Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Noldrei was currently taking Raiden Mei out for a stroll, mainly to see how the new city was coming along.

"It's New Year's, and yet you're still making Doctor Tesla build walls outside? Isn't that a bit much?"

Raiden Mei couldn't stand seeing Noldrei ordering Doctor Tesla around like this.

"Then, why don't you be the Herrscher of Thunder and take her place?"

Noldrei thought Raiden Mei had a point and decided to find someone to switch jobs with Tesla.

But Raiden Mei immediately shook her head, saying she would absolutely not be a Herrscher, and she'd never even heard of the Herrscher of Thunder.

"I can't, I can't create an electric furnace and forge steel with my bare hands."

Raiden Mei couldn't use lightning like Tesla. Just imagining making so much steel was enough to give her a headache.

"It's not that difficult. I can redesign the living Stigmata in your body and embed the Herrscher core into you. As for how to use electricity, you can learn from Doctor Tesla."

Noldrei thought that if something could be learned and overcome, then it was not a problem.

But Raiden Mei didn't think so. She didn't think Doctor Tesla would like it if she could be easily replaced.

It wasn't about seizing power. Any normal person would dislike the idea that they were just a replaceable cog in the machine.

Even Tesla wouldn't want to be a high-level cog.

Perhaps Doctor Tesla hadn't even realized that she now had the honor of becoming a high-level cog.

"I just want to live my life day by day."

Raiden Mei didn't want anything now. After her father was imprisoned, along with being bullied at school and experiencing all sorts of strange things, she was different now.

She felt a sense of elderly resignation towards the world and found it difficult to muster up any motivation.

Even though she had made some good friends, it was hard to return to her previously positive and proactive state after going through all that.

Under normal circumstances, Raiden Mei would become a Herrscher, go berserk, then develop a severe world-weariness, and ultimately seek self-destruction.

This period was actually the most peaceful time she had experienced.

Noldrei thought that Raiden Mei was too passive and too resigned, just like those popular internet slang terms used nowadays.

"You have to perk up! The task of saving the world will be entrusted to you in the future. You have a natural Stigmata, you know."

Raiden Mei didn't buy Noldrei's words.

She knew the effects of a successful living Stigmata.

With living Stigmata, Noldrei didn't have to train girls from a young age to fight on the battlefield like Theresa's Schicksal.

According to information related to Schicksal Valkyries, women had relatively higher Honkai resistance because they were better at maintaining the stability of genetic inheritance.

Women were naturally more inclined to inherit Stigmata genetic information, so they naturally had higher Honkai resistance.

But with living Stigmata now, there was no need to do things that way.

Since more people could contribute their strength, there was no longer a need for a high school girl like her to go fight on the front lines.

This was just one of the things created by future humans. Raiden Mei had no idea how the future world would develop after this.

"Then what do you plan to do in the future?"

"Me? Probably just go to school, then... study, and after graduating, find a job. Becoming a researcher seems good, or perhaps following Doctor Tesla...? If that doesn't work out, I can participate in kendo competitions, maybe kendo competitions in the future will be more interesting."

"With the reduced risk of death and better treatment, it'll be easier to go all out when competing in kendo."

Raiden Mei wondered if she should develop her own style of kendo.

Perhaps she would one day pass on her lightning kendo style.

"I doubt it. If kendo only becomes a competition and a performance, then your kendo won't be of any use. Besides…"

Noldrei asked curiously, "At that point, will there still be anyone who insists on practicing kendo like this? You guys are truly strange. If someone was to attach auxiliary limbs to their body and then use seven or eight hands and feet to compete in kendo with you, how would you even win? Or are you planning to make a preemptive strike in this area?"

'Ah? A preemptive strike?'

Raiden Mei imagined herself as a thousand-armed Bodhisattva, her hands filled with swords, sticks, pots, bowls, ladles, and basins.

"No, no, that's not kendo! I absolutely disagree!"

Raiden Mei shook her head repeatedly. She couldn't accept this kind of kendo.

Noldrei's eyes lit up. He nodded and said, "You're right. It seems I have to set up a new human combat competition, so that more people who are interested in extra limbs can join. I'm sure many fighting geniuses will emerge then."

He could already imagine more and more combat elites adding extra limbs to themselves and using them in battle. At that time, more people would fall in love with the convenient tentacles, and these versatile limbs that were like liquid.

Thinking of this, Noldrei was full of confidence in the future.

Raiden Mei felt that she shouldn't have brought up the topic of kendo. She didn't expect Noldrei to have already reached the level of fighting with extra limbs.

If it went on like this, kendo would definitely be replaced by more competitive and complex skills.

She felt very complicated, like an old person watching the thing she loved become obsolete.

So sad! How tragic!

Why did this happen to her? She was just a teenager!

Even her loyal hobby was about to be eliminated by the world.

'No, we can't let Raiden Mei just give up on kendo. If she doesn't work hard, what if no one continues with traditional kendo in the future, and then no one will see the old era be beaten by the new era? Then how would they continue the propaganda?'

Noldrei immediately comforted Raiden Mei, "Don't worry, since it's something you like doing, I definitely have no reason to stop you. There are still many people in Japan who insist on practicing kendo. You also need people to inherit these things. At least, to let people see that even such primitive human bodies have not reached their limits."

"You have to believe in yourself!"

Raiden Mei didn't expect to be encouraged. Her mind was still in a daze and yet she had been led onto the path of a kendo master.

She didn't know if she could carry the last banner of modern human martial arts in the future.

"No way, there are so many skilled people out there. There's no way I can do it alone."

She wasn't very confident in herself yet, but Noldrei thought she should be. He had already been waiting for her to establish herself as a repeated failure, setting up a measuring stick for the old martial arts.

"Don't worry, I have more confidence in you than I have in myself."

He used his 'Don't worry' technique again, which made Raiden Mei feel even more worried.