Knight Asylum

"Please give me three cups of handmade coffee." Since it was not her first time here, Metzl reached out and pressed the bell on the counter with ease.

“Pfft——Is this true——”

The young man with a baseball jacket tied around his waist lowered the IQ of the two people at a glance, and sprayed out coffee as if he had heard something extremely incredible, and coincidentally, it sprayed on the face of the young man next to him who was wearing a brown windbreaker, a red and a blue canvas shoe, and who forcibly raised the IQ of the two people at a glance.

"Ahhhh——Battle Rabbit, are you okay?"

"lofty!!!!"

After some confusion, Red learned the names of the two weird duo who were drinking canned coffee in the coffee shop. The one who lowered the IQ of people with one glance was called Manjo Ryuga, and the one who forcibly raised the IQ of those around him with one glance was called Kiryu Sento. They were both members of Nascita Coffee Shop.

It's hard to believe, but these two members of Nascita Cafe are trying to stop Metzl from buying the handmade coffee made by the owner of Nascita Cafe.

The fearful expressions of Ryuga Manjo and Sento Kiryu towards the handmade coffee made by the owner of Nascita Coffee Shop made Red inexplicably feel an urge to follow them to persuade Mazel.

But Red finally chose to believe Metzl. In the previous timeline, Metzl had been visiting Nascita Coffee Shop, which meant that there must be no problem with the handmade coffee. After all, what else can you do in a coffee shop besides drinking coffee?

Soon, the owner of Nascita Coffee Shop, Ishido Soichi, pushed the door open carrying a bag of canned coffee. He glanced at Reid and the others, his gaze stopped on Metzger, he raised his hand to adjust his photochromic glasses, and raised his eyebrows with interest.

"Oh, it's rare. By the way... isn't this Miss Metzler? Long time no see."

"Hmm? Boss, this is——"

"Okay - Wanzhang, go put these in the vending machine first~"

Before Wanzhang Longwo could finish his words, Ishidō Soichi raised his hand and threw the plastic bag of canned coffee to Wanzhang Longwo. Wanzhang Longwo shifted his attention to the plastic bag in his arms and immediately stopped asking the previous question. After muttering a few words, he moved the plastic bag of canned coffee to the only vending machine in the store.

Kiryuu Sento raised his hand and scratched his hair, as if thinking about something, but did not speak.

Chapter 299: Will time go back? Boss~

“Good——Nascita Specialty Handmade Coffee——”

Ishido Soichi pushed out three cups of steaming coffee with pride on his face.

But in terms of confidence, Ishido Soichi is definitely a master-level barista, if Manjo Ryuga and Kiryu Sento standing beside him didn't show regretful expressions.

After noticing that Manjo Ryuga and Kiryu Sento had disrespectful expressions that caused Red to hesitate, Ishido Soichi immediately turned around and waved at Manjo Ryuga and Kiryu Sento.

"Go! Go! Go--"

Kiryu Battle Rabbit was very tactful and stood up and sat far away. However, Manjo Ryu I hesitated for a moment, then dug into my pocket, took out a O coin, bought three cans of coffee from the vending machine, and pushed them to Red and the others.

"These—are for you."

"Hey, hey, hey—Wanzhang, what do you mean by this?!"

"Such a noise! ​​Didn't you count the amount of coffee you made yourself? I'm trying to retain our rare customers! At least they can... buy canned coffee here!"

Red's eyes jumped and he picked up the coffee with a subtle expression.

Hello, is there really nothing wrong with this coffee?

Just as Red was hesitating and struggling, Mazel elegantly picked up the coffee cup, blew on it, and took a sip, revealing a nostalgic expression, "Yeah, I always feel nostalgic."

“Eh——” I, a dragon with a thousand feet long body, opened my mouth wide.

Mazel glanced at Manzhang Longwo. As a Greeed, she had no sense of taste and could not taste anything. She didn't even know if the coffee was scalding or just hot enough. But she was very good at observing people's expressions. Looking at Ishido Soichi's confident expression, this coffee—

It must be delicious!

Of course, the most important thing is that in the previous timeline, Red drank Ishido Soichi's handmade coffee. For a period of time afterwards, she had been imitating Ishido Soichi's method of making coffee for Red, and Red never showed an expression of difficulty in swallowing.

Qiao looked at Metzl with suspicion, then looked at Wanzhanglongwo.

I have to say that Wanzhanglong's horrified expression, as if they were dancing in a minefield, was really scary.

After hesitating for a moment, Qiao decided to trust Metzler and blew gently on the coffee in small sips, intending to drink it after it cooled down.

Red took a gulp without thinking.

"Gurgle—"

An indescribable strange smell rushed straight to Red's forehead. Theoretically, he only had the memories of the previous timeline, and his body was still the body that continued from the first timeline. He had never drunk Ishido Soichi's handmade coffee, but this coffee was so unpalatable that Red felt regretful about why he drank it again.

Seeing Red's reaction, Qiao silently pushed the cooled coffee away and picked up the can of coffee sideways.

Mazel blinked blankly.

That's not right. Wasn't Red very happy drinking in the previous timeline? Why does he look like he's about to die now?

"Ahem - come to think of it, Miss Metzger, you haven't been here for several days. I almost thought something happened to you," Ishido Soichi coughed heavily and skillfully changed the subject with his right hand on the bar.

"Actually, something happened and I lost my memory," Metzler sighed helplessly, "I came here to take a look because I saw the Nascita ad these past two days and it looked familiar."

"Amnesia, how unfortunate," Ishido Soichi shook his head and looked at Kiryu Battle Rabbit not far away, "In fact, I also adopted a guy with amnesia."

Kiryuu Sento raised his brows slightly but said nothing.

"Amnesia can't be cured in a hurry. What is needed is companionship," Ishido Soichi smiled kindly at Reid who finally recovered, "It seems that Miss Metzler is being well taken care of."

Qiao raised her eyebrows slightly.

Why did she feel that Ishido Soichi and Metzger were in agreement?

"Sometimes, not thinking about the past and just moving on is also a good option," Ishido Soichi picked up the can of coffee and shook it, "No matter what, time will not go back, and life is always moving forward."

"That's true," Mazel smiled and did not dwell on the matter of amnesia, but continued to ask, "Speaking of which, Boss, do you know about Gaia's memory?"

"Oh~ that one—" Ishido Soichi suddenly realized something, took out his pocket and put a Gaia memory marked with B on the table and pushed it forward, "I saw it on the way back, it happened to be the last one, so I bought it."

Mazel's eyes lit up, and just as she raised her hand, Gaia's memory was taken away by Kiryu Battle Rabbit who came over out of nowhere.

"Is this Gaia's memory?! It's really interesting!"

Kiryuu Sento scratched the back of his head hard, observing Gaia's memory with shining eyes, and one side of his hair stood up like a rabbit ear.

"Hey, hey, hey - Battle Rabbit -" Ishido Soichi called out helplessly like an old father, but it was a pity that Battle Rabbit Kiryu had fallen into his own world and couldn't extricate himself.

Reid raised his brow slightly.

He was very familiar with Kiryu Battle Rabbit's expression. Seryuu would also show the same expression when he was pulling his body.

Could it be that I'm so lucky as to encounter a wild one, a scientist?

Reid hesitated for a moment and then asked tentatively, "Um, Kiryu, do you understand the technology of Gaia's memory?"

Before Kiryu Sento could say anything, Manjo Ryuu raised his hand, hooked it around Kiryu Sento's shoulder and waved his hand carelessly, "Of course, Sento is a great scientist!"

Kiryuu Sento rolled his eyes helplessly and pushed Manjo Ryuwo's ​​hand away, waving the Gaia Memory in his hand towards Reid, "I've heard of this thing, but this is the first time I've seen a real thing. Speaking of which, I saw in the advertisement that if you want to use Gaia Memory, you need to conduct a small interface experiment. Where is your interface?"

"Hey, hey, hey, uncle, I'm old and don't want to have any weird cuts on my body," Ishido So raised his body back, "I just bought the Gaia memory."

"Really? What a pity. I wanted to see with my own eyes the process of using Gaia's memory," Kiryuu Sento said with regret.

"Aren't there Gaia memories all over the streets now? Can't you just go out and take a look and see people using them?" I, Wanzhanglong, complained.

Kiryuu Sento was silent for a long time, then looked at Manjo Ryuga in surprise, "You..."

"What, what's wrong?" I, Wanzhanglong, shrank my neck.

"No, sometimes it takes an idiot to discover some blind spots. I am a genius for being able to prepare idiots in advance! Let's go! Wanzhang!"

After saying that, Kiryu Battle Rabbit walked out with a swagger. I, Manjo Ryu, let out an "oh" twice before I reacted.

"Wait a minute! Who are you calling an idiot!"

Reid stood up. His purpose of coming out this time was also to observe Gaia Memory, but his luck was not very good. He did not see any user of Gaia Memory on the way here. Since Kiryu Sento also wanted to observe Gaia Memory, they could just go together. In case the user of Gaia Memory went berserk, he could also protect Kiryu Sento and the others.

Metzl saw what Red was thinking and smiled. "Just go with them. I'll wait for you here. Maybe I can remember something after talking to the boss."

"Well, I'll be back soon."

Red nodded, stood up and followed him out. He glanced at Metzger, who didn't say much and followed Red.

With the departure of Red and Qiao, the coffee shop fell into silence. Ishido Soichi put down the cup in his hand, turned on his phone, switched to the chat screen, pushed it towards Metzger, and grinned.

"Ms. Metzger, how was my acting? Even though I was almost exposed by my idiot, I didn't show any flaws at all."

Metzger glanced at the chat on the phone screen, the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

"Yes, your acting is really good. I almost believed that you really knew nothing. So, Boss, can time go back?"

Chapter 300: Promoting human evolution and causing social collapse are not in conflict

Is it a lack of common sense? Or is it that when you encounter something that interests you, you devote yourself to it and ignore some common sense?

Red thinks that Kiryu Battle Rabbit should belong to the latter.

After leaving the coffee shop, Kiryu Battle Rabbit walked around grabbing his hair. I don’t know if there was a difference in luck between the two sides, but I found the user of Gaia’s memory after just a few steps.

It was an employee of a moving company. He took out a Gaia memory with the letter O on it from his pocket and pressed the start switch on it. Then a mark similar to a USB port appeared on the employee's neck. Under Kiryu Sento's curious gaze, the employee inserted the Gaia memory into the mark.

Along with a white halo, Gaia's memory penetrated into the employee's body, and then the employee's whole body was glowing and tentacles rolled out from it.

Red leaned against the wall, his brows furrowed.

He had seen similar scenes before. The two people in the museum also turned into monsters in this way. The only difference was that the two people in the museum used drivers, while the employee of the moving company was directly implanted.

"Octopus, octopus? This is really interesting. How can humans obtain the power of monsters so easily?" Kiryu Battle Rabbit grabbed his hair and looked curiously at the octopus-shaped monster who was moving furniture with his tentacles.

If he hadn't seen the entire process of the moving worker using Gaia's memory, he would never have believed that he was a human being even if he was beaten to death.

"Did I really gain the power of a monster instead of becoming a monster?" Wanzhanglong rubbed his arms and complained.

"As long as the Gaia memory is taken out, they will turn back into humans," Red added.

"Gaia Memory, this is probably an invention that can promote human evolution," Kiryu Battle Rabbit nodded and commented seriously.

“Eh——” I opened my mouth wide, not expecting Kiryu Battle Rabbit to have such a high opinion of Gaia’s memory.

"Ha - Manjo, you are, are you really an idiot?" Kiryuu Sento turned his head to look at Manjo Ryuga, put his hands on his hips and shook his head helplessly, "I thought you could at least understand how great an invention Gaia Memory is."

"Hey, hey, hey - Battle Rabbit, no matter what, you don't have to make personal attacks!" I, Wanzhanglong, couldn't help but yell.

"With just a small minimally invasive surgery, humans can gain freely controllable monster-like powers through Gaia memory," Reid leaned against the wall with his arms folded across his chest, looking in the direction of the truck with a complicated expression.

Because of the use of Gaia memory, the moving work that should have been time-consuming and labor-intensive was completed in less than five minutes.

In [S·L], humans do have the opportunity to obtain the power of monsters, but this often comes with a huge price.

There are rumors that before the advent of [S·L], there existed an evil organization that would secretly kidnap people and transform them into fighting monsters. Humans did gain the power of monsters, but the price was so high that it was worse than death.

After the release of [S·L], more and more methods for turning humans into monsters have been discovered, but no one is willing to try them actively.

There is a chance of awakening into Ophiino upon death, but there is a high probability of sudden death.

If you possess the qualifications of a magician and overcome despair, you can gain the power of magic, but there is a greater chance that you will become a phantom demon.

Theoretically, being copied by an alien insect could allow one to gain the power of a monster, but the probability of failure is greater.

etc--

The Gaia memory can easily allow humans to gain the power of monsters.

How easy it is.

Based on the results of current observations, there are almost no restrictions on use. Purchase, perform minimally invasive surgery that takes less than one or two seconds, use Gaia memory, and it's over.

And depending on the situation, you can remove Gaia's memory and turn back into a human at any time.

As Kiryuu Sento said, this is an invention that drives human evolution.

The only problem is probably that Gaia memory is not cheap.

As for the trace amounts of toxins carried by Gaia's memory...

Compared with the huge changes that Gaia memory can bring, that tiny amount of toxin is really nothing.

Just like smoking, everyone knows that smoking is chronic suicide, but people still smoke and may even be unable to stop.

"It's time to go back now," the hair on Kiryu Sento's head fell down with a click, he stretched lazily and turned around and left.

Manjo Ryuu looked around and followed Kiryuu Battle Rabbit.

"Red, go back," Qiao walked behind Red and whispered.

Reid took a deep look at the user of the Gaia Memory who had taken out the Gaia Memory and was laughing happily with the other movers.

Is Gaia Memory a hope for humanity or a bait that pushes humanity into despair?

At least for now, he couldn't get the answer.

Back at Nascita, Metzl and Ishido Soichi were chatting happily and looked very happy. When he saw Red and the others coming back, Ishido Soichi immediately turned around and raised the cup in his hand.

"Oh - are you guys back? How's your social observation going?"

Wanzhanglong pulled a chair over and sat down, complaining, "I always feel that... Gaia Memory is really powerful. It can turn humans into weirdos without any side effects."