Everyone was deathly silent.
They saw hoh moved from one position to another. Most of these positions ought to be random. He didn’t try to close the distaween them, but rather, slowly closed in on Hakuhatsu Ki’s radius.
Wheer attempted to move thirty meters in one go, Aleph appeared on his trajectory out of nowhere. Add to that the ‘stun’ effect brought when he fot “who” Aleph was, it became easy to settle everything in one blow.
‘What… There's nothing wrong with me. Why did I fet him?’
Kevin’s expy was scious when he was sent flying. The events that occurred just now remaiu his mind.
‘He was fifty meters away. Then… he disappeared. I couldn’t react wheacked me after that..!’
Disappearing mid-bat was an absurd ability. It was his first time seeing such a thing.
It wasn’t only him.
‘Nothing is wrong with my brain. My memories are all intact. But why…’
‘He disappeared. It’s n to sider that our minds bnked out.’
‘Just how…’
Aleph’s practical demonstrations were far from what they expected. They predicted his use of overwhelming force, going as far as destroying this eraining venue. Yet, they were shown strange bat teiques instead.
Ironically, the impact was far higher than what it should have been.
“I am sure you would not stop with this. Let’s go. I’m giving you another ce.”
Hearing Aleph’s words, a mix of fighting spirit and trepidation emerged from Hakuhatsu Ki.
Kevin’s image overpped with his, elig a somewhat evil smile from Aleph.
‘Is my destiing up Kevins?’
*****
One day was all it took to visit the other four Sentinel holders. All of them suffered the same fate as Hakuhatsu Ki’s.
No matter how much destructive power they released, their endings did not ge. Aleph easily dealt with them. During that time, all he used were his fists.
Looking at the setting sun, and then to the crepe in his hand, he felt out of pce. The yet futuristic look of the city held a certain charm.
One moment, he was going through buildings that fit the description of cyberpunk. The moment, he sees a se of the city that held sembo his Earth. One would only snap out of it when a streak of bck appears in the sky.
Izumo’s teological tree was extremely advanced, nothing short of what Aleph glimpsed in the research papers ihe Sanctum.
‘Izumo is what Earth would look like… given five hundred more years.’
Unfortunately, the Co wasn’t patient when it came to finding a suitable ‘embrace’. If aion of civilization fails, it would reboot everything back to square one.
Only the pces tainted by Sea of Quanta’s influence would remain the same, hehe ruins from the Previous Era being ued by the ‘time loop’. The same holds true for the pces ected to the Imaginary Space.
As for the rest of the supposed ‘ruins’ from iterations beyond the “Previous Era”, he did not factor them, mainly due to how this information was a ret- in the inal —the game did not offer any good expnatiarding them.
‘...Hold on.’
Aleph’s train of thought tihis way.
‘They are opposing forces. But… why did I feel danger when I po go to either of them?’
Yamato had the ve ability to cut open a portal between dimensions. As early as wheai, Aleph tried to ehe Sea of Quanta, only to be stopped by the dangerous feeling he sensed. Later oried to ehe imaginary spabsp;through Yamato but was met by the same sensation.
Finally…
‘The Co. I haven’t done anything bad to it as far as I am aware…’
What would cause two opposing natural forces to have a on sensus?
That question was like a bucket of cold water poured on his head.
‘The Singurity achievement. Did I cause something big when I came to this world..?’
The doubts in his mind began to resurface. Aleph had hundreds of guesses regarding this matter before he went to Izumo. Whe Sage analyzed the Divine Power’s nature and the Bck Sun, he eliminated most of these guesses.
The few guesses with enough rationale were retained.
For example, the true nature of Divine Power. It ower simir to Honkai Energy. The tter was formed by the Co's version of the Tree's imaginary energy. This line of thought made him think what was behind the emergence of Divine Power aside from IX.
There was only that Aeon who did not show up until now.
“Sir Aleph.”
“Oh?”
He was woken up from his deep thoughts by Mei’s voice. Of course, to the outside world, he only stood still for a sed.
Aleph saw a blueberry crepe on her grasp. He was the one who asked Mei out after all the meetings with the Sentinel Holders.
“When will you leave?”
He paused for a moment.
“You noticed that? You are sharp… just like the Mei I knew.”
The moment Mei heard his words, she knew he was talking about his “world”.
“Remember when I told you that I am not from this world? I wasn’t joking at that time.” He said. “I came from a pce called Earth. It’s much simir to yours… down to the flicts.”
Aleph told her about the honkai and the corresponding disasters they had to fabsp;
“Just like Izumo…”
“That’s why I wao offer help. Our worlds suffer from simir disasters. I might as well shoulder some burden for you, although temporarily.”
He did not shy away from the details. He told her the general gist of Earth up to their current situation.
“In my world… there’s someone much like you.” Aleph looked at Mei’s unging look. “She’s my girlfriend.”
“...”
The unging look fell the sed. Her widened eyes were enough to show the surprise she felt.
“Is that why you helped me?”
“No.”
Once again, Mei was surprised by his answer.
“I will be wronging the two of you had I treated you as the same person.” He expined slowly as he corrected her. “I want you to go further.”
Aleph cut his words short befanizing them.
“I have seeure of this world. Much like ours… it was headed to destru.”
“...”
“The future I saw wouldn’t necessarily happen. It could be a vision… a possibility. But I have seen it.”
Mei fell silent. Both the news he revealed and the serious look Aleph wore stunned her.
“If there es a day when things seem hopeless…”
Numerous thoughts came on how he could end this sentence.
It boiled down to one:
“I want you to remain yourself no matter what happens.”
