Special Chapter: The Herrscher of Thunder's Training Manual (Part 2)

Mei's words caused an unprecedented stir among two Mobius, two Eden, two Sues, two Chrono... Well, it was indeed more lively than ever before. Mei hadn't felt so many eyes on her in a long time.

"Hmph, so tell me, what's going on? Why is there a clown impersonating me here?"

"I was just thinking, do you think you can replace me just because you're wearing a ridiculous mask?"

Chrono and Mobius are in similar situations. They dislike their other selves, while others are observing their "imposters" with great interest. Of course, they can't tell who is real and who is fake; they themselves are not even sure if they are the real people.

"Everything we could find is here."

One of them, Su, walked up to Mei. Kevin, who didn't have a fake, Aponia, and Hua also gathered together. "Klein has already investigated. Apart from the data corrupted by the Herrscher of Erosion, the rest of the data from Imaginary Tree is not too abnormal. It's just that some identical data has appeared out of nowhere."

It seems that the extra people are the ones in that data.

Aponia, who had merged with the Imaginary Tree, also shook her head. She was indeed much more perceptive than others, but she couldn't sense anything from these fakes either.

"Then let's solve another problem first."

Vill-V wagged her finger, pointing to the large group of people. "Sometimes I have all the Vill-V hold a mental meeting to discuss solutions to problems. Right now, there are several times more people here than in my head. Discussing solutions to Lin and the Herrscher's problems together will be more efficient, right?"

It has to be said that Vill-V ability is indeed strong. Mei hadn't even thought about this aspect yet, and she had already come up with an excellent solution.

After spending some time explaining the issue of Lin and the Herrscher of Erosion, one of Eden and Vill-V immediately spoke up, "That's Lin herself."

"... Themselves? What do you mean?"

Mei asked, feeling a little strange.

"Literally, that means the real, living forest, not a memory."

"...What?"

"What should we do next, Lin? Let's do it your way."

After returning to her original area, the Herrscher of Erosion began preparing for her next move.

Going to Mei was part of the plan, and another reason was that the Herrscher of Erosion really intended to persuade Mei to surrender.

Lin asked a less important question, "Are you really planning to make Raiden Mei into...?"

"Huh? Really?"

The Herrscher of Erosion chuckled dismissively, "Because I don't want to kill Mei, but I can't let her go either. Besides, it would be boring if it were just the two of us playing role-playing games all the time. We need someone to spice things up. For example, this time it's me and you being childhood friends and her being a newbie, next time it'll be her and you being childhood friends and me being a newbie, or me and her..."

The Herrscher of Erosion has thought far ahead, already planning her future happy life in the Imaginary Tree. It seems she wants to turn the Imaginary Tree into a completely fake world, a stage where she writes the script and they play the roles.

"Don't you want to, Lin? Mei so light and soft that she's easy to push over, to make the proud Queen of Thunder bow her head before you and serve you with her stockings."

The Herrscher of Erosion demonstrated the action with a serious expression. "Isn't it good?"

"... Great, that's fantastic! I can't wait to try it out. Let's catch them all in one fell swoop."

Lin answered expressionlessly.

If things really turn out that way, Lin will probably be castrated by Kiana.

However, the act still needs to be played out completely; at least for now, they need to be able to see that Lin is faking it.

"..."

After listening to Vill-V and Eden's explanation, Mei fell silent.

Although she herself said that Lin was definitely still alive, now that the facts were in front of her, she felt a sense of unreality.

Aponia's gaze shifted, but she remained silent.

"... I see, that explains why he did that."

Indeed, time is the most potent poison.

Mei's mouth tasted bitter for some reason. Not long ago, she had seen Lin's life, gained his memories, and had a long talk with him.

But the result was that those ten-odd years of his life were just an insignificant segment of his fifty thousand years of life. The man she met in the Imaginary Tree was a man with the ambition to save humanity and the will to bear the death of the dead. The real him, like Kevin, had become a different person over the course of fifty thousand years.

"Tsk, he really is still alive."

Mobius cracked his knuckles and sneered, "The old menaces have lived long enough to become old menaces. How old are you, still running away from reality?"

"But Brother Lin seems perfectly normal to us."

Pardo scratched her head and looked at her other, equally bewildered self. "What do you think?"

"Don't ask us, we didn't run into Brother Lin."

The other Pardo waved her hand in a panic.

"By the way, didn't Sister Aponia take Brother Lin away?"

Suddenly, everyone's eyes were drawn to Aponia, who was resting with her eyes closed, and an eerie silence fell over the scene.

The gazes of a few women, in particular, were glaringly irritating.

Everyone shares a common understanding.

It's definitely not a good thing that Lin fell into Aponia's hands.

"Hmm... Lin does seem very normal to me..."

Aponia calmly answered the questions under everyone's gaze.

"Huh? Then why is Lin..."

At this moment, Mei realized that something was wrong. Since everyone who had seen Lin said there was no problem, why would he be on the side of the Herrscher of Erosion?

"Think about it from a different perspective."

The other Su closed his eyes and waved his hand, saying, "Since Lin is on the side of the Herrscher, it means he thinks there's a problem on our side, which is... the current situation."

Many of them have developed a "second self".

"Indeed, Lin would never side with the Herrscher while he was conscious. At the very least, he would never agree to turn Mei into a toy. He himself is not willing to get close to women."

Hua nodded in agreement.

"So after all this time, the problem has come full circle back to us."

Sakura and another Sakura looked at each other, their calm gazes searching for any possible flaws in each other.

At this moment, Kosma, who had been silent until now, suddenly said, "Let's use the process of elimination. What's the difference between people who have counterfeit goods and those who don't?"

After saying that, another Kosma asked Griseo, "Griseo, can you tell that there's anything different about the colors on our bodies?"

The young girl looked at everyone in confusion, then shook her head.

"The colors... are all the same..."

Even Griseo can't tell the difference?

"There's another question: Where did Elysia go?"

Kevin's question was met with silence once again.

It seems like trouble is just piling up.

Chapter 1 Special Feature: The Raising Manual of the Queen of Thunder (Part 2)

"Lin, I will absolutely never let you go... hmm..."

"Your body is not as firm as your mouth."

Faced with Lin's cold mockery, Mei placed her hands on Lin's chest, glaring angrily, but she still couldn't control the urge surging in her body. She could only half-close her eyes and turn her head to the side to prevent Lin from seeing her weakness.

This guy... where did he get such good skills... and surprisingly... not rough at all...?

"Because Mei's heart actually accepted Rin before her body did."

The Herrscher of Erosion had placed Lin's head on her soft breasts, grabbed Mei's slender waist to help her move around while laughing and saying, "Think about it carefully, Mei. If you leave the Imaginary Tree, you'll be facing a lot of girls vying for Lin. But right now it's just the two of us. I'm willing to share with you and even help you speed things up. Isn't that good?"

"That's... not good..."

"Sigh... I haven't even tried with Lin yet, I gave them all to Mei, and Mei is still like this, it really makes me sad."

The Herrscher of Erosion scratched her head in frustration, then looked at Mei, whose tongue was practically sticking out, and suddenly a good idea came to her.

"Hehe, get up first."

Just as she was about to reach her peak, the Herrscher of Erosion casually lifted Mei up. A terrifying sense of emptiness swept over her, and Mei's already dazed face flashed with disappointment and panic.

The Herrscher of Erosion had accurately captured the change in Mei's expression, chuckled and came up behind Mei, putting her arm around her waist.

"Mei, think about it again. Is Lin willing to stay here for the sake of a Herrscher I've only recently met? You know how badly Lin was harmed by Herrscher in the past, right? So who is he staying here for?"

"..."

Mei, already dazed, was lost in thought under the Herrscher of Erosion's seductive words. She looked at Rin's face, feeling somewhat panicked.

"But he wouldn't want to be here..."

"Hehe... Mei, there are so many girls waiting for Lin outside. He has no choice but to do what he wants. Besides, Mei also has someone she's close to outside, right?"

A bewitching crimson gaze gradually filled Mei's entire field of vision, and the whole world consisted only of the crimson before her eyes and the seductive, demonic voice in her ears, "Only here can everything be..."

"The only thing that is not bound is our world... right before our eyes..."

"Click!"

"Um?"

Hearing a strange sound, the Herrscher of Erosion looked at Mei, who had lowered her head, with a puzzled expression. The purple-haired girl raised her head, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, and glared at her with clear eyes.

It cannot bite anything put in its mouth, but it can bite its own tongue.

"I don't want to!"

After clearly splattering blood onto the face of the Herrscher of Erosion, word by word, the latter remained silent for a moment, and then... smiled easily.

"Alright then, this is the Mei I like, right, Lin too? Let's try this then, come on, Lin, move over a bit..."

"What are you up to?"

Mei watched as the Herrscher of Erosion adjusted Lin's position, and she asked coldly.

"It's nothing, it's just that Mei's first time after that also needs to be taken by Rin, so I'll be in front~"

Mei didn't understand what the Herrscher of Erosion meant at first, until the bullet was loaded and about to hit the target, and she felt the drilling machine squeezing from the crevice of the beautiful valley into the abyss reaching its destination, and then she realized what was happening.

"You--"

A feeling of even greater shame than before welled up inside Mei, and before she could even feel shock or anger, she could only stare blankly as the Herrscher of Erosion snapped her fingers. Then, she looked down in a daze and saw what appeared in front of the Herrscher of Erosion.

"Making some gadgets out of nowhere here is a piece of cake for me."

The Herrscher of Erosion smiled nonchalantly at Mei's incredulous gaze.

Immediately afterwards, Mei's rationality was taken away.

When Mei woke up again, she was tied up once more. She opened her eyes groggily and saw the water flowing from her thighs to her toes and finally dripping onto the ground. She shakily raised her head and saw the Herrscher of Erosion sitting in Lin's arms, just as the matter ended.

"Hoo... Ugh... I almost got addicted too."

The Herrscher of Erosion got up without caring about Mei's gaze, came to her, and stretched lazily.

"Mei, you were so comfortable that you fainted, but you still look at me with that expression. It hurts me so much."

The Herrscher of Erosion shook her head in disappointment and sighed, "Alright then, I'll let Mei."

The sudden change of heart made Mei look up at her in surprise and doubt. The blue-purple-haired girl smoothed her long, smooth hair and chuckled charmingly, "I'm telling the truth, but before I let Mei out, I want to play a fun game... Ah, don't look at me like that, this time it really isn't a prank on Mei, after all..."

The girl revealed a rare look of aggression and threat in her eyes.

"From now on, Lin belongs only to me."

After quickly composed herself, the Herrscher of Erosion smiled again, then picked up Mei and carried her to Lin.

"The game is very simple. I won't do anything to Mei directly. I'll just let Mei outside while we're doing it, and I'll let Mei go when we're done."

The Herrscher of Erosion couldn't hide her evil expression at all. "But if Mei changes her mind and wants to join us halfway through, I will never let you leave."

Is it really that simple?

Although she felt that the Herrscher of Erosion wouldn't keep her word, Mei had no intention of showing weakness in front of them, so she stubbornly stared at the two of them without saying a word to show her determination.

The Herrscher of Erosion chuckled but said nothing more.