Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Hachiman Hikigaya arrived at the legendary "Brotherhood."

He had been led here by Hei to meet these "friends." He didn't know if these people had also been grabbed by their weaknesses to be gathered together.

Hei briefly introduced everyone.

Manabu Horikita, someone who wasn't Commander Ikari, but had obtained Commander Ikari's illness.

'Wearing glasses doesn't make you special. Using the light reflecting off your glasses all the time is a bit too much.'

Sakuta Azusagawa, someone who looked like a popular person, and was obviously a popular person.

'Is it really okay? He's so handsome, why doesn't he just debut as an idol?'

Fuutaro Uesugi, someone who looked like he had good grades at first glance, especially since he didn't forget to bring a book with him even at this time.

'Is it really necessary? Do you have to read at a place like this?'

Izumi Masamune, someone who was a bit short but still looked cute, and was very suitable to be a cross-dressing little boy.

"Your taste is still so peculiar. This time, you even brought someone who's always slouching. It seems that he comes from a normal family. He clearly hasn't been educated properly on proper manners."

Manabu Horikita pushed up his glasses and immediately saw Hachiman Hikigaya's family conditions.

They were neither good nor bad, and he didn't have any of that subtle, cynical attitude.

"He's a guy with very sharp eyes, so I especially brought him here to meet you all."

Hei patted Hachiman Hikigaya's shoulder and half-embraced him as he led him into the office.

The office looked very luxurious. Hachiman Hikigaya wouldn't have even dared to dream of a place like this before.

"This will be our workplace from now on. You can also exchange information with each other here. Now, we need to establish a simple consensus of mutual trust."

"I'm saying... does he also have a little sister?" Fuutaro Uesugi suspected that Hei was targeting other people's little sisters.

"Of course. I believe that every good older brother is trustworthy," Hei said matter-of-factly.

"Hey, didn't you just say that there was someone who was caught fighting with his little sister in the entrance hall?" Hachiman Hikigaya felt that what Hei was saying was problematic.

Just as his words fell, the way the people around him looked at him was a bit strange.

Sakuta Azusagawa touched his lips, and after hesitating for a moment, asked, "Let me ask, is that person named Haruno Yuu?"

"Yeah? What's wrong?" Hachiman Hikigaya felt a strange atmosphere that only he didn't know the inner workings of.

"Cough, cough, that..." Seeing that no one was going to explain, Izumi Masamune had to stand up and say, "That wasn't a real person. That was a character in a game called 'Yosuga no Sora'."

"..." Hachiman Hikigaya was stunned for a moment, and then he felt the most terrifying malice in the world. He turned to Hei and asked, "Didn't you say that he was dealt with by the leader?"

"Yeah, that game was thrown into a shredder and dealt with." Hei laughed and shrugged, not at all sorry for hiding the truth from the others.

He even asked suspiciously, "You're not, perhaps, disappointed, are you?"

"Disappointed, my ass!" Hachiman Hikigaya was about to be angered to death. Someone as cautious as he was had actually been tricked by someone. This was really bad luck.

Who would ever have thoughts about their little sister if they were normal people?

But there were also some weirdos in the news, like the strange news about lovers who became siblings.

"I was just messing with you, don't be so nervous. Everyone, let's drink some tea first. I have some important things to tell you." Hei eased the atmosphere.

Hachiman Hikigaya didn't think that Hei was just messing with him. If he accidentally said something wrong, who knew if he would suffer some kind of weird punishment.

The group immediately sat up straight and seriously began to listen to Hei.

Hei was the closest high school student to the leaders of Academy City so far.

"What I'm about to tell you, you should all have some knowledge about. It has some connection with the Holy Mother Church."

Hei hadn't just randomly chosen some people who had little sisters to lead.

These high school students all had their own unique identities.

Manabu Horikita was considered to have unique leadership charm since school started. His family conditions were extremely good, and he had a lot of investments in the research institutes in Academy City. He was a student council member who was highly favored by the teachers and had cross-school management responsibilities.

Sakuta Azusagawa. Because his younger sister had some kind of strange power, and he himself was not affected by this power, he was temporarily pulled into the research institute to be 'researched' and had a very high individual value.

Izumi Masamune, a young and extremely successful light novelist.

Fuutaro Uesugi, a very excellent student. His main purpose in coming to Academy City… was the same as Miyuki Shirogane. It was just because the scholarships were too high.

Hachiman Hikigaya, currently the most unlucky and the luckiest guy that Hei had ever met. He had survived so many third-class encounters in Academy City, and he was still functioning within the range of being a normal person.

Hei could be considered someone who had made contact with her, but he and his little sister were directly taken by Noldrei to be modified without any questions. He hadn't even had a chance to say a few words to him.

"The Holy Mother Church isn't actually that important. It appeared because of the enormous benefits that the Academy City created."

"The Academy City's steel walls are like a huge dam. What this dam is protecting is actually not the Academy City, but the world of ordinary people outside of the Academy City. The signs of this had already appeared starting with the skin color medicine that came out half a year ago."

Hei's words made the students in the room tense up. More or less, they all felt how Hei, aka Li Shunsheng, had invited them to join him in a Robin Hood-like manner.

The skin color medicine had almost caused chaos in the United States at the time. It was thanks to the fact that the people of North America were very good at governing that they immediately used cosmetic surgery and other medical beauty techniques to calm things down a bit.

"The Holy Mother Church is actually a product of two opposing ideologies that are flowing in the Academy City. One is to promote the various biotechnology products that are produced within the Academy City to further extract more profits from the human world outside. And the other is to hide these technologies and let them naturally seep out to maintain the highest status of their own research platform and is not focused on the pursuit of pure monetary benefits."

"In this situation, there was a kind of split within the Academy City. Although there are a lot of high-tech applications, they've fallen into a strange silence in public opinion. The various research institutes are either talking about some breakthroughs in their research today and what they are planning to research tomorrow, or are constantly talking about topics related to human ethics."

Hei's words made Hachiman Hikigaya's hair stand on end. He felt that the forces mixed up in this small place were becoming more and more powerful.

So the people here didn't even think about protecting people on the outside?

They were either like cyberpunk rulers, living high up in isolation, or like punk corporations who would exploit the outside market to the death. They had never considered whether they were doing something to benefit humanity.

'The people here are too bad!' Hachiman Hikigaya didn't doubt Hei's words. If he was someone from the research institute, he probably would have similar ideas.

Manabu Horikita was not surprised by this. Instead, he asked curiously, "If that's the case, why did you gather us here?"

Hei said seriously, "The reason why I'm looking for people is actually very simple. I need people to cooperate with the Holy Mother Church, so that the Holy Mother can truly descend, and then reverse and target the strange existence of the Holy Mother Church."

Everyone's eyes bulged, and then they looked at each other.

Were the followers right next to them?