Chapter 4: What Honkai?? It's Not in the History Books.
"Honkai... speaking of that..."
No. 03 also found it strange, and a bewildered expression appeared on his face.
Using expressions to communicate with the primitive girl in front of him had become his simplest way of communication.
"I haven't seen anything about the Honkai in history. And I remember this place being called Japan? Why is it called Far East? There shouldn't be such a discrepancy in our archeological documents. Is this not the country of Japan?"
"As far as I know, the moon in the sky doesn't have such strong energy fluctuations..."
No. 03 was just feeling troubled. He suspected he had traveled to the wrong time.
But he saw that the time in this world was 2013, which was indeed the most common religious calendar used during this period. His memory shouldn't be wrong.
But a mistake still happened...
In No. 03's memories, humans during this period should have been enjoying the last vestiges of the electrical age. Because in 2045, the world war began, and then humanity rushed into the biotechnology era.
After all, humans without tech and "dark science" were happily obliterated in the war.
"What? You don't have records of the Honkai, such an important event, in the future?"
Question marks appeared above Kiana's head.
Even if she was dumb, she knew that it had been tens of thousands of years into the future. How could they not have recorded things like the Honkai?
But then she thought that maybe future history was written by ordinary people, and ordinary people didn't know much about the Honkai, so it was possible that it wasn't recorded.
This meant that future people had overcome the Honkai!
Thinking this, Kiana suddenly became a bit happy again.
Good, good things!
Unlike Kiana's joy at learning about the "future," doubts had risen in No. 03's heart.
Because this reality was completely different from the history he knew, it meant that there must be a huge error somewhere.
No. 03 wondered if something went wrong, or if he hadn't actually traveled into history at all.
But his current task wasn't to deal with the Honkai. With his current body strength, he could be considered a god-level being in comparison to the humans of this era.
His task was to eliminate humanity's proliferationist ideology.
"If you're talking about this strange energy..."
No. 03 suddenly stood up.
Only then did Kiana fully pay attention to the human body that this future person had created for himself.
This body...
This body didn't have what a male should have.
"?!?!?!?!?!?"
"FUCK! You... You... Why don't you have that?!"
Kiana was shocked. She stared in disbelief at this body that had no trace of humanity.
"What?" No. 03 looked down at his crotch and wiggled his lower body. Only then did he remember that he seemed to have "optimized" away both the urinary and digestive systems.
"Oh, you mean the excretory organs. I optimized them away. Thanks to the excellent absorption abilities of my original body, it's no longer necessary to keep such outdated excretory functions. Simple metabolism through the skin is enough."
"How is it? Isn't it advanced? If you remodel your old form, you can also optimize those two parts."
Kiana was in utter shock, and her eyes fell out of her poop-sludge body.
After rolling around a couple of times, they finally stopped on the floor.
The two eyes avoided No. 03's "optimized" body, facing opposite directions.
"Why can you say being without an asshole with so much pride! Yamero—! I don't want to hear it! I've already lost hope in humanity of the future! Why am I fighting Honkai beasts for a future like this!!!!!!!"
The girl, who had believed in the beauty of the world, received an unprecedented shock.
Her cerebral cortex began working again under the influence of her memories, and emotions rushed forth once more.
poop-sludge Kiana had her first evolution under her own conscious will.
She successfully created a bald but eyeless girl's head.
Thanks to the excellent mechanisms of self-development based on human DNA, she reproduced the great process of embryonic shaping.
It's just that the trigger was a little scary.
No. 03 picked up the two eyeballs from the ground and walked over to Kiana.
With two "pop" sounds, he inserted the eyeballs into her head.
"The brain retains the control system for the original body. Under the effect of bioelectricity, the body's matter instinctively begins to reshape your body, following the direction of bioelectrical transmission."
A tentacle suddenly extended from No. 03's back and grabbed a nearby mirror.
Kiana felt it. She felt the return of human vision, and she also felt the reconnection of her optic nerves.
It was as if she had an inner vision, seeing how she was reconstructing the bone and muscle tissue of her entire brain.
Kiana saw that her head was attached to a lump of strange stuff, and she instinctively reached out to grab the mirror, but instead, a tentacle that she couldn't accept extended out.
The girl finally regained her angry expression.
"What exactly do you want?! Why did you turn me into this?!"
"..."
No. 03 felt that everything he had said before was a waste of time. He had never hated the inferior communication method of language so much.
He wanted to instill sensory memories into the girl now.
Barely suppressing the remnants of his proliferationist ideology, No. 03 explained, "The speed of neuronal ion transmission is 120 m/s. Theoretically, if a person wants to control their hand, the fastest response time would be 0.1 milliseconds."
"But what if the transmission speed of a person's body information could be replaced by light? That would be a speed of 299,792,458 m/s."
"You might not fully understand the changes, but it means that when you try to control your hand to attack me, I might have already controlled my own body to attack you countless times. As long as my body matter can withstand it."
"What I gave you is just an ordinary body of a person in the future."
A shocked expression appeared on Kiana's face.
She didn't understand, but was greatly moved.
"What the hell are you talking about! You should change me back!!!"
The girl couldn't understand what No. 03 was saying at all, and she didn't understand what the ability to think at the speed of light would even be like.
She just wanted to change back to her original body.
No. 03 thought for a long time, then reached out and pressed his hand on the girl's newly restored head.
His hand moved back and forth, and you could even hear the "creak" "creak" sounds of it moving across her scalp.
The sound was like a bell that pierced the girl's heart.
She, she heard something.
It was like a ball of dough that was being kneaded in someone's hand, constantly rubbing and rubbing.
"Bones are normal, skin attachment is normal, the head is still the original head."
"Sigh, primitive humans..."
No. 03 suddenly stopped his hand, then suddenly slapped her bald head.
Like pulling out a carrot, he lifted her directly from the ground.
A new body was born in his hands.