Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Sakiko felt her recent job was becoming a bit terrifying.

It was fine during the day, but occasionally she had to work the night shift, and that's when customers with rather strange requests would come in.

For example, one time she saw a white-haired girl come in. After arriving, she would present Sakiko with a list.

This person was none other than Kiana, who had just returned from outside. She didn't come back here to do nothing. She was specifically sent down to conduct spot checks on some of the shops, especially those involved in organ production.

Although many research institutes were already under stricter control, you couldn't stop some researchers from wanting to develop new products for their own research. And after the new products were developed? There was no qualified person to check if these things were usable or if they would cause any harm.

Although the Academy City's medical capabilities meant they weren't afraid of trouble—or rather, this kind of thing was bound to cause trouble—less trouble was always better. So, Kiana had to personally go out and spot-check the quality of these things.

So what was she to do? This required Kiana's current body to take action.

The body of a person from the future had a fantastic feature: its genetic self-adaptation ability was ridiculously strong. It could detect the compatibility status in the most direct way and determine how much Honkai factor was mixed in.

Sakiko encountered Kiana. After entering the shop, Kiana didn't ask if she had the organs she wanted, nor did she care which famous research institute endorsed them. Instead, she came right up and asked who usually bought these things.

Having worked in customer service, Sakiko immediately noticed Kiana's abnormality.

The clothes she was wearing clearly didn't belong to a poor family!

Why, even in the Academy City, was there still such a clear distinction in clothing?

Sakiko wasn't clueless. Just like how the Academy City had developed genetic modifications that made people immune to heat and cold and could regulate their body's energy in other ways, humans had retained the habit of wearing clothes, so there was no trend of changing this habit.

Instead, some guys who were originally studying clothes had suddenly switched to studying full-body suits.

"Most of the buyers are young people. Like this eyeball... it's very popular on the market. But they still hope for an eye color that matches their needs, which requires more debugging to design."

Sakiko was holding the pink-and-blue toned eyeball her boss had told her about.

Kiana glanced down at the price: 42 Kengan Association points, which converted to less than 20,000 in Far East currency.

At the bottom of the jar containing the eyeball, there was the factory batch number and the final installation deadline, along with the qualification certificate endorsed by the research institute. There were also the genetic information requirements related to the personal ID, which was like a shoe size.

"Get me a jar."

"Hmm? You only need one?" Sakiko Toyokawa suspected she had misheard. She had seen people buy single eyes before, but most of them were for replacing eyes due to diseases or other problems, and they weren't used to such special decorations.

"One is enough."

Kiana scanned her ID to pay the points, and Sakiko didn't dare ask any more questions. She quickly found the required eyeball and packed it for Kiana. What the customer planned to do with the eye afterward was none of her business. After all, there was a shop specializing in organ replacement just a right turn out the door.

But Kiana didn't use these things to install them on herself. The moment she stepped outside, she opened the jar, took out the eyeball, and ate it in one bite.

Some familiar and unfamiliar genetic information integrated into her memory.

Kiana frowned slightly. She quickly concluded that the thing was basically qualified, and the Honkai factor content was within the normal range.

She had no intention of buying everything in the store and tasting it. Eating one eyeball was enough to know if the products from that research institute met the regulations. If someone saw her constantly eating organs, Kiana felt she wouldn't be able to stay in the Academy City.

'Good thing I just randomly created someone's appearance.'

Kiana didn't even dare to use her own face to buy things. She was worried she might be mistaken for some pervert who liked to eat human flesh.

After Kiana left, Sakiko cautiously went to the shop entrance and looked around carefully.

She then saw the discarded jar of nutrient fluid in the trash can by the door. Normally, this would only be thrown away during installation, but this person had thrown it away right at the entrance.

Sakiko's heart filled with fear. She didn't dare to linger for too long and hurried back into the shop to hide.

The Honkai factor was an important determinant of whether an organ was qualified. Often, in order to create more cool-looking organ appearances and abilities, people would continuously introduce the Honkai factor, which would cause the internal Honkai factor of the organ to exceed a certain limit.

Once that limit was exceeded, it was no longer a human organ with the Honkai factor. It would become a Honkai Beast organ that looked like a human organ but actually had human genes.

This thing couldn't be randomly installed in a human body. It would cause a very painful rejection reaction, the effect of which was basically the same as injecting Honkai energy directly into the human body.

Sakiko had undergone training when she joined the shop, so she of course knew about these issues.

But Kiana's behavior was too strange. She came in late at night, bought something, and then immediately unwrapped it right at the shop entrance.

'After she unwrapped it, how could she still use that eye?'

Thinking of this, Sakiko Toyokawa felt there were too many strange people in the Academy City. Why did she have to run into one of them?

At this thought, Sakiko suddenly remembered that the locals in the Academy City rarely ate meat.

'Could there be something wrong with the meat?'

A jolt went through the girl's heart. She began to suspect that the local meat was also genetically modified, just like the organs in the shop.

But she couldn't not eat meat. Her current body wasn't a super-modified one; it was still within the normal human range. If she didn't eat meat, she would definitely become malnourished soon.

The genetic modification technology of the Academy City was so deeply ingrained in people's minds that Sakiko couldn't help but think about these things.

Unfortunately, Sakiko, who had just recently arrived in the Academy City, didn't guess correctly. It wasn't that people ate less meat, but that the way people obtained energy in the Academy City had undergone a certain degree of change.

Traditional meat could no longer provide enough taste pleasure for people. What was really popular was new biological meat mixed with a certain amount of Honkai factor.

But this thing was a bit too scary, so it was sold on the shelves of the Academy City in canned form. And Sakiko Toyokawa had chosen ordinary poultry from the supermarket; the two things were not in the same section of the supermarket.