Mizuki: The Starry Sea Is Still a Sea! / Sis, You're Going to Be an Aunt

He just hoped that his two biological daughters wouldn't turn out like that. Although Mizuki had always hoped that Exusiai's children would inherit her slightly mischievous personality, Mizuki actually liked Exusiai very much, so he didn't want Exusiai to make too many sacrifices and changes for the sake of the children.

If the mother and daughter have the same personality, their home might be quite lively, right?

Thinking this, Mizuki's smile was exceptionally happy.

Chapter 128 Mizuki: Stars and the sea are also a sea!

Ishar-mla was quite confused. As Firstborn the Brood the Seaborn and the highest-ranking Seaborn in charge of migration, her status within the Brood Seaborn should be very high.

However, when Skadi fell asleep, and she regained temporary control of her body and connected to the mental network of the Seaborn the Brood, what she received was not a request to transmit data, but rather a feeling of... bewilderment and surprise.

Yes, emotions. Ishar-mla merging with Skadi, Isamara also understood what emotions were. But this doesn't make sense. How could other Seaborn have emotions? And these emotions are quite rich, including joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, but she doesn't know what fear is.

In other words, the current Seaborn is a bunch of reckless brutes.

Their reaction upon realizing Ishar-mla was back online could be roughly translated as: Who are you...? Holy crap! Lady, you're still alive?!

(I have this feeling that these idiots are cursing me, but I don't have any proof.)

Ishar-mla frowned slightly, then ignored her. After all, arguing with these people whose IQ was below 90 was a losing proposition. The Seaborn race was good in every way, except that they were... well, useful. All of the Seaborn's forms were designed to better build up the race, including their tentacles.

Of course, their IQ is generally not very high, or rather, they have never used their brains much. Seaborn is actually very smart, but because it is the Brood group thinking collectively, and because overly complex individual thinking is meaningless for the development of the Brood at this stage, they divide their brains into two areas: one is responsible for processing various information, such as eating and movement, and the other area is responsible for providing cloud computing power to the Brood.

If tens or hundreds of millions of Seaborn quantifies and combines half of its computing power, that computing power would absolutely make those Columbia scientists kneel down and shout "God!" after seeing it.

"How is the situation?"

Ishar-mla inquired about the progress of the Brood. She knew that Mizuki had arranged for the Brood Seaborn to breed, so she was still thinking about how to breed with Mizuki. Skadi was uncooperative and had failed every time, but Skadi was no match for Mizuki now.

[What's going on? Who are you? We don't know each other.]

That was all the message Seaborn sent, and then there was silence. Ishar-mla seemed to hear the words "You have been removed from the group chat" echoing in her ears.

Wait, what's going on? Even if Ishar-mla isn't the group owner, she's still an administrator, right? Wait, these guys created a new group behind my back?!?!

Achoo!

Miss Siren No. 1, who was busy developing her underwater fishing business, couldn't help but sneeze. She glanced back at the erupting underwater volcano, thinking that she would have to plug it up sooner or later. Of all times, it had to erupt at this time, forcing her to retrieve her good sisters one by one. A few unlucky ones were even blown onto the coastline by the basin. Hopefully, they wouldn't be picked up and made into fried rice. In any case, unless Skadi used a knife to Mountain-Cleaving Slash, those cocoons couldn't be drilled through even with an electric drill.

"One, there's one, and here too..."

Picking up one cocoon after another, Siren No. 1 didn't feel tired at all. But then she suddenly thought of Mizuki and couldn't help wondering if her brain was really not working properly.

"Oh dear, how could I have overlooked this problem?"

Miss Sea Siren couldn't help but sigh longingly. Oh, she was soaking in the ocean currents. Anyway, she was feeling quite emotional. She was worried that Mizuki would abandon them, the stepmothers, once she had her own daughter. She was thinking that she might as well not be a daughter at all, but instead quickly steal the house and rise to power.

Then Miss Sea Siren discovered a crucial problem... well, she didn't have any compatible interface; to put it bluntly, she lacked the necessary hardware to match Mizuki's plugins.

Clearly, the Seaborn overlooked this need when they evolved into humans. Moreover, since their bodies are made of water, no matter how human-like they may look, their internal temperature is relatively low. Miss Sea Siren felt that she would have to implant an electric water heater inside her body to create a sense of realism.

"But won't I get beaten up if I do that?"

Touching her chin, Miss Sea Siren suddenly sensed something was wrong again. She had been salvaging things here for almost two hours, and yet she didn't feel the weight of all that she had retrieved.

"Damn it! The bag is leaking!"

Well, it seems Miss Sea Siren's business acumen at Haidilao still needs improvement.

Mizuki was unaware of the commotion in the deep sea, but he was somewhat annoyed. He hadn't even had a chance to lecture Doctor yet, and this guy was already getting excited.

"Mizuki! You have to help me get revenge! That old woman went too far! She drugged me, tied me up, and even tortured me!"

The Doctor lady, with tears streaming down her face, sobbed and wiped her eyes with Mizuki's clothes.

"At least Kal'tsit didn't take a picture of you looking like that, Doctor. You were definitely in the wrong this time."

"But I'm thinking you're the one who's having the most fun, aren't you?"

Although it seemed she had indeed gone a bit too far, the Doctor thought it was none of Mizuki's place to lecture her. After all, this girl had gained another member to her harem, and a dowager at that—she'd hit the jackpot.

"Would you like to give it a try?"

"... Um, never mind for now."

The Doctor scratched her head. After reading Kal'tsit and Mizuki's battle records, she realized for the first time just how terrifying Mizuki was. If the setting were different, this book would only be serialized on some small websites, and the style would have to be changed to something that was strictly prohibited for minors, making it impossible to stream.

Besides, Miss Doctor is both thirsty and hungry right now, and she doesn't want to get so full from the Jellyfish-chan that she throws up.

"Honestly, I almost thought you were going to be cut into pieces and frozen by Kal'tsit, Doctor."

"To be honest, she actually wanted to cremate me directly, hehehe."

The Doctor scratched her head. At that moment, Kal'tsit's furious outburst almost made her cry, but fortunately Mizuki had arranged for tentacles to secretly follow the Doctor to prevent her from encountering any accidents, so Kal'tsit failed.

After realizing that the tentacles wouldn't react much unless she actually killed the Doctor, Kal'tsit chose the most torturous method for the Doctor. If she hadn't been too embarrassed to face Mizuki at the time, she would have definitely made the Doctor experience what it felt like to be tortured to death by Mizuki.

"No, that's not right." A flash of inspiration struck the Doctor's clever mind. "Mizuki, why don't you just call her Kal'tsit?"

"Well, Kal'tsit said I don't need to use honorifics with her. After all, she's pregnant, and we can't pretend nothing happened. We can only try to get along."

"Haha, I knew that old woman had been lonely for over ten thousand years and had been wanting to find someone to rely on and have a relationship. She might even be addicted. Oh dear, she's even pregnant! This is really... pregnant!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

The long string of question marks and exclamation marks following the exclamation mark clearly showed the Doctor's surprise; this was quite different from her initial assumption.

Originally, the Doctor only wanted Mizuki to help her mess with Kal'tsit and find the old woman someone she could rely on, so that she wouldn't be so stubborn and have to shoulder everything by herself all the time. Although this method was a bit too unorthodox, it worked!

In any case, it seems that not only has Mizuki's harem gained an empress dowager, Kal'tsit has also gained a combatant who can be taken out at any time to beat up all of Terra. They have even achieved a very unexpected result.

This shocking news left the Doctor's head spinning, with only one thought: Holy crap, Kal'tsit is going to be a mother?!

This is akin to waking up to a one-eyed, bald man with an eyepatch telling you, "Wake up, Silksong, GTA 6, or the Elder Scrolls VI are coming out soon."

"Mizuki, how long have I been asleep? No, did I time travel again?"

"No." Ignoring the word "again" from the Doctor, Mizuki pointed to the electronic calendar. "Only one day has passed, and you haven't time-traveled yet, but we'll be leaving Lungmen soon."

Rhodes Island chose to come to Lungmen initially to rescue the Doctor and stop the start of the Ursus war. Later, it became about to cooperate with the Reunion and to help the Infected in Lungmen. Now it's almost time to finish and prepare to set sail.

Although she was a bit confused, the presence of Mizuki meant she didn't feel any pressure or tension, but the Doctor didn't feel any dissatisfaction. She was truly living in this world, not just a tourist. Only someone with a screw loose or nothing better to do would want to see their real world ravaged by bloodshed all the time.

"Leaving Lungmen... then we should head to Kazimierz next. However, Rhodes Island will be stationed there for at least six months, which will give us time to visit Aegir."

Putting aside the fact that Kal'tsit was going to be a mother for the moment, the Doctor started counting on her fingers.

"After that, I'll go to Sargon, then Bolivar, and finally circle back to Columbia. I won't go to Kjerag; I really don't like places without internet. But Columbia..."

If possible, the Doctor lady actually wanted to meet that old friend she had never met. Although she had lost her memory, the thought of having such a steadfast "compatriot" for thousands of years made it hard for her not to want to see him.

"We could also go to Columbia first."

"No, there's no rush over there." Although she was glad that Mizuki prioritized her feelings, the Doctor waved her hand. "I still want to be with you and see the world properly."

"You'll be very disappointed."

Even if she lost her past memories, her impressions from the past year would still remain. Mizuki knew very well that not everyone could be as lucky as the people of Lungmen and live a wealthy life. A considerable number of people in this world were still homeless, starving to death in the wilderness, becoming unburied skeletons.

If the Doctor were to travel with him, Mizuki worried that she would become disillusioned with the world.

"I know there are too many inhuman beings in this world."

The Doctor nodded. She didn't want to hide her identity as a transmigrator from Mizuki, but there was no point in revealing it. As long as the person in front of him was the Doctor Mizuki, he didn't care about any other identity.

In other timelines, the Doctor, having lost faith and patience in Terra, chose to place his hopes on Seaborn, entrusting Mizuki to lead Seaborn in transforming the planet's ecology, making it prosperous, but also pushing the Terra civilization to the brink of destruction.

However, this time, the Doctor felt something was different. Mizuki, Seaborn, and those successfully evolved Sea Siren —this world was developing at a pace she had never imagined, and the source of all this was Mizuki.

There must be some secret about Mizuki. The Doctor's intuition told her that if she could uncover these secrets, she would be pleasantly surprised.

"Inhumanity is just a descriptive term. Iberia is extremely prejudiced against the Aegir, the Aegir still refuse to admit their arrogance, Sargon's barbarity, Bolivar's chaos and disorder, Kazimierz's decadence... these are all things that can be easily found out."

"So I often have this urge to just flatten Terra." The Doctor rubbed her head. "For the Terra, the starry sky is a foreign place, the universe is an unheard-of concept, and the earth beneath their feet is the world they know. Many people have never left their village in their entire lives and have never seen the outside world."

"This narrow-mindedness has prevented them from uniting to this day. They are unaware of the impending disaster and still arrogantly consider themselves the masters of this land."

"However, if one could truly set foot on the starry sky and look back at the path one has traveled, one would realize just how ridiculous and absurd one has been."

The starry sky, yes, Miss Doctor knows the starry sky. She knows the true nature of the world and even that it once came from the distant starry sky. That's why she doesn't care at all about the power, interests, and wealth that the Terra are fighting for. Those are far less important than the stars and the sea.

But Miss Doctor didn't find the people of Terra ridiculous; she only felt sorry for them and pitied them.

"Life is already so difficult, how can people who toil all day have time to look up and think about the stars above? This world... is inherently deformed."

Listening to the Doctor's reflections, Mizuki couldn't help but look up. He felt a sense of curiosity about the starry sky, and this curiosity was successfully conveyed to the thousands of Seaborn in the ocean. The Sea Siren, carrying her sisters, leaped out of the sea, and the dazzling starry sky came into view, conveying its beauty to every Seaborn, including Mizuki.

Izumik has already pointed the way: the starry sky, no, the vast ocean is also the sea, and the Seaborn are born from the sea; the starry sky can also be a new home.

[Dad! Let's all ascend to heaven together!]

... Okay, Mizuki feels that Sea Siren #1 should still be kicked out of the Sea of Life. This girl's life form is based on Muelsyse, but her thought process must have been learned from Exusiai!

Chapter 129 Sister, you're going to be an aunt!

Night had fallen, and the moonlight bathed the beach in a snowy white glow. Although Seaborn had not appeared for a long time, Iberia dared not let its guard down for a moment for safety reasons.

Irene was no exception. As the first judge to be defeated by Seaborn in a one-on-one duel, she felt that her abilities were still insufficient. What she saw and heard when she entered the underground chamber of Iberia when she became a judge gave her a deep understanding of what kind of creature Seaborn really was.

"Hmm, what's that?"

As Irene was on her patrol, she suddenly spotted what appeared to be a person on the distant beach. Was it a person? In the moonlight, she could vaguely see the lower half of its body, which resembled that of a sea serpent.

Seaborn!? That was Irene's first thought. Then she realized that this seemed very different from the Seaborn she knew. At least the one in front of her... had the upper body of a person.

Irene extinguished the light, placed her hand on the gun at her waist, and cautiously approached.

"Sigh, what number am I?"

On the desolate beach, the Sea Siren girls, who were born one after another, counted on their fingers. Because everyone's reaction in the Sea of Life was the same and they were scattered by the volcanic eruption, they had no idea which number they were when they hatched.

This is a very important matter for the Sea Siren. It's not that being born automatically makes you the eldest sister, but rather that they are assigned numbers. It's not that they can't remember the names of all three million Sea Siren, but they find it too troublesome, so they simply use numbers.

But now they don't even know they're the first one born. What if they get the same number as someone else? Wouldn't that be embarrassing?

"Speaking of which... it's not like the movies and TV shows Izumik watches, it's not active at all."

The purple-haired Sea Siren tried to move her dark green, scaly tail, mimicking a snake's wriggling motion, but at that speed... well, you could only imagine a tortoise weeping and a sloth pitying her.

The data from Izumik showed that those snake-people could climb so fast, so why can't I do it?

(This Seaborn... is it lying on the sand?)

Irene couldn't figure out what the Sea Siren was doing, but she keenly sensed that this might be the new species of Seaborn that her teacher Dario had mentioned today—a humanoid upper body with an animal-like lower body.

She initially thought the Seaborn was doing some kind of reconnaissance or ritual, but judging from the results, besides burying its tail in the sand, its only achievement was reaching a speed of three centimeters per second.

It seems that even if they evolved into human form, intelligence will still be a weakness.

"Oh! I understand!"

Miss Sea Siren suddenly clapped her hands, and her four-meter-long tail arched forward in a beautiful sine curve before flattening itself, successfully advancing two meters.

"Really?!"

The Sea Siren, who was probably number one, was overjoyed. She hadn't expected the trick to actually work, and at a pretty fast speed at that. She was so happy she was crawling all over the beach, leaving Irene completely dumbfounded.

(Is this Seaborn or a caterpillar?)

Irene couldn't help but cover her face, suddenly realizing that her earlier wariness made her seem like a fool, and that Seaborn looked so easy to deceive.

However, she remained determined as a judge, and charged out with a gun in her left hand and a sword drawn in her right.

And then... I still didn't win.

"So you got beaten up again, and even your uniform was taken away?"

Dario couldn't help but cover his face. If it weren't for the fact that the Inquisitors had been challenged to one-on-one duels by Seaborn and lost one after another, if things continued like this, Irene would probably become a disgrace to the Inquisitors.

Twice, twice! The first time Seaborn beat me so badly I was seriously injured, the second time I was so badly beaten I couldn't get out of bed. What can I say?

"Actually, I wasn't being beaten up. I did manage to put up a fight with her for a while, but how should I put it... teacher, it was just too bizarre."

Although she hadn't won, Irene felt she could be considered to have lost with honor, at least this time she didn't suffer a concussion and dislocated jaw like some unlucky guy next door who got hit by a Dragon Punch.

Of course, she wasn't actually beaten; instead, she was hung up and whipped by the Sea Siren lady who had learned to waddle around. The other woman was quite polite and didn't hit her face, but her buttocks really hurt.

"Although Lady Carmen has mentioned that the enemy's form of existence is rather unique, but... she can actually transform into water, and then transform from water into any form. My gun shattered her body, and she was completely unharmed."

Irene was reluctant to recall the events of the previous night. She was defeated in less than a minute, and the Seaborn even took her gun, sword, and uniform because she thought they were cool.

"And what about the flames?"

"There was no noticeable effect either."

It certainly wouldn't have any effect. Using flames to fight Sea Siren is no different from boiling water, and besides, the flames aren't that big.