What? My cheat code is making my own gold coins explode?

"On February 14, 2000, Alahato successfully returned to Anti-Entropy headquarters without being affected by the meteorite impact. According to pilot Siegfried Kaslana, when he encountered the blue-green light, he wanted to pilot Alahato directly into it, but was rejected by the consciousnesses of Zhao Si and Walter Yang within the blue-green light..."

At Anti-Entropy headquarters, Einstein listened to Siegfried Kaslana's testimony, extracted key points, and recorded them in his notebook. The Arahatto, Soul Steel fragments, and the GN Drive of the Exia Gundam that she brought back were all intact.

...No, it can hardly be called intact. Only the last furnace of the Exia can return, but the rest of the mobile suit and pilot are left on the moon.

However, since the golden machine had not yet extinguished its blue light, the two people still had a chance to survive.

"Dr. Tesla, you take a break. I'll go process the information left behind by the Soul Steel fragments."

Einstein suppressed her grief, bit her lip, and then comforted Tesla, who had been distraught for two days.

"No... I'll go with you, it's my duty..."

"Reporting to the two doctors! The machine on the moon has moved!"

The subordinate's voice came through, instantly straightening the two men's slightly hunched backs. Einstein opened the live stream on his tablet with a speed that Tesla couldn't even react to. The blue arc of light in the camera was particularly eye-catching. At the other party's speed, it would probably take less than ten hours to return to Earth.

"Get in touch with them as soon as possible, understand?"

"Roger that!"

Even at this moment, Einstein remained calm and issued effective commands. She allowed the ecstatic Tesla to vent his frustration and sorrow, while she turned to study the Soul Steel fragments brought back from the moon, writing in her notebook:

"On February 14, 2000, at 21:36 US time, the golden machine resumed operation and returned to Earth. May the two have a safe journey."

Only the person involved knows how those two days went by.

"Two days...and I actually listened to God's teachings inside?"

"But upon waking, the only remaining memory of God was a final clue: a cross piercing through my chest... What did that mean?"

At the top of the Tower of Babylon, Otto Apocalypse, upon waking, immediately touched his face—thankfully, the specially made clown mask was still there.

This clown mask was temporarily modified by the great inventor. Unless he takes it off voluntarily, if someone forcibly removes it or destroys a part of it, the skin covering part of the face will be torn off as well.

Presumably, while I was unconscious, the Second Herrscher, who was doing nothing, also tested the purity of my mask, otherwise she wouldn't have looked at me with such an amused expression.

"Ahem, Second Herrscher, you appear as confident in the presence of God as you would in the mortal world. Please allow me to offer you, as God's agent, the respect that is second only to that of God."

This is the truth. After 523 years of waiting, the opportunity to meet the Honkai God has finally arrived, and the revelation to revive Kallen Kaslana has been obtained. The one who has given him this opportunity is the great enemy of humanity, the Second Herrscher.

But so what? Karen had told me before she died that she wanted to build a better world, and I had indeed been leading Destiny in the general direction according to her last wishes. But I had already made up my mind—just as a universe without observers will never produce poems praising it, a world without Karen could not have any meaning in its existence!

"With your glib tongue, I suppose the moment your consciousness returned, the elites of Destiny received orders to head to the Tower of Babel."

Celine ignored him; every word Otto Apocalypse said was like roadside weeds—busy but utterly useless.

In reality, Otto only needed to stay in front of the god for half an hour before he had to be kicked out. The fact that he was able to stay inside for so long was entirely due to Sirin's plea to the Honkai God to keep him there a little longer.

Anyway, since the knowledge of God keeps going in and out of Otto Apocalypse's mind, and in the end he can only remember one image, wouldn't it be more interesting to leave him here kneeling for a couple more days and let his mind work for a couple more days?

Of course, the main reason is that Sirin realized that the machine on the moon had come back to life.

"He must have escaped death so that he could see me again... What an exciting moment."

Otto Apocalypse didn't dare to reply. He had noticed that the Second Herrscher's mental state was a bit off. One minute she was casually pointing out her own little actions, and the next she was holding her face in her hands, looking up at the sky, and muttering something he couldn't understand.

Am I really getting old?

Following Sirin's gaze upwards, Otto noticed the blue light descending from the moon. This light was all too familiar; it was the same light that had pulled away the meteorite that had fallen to Earth just two days prior.

Even Otto Apocalypse himself, when faced with such a natural disaster, could only immediately order his followers to move out of the direct impact range of the meteorite and pray for a miracle.

Faced with this meteorite, even an arrogant and disdainful "wise man" like Otto Apocalypse had to admit that he had gone too far. He shouldn't have let the Second Herrscher go; instead, he should have taken the Herrscher core while he was ahead.

But saying anything now is just hindsight. The meteorite was pushed back to the moon, and the Second Herrscher is behaving herself. Apart from being a bit eccentric, she is even easier to communicate with than when she was first born.

"You ant, who gave you permission to look at me with those filthy eyes?"

Before his Soul Steel body was completely crushed into pieces by the Hand of Imaginary Numbers, Otto Apocalypse decided to retract his earlier misjudgment, abandoning his pretense and uttering his final, harsh words:

"Second Herrscher, help others to the end. I'll borrow your Herrscher core for another use."

"...mentally retarded."

Sirin had a clear understanding of Otto Apocalypse; he used his refined appearance to conceal his madness, and was far less at ease than she was.

The Imaginary Hand grabbed the flattened Soul Steel and threw it down the Tower of Babylon; who it hit was none of Sirin's business.

"Hurry back, Zhao Si, otherwise if I accidentally step on a few ants while I'm being harassed by them, that would be an unavoidable situation."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

P.S.: Yes, kids, I'm exhausted after pushing the stones too, and I'm thinking about what else I can do next.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Only NTs would say such things

Zhao Si found himself becoming increasingly sensitive.

“Mr. Walter, I’m a little hesitant to return to Earth.”

"Huh? Why?"

"The closer I get to Earth, the more I feel that there are so many, so many souls trying to pull me into the Earth's core..."

As Welt Yang's consciousness moved, the core of the Herrscher of Reason changed slightly in terms of light. It seems that those who have not become the first Herrscher of the Newtype do not have similar feelings about this, nor do they know how to comfort the young man who has been going through so much.

The Herrscher of Reason core, which normally carries the thoughts of 300,000 people, already made Welt Yang feel suffocated. Now that the thoughts of these 300,000 people have dissipated from the Herrscher of Reason core, although this has damaged the foundation that constitutes the core and sealed its upper limit, Welt Yang has indeed gained an unprecedented sense of ease since inheriting the core.

Then Zhao Si said he was afraid of the souls on Earth. Was it really a side effect of driving that Phoenix?

"Young man, I don't feel the same way you do yet. I can only offer you some advice as someone who's been there: don't put the burden of saving everything on your own shoulders."

Walter Young patiently offered his advice, but many of his thoughts remained unspoken, stuck halfway through.

As an adult, Walter Yang naturally didn't want Zhao Si, who was still a child (physically), to bear too much responsibility. However, Zhao Si seemed too immersed in this newly acquired sensory ability, both fearful and recklessly using it to receive other people's emotions.

Walter Yang knew that Zhao Si couldn't bear that much, but he didn't have a physical body right now, and he wasn't the type to slap someone to correct them, or if he couldn't correct them, he would slap them again, even though he thought it was quite effective.

The reason for this was that Zhao Si had been in the machine for too long. Even after recovering from the previous meteorite impact, at least 48 hours had passed according to the machine's system time display before he woke up.

In addition, after traveling for 8 hours, there are less than 2 hours left before entering the atmosphere. For a full 56 hours, Zhao Si's mind has been resonating with the Phoenix Gundam.

According to Zhao Si's own reply, he is now able to control Phoenix to propel flight by using his mental skeleton. Flying at Mach 30 in space is the maximum speed without consuming mental energy. In other words, if he wants to increase his output, he only needs to sacrifice his life again.

This is no laughing matter. Once a teenager makes it a habit to waste his life, it will greatly increase his self-destructive tendencies, and even if someone is by his side, they cannot stop him.

But with only two hours left before returning to Earth, Walter Yang grew increasingly worried about Zhao Si's mental state.

"juvenile……"

“Mr. Walter, I know exactly what you were thinking just now.”

When Zhao Si spoke, his voice was less panicked and fearful than before. He took a deep breath. The cockpit, which had been cleared of Walter Yang's mangled body, was now free of any odor, and the air circulation and filtration system was still functioning normally.

"You were just about to slap me twice, weren't you?"

"Hey kid! You're taking things out of context. I just thought about it, but I didn't actually do it. My character is preventing me from doing such a thing, okay!"

"Hahahaha! It's nothing, it's nothing. I was just thinking about something happy. Mr. Walter, you know there's a saying that a Newtype isn't complete unless it's been corrected and slapped in the face."

Zhao Si alternated between panic and bursting into laughter, which truly frightened Walter Young. He tentatively asked the other party:

Whose statement is this?

"I just made this up myself, but looking back at the experiences of other Newtypes, it seems that this isn't entirely wrong. A group of emotional and sensitive people, relying on brainwave communication to say things that ordinary people can't understand, are always driven by their emotions to do things impulsively. If no one corrects our words, we might really become more and more extreme."

Walter Young listened and couldn't help but agree, then he realized that Zhao Si had included him in the insult, and couldn't help but joke:

"Young man, are you saying all this just so you can come closer and get slapped a couple of times?"

"Huh? Of course not. As long as you're still human, who would willingly go over and slap someone twice?"

Zhao Si's expression immediately became somewhat awkward. He coughed twice to ease the tension, and then continued:

"Before, well, about four days ago, when we broke through the atmosphere together, as I was drawn to the vastness and mystery of the universe, when I turned to look at our Earth, I had a fleeting thought of returning to Earth."

"When I stand on Earth and look up at the stars, I can't help but want to go to outer space. But when I actually get to space and look back at Earth, I realize that Earth is really a wonderful place."

"I had this idea back then. Gravity seems to really pull people's minds down to the ground, whether it's when you're breaking out of the atmosphere or now when you're preparing to break into the atmosphere."

"But isn't Earth the place where our souls are born? Thinking of this, I felt relieved. It's just returning to the place where our souls are born. Even if I'm surrounded by souls buried underground, there's nothing to be afraid of."

Zhao specifically shared his thoughts and reflections with Walter Young, whose assessment was:

"He only says things that Newtypes would say."

The new humans are really something else. I'm glad I'm not one of them, or I'd be in a really bad situation.

"This is just a spontaneous thought. Even I didn't expect that after witnessing the vastness of the universe and the expanse of the Earth, I would become a New Human... But according to the definition of a New Human, that Second Herrscher, Sirin, is another New Human right after me."

"A Newtype? The Second Herrscher is one too?"

"Yes, upon arriving in the universe, she also awakened her extraordinary spatial perception abilities and her ability to respond to my brainwaves."

The chosen second Herrscher possesses the core of the Herrscher of the Void, and is naturally the highest quality Newtype consumable. Zhao Si also realized why Phoenix was unable to move after only being touched by Sirin's finger before he was completely locked in the Infinite Corridor.

A fact that Zhao Si had to face was that Xilin's NT ability far surpassed his own, and it was not surprising that she could directly freeze Phoenix's entire psycho-sensory framework.

This is the double-edged nature of the psychoframe. When encountering an entity whose abilities far surpass one's own, one's own body may be controlled by the other party. This is also recorded in the story of Watermelon Ice Stabbing Teo.

“However, I will not replace the machine. I will use Phoenix and this guy to settle this matter.”

"That one who can't comprehend the vastness and weight of the earth, I will correct her! I will!"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

PS: I've finally gotten through most of the story, time to start enjoying some soy sauce again! Victory!

By the way, a mixed pool #8 has been added to the prize pool to store the toys I missed before and the toys I bought recently. I will check every month to see if there are any new things I bought and put them directly into this mixed pool.

Ciallo～(∠?ω<)⌒★

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Pre-battle preparations complete... Hmm? We're done here? (Edited, please refresh)

Otto was in a hurry.