Chapter 506: Enough, My Heart Aches for Her! Master Kucha Has Another Plot Twist?
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Sometimes,
Text can deliver an even more powerful visual impact than images!
For example,
Right now.
Little Gui almost forgot she was live-streaming the story.
Looking at the line of text appearing on the screen,
She felt an inexplicable chill run down her spine!
It felt as if ants were crawling on her neck!
Making all her hair stand on end!
[ The collar around your neck emits a powerful electric current, like a thousand sharp needles piercing through your flesh and blood, as if countless bombs are detonating inside your body. Your heart begins to quiver at an abnormal rate, and countless sounds ring in your ears—even the sound of proton decay. ]
In the background, there was also the sound of crackling electricity and ringing ears.
For players, this was just a fleeting shock.
But for Rappa, this was a genuine, excruciating pain she had actually experienced!
"Osu! After these three thousand nights of ascetic training, I shall become as omnipotent… as a Ninja Hero."
Her voice even carried a tremble and a sob.
She was already crying from the pain!
Yet she still comforted herself like this!
"Rappa's voice… my heart hurts so much listening to it…"
Next,
There was the so-called third trial of cultivation.
Named… Subduing Ten Thousand Demons.
In reality,
It was a battle against the laboratory's combat apes to test her physical strength.
After a bout of fighting.
The combat ape evaluated: "Subject No. 3, Grade-level experiment passed… Rating increased…"
"As the 'Galactic Ninja Scrolls' say… the Ninja Way is long and arduous; treat suffering as a skateboard…"
"Osu! After these three thousand nights of ascetic training, I shall become as matchless… as a Ninja Hero."
[ Ascetic training completed! Meet Master Kucha for the second time! ]
Seeing this quest prompt,
Even Little Gui couldn't take it anymore!
She slammed her hand hard on the desk!
Shaking the screen violently!
"Enough! My heart bleeds for her!"
......
On-site at Paperfold University.
Some players with weaker emotional tolerance were already bursting into tears.
They ached for Rappa on one hand,
While cursing those bastards from the AtaviSearch Forest to high heaven on the other!
Several young ninja fangirls were sobbing uncontrollably at this point.
The atmosphere at the scene became extremely gloomy for a time.
Almost everyone resonated deeply with Rappa in the story.
Yet as the person involved,
Rappa appeared surprisingly calm.
She even turned around to comfort the players at the scene instead.
"Everyone, please do not grieve over my past."
"As the 'Galactic Ninja Scrolls' say… a sharp blade must be honed, and fine jade must be carved…"
"Without such trials, how could I have become the Dazzling Ninja Hero of today?"
"Hunting the vile Sinful Ninjas… across the galaxy?"
When the fangirls heard this,
They cried even harder!
"Waaah…"
"Sister Rappa, you are too gentle!!"
"I understand now. What I admired wasn't ninjas at all, but such an indomitable Ninja Heart like yours, Miss Rappa!"
"So, so… how did you escape from that laboratory—no, from the Capital of Ninjas?"
Rappa looked toward the big screen.
The figure of Master Kucha appeared.
"You will know that very soon."
"Master Kucha, he…"
"Was a true master."
Hearing this,
Everyone was stunned for a moment!
Wasn't Master Kucha the one who had been deceiving Rappa all along?
Shouldn't Rappa hate this fake master?
Could it be…
There's another twist!?
......
In the control room ahead.
Master Kucha was conversing with Umbra Headmistress.
Umbra Headmistress asked: "Using a memetic virus on Subject No. 3… how does that help the experiment?"
"Hearing so clearly… Has my super-hearing already captured the whispers of ninjas? Truly a cause for celebration," Rappa mused.
Master Kucha replied: "Umbra Headmistress, we need to increase Subject No. 3's mental resistance."
"Don't beat around the bush. You just can't stand seeing her suffer, can you?"
Master Kucha fell silent for a moment, then sighed: "She might not survive the upcoming experiments. If we use a memetic virus for cognitive intervention to keep her mental state stable, the experiments will go much smoother."
"Fine, but don't let personal feelings get involved. You let Subject No. 3 wander around everywhere, and the research apes are already complaining."
"She decoded the pod's password in just two system hours. We can't keep her locked in a cage like an ape…"
Rappa shook her head and muttered to herself: "Master need not fret. Mere physical pain cannot shatter my Ninja Soul."
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"Silly Rappa, why are you still worrying about someone else's troubles at a time like this!"
"So this was when the memetic virus was engraved onto her…"
"By the way, did Master Kucha really do this just for Rappa's mental stability?"
"Could he really have harbored a bit of personal affection?"
"Without this Ninja Memetic Virus, Rappa probably wouldn't have survived what came after."
...
Soon,
The engraving of the memetic virus was completed.
Umbra Headmistress asked: "By the way, why ninjas?"
"It's the 'Galactic Ninja Scrolls'."
"What's that?"
"To protect the helpless weak and save the fallen Capital of Ninjas, righteous Ninja Heroes hunt down the Sinful Ninjas of the world!"
Master Kucha sighed:
"—It's a manga. Ever since we sealed off the research institute to avoid the Galaxy Rangers, the manga books I collected were the only entertainment she could get."
...
"I really feel like Master Kucha actually cared about Rappa here!"
"A research ape with a lingering conscience…"
"Finally seeing the true Capital of Ninjas for the first time, no longer just playing house."
"So, all the ninja parts before this were just a little girl using reality-escaping fantasies under various experiments."
"Before the memetic virus, Rappa was just comforting herself with chuunibyou copium using the manga she read, while knowing full well she was a test subject. After the memetic virus, the world in her eyes truly turned into a ninja world. She knew it was a virus, but while accepting her fate, she unyieldingly wrote her own Ninja Scrolls of vengeance."
"Sob sob sob…"
"The so-called Ninja World was Rappa's only spiritual sanctuary…"
"I thought Rappa calling herself a ninja was just chuunibyou, but those Ninja Scrolls were actually the only splash of color in her memories!"
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Umbra Headmistress became increasingly dissatisfied: "No wonder Subject No. 3 is always acting crazy…"
"I advise you to be careful and stop feeding her useless knowledge. The coordinate system of Erudition has only one horizontal axis; anything else is an obstacle to progress."
"Especially vulgar concepts of good and evil. Do you think the trouble brought by the Galaxy Rangers isn't enough already?"
She crossed her arms,
Adding in a posture of a superior: "With such narrow-minded thinking, don't ever dream of catching the Doctor's attention in your life."
Master Kucha gave a bitter smile.
He looked at Rappa inside the laboratory,
And whispered:
"Is that so? Does the Doctor… really care about us mortals?"
...
"Kucha sees through things so clearly!"
"And as a result, Rappa ended up becoming a Galaxy Ranger."
"Since walking the Path of Erudition won't gain the Doctor's attention, I'll just walk the Hunt instead!"
"Kucha: I still prefer being a 'human', well… in every sense of the word."
"Dr. Primitive probably just tossed some technology to mortals willing to follow him, without caring about their results at all. After all, the gap between mortals and geniuses is truly insurmountable."
"Since Dr. Primitive can use others for experiments, he can naturally use you guys for experiments too!"
"Following Dr. Primitive of all people, your life is truly done for."