Revealed Identity
Revealed Identity
"So..."
"Ueup..."
"How the hell am I supposed to deal with this bitch..?"
When I came out of the game room, I found a 3rd Class Citizen that my avatar had sent over through interstellar travel using the Cosmic Network.
According to my tastes, she had been restrained in a hogtie and, through [Reality Programming], a universal technology based on [Cosmic Computational Engineering] that could be used by any member of Humanity, her condition had been changed to permanent sleep.
That was why she was sleeping completely oblivious to the world.
"How dare this insolent woman, despite being a 3rd Class Citizen, trespass upon the territory of the even greater Seobang-nim among the great Humanity-nim, and even utter such vulgar and unacceptable words. Would it not be right to report her to the Empire Sub-Entity Management Bureau and make her regret ever being born?"
"I did consider that at first, but..."
If we reported her to the Empire Sub-Entity Management Bureau as Tia suggested, the matter would be settled quickly, but something was bothering me.
"I'm pretty sure these people have been given a [Direct Imprint]..."
"What!? Like me?"
"Yeah."
A Direct Imprint.
As I mentioned before, all creatures were required to absolutely obey Humanity's commands after undergoing special processing, but if a human happened to grow attached to a subordinate creature within their galaxy,
it was possible to give that creature a Direct Imprint so that it would not obey the commands of other humans and would obey only its own master.
The process required bothersome paperwork to be submitted to the proper institution, and the registration fee was fairly expensive. The applicant also had to perform the procedure personally, but since the whole process was quite troublesome, it was rarely done.
Cases like mine, where I was so possessive of my wives that I gave every one of them a Direct Imprint, were the exception to the exception.
But then again,
'Considering my command didn't work, it seems they really do have Direct Imprints. But someone gave Direct Imprints to this many 3rd Class Citizens—Feral Third-Class Citizens who don't even know Humanity exists...'
They weren't being used as wives or lovers like mine were, and putting this much effort into 3rd Class Citizens who didn't even know the person's true identity was incomprehensible even by my eccentric standards.
Still, there were a lot of people in the world, and there were plenty with unusual tastes.
Anyway, the important thing was—
"That means these people are precious enough to someone that they received Direct Imprints."
"I see..."
Perhaps she understood what I meant, because Tia nodded.
In other words, it felt wrong to carelessly report beings cherished to this extent to the Bureau without their administrator's permission.
It wasn't as though anyone had actually been harmed, either.
"So let's find out who their administrator is, contact them directly, get an apology, and wrap things up. Since they have Direct Imprints, we should be able to access the Sub-Entity Database and quickly find out who their administrator is."
"Understood."
"Then, let's see... search..."
Just as I opened the Cosmic Network interface and was about to look up the 3rd Class Citizen before me—
-Ttirring!!
[Hey~♥ You pathetic little geezer~♥ Where'd you go~? Your noona already finished her business~♥ But you're not at your desk? Kyahat! Don't tell me... Did you run away because you're scared of this noona~? Coward!! Loser!! Useless, useless!!]
The communication screen opened, and an irritating, condescending laugh slammed into my brain.
-Ppajik!!
-Kkumteulkkumteul!
Because of the commotion caused by the 3rd Class Citizen, I had briefly concentrated my mind and thoughts in that direction. Now, my brain remembered the humiliation from a moment ago and began to release its fury.
"Oh, is that so!! I'll fuck you up good!!"
The matter of the 3rd Class Citizen was important, but right now, disciplining that irritating childhood friend of mine was more important.
Still, I couldn't neglect the 3rd Class Citizen's situation.
So—
"Tia!! While I'm having it out with that bitch, take this 3rd Class Citizen to Eve and have her look up her identity."
"Understood, Seobang-nim. Then, the volunteer work I was handling..."
"Ah, I already contacted Holly and had her take over. Don't worry."
"Yes, then I'll be going."
I briefly admired Tia's magnificent rear as she carried the hogtied 3rd Class Citizen away like a handbag, then turned my gaze back to the Cosmic Network interface.
I immediately moved my body to the game room and checked the main base in the game, where one of my parallel thought processes had been continuously producing ships.
Fortunately, the fleet had been completed to just the right level, and
"Lord~ Your faithful servant has arrived~♥"
"You came at just the right time. Then, give me your breasts as a backrest."
"Yeees~♥"
Right then, my other wife and chief secretary, the master maid Holly O Primus, entered the game room, much like Tia.
"Now then... I'll FUCK you up good!!"
"Oh my~ How wonderful~♥ Please do me tonight, too~♥"
Holly's breasts were a little less firm and did not leak breast milk, but they were larger and softer than Tia's. Using them as a backrest, I resumed the game.
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-Tokkak tokkak
The sound of dress shoes echoed through an elegant, beautiful corridor where black, white, and gold blended together in harmony, as though an ancient Greek temple had been reinterpreted in a modern style.
The one creating those sounds with the shoes she wore in this quiet, almost sacred space was Valentia V Primus, a woman commonly called Tia by her administrator and Seobang-nim.
-Kkubeok
-Kkubeok
Whenever she passed, the other women walking quietly and demurely through the corridor stepped aside and bowed their heads to her in respect.
-Seureuk
Tia acknowledged their greetings with a raised hand and continued on her way.
The way she handled her subordinates with such familiarity, along with the grace and authority that naturally emanated from her every action, seemed to declare that she was a noble being.
Naturally.
Tia was one of the five wives Omega favored most and had been with him since the beginning, and among them, she possessed the greatest delegated authority and the highest rank in the hierarchy.
But before she began serving Omega, she had been the queen of a nation founded by 3rd Class Citizens, a wise ruler who led her country into its golden age as well as a conquering monarch.
Although, under Omega, she more often acted coquettishly and fawned over him like a courtesan rather than showing that side of herself,
that was a side she displayed only before the master she loved and revered beyond measure. Normally, Tia was admired and respected by Omega's lower-ranking concubines living on the inhabited planet [Primus], Omega's residence.
It would be difficult to imagine when one considered that, under Omega's command, his wives were required to expose their nipples and pussies whenever they stood before him, and that Tia usually walked around in formal attire with her pussy and nipples exposed while pussy juice and breast milk dripped down her body.
However, Tia had now stopped leaking breast milk and pussy juice, and she was dressed in a normal formal suit, giving her a completely different air from before.
Anyway—
-Ttak
Tia stopped in front of the door to a certain facility.
Four nameplates were attached there: [Medical Room / Bioengineering Laboratory / Citizen Records Archive / Gichoksamo Headquarters].
The reason there were several nameplates was that, although the facility itself was a single building, it handled several different fields of work.
-Ppik
Tia contacted someone through the Cosmic Network device for 2nd Class Citizens in front of the door.
Then—
-Woong!!
The firmly sealed door opened in an instant.
Tia entered the facility through the open doorway without hesitation.
-Kkumteulkkumteul
Unlike the other areas of the building, including the temple-like corridors, the interior was slightly grotesque.
Chunks of purple flesh and tentacles were tangled together with mechanical devices, making the place resemble a laboratory that had been overrun by alien organisms.
Despite its appearance, the mechanical devices buried beneath the flesh and tentacles were functioning perfectly.
And at the center of this facility, where organic matter and machinery were grotesquely fused together—
"So..."
A woman with purple hair tied in a ponytail sat in a chair with her legs crossed, gazing at Tia with a mischievous smile. She wore an extremely revealing fishnet outfit and was every bit as beautiful as Tia and Holly, both of whom were favored by Omega.
"So, what could our empress, Papa's favorite, possibly want with me all of a sudden~?"
Unlike the other concubines from before, there was neither reverence nor respectful speech toward Tia in the woman's words or actions.
Tia did not particularly care about the woman's attitude, either.
That was because the woman before her was Hive Q Primus, one of the five wives favored by Omega just as Tia was.
"I heard it was something important. If you came to talk about the Galactic Eugenics Project we discussed last time, then because of the budget limitations, it'll be impossi—"
"That isn't why I came, Eve."
Tia cut off Hive, calling her by her nickname. She had only heard that it was urgent and still did not know what she was supposed to do.
"It's because of this 3rd Class Citizen."
"Ueup..."
Tia showed Hive Yulia, whom she had been carrying like a handbag while bound in a hogtie.
The moment Yulia entered her field of vision, Hive's eyes began to gleam strangely.
"Hm~ What a cute little thing~"
With another mischievous smile, she raised one hand.
-Kkeudeudeuk
Her palm instantly transformed, forming something like a monster's mouth filled with sharp teeth. From inside that mouth, a bug resembling a mixture of a tentacle and a parasite sprang out.
-Kkumteulkkumteul
-Kkwaak
"Did you perhaps come because you want to join Omega Galaxy Gichoksamo (the Parasitic Tentacle Lovers Association)~♥?"
Hive playfully shook the disgusting, writhing bug that had emerged from her hand.
It was the sort of sight that would normally make a woman scream,
but Tia showed no reaction, as though she was accustomed to it—or as though she had been fundamentally different from ordinary women since birth.
"Enough with the jokes. I understand that, given your origins, you enjoy playing with toys like that, but inserting unauthorized implants is illegal, even for a 3rd Class Citizen."
"Tch, fine. One day, everyone will understand the awesomeness of parasitic tentacles.."
-Seureureuk
Grumbling, Hive transformed her palm and drew the tentacle back inside.
"So what is this really about?"
"It is an order from Seobang-nim."
"Papa's?"
The moment Hive heard that it was an order from Omega, her playful smile disappeared, and her expression became utterly serious.
Judging that Hive was finally ready to hear the message, Tia pointed again at the Yulia she was holding.
"Access the Sub-Entity Database and look up the identity of this impudent 3rd Class Citizen. This sort of work is your responsibility, after all."
"Hm.. I still wonder why I'm the one handling citizen database management instead of Deus, but... fine, I got it."
Hive opened a Cosmic Network interface window and accessed the Sub-Entity Database.
The moment she activated the citizen information lookup function—
-Ppiririk!!
A holographic analysis window appeared in midair and emitted light as it scanned Yulia's entire body once in an extremely brief instant.
Normally, because the Sub-Entity Database contained the records of every 2nd and 3rd Class Citizen, Yulia's detailed personal information should have appeared at this point, but...
[Unable to Query / No Record]
"Huh?"
"What?"
Tia, and even Hive, who had been handling this work for a long time, were seeing this result for the first time in their lives.
Two foolish, vacant voices escaped the mouths of the pair who had witnessed something that should have been impossible.
"No record? Is this even possible?"
"What? That's strange. This can't be right... There's no way Humanity-nim's technology could have an error..."
-Ppiririk
As though she could not believe it, Hive manipulated the interface again and attempted another identity search, but—
[Unable to Query / No Record]
"Grrr..."
The result was the same, and in the silence that descended over the laboratory, only Hive's groan, filled with countless thoughts, echoed through the room.
Hive simply could not understand what was happening.
Humanity was literally gathering every piece of information in the universe in real time, from its past and present to even its future,
so it made no sense whatsoever for the database created by Humanity to lack information on that 3rd Class Citizen.
As someone entrusted by Omega with the authority to manage the citizen database, the only information Hive could not access was the personal information of 1st Class Citizens—the great Humanity-nim themselves—or information on lower entities whose access had been blocked by the Imperial government.
However, even if the government had blocked access, the usual message would be [Unable to Query: Insufficient Authorization]. It would not say that the information itself did not exist at all.
That was why Hive used her exceptionally brilliant mind to consider what could possibly be happening, but with no information to work from, she could reach no conclusion.
"Hmm... We should probably report this to Seobang-nim..."
"W-Wait a moment!! Let me try just one last time!!"
In the end, Tia could bear watching no longer and suggested reporting the matter to Omega. But Hive, whose pride had been wounded by her inability to do anything and thus be of no help to Omega, stopped Tia.
"It's a little old-fashioned, but I'll have to extract her genetic material and read the information stored within it..."
-Kkumulkkeumul
-Seureureuk
Hive's eyes gleamed ominously as she waved her hand. The chunks of purple flesh surrounding them began to move, transforming into tentacles that shot toward Yulia with tremendous force.
-Kkwaak!!
"Ueup... Ueup ueup..."
The tentacles undid the ropes binding Yulia in a hogtie and restrained her entire body instead.
The tentacles binding Yulia's entire body swept over her from head to toe. Then, one thick tentacle roughly forced its way between her lips and plunged into her mouth.
The tentacles began collecting genetic and biological material from her entire body within the limits permitted by Imperial law, rapidly reading all the information about the being contained within it.
Hive had wondered why she had been assigned the task of managing the citizen database,
but because she had reached the pinnacle of bioengineering, her ability to collect and store information on a living organism was unmatched in the galaxy, with the sole exception of Omega.
[Analysis Complete]
Yulia's information, analyzed in an instant through that extraordinary ability, was transmitted to a mechanical monitor connected to the nearby chunks of flesh.
The moment the information was about to appear on the monitor—
[Warning!! Grade 6 Unauthorized Illegal Creature Detected!!]
[Warning!! Grade 6 Unauthorized Illegal Creature Detected!!]
[Warning!! Grade 6 Unauthorized Illegal Creature Detected!!]
"W-What is this!!?"
"What in the world..."
The screen flashed red along with the warning sound.
Tia and Hive were startled by the sudden situation, but when Yulia's species designation and the accompanying explanation appeared immediately after the warning, their eyes widened as they displayed a degree of shock beyond anything they had ever shown before.
""P-Prodium!?""
And this was the beginning of an incident that would bring new ripples to the universe, which had enjoyed unchanging prosperity under Humanity.