Rebuild World - Ch. 65

[saifors]

Inb4 Katsuya takes it too literal and goes full Evangelion.

 

[Amenohi]

The other ai seems very sinister though, whatwith how she seems to constantly be passively brainwashing people into seeing him favourably, depend on him, and so on. Dunno if sheryl is immune because of personal disposition (possibly biological like mc and katsuya, or simply intellect/emotional state), or if it is because of the deal with alpha of minimizing interference (maybe she is even inversely affected, to make her keep akira's tools from changing their mc). But the way she seems to consider sheryl a threat due to her effect on katsuya seems to indicate it is her own resistance, as the inability to control her would make her even more of a threat to the ai's well-constructed plans.

Both AI seem to be trying to achieve a similar goal. The big difference is that Alpha can communicate with Akira, while Katsuya's AI can't communicate with him. Katsuya's AI can only aid him by giving charm powers and slight buffs. Her only way of communicating is with visual hints. Probably should try giving him text messages, but maybe something's preventing her from doing that. As right now hey hardly communicate with each other.

Funny thing is Sheryl was actually viewed as threat by both AIs. The difference is Alpha can actually inquire Akira about it. From Akira's answers, she concluded that Sheryl is an acceptable parameter in her calculations. Katsuya's AI does not have the luxury of getting that insight for her own calculations.

 

[KazeFenrir]

It's kinda insane just how sinister the AI are in this story, Alpha so far is the only one that directly communicates with her chosen partner but even then she manipulates Akira constantly into achieving her goals by whatever means possible. And the other that shadows Katsuya uses even more overt brainwashing to the point that others even note their strange behavior. Obviously I root for Akira and Alpha out of all of them but I don't see their partnership ending well for him if she doesn't require his aid in the future.

They're two sides to the same coin.

Katsuya is outgoing, sociable, and likable. He wants to help everyone and will go out of his way to cause conflict to help people even when it puts himself and his team in danger. As an individual he's exceptional, but his focus is team combat. He has hang ups with losing people under his command, so he's not a great leader. His AI uses him as the central figure in an army and draws people to him. People with experience notice this and the way people in his group act and treat him.

Akira is a literal psychopath with anti social personality disorder and extreme social trust issues. He's an average at best solo combatant but and has issues in groups because of his upbringing (or lack there of). He will literally escalate any minor issue or disrespect into an all out conflict. The WN goes WAY out of the way to make clear how weird he and his way of thinking are and it's super toned down in the manga. For example that pick pocket thing doesn't end anywhere NEAR as pleasant in the novel and sets him in direct conflict with Katsuya several times. Alpha specifically uses his personality and lack of social bonds to monopolize his trust and influence him directly.

 

[KazeFenrir]

Both AI seem to be trying to achieve a similar goal. The big difference is that Alpha can communicate with Akira, while Katsuya's AI can't communicate with him. Katsuya's AI can only aid him by giving charm powers and slight buffs. Her only way of communicating is with visual hints. Probably should try giving him text messages, but maybe something's preventing her from doing that. As right now hey hardly communicate with each other.

Funny thing is Sheryl was actually viewed as threat by both AIs. The difference is Alpha can actually inquire Akira about it. From Akira's answers, she concluded that Sheryl is an acceptable parameter in her calculations. Katsuya's AI does not have the luxury of getting that insight for her own calculations.

They're running competing programs to achieve the same mission.
Katsuya is a broadcaster which is why he can't see AI.
Akira is a receiver which is why he can see AI.
Sheryl is an extremely manipulative and smart empath. That's why she can read people and situations, especially Katsuya, but has a hard time with Akira and is always nervous about how he feels with her.

 

[Slingerman]

Both AI seem to be trying to achieve a similar goal. The big difference is that Alpha can communicate with Akira, while Katsuya's AI can't communicate with him. Katsuya's AI can only aid him by giving charm powers and slight buffs. Her only way of communicating is with visual hints. Probably should try giving him text messages, but maybe something's preventing her from doing that. As right now hey hardly communicate with each other.

Funny thing is Sheryl was actually viewed as threat by both AIs. The difference is Alpha can actually inquire Akira about it. From Akira's answers, she concluded that Sheryl is an acceptable parameter in her calculations. Katsuya's AI does not have the luxury of getting that insight for her own calculations.

Spoiler

To be more precise, in the Light Novel it's influencing his intuition, rather than using images. Being able to connect to the old world is very tied to intuition, that's why Shikarabe is confused about Akira and Katusya's strength, they're both influencing his intuition.

Akira is a literal psychopath with anti social personality disorder and extreme social trust issues. He's an average at best solo combatant but and has issues in groups because of his upbringing (or lack there of). He will literally escalate any minor issue or disrespect into an all out conflict. The WN goes WAY out of the way to make clear how weird he and his way of thinking are and it's super toned down in the manga. For example that pick pocket thing doesn't end anywhere NEAR as pleasant in the novel and sets him in direct conflict with Katsuya several times. Alpha specifically uses his personality and lack of social bonds to monopolize his trust and influence him directly.

Spoiler

Even just in the web novel, Akira is completely aware of Alpha's dirty tricks when it gets to Tsubaki, who he tells about all the scams Alpha's pulled on him. Akira believes that it doesn't matter, because he owes Alpha. Akira acting more nuanced comes from the Light Novels, were he opens up to others more and acts more consistant (in the web novel, he loses trust in Elena and Sera, but still happily goes to dinner with them).

 

[zerio]

I like Yumina, so I'm glad she seems to be less charmed (at least that's how it looks).

Alpha is not sinister, simply because she is transparent about her actions (not in terms of the actions themselves being transparent, but rather in terms of the fact that she is transparent that she is doing them - "I am manipulating you, but not letting you know how" basically) and desires. We might not know what her goals actually are, but we know that to achieve them she will puppeteer us in whatever way she deems ideal, and that it at least includes keeping us alive and at our best condition at least until the final step. Simply because that maximizes our ability to fulfill her goal.

I feel like we can't say for sure yet. Sure, the actionable stuff is something that Akira is aware that she manipulates him.
But given what the mini Alpha can do, I wouldn't be surprised if Alpha's own manipulation goes beyond what is visible. Like one example, does Akira really have a bad luck, or does she pull some strings to make it happen?
So, she might not be as transparent as you thought, especially based on what we saw in the white world, both from Akira's dream and the two AIs conversations.

Akira just happens to be the kind of person who doesn't care the details, and he somewhat follows what she says. So, maybe her manipulation seems tame.
But, if they ever have disagreement--like how she often wonders what he will do for Shizuka, Elena, or Sara--her mask might be revealed.

 

[Grey_mint]

Sheryl best character.

 

[Siquall]

Bro. I would be exausted mentally after dealing with Katsuya for so long.

Good job Sheryl. You deserve a good rest.

 

[Kosnope]

Man the comments of every halfway popular manga are unbearable
I hope all these LN readers step on lego for the rest of their obnoxious life

Preach it. So insufferable, some idiots even post spoilers absolutely out of nowhere, nobody asked, no conversation led to it, just posting spoilers (even if tagged) with an inane comment as if it makes sense to talk about it in manga chapter discussion somehow.
I have started putting literally every single person who says even a word of anything related to LN, WN, or future events onto ignore, with zero tolerance. The threads have become much clearer since then.

 

[Kampfarsch]

Preach it. So insufferable, some idiots even post spoilers absolutely out of nowhere, nobody asked, no conversation led to it, just posting spoilers (even if tagged) with an inane comment as if it makes sense to talk about it in manga chapter discussion somehow.
I have started putting literally every single person who says even a word of anything related to LN, WN, or future events onto ignore, with zero tolerance. The threads have become much clearer since then.

Yeah, its becoming a major issue because normalizing spoiler discussions like this inevitably leads to somebody forgetting to spoiler tag or leaking information tangentially.
The comments of popular manga adaptions are a straight up a mine field.
I never click on spoilers and I have still been spoiled on most major upcoming events in this story.

 

[Lajs]

Agree. I feel like the oneesans he has now are just cliched waifus instead of actual characters that disrespected him and then grew to respect Akira as a person.

And honestly WN Akira is fun to read as you know the pickpocketing ultimately doesn't matter, but it builds his character so much that you end up rooting for him to kill some pickpocketing child over a petty grudge and his ego.

Nah, there’s no difference in character quality between the supposed “oneesans” and every other character in the story so no clue why you even mentioned “waifu”.

And webnovel Akira was unlikable and comes off more like a psycho rather than a character with a troubled past that you can still root for.