I don't want to be an elf!

Sharing secrets is one of the best ways to build trust.

Since both sides have each other's secrets, it's unlikely that they'll fall out no matter what happens in the future.

Rentaro Satomi hesitated.

Although he was eager to know Nia Honjou's secret, that didn't mean he wanted to tell anyone his secret.

After all, if you tell others what you keep in your heart, is it still a secret?

Nia Honjo remained calm and waited patiently for Rentaro Satomi's reply.

If we can establish a relationship of trust with him and cooperate with him, many things will become much easier in the future.

No matter how disappointing he is, he is still the protagonist of this world, connected with countless important people.

Tendou Kisara, Shiba Miori, Tendou Kikunojo, Muroto Sumire, and the Holy Emperor...

If you want to complete side quests faster, getting along well with him is the best option.

But even if he refuses, it's not a big problem.

At most, she might risk a decrease in her acting skills by making more use of the whispered confession to achieve her goals.

However, she will not consider doing anything that would damage her public image unless she has no other choice.

After all, the higher the level of role-playing, the higher the chance of drawing a top-tier ability in the end.

Honestly, Nia's ability, if used freely, is perhaps the most useful of all Pokémon.

Especially the two abilities of search page and blank page; if you can get them, he will be like a new world's Camus after his return.

This is an ability to be omniscient and omnipotent.

Well, calling it truly omniscient and omnipotent is a bit of a misnomer, since the search page cannot search for future events, information pages of a higher caliber than the Whispering Tome cannot be found, and blank pages cannot bring the dead back to life or create life; there are still quite a few limitations.

Even so, if she gets one, she won't have to worry about her life after she returns.

Moreover, unlike Kurumi Tokisaki, Nia Honjou's ability is not time-limited and consumes her lifespan each time it is used.

Therefore, the girl is determined to get an S-level performance this time. She will avoid any out-of-character (OOC) actions, even if it means she might suffer more in this world.

The girl appeared calm on the surface, but secretly hoped that Rentaro Satomi would agree to cooperate with her.

"Okay, I agree to your proposal."

After several minutes of intense internal struggle, Rentaro Satomi finally made up his mind to exchange secrets with her.

He cautiously looked around, and after confirming that no one was there, he raised his right hand.

He tapped the ground with the fingers of his other hand, and the hand, which looked no different from a normal person's, produced a metallic echo.

"I'm not an ordinary person either."

"Rentaro Satomi said in a low voice."

"My identity is that of a member of the 787th Mechanized Special Unit of the Eastern Army of the Ground Self-Defense Force, a mechanical warrior born as part of the New Human Creation Project."

Chapter Eleven: The Price of Omniscience and Omnipotence

The world's technology has made tremendous progress in just ten years.

Faced with the threat of Gastrea, no country or region was willing to sit idly by and instead invested heavily in weapons and technology research and development.

Ordinary soldiers are like clay chickens and earthenware dogs on the battlefield, unable to withstand the fierce attacks of Gastrea. Even with the best equipment, they cannot compare to the monsters.

Thus, a plan called the "New Human Creation Project" emerged.

Four developed countries—Japan, the United States, Australia, and Germany—secretly joined forces to research and develop mechanized soldiers to counter the Antiguian organism.

Each country appointed its most talented and capable researchers in their respective fields as the head and implementer of the program.

They are also known as the Four Sages.

Various countries have spent a lot of money and invested most of their researchers in an attempt to draw up a blueprint that combines humans and machines, creating super soldiers who can fight against hundreds of enemies on the battlefield and relieve the pressure on ordinary soldiers on the front lines.

Rentaro Satomi was one of them.

"This is the biggest secret of my life."

After revealing the secret he had kept hidden deep in his heart, Rentaro Satomi scratched his head and said with some difficulty, "I know this may be hard for you to accept. After all, the New Human Creation Project is top secret information sealed by the government, and ordinary people would never know about it. But please believe me, I am not lying."

"I believe you."

"If you don't believe me, you can touch mine yourself... Wait, do you believe me now?"

"Ah."

"Forehead......"

Rentaro Satomi was silent for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "Could it be that you were once a member of the government? And knew about the existence of the mechanical warriors?"

"No, I'm just an ordinary cartoonist, I've never worked for the government."

"Then why do you believe what I said? Most people wouldn't believe something like this if they suddenly heard it, right?"

"Oh dear, have you forgotten so quickly that I'm not an ordinary person either?"

Honjou Nia snorted smugly, patted his meager chest, and said, "Now that you've revealed your biggest secret, it's my turn next, boy. Are you ready?"

"of course."

Rentaro Satomi took a deep breath.

They strained their ears, afraid of missing a single word.

He stared intently at Nia Honjo's lips, his attention focused to the extreme.

"Omniscient and omnipotent."

Rentaro Satomi looked up and met her gaze.

An eerie silence fell over the air.

After a long while, feeling increasingly embarrassed, Nia Honjou was the first to surrender: "Why didn't you react at all? At this point, you should have shouted, 'How is this possible!' or 'You must be kidding me!'"

"Actually... I just didn't know what expression to wear."

Rentaro Satomi said in a complicated tone.

Omniscient and omnipotent.

This sounds like divine authority that only a true god could exercise.

In any comic or novel, it's the kind of thing that the protagonist and the villain would fight tooth and nail to get their hands on.

But this guy claims to possess omniscience and omnipotence?

If someone else had said this, he would never have believed it and would have just thought the person was a con artist.

If Nia Honjou had said these words yesterday, he wouldn't have believed them either, and would have just taken it as more nonsense she was talking about while drunk.

However, having witnessed what happened just ten minutes ago, even though experience and intuition told him that it was a joke by Nia Honjo, there seemed to be some unseen force that prevented him from being completely certain.

There's a saying that if you hesitate, you've already believed half of it.

At this point, Rentaro Satomi undoubtedly believes half of it.

"You just saw this book, didn't you?"

To strike while the iron was hot, Nia Honjou summoned the Whispering Scroll again: "This is my angel. You can think of it as an item that only I can use. It's called the Whispering Scroll. I can use it to achieve omniscience and omnipotence... no, almost omniscience and omnipotence."

"near?"

“Of course. Even the true gods are not omniscient and omnipotent. Even if they try their best to resurrect their loved ones, they are still powerless in the end,” Nia Honjou said calmly. “As a nun who has only obtained a part of the power of the gods, how could she possibly possess true omniscience and omnipotence?”

"If there are limitations, what kind of omniscience and omnipotence is that?" Rentaro Satomi rolled his eyes at her, automatically ignoring the part about gods and lovers, treating it as just a story from some mythology, and not paying much attention to it.

"But the title of 'half-knowledgeable and half-capable' sounds like something a nobody would want, I don't want that."

"Titles and such don't really matter... Sigh, so what exactly are the restrictions?"

"Regarding omniscience, I can only find information about the past and present in the Book of Confessions, but I cannot glimpse the future," Nia Honjou said. "As for omnipotence, I cannot bring the dead back to life or create life."

"Hiss... Although there are limitations, it's really close to omniscience and omnipotence." Rentaro Satomi gasped. "So, if you draw the destruction of the world right now, will the world really be destroyed?"

“Theoretically, that’s how it is.” Honjou Nia scratched the back of her head somewhat embarrassedly. “The more contrary to common sense my drawing is, the more spiritual power I need. If I’m going to draw the end of the world, I might run out of spiritual power as soon as I start drawing.”

"Spiritual power?"

"You can think of it as a mage's mana; once my mana is depleted, I can no longer use the Whispering Tome."

"I see."

Rentaro Satomi nodded slightly, but then, as if realizing something, he asked scrutinizingly, "The reason you believed me so quickly that I was a mechanical warrior and that I wasn't lying is because you had already used the 'Whispering Scripture' on me?"

"Haha, you got exposed so quickly." Honjou Nia said apologetically, clasping her hands together. "There was nothing I could do about it. It was part of the test. I won't do it again."

"I personally don't care that you can look into my past and my heart. Apart from being a mechanical warrior, I don't have any secrets to hide." Rentaro Satomi's lips twitched. "But I have to say, this is really an annoying ability. You probably don't have many friends, do you?"

"Well... before I got the Whispering Scroll, I had quite a few friends."

Nia Honjo smiled bitterly, a hint of sadness flashing across her face: "When I was young and reckless, I did a lot of stupid things and saw things I shouldn't have seen, which almost ruined my life. So after that, I stopped using the Whispering Tome."

"Does every effort come at a price...?"

Rentaro Satomi was silent for a moment before speaking.

"It seems that being omniscient and omnipotent is not necessarily a good thing."

Chapter Twelve: The True Miracle

After their conversation, Rentaro Satomi felt that he and Nia Honjo had grown much closer.

After learning about Nia Honjo's secret, I gained a more comprehensive understanding of her.

However, so much had happened today that he was overwhelmed and stood there, unsure of what to do next.

It wasn't until Aihara Enju's slightly dissatisfied voice rang out that he remembered why he had gone out today.

"Rentaro, Nia-neechan, have you finished talking?"

Not far away, Lan Yuanyanzhu sat on a public chair, resting her chin on her hands: "Didn't we agree to go get our police licenses? We're already at the door, let's hurry up and go in and get things done."

"Yeah, that's true."