Chapter 63: The Path of a Madman

After seeing Rin and Kaede's actions I came to a conclusion.

"Those brats need discipline and training" - I shook my head.

Rin did not consider the instability factor of the idiot with a gun, if Kaede was not attentive then Rin would have died due to her not being able to control her own mouth.

Well, I had Navi get in the bullet's path anyway so Rin would be fine but it's still a big oversight.

As for Kaede, she is too violent. Although I don't care if she enjoys torturing people the way Saeko does, at least Saeko makes sure she doesn't mess up the place and is learning interrogation techniques.

Well whatever, I'll let it pass this time since they are still children and have a lot to learn, the fact that Rin could endure the carnage scene while Kaede did not neglect the protection of women gives them some points.

"What do you think?" - I asked the other two judges.

"Hey Listen! As expected of the lolis of Harem King! An excellent job! " - Even though Navi was following the girls to see how they explained the situation to Saeko, he can still communicate with us.

It was an obvious answer from Navi, the idiot was laughing as Kaede ripped the men apart.

I wonder how it was that Navi became a psychopath, I know that I have killed several people in my homeworld but I did not resort to torture so I do not understand Navi's psychopathic tendencies.

"Nice" - Madness kept eating popcorn despite not having a face or mouth.

Like Navi, Madness had fun with the show with the difference that instead of cheering like Navi, Locura was barking.

This pair of idiots give me a headache, I need a partner who is at least humanoid and not a headache.

"I'll give them a 7 out of 10" - Despite the mistakes they made, they exceeded my expectations.

"Hey Listen! 10 out 10! Violence is the best argument! " - Navi is a bad judge because of his favoritism.

"10" - Madness is not good at this either.

Anyway, I am a bit proud of both girls, I thought they would cause a disaster that would force me to use the authority of King Diclonius to stop Kaede in the same way that I had to stop her when they brought me into a coma.

I need to get her a friend or something like that, the girl is too unstable and if I leave her unsupervised she might go crazy.

Kaede is too influenced by Diclonius instincts and starts to see humans as lower life forms, if I can't get her some playmates then Kaede will become a woman who can't relate to other people which will be a problem for stability from my harem, at least I should get her a friend.

She must be a non-human child or at least a hybrid, the Diclonius instincts are not a joke and if it weren't for my absurd Willpower statistic and insanity itself then I would have turned genocidal.

What to do ... Sayo is an option, but Kaede seems to hate her to the point of wanting to kill her.

At first, I was worried that Sayo would go crazy for Diclonius instincts but that nurse has given me one surprise after another.

Sayo became a Diclonius Queen at the same time that she kept the human part of her so the Diclonius instincts only make her want to reproduce with King Diclonius without the disadvantage of wanting to exterminate inferior beings.

I have to study Sayo's anatomy as she doesn't seem to have developed vectors like Kaede but her physical strength seems to be growing at an alarming rate.

In terms of brute strength, she should surpass me, if she trains properly she will be a great help in Kenichi's world.

For now, my main apprentices are Saeko, Kaede, Kurumi, Rei, Mikoto, Chikage, and Arashi.

This experience could help Takashi to stop being an idiot who only complains all day because I am sleeping with his mother, my stupid stepson has neglected his training and even got fooled by a group of idiots who thought they were just cool because Miku gave them some stupid empowerment ideas.

I have to train Takashi, I will not let one of my lovers have an incompetent child.

On the other hand, this event showed me that if I keep seducing up all the women I save then unhappy idiots will continue to appear who want to rebel.

Currently it was a minor problem since only 4 men and a girl rebelled, but if I want to build a country then the possibility of a revolutionary army is a nuisance.

I will have to look for more survivors, make a reward system where resources are distributed according to contributions and with those resources, both men and women will be able to find lovers.

If I make women be used as rewards it will be a problem since there are really strong and capable women like Yuko and Saeko, if I start policies that use women as a bargaining chip, it will only alienate potential allies, preventing good women from joining my harem on their own initiative.

Ah, I hate politics, I need someone skilled in human resource management, I already have a lot of headaches with so many mysterious enemies coming out of nowhere.

Saya mentioned that her mother Yuriko was a woman who built her own company, was a special forces agent and after marrying Soichiro it was she who brought prosperity to the Takagi family thanks to her human resource management skills and administration.

Before leaving for the hospital and ending up in a vegetative state, I was able to get close to Saya. It was easy, I just had to appeal to her ego by praising her, but without being a pathetic idiot who reveres the ground she walks on.

The point was to show her that I appreciate her intellect and her beauty but that even if she is not around I can solve most of the problems.

Saya's pride was hurt by noticing that her supposed genius mind was useless in an apocalyptic world as she couldn't even give first aid or form a defense plan to fortify the base.

If it weren't for I gave her the job of carrying out supply management then Saya would be even more useless than Takashi.

Saya is smart and she can see that I care about her by giving her an important position, if it weren't for her being more tsundere than Mikoto then she would have entered my harem by now.

The biggest reason I put up with her tsundere nonsense is that I need her to get Yuriko and although Saya lacks experience she is good at managing resources so with some practice Saya will be useful as an official of my future government.

Well, it's decided, when I wake up I'll go to the Takagi residence.

Saya is already quite attached to me, although she herself does not admit it. In the time that I have been unconscious, Saya and Mikoto have talked a bit more and started to develop a friendship.

Before the two women of them couldn't stand each other due to jealousy, but seeing me in a critical condition made both women overcome their differences and they got along surprisingly well.

In fact, many women who previously doubted whether or not to form a relationship with me are now convinced to enter my harem thanks to Shizuka's influence.

Normally when the support pillar falls, everyone panics and runs away. It was thanks to Shizuka's actions talking to the women and the increase in my weft armor that now all the women in the base in my harem, of course, not counting Enami which I will get rid of in the Takagi mansion.

Neither does the hospital staff count as they have just arrived, but my dear Shizuka has already started working on them.

I definitely love that woman.

Maybe it's because of the plot armor I've gathered, but falling into a coma has brought me quite a few benefits.

I got Sayo who is not only hot and wants to have sex with me even without knowing me, she has the potential to become an unstoppable armored tank and if I can study her berserker status maybe I can improve my own Berserker skill to get a regeneration similar to Sayo.

My harem keeps growing while I do literally nothing. When Yuko found out that I have a harem she didn't bother and seems to want to keep her word to have a date with me, she even talked it over with her sister named Yoko who is also one of my main targets for her body that rivals Shizuka.

My growth potential is greater because I discovered a new way to break my human limits through black blood and Rasen, although that brought a decrease in my humanity.

[Race: Human (97.9%)> (89%)]

Well, it's not that I care to remain human so it doesn't matter.

My humanity dropped so low as my black heart has not only been pumping blood and Rasen through my body, now 90% of my blood is black while the Madness energy grew from 28% to 49.9%.

It's disturbing, but Madness has helped me suppress the Diclonius instinct and strengthen me so I resigned myself to being mentally ill.

Since I accepted Madness as a companion, the sea of ​​blood that covers my Core of Existence has turned totally black, but I don't care anymore, I don't feel different.

The most important thing is that the Madness energy cannot continue to grow, there is a limit that prevents it from reaching 50%, and to break that limit I must take a path to my insanity.

Madness energy is a more complicated issue than just a mental problem, it is a disease of the soul that, if seen from another perspective, is the path of uncontrolled power.

Offering sanity in exchange for strength, that is the true nature of Madness energy.

How did I know all this?

The system gave me a notification when almost all of my blood turned black.

[Warning: Corruption of sanity at dangerous levels]

[Notification: The Will stat prevented complete corruption of sanity]

[Congratulations, as someone you managed to master the Madness energy acquired the title 'King of Lunatics']

[Title: King of Lunatics (20%)

Lord of the lunatics, ruler of the deranged, master of those who have abandoned reality and embraced the madness.

Like the King, madmen will be attracted to your illness, however, this is not always a good thing as a madman can stab who he loves or bite whom he respects]

It is a shitty title that will bring problems, but at the same time, it has great benefits.

First, I can identify the obsessions, fears, and disorders of other people, which will be useful to gather information.

If I had had this ability in my homeworld then I would not have slept with several crazy women who are now looking for me relentlessly.

Second, I can increase the madness in other people so that they fall into the depravity of their desires, drown in their fears, or be dominated by their obsessions. It affects the soul and reveals the deepest darkness of the people so it is difficult to resist and is an excellent tool to manipulate others.

Third and most importantly, as with the title of King Diclonius, I gained knowledge about the true essence of Madness energy and I must say that it is an absurd, sick, and wonderful power.

To sum it up, Madness is an energy that affects all living beings in the multiverse, but depending on the laws of each world, Madness is weaker or stronger.

It's the first time I've gotten information about the laws of the worlds so this alone would have been worth going crazy, but the best is the potential of Madness.

Madness adapts to each person, the one who fears will fall into the Madness of Fear which is the most infectious, it can infect those close to it and generates a gross increase in strength to try to destroy the source of fear obsessively destroying their own mind.

Someone who seeks knowledge at all costs will have the Madness of Knowledge where the person will access the dimension of knowledge which will cause his mind to not be able to process all the information becoming insane.

There are many other types of Insanity; Fury, order, death, power, there's even Breasts Madness.

As long as something can generate obsession or fear then it can generate Madness.

It has great potential, but with great cost, sanity and freedom.

Whoever uses Madness is condemned to be a prisoner of his own power, free will be lost and the person will only be a puppet of his Madness.

This is where the important thing comes in, there are two ways to avoid this.

1) Madness needs to obtain a conscience where it can dialogue.

This is perfect since all the mistreatment that I have done against Madness in the last few days has made him submissive, possibly I am the first person who thought of this method.

Wait, does that mean I'm crazier than my own Insanity? Whatever.

2) Have the power of love and friendship or power based on willpower.

The power of love and friendship is real, it works in tandem with the plot armor paired with rainbows, flowers, and that cheesy shit.

I'm not going to use that cheesy shit, instead, I have the embodiment of willpower, the Rasen.

The path Madness takes is something that cannot be chosen and occurs naturally, but Rasen allows me to oppose this rule.

Although my current Rasen is not enough to destroy the curse on my soul, it is more than enough to create another power that will allow me to manipulate my Insanity.

I don't know if I'm the first to take control of the Madness energy so I've been careful.

Rasen is the power to make the impossible possible, the power of dreamers who can manipulate probability.

My idea of ​​forcing the Insanity path has a 50% chance to fail and the normal Rasen won't help me as I'm a first-rate pessimist and I can't think that everything will work out just fine.

Instead of making the 50% positive probability go 100%, my idea is to make the 50% negative probability disappear.

Using my new knowledge about Madness and some basic laws of the world I used the Rasen to make new energy, a power based on pessimism, the energy to deny the possible, to make the already written destiny go to hell and deny the odds.

[New Energy: Anti-Rasen (1%)]

[Energy: Anti-Rasen (1%)

The natural order is a sham, fighting is useless, at the end of the road there is only emptiness and despair.

The power to destroy destiny, deny probability, and ruin dreams, a power fueled by denial.

The power of crying and resentful emo!]

Who wrote these stupid descriptions?!

NAVI!

"Hey Listen! This time it wasn't me! " - Navi knows me too well and knows when I want to hit him.

Whatever, I got what I wanted so now I just have to choose a path for Madness.

"Madness, which way would you like to take?" - I'm curious about his opinion.

"Harem Madness woof woof!" - Insanity keeps acting like a dog.

"Hey Listen! Netori Madness! " - I didn't ask for your opinion, Navi.

"Netori Madness woof!"

"Hey Listen! Netori Madness! "

...

I'm surrounded by idiots.