"From now on, you'll be called... hmm," Morien thought for a moment. "Fortune-Collecting Mother Insect... how does that sound?"
The Fortune-Collecting Mother Insect immediately transmitted a feeling of joy.
Morien reached out and stroked its body.
The bug, magnified to the size of a human, was furry and actually felt quite nice to the touch.
It was just that the insect legs, mouthparts, and compound eyes were a bit creepy.
Yet Morien unexpectedly felt that it was not bad, quite cute.
This was perhaps the "parental filter".
"I finally understand why, in the eyes of the Ancient Sun God, Amon's behavior could only be called a 'child's prank'."
"Strange, I don't even have progesterone," Morien muttered to himself.
Placing his hand against Butterfly's profile, it immediately rubbed its head upward.
Morien chuckled softly.
"Heh, since I already have a mother insect under me, it doesn't seem quite right for me to act as a mother insect myself."
"It's also time to give myself a raise and a promotion."
Morien had a sudden flash of inspiration.
"Hmm... then I'll just automatically promote myself to Royal Insect," Morien said as a matter of course. "I don't care if anyone acknowledges it or not."
"I'm already propagating across the heavens and myriad realms, who dares say I don't deserve the title of 'Royal Insect'?"
"Even, if placed in some worldviews with 'infinite parallel worlds', my birth would mean that for every additional parallel world, I would split once, and every choice and every action of mine would split into infinite versions of me."
"Are there any other bugs that can do that?"
"The [Propagation] Aeon would have to wipe my shoes clean if they wanted to resurrect me."
Though Honkai: Star Rail World might also have parallel worlds.
Yet Morien was infinities of infinities.
Having finished speaking, Morien suddenly noticed that the newly-born mother insect was rapidly waving its foremost two insect legs.
It seemed to be applauding.
Cheers!
As this Butterfly began to applaud, more and more Butterflies began to flap their foremost two insect legs.
This was the gregariousness of the swarm.
"Oh?" Morien raised his eyebrows with considerable interest.
This mother insect seemed to possess no small amount of intelligence.
He put the mask back on his face.
"Very smart, aren't you?" Morien reached out, grabbed it like he was holding a puppy, and scooped it into his arms.
"Your emotions really do seem a bit too rich."
"From the original work, the swarm... should only know how to propagate, right? Is it because your Royal Insect's humanity is overly abundant?"
The Fortune-Collecting Mother Insect opened its mouthparts, vibrating the air with energy mixed with spirituality, Cursed Energy, and Path Power, emitting a hum.
Morien understood.
It was saying: "Father is truly amazing."
Morien let go of it, allowing it to fly off on its own.
"Is your intelligence really high to this extent? You can even suck up to me," Morien said with some surprise.
"If that's really the case, then I can't call you 'it' anymore." He touched his chin and mused.
"Hmm... you need to have a name."
"Ah, very well!"
"Since you are the first Fortune-Collecting Mother Insect, then you shall be called 'Fortune-Collecting'."
"As for your offspring, I won't bother with them; you can manage them yourself."
Morien was extremely satisfied with his naming ability.
That was right, it had to be simple, faithful, expressive, and elegant.
Fortune-Collecting was very happy.
Morien turned around and looked at Ijichi.
"What time is it now?" Morien asked.
"Right now..." Ijichi immediately lowered his head to look at his watch. "It's 22:03."
"Past ten at night, huh?" Morien pondered.
That being said, it had been nearly an hour since he left the space.
"The Curtain can be dispersed." Morien let his voice travel into Ijichi's mind.
"Understood." Ijichi raised two fingers and dispelled the "Curtain" he had laid down.
Inside the shopping mall, the brightness instantly rose by a notch, no longer feeling so dim.
The "Curtain" Ijichi had laid down vanished.
Yet what vanished was not only Ijichi's "Curtain".
"Ah... there's still another 'Curtain'..." Morien raised his head and looked out the window.
The second-layer "Curtain" surrounding the central district had disappeared at some unknown point.
Originally, this "Curtain" had wrapped around Shibuya's central district like a black eggshell, but now this "Curtain" had quietly vanished even before Morien tried to create Fortune-Collecting.
It seemed that the little old man who played with Strength Reversal had been taken out.
Morien touched his mask and looked out the window.
He wanted to go in and play for a bit...
But the swarm's instinct to seek advantages and avoid harm told him that it was dangerous over there and not suited for survival.
Yet... that was the thinking of a loser!
Since he was already here, not seeing a live-action version of elbow battles would truly be a huge loss.
Moreover...
Morien thought of a Cursed Spirit.
Dagon, one of the four Calamities.
As a Cursed Spirit conceived from humanity's fear of the ocean, his Domain was "Horizon of the Captivating Skandha", a rare Domain that was not scary at all, with its environment being a resort beach.
And the ocean, as the source that nurtured all living things, allowed him to summon endless Shikigami within his Domain.
"Endless, huh..."
Morien sighed with emotion.
"You really dare say that."
"However..."
He touched the mask on his face.
"I really want to see it."
He turned back to look at Ijichi.
"Can you contact Kento Nanami?"
"Ah, yes, I can." Ijichi immediately took out his phone.
"Good, make the call." Morien nodded.
Well, right now, it should still be early, so he could make it in time.
However, Morien still decided to synchronize first before entering the central district.
Nearly an hour had already passed, and perhaps the other two sides had also made new progress.
With a blink of his eyes, Morien arrived at the Synchronization Space.
Just as he entered, Jujutsu Morien saw two people.
"Yo, you're here." Mysteries Morien waved a hand.
"It's great that time flows slowly," Honkai: Star Rail Morien said with a smile. "I get to run into people every time I come in."
"Unlike me, I only met people four times in two weeks."
He nudged Mysteries Morien beside him.
"Good thing I have you to keep me company."
"Then shouldn't you call me your savior?" Mysteries Morien nudged back. "Also, stop nudging randomly; we've synchronized with 'Jujutsu Kaisen', what if you elbow me and trigger a Black Flash?"
After finishing, the two of them laughed happily.
Jujutsu Morien smiled as well.
"I've got good stuff here."
He raised his hands and high-fived the other two versions of himself.
The next second, exclamations of surprise rang out.
"Holy cow!"
"Awesome!"
"Heh heh, but I'm not bad either." Mysteries Morien tossed his head.
"I'm a noble Sequence 8 now."
"Three days have passed on my end," Mysteries Morien held up three fingers.
"Because this riot was resolved quite timely and easily, it didn't deviate much from the course."
"We returned to Tingen City's Enmat Harbor even earlier than in the original work."
"It only took about two days."
"After getting off the ship, because of the matter with the Clover, the police planned to investigate, but I slipped away in advance."
"Then I blended into Tingen City's underground secret gathering, used the money I got from Alger to buy materials, and had the black market handle identity documents with the rest."
In three days, he had successively advanced to Sequence 9 and Sequence 8.
In the Mysteries World, he indeed had the capital to be proud.
"But when all is said and done, if my reserve of occult knowledge couldn't digest Mystery Pryer within a second, then Sequence 8 shouldn't even exist in this world," Mysteries Morien spread his hands and joked.
"Indeed."
"You're awesome too."
"That's fantastic."
Mysteries Morien very much enjoyed the reactions of his hype-men.
"As for me, I'm completely riding on coattails."
"Transmigrating to this world for three days, monsters are everywhere, it's been really tough to endure."
"And my spawn point was even in Z-City; luckily I ran into Saitama, so I simply moved next door to his house, which makes me feel a bit safer."
"Oh-ho, there are monsters, then riding coattails is normal," Jujutsu Morien nodded.
"Not riding coattails when there are big legs to hold would be abnormal, completely understandable." Mysteries Morien agreed as well.
"There are monsters, if there are monsters then there's truly no help for it," Honkai: Star Rail Morien expressed comfort.
After the three of them finished expressing their evaluations one after another, they suddenly froze in unison.
No.
There was a problem.
Immediately, all three of them turned their heads to look at the fourth Morien.
"Why are you looking at me?" The fourth Morien scratched his head. "Aren't we sharing intel?"