Chapter 313: Infinite Stratos 4

Chapter 313: Infinite Stratos 4

(Umaru Perspective) (Himouto! Umaru-chan)

My passion is consuming all kinds of fictional content.

Whether it's Japanese manga and anime, American comics, Korean manhwas, Chinese manhuas, or fantasy novels from various countries like Russia, Indonesia, or the Philippines, I also like Spanish and English-speaking fanfics or small comics made by beginners. Due to my brother's insistence, I learned several languages, even though he always says that I am stupid and forces me to continue studying.

I love to see anything that is an escape from reality, I really love generic and predictable works that were written to fulfill the fantasies of authors frustrated with their own lives.

It is because of my love of fiction that I feel a deep distaste when I see tedious problems of real life being translated into fiction.

I have the obsession to finish the things that I start, but immortal cultivation novels are something that many times I have had to leave halfway through.

Regarding the works of the Chinese, I love the whole universe that the authors can build based on immortal cultivation, ancestral spirits, and ancient monsters. The whole setting is fascinating and it feels like an epic journey, but there's something I can't stand.

Damn nationalism!

I'm half American and half Japanese, but things like nationality or religion don't matter to me, if someone insults me for being Japanese it will only make me think I'm talking to an idiot and I won't pay attention.

The problem is that most Chinese novels cling to the idea that the Japanese are demons in human skin.

I understand that the history of the Asian continent is full of genocide, rape, and crimes committed by the Japanese, but the obsession with justifying every stupidity based on historical data causes me enormous boredom.

Whether it is killing, raping, stealing or torturing, everything is a heroic act as long as it is against a villain from Japan, Russia, Iraq, Turkey, the United States, England... Basically, everything is justified as long as the Chinese protagonist can humiliate other countries.

Again, all of that doesn't matter to me, but when nationalism is included in an otherworldly cultivation novel, I can only feel a deep frustration that makes me want to scream.

There are times when a good novel is overextended and everything becomes repetitive as happened in Martial God Asura. At a certain point, the upper realms were identical to the lower realms, only the names of the waifus changed which become irrelevant after 100 chapters.

I'm not against protagonists collecting waifus like they're Pokémon, but it's boring when all the waifus are cold beauties with a tsundere temper.

Regardless, I can handle the repetitiveness, even keeping up with Against The Gods even though each chapter makes me wish Yun Che was dead.

What I can't stand is racism disguised as nationalism in a world where countries on planet Earth shouldn't exist.

One of my biggest disappointments was the Otherworldly Evil Monarch novel.

I like this author because of the way his novels begin, but he always makes the same mistakes.

Halfway through the novel, the protagonists become half-brained degenerates who only think about fornicating, even if it leads them into an all-too-obvious trap. N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.

Ruining a good character is a sin, but it is worse when the cruelest and most degenerate enemies turn out to be Japanese, despite the fact that the author has already explained that there is no Japan in that world.

Otherworldly Evil Monarch was my favorite Chinese novel, but that only added to my deep disappointment.

I didn't even finish the novel and left it before the major arcs. I couldn't stand that the protagonist had become more stupid than Issei Hyoudou.

It's been almost two years since I gave up that novel, but now the dark past haunts me, and I'm angry in a childish, unreasonable way.

The chat room wants to see me suffer since it summoned the waifu that caused me the most disappointment out of all the cultivation novels I've read.

Mei Xueyan, also known as Venerable Mei. She is the ruler of all spirit beasts and was the character with the highest potential in both strength and character development.

She was the reason I loved that novel, so my heart broke when she turned into a pathetic simp in the middle of the novel.

Venerable Mei stopped being a final boss and became a pathetic representation of a submissive woman without will or character, just a nice decoration to magnify the stupid protagonist who becomes more idiotic with each passing chapter.

Aaaaahhhhhhh! How annoying!

"Do you have a problem with this venerable one?" – Male voice, imposing presence, and a black robe that covers her entire body. If it wasn't because I know Venerable Mei is a submissive waifu, then I would feel scared by her presence.

Although Mei Xueyan lost all my respect for her attitude in the novel, she is still intimidating so I quickly shook my head. – "No problem, I was just thinking about how impressive Venerable Mei's aura is"

Mei Xueyan snorted and chose to ignore me.

I'm glad this is the Mei Xueyan before the novel starts, at least I got to meet the version that isn't just a trophy for the protagonist.

The chat room had invited Mei Xueyan to help us remove the anomaly, but there is a big problem.

The protagonist of Otherworldly Evil Monarch is a transmigrant who reincarnated in the body of a useless, cliché idiot.

The problem is that before the arrival of the protagonist, Mei Xueyan was ambushed by the Holy Lands.

Although that was several years before the canon began, Mei Xueyan was only able to suppress her injuries by consuming a lot of resources, and only the protagonist was able to heal her dying body.

The current Mei Xueyan is the weaker version with a body that was practically torn to pieces.

She is a monster capable of manipulating the laws of nature and space, but currently, she is only slightly stronger than Kiss-Shot.

One thing we discovered is that the chat room displayed different messages to each person.

My message was the simplest since I understand what a chat room is, but for the waifus who haven't read fanfics, they were lured with promises of getting what they want most.

My suspicions that the chat room is run by a manipulative demon only keep growing.

The chat room promised an elixir capable of healing her wounds and pills that will strengthen the spirit beasts she considers her family.

When Mei Xueyan was added to the chat room, I was tasked with explaining the situation to her since only Hiroki and I know about fanfics, but Hiroki was just saying stupid things that didn't help the situation.

Hiroki isn't interested in Chinese novels and hasn't read Otherworldly Evil Monarch so he didn't recognize Mei Xueyan, but he seemed to know that she is an absolutely beautiful woman even though she never takes off the black robe that covers every part of her body, not even her eyes are visible.

Maybe he's just following the cliché that every jade-skinned beauty is a beauty goddess, though I have a suspicion that he has insider knowledge about the chat room.

Paranoia-chan hasn't given me any detailed explanations, but she has told me that I should never make any promises or agreements with Hiroki, nor should I accept any rewards from the chat room.

I mentioned this to the other members of the chat room, but they probably won't listen to me as they seem very interested in the rewards from their individual quests.

Sometimes I feel like no one listens to me...

When Mei Xueyan was added to the chat room, she was brought into this world after two hours when I explained the situation to her.

Mei Xueyan is very proud, narcissistic, and bossy. She views humans as degenerate creatures that she cannot be trusted.

Esdeath, Mirko, and Medaka hate her, Kiss-Shot prefers not to talk to the woman as she got bored of the frog-in-well analogies, Hiroki just seems eager to undress the immortal cultivator, so only Eto and I can talk to her without having a clash of egos.

Eto is possibly the smartest woman I've ever met. She is very cunning and analytical, she can perfectly understand people's personalities and predict their actions.

She might get along with my brother, or maybe both of them would try to kill each other if they ever met...

Eto helped me convince Mei Xueyan to cooperate with us, although now I am Mei Xueyan's assistant... I'm not complaining, I like her cocky and haughty attitude, it's like watching a cliché villain from a Chinese novel and I've always preferred the villains instead of heroes.

We are now taking Mei Xueyan to Tabane's secret laboratory.

After Kiss-Shot found the four-armed creature, she covered the cage with the insulating blanket and then carried the cage to an isolated location.

Esdeath took the surviving mercenaries and in 5 minutes she managed to make them confess everything they knew.

Esdeath-sama, step on me...!

Ahem.

The mercenaries had no idea that they were guarding a monster, nor did they know who had sent that thing to the city port. They were a group of mercenaries that were hired to deliver a shipment to this city, apparently, they were to open the package near the IS Academy.

This was a big problem because we found out several things about the creature.

For starters, that thing opens its eyes every two hours. The creature is unable to attack, but anyone who sees those eyes will have a panic attack as long as they can't look away from the creature.

Esdeath did some experiments on the mercenaries and we found out that my brother's food can cancel the creature's mental attack, but there are several conditions for food to be effective.

The first mercenary that was exposed to the creature's gaze began to scream. In less than five seconds, his eyes, nose, and ears began to bleed, but the blood had changed, it had turned black.

The man started growling and tried to attack Esdeath, so she froze him and then destroyed his body.

We now know that the creature's gaze is like a zombie virus and even elite soldiers will be corrupted in a matter of seconds.

I have a theory that the mental attack was less effective on us thanks to my brother's food.

Another option is that being people from other worlds, the creature's abilities have a hard time damaging us, but I ruled out this theory since the person with the highest resistance to mind corruption is me.

Another discovery was that the teeth that cover the creature are not sharp and cannot damage human flesh, yet every person who touches them seems to go completely insane. The mercenary who touched a tooth began to cry and laugh as he bit his lips and tongue as if he was hungry.

Obviously, all these experiments were done without the knowledge of Hiroki, Mirko, and Medaka.

I didn't want to see something so horrible either since I'm traumatized by blood, but Esdeath insisted that this was part of my training to be strong.

I vomited and passed out many times, but Esdeath forced me back to consciousness.

Esdeath is in my Top 10 favorite waifus, but at that moment I really wanted to punch her face. She noticed that and just sneered at me.

The experiments had to stop as we ran out of mercenaries and it would be a problem if Esdeath starts kidnapping people.

I managed to convince the group of villains to talk to Chifuyu and Tabane for help.

Although Eto, Kiss-Shot, and Medaka are very smart, they don't have experience in scientific experimentation so Tabane could help us, besides, this involved the safety of her world so she wouldn't hesitate to help us.

Sure enough, Tabane prepared a space in his private laboratory to place the creature and perform various experiments. She showed complete seriousness in this matter since that creature could be a deadly danger to her sister and she is a siscon pervert... ugh, incest is disgusting...

Chifuyu used her contacts to track down the person who planned the attack on the IS Academy, but it's all done in secret since she doesn't trust the government.

Chifuyu knows that humans are capable of doing the most heinous things in order to gain power, for example, cloning a defenseless girl just to create human weapons.

Tabane made several discoveries about the creature, and it appears that the source of its power is a strange black fluid that can only be described as black blood.

Laboratory results showed that the black fluid was human blood, but it had no DNA record and the activity of the cells was too strong. Based on the speed at which the cells divide, the creature should have regenerative abilities on par with Eto.

For now, no experiments have been done to measure the strength and combat abilities of the creature as it is too dangerous to release it, the creature remains in a drug-induced coma.

Tabane analyzed the chemicals that were being injected into the creature and found that the creature was not in a coma due to sedatives, but rather a mixture of drugs for schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, and bipolar.

Tabane isn't sure, but she theorized that the creature is something like a living mental illness.

That reminded me of something.

In the Soul Eater anime, there is a power called Madness, a demonic energy capable of corrupting all living beings and can even create living beings. The god of death of that world was born from the Madness of Death.

I told the waifus about this so for now Tabane will continue to research black blood.

The irony of all this is that the villains are trying to find a countermeasure against black blood, while the heroes are living normal school lives.

Mirko is striving to become stronger as she wants to overcome the power of the robotic suits. Her pride was hurt after being defeated by Esdeath's ice powers, so she wants to overcome that power through physical force.

Medaka is busy being a student council president.

Hiroki continues to chase skirts, and although he seduced several idiot girls, he has not managed to woo any of the main waifus, only secondary characters that do not even appear on the anime wiki.

While they waste time, we try to save the world.

The villains became the true heroes...

Mirko and Medaka won't approve of human experiments so they don't know about this, as for Hiroki... That idiot is still obsessed with humiliating the protagonist of Infinite Stratos so he has no time or interest in helping us.

The funny thing is that Chifuyu noticed that her brother was intimidated by Hiroki so she's furious, but she hasn't intervened since she thinks that Hiroki is just a perverted and stupid kid.

Heh, Hiroki messed up the onee-san's route.

I am now leading Mei Xueyan toward the creature since she can use her spiritual senses to determine if mind corruption is a spiritual-based ability rather than a scientific one.

As we went down the elevator, I opened my inventory and pulled out a cookie.

My brother is obsessed with preparing for an apocalyptic disaster, so he left me enough food to last a couple of years, but I had to lie to Tabane and tell her I don't have much food left or she would insist on giving her the food to create a countermeasure for black blood.

My brother's food has enormous emotional value for me, but the most important thing is that I don't know how long we will spend in this world and it will be a disaster if many nightmare creatures appear and we don't have my brother's food.

Eto approved of my choice to prioritize the safety of our group over the inhabitants of this world.

It seems cruel to me to let a whole world die, but my brother taught me to prioritize my life over the lives of all the people in the world.

The only people I want to protect are my brother, my mother, Ebina, and the waifus in the chat room, maybe Tabane too since we started to become friends. She likes to talk about her sister and I like to talk about my brother, although the difference is that I have no sexual interest in my brother because I am not a sexual degenerate.

"Venerable Mei, I understand that you are very strong, but I recommend eating this before seeing the creature" – I handed a cookie to Mei Xueyan.

"Do you think this venerable one will stoop to eating the treats of humans...?" - Mei Xueyan stopped talking when she smelled the food, she had been seduced by my brother's culinary talent.

I don't know what Paranoia-chan did to me, but when the creature opened its eyes, Paranoia-chan gave me some kind of skill. I'm not sure what this skill does, but I feel like I can now read people's emotions and reactions as if I were reading a book.

I can't read minds or know people's secrets, but I feel like I can see through any lie.

"This..." – Mei Xueyan's body started to tremble, she even forgot to use the voice change technique and displayed her real voice. – "A heavenly elixir that transcends the heavens..."

...Elixir?

I know my brother's food can heal small wounds, but it's not up to the level of the over-the-top elixirs found in Chinese novels.

Mei Xueyan's attitude was making me uncomfortable and I didn't know what to say, I just stood still with my hand outstretched to hand her the cookie.

I heard Mei Xueyan sigh with complex feelings.

Mei Xueyan moved her hands and removed the hood of her robe to show me her face....

"Child, do you understand what you are offering me?"

The creature always looks in the same direction so we have a clue where the swarm of these things might be, now we are thinking of attacking the place to eliminate the source of the anomaly.

The creatures are specialized in mental attacks, but we have my brother's food that makes us immune to those attacks, so we have a great advantage in destroying them.

We just have to be careful not to be attacked from behind. Most likely, the governments involved in this will attack us if we try to destroy these things.

Infinite Stratos waifus are the only trustworthy people, even the ones who are nationalists. That's the advantage of generic and predictable waifus.

Chifuyu will command the girls of the IS Academy to face the creatures from a distance.

We did some testing and my brother's food can be diluted to make pasta to feed more people, although this lessens the effects of the food.

Apparently, the miraculous effects depend on good flavor. If the food loses its flavor, then it can no longer protect the mind.

My brother's cooking ability makes less sense than the power of friendship in Fairy Tail...

Kiss-Shot is virtually invincible against human weapons so she and Esdeath can deal with armed armies.

Mirko, Medaka, and Hiroki will be in charge of facing the creatures that act as pawns.

Mei Xueyan said that she will need four days to heal all of her injuries. She is the strongest person in this world, so we will wait four days to attack the swarm.

I will stay with Tabane in a safe place since I am not a fighter.

Everything was set up, but reality showed my brother is right that life it's unpredictable shit.

The day after we started preparing, Chiyufu called us with bad news.

Germany no longer existed.

The night before, half of Germany was covered in a black haze that blocked all visibility. Since then it has not been possible to contact the government in the capital, but there is a signal for help.

It is obvious that this is a trap to attract rescue groups, but nobody pays attention to the speculations of a girl.

The fog was static and did not advance. All the soldiers that were sent to scout disappeared, but it was possible to send a drone to see what was happening inside the fog.

The images were worthy of a horror movie.

All the people and animals stood still as they stared at the ground as black blood spurted out of the holes in their heads.

It seemed that all living things were asleep on their feet, but when something approached, all the infected became aggressive.

Chifuyu showed us a video where a group of normal people used their hands to tear a squad of soldiers to pieces.

The most bizarre thing is that after the massacre, the infected took the corpses to a sewer and dumped the bodies inside.

The last image the drone was able to transmit was inside the sewer. Instead of black water or the blood of the corpses, what was in that place were black tentacles that had human mouths instead of suction cups, the tentacles used those mouths to devour every last drop of blood from the corpses.

I will have nightmares for a long time...

Laura Bodewig, one of the Infinite Stratos waifus, panicked and wanted to rush to her homeland to fight.

Chifuyu managed to stop her, but she received orders from the government to go to Germany on a rescue mission.

Chifuyu told us that she received strict orders, she is to rescue Germany's top brass and is strictly forbidden to conduct scouting.

The higher-ups told her that this was to keep her safe, but Chifuyu knows that the government is hiding something from her.

The creature we captured is looking in the direction of the German capital, so the queen bee must be there.

Chifuyu said that she can't wait for Mei Xueyan to get her strength back. Even if she knows it's a bad idea, she needs to follow the government's orders or her brother will be in danger.

Mei Xueyan said that she can rush things, but she will only be able to use 70% of her real power, and she can only fight for a short time.

Hiroki acted like a brave hero and said that he will protect the waifus from any danger.

Although my brother's food has nullified his charm, Hiroki is still extremely handsome and charismatic which has earned him the gratitude of the most naive waifus.

The physical beauty of the fanfic protagonists makes up for their lack of brains, that alone explains why the waifus love them...

I like Medaka, but her head is full of air. I'll have to take better care of her or some idiot will be able to take advantage of her.

Thus, we prepare to go to Germany.

Tabane and I will stay out of the mist in a mobile bunker.

I'm a little worried about the safety of my friends, but I can only trust that the plot will protect them.

Even though I hate Hiroki, I hope he can really protect my friends...

Though...

It's suspicious.

Hiroki doesn't know about our experiments with the black blood, but it's like he knows what these creatures are...

[■: !!]

Danger? Is Hiroki dangerous?

[■: >.<]

No, the danger is not him... Is the danger related to Hiroki?

[■: ^^]

...Is there someone dangerous helping Hiroki?

[■: ^^]

....

M-My friends are in danger?

[■: ^^]

Is this mission dangerous for my friends?!

[■: ^^]

....

A-Are they going to die?

[■: 75%]

Is there a 75% chance that they will die?

[■: ^^]

......

I have to stop them.

But they won't listen to me, they're too stubborn, they don't even think that Paranoia-chan is real...

If I join the expedition, can I save them?

[■: ^^]

....

Is going with them dangerous for me?

[■: >.<]

How likely is it that I will die?

[■: 0%]

How likely is it that I will be seriously injured?

[■: 0%]

...

How likely is it that I will receive some small injuries?

[■: 100%]

...Ugh, I hate pain...

But... Something that is dangerous for the members of the chat room, but is almost harmless to me.

Maybe...

Is it something related to my brother?

[■: ...]

Paranoia please, I need answers, I can't bear to be left in the dark...

[■: ...]

Please, we are friends... I beg you...

[■: .... Q-Q .... ^^]

M-My brother caused this mess?

[■: >.<]

He didn't cause this, but he's related to it?

[■: ^^]

Does he have a way to protect me?

[■: ^^]

...

Are you the insurance that my brother prepared?

[■: ^^]

...

I can't think of my brother being a heroic protagonist, so... is my brother some kind of dangerous villain?

[■: ..... 50%]

Something like that?

[■: ^^]

.....

I don't know how my brother became a villain, I can only imagine that he made a pact with the devil, or maybe he slept with the wrong woman...

Heh, I thought of something ridiculous.

My brother slept with an Eldritch abomination?

[■: ^^]

.....

.....

........

What the fuck did you do brother?!

"Child, is something wrong with your brother?" - Mei Xueyan asked me kindly.

I think I yelled that out loud...

I sighed. – "No, I just remembered something stupid that my stupid brother did, something very very very stupid"

Oh god, brother, my beloved stupid brother... What did you do?!

I know that idiot loves troublesome women, but sticking his dick into an abomination...

I really need to talk to him, it's not healthy that his fetishes are getting more and more bizarre, at this rate I'll become the sister-in-law of a Lovecraft monster...

Just thinking about it gives me chills.

Tentacle hentai is a mistake that shouldn't exist...