"I see... so that's how it's played?"
Utaha Kasumigaoka was currently studying the Stigma Space, focusing on the control of the Stigma will. At the same time, she had joined Blank Game Company as a story and script designer.
The company's top management would issue requests for story level types, and there would be a dedicated Stigma will to review and check for any related political issues and so on.
In reality, it wouldn't matter if it did. In Academy City, besides the 'right to reproduce,' which was the 'right to reproduce one's own kind,' which could not be directly touched, you could say whatever you wanted about anything else.
Now that things had come to this, Utaha Kasumigaoka had gradually accepted the reality that she had lost the right to her own genetic inheritance.
Academy City would use the new genes she created with her Stigma Battlesuit, including the new genes born from the fusion of Honkai factors, as the foundation for constructing new humans.
Utaha Kasumigaoka could only roughly know that some of the genes she created would be passed down. As for who they would be passed down to, she didn't know.
To ensure sufficient prosperity of genetic diversity, her genes still had a certain reproductive value. As for how long this value would last, it was hard to say.
However, Utaha Kasumigaoka had gradually given up on this idea. She heard that one could also choose to have a child independently, but the child would have to be handed over to a bionic education factory for specialized education. The role of the parents in this was very small.
Traditional childbirth was being further squeezed out.
Every time she thought of this, a feeling of repressed jealousy would burn in Utaha Kasumigaoka's heart. She was sure that many people in Academy City probably felt the same way.
She knew what she was jealous of. She was very clear that the powerful and influential could personally experience the joy of raising their own future children. And this joy of being a normal mother had been coldly stripped away from her.
Before she was aware of this power, Utaha Kasumigaoka still had the mood to argue with people online about the status of female fertility.
But now that she realized this power had been taken away, and that it didn't require a specific gender, the feeling was not so pleasant.
The development of the world would not proceed as she had imagined. Once it involved the issue of reproductive rights, Blank Game Company would probably have to consider whether it had a reason to exist.
"Designing a game story... what should I design? Race? Doesn't feel very new. Power struggles? I don't know anything about that. Emotions...?"
Utaha Kasumigaoka thought for a long time. She felt that with her half-baked emotional past, she probably couldn't write any emotional stories. Even if she designed one, it would only be a story where an android triumphed.
"If all these are out, what else can I design?"
She walked to the window and looked up at the group of people flying back and forth in the sky above Academy City. There were various companies and organizations, as well as members of the security team maintaining order in the sky. There were also many AI robots planning the corresponding air routes.
Compared to the two-dimensional calculation method on the ground, the three-dimensional route calculation in the sky was much more complex and unpredictable. You never knew when it would throw a wrench in the works.
Now, people's favorite thing to do after work was to go to the giant steel walls of Academy City to look at the scenery, to feel the huge difference in life between those inside and outside.
"First-person perspective? Third-person perspective? Or should I use another method of immersion?"
"Can it be set up like that in the Stigma memory? It feels more suitable for a horror game..."
She thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a good idea. She decided to temporarily put down her work and check the news online, or search for something more useful.
[Failure of the Previous Era's Project Ark]
[Venusian Civilization Captured the Last Ark of the Previous Era]
[Now Successfully Recovered by the Board of Directors]
[Congratulations to the Hero of Humanity on Her Successful Return!]
Utaha Kasumigaoka hadn't expected Academy City to become so strong after obtaining the abilities of the Previous Era, even defeating the achievements of a civilization from hundreds of millions of years ago.
She really didn't understand what the Venusian civilization emphasized in the news was, or what the structure of a quantum lifeform was.
But she did understand one other thing: the last Ark of the Previous Era had failed to leave the solar system. Its information was cut off at the edge of the solar system, and it eventually lost the energy to break out, ultimately being sealed by a strange thing called an Imaginary domain.
'What the hell? Were all the sci-fi stories about leaving the solar system just fantasies? Why did Imaginary Energy suddenly appear? What is that stuff?'
Although she didn't understand, she was deeply shocked.
The human hero who was brought back was also very impressive. She looked as young as a girl, but her age was probably around tens of thousands of years.
They had even preserved the memory construct of this hero. After a unanimous decision by the Board of Directors, a new body suitable for her would be created for the memory construct.
This was the privilege of a hero of the Previous Era.
'Two people using the same memory, with who knows how many years between them. Is such a casual act really okay?'
Utaha Kasumigaoka couldn't figure it out and felt that this was a very terrifying thing.
A person's memory could be extracted, uploaded, and saved, and even a second body could be created, making an exact replica of the person.
Did the Board of Directors know what they were doing?
Was this why they held the right to reproduce in their hands? To do this kind of thing?
She was very angry, but there was nothing she could do. After all, that was a hero who had made contributions to saving human civilization.
'I wonder if I'll ever be able to preserve my own memory construct one day?'
She felt that she probably wouldn't do such a thing. According to the current development of Academy City, by the time she wanted to die, her memory construct would no longer have the motivation to live on.
The girl named Griseo was awakened. As for the scene after she was awakened, it was not shown.
The Board of Directors just made an announcement. The future arrangements were clearly not well thought out. They hadn't even thought about what the other party would do after being awakened.
Utaha Kasumigaoka had gotten used to the nonsensical ruling style of the Board of Directors.
It was different from the work style of the past. There was no process of collecting public opinion, not even bothering with campaigning. But every decision made would be just right, as if they had anticipated it would happen.
Over time, people got used to the Board's predictive way of issuing political documents.
They just had that ability, and there was nothing to be done about it.
"Sigh, just accept it. There's nothing to say. It's just that before, we accepted those officials, and now we accept the Board of Directors."