Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

You mean right after the system went live?

What are you gonna do about it?

... It doesn't feel good to hear it, does it?

Still want to hear it?

Mm-hmm. Well, just a little bit.

Well, in a nutshell, it's awful.

I'm done with this.

Terrible and terrible.

Everywhere seemed like hell.

I was full of myself, too, so I only know by hearsay what the situation was in the rest of the world.

But, well, you can imagine.

Firstly, there was nothing that could be done about the countries that had MA-energy anchored in their primary energy.

'Cause you do, don't you?

Imagine that.

When all the electricity runs out in modern Japan.

If that's what it is, I might have added gasoline to it.

The point is, we're running out of energy.

I was counting on that, so it's only natural that we should lose our lives.

Plus, it was a dragon raid that destroyed everything at the time.

Double punch that even though many people were refugees, they couldn't use any more energy there.

I'm not talking about reconstruction.

It's critical to live the day.

The hardest thing I ever had was food.

I had trouble eating that day, and I had to eat more nutrients than people because of my health.

My buddies give me that priority and turn the food around, but that's still not enough.

You have a younger child than me, and you have to put up with your hunger to give me food.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I wanted to die.

I mean, I really thought about that a few times.

But every time, everyone stops.

"Master Sariel told you. He said to live."

I ate it crying.

Still not enough and I still can't forget the taste of sand I ate to mislead my hunger.

That's how I managed to live my days, but then the battle started over there.

Because of the system, it feels like we're depriving each other of the slightest amount of resources left.

As I said, the food shortage is quite serious.

We took it from each other and killed each other everywhere, and it grew in scale.

If you're that energetic, you should work together to break the status quo.

Because I give priority to what's right now over what's ahead of us.

Anyway, all I could think about was taking what I have now.

My friends at the orphanage continued to evacuate such battles.

But I can get caught up in something.

At the time, I was just a handful of feet, and I didn't have the strength to fight.

Looks like we've had status corrections since just after the system went live, but that depends on our original capabilities, too.

I was spending most of the day on the bed, less than usual, even with the help of my status.

There was nothing I could do.

So, there was a time when there was really nothing I could do.

That's when the men, starting with Gobgov, went to fight.

We are the survivors of Potimus' human experiments.

But surviving doesn't mean you can live.

Gobgob was a lifetime for several years.

It was supposed to be a study to prolong life, but what was born was a child with green skin, much shorter life span than a normal human being.

Well, you can't help being treated as a failure, can you?

"I can't live much longer."

That's what I said, he's gone.

That's why I gave him my favorite shovel and told him:

"Well, I like it, so come back and give it back."

In the end, the guy who laughed vaguely, didn't come back.

You're a coward.

I caught it at the end of the day.

Stupid, isn't it?

... Stupid.

We've been going right and left since then to escape the scourge of war, but it sounds like the situation has shifted from a fight to a fight between people and evolutionists.

We were just flirting, so we don't even know the details of what the change was at the time that the dispute was.

However, at some point, there was a plot up for people to attack evolutionists.

Evolutionists, now the Demons, had better physical abilities than people, and better statuses for that matter.

But you were unilaterally attacked by people because you had fewer absolutes than people, and you weren't united among evolutionists at first.

What happened to the food problem?

Well, the population of the usurpation, the killing of each other, while they're at it, and the food needed for that matter will be reduced, but the most important factor for improvement is the occurrence of demons.

Why demons there?

Well, listen to me.

Now it's normal for demons to reproduce and increase, but in the beginning, they were coming from nowhere.

Probably prepared by Master D.

So, normally, that would confuse me, and there was actually confusion.

But when demons started to occur, people were already beginning to use the benefits of status and skill.

As a result, the demon did not become that much of a threat.

Sometimes demons were prototypes at the time, and they weren't that strong.

Demons come at us, but it's easy to get back at them.

One way or the other, the same person was scarier at the time.

So, that easy demon to defeat.

Naturally, I can take the meat.

Well, you'll see later, won't you?

Whatever it was, it could have been eaten at the time.

Ironically, the threat of demons was not enough, rather it became salvation.

Well, I guess that's where the spare time came in, that's where the demonic oppression moved.

The hunted down demons were driven to the north of the Casanagara continent, where they united to fight back.

And then, as you know, the history of the long battle between the people and the demons began, bordering on the area.

Well, it took me quite a few years to get there.

I mean, the muddy battle to get there was really bad.

We may have talked chills before, but the first demon king was a vampire.

This is an awkward demon king, and he's not that strong, but he's been attacking people with his vampire traits and cunning standing.

He's already had the momentum to kill everything that lives and lives.

If people and demons could unite then history would have changed, but unfortunately the result is a state of triplets turmoil.

I mean, in a state that can't even be called triplets?

It was a situation where you didn't know who was on your side and who was your enemy.

My friends in the orphanage ended up falling apart.

As Sariel taught us, we should help people because of the faction.

To save Master Sariel as soon as possible, he said he should fight the faction.

As I have said many times, we orphanage members are survivors of Potimus' human experiments.

Some of them were complete failures like me and Gobgob, while others were like semi-successful works that were partially successful, even if they were failures.

Excellent physical ability or special skills.

Taken together with their status and skills, they were able to demonstrate higher abilities than normal human beings.

I was just a kid when I was on the run. We grew up with the years, too.

Huh? Aren't you growing up?

Hahaha. What are you talking about?

I'm growing up so fine!

Hahahahahahaha.

Cohon!

Back to the story, that's how my orphanage buddies split into two parts and started walking their own paths.

You know what?

The First Brave and the First Virgin are from our orphanage, aren't they?

Well, no one like that is left to die in battle or to live a full life.

Most of them were dedicated during death.

Reject reincarnation and dedicate all your soul to the system as energy.

Guys, Mi-na, that's how it disappeared.

Stupid, isn't it?

... Stupid.

He said he could be the one left behind.

I can't fight like that.

He said he was just alive and full of it.

They were all gone while I was sleeping on the bed.

What do you mean, the last thing left was useless like me?

Besides, I don't know why, but I'm getting immortal.

The impact of the system, or were Potimus's studies secretly bearing fruit?

Or both.

I don't know the truth, but I stopped getting old right after the system went live.

So I can still live.

Moreover, the physique I have suffered for many years has been overcome by my status and skills.

You can eat as much as you want with your bulimia skills, and the poison in your body is not broken down into systems and produced.

The status slowly rose over the years, from the crowd, and even more, still up and over.

That's how I am now.

No way. Potimus would have regretted accomplishing the immortality I was aiming for.

If I hadn't thrown it away then!

Something like that.

Only on that point, Zama. Ah! I think so.

Right after the system went live, what did Potimus want?

Come on?

He's been disappearing completely from the surface stage for a while.

What do you call cloud cover?

If you thought you had grown up for a while, at some point a new race called Elves pervaded the public.

Really, sometime.

That's the only kind of arm I'd be good at, that.

Well, it's a big mess, but I guess this is what we're talking about right after the system goes live.

What do you say?

Wasn't that a nice story?