While Aleph was left w, he learned about his situation from the man.

  Apparently, they found him on the brink of death. The thing… rather, the so-called “Honkai Beast” that he fought was severed into pieces beside him.

  After some initial treatment and several twists and turns, he ended up being treated in the Mu tihe rgest and most advanced ti iire world.

  Acc to the man in bck, the things he regarded as a ‘side project’ turned out to be important projects sent to him by a Head Researcher who believed in his talents.

  “...Those beasts have bee since years ago? How did you even do the cover-ups?”

  “I am a part of the anization who safeguards humanity, Fire MOTH. Our deakers, the cil, are made up of several world leaders.”

  Aleph was introduced to the Honkai. It e of energy that rivaled nuclear energy in terms of effectiveness. Only, it was aremely untrolble energy spawned out of nature.

  Excessive amounts could turn a normal human into an undead, all the while tinuously spawning “Honkai Beasts”. These beasts had cssifications, but ohing remained clear during their versation.

  Huge honkai beasts could only be dealt with exoskeletons, mechas, and strong artillery.

  The ohat he faced was the Chariot-css. Its build and swift movement made it so that they had to deal with it at aremely long distance or through bomber pnes.

  Without any kind of ‘superman’ who would deal with them one-on-one, humanity was forced to rely on teology to surpass their initial limits.

  Since Fire MOTH, the anization fighting against it, sisted of several world leaders, it wasn’t a surprise as to how they could cover things up.

  ‘Honkai… Honkai beasts…’

  Aleph could vaguely sehe threat it held to humanity as a whole.

  “What happeo Nagazora? You told me it was isoted from the rest of the world.”

  “A strong honkai eruption occurred, giving birth to ay known as a “Herscherr”.” The man expined solemnly. “The ey was destroyed before it was dealt with. Its aftereffects spread to the surrounding areas as well.”

  “...”

  At present, there are three Herscherrs that appeared from humanity. Each time they faced each other, they had to sacrifice a lot.

  Just now, barring the residents who were able to luckily escape, nearly all the fifteen million residents died. Nagazora was sidered a major city, thus its inhabitants could easily reach that number.

  With the current sus and statistical analysis, only a huhousand or so mao escape.

  Even now, Nagazora was sidered a ‘dead city’ where honkai beasts and undeads spawned.

  All of that was caused by the impact of a single Herscherr.

  “Your assistance has greatly tributed to humanity’s cause. Doctor Ainsworth’s assistanbsp;will be even more appreciated within Fire MOTH.”

  As expected, the man threw an olive branch at him. Perhaps that was the reason why he expined everything—to make him uand that things are a lot more drastic than it seems.

  ‘An anization funded by all wovers… I should expect rge corporations and financial giants as well…’

  Apart from his elusive memories, he did not have many goals as of now. However, Aleph aowledged that honkai is something he will fa the future. This olive branch is, in fact, an opportunity—ohat will allow him to deal with such a threat properly.

  ‘Based on his words, I will be enlisted as a kind of researcher. If I recover my previous memories, I should be able to do that role well.’

  In the end…

  “I’ll do it.”

  …he chose to join.

  ******

  “You really grew up. Two weeks of a does this?”

  “Stop joking. If you hadn’t been lucky…”

  Currently, Aleph is strolling the hospital’s garden along with Kevin. The tter was wearing a bck battle uniform underh his coat. His physical training was evident.

  From what he said, Kevin joined Fire MOTH when Mei was invited by them. He was undergoing basic training until he was to be deployed to areas that suffered from small-scale Honkai Eruptions.

  “No, really. Mei became a bigshot while you became a soldier. It’s a little difficult to process.”

  “Haven’t you accepted their offer too? You could surely reach a high status with your skills.”

  “Maybe. Let’s not think of the future first. About Su… have you tacted him?”

  “...No.”

  “I see.”

  With the current state of Nagazora, they couldn’t ehe safety of everyone. Even if Su, anood friend of theirs, was away from Nagazora at that time, he might’ve been caught with the aftereffects that its battle caused.

  “Let’s trust him. He’ll definitely show up one day all of a sudden.”

  “...I hope so.”

  Sensing that the atmosphere became a bit more depressive, Aleph decided to break it.

  “How about finding a girlfriend? It shouldn’t have been hard with your looks, no?”

  “You’re tellihat? Who often bragged about being single by choice?”

  “...I did?” Aleph replied in disbelief.

  For this brief period of time, the duo had fun talking about random things.

  *****

  A few days had passed since Aleph woke up. Aside from reading books to ‘recover’ his knowledge, he tested the teique that he received from his ‘power system’.

  Psshk-!

  Cut-!

  Using a handkerchief, he was able to perfectly cut a paper into two. The moment the handkerchief struck the seventh division, a strange force emerged and cut it down.

  “The energy spent is barely negligible. I might be able to make dozens of sshes before I reach my limits… in this instance.”

  Aleph learned several things about the “Ratio Teique”. The most important thing that he learned was that the amount of ‘energy’ required to ‘strike’ at the seventh division is proportional to the object’s toughness.

  He might only be able to strike a Chariot-css up to four or five times at his maximum limit, but he would be able to strike the paper with a handkerchief dozens of times.

  Both the toughness of the ‘target’ and the on affected this sg.

  “It’s still strange… as if I had a full recharge when I awake.”

  After he grasped the “bck spark”, Aleph noticed that his bottoming out ‘energy’ was refilled in an instant. That was the main reason why he was able to defeat that beast.

  “Hm…”

  After having knowledge about Honkai, Aleph had never used his [Purple Lines] again. Fortunately, the teique funed without fully activating that strengtheate.

  For now, he decided to dub it as “Active Power State”, or APS for short.

  Other than that…

  [Chariot Headhunter: Kill a chariot-css honkai beast for the first time.]

  [Reward: Geabilizer]

  True to its name, he mao gain a reward after killing the chariot-css honkai beast.

  [Geabilizer: Stabilizes a phenomenon of gene colpse during operations.]

  Aleph mao figure out some of the meics of his [Achievement Hunter] at this point. For o gave importao the ‘firsts’ achieved by the user.

  [Bnk Sephira Crystal Fragment: A fragment of a perfected sephira core. Its cept inated from another world before being optimized to the fullest.]

  This reward was somethi when he killed the ‘birds’ for the first time. Later on, he found out that they were the Seraph-css honkai beasts, which should cide with this reward.

  ‘It sounds powerful, but I couldn’t use it…’

  The self stated that it was merely a fragment. Only when it bees a whole would he be able to use it.

  Other than the rewards, Aleph also thought of several iing sarios.

  “Hah… If I faced that Herscherr…”

  Aleph closed his eyes. He imagihe strength of the Herscherr based on the information that he could gather.

  ‘She was the Herscherr of Thuhe ability to trol eleagic forces could go as far as trolling the fual forces. If she wills it… without proper prote, I’m damned.’

  Carbon-based creatures (i.e., humans) are weak against her attacks, simply due to how they don’t have an ounce of resistance against it. They are merely paper to be shredded apart by her ‘authority’.

  To ter that, humans could either recreate something that resists that power to take her at cle or deal with her from afar. That was what happened when they sent the ‘’ nuclear bombs as well as their stro batant. Evehe ey has to be sacrificed.

  Currently, one name resouop of the Nagazora chaos.

  “Elysia… She could take on Herscherrs alone.”

  Aleph thought for a while before tinuing to explore the limits of his teique.