Bonus Questions

In the end

Q: Could the Nemesis Code be removed?

A: It could.

If one obtained the three types of codes, Dr. Zeta would appear in a dream and tell them the coordinates and password. After that, they would be forced to listen to a stream of complaints like, “I didn’t have the money, but I had no choice but to prepare it for you,” and “The reason I had no money was all ○○’s fault.” After excavation work at the designated coordinates, the Nemesis Code could be removed using what was inside a locked magical storage box. Other methods of removal existed as well, but those were set up to be unusable because the facilities had been destroyed.

Q: Could the genetic-modification test subjects return to human form?

A: It was not impossible, but almost impossible.

It was technically possible for them to regain human form by falling into the hands of Seizeria’s reincarnator and becoming test subjects, but in that case, the subject’s ego would collapse, leaving them in a doll-like state that only obeyed orders. So it was fair to say that returning to human form in a sane state was impossible.

Q: Were there survival routes?

A: Yes.

The route explanations were as follows.

Monster Route: Mistakes repeat themselves. He told himself that sacrifice had been necessary to stop them.

Imperial Watchdog Route: The chains were fastened. A watchdog did not need a will. She simply regretted her own choice.

Chaos Mutation Route: The grudges of the past had not been extinguished. Forgotten obsession gave birth to a new fairy tale.

Yunos Route: Though he was a monster, he continued to be human. His new way of life made him grow one step further.

Argos Route: For the sake of what he had to protect, he kept the truth away from the world. Even if the price was his own life.

In the Monster, Imperial Watchdog, and Chaos Mutation Routes, the protagonist did not become involved in the destruction of the research facility, so the major did not revive and remained buried alive.

The reason it was not called the “Council-State Watchdog” route was because in this route, Yunos called Rachel “Nee-san,” so the protagonist’s condition could be inferred.

The Argos Route was about the “thing” he had to protect. Was what the protagonist wanted to protect the vow from that day, or someone connected to him?

Behind-the-scenes stories

The initial idea was the Monster Route, and the death ending where he was ultimately killed by humans had already been decided. Since this was the starting point, there were many routes where the protagonist died. After the web version began, the Argos Route was created, and the route was fixed. While the settings were being reworked, the Imperial Watchdog Route was born. With the print publication, the Yunos Route was also born as a survival route, but due to added settings, the bad ending known as the Chaos Mutation Route was also born along the way.

Basically, the Argos Route was treated as the normal ending, and the Yunos Route was the good ending. All the others were categorized as bad endings.

Character odds and ends

Limited to the heroines for now.

Diera’s odds and ends

Diera’s height was 159 cm, and Rena’s height was 152 cm. Since the average height of an adult woman in this world was roughly 158–161 cm, Boobs Lady was actually almost average in height, even though she seemed like the sort of character who would suit being tall. In the web version setting, she was 156 cm, so she could also be on the shorter side. She was a rare character whose initial settings hardly changed. As a mage, her ability was neither especially good nor especially bad, and as a hunter, she excelled at hunting monsters, so in truth, she was not actually that strong a character. She could handle close combat reasonably well too, so even without using magic, she had a decent ability to defend herself. Since she kept her distance from factional disputes among mages, she was not saved by those from the same school and became an easy target for people with certain ideologies.

Rena was originally…

At the start of the posting, she simply had a sister-like relationship with Diera, but in the manga, the distance between the two became even closer, so she class-changed into a crazy psycho lesbian on the reasoning, “She was originally set as someone with those tendencies, so let’s just make it that way.” She became a wonderful character who was fine with conveying Diera’s charms, but hated bad bugs getting attached to her.

As an aside, this world did not have faith-based magic like holy magic, and adventurer priests were basically treated like medics. The fact that they had pharmaceutical knowledge and knew how to handle medicine was also for that reason.

A small foreshadowing detail that was forgotten

There was foreshadowing that “Seizeria has a culture of eating frogs,” but I made the mistake of forgetting to write the reverse pattern where the protagonist went, “Eeh…” at the two of them securing frogs as food while traveling together.

Why is Dame Oppai Dame Oppai?

The reason Ashiru could not do anything was because she was originally a character made solely to translate the Imperial language. It was a measure to keep her from doing unnecessary things, but before anyone knew it, she settled into being in charge of fan service and comedy. How did this happen?

What was Rusheru’s goal in the end?

Her parents were killed by an idiot from the Natural Harmony Committee—the clan chief’s son—so her goal was to prove to those madmen, “There’s no way coexistence with monsters is possible, you morons!” and erase their reason for existing from the world. In short, it was just a grudge. Since the protagonist was treated as an intelligent monster, Rusheru got along with him in order to use him. However, because the protagonist centered his approach on dialogue out of fear of the elves, her scheme ended in failure. This was also the reason she taught him magic.

In the initial setting, she was quite the scheming elf. Perhaps because she was the closest thing to the main heroine, that part was ultimately toned down. Also, the setting where she became a shotacon due to being dragged into factional and power struggles from childhood was changed to “she simply likes children.”

A bonus note about Yunos

Because the woman closest to the protagonist was his “model elder sister,” his standards for what counted as a good or bad figure were somewhat warped. Also, since every woman in his family boasted superhuman-like specs, what he sought from the opposite sex had clearly become strange. Although many attractive women appeared, the reason he never had romantic feelings for any of them despite retaining human sensibilities was not a side effect of becoming a genetically enhanced soldier, but rather due to the environment in which he had grown up.

Also, he described himself as “mediocre” and “ordinary,” but the environment in which he grew up as a human was the Imperial Capital, a city where only elites and chosen people filled the streets and were allowed to live. Since he was able to reach a level that could technically be called average there through effort, it could be inferred that Yunos himself had a decent amount of aptitude. However, because the people around him constantly compared him to his overly excellent family, his efforts were never evaluated at all, and as a result of being unable to make a normal judgment, Yunos decided that he was “a talentless failure.”

Settings

Spirit Weapons

Mysterious, indestructible, amazing weapons that had existed since ancient times. Not only did they perform well as weapons, some possessed special abilities, and they could also change depending on their wielder. They were incomprehensible objects that even the old Empire’s science and technology could not analyze. Because of that, religious forces such as the Church played with them by claiming they were “things of divine origin.” Existing ones included one sword in the Kingdom of Canaan; one sword, one spear, and one bow in the Republic; one greatsword in the Council-State; and one possessed by an unknown civilization.

As an aside, the Three Great Clans of the elf village were largely defined by their possession of spirit weapons, which created the duty to produce wielders. However, the current owner position for the spear was blank, and there were clans secretly scheming to force their way into that position.

It was not explained in the main story, but spirit armaments were created through the connection with another world produced by “World Crossing.” The reason they could not be analyzed was not only the technological system, but also because some of the materials used in them did not exist in this world.

Taboo

Things that the elves of old regarded as dangerous because their influence on the world was too great, or because they might destroy the world. “Domination,” “Soul,” “Creation,” and “World Crossing” fell under this category. Also, World Crossing was the reason reincarnators started being born.

The “Domination” used in the main story was an unfinished version on a small scale, and “Soul” was disposed of as a target for elimination by the Spirit’s Chosen because it had come too close to completion. Also, since the Zesat Clan was not one of the Three Great Clans, they did not know the role of the Spirit’s Chosen. The setting was that “because the punishment for the previous case of reviving a taboo was lighter than expected, they resumed research that had been interrupted in the past.”

Reasons they became taboo

Domination: Its effective range was wide enough that it could easily swallow something on the scale of the elf village, and it could even force people to carry out commands involving life and death, so it was sent to taboo. What Kirishia revived was not the “Domination defined as taboo,” but something similar to it. That was why even someone at the protagonist’s level could resist it.

Soul: Since the soul itself was not well understood, it became taboo for the reason, “Isn’t it dangerous to tamper with this carelessly?” In truth, once it was understood that the soul was related to the foundation of the world, even researching it was forbidden. Because the details were omitted, Zesat ended up reaching for it. It originated in the fragility of the world and was also one of the factors in the world’s disappearance due to World Crossing, but the elves at the time had not understood that far.

Creation: It created something from nothing, but the magical power it required was clearly abnormal, and there was a fear that the world’s magical power would dry up, so it was treated as taboo. This directly caused the decline of the ancient elven civilization, so no documents or the like were left behind. Because a large amount of magical power was lost from the world, it also became one factor in destruction.

Otherworld: The only one that applied here was “World Crossing.” It was all well and good that they had connected to another world, but it turned out that because of that, the world itself was being pulled toward the connected destination. Because this world was too small compared to the other world, if the connection deepened, there was a danger that the world itself would be swallowed by the other world, so it was designated the most dangerous taboo.

Conclusion: It was mostly the ancient elves’ fault.

Ancient Elves

Elves from long ago. “Old elves” or “ancient elves” were the common names for them. Their magical civilization advanced too far, and as a result, they nearly perished because of that technology. Consequently, the ancient elves sealed away that technology. They designated part of it as “taboo” and began monitoring things so the world would not perish. That continued even in the modern day, but the only ones who knew the reason were a tiny number of people called sages.

Spirit’s Chosen

When first introduced in the main story, this term was used to mean “one who greatly draws out the performance of a spirit weapon,” but its original meaning was “a system created by the ancient elves to prevent the world from heading toward destruction after they created a path to another world.” Their abilities were released in stages according to the level of threat, and they could learn of crises facing the world. Using spirit weapons as a medium, they assimilated with the user and completely released their performance. Also, the personality and thoughts of the spirit weapon holder who assimilated were rewritten in order to protect the world. Their basic specs allowed them to easily twist down dragons barehanded and sense any danger that befell them.

The Council-State’s circumstances

The Council-State had been at war for a long time with a dwarven nation in the south. Because of that, it had no spare strength to devote to reclaiming its old territory. Fundamentally, it suffered from chronic resource shortages and power shortages, so its industrial capacity was not very high. As a result, it could not fully satisfy military demand, and the deployment of the latest guns was proceeding very slowly. Also, during the Great War, the dwarven nation had enslaved the people of Haile and Reberen who had fled there, and later gave them seats, using that as a pretext to reclaim the territory that would become their homeland. The war with the dwarven nation, which had sent its army north to create a puppet state, had continued for more than eighty years. Because of the exhaustion caused by this, the Council-State had no leeway to carve up the north, and could not even spare troops to deal with the Orc Hazard. The dwarven nation’s industrial and technological capabilities slightly surpassed those of the Council-State. Until the spirit sword user appeared, part of the Council-State’s territory had been taken, but after Kavasa, then a lieutenant, was deployed, they pushed the enemy back to the border within five years.

Seizeria mages

Among the mage factions of Seizeria, Kinoshita, Yameida, Hornda, and Ito were large and famous. The current largest faction was Yameida, also known as Yamada. As one might guess from the names, they were reincar—no, rather, they came from a group-transfer type situation. Something or other about being on a school trip. There was only a setting that went something like, “They raised the status of mages, then were assassinated and taken over,” and factions that did not sound like Japanese names could be distinguished as those that appeared later. There were also several Japanese-name factions that had not become famous, such as Saito and Yamashita. Incidentally, Diera’s strength, meaning her overall combat ability, was around upper-middle within her faction. The highest-level combat abilities were at a level where they could fight the protagonist one-on-one, but top-level mages were generally busy with research, so they almost never appeared on the front lines.

The protagonist’s family structure

Both parents were alive, and he had an elder sister and younger sister. Basically, his father was almost never at home, and his whereabouts were usually unknown. His maternal grandfather was alive, but his grandmother was deceased. His father’s parents were said to have died in the war, and the protagonist had an aunt, though he had never met her.

Father: Asta, 48 years old, 177 cm, 72 kg

Hair: Short, slightly messy blond hair.

Eye color: Green.

Hobby: Travel.

A nice middle-aged man with a slim but muscular body and stubble. A womanizer who was proud of looking at least ten years younger than his actual age. He had a somewhat wild appearance and gave a sloppy impression, but he was a true lover of women who even used that as a weapon to seduce them. In the initial setting, he was a spy who knew techniques for seducing women, but if that were the case, it seemed unlikely that an ordinary protagonist would be born, so this became the sad father whose setting was scrapped. He was hated by his father-in-law, and the family considered it likely that he was always missing because he did not want anything to do with him.

Mother: Leeciel, 41 years old, 165 cm, 51 kg

Hair: Long, straight blond hair.

Eyes: Blue.

Hobby: Collecting unusual alcohol.

A great woman who was the very picture of both talent and beauty. Why she, who was praised for her figure, appearance, ability, and personality all being perfect, married a useless man like Asta was a mystery. She married and gave birth while still a student, and there was an anecdote that even so, she never gave up the top seat. She was famous enough to be featured in various places for raising three children while working as a high-ranking government official. Her father opposed the marriage until the end, but after her daughter was born, his attitude changed drastically, and when that talent bloomed early, it seemed the cause of their discord had been removed. However, because there was a clear difference in how he treated Yunos, who resembled Asta, and her two daughters, who resembled herself, Leeciel distanced her father from the family.

Incidentally, this person, the protagonist’s grandfather, was a vice-minister of foreign affairs. Although given the opportunity to receive a peerage, he chose to remain a commoner and support the Empire from that position, making him an outstanding figure who won the emperor’s favor.

Elder sister: Mireina, 22 years old, 168 cm, 53 kg

Hair: Straight platinum blond hair reaching her waist.

Eyes: Blue.

Hobbies: Training and collecting commemorative coins.

Like her mother, she was the picture of both talent and beauty, but because her talents bloomed far too early, she grew up without knowing what “ordinary” meant. As a result, she became unable to understand those around her and was emotionally unstable for a time, but through interacting with her younger brother Yunos, who was mediocrity wearing clothes and walking around, she came to understand the common sense called “ordinary” that she lacked. Her personality was bold, and her specs were top class. Her self-defense ability was also extremely high, and she was a martial type who continued defeating all the nobodies who approached her. At home, she handled all housework while also working as a model. In addition, she helped with her mother’s work, and until recently, schoolwork had been added on top of that, yet her grades were always at the top. Somehow or other, she was a kind elder sister who was soft on her younger brother.

Younger sister: Serine, 15 years old, 146 cm, 36 kg

Hair: Semi-long platinum blond hair with straight-cut bangs.

Eyes: Blue.

Hobbies: Piano and collecting merchandise from a certain anime aimed at young children.

She was quiet, but inherited talent properly, making her second daughter worthy of being called a genius. Her personality was somewhat shy, but once she steeled herself, she showed the boldness she had inherited from her mother. As a talented girl, she took various lessons, and as a result, her talent developed in the direction of music. At fourteen, she won numerous awards, and her future was guaranteed. She was beautiful and had a figure that stood out far above her classmates, and with the self-defense ability drilled into her by her elder sister, she excelled in both literary and martial arts, constantly being exposed to jealous voices saying, “How many gifts does heaven plan to give her?” However, because she had continued watching her mediocre elder brother, she laughed all of that off with contempt as “ugly jealousy.” She had a slight complex toward her overly perfect elder sister, but after watching her elder brother, she found it ridiculous, and the family relationship became good.

As an aside, the setting was that the main reason the protagonist often used phrases like “as an Imperial subject” or “as an Imperial soldier” in the work was that his way of being was based on “though I am ordinary, I should at least be an exemplary person as an elder brother.”

Strong people in this world

1: Kabahak — Seizeria’s reincarnator. Does not appear in the Argos Route.

2: Spirit’s Chosen.

3: Chaos — Chimera Project. Appears in the Chaos Mutation Route.

4: Glast — Ultimate Evolved Lifeform.

5: Eyeline — Type: Angel. There were plans to bring her out, but she was cut. This was why the Council-State arc was short.

6: Shuvard — Sword Demon Mode.

7: Kavasa — With trump card.

8: Dylan — Type: Behemoth. Appears in the Chaos Mutation Route as something like an undead.

9: Yunos — Type: Goliath.

10: Alberto — Awakened. Appears in the Monster Route.