chapter 48

Ryusuke got up from the bed and he headed towards the unconscious Fu Hua who was lying on the floor. He was carrying Jizo Mitama in his left hand. 

How was it possible that Fu Hua fell into this helpless state so easily? The reason for this is quite simple. 

She was drugged with a strong sleeping pill. 

But how was she drugged? She was certainly lending to her surroundings, she is a MANTIS so she has much sharper senses than normal humans. So why did she end up like that?

Ryusuke used the powers of the Herrscher of Corruption, one of the Herrscher of Corruption's powers is biological modification. This ability allows the modification of anything biological, the Herrscher of Corruption used this ability to modify diseases to make them even more serious or to cause terrible mutations in the bodies of their victims.

Ryusuke used this skill in his blood and he made two changes. First he modified some parts of his blood to make his blood a sleeping pill powerful enough to deal even with a MANTIS. The second modification was to make his blood odorless and colorless like water. The changes only started after his blood was out of his body. 

Two hours before Fu Hua arrived, Ryusuke cut his right wrist and he started filling a few bottles with his blood, he needed six bottles of soda which made him have to spill 12 liters of blood from his body. Usually a normal adult has an average of 5 liters of blood on his body, Ryusuke who is still a child so he still has a smaller amount of blood. So why didn't he die after bleeding all that blood?

The reason for this was Serenity Gem, Ryusuke used the powers of Serenity Gem to continue replenishing all the blood he shed. Fortunately Ryusuke has excellent control over Serenity Gem allowing him to continue to regenerate his blood without any problems. 

Honestly the feeling of continuing to lose a lot of blood was very disturbing for Ryusuke. Even though he managed to replenish his blood through Serenity Gem, this was still a pretty unpleasant experience for him, be it the feeling of weakness that his body had when losing so much blood or psychological fear that he may end up dying from a small slip in his concentration, it put a lot of pressure on him.

He only managed to overcome this with his willpower, otherwise he would have given up on this insane action early on. 

Yae Sakura was horrified when she saw the bottles filled with blood. She went crazy with anger over Ryusuke's insane action and she started giving him long sermons. When she asked him why he did something so crazy, Ryusuke couldn't lie to her. Then Ryusuke started to explain about MANTIS that he was watching the house from afar and that that person would probably come to that house that night or the next day. 

After the long sermon by Yae Sakura, Kallen and Yae Rin who saw everything but could do nothing to stop Ryusuke from doing that insanity. Ryusuke then began to place the bottles with colorless blood in places hidden around the house. He left the bottle caps open to let the scent of the sleeping pill spread around the house. The sleeping pill that is coming out of the bottles is still in an inactive state, even if other people enter his house they will not be affected by breathing the sleeping pill. The missing component to activate the sleeping pill at full power is two separate bottles that are inside Ryusuke and Yae Sakura's room. As soon as the intruder enters these rooms, the sleeping pill will be activated immediately, making that person fall asleep immediately. 

Obviously Ryusuke delivered the antidote to Yae Sakura beforehand. 

After several hours waiting, the intruder finally entered Ryusuke's room. And this woman fell asleep almost instantly. 

Ryusuke got up from his bed and approached the unconscious woman on the floor. The woman appeared to be about 17 or 18 years old, she had long bluish gray hair tied on a ponytail that reaches to the waist. 

When Ryusuke saw the appearance of this woman along with the fact that she was a MANTIS it was quite obvious what this woman's identity is. 

*sigh * "I never imagined that the first time I would meet Fu Hua would be in a situation like this when she would break into my room in the middle of the night. That was unimaginable..." Ryusuke was a little surprised that things happened like that. He always imagined that he would know her in some other more normal way.

Fu Hua is one of the central characters in the game Honkai Impact 3rd, she is one of the characters he likes most, whether for her story, her personality or her gameplay. The version he likes most is that of Senti-chan ( Herrscher of Sentience ) he really thinks Senti-chan is incredible. It is a pity that he did not get her at Gacha in his past life. 

Ryusuke then started searching Fu Hua's clothes, after searching her clothes he found two things. 

"Great, with that I'm one step closer to getting Rin-San and Kallen-san to relive." Ryusuke had a satisfied smile. He didn't expect Fenghuang Down to come into his hands anytime soon. 

The reason Ryusuke stole Serenity Gem was not just to help Welt, it was also to resurrect Yae Rin and Kallen. With Serenity Gem Ryusuke would be able to recreate the bodies of Yae Rin and Kallen from a genetic sample of them. This feat was already shown when Sirin recreated her mother's body with the power of Serenity Gem, but unfortunately although it is possible to recreate the body it is not possible to bring the soul back. The bodies recreated by Serenity Gem are just empty bodies without a soul. 

But that is not a problem for Ryusuke because he has the consciences of Yae Rin and Kallen. Unfortunately Ryusuke has no Kallen genetic material so he cannot recreate her body. But he has Yae Rin's genetic material. Yae Sakura always kept with her an omamori that Yae Rin gave her when she was a child, inside this Omamori there was a lock of hair from Yae Rin. Yae Rin gave this Omamori to Yae Sakura so that she wouldn't miss her, Yae Sakura did the same for Yae Rin.

( What are Omamori: Japanese amulets and talismans are known as omamori. The word literally means protection or defense, and these items are intended to offer protection against a wide range of problems and uncertainties such as illness, fire, painful births, shipwrecks and other misfortunes.)

With this lock of hair Ryusuke can recreate Yae Rin's body but before he had no method to transfer her consciousness to the new body, but now he has Fenghuang Down so he can take another step towards that goal. 

'Unfortunately I don't know how to use Fenghuang Down so I'm going to have to ask for Fu Hua's cooperation later. Which may not be easy.' Ryusuke thought while he was watching Fenghuang Down. 

"Shit, so Otto already knows the location of my house?" Ryusuke was a little worried and distressed. 

The second thing Ryusuke found was the communication device that Fu Hua had with her, Ryusuke needed 1 minutes to access that device and he discovered the message Fu Hua sent to Otto before she came to Ryusuke's house. 

'Now what do I do?' Ryusuke had his hand on his chin while he thought of his next steps. 

Ryusuke thought about using Fu Hua to give Otto false information so he wouldn't go to his house. But he dismissed the idea. Because Otto is an intelligent madman, he would be able to see if Fu was lying about it.

And there is also the possibility that Fu Hua will pass a secret signal to Otto talking about Ryusuke during the broadcast. 

Although Ryusuke likes Fu Hua he has to admit that she has made a lot of shitty decisions in her life, one of those decisions was to blindly follow Otto's orders. Although at first she needed to do this for Schicksal to protect Shenzhou against Honkai. And the end result of that silly decision was that she was shot in the head by Otto Apocalypse. If only she had managed to understand a little of his madness, would things have ended differently?

Ryusuke is a little concerned about what to do with Fu Hua, he doesn't know what relationship she had with the Herrscher of Binding from the Previous Era, whether it was friendly or not. He also doesn't know how much she remembered the Previous Age so it becomes a little difficult to want to trust Fu Hua. 

'I can't trust Fu Hua to trick Otto, and I also don't pretend to be Fu Hua to deceive him because Otto would notice when I'm not Fu Hua at the same time.' Ryusuke thought. 

After thinking for a minute about various methods to deceive Otto, Ryusuke came to the conclusion that it will be very difficult. Even if he manages to deceive Otto, it will not prevent him from coming because of problems at Ryusuke's door later. Thus...

"So I think I have no other choice..." Ryusuke was determined, he knew that after that night there would be no turning back. But since things will be like this then it is better that he has the initiative to act. 

Ryusuke then activated the communication device in video call mode. After 10 seconds the device screen changed to show a man with long blond hair tied to a tail of hair that is over his left shoulder and he has green eyes. This man is Otto Apocalypse. 

Otto stood his eyebrow a little surprised that it was not Fu Hua who contacted him but an unknown boy. Otto opened his mouth to try to speak but Ryusuke spoke before him.

"I don't want this conversation to take too long because I want to sleep, so I'll be straightforward. I want you to help me with Kallen-san's resurrection."

This short sentence made Otto keep his eyes wide and open-mouthed. Of all the possibilities he thought he would hear from the boy he never imagined he would hear about Kallen's resurrection.