Shigure Kira was still young. Despite having roamed the Sea of Quanta for so long, she still retained a certain naive innocence.
She never imagined that the person before her would be so similar to the aliens attached to her body, both having abandoned their original forms.
But to say that Shigure Kira liked this form was a blatant lie.
And Noldrei's appearance was even less human. He had completely transformed into a mixture of flesh and inorganic matter, looking like a bizarre plate of spaghetti mixed with concrete.
"Wait, if you don't like it, then why did you transform like this?"
Noldrei was truly perplexed. He thought he had finally met someone with similar tastes.
Veins bulged on Shigure Kira's forehead as she gritted her teeth and said, "Is it possible that I didn't want to transform like this?"
He had no choice but to revert to his human form, standing before Shigure Kira once again.
Shigure Kira felt somewhat awkward. Because after transforming into that form, she didn't have any clothes on. So, in theory, if she wanted to change back, she would have to strip naked in front of this man.
The poor thing still didn't know that whether she changed back or not, she had already been seen through.
"Let me see what this is."
To her surprise, Noldrei didn't seem interested in fighting. Instead, he decisively stepped forward and touched the tentacles on her body.
"Wh-what are you doing?!"
Shigure Kira had never met anyone like this before. She knew her transformed appearance was frightening and instinctively wanted to retreat.
"Oh, I see. I see. So that's what it is. I never expected it to be this kind of biological form. It's very close to breaking through the boundaries between the plant and animal kingdoms. Impressive. I never thought you people were hiding such excellent specimens."
"Can it devour external matter and transform it into organs and flesh?"
Noldrei's question caught Shigure Kira completely off guard.
She really wanted Noldrei to hurry and release her tentacles. If you're so curious, why don't you go look at your own tentacles?
"What if it can?!"
She said this rather defiantly.
'Are you seriously going to tell him that?!'
Senti felt this girl was a bit of an idiot. Why did she answer everything Noldrei asked? If she was tricked back to Earth, who knew what might happen?
"Oh, a symbiotic lifeform."
After a few simple glances, Noldrei knew what this kind of lifeform was all about. It was similar to a battlesuit with a Stigma will, nothing particularly special.
"Are you some kind of pervert?"
Seizing the opportunity, Shigure Kira pulled her tentacles away. But now her clothes had been ruined, so it wasn't exactly convenient for her to return to her previous state.
"Of course not. Do you want to come with me?"
Noldrei's offer made Shigure Kira jump in fright. She looked at Noldrei with suspicion and alarm, her tentacles trembling uncontrollably as she tried to guess what the hell this guy was planning.
"I think you're more valuable for research than Sa. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean I wanted to do human experiments on you. What I mean is, do you want to come back to Earth with me and see your Schicksal friends?"
Shigure Kira's little heart began to thump even faster. She said in horror, "Wh-what exactly are you planning to do?! I'm telling you, you can forget about doing anything... anything... to my body."
'That sounds a little weird!' Senti-Mobius felt that Shigure Kira was misunderstanding something.
As a Valkyrie, Shigure Kira naturally knew about some of Schicksal's darker secrets. It was impossible to completely cover up those things. During the Second Honkai Eruption, quite a few of the Babylon Labs' sins had been exposed.
"There's nothing to research about your body. What I'm interested in is this..."
Noldrei pointed to the tentacles on Shigure Kira's body and said frankly, "I want to know where you got this lifeform. If you can, could you help me find the source?"
Old Yang never imagined that even after he had been so careful to help these alien friends, Shigure Kira would still expose them to Noldrei today.
Shigure Kira immediately said, "Don't expect me to betray my friends."
'So stupid!' Senti couldn't bear to watch. She covered her eyes, pretending not to see.
Noldrei's eyes lit up. "So this lifeform group really exists?! And you know their location?!"
"Uh..."
Shigure Kira had never realized she could be so stupid, foolishly revealing the existence of her friends.
There was no escape now.
Despair welled up in the young woman's heart. She was prepared to commit suicide at any moment.
"Little Mei, help me restrain her. I need everything that's in her head."
Noldrei didn't bother to reason with her anymore. Now that he had discovered the existence of these inhuman beings, he couldn't treat Shigure Kira as a human comrade.
She was a suspected human traitor!
"What are you doing? I came here to deal with the Honkai! You can't do this to me!"
Shigure Kira wanted to prove that she was still one of Schicksal's people, hoping to be treated leniently.
But in reality, she wasn't given any time to think. The Herrscher of Sentience directly invaded her consciousness and started to stir things up.
Soon, the Tentacle Monster Miss collapsed tragically to the ground, foaming at the mouth. Even the tentacles on her body had all retracted.
Naturally, her body then became what it was.
"In short, there's a lifeform called Sugars, and they've created a mobile base that's similar to a Bubble Universe. They call this thing the Candy House, and they use it to travel through the Sea of Quanta. This lifeform is born with mysterious power, and this woman named Shigure Kira has some of it on her body."
Senti-Mobius briefly introduced the information she had obtained from Shigure Kira's mind, filtering out the rest of the unimportant details.
"They avoid the Cocoon of Finality by keeping their world in a nascent state, like a fallen leaf from the Imaginary Tree, or an unformed branch."
Noldrei hadn't expected to discover such an interesting lifeform on this trip. Now, all that was left was to see if these creatures had what it took to be human.
He glanced at the unconscious Shigure Kira on the ground and directly wrapped her naked body with his tentacles.