Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

"Recently, some people on the internet have been badmouthing our Nagazora Empire's emperor."

Bronya flipped through the information on the computer and showed the content to Kiana and Raiden Mei.

Kiana pulled herself out of the world of games. She slowly wiggled her body and crawled to Bronya's side.

Raiden Mei also moved her horse head, returning from her sunbathing state.

Mei sighed, "It's so nice. The horse form always makes my body feel relaxed. Even my breathing has become much smoother."

Raiden Mei thought that was a special spiritual experience that only came with transforming into a pony.

In reality...

'That's because the heart and lung capacity of a horse is stronger. At the same time, it reduces the consumption of the brain. The feedback that your body gives you is different. But it does feel much more relaxed than a human body.'

Bronya was too embarrassed to tell Raiden Mei the real reason behind it. She was worried that she would be misunderstood as mocking Raiden Mei's lack of knowledge.

Actually, that wasn't it. This was knowledge that she had recently learned about in biology. After comparing the changes before and after several transformations, Bronya found that it was indeed true!

Besides changing the fatigue and injuries of the human form, transforming into a pony could indeed make a person's mental state more relaxed.

Bronya felt a pang of sadness in her heart. 'Am I the only one who is still struggling to maintain my pride as a human?!'

"Huh? When did we get an empire?"

Kiana hadn't reacted yet. She had completely forgotten that she had crowned Noldrei emperor.

In her eyes, this Nagazora Empire was like a joke. How could an empire be established with just a few people in a house?

"......"

Bronya's head was a little numb. It seemed that the heir that Noldrei had chosen hadn't realized how much power she had.

"That guy Noldrei is talking nonsense. Are you guys just going along with him? Let's play games, let's play games. Nagazora City is about to return to normal. Then I'll have to go to school. Isn't it just a few human research facilities that were exposed by reporters? It's not a big deal. Is it worth making such a fuss and telling me specifically?"

"Am I supposed to shut down those facilities? I can't just take Dad's greatsword and go on a killing spree, can I?"

Kiana felt that Bronya was making a fuss over nothing. Wasn't it better to just eat, drink, and have fun every day? Why think so much?

When a Honkai incident occurred, everyone would just go and solve it. That was it.

They didn't even get much pay for doing this every day. Even the money for the medicine was paid by Siegfried himself back then.

"No, what I mean is..." Bronya pointed to the obvious "Entropy Increase" logo above and said, "This is a research facility that Noldrei had Cocolia secretly establish. It was dug up on the internet. Look, this logo is from our own people."

Kiana's body, which had been wiggling back, paused for a moment, and then she immediately turned back into a white-haired dumpling and widened her eyes to look at the computer screen.

"It really is our people!" She looked at her two companions and asked in shock, "When did we do this kind of thing? We haven't done anything yet, have we?"

"Kiana, why don't you play games less for a few days?"

Mei comforted the crown princess. She really hadn't expected that Kiana wouldn't even remember what the logo of her own company was.

"Bronya, quickly tell me what's going on?"

Kiana urged Bronya to quickly click on the video above.

Who knew that Bronya would lightly click the play button, and the entire website would freeze for a moment, and then the entire URL would directly 404.

Well, this action was beyond Bronya's imagination.

But she had prepared in advance and had opened the cached part of the video.

"Look, these people are protesting over there."

Bronya pointed to a small girl in the video. The girl had small tiger teeth and looked quite cute, but she was very angry and was holding up a sign and shouting something like "Give me back my brother."

"That's true, but when did we take away someone's brother?"

Kiana was really confused. She was even more at a loss about these changes.

She didn't understand why this kind of situation had suddenly appeared.

Bronya didn't explain too much. She turned to search for other websites, letting the video play in a small window on the side.

Bronya quickly found the website of the Free Skin Color Organization. It had a black, white, and yellow tricolor flag on it, representing the organization's ideology of free skin color.

"Look, this website has some videos of fights and riots. Only these small organization websites have this kind of content. The blogs on other platforms have been almost completely cleared."

"This group is holding up the white flag, but they're black people. This group is holding up the black flag, but they're Mexicans. This group is holding up... huh? Black people are surprisingly conservative. They seem to be particularly insistent on their own skin color."

"Look at what's written on the internet. The general idea is that racists themselves don't care about skin color. What they care about is the benefits brought by the differences behind skin color."

"The Free Skin Color Organization was created spontaneously to break this barrier. Their first leader was shot to death. It's so tragic..."

"Now these people are arguing on this website about whether Entropy Increase is the one who did this bad thing."

As Bronya said this, she looked at Kiana.

Who knew that Kiana would immediately become angry? After learning that the people selling the potion were her own people, she immediately retorted, "We're not selling swords and knives. It's clearly that they're unfairly distributing the benefits, and then they're blaming us, the people who are selling the stuff? Does that mean that in the future, we'll have to divide people into hat-wearing humans and straw hat-wearing humans, and then the people who sell sports hats in the middle will be beaten to death?"

Mei suddenly thought of something and said, "I remember that there were disputes about shaving heads and keeping hair in China hundreds of years ago. What Kiana said also makes sense! Humans should have the freedom to choose. How can they attack those who want free skin color just because of their own choices?"

Bronya hesitated for a moment and asked, "Since skin color can be changed, and hair can also be changed, and nails can be trimmed, and bodies can be replaced with prosthetics, what if Noldrei's company sells replaceable tentacles in the future?"

Kiana's mind suddenly stopped. She said in a panic, "Wouldn't that mean that the leading tool I use to rack up points in games would be useless?!"

'You're finally admitting that you were cheating, aren't you?!'

Bronya couldn't help but complain. How could this idiot only care about racking up points in games?

Raiden Mei carefully imagined the scene of all of humanity having various tentacles on their bodies. She was unable to accept such a human society for a moment.

Mei hesitated for a moment and asked, "Will the tentacles also be divided into various colors?"

Bronya complained, "Will there be a Free Tentacle Organization in the future? Will Noldrei go and research tentacles that everyone can equip with Tesla?"

These words immediately scared Kiana.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh! No! I don't want that kind of world! Then what was the point of me trying so hard to maintain my beautiful girl image!"

Kiana hugged her head and wailed in pain.

She couldn't accept a future society where humans accepted tentacles as an aesthetic. Because the white-haired dumpling genuinely liked beautiful girls.

Only seeing pretty girls every day could make her feel happy.