I, who was killing God, became a knife crusher

"The hiring fee is 500,000 yen a day... That's nearly 4,000 US dollars. Where on earth are you being hired as a mercenary? Why is it so expensive?"

Makise Kurisu looked at Elina in confusion.

According to the information she had seen on the Internet, being a battlefield mercenary in some areas only made around two to three hundred dollars a day. It was too weird for someone like Alina to make four thousand dollars a day.

"Ha, we are top mercenaries. Once we accept a mission, there is nothing we cannot complete. Of course, the price is high, and there is no way to stop us from doing that."

Elina answered casually.

She was right. Asking the Pope of the Blood God Cult to take action was not something that could be done with just a few thousand dollars.

Let alone four thousand dollars, in order to ask her to agree to something, or not to interfere in something, someone once offered a chip of four hundred thousand dollars. In comparison, four thousand dollars is nothing.

"...It's a good thing that you are so strong... At least the safety of our lab has been improved a lot."

Makise Kurisu didn't intend to delve into Erina's past, so after asking this question, she continued to shift her attention to the paper in front of her.

"But, but for me..."

Mayuri Shiina was still squatting in front of the box without getting up.

"If it doesn't work, you can make a cute outfit for Lei Ji as well. You can accept our return gift for both of us, right?"

Elina suggested.

"Well, then... I will try my best to make clothes for you that you like. Um, if you want to make clothes again in the future, I will definitely make them for you as long as I am free."

Seeing that Elina insisted, Mayuri Shiina had to accept the gift reluctantly.

"Well, that's good."

Elina nodded in satisfaction.

Half an hour later, Moyin also returned to the lab, this time carrying a few bags of grapes, bananas, peaches and other fruits that were not easy to squeeze.

"What's in your bag?"

Okabe Rintaro looked curiously at the huge backpack on Moyin's back that could hold 130L of things and asked curiously.

"Speaking of summer, of course we have to eat watermelon. I bought some watermelon, apples, pears and so on."

Moyin answered.

"Xigua!?!! Wow, what a rich man! Okabe, from now on, the head of the logistics department will be Moyin! I think he has contributed so much to our lab in the early stage, and we should give him some rewards later when our lab becomes bigger!"

Tongzi said with his eyes shining.

You should know that watermelon is a very expensive fruit. Except for those who grow it themselves, no one else can afford it. One watermelon may cost several thousand yen or even tens of thousands of yen.

So other fruits may be okay, but watermelon is something that can definitely impress all Japanese people in an instant.

"I'll put it in the refrigerator to cool it down before eating it. It's absolutely great to eat cool watermelon in the summer."

Moyin said as he walked to the refrigerator, took out a watermelon from his backpack and put it in the refrigerator, then put the remaining watermelons on the ground.

"Then let's start the second time machine experiment."

Makise Kurisu asked.

Okabe Rintaro broke off a banana and put it into the microwave oven to heat it up.

And this time the bananas were still in the oven intact.

"That's really weird... why doesn't it work?"

Seeing that the banana did not turn into a plantain, Okabe Rintaro said very disappointedly that he couldn't understand why his time machine sometimes worked well and sometimes didn't. It was too much of a headache.

"The time machine itself is very demanding to be successful. We don't know what the necessary conditions are yet, so let's continue to repeat the experiment."

Makise Kurisu spoke up.

"Speaking of which, Okabe, when we did the experiment with the telephone microwave oven before, it seemed to be from morning to afternoon. Now it's evening. Could it be that the time machine we developed can only be used in the morning?"

Tongzi, who was sitting in front of the computer and continuing to attack the sern server, spoke up.

"That's possible... But in order to confirm whether it can only be used during the day, we still have to test it every hour for the next 24 hours. After all, the cost is just a small banana, which is not a problem at all."

Okabe Rintaro announced.

"Okay, okay, you are the founder of the lab, you have the final say."

Tongzi waved his hand.

"Well now that Moyin is back, let's discuss how to interfere with the past. This is the possible hypothesis everyone submitted when you went to sell fruit."

Okabe Rintaro took out the paper he had distributed to everyone earlier.

At the top is the cute girl's name in circular font: Mayuri Shiina.

The word "letter" was written on the paper.

"Hmm... a letter? That's not impossible. Judging from the state of the banana, the item will probably maintain a basic original appearance. Letter paper made of wood as the main material may be able to be sent over, and the recipient may indeed receive the letter. But the problem is that the banana can only barely maintain its appearance. The letter paper will probably be in the same state after passing through the black hole. It cannot be touched at all."

"This means that there is no way for a courier to deliver the letter, and no one can pick it up and read it. Only by reading the contents of the letter can the message be successfully conveyed."

Makise Kurisu began to analyze Shiina Mayuri's proposal.

“It looks like it could be considered as an alternative proposal.”

Moyin picked up Mayuri Shiina's paper and put it aside, and then picked up the online email written by Okabe Rintaro.

"Webmail uses the electronic network as a carrier, so it may be possible to transmit back to the past, but that is limited to the time after the birth of the Internet. There is a certain time limit for interfering with the past."

Mo Yin spoke up.

"Indeed, but after discussing with my assistant, we didn't intend to change the world's layout at such an early stage. We probably weakened Sern's strength through a large number of layouts in recent years."

Okabe Rintaro spoke up.

"No, I didn't say I didn't want to make plans too early, okay? Kyouma-san."

"If it had only been in effect for the past decade or so, Sern would have become a big deal long ago. If possible, we should change what happened at the earliest point in time as soon as possible."

Makise Kurisu spoke up.

"Then what method do you want to use... I think webmail is the best solution."

Okabe Rintaro asked unconvinced.

"My idea is to use phone calls, text messages, emails, brain waves, etc."

Makise Kurisu took out the note she had written.

"Phone text messages and emails appeared much earlier than the Internet, and they are pure electrical signals. I think there is a chance that they can successfully pass through a black hole, and brain waves can convey even more things. Coincidentally, my major in college was brain science, so it's not an exaggeration to say that this is a good match for my major."

"In fact, I have been thinking about what position I will play in the future lab. Hashida-san should be in charge of the electronics, Kyouma-san can provide a lot of interesting ideas for the thinking, and Moyin and Elina-san will be in charge of the combat."

"I was captured by the Sern Project. This means that I played an important role in the completion of the time machine, and it is difficult for the other party to find a scientist who can replace me in this position."

"To sum up, I think the task I should complete is to perfect how to transmit information to the past, so as to interfere with the past. This is the biggest difficulty facing us now, how to interfere with the past."

"Let's put aside the fact that the phone is similar to mine, but the brain waves... can that thing really go through a black hole? And can a person's consciousness remain normal after going through a black hole? A black hole will crush everything, right? That would be so painful."

Okabe Rintaro questioned.

"This is different, Kyouma-san. Let me give you a simple example. If I use a knife to cut a wound on your hand, your brain will realize that you feel pain because of the nerve current sent back by the sensor under the skin. But if only your own brain waves pass through the black hole without any sensors attached, you will not be able to perceive the pain because your body is still intact in this lab. So if it is just the transmission of brain waves, I think it is feasible to a certain extent."

Makise Kurisu paused, then sighed.

"Honestly, judging from the you I met this morning, we should have mastered the time machine that allows the human body to pass through a black hole in the future, but unfortunately I have no idea how to do it now. It would have been great if you had given me some advice in this regard, but unfortunately he was in a hurry at the time."

Makise Kurisu said with a sigh.

"Then can we just wait for our future selves to tell us how to make a perfect time machine, or just bring us a finished one?"

Okabe Rintaro asked excitedly.

"It's basically impossible. This will seriously cause time reversal. Even Sern didn't use this method. This means that directly giving the time machine will cause time reversal much more terrifying than we thought. Even Sern, who will rule the world in the future, didn't do this, so we can forget about it."

"It would be better to say that if Sern had obtained such a time machine directly, then no matter how we escaped, we would have been caught by Sern now, because they have unlimited opportunities to start over."

"Now that we can sit in this lab and think about countermeasures, we can understand that Sern did not get the time machine they had in the future."

Makise Kurisu answered.

"But why are you so sure that Sern has taken over from their future selves?"

Okabe Rintaro asked curiously.

"It's very simple. Right now, you and I don't know what we have done or what we will do in the future. And this morning, Sern started trying to capture us. Do you think there is any other possibility besides that we have contacted them in the future?"

Makise Kurisu asked, rolling her eyes.

"That's... true. And don't look at me like an idiot."

Okabe Rintaro asked.

"I would be happy to stop treating you like an idiot if you would stop making idiotic comments all the time."

Makise Kurisu answered.

“You, you woman!!!”

Okabe Rintaro stared at Makise Kurisu intently, and Makise Kurisu returned his sharp gaze.

"Okay, both of you, don't quarrel anymore at this time. Let's find a way to solve the problem at hand first. If we don't solve it, we will have to face the interference of the world-scale organization later."

Moyin raised his hand to smooth things over.

Makise Kurisu and Okabe Rintaro finally came to their senses and realized that this was not the time to fight.

"Let me do some calculations to see if it's possible to transmit brain waves back."

Makise Kurisu spoke up.

"oh..."

Okabe Rintaro responded dryly.

"By the way, Kyouma, what does the woman who is going to kill you this morning look like?"

Moyin suddenly asked.

"Eh? Yes... Brown hair, brown eyes, pigtails, very thin body, I don't know if it's malnutrition or something, it gives people a sub-healthy state... Oh! Was the time machine that appeared on the rooftop of the building?! That satellite-like thing! Damn, I really should have taken a closer look at that time, then maybe I would have understood the principle."

Okabe Rintaro regretted with gritted teeth.

"Well...she offered you a bribe at first, right?"