Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Hachiman Hikigaya was working on cleaning up some tasks in the Academy City.

'Wait, aren't I a student? What happened to entering a research institute?'

It wasn't that he couldn't get in, it was just that he was blocked by academic assessments and other problems.

To put it simply, after the science project tests, they discovered that he had no prospects for development, and so they eliminated him.

On the other hand, Miyuki Shirogane had the talent, and successfully turned over a new leaf. He was taken away by the researchers and was being intensively trained.

The ups and downs of life were just too fast.

'Why is it that someone who just graduated from middle school and entered high school and has a lower overall score than me succeeded?'

Although Hachiman understood the result, he found it hard to accept his bad luck.

Your good brother suggests you try to find a research institute to be your backer, but who would have thought that when you went there, you would only be there to support your good brother?

The overall quality of this year's students wasn't high. Miyuki Shirogane was a relatively talented person with development value, so he was brought into the Anti-Entropy Research Institute for specialized training in its affiliated school.

While Hachiman Hikigaya didn't gain too much, others saw his other talents.

While he had a huge gap in his scientific aptitude, he did have a useful place in logical reasoning.

And then, Hachiman Hikigaya was brought into a school that was similar to the training school for security guards.

The Chairman of this Academy City had great foresight. He never thought of hiring workers from the outside. Everything was planned out when the city was built, including the direction of training.

As the teachers who used to care for the students gradually separated, the Academy City quickly completed the hierarchical layering of the students.

And the security guard training layer was in the middle of this.

Hachiman Hikigaya had seen too many of these types of people in various dramas and anime. They were like those small fry who held unreliable weapons, shouting 'Kill! Kill!' as they charged forward to give others free kills.

They had seemingly profound tactical terminology, but they were actually useless pieces of trash.

Hachiman was very worried that he would become such a person one day.

But now, that wasn't possible, because they couldn't really allow these students to not contribute at all. Even with such a high ratio of personnel and police force in the Far East, these people needed more powerful forces to take down the increasingly endless, increasingly abstract criminals.

And he had become one of these workers.

'I'm just a high school student, so how did this crappy government job that so many people want fall onto my head?'

Hachiman knew that the easier something was to get, the more trouble it would be.

In the half-year since he had come to the Academy City, his favorite thing to do was to come to the edge of the city and look at the huge steel walls. His job now was to patrol the surrounding areas and make sure that no one got close.

These steel walls always made him feel calm.

Sometimes he would even touch the uneven pits on the wall. It was because of these things that the steel walls didn't feel so terrifying.

And now, the walls were even covered with paintings using all kinds of paint.

He didn't know who would go to the wall to paint in the middle of the night. Did anyone have that much free time?

But...

"The rust removal work on these is pretty good."

Hachiman Hikigaya could imagine what exactly Miyuki Shirogane had seen that day.

It was like when someone suddenly felt nauseous and vomited, and then they wanted to find the reason they got sick.

Just when they were lonely, sick, and at a loss, there was a presence whose sense of existence was dozens or hundreds of times greater than yours, and its huge eye was staring at you from across the window while you were suffering in bed.

If Hachiman Hikigaya were put in such a scenario, he would probably experience a very terrifying mental state.

It was like your presold house suddenly went unfinished, and the developer ran away. You were still holding onto a shred of hope, but then you suddenly remembered that you had over a million in loans. The bank, acting like a hunter, called you. You were still renting a house, and the rent and the loan were pulling you into the abyss.

You struggled to escape, but you found that there was no organization to help you. They were just waiting to devour your flesh.

And at this time, you received a critical illness notice from years of working overtime.

In the preface of the textbooks that talked about the Honkai, Hachiman Hikigaya remembered very clearly what it said.

[Do not think of the Honkai as some kind of evil god disaster. The real evil god disasters only exist in human creativity.]

He looked up, and Honkai beasts were falling from the sky like rain.

He couldn't even see the beings that were fighting, and he didn't know why they were fighting because all of this was under a confidentiality agreement.

But the existence of the Valkyries was publicized. At the same time, Hachiman Hikigaya also learned that the Stigmata battlesuits had changed the situation where only women could have high adaptability to Honkai.

From now on, the number of human warriors who could fight would at least double.

He had heard that some of the Valkyries who fought in the background were trained by the Valkyrie headquarters school, some had actively joined after being injured by the Honkai, and some were even from families with special genetic inheritance.

In short, they were all a group of very troublesome women. They were either beautiful or huge and strong.

This made Hachiman Hikigaya wonder if human biology even existed anymore. Why did such thin arms have so much strength?

Could that thin Valkyrie armor really provide such powerful assistance?

In comparison, the Stigmata battlesuit that the Academy City promoted looked much more sturdy.

The word "living" was removed, and only the name Stigmata battlesuit was left. They didn't particularly emphasize what kind of thing it was. It was just said that it was a battlesuit created by Dr. Tesla, who was said to be the smartest person in the world.

Of course, he didn't know that Dr. Tesla was currently outside, trying to rescue the last remaining Honkai beasts.

She was afraid that all of those Honkai beasts would get cleared out by Noldrei.

You see, the next task was to complete the human transformation of the Honkai beasts, which was taking up all of Tesla's mind.

The reason she supported Noldrei's extreme plans was to have enough experimental material to complete this task.

Hachiman Hikigaya didn't know what those leaders were doing, and he didn't know why that being had killed so many Honkai beasts and then suddenly disappeared.

Maybe he had run out of fuel, or maybe he had run out of strength.

Just as Hachiman Hikigaya was rambling to himself, the leaders' work arrangement arrived.

[Uekawa Toyo Eiwa Girls' Academy University]

[Operation Encirclement Start]

Hachiman Hikigaya looked up at the Honkai beasts in the sky, then looked down at the message on his phone.

He cursed those shameless people for their underhanded tactics. He stepped on the thrusters of his shoes, spread out their wings, and flew straight into the sky towards the Uekawa area.

On the way, he could even see a piece or two of Honkai beast corpses falling in front of him.