"I only told you to bring back the wandering children from the city, and you ended up bringing back someone else's Initiator?"
Takatsuki looked at Enju, who was still tied up and struggling, with a speechless expression. Because of the Herrscher of Sentience's overly erratic personality, Takatsuki had assigned her this task to prevent her from causing trouble here, but she still managed to cause trouble for him.
She even brought back the protagonist's partner from the anime.
If Enju was brought back, what would the protagonist even fight for?
Although Takatsuki didn't care about the original plot of this world and didn't have much affection for Rentaro, it felt a bit wrong to just screw over a generation's protagonist like this.
"Didn't I see that she was also a Cursed Child? Although she's someone else's Initiator, these children surely aren't fighting those monsters willingly, right?"
What Senti said was indeed true. Besides a madman like Hiruko Kagetane, who would willingly fight monsters?
Let alone these children.
They had only one reason to fight: only through fighting could they prove their own worth.
Although Takatsuki didn't need them to fight, their long-standing life experiences led them to make such a decision themselves.
"Never mind, you handle it for now. I have other things to do. If it's really not working out, just hand it over to Kouro and the others to deal with."
Among the children brought back initially, the smarter ones with leadership talents subtly became the children's leaders. With Takatsuki busy setting up his plans worldwide recently, matters within the base could only be left to the children to handle.
"Are you going abroad again? By the way, why don't we just move the base there directly?"
Takatsuki didn't elaborate on his plans to Senti, as she wasn't the type to think things through, but since she asked, he still briefly explained.
"No, it's right near Tokyo. A Stage Five Zodiac Gastrea will be here soon, and I need to deal with it."
Takatsuki paused, then continued: "Because compared to other countries, the leaders here are the most difficult to communicate with, so I have to stay here temporarily."
Although only three or four days had passed in real time, Takatsuki had actually experienced half a year in this world.
During this half-year, he had paused time, constantly traveling and creating puppets in the time-stopped world.
After gathering the children at first, Takatsuki considered ways to complete the mission. Aside from the simplest and most brutal surface cleansing, he found a better method, but the prerequisite for this method was to have sufficient influence.
Over a dozen Heroic Spirits slept within his Throne of Heroes, among whom Takatsuki most wanted to awaken three great scientists.
MEI, Mobius, and Vill-V.
Although he summoned Mobius once a day using the Multiverse Card, allowing her to begin research on the Gastrea virus first.
But as Mobius had said during their previous argument, that amount of time was simply not enough to accomplish anything, and they were completely unfamiliar with Gastrea; everything had to start from scratch.
This was also why he sought out Sumire, wanting to win her over.
As for why he didn't directly use his Stand ability to control her, it was naturally because what he wanted was not a puppet.
Takatsuki believed Sumire would make the right choice.
Therefore, if he wanted to thoroughly research the Gastrea virus and find a countermeasure, there were two prerequisites: one, someone local who understood the Gastrea virus very well, and two, a method to allow Heroic Spirits to descend for prolonged periods.
So, he used puppet-making techniques in the time-stopped world to create puppets of historical figures, endowed them with virtual personalities through his Stand ability, and then took them all over the world to emerge and resolve the Gastrea threats, establishing protected areas for the Cursed Children in their names.
This was very effective in other countries, as Gastrea were persecuting people all over the world.
The emergent Heroic Spirits irresistibly resolved crises in various places, and aside from demanding preferential treatment for Cursed Children due to their inherent sense of justice, they had no other demands, making them truly selfless. They were instantly welcomed by other countries worldwide.
Only in this island nation did Takatsuki's method fail.
To resolve the Gastrea problem as quickly as possible, announce the existence of Heroic Spirits, bolster public confidence, and build up their legendary status, direct communication with local leaders was the best approach.
Most leaders supported this action because, in their eyes, these Heroic Spirits would not contend with them for any rights, nor did they require any additional material aid, and they could also protect their safety. Most importantly, their legends and fame could stabilize the social system that had been on edge due to Gastrea, making it an absolutely ideal choice.
However, in this island nation, they had different ideas.
Their original education promoted hatred towards Gastrea and Cursed Children, and by controlling public opinion, they blinded the people, making them feel that they were living in peace and prosperity, unaware of any crisis.
This deceptive method could stabilize social morale in normal times, but if Heroic Spirits appeared now, it would be equivalent to tearing apart all the false things they had done, as if admitting that they had deceived everyone.
This was not recognized by them, so in this nation, Takatsuki met with failure without exception.
Takatsuki recalled the plot of Black Bullet and finally understood why it was like this.
He remembered a very powerful villainous organization called the Five Wings Syndicate when he read the original work.
Originally, Takatsuki thought it was a large multinational organization, but later, spoilers from fellow enthusiasts revealed that it was actually a local organization in this island nation.
Most of its leaders were the leaders of various human settlements in the island nation.
And their objective was simple and idiotic: while humanity was still being suppressed by Gastrea, they were already planning to invade other countries after defeating Gastrea, even creating Gastrea that were not afraid of Varanium weapons to invade other countries.
With external enemies surrounding them, they were already thinking of internal strife. This country was truly beyond saving in every sense of the word.
So, when facing such a place, the simplest way to make it conform to one's own ideas was to destroy and reshape the current rules.
Although this was a bit unfair to the current ruler of the Tokyo Area, the Seitenshi, she had no way to make decisions based on her personal will in this Tokyo Area. So, if that was the case, let someone else do it.