Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Wendy didn't register what was happening. When she came to, she realized she had...

Seemed to have changed positions?

'What the heck?!'

Her eyes saw her own body, still wearing that slightly thin patient gown.

And the thing on top of her neck was gone. Her neck had become a fleshy lump.

There was a hole in the lump, which seemed to be expanding and contracting.

'I thought it was something else, but it's just my trachea breathing.'

The remaining energy in her body was enough to keep it somewhat alive for a short time.

"Bronya, look, she's a bit younger than you, but her body development is much better. I told you, we should give Mei more supplements, you've probably missed the best time for development due to years of hardship outside."

Noldrei made a simple comment and then ignored her. Anyone who had been modified by his body, he knew exactly how many hairs they had, even the middle-aged Siegfried was no exception.

"Huh? Eh?!"

Wendy's voice was distorted, probably because her trachea hadn't been reattached when she was grafted on.

Right now, she was relying entirely on the nutrition within Noldrei's body to stay alive.

"What!? What's going on?! Weren't you going to give me a quick end!?"

Wendy shouted in surprise. She tried to control her 'limbs', but they didn't listen to her at all.

After all, her limbs were already gone.

"Just calm down a bit. Why don't you keep watching?"

Wendy wanted to ask a few more questions, but then the tongue in her mouth suddenly became like a soft, yet firm gel, as if she had no control over it.

Her tongue grew longer and stuck out, completely covering her mouth.

"Mmmph... Mmmph..."

Wendy had never imagined that one day she wouldn't even be able to control her own life or death.

Even back in New Zealand, if she wanted to commit suicide, she could probably do it before anyone could react.

But under Noldrei's watchful eye, she didn't even have the ability to choose death.

"Let's see. A living body can indeed carry a Herrscher core... huh?"

Noldrei's body linked to Wendy's body. He reached into Wendy's body, searching around, but couldn't find the Herrscher core.

"This core can actually turn into a strange, flowing liquid? If I hadn't directly cut off Wendy's brain, it might have even burrowed into her head."

Noldrei thought that the core would be a gemstone like the previous two, but this one surprisingly broke the norm, turning into a liquid-like substance.

"Like the First Herrscher core, it can exist within the Herrscher's body as DNA information. This core seems to be capable of something similar."

Tesla's third eye scanned Wendy's 'body,' and she could see the direction in which the core was flowing.

Noldrei taking action on Wendy's brain first was actually a happy accident. It directly tricked the core in Wendy's legs. Now the core existed in a living body without any consciousness.

"Hmm, a bit troublesome, but not that much... I just need to compress the flesh."

Noldrei withdrew his arm, and several tentacles plunged directly into Wendy's body.

Siegfried was amazed by this scene. He really didn't expect that saving someone could be even weirder than killing them.

Wendy's body was constantly being decomposed and melted under Noldrei's control.

Wendy's blue-green eyes reflected this chaotic scene. Her beautiful, young body gradually turned into pieces of flesh, and those pieces started shrinking and changing.

Soon, that body turned into a very small ball of flesh with a slight pulse.

She could feel it; inside that little ball was the Herrscher core.

As the flesh ball continued to shrink, the Herrscher core couldn't turn into a liquid and slip away, and was gradually squeezed down to the size of a palm through this method of creating a wall of flesh.

"Okay, Tesla, could you grab this? I'm going to prepare a new pony body for our newbie."

Noldrei said as he began cleaning up the remaining pieces of flesh.

At this point, Wendy couldn't care less about whether she was being controlled; she was just staring blankly at the scene in front of her.

That was how simple and crude it was to remove a Herrscher core.

So, the Herrscher core was trying to run, eh? Then he would strip off all the flesh that the core couldn't run to! That way, the place it could run to would keep getting smaller and smaller.

"This is too… stimulating…"

Siegfried sighed.

He didn't even see what happened. And it wasn't anything pleasant either.

A normal, beautiful girl's body would have been fine, but seeing this body "melt" and "fall apart" was simply unpleasant.

"Excuse me, I need to go out and throw up for a bit…"

Siegfried's face wasn't looking too good. He covered his mouth, grabbed the living room trash can, and ran out.

Raiden Mei ran out with him.

Bronya was slightly better. She played a lot of games and had seen even more grotesque things.

Kiana simply didn't have the function to vomit. While she thought it was disgusting, she didn't have a physical response to it, so she just figured it was okay.

Doctor Tesla also wanted to run, but in the end, she thought that her job of watching the Herrscher core was more important.

She controlled the Honkai energy carefully, handling the newly acquired Herrscher core, trying her best to prevent it from going berserk.

Wendy's head was still spinning. Her mind was filled with images of pieces of her flesh falling off.

That feeling...

It was truly bizarre...

When she regained consciousness again, she noticed that there seemed to be a strange black shadow blocking part of her vision, creating a blind spot.

"Neigh!"

"?!"

Wendy lifted her hoof and looked down at her body.

"Such beautiful pink fur!"

Noldrei happily stroked the mane on 'Wendy's' neck, and said, "From now on, you're Pinkie Pie, representing—optimism!"

With a "pfft" sound, Bronya couldn't help but laugh.

Optimism? She was just thinking about committing suicide earlier, and she looked gloomy when she arrived. It was completely unrelated to optimism.

She found that Noldrei was just mischievous. He turned people into ponies that were the opposite of their personalities.

Just like when she learned that her role represented 'loyalty' after watching My Little Pony.

Cocolia was honesty, Bronya was loyalty, Raiden Mei was magic, and now Wendy was optimism, and the almost completely unhelpful assistant, Siegfried-Spike.

It wasn't that they each had their own characteristics; it was more that Noldrei really knew how to choose people.

Wendy jumped around frantically.

She wanted to find something human about herself, but there was no way to find it at this point.

When Noldrei saw her panicking, he happily said to Kiana, "See, how happy she is now that her legs are all better."

"Ah, um... yeah... it's pretty good."

Kiana agreed with his view, at least it was better than the girl dying.