Chapter 29

Then that single individual alone could represent the peak industrial level of civilization.

Being held by the throat by a single person was still far more disgusting than being held by the throat by a group of politicians.

Especially since among those politicians, there was no shortage of brain-addled men who had given her hints about joining them for drinks and the like.

If not for the lack of better options, Mei had fled to faraway places eight hundred years ago from an organization that was gradually losing its purity.

At first, the predecessor of the Flame-Chasers did not bear this name. Although people from different countries gathered to carry out activities back then, the members' goals were much purer, and the organization leaned more toward the exploration and investigation of outer space.

Until later, when the Flame-Chasers split, and the factions of "ground-based organization" and "lunar exploration" successively accepted capital injection from different countries. The First Research Institute where she resided naturally received a share of considerable research funding. When they were still in their honeymoon period, everyone and this group of capitalists got along quite well.

Until later...

The capitalists gradually bared their fangs, a large number of veterans were purged, and talented and gifted members were passed around among major research institutes like traded livestock. In the end, many of them exited in obscurity or even died in foreign lands due to getting caught up in the struggles.

In the past, she had also had colleagues with whom she could open her heart, converse happily, and share the same ideals.

But watching them later get caught up in those boring political struggles, forgetting their past ideals and aspirations, they degraded into walking corpses, politicians, and sacrifices.

Mei took all of this in, and more than once she had wanted to break away from this impure organization called the Flame-Chasers. Unfortunately, the products caused by the Honkai phenomenon could only be studied within the organization of the Flame-Chasers.

Any research institute outside was explicitly forbidden from touching such things.

Yet the Honkai was a proposition that Mobius could never abandon.

Carried along in this manner, if not for her research talent in the Honkai field far surpassing other research institutes, perhaps she would have long since become a frustrated outcast outside the institute. Or to put it bluntly, having lost her utility, she might have even been kidnapped and become the plaything of some bigwigs whom she had rejected.

The Flame-Chasers were both a prison and, for her, the only place to take refuge, a safe haven.

On the surface, Dr. Mei, as the head of the First Research Institute, seemed to hold the power of life and death over many people in her hands, but in reality... calling others white mice, she was merely a tiny hamster in the hands of those politicians.

She had long since run out of retreats. After Kevin completed the hypermutation surgery, she had recently planned to undergo a hypermutation surgery for herself, thereby gaining (cfah) enough confidence to confront those politicians.

Blanca, Klein, Su, Eden, Mei... I have long prepared a research team of sufficient excellence for myself, and coupled with Vill-V's talent, we can completely break away from the framework of the Flame-Chasers and establish a new organization!

Utilizing Elysia's connections, we can also sweep up all these excellent combat personnel: Kevin, Hua, Kosma, Sakura, Mobius...

Shirou Emiya, you told Elysia that we cannot pass the final trial, and the final survivors will not exceed ten people.

I believe the ending you spoke of, but I can also be certain of one thing: in the original story, those scum in the Flame-Chasers must have become our resistance, am I right?

Mei stared fixedly at Shirou. Over the years, she had already accumulated a massive amount of grievance toward her old organizational home. Now that she had the chance to break away from the Flame-Chasers, how could she possibly let it slip away.

Although I still do not know your true purpose, your goal is definitely purer than those guys who go their separate ways.

"Is there any possibility that I want to open an imp?"

"Very well, if this is your purpose, I can even help provide the opportunity. Whether it is Elysia or the girls in my research institute, I can provide you with time and opportunity."

"Mm... Attitude is quite good. Actually, I prefer you and Dr. Vill-V."

Shirou smiled, and then spoke to Mei,

"Although I also have a bit of that sort of thought, your brains and Dr. Vill-V's are actually more important. My hometown actually faces the same 'destructive' threat as your world, so I will help you because in the future... you will also become my assistance."

"Simple mutual aid will only forge a loose alliance."

Mei frowned, recalling the situation of the Flame-Chasers' predecessor, and then silently observed Shirou for a moment. Right now, forcing too deep a bond with this person was inappropriate; both for him and for herself, perhaps some time was needed to thoroughly observe each other's character.

If this person could truly satisfy her needs in all aspects, she would never begrudge deeply binding herself to this man.

Just as Elysia had said, if a man appeared who could satisfy her needs in all aspects, why couldn't she grasp him in her hands?

She was neither some steadfast celibate nor some freak with same-sex tendencies. If she truly had to choose someone in the life she had currently experienced who met her mate-selection standards,

then the Shirou Emiya before her was undoubtedly the one closest to that standard.

Because...

he could bring her that possibility of evolution.

"An alliance, then. So, please lend us a helping hand as an ally. Likewise, we will surely recompense you in the future."

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Chapter 60: Uzumaki = Advanced Fusion Material = Gauss. (2/5)

How warm...

When Uchiha Hikari awoke from unconsciousness, she was lying on a very soft tatami mat. Sunlight shone into the room, filling the interior with a sense of warmth.

She slightly propped up her body and cast her gaze toward the spot where the sunlight streamed in. It was a floor-to-ceiling window as transparent as crystal. Looking past the floor-to-ceiling window from her angle, ~ was an endless sky,

a clear blue sky,.

She could not remember how long it had been since she last saw this scene.

"Shirou... Emiya."

This name surfaced in her mind, and she began to recall the appearance of that person. Before losing consciousness, she seemed to have seen that person's facial features. Handsome men and beautiful women of the Uchiha Clan were not in short supply, and she had no profound concept of so-called looks, but rather, that person's temperament left a very deep impression on her.

She thought for a moment, seemingly pondering what term was suitable to describe that person.

After a long while,

she once again saw the sunlight shining into the room. She reached out her hand, her pale skin looking somewhat translucent under the sunlight, but feeling that long-lost warmth, Uchiha Hikari suddenly smiled.

She thought of a suitable word.

Sunlight...

"Are you awake?"

Suddenly, the door of the room was pushed open. Uchiha Hikari turned her head, and coming into view was a little girl with a head of soft blonde hair. In her hand, she carried a medicine kit, and atop the kit sat a bowl of hot porridge radiating curls of steam. The surface of that hot porridge was divided into seven different colors, making it resemble an exquisite handicraft more than food.

However, when the aroma of that colorful hot porridge drifted into her nose, a long-lost sense of hunger uncontrollably began to spread within her body. Uchiha Hikari parted her lips, her dry vocal cords striving to issue a brief syllable,

"Eat..."

"I'll feed you."

The little girl walked into the bedroom, put down the medicine kit, and then gently blew away the heat on the surface of the hot porridge. She scooped up a small spoonful of clear porridge and brought it to Uchiha Hikari's lips.

Uchiha Hikari swallowed a couple of mouthfuls of saliva, then quickly and unhesitatingly swallowed it down. As the warm, heat-filled porridge flowed into her throat, trickling downward and entering her stomach, she uncontrollably wanted to cry, and her eye sockets instantly turned red.

"Don't get too emotional. Your body was severely overdrawn before and now requires quiet recuperation. This bowl of rainbow porridge specifically prepared for you by Brother Shirou has the function of detoxifying and nourishing the internal organs. Later, I'll use the power of Abundance to recuperate your body for you. In two days at most, your body will recover to a normal condition."

"Tha..."

Uchiha Hikari tried hard to make a sound, but due to her excessive emotion, she choked up a bit and failed to convey the remaining syllables. The little explorer from Belobog smiled softly at this older sister who was trying hard to express gratitude, and then spoke,

"You don't need to rush to speak now. I was once the person who received help, so there's no need to rush in expressing the feelings of wanting to thank and repay a kindness. Everyone and I are waiting for you to recover. Brother Shirou said that once your body is better, he will specially prepare a banquet for you, and at that time he will personally cook to entertain you."

"Mhm."

She nodded heavily, firmly keeping everything the little explorer said locked in her heart. Her impression of the man named Shirou Emiya deepened by several more points...

I will repay him, repay him with everything I have!

She silently vowed in her heart,

but at the same time, deep within her heart, a pitch-black beast was also tossing, turning, roaring, and howling...

Her memories gradually revived, making her recall everything she had once suffered.

Senju.

Uchiha.

No matter what, I will find you. No matter what... I will definitely launch my revenge against you!

Starting from the place where Uchiha Hikari was sealed and exploring outward,

Shirou directly buried four Creation Engines deep underground. Things created by the Herrscher of Reason were different from projections; once crafted, those things were truly manufactured and could not naturally vanish directly, nor could they be forcibly dismantled, so he simply buried them in the dirt first.

Then, he projected Mr. Gilgamesh's favorite vehicle, the Vimana airship, and within a short time crossed the uninhabited zone, reaching a town. He manufactured some precious metals to exchange for local currency, totaling about four million ryo. He did not directly enter the town in such a conspicuous manner with a flock of beauties, but instead gathered intelligence for a while to determine the current timeline.

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"The Five Great Shinobi Villages confront each other, and the Shinobi Village era is established."

"The reigning Hokage in Konoha, the Third Hokage... seems to still be in his prime?"

The good news was that the Uchiha Clan were all still alive, and even a few big bastards had not yet been born.

The bad news was that they had arrived a bit too early, and Naruto and Sasuke, those two fine sons of the Sage of Six Paths, were still nowhere in sight.

"Wait, Old Madara is still alive, and he should still be nurturing the Rinnegan right now?"

"Hashirama Senju is indeed dead, though it doesn't have much impact either."

To him, the most important things in this world were a few key gene samples: "Sage Body," "Sage Eyes," and several specific Kekkei Genkai.

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The Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon probably didn't know yet whether they were undergoing a civil war.

"Should I just let Kaguya Otsutsuki out?"

With that woman's combat capability, Mr. Emiya didn't think he couldn't beat her, but... if that woman really wanted to run, it seemed he would have a hard time stopping her.

"Ōtsutsuki genes... Forget it, there's no need to force a one-step completion."

After all, there were still secondary genes that could be synthesized step-by-step into the highest-grade Ōtsutsuki genes.

Senju, Uchiha, Kaguya, Hyuga...

Among them, he would probably have to add Uzumaki as an advanced fusion material.

The previous few mere Sage Eyes and Sage Bodies were still not wild enough; without an advanced fusion material like the Uzumaki, it was fundamentally impossible to achieve the effect of a miracle through sheer force.

Even if other clans possessed Kekkei Genkai abilities, they usually only had one.

After the Uzumaki clan traits were integrated, aside from the original items such as "outstanding self-healing," "innate chakra reserves," and "mastery of sealing jutsu," there were also various new-style abilities later on, such as "Mind's Eye of the Kagura," "life force being drained," "improved Byakugan," and "innate Jōgan."

By analogy, placing the Uzumaki material in the Ultraman universe would at least make it a Loving Hero Cosmos.

"Wait, does the Land of Whirlpools still exist now?"

Mr. Emiya's eyes suddenly lit up. If the Uzumaki Clan still existed at present, perhaps considering the 'genetic diversity' of this clan, more ninja materials could be harvested.

"Let's go ask people for information again." Seven.

Chapter 61: Are you exploiting a bug here. (3/5)

"Let me first talk about the intelligence I collected outside."

Returning to the temporarily established stronghold, Shirou began to recount the ninja world's situation in this current era to everyone,

"The outside continent currently takes five major superpowers as its main body, with dozens of minor countries remaining to exist as neutral nations."

"And among these dozen or so countries, almost every nation's strongest armed force is a shinobi village centered around shinobi."

"So-called shinobi are superpower users who have mastered an energy system called chakra."

"These superpower users used to act independently and slaughter each other, until about fifty or sixty years ago from the present, when the two strongest shinobi among them called upon other ninja clans to establish large settlements together, subsequently forming the 'Five Great Shinobi Villages' consisting of the Land of Fire's 'Konoha,' the Land of Water's 'Kirigakure,' '950' the Land of Wind's 'Sunagakure,' the Land of Lightning's 'Kumogakure,' and the Land of Earth's 'Iwagakure.'"

"Other minor countries' Sound Ninjas, Grass Ninjas, Star Ninjas, and Sky Ninjas can basically be regarded as bottom-tier small fry."

"And just as I said before, you wouldn't even know where to find the graves of Uchiha Hikari's generation of clansmen, and the Senju Clan is basically the same. If you insist on finding exact targets for revenge, you'd probably have to figure out a way to locate those people's skeletal remains first and then find a way to summon their dead souls back."

Hearing Shirou finish, after digesting the information for a bit, March 7th smacked her lips in dissatisfaction, mostly feeling unreconciled and resentful that there was no chance to vent anger for the pitiful little big sister Uchiha Hikari.

"The surface intelligence has been told. Now let's talk about some covert intelligence we need to know this time in the ninja world."

"The source of all ninja in the ninja world was an organization called the Ninjutsu Sect, and its leader was known as the Sage of Six Paths. Chakra was what he passed down to his descendants, eventually spreading to the millions of people throughout the ninja world today. The Sage of Six Paths's real name was Otsutsuki Hagoromo, and the true source of chakra was not him at all, but his mother—a member of the special extraterrestrial race known as the Ōtsutsuki Clan."

"This race is naturally a cosmic species, possessing the ability to traverse the starry skies. Furthermore, the main families are all equipped with a special plant that can be planted on various planets, using the life forms of each planet as seedling fields before harvesting them, ultimately cultivating the life of the entire planet into a single fruit. This fruit is then further processed, refined into pills, and ingested."

"Chakra is precisely the product of this plant. To obtain massive amounts of chakra, one must possess 'genes' closer to the Ōtsutsuki Clan. All ninjas in this ninja world possess hidden gene fragments of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, but the most prominent ones are roughly only five or six families. As long as we can acquire the genetic raw materials of these five or six families, we can obtain 'genes' infinitely close to the Ōtsutsuki Clan."

Actually, Mr. Emiya was quite interested in the Divine Tree. If its traits were used against descendants of the True Sting Insect Queen, they would probably be extremely effective; targeting Abundance followers or even the Xianzhou's Mara-struck would likely work quite well...

"Huh, wait, stuffing a pair of Rinnegan into the Mara-struck, and then letting the Mara-struck use the Reincarnation Rebirth Technique, would that count as making full use of everything?"

"There's also Chiyo's Living Reincarnation. With the life force of those Xianzhou immortals and foxians, a single person can last the lives of several people, which might even alleviate a wave of the Calamity of Other Transformation for the Mara-struck."