Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Noldrei and Elysia had been gone for quite some time, essentially eating and living together. That wasn't quite right, though, since Elysia was still using Noldrei's body.

Only after all Thirteen Flame-Chasers were fully out would Noldrei consider creating a new body for Elysia.

The two basically ate and slept together, but interestingly, no particular romantic feelings developed between them. Instead, they discovered more and more of their ideological differences.

In a normal novel, these two would have been heating things up by now. In reality, their conflicting philosophies did generate plenty of heat, just not the romantic kind.

Elysia finally understood the attitude of most people in Academy City towards Noldrei. The man was simply too far ahead of his time.

If MEI's Project Stigma was about redefining humanity, then Noldrei was like redefining the redefined human once more.

Elysia also felt she couldn't just run wild in this Current Era like Noldrei. She had come out to inherit the ideals of the Previous Era and to hand its key to the people of the Current Era. After her investigation, Elysia determined that the key could be given to a warrior of the Current Era, but that person could not be Noldrei.

In Emperor Noldrei's own words, it was a relatively simple system of checks and balances.

What could Elysia do? She was just a weak and powerless memory data entity.

"Ely, look, the artist who drew the doujinshi for me has been hospitalized. She posted the doujinshi she drew on Twitter for free."

"Oh crap! Someone doxxed her! I only threatened her to draw for me, but someone actually did it!"

Noldrei was shocked. He never thought there would be such a viciously extreme fan among the doujinshi artist's followers! Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the doujinshi she drew at his request had disgusted some of Eriri Spencer Sawamura's original fans.

For some reason, one of these malicious fans had directly doxxed Eriri.

Noldrei slapped his thigh in annoyance. "This is bad. I forgot to tell her to send it to me privately. I don't know what she was thinking, doing something like this."

Elysia was truly speechless. Wasn't he the classless one who threatened the poor girl? She had just drawn a doujinshi based on some internet rumor and had even been considerate enough to change the name of Academy City's location from Nagazora to Yokohama.

"Alas, I never knew the doujinshi scene was so cutthroat. I even saw other artists mocking the poor girl. This won't do! No matter what, this new doujinshi of hers is very much to my liking. I have to help her out."

"The world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; alas, for the wicked ways of the Far East's internet! These malicious netizens are a plague!"

Noldrei lamented, forgetting his own status as a netizen, and quickly dialed Eriri's phone number.

But the person who answered was not Eriri at all, but a woman with a very gentle voice.

"It's you! You're the one who threatened our Eriri to draw this doujinshi, aren't you!"

Noldrei felt a bead of sweat roll down his face and immediately denied it. "Don't talk nonsense, it wasn't me, I didn't do it! I'll sue you for slander!"

"You're lying! I checked my Eriri's phone records, there's a recording! It was you who threatened my daughter! Give me back my daughter! Eriri worked for days and nights without rest to meet your deadline. After she uploaded it, she collapsed from heart failure and was sent to the hospital. She was even doxxed, exposing our family's situation. Now my husband has been put on gardening leave because of the scandal."

After hearing this, Noldrei blurted out, "That's not right. Isn't your husband a British diplomat? His role is mostly ceremonial, appearing at meetings while most of the work is done by his civil servants. He's basically a high-ranking bureaucrat who just delivers documents! In diplomacy, it makes no difference whether he's on leave or not."

The other party seemed not to have expected him to know so much about the situation of a British diplomat and was momentarily stumped by Noldrei.

"Uh... this..."

The madam couldn't quite process the situation and paused for a long time before saying, "My daughter is in the hospital, relying on a machine to stay alive, and people are still attacking her online! She just likes to draw doujinshi! What did she do wrong!"

This mother was something else. Even Elysia broke out in a cold sweat listening to her.

Noldrei was filled with shame and apologized, "I was just trying to punish her for not treating tentacle monsters properly. And she even drew a Valkyrie. Whether it's a real person or not, she should have shown some respect. I was just trying to scare her. Don't worry, I'll arrange for Cocolia to get her the best medical team in Academy City and restore your daughter's honor immediately!"

Noldrei hung up and contacted Cocolia.

Heaven have mercy, Cocolia had thought a great mission was about to be bestowed upon her, that His Majesty the Emperor was about to open the gates of Academy City and let her conquer the world. But the one call she gets from Noldrei's phone in a year was to save the daughter of some British diplomat she'd never heard of.

After Cocolia took a few minutes to learn about Eriri's specific situation, her resentment vanished.

This was a girl who was very similar to Dr. Tesla. Besides their hair and eye color, even their tsundere personalities were somewhat alike.

Cocolia said to Raiden Ryoma beside her, "See? His Majesty the Emperor really does have a type."

Ryoma glanced at the file and agreed, "Indeed! She's practically carved from the same mold as Dr. Tesla. Her mother also seems to be the petite type. His Majesty has truly been deeply influenced by our Far Eastern culture!"

Cocolia, truly the Star of North America and a super go-getter among the Anti-Entropy Executors, was not all talk. She always managed to be one step ahead of the conservatives.

She immediately contacted the famous European leftist philosopher, Mr. Žižek, and offered him a high price for an important job!

After a fierce and incomprehensible psychoanalytic debate, Mr. Žižek said: "More money!"

Soon, the Emperor's will, accompanied by the "top-down dissemination of the material basis," completely reversed the online public opinion.

Mr. Žižek first went on Twitter and discussed the matter of Far Eastern hentai doujinshi, then brought up some hardcore doujinshi to emphasize the dialectical need for social repression behind them.

Finally, he intentionally or unintentionally mentioned Eriri and various other hardcore doujinshi artists, expressing his shock at hearing about such a sexually liberated British female artist.

She had worked for days and nights without rest, providing her latest work for free so that her brothers and sisters could see it, to the point where she was now lying in the ICU. This showed that she was a progressive pioneer of the sexual liberation movement with her own ideas.

The masses in the Far East, who were getting ready to eat melon and dogpile on whoever was losing, were completely stunned by this trending topic that suddenly appeared and flooded their screens.

What was going on? How did a doujinshi artist become a pioneer of sexual liberation? Are you Europeans that liberal?