Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Tesla had been acting a bit strange these past few days.

Later, they had contacted Leader Yang, but given that Tesla had returned home safely, the leader, aside from asking about any special actions Tesla might have taken after becoming a Herrscher, didn't further investigate her situation.

Besides, Einstein wasn't the kind of idiot who couldn't recognize her own friend. Yang still had a lot of faith in Einstein's abilities.

But even so, Tesla was still acting a bit off.

Every time Einstein saw her, she noticed that this person... how should she put it? It was like she was looking at something disgusting.

After Tesla explained, Einstein also learned that Tesla had gained some kind of special sensory ability that allowed her to perceive the very specific details of a normal person's body.

Moreover, this perception wasn't under her control. It wasn't a matter of whether she wanted to see it or not, but rather a matter of how long she could endure it.

Einstein also told Tesla about the eye that had appeared on her forehead.

After a brain CT scan...

"Holy crap, there really is an eyeball!"

Tesla lifted her bangs. She didn't know how to control it. She just thought about it, and suddenly a crack appeared in the middle of her forehead. An eyeball with a long optic nerve behind it stretched out from Tesla's forehead.

It stretched out as if a hand was holding an eyeball, just like that, from the center of Tesla's forehead.

The vertical pupil emitting a purple glow made Tesla a little horrified, but from a normal Earthling's aesthetic point of view, this eyeball was as beautiful as a gem.

"Herrschers have this kind of function?! Bedhead, have you ever seen Joyce change like this?"

Tesla turned her head to look at the bewildered Einstein.

"Don't ask me, I don't know. Maybe Herrschers have some unspeakable secrets..."

Einstein wasn't too sure either. What if Welt Joyce was just maintaining a normal human appearance, trying his best to interact with them normally?

Just thinking about that scene almost made her cry with emotion.

Joyce, he was so gentle.

But Einstein was certain that Welt Joyce would never hide anything from them on such an important matter, because it wouldn't make any sense.

"Hmm, this eye... it's quite unique... can we amputate it?"

Tesla gently tapped the eyeball. The eyeball seemed to be conscious, dodging her tap.

"It even knows how to dodge?! The things that Herrschers create are too intelligent, aren't they?"

"Have we encountered anything this strange in the Honkai incidents we've dealt with?"

Tesla thought about some of the Honkai incidents in the Americas. It didn't seem like they had encountered anything similar.

"Bedhead, can't we just remove it?"

Einstein looked at Tesla's brain CT scan and sighed, advising, "I suggest you don't have such thoughts. It... what do you think you're relying on to think right now?"

"What else could it be? My brain, of course?" Tesla suddenly felt that this bedhead was a bit too fond of being cryptic. She knew that Tesla hated that the most.

"Just tell me already, what's wrong with my brain?"

"The area of your frontal lobe has been completely occupied by this little thing. In other words, the reason you're able to talk and interact with me normally, and haven't become someone like a lobotomy patient, is thanks to this little thing replacing the functions of your brain."

Einstein pointed to Tesla's brain CT scan. In the area where her finger was, a large chunk of the twin-tailed girl's brain was clearly missing, having been occupied by something else.

"......"

Tesla tilted her head, looking at the image. At the same time, the eyeball that had grown out of her head also tilted with her.

The gazes of the three eyes all fell on Einstein, giving her goosebumps.

Her friend's appearance was too strange. It reminded her of a deep-sea anglerfish, the one that often appeared in various works with a lantern on its head.

The current Tesla was similar to that kind of fish...

It was just that an eyeball that emitted light had grown out of her forehead. It didn't seem like there was much of a difference.

'No, it's still too strange. That glowing energy is Honkai energy!'

Einstein calmly said, "I can tell you definitively that Joachim's brain is definitely a normal human brain. His brain is no different from a normal human's, and he certainly doesn't have a glowing eyeball that emits Honkai energy."

"We've checked his body so many times. Do you really need to ask me about this?"

Tesla was annoyed by Einstein's words. She subconsciously grabbed a pen from the side and gently poked the eyeball with it.

Then, under Einstein's dumbfounded gaze,

Tesla's eyeball suddenly retracted, and she immediately clutched her forehead, lying on the ground, convulsing.

"It hurts! It hurts so much! How can it hurt as much as poking a normal eye!"

'Hmm, so it's connected to the pain nerves too?'

Einstein picked up her notebook and recorded these details. She believed that Tesla's current body was worth further research.

Whether it was to observe the changes brought about by the Herrscher or to further protect Tesla, it was necessary to understand the specific details of Tesla's body.

"Ouch, it hurts, it hurts so much... OOOO..."

Tesla clutched her head, sitting up with a pained expression, and also emitted a series of telegraph-like sounds.

"Sigh, how are you going to continue your research in this state?"

"It feels a bit strange. It's like I've said similar words to someone before?" Tesla finally understood how Joyce and Yang felt when facing Einstein.

Was the wheel of fortune finally turning to her?

Tesla had never imagined that one day her friend would say such things to her.

She just wanted to remove the eye from her head, but... she felt like something was a bit off.

'That's weird, did I turn off some function?'

Tesla realized that she wasn't receiving those images anymore. Those images that allowed her to see at the nanometer level were temporarily gone.

'What exactly happened...?'

Einstein also noticed Tesla's condition. She found that Tesla's gaze was much more normal, no longer having that strange state of wanting to look but forcing herself to look away.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know, but I feel... like the situation isn't very good. It's like I suddenly lost something."

Tesla realized what she had lost.

She could originally see things at the electron microscope level and, at the same time, had the ability to use Honkai energy to create super-tiny electronic devices.

But after this perception was gone, the Herrscher of Thunder's abilities were instantly weakened by a large margin.

"Crap, I feel like I've been eroded by the Herrscher core."

Einstein's gaze swept over Tesla's full-body CT scan.

The Herrscher core was like a spider on a web, with black shadows like blood vessels seeping into every part of her body along her spinal cord.

'Is it possible that it's not the Herrscher core that's doing the eroding?'