Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Ayame already had dark circles under her eyes.

She deeply felt that her abilities were insufficient to complete the task of governing this small country of three million people for Her Highness, the Crown Princess.

The students taught by Academy City through the Stigma Battlesuits were becoming increasingly outrageous.

This was especially evident in Horikita Manabu.

The upper echelons of Academy City realized that it was necessary to further strengthen control, or they would have to let everyone in Academy City go out.

If this continued, Horikita Manabu was worried that Academy City would first be destroyed by these research institutes.

"Hikigaya Hachiman isn't coming back. I didn't expect him to do so well over there."

Ayame lamented that the damn dog's luck was really good, running off to the outside during the most chaotic period before Academy City was about to open up.

Hikigaya Hachiman even inexplicably got a lot of credit. Who among them didn't know that when Hikigaya Hachiman landed, the upper echelons of those two countries had already been dealt with by some unknown big shot from the Board of Directors? The opponents that kid fought after he went over were all disorganized, and basically none of his subordinates were a match for him.

This made the brothers extremely jealous. Even the best-tempered Horikita Manabu had thoughts of quitting and slacking off.

Why couldn't such good things fall on the brothers' heads?

May Hikigaya Hachiman fall from grace one day.

After the simple denunciation meeting of Hikigaya Hachiman, everyone began the subsequent management meeting of Academy City.

First, Horikita Manabu invited the increasingly haggard Ayame to the stage.

Horikita Manabu pushed up his glasses, which had no prescription, and advised, "There's no need for this. Academy City's medical care is so good. If you look like this, people will think that we civil servants don't have any corresponding medical security."

To his surprise, Ayame shook his head and said, "No, you don't understand. Only by maintaining this appearance can I barely let my leader know that I am working hard. Otherwise, she will only throw more work at me."

"So you can do that?!" Izumi Masamune was greatly surprised and repeatedly said that he had learned a new trick.

"Brother, your leader is a bit unscrupulous."

Horikita Manabu suddenly felt that his teacher, Otto, was really too good. He completely let him develop on his own without any attitude of exploitation. The only thing he urged him on was the improvement of his abilities.

But these were all things Horikita Manabu demanded of himself, and Otto also trusted his self-discipline very much.

It seemed that Otto, in his normal state, was indeed a good leader as long as he didn't deliberately mess with people's minds.

Ayame was different. He had a very unreliable Crown Princess as his leader.

"It's like this. Academy City has researched too many things. Because the strange genetic creatures created are too chaotic, I was thinking if there is a way to balance the inside of Academy City and let them focus on contributing to the development of humanity."

Ayame was talking about the researchers in the research institute who had too much energy and nowhere to vent it.

In order to conduct in-depth research, those researchers even equipped themselves with Stigma Battlesuits and worked day and night in the research institute. If it weren't for the young people having some sense and knowing that it was not good for them, the old guys, to continue like this, and consciously stopping the spread of this madness, I'm afraid we would see strange creatures running around everywhere now.

Horikita Manabu sighed and said, "But, as far as I know, isn't it because the Supreme Director wanted to promote the artificial biological chain that so many troubles arose? From the very beginning, Academy City never thought of controlling the research institutes."

"Even the authority to make Stigma Battlesuits was delegated? As long as someone is willing to provide their own special Stigma genetic information, they can create a personal Stigma Battlesuit. The only pity is that they cannot directly contact the Stigma network. So, capable people will generally prepare a few more sets of Stigma Battlesuits to choose from."

Uesugi Fuutarou was also quite envious of these people. Now that his work had mechanical intervention, meeting minutes could be done with audio and video recordings plus voice-to-text conversion.

His main job now was to re-summarize and organize these contents, and at the same time, prepare the meeting booklets and send them to everyone, especially Hikigaya Hachiman, who must catch up on the missed meeting contents.

Ayame also couldn't understand what the higher-ups were thinking. This was clearly a way of dividing his boss's power.

But since his boss didn't care about these things, it meant that his boss had her own ideas.

"The matter of decentralization was decided long ago. That is to say, we will definitely see various... Stigma collectives in the future. They will naturally complete this work organization in a form we don't recognize. By then, I think we can distinguish between friend and foe by identifying the Stigma Battlesuit's attire." Ayame said half of it and suddenly frowned. He felt that something was not quite right.

"The original intention of the Stigma Battlesuit in Academy City was to centralize power. So why delegate the authority to make Stigma Battlesuits?"

His question was also the question of the people around him.

Azusagawa Sakuta had actually encountered the difference between different Stigma Battlesuits, and there was even Stigma genetic information specially made to restore the human body.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "Is it possible that Academy City's purpose is to delegate the authority of the organization, so that everyone has the freedom to choose the nature of the organization they need through the Stigma Battlesuit? Look... my sister encountered a similar situation."

"It's extremely difficult to obtain the first and second-tier spiritual authority through the official Stigma Battlesuit of Academy City. The ultimate purpose of the Stigma Battlesuit authority is not only to create enough new Stigma gene new humans, but more importantly, to allow people to complete their own spiritual shaping in the process of upgrading."

"So, in Academy City, a person's authority is also judged by their mental stage based on the Stigma Battlesuit. To put it bluntly, passing the official Stigma Battlesuit stage test of Academy City, the fifth-tier Stigma Battlesuit trial is enough to prove that this person is a dragon among men."

"However, my sister couldn't even pass the first stage of the Stigma. But after I experimented with other unofficial Stigma Battlesuits on my sister, after passing their established Stigma Battlesuit stages, she gained the ability to restore my sister's mental state. But in terms of strength increase, these later Stigma Battlesuits are not as powerful as the abilities obtained in each stage of the official one."

"But one thing is beyond doubt, that is, after passing the fifth stage of the official Stigma Battlesuit, this person is very likely to give birth to their own Stigma, and the possibility is very high!"

Azusagawa Sakuta thought for a moment and explained, "I think the official side is not just for the delegation of organizational power, but more importantly, the official side wants to become a root organization that can produce organizations, or a parent organization. The official side of Academy City is to produce new humans who can produce and give birth to their own Stigmas, the mother hive of Stigmas."

This was a question that no one had ever thought of before, but after it was brought up, it made Horikita Manabu's eyes light up.