Something's wrong, they're not NPCs?

Chapter 345 He did it
[Player Su Ming, you have entered the 'Parasite' world]

[Current bonus given to players: reload (if you are not satisfied now, why not start over?) This technology is provided by the re0 production team]

[Current mission: Find the dying Tokugawa Airi]

[No penalty for failure]

[The explanation has been completed. I wish you a happy game. 】

A translucent text box that comes a little slower than before.

When Su Ming saw the contents of the bonus, he was really stunned.

Did you read that right?

Load the file.

In the game it is swordsmanship, so when you return to reality you will have the same ability.

The bonus in the game is to load the file and return to reality...

Regardless of whether the previous ability to use the save game was a bug, what is now in front of me is the actual save game, written in black and white.

Su Ming didn't know how far he was from becoming a 'God'. The world was too big and there were too many things. Even if he could defeat Xia You, he wouldn't feel that he was the best in the universe and would never make any mistakes again.

But what if I can use the save file when I go back?
No matter what mistakes occur, there is a 100% chance of remediation.

In comparison, any additional bonus is not as good as this one. So far, I have used many reloads to win against opponents that were impossible to win in the first round.

"call……"

Su Ming stopped where he was and took a deep breath.

Ignoring the strange feeling in my right hand, I lit a cigarette and looked around.

The cramped room was probably someone's bedroom... The air was filled with dust and stuffy. The painted walls were a little dirty and had sticky marks... The black part looked like blood from a while ago.

"Squeak-"

When I opened the door, the stench became even worse.

The living room seemed to have been the scene of a fight a long time ago, and there were a few messy brown bloodstains beneath the dust covering the floor.

The furniture was in disarray, the television was on the floor, the screen shattered into a spider web.

I picked up the TV remote control that fell on the floor. The words on it were in Japanese.

"Clap."

Su Ming lit a cigarette and walked towards the door on the side of the living room.

"..."

As soon as Su Ming held the door handle, he heard a very slight noise.

"rustle--"

It seemed like something was swimming on the ground and approaching this side.

"..."

Stopped at the door, but didn't come in.

Su Ming summoned the Blade of Philosophy with his right hand, ready to chop any unknown thing outside to death with one blow at any time, and turned the door handle with his left hand.

……

ten minutes later.

Su Ming looked at the monster lying at the door, and it was unclear what it was.

Tentacles, but wearing human clothes. In other words, the head is made up of three one-meter-long slippery tentacles, with fine small teeth in the middle. In the middle is a normal human body... This should be a woman?

Have breasts.

But the legs have the same tentacles, and what extends from the shoulders are usually arms, which turn into sickle-shaped pieces of flesh at the fingertips.

and.

Su Ming also discovered one more thing.

Let's not talk about the level of this thing. Anyway, I chopped off its head tentacles, but it didn't die. It was still struggling to crawl on the ground.

"Snapped."

Throw something to make a noise, and it will wriggle in that direction. The thing on its head that barely counts as a mouthpart is covered with fine teeth, drooling, and its tentacles are waving ferociously.

Then Su Ming stomped his feet on the spot to make noise.

It will also be attracted.

"..."

But the somewhat disgusting tentacle covered with saliva was placed at Su Ming's feet, and it seemed to sniff the smell... it was tasteless. It was regarded as something worthless.

Could it be that……

Just like in Sea Island City, just like those zombies, will they ignore me?

"Paji."

Su Ming kicked it twice.

"..."

The tentacles on its head were also waving violently. If its legs had not been chopped off by Su Ming, it would have crawled over immediately, right?
Then, he entangled Su Ming's legs again, as if confirming something...

Go back again.

He didn't even take Su Ming for granted.

"call."

Su Ming took another puff of the cigarette and exhaled the mist.

Looking at the fine teeth that occasionally retract between the three tentacles on its head, there seems to be some meat scraps mixed in between the white teeth... This proves that it is carnivorous.

Su Ming was a little strange in Haidao City before.

Why do you ignore yourself?
I didn't experience much at that time, and I didn't think much about it. Now I think about it again...could the tentacles be related to Xiaoye? In other words, it is related to Xiaoye's true origin.

There is some element of Xiaoye in my body.

Not right either.

I didn’t know Xiaoye when I went to Haidao City.

Hmm... that's not right either. The timing of the game trials is messed up.

If we really count by time, the first ones to get together should be Xueer or Yunque and the others.

Forget it.

It’s hard to figure out that kind of thing in a short time, and it might just be a hidden bonus in the game.

Regardless, it wouldn't be a bad thing. Being able to freely move around a city that might be full of these monsters would save a lot of trouble.

Instead of thinking about this, it is better to focus your attention on the reward for this mission.

Load the file.

I have to get it no matter what. Even if it's difficult... I have to be a hundred times more serious than in all the previous trials.

is it?

If I could get it, I could tell Yao and the others openly that I would never have such a problem again.

There is no need to become stronger anymore.

To put it bluntly, Su Ming never expected to become the strongest being, it was just because... he didn't want to encounter anything irreversible.

"Ah."

"You have to work hard and put in your utmost effort to get it done..."

"When we get back, we'll be able to see the 8cm high heels the maid mentioned, right?"

"I thought Xue'er might be a little more arrogant after she became pregnant, but...she becomes more and more adorable."

“How can I not work hard?”

"Xue'er, there are so many people waiting. It's impossible not to be serious..."

"Okay, let me see where you are."

"Xue'er should be OK here, right? As long as she's outside, we can find her."

-

It was completely dark.

Monsters were everywhere, just as Su Ming had thought. They were completely different from the killers he had encountered before.

Killers don't mate.

During the time Su Ming had been out for a while, he had seen some people standing still as if they were sleeping.

There were also sluggish wrigglings, with the tentacles on its head touching the ground, as if it was sniffing the smell of the food it wanted.

"..."

Then comes mating.

Even if you occasionally see humans with decent bodies apart from their tentacles, don't expect them to be erotic at all.

No respite.

No shame either.

There was no flirting.

In a very small number of cases, especially males, their tentacles and bodies will be eaten together after the act is complete.

Afterwards, you can see with your own eyes the female monster giving birth to a lump of flesh that is not full of mucous membranes.

They also breastfeed.

He used his sickle hand to hold the bloody thing against his chest, and the piece of flesh opened a small hole.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't feel erotic. It just feels disgusting.

There is no food, so you choose to eat your own kind?
Where is Tokugawa?

Speaking of which, this name... Tokugawa Suming had heard of it before, when he lived in Neon with Xia Ye for a while. He knew it was a famous family.

Could this be the neon from before Xiaoye?
That shouldn't be the case, right?

If it was like this before, how could Xiaoye and Neon Island exist later?

[Unfortunately, the target is dead]

[Current time node: 1777.06.01.22:36]

Just when I was thinking about looking in another place, the prompt came.

"Ha..." Compared to before, something is not right.

I was exhausted both mentally and physically. It felt like... I had satisfied both Hibari and Sayo, who needed the most physical effort.

Is it so tiring to load the game?
Or is it that, since it is not a bug now, it is an experience brought by loading the save file that can be taken back and used again?

"June 1777, 6... There should be no Children's Day in this place."

"Let's look for it again."

6 month 1 day.

I can no longer make progress.

Can feel it.

This is the limit. No matter how hard I try, I can't break through the limitations of my body. In other words, I can't find a way to kill them all in my lifetime.

Their evolution is much faster than the progress brought about by my efforts.

If I had followed my relatives' advice and gone to Izu College before they arrived... to systematically study and develop my talents in advance, would I have become a stronger evolver long ago?
If I had the strength I have now earlier and could go back to that time, my parents would not have died.

"Aili-chan, just do what you like."

"Dad and Mom have never thought of you becoming an Evolver so that you can enter the Senate in the future... As long as Airi-chan is happy, that's all."

'...'

"Airi-chan is amazing, you won the paperback award? Although... the subject matter is a bit... but it's not a bad thing to know this knowledge early. But you can't date men casually, okay? "

'...'

I have talent.

When I was very young, I was found to have a much higher level of adaptability than my peers. A deviation value of 80 points is already very good, and I... out of a full score of 100, when I was still a child, my deviation value was already 85 points.

But I have no interest in politics, nor in trends like the new humans. I hate having to be like those people on the Internet, repeatedly training, being nurtured, and having a lot of time deprived of them.

I like stories.

From simple assimilation at the beginning, to darkness and cruelty, and then to adult violence and eroticism.

At that time, I argued with readers... I was angry because I was called stupid. Now when I think back, it has been a long, long time. Two years.

If I had used all that time on training that I thought was meaningless before, would I, who had a deviation value of 85 when I was a child, have made rapid progress and become a very strong evolver, a new human being after I grew up a little?

But there is no if.

This is my life. I have talent but I stubbornly waste too much time on another path, and only regret it when I can’t protect anything.

It's too late to try again.

"Aili-chan!"

"Let's go! The Self-Defense Force is at the mall! Go there... I'll come over when I find your mother!"

The past events are vivid in my mind.

Both my parents are dead. I found the Self-Defense Forces, but it was useless. They only provided peace for a dozen days before they were completely wiped out.

Everyone was crying and shouting, or desperately wanting to do whatever they wanted in the end...

And I, funny enough, picked up books and equipment that others didn't want at that time. I tried to pick up the talent that I once didn't want from then on. The reason I hated that talent was because my father was a new human, an official, and was always away from home. But in the end, it was because of my father's ability that I was able to survive.

Neon is finished.

It has completely become a breeding ground for monsters. They breed stronger monster offspring, parasitize humans, and initially look like humans, but now they have become disgusting tentacles... It's only been two years.

Apart from Japan, other countries probably aren't much better.

Everyone went from being full of hope to despair. Those who couldn't survive had already died, and few of those who survived wanted to take revenge on the monsters. They either fought for food until their heads were broken and bloodied, or they gathered together to fight for territory in a small, barely safe area.

Or they are just addicted to low-level pleasures.

I'm not much better...

I know that no matter how hard I try, I can't win against the higher-level monsters that are now many times stronger than before after two years.

"what!"

"Pfft-"

A samurai sword, even the best one you can find.

After killing a dozen low-level tentacle monsters, they will become blunt. Their blood is corrosive.

My goal is not to kill these zombies that have been completely parasitized by monsters.

"..."

Where else could I go?
I don't want to be associated with those people, so I go back to the city.

As long as there is a little movement, they will face the monsters, killing a few or even dozens of monsters more skillfully each time, and then flee in a panic due to exhaustion.

There is no way to kill them all.

I can handle low-level monsters with ease, but what about farther away? For example, before the incident, the Chiyo area was full of new human elites.

Not to mention killing it, even if you occasionally meet it from a distance, you can only turn around and run away immediately.

“Gu… huh.”

The smelly mouth opened. Its tentacles were much longer than those of lower-level monsters, and its body was much larger.

The speed...is completely on a different level.

I don't know when the high-level monster in front of me started to target me, but I know very well... my luck is not so good this time. It is impossible to escape unscathed. There is no need to expect anyone to come to save me.

Is it because of that kind of thinking?

I think it would be better to keep standing still, and when it is impossible to find reagents to cultivate the body, I rely on the least likely and dumbest method in the textbook to promote the extreme activation and reorganization of cells through near-death battles. I thought, if I can defeat a high-level monster once.

Maybe there will be a chance to make further progress and truly begin revenge.

But in reality, after two rounds of fighting with it, my hand holding the samurai sword became completely numb... I realized that this naive idea was completely unrealistic.

How can we kill it if we can't even cut its skin?

They only need to keep devouring to become stronger, and the offspring they give birth to become stronger and stronger.

Swinging the sword tens of thousands of times would not change the gap between them. In the next few years, even low-level monsters might be unable to resist.

Now...

In the bag I carried with me, in addition to hidden weapons and remote-controlled props for making noises, there were also bombs.

"Pfft-"

I instinctively swung my knife to block the tentacles, and even though I was pushed back a long way by the force, I was still hit in the thigh.

Blood flowed.

Actually, I am a little desperate, right?

There is no hope, there are endless monsters to kill, and there are high-level monsters that cannot be defeated.

In this situation where it is possible that all of humanity is heading for extinction, my desire for revenge alone... can enable me to accomplish something that no one else can? Save the world?
I didn't want to save the world.

I just wonder... why didn't the monster in front of me swallow my father's?

No blue suit. No badge.

If possible, if you can't kill all the monsters, at least kill that one at the end.

I have small explosive packs in my bag.

"Shh-"

But facing such an attack, there was no spare energy to use it. Even if I did, I couldn't deal with it like I did with low-level monsters. I could just throw it into that disgusting mouth.

"Pfft-"

The knife had broken. I had nothing to use as leverage.

All that awaits me is death.

why?

If I had known earlier, I would have tried harder... and protected Dad and Mom until the moment it happened.

I only thought of my talent after it happened. I only thought of working hard after I had no resources to cultivate my talent.

Failure is inevitable, right?

I just can't bear it. If I can kill one more...

"..."

The flailing tentacles opened and grabbed my arms. My body was already in tatters... blood was everywhere.

At this moment, I inexplicably thought of some people I had met.

There are many people who want my body. I don't really care. You want to do it with me? Sure.

As long as they can bring the head of a high-level monster, I will take off my clothes on my own initiative, whether you want to see the poses that only women in AV can do, or something else... it's all fine.

but no.

No one can defeat me. And I am the lone wolf among them, the strongest. In front of high-level monsters... that's all. Who else can I expect to change the world, take my place, and help me get revenge?

Really, I'm very unwilling.

Why would a good life become like this? A good home... is gone.

"Wait!"

"Save your words!"

"?"

"Pfft-"

I didn't react at all, and the tentacle holding my arm broke by itself. Green blood splattered everywhere.

"..."

I subconsciously wiped away the blood that was blocking my vision and saw a figure standing in front of me.

It looked more clumsy than the countless times I swung my knife, but he was able to dodge every attack of the monster with ease...even though the waving tentacles seemed to leave no room for me to dodge. But he was able to predict, dodge and fight back. The weapon he held was completely different from my knife. It could cut through the monster's skin and flesh.

Are you dreaming?
"call……"

"Are you Tokugawa Airi? This outfit... looks quite mercenary-style."

Not a dream.

Because the man was standing in front of me, with his right hand stretched out, which was still covered with the monster's blood.

Completely speechless.

I have dreamed countless times of killing high-level monsters with my own hands, but what I didn't do... he did.

(End of this chapter)