I'm a magnetic field madman

Before Yamanaka Iji could finish speaking, he fell down the pipe into the deepest, deepest rebirth pool because of his own sins. In this dimly lit "members-only restaurant"... Yamanaka Iji was horrified to find that some familiar people were lying next to him.

The ministers of the old government, the high-ranking officers of the Self-Defense Forces, the merchants who traded cursed children, and... the former advisor to the Holy Emperor, Kikunojo Tendou!

They live here, a tragic, laughable, and cruel existence. But at this point, all the dignity of life has been destroyed, and they are reduced to living as the lowest of "maggots." Even the most ruthless and toughest man would regret it.

Only at this moment did the viewers in front of the screen realize what the real punishment was.

Those with lower tolerance for vomiting began to vomit, while some with higher tolerance covered their mouths with pale faces. Only a few people looked excited and couldn't wait to squat on the toilet!

Bai Wujie ignored the various behaviors and actions of these people; he simply smiled and spoke to everyone on those countless screens…

"Do not commit crimes, everyone, do not commit crimes."

"Our laws are incredibly comprehensive, and our rules are extremely rigorous. I can assure you, my people, that as long as you abide by the law, you will certainly receive the wages you earn and enjoy the treatment you deserve."

“Your wisdom will certainly be put to good use here, and your achievements will be rewarded accordingly. Here, you will receive absolute fairness in terms of rules.”

"Of course, I knew that injustice and the resulting abuse of power would inevitably occur. But I guarantee that anyone I discover attempting to exploit or trample on my rules will be punished ten times, or even nine times, more severely than the average person!"

"I doubt you'd want to dine in those 'rebirth pools,' would you?"

"Of course, unless you leave my rule, you will face a bad outcome. The only freedom I give you is to choose whether to stay or leave."

His speech was simple, almost like a morbidly humorous outburst rather than a formal speech.

But Bai Wujie's words, combined with what he had just done, were terrifying enough and enough to deter all dishonest things.

Rape criminals, human traffickers, murderers, robbers, thieves, and those who stage accidents for profit—all criminals and potential criminals have realized one thing.

Committing a crime in this city might mean that death is the best outcome.

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30. Killer Whale Skadi

"vomit!"

With the powerful sound of the toilet flushing and Rentaro's uncontrollable vomiting... another mouthful of stomach acid was flushed down the sewer into the rebirth pool outside the city, becoming a dish in that "members-only restaurant".

Rentaro, pale-faced, leaned against the toilet, having already vomited up all the ramen he had just eaten.

Even so, the intensely impactful scene from just now still lingered in his mind.

He slumped weakly onto the bathroom tiles, staring at the ceiling, his mind blank for a long time, devoid of any words or thoughts.

Was the final fate of Kikunojo Tendo really so tragic?

Yes, he hated that old man, even though he had been his master and adoptive father. He still hated Kikunojo Tendo.

I have absolutely no intention of forgiving him or reconciling with him.

But he never imagined that Kikunojo Tendo would fall into such a terrifying hell, not to mention that there were other people in that purgatory.

They are all sinners, or rather, they are all people who have defied Bai Wujie.

If the law is the bottom line of morality, does that mean that the moral bottom line of this country will be so terrible and so low from now on? After vomiting almost everything in his stomach, Rentaro staggered back to the living room, his limbs weak, and lay motionless on the sofa.

He was scared.

There's nothing to be ashamed of, even if he has an intense and irreconcilable hatred for Lanmeng Company... even if he's been transformed and can't even be called human anymore, even if he and Lanmeng Company are essentially locked in a life-or-death struggle.

But he still felt afraid, especially of such horrific and terrifying scenes, the kind of tragic end that even the most extreme movies wouldn't depict.

But Bai Wujie's unbridled display made Rentaro realize something even more. To the Blue Dream Company, ordinary people probably really are nothing.

Because they don't care, because they don't take it seriously at all, they can freely broadcast even such horrifying and terrifying images.

Because it has no value, there is no need to care about it.

The people, and the value they bring, are all meaningless to Bai Wujie. Since they have no value to him, there's no need to care about them, let alone respect them.

With his hands and feet ice-cold, Rentaro calmed his breathing and collected his thoughts. A long, long time passed.

When I opened my eyes, the night was over, and I could hear the sounds of things moving around in the kitchen.

Rentaro stood up and walked towards the cramped kitchen, where Tendo Kisara was clumsily and slowly preparing a breakfast.

In the three months he was away, she had learned how to live alone. Rentaro thought to himself, then slowly and quietly slipped away.

She can live well without me, or rather, she should be able to live better precisely because she is away from me.

He left the Tiantong Security Company, left the "home" where he had lived for several years, and wandered aimlessly through the streets as the sun rose.

Lazy passersby and commuters seemed to regard last night's massacre and spectacle as if it were a dream.

As the sun rose the next day, everyone seemed to continue living their lives as usual.

Among these people, Rentaro felt a strong sense of confusion and unease.

Because he no longer knew what to do; even if he wanted to rebel against Lanmeng Company, he didn't know where to start.

If this city is now adopting a cyberpunk style, then under this bad ending of a future human society, how can Rentaro find a good way to change things?

The cyberpunk world is filled with a profound sense of powerlessness and absurdity because, under the control of massive corporations and their dominant technology, the power of the individual is reduced to almost nothing, and even if the masses are mobilized to resist...

It will only crumble easily under the pervasive surveillance and the commodities that dominate our lives.

This is what is meant by a world of high technology and low quality of life. Human beings are eliminated in the face of technology, the lower class has no power to resist, while the upper class can do whatever they want.

Not to mention, this world isn't just about cyberpunk—it also has magnetic field lunatics!!

The so-called cyberpunk is just a facade, a simple outer skin covering this city, a ruling model chosen by Bai Wujie, who has simply put a "skin" on his country.

He can be replaced at any time if he wants. And so it is with the so-called despair and invincibility, but that doesn't mean things will get better…

In essence, this is just a further amplification of "despair" and "inevitability".

Rentaro sat on a park bench, lost in thought for a long, long time, his mind blank... until night fell and the countless neon lights came on, at which point he gradually awoke.

After thinking for so long, the only solution he could come up with was the simplest and most foolish one—to become stronger.

It's a ridiculous and naive conclusion, but it seems to be the only feasible one among all the possible paths to the same result. However, it's bound to be incredibly difficult...

One person's strength may be too insignificant; he needs companions, anyone who shares his ideals.

With his hands in his pockets, he swayed leisurely but didn't go back to the Tiantong Security Company; he no longer intended to return there.

The fact that Tendo Mugen was not punished by Lanmeng Company means that she can live peacefully, provided that she doesn't get involved with me.

His self-righteous thoughts and self-righteous feelings of being moved were, in fact, the best sacrifice he could have made. With nowhere else to go, he eventually wandered into Sumire Muroto's small clinic.

The only way he could "become stronger" was perhaps from the doctor who had once transformed him.

He walked through psychedelic streets, past neon lights, beneath those flying iron birds, and even past the towering Blue Dream Tower, as if subconsciously he wanted to be arrested there.

But he was lucky; he managed to safely cross half the city and arrive at the "old district" that had not yet been rebuilt...

However, when he pushed open the clinic door, the messy clinic was not only occupied by the slovenly doctor, but also by an elderly man in a suit, who was refined, easy-going, and sitting upright.

"You are...Mr. Ziyuan?!" Rentaro looked at him with surprise and delight.

"It's been a long time, Rentaro." Senichi Shigaki smiled, adjusted his glasses, and said earnestly...

"I have something I'd like to ask you to do!"

……

At the top of the towering Blue Dream Tower, a girl with an expressionless face gazes at the entire city from her glass dome.

She had long, flowing silver-gray hair and dark red, jewel-like eyes. She wore a blue and black trench coat, and black trousers with a pair of slits down the middle.

Her name is Skadi, or, as the name suggests, killer whale.

She was once known as the monster of Scorpio, but just three months ago, she transformed into the Black Whale Demon God and nearly destroyed the entire city of Tokyo.

Now, she has been reborn in the hands of her "father".

Skadi remembers everything she should have forgotten. Her name is the one she had in Seven Star Village, in that rural town where she returned to her hometown with her divorced father…

Then came the incredibly painful memories.

At the tender age of five, she was taken away by government officials and put on the operating table for a three-year experimental period.

That period was so painful; how those devils in white coats, and those demons in suits who called themselves civilized, tormented her young body.

Injecting viruses, altering genes, testing regenerative abilities, testing pain tolerance...

This endless nightmare came to an end with a laboratory accident.

She and ten other girls who had suffered the same fate escaped the lab, and then...

Then came the life of the zodiac monster known as "Scorpio".

Skadi's memories of that time are not so clear... but she still remembers following two other Zodiac monsters... and, under the guidance of some humans, attacking some cities on the continent...

But in reality, they are not the main factors that cause the most destruction. The one that destroys humanity the most is always humanity itself.

After that, the memory reached the present.

More than a year ago, she awakened that special power. The gradually strengthening magnetic field power from the gastrovirus microorganisms in her body allowed her to gradually find herself again.

Then, drawn by the "summoning" of her past objects, she came to Tokyo, used humans to shed the excess cells in her body, and eventually became that terrifying black whale.

But the revenge was not yet complete. That man, that terrifyingly powerful man, and his horrific war machine, defeated it just before those humans were about to be slaughtered.

Then, he kept his promise and recreated a new body for her.

Once human, then a monster, and finally a demon god's soul, Skadi returned to a human body. Even after three months, she still feels extremely uncomfortable, but...

Skadi raised her hand, watching the arcs of electricity leaping and gathering in her palm, and a strong sense of security welled up inside her.

The power still remained in her own hands. And this powerful force, unrestrained by anyone, was the only source of her peace of mind!

And that man was constantly teaching himself how to master this power and how to utilize this powerful force called magnetic field rotation.

Although he took her in as his goddaughter without permission, he never tried to control her in any way.

This alone was enough for Skadi to wholeheartedly acknowledge Bai Wujie as her true "father".

With such immense power and extraordinary wisdom, and with whom she had been so kind to her, how could Skadi not accept this adoptive father?

Skadi wholeheartedly accepted Bai Wujie and was willing to work hard for his career and his blue dream. However, Skadi didn't understand one thing—

"It's such a simple thing..."

Skadi murmured as she looked at the city, at everything obscured by the dark clouds on the distant horizon, at the land that did not yet belong to Blue Dream, but to her adoptive father.

The power of a rotating magnetic field is so great that all the weapons of human civilization seem ridiculously fragile in comparison.

For these powerful beings, humanity itself has no real value.

Skadi was so aware of her adoptive father's immense power and extraordinary wisdom, even if he allowed it...

Skadi would then take down those humans who refused to submit or even caused trouble behind the scenes.

But he didn't do that. Instead, he let those clowns continue to frolic, and even deliberately hid his astonishing power.

Skadi didn't understand this; her mental age seemed to make her less adept at comprehending such complex matters.

However, whenever Skadi saw those lowly beings slandering her adoptive father, she almost couldn't resist taking action.

However, the fate that those incomprehensible things have now fallen to... is enough for Skadi to alleviate her frustration at not being able to kill them herself.

“Oga, what are you doing here? Father is summoning you.”

A calm and gentle voice rang out. Skadi turned around, and behind her stood a girl with a jellyfish-like hairstyle, a head shorter than her, blinking her golden eyes at her.

"Sister Chief, I still prefer you to call me Skadi," she said softly.

In the Blue Dream organization, every official member has a nickname in addition to their name.

For the Dream Beast Team, which possesses the genetic factors of the Gastrea virus, their nicknames are directly linked to their genetic factors.

Of course, the First Girl and Skadi are not part of the Dreammon team's structure.

However, they still have their own simplified code names, Jellyfish and Orca, so it is not wrong to call Skadi Orca.

But she just didn't like it. If they were real family, they should address each other by their names rather than by nicknames.

"You know your father likes to call you Oga," the First Lady said casually, adjusting her jellyfish-like hat.

"It is said that our names all came from some truly powerful individuals... and Skadi, your name comes from an unparalleled and peerless powerhouse. So from now on, I will call you by your name in private, and in other situations, I will call you Oga."

"Do as you please, First Lady," Skadi sighed softly...

"What does Father want with me this time? First Sister, I heard you've been active in the western continent lately?"