"See, you can tell at a glance whether I lied to you or not."

As if proving something, Yuan Yuan smiled slightly and continued,

"The main reason is that after meeting another version of myself, I discovered that there are such interesting things in the world as playing with another version of myself. It's like I've opened the door to a new world, and naturally, I've changed a lot."

This person is truly awful.

P.S., I forgot to mention yesterday that regarding the next world, please don't mention the world of games, because I basically don't play games and I don't understand the settings at all. Also, I saw someone mention the world of Doraemon, and after thinking about it, I realized that it's truly a fantastic world; it could spark a lot of interesting ideas!

Chapter Forty-Three: Anger

"Doctor, do you know where Rentaro is? He hasn't come back all day."

As soon as Sumire Muroto answered the phone, an anxious female voice rang out.

Although the girl's voice was anxious, it didn't affect Sumire's mood at all. Her hand holding the coffee remained steady, and she spoke slowly and somewhat lazily.

"Calm down, Tiantong. You know best the consequences of being impatient, don't you?"

The female voice on the other end of the phone suddenly disappeared, and even her breathing stopped. It seemed that the girl whom Muroto Sumire called Tendo had recalled something bad and couldn't help but hold her breath.

After a while, when Sumire Muroto had drunk a third of her coffee, Tendo's voice rang out again. This time, her voice was no longer anxious; it had regained its usual assertiveness and sternness.

"I'm sorry, Doctor, I got too excited just now."

"Now that you've calmed down, Tiantong, tell me what exactly happened."

Tendo's assertiveness and sternness still couldn't affect Muroto Sumire's emotions; her reply remained languid and slow.

Taking a silent, deep breath to suppress his dissatisfaction with Muroto Sumire's attitude, Tendo Kisara finally spoke.

"Rentaro hasn't come back all day, and I haven't heard from him at all. I was a little worried, so I called to ask if he was staying with you to recuperate. But judging from your reaction just now, Rentaro is probably not with you. So let me ask you another question: do you know where Rentaro is now?"

"I didn't know, but Rentaro is an adult now. He's only been away from home for a day, so you don't need to worry so much, Tendo."

Slowly stirring her coffee, Sumire Muroto stared at the monitor in front of her, looking at the black-haired, spiky-haired youth on the screen, and said without a flicker of emotion,

"Perhaps Rentaro is somewhere right now, having a heart-to-heart talk with some pretty girl. After all, he's an adult now and can make his own choices."

"W-what? With a girl? That's so shameless!"

Instantly, the girl's previously assertive voice became panicked, and through the microphone, one could almost hear the sound of something being knocked over.

Sumire Muroto chuckled softly, avoiding any further topics that might cause the girl to lose her composure, and summarized the conversation.

"Anyway, if you're still worried, Tendo, go and look for Rentaro in the places he might usually go, although I don't think it's necessary at all."

"Understood, I'll go find him. Rentaro is an employee I've reserved; I can't let him be lured away by some unknown woman. Well then, Doctor, I apologize for disturbing you. See you later."

Hearing that the girl seemed to have regained her composure, but a hint of panic could still be heard in her voice, Sumire Muroto smiled lazily and hung up the phone.

"Rentaro is an adult now. He can make his own choices and bear the consequences of those choices."

Watching Rentaro confronting a purple-haired woman on the screen, Sumire Muroto's eyes showed a hint of regret, but her smile remained unchanged. She gently stroked the Rentaro on the screen, as if touching the body she had touched countless times during her own modifications and examinations, and whispered...

“If I could, I really wouldn’t want to destroy you. If you had joined Yuan Jun’s forces, I could have used Yuan Jun as an excuse to let you go. Unfortunately, when Yuan Jun allowed you to leave, it meant that he didn’t want to subdue you, but only wanted you to escape from his command. In this case, if I don’t kill you, I can’t explain it to those people.”

Withdrawing her hand, Muroto Sumire stopped looking at the screen and picked up the documents she had just received from Yuan Yuan, studying them carefully while whispering instructions.

"Ziyuan, kill him."

Instantly, the woman confronting Rentaro reacted.

"Mechanized soldier Shion Ogiwara, soldier number KT0374, begins his mission. Mission objective: Eliminate the traitor Rentaro Satomi."

Rentaro's pupils contracted, and he reacted the instant Shion spoke, dodging to the side. The next moment, Shion rushed towards Rentaro at an unimaginable speed, and during the sprint, a large amount of blue light overflowed from her legs, while the artificial skin covering her legs disappeared rapidly as if burning. When she arrived at the place where Rentaro had been standing, her legs had already turned into pitch-black mechanical legs.

Rentaro was initially wondering who this woman who suddenly stopped him and exuded a dangerous aura was, but when she uttered the word "mechanical warrior," he understood completely.

Mechanized soldiers are extremely rare, and their identities are highly secretive. Even they themselves are unaware of each other's identities. Only the Four Sages and those at the very top of each settlement can command these super soldiers. In the entire Tokyo area, only the Holy Emperor and Sumire Muroto have the authority to command the mechanized soldiers, and this Shion Ogihara is clearly someone sent by Sumire Muroto to silence her.

"If you want to kill me, then be prepared to be killed!!"

No longer able to suppress his anger, Rentaro roared and charged at Shion with the same speed. During the charge, his right arm and right leg underwent similar changes to Shion's legs, quickly turning into cold mechanical limbs. At the same time, the black in his left eye also faded rapidly, turning into a cold mechanical prosthetic eye.

Rentaro's combat strength is definitely not low. He possesses superb Tendo-ryu martial arts skills, mechanical limbs that are many times stronger than the human body, mechanical prosthetic eyes that can analyze the opponent's movements and even predict the opponent's next move, and mechanical eyes that can correct his own attack trajectory, as well as high-powered bullets hidden in his mechanical limbs. These terrifying weapons combined give him the initial combat power to fight an army on his own.

However, Shion Ogiwara, who is also a mechanized warrior and a rare female one at that, is by no means weaker than him. And most importantly, before going on the mission, Shion Ogiwara had already obtained all of Rentaro's information from Sumire Muroto. She knew everything about him: what weapons he had, what secret techniques he possessed, what habits he had, what weaknesses he had, and what flaws he had.

However, Rentaro knew nothing about Shion, which led to him being violently knocked away by Shion when he used the Tendou style to attack her.

While reviewing the documents, Sumire Muroto glanced casually at the screen in front of her. Seeing that the battle scene was not unexpected, she turned her attention back to studying the documents.

However, Sumire Muroto was unaware that she was not the only one watching Rentaro and Shion's battle.

Not far from where Rentaro and Shion were fighting, on the rooftop of a building, a gigantic Gastrea lay motionless, its form distorted and unnoticed. Strangely, the light around it seemed to be constantly warping, making it impossible for anyone to notice it even though it lay there openly.

Lying there, the Gastrea's eight bloody eyes and one purple eye simultaneously watched the battle between the mechs and warriors.

P.S., today was truly a nightmare for the zoo.

Today in lab class, we used mice. The teacher said our mice weren't vaccinated, so I had to be careful not to get bitten, or I'd need a vaccine. Remembering the teacher's words, I naturally conducted the experiment very carefully, without a single mistake; the mouse didn't have a chance to bite me. Just as I was starting to feel a little relieved, a girl next to me screamed, her face clearly saying, "I'm so delicate, I'm so afraid of mice," and threw the mouse away.

Then I watched helplessly as the rat flew towards me at high speed, doing a 360-degree spin in the air, and landed squarely on my hand, opening its mouth to bite me. Luckily, I reacted at the last moment, forcefully shaking my hand and flinging both the rat I was holding and the one that had landed on my hand away, thus avoiding being bitten.

When I asked the girl afterwards why she threw the mouse, she weakly told me, "Because the mouse made a sound, and I was scared." Scared? What are you scared of?! Do you think I don't remember the last time I had my heart blood drawn? You were the one who ripped the rabbit's heart open like a sieve?! Damn it, I felt like cursing a dog.

Chapter 44 You Know Too Much

[I don't care what methods you use to make Rentaro Satomi and Enju Aihara completely disillusioned with humanity. If you succeed with one of them, I'll tell you how to overcome the limitations of your abilities. If you succeed with both, I'll directly solve the problem for you.]

Recalling Yuan Yuan's cold words uttered from mid-air that day, Bai Ye's heart was churning with a mix of emotions that he couldn't calm down. Staring intently at the two mechanized warriors locked in combat, or rather, at the male of the two, Bai Ye's gaze was both calm and fanatical, like someone on the verge of death seeing an antidote—filled with a madness that demanded success at all costs.

[Yuan Yuan's strange attention to Satomi Rentaro and Aihara Enju was already evident in the manga, and various online forums were speculating about their identities. They seemed unremarkable, yet they managed to attract Yuan Yuan's attention. Looking back now, those initial guesses seem utterly ridiculous.]

The sharp, knife-like beak gently rubbed against the ground, and the madness in Bai Ye's eyes gradually faded, revealing a hint of solemnity.

[Just reading the manga didn't really give me a sense of reality, but now that I've met him in person, I realize that Rentaro Satomi is anything but ordinary; his very existence is the most extraordinary thing about him.]

In Bai Ye's view, Satomi Rentaro clearly had all his trump cards known to the enemy and was at a disadvantage from the start, looking like he would be killed soon. But he actually maintained this look of being about to be killed at any moment, and dragged out the battle for a full twenty minutes.

What surprised Byakuya the most was that, despite being seriously injured, Satomi Rentaro gradually turned the tide as the battle continued, and it looked like he was about to launch a counterattack.

This kind of resilience, where the more adversity one faces, the stronger they become, as if their potential will never run out and they will never fall, is simply...

"The main character."

Unable to contain himself, Bai Ye realized his lapse in composure and quickly reinforced his optical camouflage to conceal himself.

Even if humans discovered him, they wouldn't pose any threat to Bai Ye, but just thinking that the person who caused the monsters to appear lived in this city made him lose all desire to use force.

While Byakuya was reflecting on his lack of composure, Rentaro had already successfully turned the tide, tearing off one of his opponent's arms and officially launching his counterattack.

[This guy really is got the protagonist template, but... if Rentaro Satomi is the protagonist, then who is Yuan Yuan, who can completely overshadow the protagonist and make him seem like an ordinary person? Damn it, I have a feeling I've discovered some secret I shouldn't know. I hope I won't be silenced later.]

"Damn it, never mind, the important thing now is to solve my ability problem. If I don't solve this problem quickly, I won't even have the chance to think about the future."

Frustrated, Bai Ye flapped the butterfly wings on his back, his eyes flashing with a fierce light as he released several enormous Gastrea souls from his purple eyes.

As soon as these Gastrea souls, with thick chains wrapped around their necks, appeared, they charged headlong into the battlefield between the two mechanized warriors.

As it passed through the crowd, the soul of a Gastrea creature resembling a stitched-together gorilla, scorpion, and dragonfly swung its head and bit down hard on a man. Then, as if tearing something out, it ran while vigorously chewing.

The man torn apart by the soul beast showed no physical harm, but he collapsed, lifeless. The two women beside him, stunned for a moment before realizing what was happening, screamed. People gathered around, discussing the fallen man as if oblivious to the behemoths that had pierced through their bodies and the building, rushing into the distance.

Just as the crowd was in turmoil because of the sudden death, not far from them, Ogiwara Shion had basically lost her ability to fight and collapsed to the ground, looking up at Satomi Rentaro with resentment. She wanted to say something, but because her lungs had been punctured, she could only vomit large amounts of blood and could not say anything.

“I know who sent you and what their purpose is, so I won’t ask any unnecessary questions.”

Are you willing to accept this? You survived such high-mortality modification surgeries, only to die at the hands of a traitor.

Rentaro's weak but indifferent voice and a cold and arrogant voice rang in Shion's ears at the same time, making her eyes, which were already dim due to excessive blood loss, even more confused.

"As a mechanized warrior, you must have had your hands stained with the blood of those who have sworn to the darkness, so I will show you no mercy."

Look at the person in front of you. He's clearly a traitor, a stray dog. Yet, he doesn't even see you. Can you tolerate such contempt?

Two voices rang out simultaneously again. Subconsciously, Shion raised her head as instructed by the cold voice. Then, the indifference in the eyes of the loser who had been abandoned by the higher-ups deeply pierced her heart.

"Killers should be prepared to be killed, so accept death with equanimity."

Now, that scoundrel, that scoundrel destined to lose everything, is about to take everything from you. Can you accept it?!

"I... Pfft, I don't accept it."

Ziyuan vomited blood while making weak, intermittent sounds.

Upon hearing Shion's words, Rentaro paused slightly, then shook his head in disappointment.

"As a soldier, you don't even have the awareness to accept death. It's truly disappointing. I have no interest in talking to you anymore. I will simply take your life now."

Since you're unwilling to accept it, open your eyes!! Open your eyes, and I will grant you the power to change everything!!

The arrogant voice grew incredibly loud, booming like thunder in Ziyuan's ears and jolting her consciousness back from its brink of collapse. With her last ounce of strength, she lifted her eyelids, and her dull eyes brightened once more.

The light shone into Shion's eyes again, giving her the illusion that her eyes had never been so bright in her life. In the light, the first thing that caught Shion's eye was Shirentaro's blood-soaked yet still indifferent face. But before hatred could rise in her pupils, fear instantly filled her eyes.

In Shion's view, several translucent monsters bared their fangs and claws and passed through Rentaro's body, lunging at her.

The next moment, the behemoth of souls silently and forcefully burrowed into Shion Ogiwara's body.

P.S., a friend studying law told me today, "Did you know that a man raping another man doesn't constitute a crime of rape? But if the man being raped is wearing women's clothing, then it constitutes a crime of rape?" For a moment, I was stunned. Could such a thing really exist?! After a moment, I realized something was off. Why did he tell me this? Did it expose my liking for women with large penises? (Funny)

By the way, to those who say I'm destined to be single, you love-obsessed people are really something else. If your girl likes you, would she throw a rat that might bite you and give you rabies on you?

P.S., I recommend a book.

Author's Name: Lazy Author, Lazy Updates

Title: The Legend of the Cthulhu Orochi

Recommendation: Let's just call this a proper novel.

Chapter Forty-Five: The Corpse

Even though Shion was a beautiful girl, and even though her eyes were filled with a desire to live, Rentaro, who looked down at her, showed no mercy whatsoever, as if the beautiful girl in front of him was no different from the Gastrea he had hunted before.

This is the discipline Rentaro possesses as a warrior; when facing life and death, he will never let useless emotions cloud his judgment.

Looking down at Shion, Rentaro decisively extended his mechanized right hand. The metal in his palm moved rapidly, revealing a cannon muzzle filled with a dangerous blue light.

Next, as long as Rentaro gives the order to fire in his mind, the miniature shell will accurately strike Shion's head, blasting her upper body to pieces and completely extinguishing her life.

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