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But it was not the same kind of wild gaze I had seen before, one that was full of ignorance and driven by instinct.

In fact, the half-human, who unexpectedly possessed intelligence similar to that of an ordinary person, excitedly crawled out from under the bed and stumbled and scrambled toward the guardian.

She seemed to have regained her senses, but her throat was still too sore from the previous trauma to speak much.

The half-human opened her mouth, but her broken, hoarse voice couldn't be pieced together into words that anyone could understand, so she had to communicate with Mayumi Haga using gestures.

She trembled as she grabbed Mayumi Haga's hand, raised it, and then placed it around her neck.

She moved her lips and looked at Mayumi Haga with pleading eyes.

Those eyes were filled with despair and intense hopelessness. Just looking at Mayumi Haga made her feel that she was only one step away from collapsing.

Mayumi Haga is able to read lips and understand what others mean.

What the other party said was—

—【Kill me.】

Repeating this over and over again, he pleaded with a stranger to bring him final relief.

Yuga Mayumi lowered her eyes, watching the other person tremble and beg her again and again, as if she had found a lifeline.

The emotions that the half-human had been suppressing for so long seemed to explode at this moment. Hot tears fell drop by drop, and her hands and feet were terribly cold. The veins in her neck bulged due to excessive emotional excitement. Unlike normal humans, they were pitch black, like long worms gradually eating away at her soul.

But it was precisely this part of "her" that sustained her life.

In fact, Mayumi Haga sensed something was off from the very beginning.

3904 is not a normal name at all; you can tell at a glance that it is a weapon's serial number.

According to 3904 himself, the half-human is not a pure-blooded human.

But it was definitely not born naturally.

3904 bore obvious signs of modification. When he received treatment, Mayumi Haga could tell that his body had been transplanted with organs from a monster called "Kaba".

Based on the surgical marks and scars, 3904 was not born with the half-human modification. The modification marks are too recent, suggesting it was performed within the last five years.

Unlike Mayumi Haga, whose self-healing speed is very fast, half-humans heal much slower, and the scars that are meant to remain will still be there.

Mayumi Haga also noticed that the other party did not have many wounds.

From any perspective, the other party is too new.

When 3904 underwent the modification surgery, he was at least twelve years old, so it's impossible that he wouldn't have memories at that age. Having lived in human society for twelve years, he should have developed a sense of self-awareness that belongs to human beings.

But this guy displayed a completely beastly side, with almost no habits or mannerisms of someone who had lived in civilized society.

There must be something wrong with that.

After receiving information from Ayasa Terasaki that "her mind has become clearer after receiving treatment," Mayumi Haga finally pieced together the last piece of the puzzle.

After undergoing the modification surgery, the original owner of this body fell into a deep sleep. Since then, it is the part of the half-human that has been controlling the body and protecting itself.

Now, Terasaki Ayasa's healing magic suppressed the half-human part—after all, the transplanted organ was a foreign object that suppressed humanity—and the original part of her personality re-emerged.

It's normal for a normal person to experience a period of self-loathing after realizing what they've been eating raw food all these years and reflecting on what they've done.

After all, Mayumi Haga had also survived by eating herself when she was in a state of delirium. She knew very well what it would feel like to eat something you didn't want and then come back to your senses.

But the guy in front of me seemed to be reacting even more strongly than I had imagined.

If it were the core of a monster, it wouldn't actually bring such a sense of guilt. After all, the core of a monster isn't as impactful as ordinary human flesh and blood, and the feeling of immorality wouldn't be so strong...

……and many more.

Human beings...?

Before the other three could follow into the ward, the Guardian suddenly flew into a rage. She grabbed the half-person by the neck and slammed her to the ground, kneeing her down. The sound of breaking ribs could even be heard.

"...Who did you eat?" Mayumi Haga's expression was terrifyingly gloomy.

The half-human looked at her, tears tinged with blood: "Friend..."

Her best friend.

Main Text: Chapter 181 Type Seven Pollution

3904's real name is naturally not this number, but it would be quite difficult for her to recall what her real name is.

After all, the surgery that turned her into a half-human not only deprived her of her social status as a human being, but also damaged her brain to some extent, causing her to lose most of her memories from the past fifteen years.

She doesn't remember her name, whether she has parents, where her home is, or why she was reformed.

In fact, after the surgery, before the Kaba cells had taken over her body, she also switched between her wolf and human personalities for a period of time.

That wolf was her beast-like consciousness, which would appear on its own when she faced an insurmountable enemy and lost consciousness. At that time, she should be considered in a berserk state, with her combat abilities soaring and her self-healing abilities reaching their limit.

Before undergoing the modification surgery, 3904 seemed to be just an ordinary girl. She tried her best to learn how to fight and gradually grew, but her growth rate could never keep up with the evolution rate of the increasingly powerful Kaba.

Her world is infected by a strange virus from the void, and not only Kaba, but also humans and half-humans have infected bodies parasitized by the virus.

These infected creatures will attack and devour other uninfected members of their kind, absorbing nutrients and accelerating their evolution by consuming the corpses of their kin.

The experimental base where 3904 was located was destroyed by the infected Kaba and the infected half-human.

She managed to escape with her roommate after a great struggle.

The half-human friend whose modified trait is "Agility" and who has grown rabbit ears and a fluffy round tail is numbered 3905. The two half-humans were born in the same year and lived in the same dormitory, so naturally they got along very well.

Because 3904 is a half-human with wolf-like traits but not very good at fighting, and even after the wolf personality emerges and completes the mission for her, someone still needs to clean up the mess and carry her away.

3905 was originally tall and sturdy, with a fierce appearance and a volatile personality. Due to its rabbit-like characteristics, its attack power was low, but its running ability was improved. Therefore, the two can also be complementary partners.

3905 is 3904's best friend, and has risked his life to save her countless times when she was on the verge of death.

And so, the world's best pair of partners left the place that created them and began their escape.

But at that time, the whole world had been overrun and conquered by infected beings, whose abilities far surpassed theirs.

Despair always arrives before hope.

3904 only remembered that the food was gone and the magic power in her body was almost exhausted... Those evolved Kaba were too difficult to capture, and they could not obtain food to survive.

3905 fell into a weakened state earlier than her and developed a high fever that very night.

In order for 3905 to survive, 3904 went alone to hunt down the Kaba that appeared near the camp. The difference in strength was too great. Even with her werewolf personality emerging, she was still overwhelmed and left on the verge of death.

On the verge of death, 3905 used his last strength to save her.

And then...

They received Kaba organ transplants, meaning that some of their cells were able to provide life-sustaining energy to another half-human.

3904 looked up in a daze, and in his crimson vision was reflected the sky with a huge crack in it. Beyond the world was a chaotic rainbow of colors, and looking at it for too long only made him feel dizzy.

Then she lost consciousness.

When she regained consciousness again, it was in this world, inside Ayasa Terasaki's magic clinic.

As she recalled what she had eaten, the warm touch, and that final smile, her mind began to break down.

3904 wants to die.

But she can't.

In this world, death seems to have become a luxury. Sharp objects cannot pierce the skin, jumping from buildings is supported by magic, and physical collapse is prevented by magical doctors.

The rules of this world do not allow her to commit suicide.

That's why she asked Mayumi Haga for help.

Mayumi Haga was the only person who made her feel the approach of death, and judging from the scent on her, she was also a visitor from another world like herself.

In other words, the other party is not bound by the rules of this world to a certain extent.

3904 then approached Mayumi Haga, pleading with her to bring her relief.

Language barrier was not a problem. The moment 3904 revealed that suicidal look in his eyes, Yuga Mayumi, who was all too familiar with it, knew what the other party wanted.

But she didn't agree immediately.

Faced with a visitor from another world who was emotionally broken and wanted to die, she didn't mind letting him go, but she also knew that the information he could bring was very important.

The previous 3904 was irrational and difficult to talk to, had almost no memory of his own world, and was seriously injured, so it was difficult to get information out of him.

3904 is now the most suitable person to talk to.

However, considering the tolerance levels of Hitomi Tono and Akari Arisu (the real name of Magical Girl Azumi, in case readers forget), Mayumi Haga felt it would be better to interrogate 3904 separately.

So, after asking Terasaki Ayasa for the magical item for telepathic communication, she sent everyone away.

Arisu Akari was still very wary, but 3904 himself did not show any refusal, and even seemed a little eager. Moreover, the Guardian promised not to kill 3904 at this time, so she reluctantly followed him out.

"So, tell me now, what exactly is polluting your world?" Mayumi Haga put the mind communication device, shaped like a doctor's stethoscope, on her ear, and pressed the other end against 3904's chest, asking calmly.

This is what she most wants to know.

The world is facing external crises... This can't be the norm.

The events that 3904 experienced in her world were so similar to those in her own that she couldn't ignore them.

"I don't know what that is either. I only know that the researchers called it 'Type 7 pollution,'" 3904 said, trying to recall.

That strange virus came from outside the world.

This is exactly the same as a calamity.

However, the harms they cause are very different.

Calamities directly devour life and soul, while the virus is highly contagious. Infected individuals evolve rapidly by consuming the flesh and blood of others... similar to raising a venomous insect.

But if we think about it from another perspective, is this kind of "breeding" invasion intended to quickly concentrate all resources on a small number of life forms?

It can both improve efficiency and undermine resistance from within.

This seems to be more intelligent than the calamities that Mayumi Haga was familiar with.

Main text: Chapter 182 Eat Me!

However, Mayumi Haga did not sense any aura of calamity from 3904.

What she could sense was a different, more unpleasant aura, one that was more aggressive.

If the calamities that Mayumi Haga constantly faced always carried the stench of corpses, then this was an overwhelming, intoxicating stench of blood.

Upon hearing the words "virus" and "highly contagious," Mayumi Haga's expression became even more serious.

She frowned, thinking:

Sure enough, this visitor from another world carried a virus.

Fortunately, this child-friendly world seems to have kept the virus out as well. The air is always clean, and any virus that 3904 might have carried was eliminated after arriving in this world.

Although she didn't particularly like the world's harmonious rule of turning her self-destructive material into orange juice, she was grateful for its existence at times like this.

Excessively impactful flesh and blood, as well as pathogenic viruses, were classified as filth that needed to be harmonized, and were therefore excluded from this world and did not come here with 3904.

Thank goodness.

According to 3904's account, Mayumi Haga is certain that the viral contamination from outside the world that the other party mentioned is something similar to, or perhaps of the same origin as, the calamity.

Driven by their instinct to devour worlds, these creatures invade other worlds to hunt for their very essence, ultimately leading to the destruction of those worlds.

Of course, this is just her deduction.

After all, this is just a conjecture based on 3904's narrative and her personal experience.

Having understood all this, new worries arose in Mayumi Haga's heart.

Calamity... and this virus, seem to foreshadow the approach of some behemoth.

She knew this magical world possessed gods, but at the same time, no one knew what kind of enemy they would be facing. It would be ideal to have other sources of information, but after the last calamity, the world's barriers had been sealed.

We can only make a judgment based on the information provided by the increasing number of visitors from other worlds that have been arriving since the beginning of the day.

At this point, I can only hope that my worries are just unfounded.

Mayumi Haga felt heavy-hearted, and even her gaze towards 3904 became subdued.

3904 seemed to sense that it was about to die, and moved closer, trembling.

Mayumi Haga's eyes flickered slightly: "Not here."

3904 was taken aback.

"This is a hospital," Mayumi Haga said. After learning about 3904's past, she was no longer in such a hurry to kill him.