Chat Group: Traits, Gacha, and Crossovers

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『Earth's Cancer』: ?

『Earth's Cancer』: ??

『Earth's Cancer』: ???

『Ghost Spider』: Whoa, whoa, whoa—slow down. What's going on?

『Earth's Cancer』: I… honestly have no idea.

『Earth's Cancer』: I just woke up, and it's like the whole world changed overnight. It's familiar, but off—like déjà vu with a twist.

『Lady Avalon』: Can you explain what exactly you mean?

『Earth's Cancer』: Give me a second. I need to sort through everything first.

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Ten minutes later—

[System Notification:  Group member "Earth's Cancer" has uploaded the file: (Umbrella Corporation—Public Information)]

『Ghost Spider』: Huh??

『Catwoman』: Whoa... what the hell!?

『Catwoman』: You're telling me they publicly own over a hundred strategic weapons, each with yields in the megaton range? And they openly control a global satellite surveillance network and a fleet of ten fully armed aircraft carriers?

『Catwoman』: Are you sure this is just a private company? Like, this is out in the open?

『Earth's Cancer』: Well… technically, it's semi-public knowledge.

『Earth's Cancer』: You guys already know the kind of family I'm from—the Fujiwara clan. Thanks to our influence, I was able to access this kind of information.

『Earth's Cancer』: To regular people, Umbrella Corporation is just known as a massive global monopoly dabbling in pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, defense tech, and most high-end industries.

『Ghost Spider』: That's already insane.

『Ghost Spider』: In my world, even Stark Industries—who practically sells weapons to every corner of the globe except that one big Eastern country—doesn't hold a candle to this Umbrella Corp you're describing.

『Lady Avalon』: Say it @Ordinary Human."

『Snake Empress』: Umbrella Corporation...?

『Hellish Blizzard』: Wait—wasn't that the world that only had like, nine people left alive? How the hell did the company structure just magically rebuild itself?

『Earth's Cancer』: Logically, it shouldn't have.

『Earth's Cancer』: Based on what happened during the last world fusion...

『Earth's Cancer』: If something exists in both merging worlds—like countries, universities (Tokyo U, Kyoto U, Osaka U), or megacorps like Sony, Mitsubishi, Toyota—they get merged into a single entity.

『Earth's Cancer』: But if something only existed in one world, it usually gets carried over mostly unchanged… though sometimes it gets a "patch update."

『Earth's Cancer』: But Umbrella? That company was gone in its original timeline. And now suddenly it's back, stronger than ever, like some kind of mutant corporate monster...

『Ordinary Human』: ...

『Ordinary Human』: It's just that... there was a whole untouched world's worth of resources sitting there. I figured, why let it go to waste? So right before the fusion, I did a bit of consolidation. Just messing around, really.

『Catwoman』: You're calling this "just messing around"?! That monster of a corporation??

『Earth's Cancer』: Wait… so the mysterious person running Umbrella from the shadows right now… that's you, Mr. Veyron?

『Ordinary Human』: Nope. It's Yuriko Takagi.

『Earth's Cancer』: ...Saya's mom?

A dignified, elegant woman with a noble air popped into Fujiwara Chika's mind.

『Ordinary Human』: Yep, that's her.

『Earth's Cancer』: …Well, that's not too bad then.

Back during that mission, she hadn't yet awakened her spiritual powers or evolved her Byakugan into the Tenseigan with Eirin Yagokoro's help.

She wasn't nearly as strong as she is now. These days, she can take down a fully armed modern military unit solo using just her spiritual energy and the gravitational powers of her Tenseigan.

And if she really pushes herself—say, after consuming a Power Boost Potion—she could probably level a city with a blast from her Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Back then, she was just "the accessory" that Miss Merlin brought along. Unlike Gwen, Selina, Fubuki, Hancock, or even Veyron himself, she hadn't gone on missions outside. She mostly stayed at base, collecting resources sent back by the others through the red packet system.

During that time, she'd grown close with Saeko, Alice, and Saya. She even had a few pleasant chats with Saya's mother, Yuriko. Her impression of the woman had been… surprisingly positive.

Snapping out of her thoughts, she asked in the group chat:

『Earth's Cancer』: So then, how does Umbrella even handle staffing? Where do they find employees?

『Ordinary Human』: You remember that plan the original Umbrella executives had? You know, after wiping out most of humanity with the zombie virus, they wanted to rebuild the world in their image?

『Earth's Cancer』: You mean… creating artificial humans to serve them?

『Ordinary Human』: Exactly.

Yeah, the whole "release-a-virus-to-end-humanity" move was messed up beyond belief, but credit where it's due—their biotech was seriously advanced.

Thanks to their research on the zombie virus and the T-virus, they'd already mastered genetic engineering at a level where they could mass-produce synthetic humans. Ones who looked and functioned like regular people—same physical abilities, normal lifespans—but with absolute loyalty to Umbrella baked in.

And before triggering the zombie apocalypse, Umbrella had secretly gathered a massive database of genetic info—everything from top-tier experts to gorgeous models.

Using that data, they mixed and matched traits to create new "employees."

Now, after the worlds merged, Umbrella has branch bases all over the globe.

And every single one of the millions of employees working there? They all look incredible. We're talking a solid 92 or 93 out of 100 on average for both body and appearance.

『Ordinary Human』: By the way, didn't you say you were going out to sea to find a crew that could operate a carrier fleet? Did you manage to find anyone, @Snake Empress?

『Snake Empress』: I did find someone… but we've hit an obstacle.

She glanced over at the woman she'd picked up from a small town on an island in the Western Sea—a woman once known as the "Devil Child" with a bounty of 79 million Berries. Of course, that bounty had been canceled ever since Artoria took control of the World Government.

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Looking at Nico Robin, Hancock sighed.

"It's not that I'm slacking off," Robin said, clearly feeling the pressure. "Ever since I joined you, I've been doing my best—working out daily, studying all those technical manuals you gave me…"

She trailed off with another sigh.

"But honestly, how can you expect me to master knowledge that usually takes decades to learn—and operate something that normally requires thousands of people—on my own?"

"I mean… I ate the Flower-Flower Fruit, not the Brain-Brain Fruit, okay…?"

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