear in the center of Tesla's forehead.

The eye was like a beast's eye, with a sharp pupil, and the pupil emitted a purple glow.

Honkai energy swirled around it, as if it were a living thing that had broken free from its master, rotating on its own.

The moment Einstein observed it, it also stared at Einstein.

Across half the globe...

Einstein felt like she was being stared at by a strange and inexplicably powerful life form.

Just as she was about to delve deeper into investigating this eyeball, it immediately disappeared and closed.

There wasn't even a trace left on Tesla's forehead, as if that eyeball had never existed.