CHAPTER 214: CHAPTER 214: THE TRUTH

Lin Fengjiao: Why is Miss Eriri suddenly so angry?

Scarlet Lotus Fairy: Guess you don’t understand. If you did, you wouldn’t be asking that.

Lin Fengjiao: Could you tell me?

Amegakure Village’s Angel: Uncle Nine, this is something you can only pick up on your own. Trust me, stay in this group long enough and you’ll understand.

Soul Society’s Villain: This group is basically like a big dye vat. Stay here long enough and you’ll learn all sorts of things you’ve never come across before.

Unohana Let let out a sigh from the heart. She had actually learned quite a lot of "specialized" knowledge herself. Even though most of it was passively learned, it really did broaden her view.

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Anzen-san, Gin-san, and Eriri-chan are the main spreaders of all kinds of knowledge. Anzen-san spreads things like people’s history view, social science, and philosophy. The other two just spread unhealthy stuff.

Curly-haired Guy: Shut up, Gin-san is a well-known good and proper boy! I’ve never spread any unhealthy stuff. Don’t talk nonsense, hey!

Shark-Faced Guy: If you’re a good and proper boy, then this whole multiverse doesn’t have a single bad guy.

Machete Girl: An old pervert who won’t even let wigs go, acting pure? That’s enough to make me laugh my head off.

Curly-haired Guy: Friends are friends, but if you slander Gin-san like this I’ll sue you! Who the hell didn’t even let wigs go? You think I’m that desperate?

Machete Girl: Heh. That baguette—didn’t you personally stick it into the wig’s butt?

Lin Fengjiao: ?

Pretty Boy from Skull Island: Wait, that happened?

Curly-haired Guy: Damn it, didn’t we agree not to bring that up?

Machete Girl: Did we? Back then I probably wasn’t in this awakened state, so maybe I forgot.

Curly-haired Guy: Forgot my ass. You remember it perfectly well.

Wig Guy: Gintoki, I need an explanation!

Curly-haired Guy: Look, a UFO!

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Pfft, what UFO! And besides, your world already has aliens invading. Even if there’s a UFO, it wouldn’t be strange at all!

Doujin Artist: How long are you going to dodge the topic? I’m waiting for your answers! @Skirt-Flipping Maniac, Machete Girl!

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Ehehe, what answer? I don’t know anything. I’m just a cute little bunny! (emoji: acting cute)

Machete Girl: If we really say it, that’d just hurt feelings too much, little little little Eriri!

Doujin Artist: Shut up! I don’t have any feelings left for you two anymore! I’m going to cut ties with you completely, you bastards!

Amegakure Village’s Angel: Whoa. Eriri-chan’s planning to set up her own faction?

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Gotta ask—would that be the flat-chest faction?

Curly-haired Guy: Hahahaha, damn!

Wig Guy: Ruiko-chan, that’s way too blunt.

Doujin Artist: You son of a—

Eriri was so mad her face turned green. Was Ruiko even speaking human language? Could a person actually say something like that?

Soul Society’s Villain: Enough already. Let’s focus on watching the stream.

Amegakure Village’s Angel: Anzen-san, why are you just standing there doing nothing?

This is an Actor: Watching you guys tear each other apart. It’s pretty fun.

It really was fun. At least, Anzen thought watching the girls in the group fight was much more entertaining than listening to the wild thoughts of the ten-year-old girl beside her.

That kid was already imagining herself as some kind of free bonus bride. Unbelievable.

Doujin Artist: What’s fun about this? I’m the one being bullied here! And besides, those corpses seem to be gathering around. You’re really not going to deal with them?

On the screen, the entire street of dried-up corpses seemed to be drawn to Anzen and Katsura, the only living people, swarming endlessly toward them. The crowd was packed, dense and overwhelming.

This is an Actor: No rush. I’m waiting for the source to finish evolving.

Pretty Boy from Skull Island: ?

Skirt-Flipping Maniac: The source can evolve?

Amegakure Village’s Angel: What exactly is this source?

This is an Actor: It’s that black mist Kotonoha erased earlier. More accurately, it should be called the Source of Evolution.

Doujin Artist: Source of Evolution? Humans in this form—does that count as evolution?

Curly-haired Guy: Or is it a failed result of evolution? Like Resident Evil? T-virus?

This is an Actor: No. At least the T-virus theoretically has a chance of success. This thing is a total failure. It’s impossible to succeed from the very beginning.

Scarlet Lotus Fairy: Why?

This is an Actor: Because it’s negative energy drawn from demon corpses. It’s completely unsuitable for humans.

Doujin Artist: Extracting? This really is just like Resident Evil. So it was mankind’s own crazy scientists who brought this on themselves?

This is an Actor: Not just scientists. It also included political elites. With only scientists, this wouldn’t have been possible. After they created this element, they began targeted testing.

Machete Girl: That mountain village was one of the test sites?

This is an Actor: Not one of them. The only one. To make sure the evolution would finish faster, they even sent you guys over there as test subjects.

Lin Fengjiao: Such acts are no different from beasts!

Amegakure Village’s Angel: Uncle Nine, you’re kind of insulting beasts by saying that.

Wig Guy: Seems like no matter what world it is, there’s never a shortage of dirty and dark decision makers. For their own ambition and greed, they can just strip others of the right to live?

Scarlet Lotus Fairy: That’s why Young Master An teaches us to overthrow this dark rule and build a world where the people are in charge.

Doujin Artist: Honestly, I feel kind of pessimistic about whether such a world can really exist. Can we really make it happen with just us?

This is an Actor: Don’t think first about whether we can or can’t. Let’s first act in society. A single spark can start a prairie fire, but the fire has to be lit. Without fire, how can it spread?

Soul Society’s Villain: True, starting the fire is really important. But we’re kind of drifting off topic again. Right now, we should be discussing Kotonoha’s side of things.

Doujin Artist: I have a question. Back then, we guessed there might be more than one source. But now it doesn’t look like that. The black mist Kotonoha put out should’ve been the source itself. If that’s the case, why is Tokyo still having these disasters?

This is an Actor: The black mist Kotonoha-chan destroyed really was the source, but only a part of it.

Snap.

On the screen, Anzen snapped his fingers, and the image suddenly shifted.

In a dim hall somewhere, a pale-faced boy with glasses appeared. His cheeks were thin, and he wore gold-rimmed glasses. Endless black mist poured in from every entrance, crashing against his body.

Machete Girl: That’s... Naoto?

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