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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 640: Lights Known as the Beginning in the Motherland Part 2

「I really should have added a baby bottle while I was at it, now that I think about it.」

「Dude, could you stop making it worse? You are only making yourself look more and more like an idiot saying things like that.」

Perhaps something in the Pacifier’s mind has begun to come off, maybe that last screw that was keeping his sanity intact this whole time? And as his personality started to gradually melt away more and more, I decided to get out of the “moral” class of “Ivory”-sensei and look around to see what the inside of the Behemoth was truly supposed to be.

「Could it be that this is how the process of character creation looks like when you are seeing it from the outside?」

The name of that player is…… Se? King of Fairies, Grand Fairion……-san? Umm, yeah. This is most definietely a new player, and judging by that name alone he is a pretty unique player, to boot. In both name and the shape of their avatar. At the current moment their body was taller than the tallest player I have known, with three long horns sticking out from their forehead. And seeing how some details were still changing and shifting, that player was certainly not done with creating this avatar quite yet.

Apparently, the thing with which that guy seemed to be struggling the most was to decide if he wanted to be a man or a woman. I tried to look away from the King of Fairies, Grand Fairion (Level One) as much as possible, but even if I was staring right at them the whole time, every time they chose to change their gender there was a swarm of bubbles that would always cover the most critical places on the avatar’s body, preventing the game’s rating from skyrocketing all the way to 18+. But oh well, they might be level one, but they are sure a member of the Next Generation of Human Race, without a doubt.

「Hey? What do you think that thing over there is?」

「Explosive Green Peas sis?」

But she looked different than before? Like, there was something different about her? Hmm…… as if her whole body was slowly changing bit by bit……? What the hell?

「Hmm, interesting. This thing right here looks like an empty test tube of some sort, wouldn’t you agree?」

「Yeah, but have you ever seen a test tube that has a door quite like that? Because I don’t remember ever seeing something quite like this.」

「THE MACHINERY INSIDE OF THIS EXPLOADING GREEN PEAS IS CURRENTLY HIBERNATING IS THE DEVICE USED FOR RECALCULATION PURPOSES, SANRAKU.」

「Fuguh……」

L-Look here, “Ivory”! I really appreciate that you came up with an explanation like that, but I would really like for you to actually stop calling me by my name like that! Or you know what? I no longer care if you do that! It’s not like I can convince you to do otherwise, and you won’t even try to not do that, am I right? But one thing’s at least confirmed right now: the one inside of this tube was indeed the Exploding Green Peas, as weird as that might sound……

「Recalculation? What do you mean by that?」

「YES, THAT’S RIGHT. AND I MEANT EXACTLY WHAT I SAID BY THAT. YOU SEE, Q.E.D. IS A PART OF THE BATON TOUCH PROJECT, AND IT WAS DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE CREATION OF THE NET GENERATION HUMAN BEINGS. AND IT IS RIGHT HERE, INSTALLED ON THIS VERY BEHEMOTH SHIP! THE ORIGINAL HUMAN RACE…… THAT IS, THE VERY FIRST HUMAN RACE, THOUGHT TO ESTABLISH A “MINIMUM SETTLMENT”, AND SET IT UP THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN CONTINENT, AND SIMILAR TRANSFERS WERE MADE BASED ON THE COORDINATES OF THE NEW CONTINENT…… BUT THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE PROTOCOL WAS MET WITH AN ABRUPT AND UNEPECTED END. AT THAT POINT, WE WERE CONTINUING THE PRODUCTION WORK WITH NEXT GENERATION HUMAN BEINGS.」

「Hmm…… So, it’s something like this, huh?」

「Hmm, I see, I get it. I think.」

While saying that, we made a soft eye contact…… Good, it seems that Sis here had no idea what that gesture was supposed to mean. And even if she was to get a vague idea, she would certainly consider it from the perspective of a single person, not two people.

「NEXT GENERATION OF HUMAN BEINGS WERE PRODUCED, THEN DISTRIBUTED, AND THIS NEW GENERATION WAS EQUIPPED WITH THE FUNCTION OF “JOB SYSTEM” IMBUDED IN THEIR CORES. THERE WAS ALSO THE “ROLL SYSTEM” THAT WOULD BE ACTIVATED AT THE MOMENT OF THEIR BIRTH. WITH THOSE TWO PROTOCOLS INTACT, IT WAS NOW POSSIBLE TO SAFELY REGULATE AND OBSERVE THE SPECIMENS OF THE NEXT GENERATION HUMAN BEINGS……」

I know that “Ivory” was in the middle of saying something important, but…… What should I do? Neither I nor my sis understands what she was talking about just now. Like, at all. I don’t think that what she was saying was so difficult to comprehend, but I can’t help it but be worried about it because technical terms or words coming out in a rapid succession were never one of my strongest suits to comprehend.

Seriously now, why is the Professor not here, the moment it counts the most? At this rate I might even go and find someone else from the “Library” and bring them here in order to explain to us what was going on.

「Ah, umm……」

「Oho? If it isn’t Rei-san?」

「You are…… Saiga-0—san, if memory serves me correctly…… Am I right? The one who is always on the tongues of many players all over the game.」

「Huh? Umm, ahh, this is…… H-Hello, nice to meet you? I guess?」

「SAIGA-0, SANRAKU…… SINCE BOTH OF YOU ARE HERE RIGHT NOW, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE IT A TRY?」

「Huh?」

「Hmm?」

「IT’S A LITTLE INVENTION OF MINE THAT I CALLED “RESET CALCULATOR SYSTEM”…… I DUBBED IT R.C.S FOR SHORT. TO PUT IT SIMPLY…… IT’S A SYSTEM THAT ENABLES ONE TO RECONFIGURE ONE’S AVATAR AND RCONSTRUCT IT FROM SCRATCH AS ONE SEES FIT.」

「Huh? Who? Me?」

「I’m terribly sorry, Sis, but this is probably something that is related to the Real World Events. At least that’s my guess on this.」

Speaking of which, I have gotten myself some sort of a ticket like that a while back…… Could it be that it is meant to be used in here, for this very purpose? It’s worth a shot yo try it.