Rebuild World - Ch. 80

[MangaDex]

 

[Shinigamisama]

Akira is such a nice fellow. He could've easily put the two ladies on the spot, but never had any sliver of intent to.
Hold up. That happened? I wanted to reread but it seems the previous chapters have been nuked.

Someone is getting competitive. I mean, sure, but you're kind of a hologram.

 

[Tzeentch3]

Akira is such a nice fellow. He could've easily put the two ladies on the spot, but never had any sliver of intent to.
Hold up. That happened? I wanted to reread but it seems the previous chapters have been nuked.

Someone is getting competitive. I mean, sure, but you're kind of a hologram.

Spoiler

 

[ciera]

Thanks for the uploads

 

[Resound]

just pay him with foursome with yumina, katsuya can sit on a chair

 

[BowlOfMisoSoup]

Aww man, I hate seeing chapters getting purged.

 

[Sumasuun]

Oh no. The actual snake survived I guess and shed its skin. Hopefully it's weak enough for Akira to take it out because clearly that's his luck.

 

[Ingway]

I can sorta get Alpha's mentality that if he starts to develop too many meaningful relationships his goal to find what she wants may become secondary or even something he doesn't want to do anymore. But I feel like isolating him is just gonna make things times worse.
Hell, with how cold her and her variations can be, I almost feel like letting them get what they want is just gonna cause more trouble for everyone.

 

[Amenohi]

Surprised that Katsuya's aura or whatever is influencing Ellena and Sara. This chapter seems to be about how the AI influences others besides their chosen partner. For Katsuya it's "acknowledge me!", while for Akira it seems to be "stay away from me".

Katsuya's team seem to be heading for a the body (Katsuya) acts before the brain (Yumina) situation. Rather reckless I think. He needs to listen to advisors first and then act decisively based on that. Kinda like the relationship between Akira and Alpha. I really don't care if the body gets torn apart, I just hope it doesn't get head-shoted.

 

[S0LUS]

Surprised that Katsuya's aura or whatever is influencing Ellena and Sara. This chapter seems to be about how the AI influences others besides their chosen partner. For Katsuya it's "acknowledge me!", while for Akira it seems to be "stay away from me".

You're pretty much spot on, though it's not the AI doing it. Or at least not all of it? I just mean to say it's not Alpha wanting people to avoid Akira or whatever, lol.

Spoiler: If you want a little more clarification, though... (Mostly lore that isn't spelled out plainly til later, not future events)

It just comes with being an Old Domain User, pretty much everyone has the capacity to connect to some extremely minute degree, so people with exceptionally high connection rates are able to tap into the brains of the people around them as well & since they don't have firewalls, well... eventually you can get a complete system takeover. Beta (I don't think she was ever actually name-dropped, but it fits as a matching name for the other more "passive" AI) chose Katsuya because even though his connection isn't great, he's a talented-ish, likeable-at-a-glance, yet utterly simpleminded dunce who won't waver in the long term; he'll naturally surround himself with people, they'll be pressured to stay near as they accumulate his constant "stay with me, love me, be as stupid as me" broadcasts, & once he has them assimilated he'll be able to control them literally as easily as his own hands, like most Old Domain Users. On the other hand, Alpha chose Akira solely because of his unprecedentedly strong connection, meaning the other side of the coin that is his ultra-rare full VR experience & direct communication with Alpha is that he can broadcast his subconscious thoughts almost right away at full blast. So, the "stay away from me" + his underlying lifelong fear as a slum rat + inferiority complex = people thinking he's some small fry not worth looking twice at (hence experienced hunters seeing his true skill and thinking they've gone utterly insane for so severely underestimating someone so dangerous, & eventually doing a 180 & thinking he has somehow grown explosively once he finally gets a little self-confidence).

 

[RandomnessOfTheMathWorld]

Strategic booba pillow before asking for the bill

 

[EldritchNeko]

Analysis of the Katsuya-Akira Extrovert VS Introvert (or Sociable VS Unsociable) Dynamic

When Katsuya complains about Akira leaving, it's less that he's mad he didn't 'stay to finish the job' and more that, being as sociable as he is, Katsuya likes to say 'goodbye' when someone leaves. Akira, being as unsociable as he is, just leaves. This creates a conflict in Katsuya's mind between the expected and unexpected. Katsuya, when Akira first met him, had entirely zero clue as to how to interact with someone as introverted and wary as Akira.
Which of course became an issue, because when a super-sociable extrovert encounters a personality they don't understand, their default is to simply interpret the behaviour into their standard social model regardless (ie. if they see something they perceive as an offence, they react with social offence, even when what they perceive as 'offence' might actually be more of a defense mechanism than anything).
Disclaimer: This does not assert that the above universally applies to all extroverts. This is merely an assertion that this is their default response. There may be a number who respond instead with curiosity and an attempt to actually understand what the behaviour of the person they're interacting with means. Furthermore, extroverts with experience interacting amicably/positively with introverts will likely be more able to correctly interpret an introvert's behaviour, rather than take issue with a perceived offence.

 

[SciFiMisc]

I really wish the ai wasnt secretely evil. Theres a lot going on with the world building and a bit with the characters and story thats genuinely interesting, but i dont care and cant get invested because none of it matters until the MC FINALLY gets clued in.

Like its not a twist, the audience has known for ages. The story is just held hostage by this. There will be a chapter where she enables the deaths of a character or some characters, and there will later be a chapter where he finally finds out shes evil, and whatever the hell the actual story is cant start until it eventually gets there. Which fucking sucks.

Would be SO MUCH BETTER of a story if this manga was genuinely just dude with robo partner exploring this authors weird world.

 

[jrocker]

So it was Beta clearly manipulating Sara and Elena to make them okay with him risking his life for the waste of space. Beta seems to provide a lot more "passive" assistance to Katsuya such as getting him a crowd who love him, minor adjustments to his bullets, and manipulating people so he always is the star whereas Alpha is actively involved by training and teaching and even controlling to help Akira.

I think it also shows why they were shocked about the money and the favor. Despite him risking his life to save them, they aren't used to actually having consequences of those decisions. This time people died because Katsuya has an ego, but he also clearly knows he used Akira because it wouldn't have mattered to him if he died since that isn't one of "his people". Yumina seems to know but also is so locked in that both believe that Akira should be honored to risk himself for Katsuya rather than them actually needing to pay him back as they barely have a business level relationship between them.

 

[jrocker]

Analysis of the Katsuya-Akira Extrovert VS Introvert (or Sociable VS unsociable) Dynamic

When Katsuya complains about Akira leaving, it's less that he's mad he didn't 'stay to finish the job' and more that, being as sociable as he is, Katsuya likes to say 'goodbye' when someone leaves. Akira, being as unsociable as he is, just leaves. This creates a conflict in Katsuya's mind between the expected and unexpected. Katsuya, when Akira first met him, had entirely zero clue as to how to interact with someone as introverted and wary as Akira.
Which of course became an issue, because when a super-sociable extrovert encounters a personality they don't understand, their default is to simply interpret the behaviour into their standard social model regardless (ie. if they see something they perceive as an offence, they react with social offence, even when what they perceive as 'offence' might actually be more of a defense mechanism than anything).
Disclaimer: This does not assert that the above universally applies to all extroverts. This is merely an assertion that this is their default response. There may be a number who respond instead with curiosity and an attempt to actually understand what the behaviour of the person they're interacting with means. Furthermore, extroverts with experience interacting amicably/positively with introverts will likely be more able to correctly interpret an introvert's behaviour, rather than take issue with a perceived offence.

I think you're right but there is one extra dynamic. Since Katsuya has Beta and is connected to the "Old World" he probably was always subtly manipulating things to be in his favor like we saw with Sheryl where she mentions he makes her lower her guard and feel a sense of fondness. Akira is every bit his superior in that field so he doesn't behave as Katsuya wants because Katsuya can't manipulate him. Katsuya is most likely unaware of the power so to him somebody acting outside of a positive view to him or even not staying to wait for him because of the imaginary pedestal shocks him and causes a lot of the tension as well. It's somebody who was always treated as an MC being slighted in anyway perceives them as more negative without bothering for anything else.