Two Worlds, Starting with Kaguya of Penglai Mountain

Yukari Yakumo, who wants to join Kurokawa Kazuya's camp, has no intention of using any tricks.

Besides trusted individuals, researchers are also among the groups with the right to know the core secrets of an organization.

After all, there always needs to be someone who studies secret techniques and develops them further.

Yukari Yakumo wanted to portray such a brilliant researcher.

In fact, she doesn't need to act much, because this is who she is in her youthful form.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Well, this thing is indeed countless times more exquisite than the things outside. What you see is just a replica made to simulate its function."

Yukari Yakumo: "Then why not copy it? If this thing is the same type of thing as the steam engine outside, it should be mass-produced, at most at a higher cost."

Kaguya Houraisan: "Wow~ she seems to be a truly skilled expert."

The princess on the moon narrowed her eyes slightly as she looked at Yakumo Yukari in front of her.

At this moment, Yukari Yakumo, who was using the alias Merry, raised her head and met the other person's gaze without any hesitation.

Yukari Yakumo: "Did I say something wrong?"

Kaguya Houraisan: "You're right, but with our current capabilities, no one can create a version of this thing that is entirely composed of ordinary matter."

Yukari Yakumo: "Are you kidding me?"

The blonde girl wore a disdainful expression.

This is a world where any monster can manipulate concepts to some extent.

Take Yukari Yakumo herself as an example; she is able to manipulate the concept of realm inversion.

The phenomena that extraordinary power can achieve are far beyond imagination. Now, this being from the moon is telling her that she cannot create what she sees with her current extraordinary power.

If it can't even achieve supernatural power, then how can it be called a mass-producible thing?

Is the other person just teasing her?

Seeing the other party's expression, Kaguya Houraisan shook her head.

She raised her head and glanced at Kurokawa Kazuya: "I'm tired of talking to you, you idiot. Kurokawa, you can talk for me."

Kazuya Kurokawa: "..."

Kurokawa Kazuya: "Your Highness, you've already done all the pretense you needed to put on, and now you're finding the explanations too troublesome, so you're just going to dump them on me."

He started to complain to Kaguya Houraisan, who had suddenly handed the initiative to him.

Kaguya Houraisan: "Really? I'm clearly creating opportunities for you to spend more time with beautiful girls, so hurry up and get on it!"

As she spoke, she stepped forward and patted Kurokawa Kazuya on the shoulder, looking very encouraging.

Kurokawa Kazuya rolled his eyes at this, then turned his gaze to the blonde girl standing in front of him.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "Miss Merry."

Yukari Yakumo: "Just call me Merry."

Gently brushing aside her golden hair, the girl wearing a white beret looked calmly at Kurokawa Kazuya.

Yukari Yakumo: "So now can I know why you say this machine can be mass-produced? You clearly have the answer, but you leave a seeker of knowledge aside and refuse to answer. This is the greatest torment."

She spoke of her feelings in a calm yet composed tone.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "It's not that computer parts can't be manufactured, but rather that there are too many knowledge points involved in these processes. Roughly speaking..."

He looked at the blonde girl in front of him and pondered for a moment: "Miss Meryl, have you ever seen the houses where those important people live in Heian-kyo? How long do you think it would take for someone to teach a monkey to build such a house without any tools?"

Yukari Yakumo: "Is this even comparable?"

Kazuya Kurokawa: "Yes, because when facing this machine, we are the monkey."

After carefully considering his words, he continued, "If a monkey wants to build a house from scratch, it needs to learn how to cut down trees, whittle wood, make wood lacquer, prevent decay, learn about house structures, mortise and tenon joints, and the process of laying foundations, and so on. Monkeys can learn all of these things with human assistance, but the time it takes for them to learn all of these things and actually build the house is simply too long."

Kazuya Kurokawa: "From my perspective, this thing that I call a computer involves countless times more knowledge than a house."

If the powers of superhumans were combined and complemented each other, could they create a computer in this era?

It's highly likely that it's possible, but this would not only take an unimaginable amount of time, but also require Kurokawa and Mi to completely disclose all the information they have to each other.

After all, there are just too many knowledge points involved in this.

He must be out of his mind to do something like that; he wanted to go home, not kill himself.

If he lets a group of people know his secrets and freely search for information on the modern internet, he probably won't see the sun rise tomorrow.

Yukari Yakumo: "Then what's the evidence?"

No matter how appealing the words are, they are meaningless.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "You just mentioned to Kaguya that you can see the boundaries of things from a perspective I can't see. Kaguya just told me some possibilities..."

He pointed to the computer beside him.

Kazuya Kurokawa: "You can open it and try the game inside. If you can see through its operating mechanism, you'll probably understand that this thing is mass-produced. But if you don't believe me after that, there's nothing I can do."

Regarding the cell phone that came with him from another time, Kurokawa Kazuya had no intention of showing it to the newcomer.

After all, the two sides are not familiar with each other yet, and it's always better to be cautious with this kind of research-oriented, knowledge-obsessed person.

Yukari Yakumo: "Is that so?"

The blonde girl nodded.

Without hesitation, she accepted Kaguya Houraisan and Kazuya Kurokawa's invitation and sat down in the chair in front of the computer desk.

The screen lights up, and at this point, a normal person should see the game startup screen.

However, from Yakumo Yukari's perspective, she saw countless flowing strings of text.

How to describe that scenery?

Within a being composed of pure energy, there is a being composed of countless strings, meshing tightly like gears and constantly changing.

Imagine the thing made up of countless characters as a fish, and the computer in front of you as the water.

Fish can only survive in water.

Now, Kurokawa and his companions have materialized a virtual computer, allowing the game, a fish called code, to swim and change within it.

Even for the well-traveled Yukari Yakumo, that scene was something she had never seen before.

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Chapter 59 Kaguya: Let's Go to the Moon!

Melodious music filled the air.

The image on the screen overlapped with the code image from another perspective in Yukari Yakumo's eyes.

The original title of "Tales of Kaguya" was "Princess Knight".

The game's start screen features a tranquil lakeside at night.

A samurai dressed in black kneeled on one knee before a princess dressed in a magnificent twelve-layered kimono.

A golden full moon hung overhead, its light illuminating their reflections in the lake.

As Yukari Yakumo followed the tutorial and pressed the screen with the controller, ripples appeared on the lake's surface. The princess bestowed a blessing upon the samurai kneeling before her, radiating a faint light.

The visuals gradually become blurry, and the game enters its prologue.

Yukari Yakumo, who can see everything directly from the code perspective, doesn't even need any so-called guidance.

She easily grasped the basic controls of the game.

Move left and right, jump, slash, and slow down time.

However, she still has to go through the teaching process.

The plot of the prologue is quite simple.

One day, a boy living in the countryside was playing with a girl he liked who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Suddenly, several figures appeared suspended high in the sky above the bright moon.

They were dressed in colorful feathered robes.

They stood atop the clouds, looking down at the ground with disdain, while text popped up in a box above their heads.

"You were once a celestial being, banished to earth for stealing the elixir of immortality. Yet now you cling to this defiled land, refusing to return; such blasphemy will condemn you to eternal damnation."

As the words were spoken, two ribbons shot down from above the clouds, binding the girl tightly and pulling her upwards.

The high and mighty celestial beings announced the girl's, or rather the princess's, crimes and declared that they would be captured and imprisoned in the moon forever.

The princess, who had been helped up, reached out her hand to the boy on the ground.

The boy immediately tried to rush forward to save his childhood sweetheart, but was casually shoved to the ground by the Moon Lord.

"Kill him."

The celestial being, whose attire clearly distinguished him from the others, gave a word to his subordinates and then, with the princess bound by ribbons, flew towards the heavens.

The figure on the cloud quickly drifted away, leaving only a celestial being who appeared to be of the lowest status, holding a long sword as he jumped down to the earth.

This is an exceptionally standard depiction of a burly man wielding a tall, crescent-shaped halberd, resembling a general.

On the map placed horizontally in the center of the screen, the protagonist, dressed in linen shirts, stands on either side, while the burly general is shown in a close-up, highlighting the stark difference between them.

It must be said that illusionists are best at creating this kind of powerful and oppressive image.

"Let me come into contact with the filth of the earth, you vile earthly beings, please die quickly."

Without any hesitation, accompanied by rousing background music, the battle begins.

[“Go to hell!!!”]

An explosion-shaped frame popped out from the burly man's head.

He charged toward the protagonist.

The screen then displays a tutorial, instructing players to hold down the ZL button to use the "time slowdown" ability.

As expected, Yukari Yakumo pressed the button immediately.

The charging samurai slowed to a snail's pace.

An arrow appears in the upper right corner of the screen, pointing to a blue bar. The blue bar is lengthening and decreasing as "time slows down".

As expected, when the mana bar is empty, the character will no longer be able to activate the "time slowdown" ability.

At the same time, as the arrow appeared, the corresponding attack button popped up on the screen.

Yukari Yakumo followed suit and pressed the button.

The movements on the screen, including the protagonist's movements, are still slow at this point.

But when Yukari Yakumo pressed the "time slow down" button, everything became incredibly fast, happening in the blink of an eye.

On the screen, the samurai's figure vanished instantly, indicating that his speed had exceeded the range visible to the protagonist.

But the protagonist had already chosen the perfect angle to swing his sword as the enemy charged at him, and so—

Pfft!!!

The sound of flesh being pierced echoed on the screen.

The charging samurai was instantly cut in two by the protagonist's sword.

The protagonist stands beside the corpse, looking up at the now empty and dark sky, where a golden full moon rises from the horizon.

Why did Kaguya stop me from acting? Was there something else going on?

Swinging the long knife in his hand, flicking the blood onto the ground, the protagonist's mind went through this mental activity.

At the same time, the image on the screen began to flicker.

That was the scene right after the Lunarians arrived.