Herta Deserved to Be Defied by Her Inferior!

Lin Nai: "Yamero!!!"

But in the end, Lin Nai still did not resist. All he could say was that habits were truly terrifying things.

It was because he had been researched too many times.

That Lin Nai had now become too lazy to resist.

As for the final result...

Heh heh.

Some time later.

Looking as though he had been played to the point of breaking, Lin Nai sat in the chair with vacant, lifeless eyes.

And Herta...

That swaggering genius scientist was excitedly examining the freshly produced data and comparing it against the previous records.

After glancing at the excited Herta, Lin Nai leaned back in his chair again.

Staring at the familiar ceiling.

Lin Nai began to space out.

He did not belong to this world.

This year, he had just turned... uh, anyway, he was not eighteen. But he was a transmigrator.

He had been in this world for quite a long time already.

He vaguely remembered being killed by a truck.

He had merely been walking down the road, carrying the jelly he had just bought.

A truck had driven up in front of him and turned into a robot.

Without saying a word, it smacked him hard across the face.

After sending him flying.

A road roller seemed to have fallen from the sky and crushed him to pieces.

He had truly become a paper-thin man.

Good lord, even transmigration death came with a combo!

That whole combo nearly scattered his soul!

Then that combo had forcibly shrunk his body and blasted him into space.

What happened afterward.

Was simply that he drifted through space and got picked up by Herta.

Chapter 2: Herta Deserved to Be Defied by Her Inferior!

"So... hasn't this changed at all?"

Herta stared at the report in her hands, utterly unable to understand it.

Strange.

Why could none of the data be detected at all?

Other than height and weight.

Nothing else had changed at all...

"Oh, your blood sugar has been a little high lately. You should pay some attention to that."

"...Probably because I eat sweets too often."

"Pay a little attention to it. Otherwise, it's unhealthy... although your body won't be affected by it either."

"Herta, you're so naggy."

"Heh, I just don't want you to ruin your body. You're one of my best collectibles..."

Herta raised her head and examined Lin Nai's body.

That body was seriously absurd.

A few years ago, it had still been frail and weak.

But now...

It was hard to say.

Especially after this guy had once run away from home and gone out on his own, all his stats had risen dramatically.

He had even gained a few strange new skills.

"Also, stop playing with that skill you often use to kill fish. Don't accidentally slice up my office later."

At that moment, Lin Nai was reclining in his chair, idly playing with a golden, serrated disc in his hand.

He tossed it out.

Then controlled the disc as it flew back into his hand.

Over and over again.

"I'm controlling it. It'll be fine~" Lin Nai waved his hand dismissively.

Herta rolled her eyes and sneered. "Controlling it? Back then, you used that thing to split my desk in half."

"That was an accident!" Lin Nai retorted seriously.

Back then, he had just received this skill from the system and eagerly gone to find Herta.

Then he had given her a brief demonstration.

He had successfully shocked Herta, but because he was unskilled with it, he had also split her desk apart.

"Yes, yes, it was an accident." After perfunctorily brushing him off, Herta thoughtfully looked at the Ultraman Disc Blade in Lin Nai's hand.

She had also studied that serrated disc.

It was very sharp.

At the very least, she had yet to see an item capable of blocking it.

According to Lin Nai...

He had gotten it from killing fish.

Herta did not know what was going on, nor could she figure it out through research.

Ever since she had picked up Lin Nai, Herta had thought he was special.

Not only because Lin Nai could move through space without any equipment.

More importantly...

It seemed as though something about him was drawing her in.

She could not explain it.

Herta had let Lin Nai roam free on the Space Station for so many years partly because she wanted to figure out what was going on.

Unfortunately, she had found no clues.

"I wonder what kind of Path you'll walk in the future..."

"A Path, huh."

Paths.

The roads walked by Aeons.

Those who traveled alongside them would surely receive their blessings.

When mortals intentionally or unintentionally stepped onto a Path governed by an "Aeon," they became "Pathwalkers" who practiced that Aeon's ideals.

As for Herta, who stood before Lin Nai, she was not only a member of the Genius Society, but also an Aeon of Intellect Envoy.

Then her Path was undoubtedly Intellect.

Envoys were somewhat different from Pathwalkers.

Envoys were humans directly granted power by Aeons, usually acting as representatives of an Aeon's will.

Pathwalkers, meanwhile, were inspired by an Aeon's beliefs, walked the corresponding Path, and drew power and blessings from it.

"Hard to say." Lin Nai slapped away the returning Disc Blade. "Maybe... I won't walk a Path at all."

Come to think of it.

People from other worlds probably had a chance to become Pathwalkers too, right?

Lin Nai was not sure.

But he had actually encountered so-called Aeons long ago.

Back when Herta had not yet picked him up, when he was still drifting through space.

At the time, his mind had not been clear.

Everything he saw had been blurry, leaving him able to make out only rough shapes.

For example.

Someone who seemed to be holding a whole pile of masks floating in the void, looking like Conan's shadowy silhouette.

A golden figure that looked like it was made of stone.

And someone with antlers on their head and an unknown number of eyes on their body.

As well as someone following behind them, who seemed to be a centaur carrying a bow.

Lin Nai could only say that he had been utterly shocked.

Most importantly, all of them had looked at him. They seemed to want to say something, then stopped themselves.

It was very strange.

Especially that shadowy figure. Lin Nai felt that it had bad intentions.

It seemed like it wanted to have some fun with him.

He did not know whether it was just an illusion.

He had not told Herta about this.

As for whether Herta knew about it, he was not sure either.

After all, she was an Aeon of Intellect Envoy.

It was hard to say whether she could see through it.

"Not necessarily..." Herta stared at Lin Nai with great interest, as though she wanted to see through him completely.

Lin Nai definitely had a huge secret hidden within him.

Unfortunately.

It could not be investigated.

She had once taken Lin Nai to see the other members of the Genius Society as well.

For example, a certain mechanical aristocrat, or Ruan Mei, or others.

The conclusion had been that they found nothing.

But something rather surprising was.

Lin Nai seemed to have had a pleasant chat with all of them.