Another life.

  These words suddenly appeared in Aleph’s mind. He was about to ‘recall’ things when an invisible barrier prevented him from doing so. His chest tighte the thought of those ‘memories’.

  It was evident. His subscious reventing him from recalling these memories. Unfortunately, he hadn’t realized this revetion pletely.

  All of his attention ced on the sensation flooding his brain.

  “...Ah.”

  Aleph felt as if he had traveled through time. It was the same sensation as when he first woke up. He doesn’t feel any kind of pain at all.

  In the midst of darkness, a bck spark emerged.

  Under Aleph’s curious eyes, he grasped it…

  [Cursed Teique: Ratio]

  …and awakened a dormant power.

  *****

  Everything happened in an instant. Nothing ged iy. The Chariot-bsp;Honkai Beast remaiaring at the ‘annoying person’ that ran away from it. The boy was extremely strange. He is an ‘ordinary human’, yet he wielded the power of honkai energy.

  The honkai beast merely followed its instincts to exterminate all ‘humans’.

  It was about to execute the boy when it saw him stand. The boy’s eyes didn’t tain any light. It remained dull—a sight that somehow peed the beast.

  It was as if it was fag something other than a human.

  His bottomed-out honkai energy was ‘refilled’ by something as he regained his usual crity. The wounds on his back were seemingly healed by the ive energy he possessed.

  heless, the beast no lave him another ce. It charged straight at the boy, fully i oroying his body to pieces.

  Just then…

  ‘I… see.’

  A lih teions appeared in his eyes. A load of informatioered his mind. As long as he strikes it at the ratio of seven-to-three…

  Aleph no longer hesitated. He dashed straight in front of the charging honkai beast. He no longer held aowards it.

  A teioned line appeared on its legs vertically. Aleph eyed the seventh division as he finally knew his target.

  g-!

  Pssshk-!

  Before the Chariot could strike at him, its lower torso was cut horizontally. The baseball bat made a dull sound as it struck the seventh division, which evolved into its torso being shredded through by the bat.

  It could not pletely sever it from the beast, but there was only a few timeters of muscle eg the cut portion from the rest of its torso.

  Aleph held on and saw it losing baer he slipped us torso. He spun his body and struck the remaining e, striking it the same way as he did earlier.

  g-!

  Psshk-!

  The sound of flesh being torn resounded in this street. The Chariot-css Honkai Beast lost its entire lower torso.

  As it fell, a long line appeared on its torso. Aleph ositioned in a way that it’ll be right in front of him the moment it falls to the ground.

  ‘The end..!’

  Bam-!

  The moment its torso reached the ground, Aleph jumped towards it. He swung his baseball bat downwards. Its force was the stro he had gathered up until this moment.

  g-!

  Pssshk-!

  The dull sound, akin to a death toll, marked the ending of the py.

  [Achievement Unlocked: Cha…]

  Thud-!

  All the strength disappeared in Aleph’s body. He could no longer trol his nding spot after he jumped three meters high as he slipped to the ground.

  At that moment, he could no loand.

  “Ugh…”

  His sciousness was wiped away like a dle’s light.

  *****

  Aleph Ainsworth.

  A student hailing from Chiba Academy. Just like Kevin, he hailed from Europe, and for some reason, decided to enroll in the Far East.

  He was unsociable, to say the least. He spent most of his time reading various books, to the point the librarian allowed him to freely borrow any book he likes. His specialization lies farther than simple highschool or even college-level knowledge.

  He was someone who studied in the field of robotics.

  This was how he was known to his ‘friends’.

  What they didn’t know, however, was the life he lived when he was in Europe. All they knew was him being orphaned years ago.

  ‘I was made an offer… one of humanity’s protectors, or so they say. But, from what I could see, their ending didn’t seem so optimistic.’

  Aleph had a dream. He was writing ‘something’ in his notebook. It tained some detailed depis of ‘exoskeletons’ and ‘bipedal meized robots’. It was something that he received from the man who offered him a job after attending his sed summit.

  ‘Was it the same as my world? No, it might be different. Their alliance is emboldened by external threats, unlike ours…’’

  He could hear his own voices echo from him. Aleph’s memories were blurry at that time, but as he tinued fighting these sili-type beasts, a strange sense of deja vu crept up on him.

  It was as if he knew about these beasts himself.

  Unfortunately, before he could remember things, the same force that prevented him from recalling his memories acted upon once more.

  He was on the verge of rec his memories when they disappeared into thin air, leaving this one dreamy ‘moment’ behind.

  “This time, it is not against steel, but sili…’’

  Aleph’s voice was cut off as he woke up from his dream. What greeted his eyes was an unfamiliar white ceiling.

  “An unfamiliar ceiling… Strange, did I experiehis already?”

  When he moved his head, he saw several medical apparatuses beside his bed. An IV solution ced on his right hand.

  All Aleph felt was the lightness of his body. He didn’t feel the same thing as the people who got hospitalized. He could feel his body being filled with energy.

  Just then, lines of words popped in his mind.

  [Cursed Energy (verted): 120]

  [Cursed Teique: Ratio]

  Two lines of text appeared in his vision. It was the proje of the thoughts that appeared on his mind.

  ‘A man. Those voices. The disrupted lihat… my own words.’’

  Each time he recalled those memories, he felt a chill to his spi was as if he was ‘remembering’ things yet he couldn’t. It was the same feeling as recalling your dreams before pletely fetting them.

  ‘My world… Why did I say that? Those memories are not peaceful too…’

  He closed his eyes as he thought of the ‘sembnces’ he saw during his fight against the huge beast. It was as if he was fighting against a huge robot. Apart from that, he could not recall anything else.

  ‘Trauma… Did I have that? It might expin my w…’

  Aleph was no lnorant of things. In his memories, there was a cept known as “cliches”. These are the familiar sarios used in storytelling.

  ‘It’s either I lived a double identity… or I came from another world.’

  The sound of the door opening cut off his thoughts. What greeted him was a man in bck coat.

  “I hope you find yourself in a good state, Doctor Ainsworth.”

  “Hey… I am a doctor now?”

  “Yes. You provided a huge help when it es to several robotics projects. You might not remember it now, but your as beed humanity as a whole.”

  Aleph had an intuition that he would proceed to another matter altogether.

  “We are currently in a hospital on the Mu ti. Your injuries were grievous enough, but we were not able to deal with your amnesia.”

  “I flew several tis?”

  He was left w:

  ‘Just what the hell happeo me?!’