Crossover Anime: How a Shameless Person Lives

"Are they out of their minds?"

After watching Sugar and Kasugano Sora enter the laboratory, Mercury nudged Yoshimura Eto beside him.

Seeing the researchers' fanatical eyes, I felt a chill run down my spine.

Are all of these guys gay?

"Of course not!"

Akihiro Kanou, who had been eavesdropping, rushed over and explained, "Boss, how can you still not understand what a magnificent work you have created!"

His fanatical attitude left Yoshimura Eto speechless.

"here we go again……"

As the research project progressed, Akihiro Kanou's mental state became increasingly dangerous.

Even the researchers who assisted him were affected.

A blatant stronghold of fanatics.

"Go to hell, you're the real work of art!" Mercury raised his hand and slapped him.

He's a human being! At least for now...?

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant." Kanou Akihiro clutched his head, his voice fervent. "You don't understand! The more you study those anomalies, the more your greatness is revealed!"

Akihiro Kanou's pupils throbbed with almost manic excitement, completely ignoring the red marks on his face from the slap, his tone as devout as if he were on a pilgrimage.

"Ordinary anomalies follow rules, have traceable causes and effects! But you're different, Boss!"

He lunged forward, but was stopped by a glare from Mercury, freezing him in place. He could only rub his hands together excitedly and speak rapidly.

"Do you remember the Slug Girl? According to the video found in Osaka, she was a typical cursed anomaly, as was the Lake Slug."

"There are also some unnamed anomalies that are the same; they have developed a killing mechanism, or rather, a set of rules, based on their own rules."

"It's similar to your abilities, yet different, like a programmer's code; your code goes far beyond these exceptions."

"Not only that, the salt you conjured out of thin air, although very similar to the salt we know, is essentially the same thing!"

"The code of these salts is even higher than the code of the human body. I have done experiments and found that the salt in the body of people who eat the sacred salt is permanently retained and its operating mechanism covers the entire human body."

"Including animals, parasites, ghouls, and even the plants in nature, your salt will always be above the logic by which these things operate!"

"Do you know what this means? It means you have priority in this world!"

"What else could this be but God!?"

Behind the glass windows on both sides of the laboratory corridor, several passing researchers stopped at the sound and turned to look, their eyes flashing with the same obsession and fanaticism as Akihiro Kanou.

In the days of dissecting the bizarre and immersing themselves in experiments, Mercury had long since become more than just a simple boss in their eyes.

It transcends all anomalies!

The most perfect, ultimate answer!

The so-called fanatics among the three factions of the Beast Group refer to them!

"..."

"These savages are monstrous."

Mercury's lips twitched; he didn't want to stay there a moment longer.

Watching him turn and leave, Yoshimura Eto rubbed his forehead, his eyes filled with deep helplessness.

Ever since Akihiro Kanou's research on anomalies got on track, everyone in the experimental department has become completely obsessed.

She had these people study the monster in order to gain control.

This group of people, however, became more and more devoted to Mercury the more they studied him, and eventually they all became fanatical followers of Mercury.

……

In the corridor, Yoshimura Eto caught up with Mercury, who was walking out.

I walked alongside him.

After a while, seeing the silence fall, she spoke softly: "You seem to resent other people treating you like a god."

Mercury chuckled, put his hands in his pockets, and didn't stop walking.

His tone was laced with undisguised sarcasm: "I'm not against it. Whether it's a god or a man, I am who I am. No one can define me, not even the vortex, and not even these ants."

Yoshimura Eto smiled, not delving into the matter, but secretly noting down Mercury's words.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, you wouldn't understand anyway."

Mercury didn't want to explain.

What should he say?

Am I destined to be awesome?

Could the Demon King be protecting us on the road ahead?

What's the point of saying anything? We've been slacking off before, and we're still slacking off now.

The only difference is the height from which they stand, and the way they slack off is also different.

"So what do you think..." Yoshimura Eto asked softly, "What are you now?"

Mercury stopped in his tracks.

The sun shines brightly outside the window at the end of the corridor.

He looked at it, a familiar smirk playing on his lips.

"I'm an asshole, and I'll always be an asshole!"

Yoshimura Ete: "..."

She knew it.

You can never get more than three sentences out of a deep conversation with this person.

"Alright, stop thinking about it." Mercury smiled and walked out. "After Kasugano Sora is finished with her modifications, have her go back with Sugar and stop her from running around in Chiba."

Yoshimura Ete snapped out of her thoughts and followed in his footsteps.

"You never cared about the children in the orphanage before."

"A mere few decades won't be wasted much time."

Mercury replied with a nonsensical statement.

With a bewildered look on Fangcun Ai's face, he patted her head.

"..."

Watching his departing figure, Yoshimura Eto stood still.

"That look in her eyes just now, so arrogant, it was exactly like Tomie's..."

"Lord Aite, what did you say?"

Tatara suddenly appeared out of nowhere and asked a question in confusion.

Yoshimura Aite glanced at him and asked a question: "Under what circumstances would someone think that a few decades is a short time?"

Tatara frowned and thought about it seriously.

"When they have lived for a very long time, like those monsters in movies and TV shows that have lived for thousands of years, a few decades may just be the time it takes to take a nap."

Yoshimura Ete did not speak.

He just stared at the direction Mercury had disappeared, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Lord Eto?" Tatara called out softly when he saw her lost in thought.

"It's nothing." Yoshimura Eto looked away, and her smile returned to her face.

"Hey hey~ Why think so much? Let's go."

"Yes."