A white space.

  There wasn’t much to it. If Aleph had any pints, it would be that the white space was too blinding for his eyes.

  ‘I… where am I?’

  He looked down only to find out that his entire body was exposed. The buclear suit he wore was o be seen. Only the tight bck skinsuit remained in him.

  Aleph hastily looked at his surroundings.

  ‘I touched the core and…’

  A strong chill was sent to his entire body. His legs felt powerless at the thought of something. A bucket of cold ice oured all over him.

  ‘No, this ’t be. But… I am an otherworlder. I know this world’s future. If so…’

  Aleph’s staggered breathing slowly calmed down.

  ‘This bnk space… was it the space where they met God?’

  The past five months was enough to recall everything about this world’s future. The so-called honkai will prevail over humanity, at least for the Era where Aleph was into.

  Fifty thousand years ter, the sed fight for humanity’s survival began. It was the Current Era’s turn to face off against the honkai.

  New characters shone oage. Some of the notable ones were the Sed Herscherr and the Archbishop of a certain anization. Although the dreams Aleph got were not as detailed as the ones he inally wrote, it was more than enough to have a rough gist as to what happened.

  The two aforementioned people underwent a simir experience—meeting God.

  In his diary, Aleph called it—

  ‘Will of Honkai…’

  He looked around for a while before stopping. The endless expense of the white space was the only thing he could see.

  ‘There’s a reason why it’s like this. I knew it before…’

  Unfortunately, those small details that he missed in his dreams affected him now.

  The bright white light blinded his sight. His elemental sight, something he relied on to view the fourth Herrscher's moves, failed him this time. A sense of ingruence swept over him, as if there was a missing pieake it plete.

  ‘There’s a reason why… Think. In the final battle, Mei enacted a pn to… what was it again?’

  The feeling of being at the edge of his tongue made him extremely unfortable.

  ‘No… Think. What was it..?’

  Aleph was too preoccupied to notice the phenomenon happening to himself. He was still in the kneeling position before. He didn’t notice the thin lines in his body.

  ‘...Ah..?’

  Something ‘snapped’ inside his mind. It prompted him to stop thinking.

  Crack-!

  “What… is this?”

  The liurned into cracks. His entire body turned dimmer as the cracks began opening up. His soul, projected as his body, revealed his current ditiohat wasn’t noticed sihe beginning.

  Aleph’s mind became bnk. There wasn’t anything that came to it. His thoughts ceased to exist.

  It was also at that moment when something attained a voice.

  {Answer: You are Aleph. You are Ainsworth. In this world, you are the third institute’s assistant director. In another world, you are the holder of multiple Medal of Honors; the director of the Specialized onry Research Division...}

  It was the voice of a young girl. It was dull and ft, making it feel more artificial than anything else.

  However, such a voice briefly awakened Aleph from his ‘bnk stupor’.

  ‘Who..?’

  ‘She’ seems to be fully aware of his questions.

  {Answer: I am the Unique Skill [Great Sage]. There was a aions in this world. After a successful adaptation, I gaihe ability to respond.}

  Aleph’s eyes turned duller by the sed.

  ‘Why…’

  {Answer: Your soul is in a state of colpse. Its cause was secutive ‘deaths’. It recovered on its own during the first time, but the sed time caused it to reappear and worsen. Memories are tied to the dition of the soul. You are currently experieng severe memory loss as your dition worsened.}

  His dition was fully revealed. His arrival to this world was a miracle by its ht. He could still recover from back then.

  However, the situation that caused his amnesia, the deadly enter with honkai ination, caused him to tether the ropes of life ah once again. Although emergency measures were enacted, it could not help him recover in full.

  {Searg for possible termeasures… One solution found.}

  At this moment, Aleph’s right hand moved. Three white fragments floated around his palm. These are the [Bnk Sephira Crystal Fragments] that Aleph gaihroughout the past eight months.

  The three fragments forcefully fused together. They started taking up the shape of a diamond. Although, it wasn’t fully successful due to the ck of two other parts.

  Without Aleph’s and, [Great Sage] began running on its own.

  {Ahe forceful fusion of the Sephira Crystals exhibit the highest success rate.}

  The three-fifths Sephira Crystal floated to his chest—on top of his heart—before it sank.

  Aleph could only see his sciousness slowly float to the darkness.

  *****

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  Who am I?

  Every person oh must’ve thought about this question at some point. Only, mao treat everything fraheir lives bee extremely fast to the point they hink of themselves anymore.

  “Hm… This torque’s rotation is clockwise. The question… a ar force system? I’d take a look at the back first.”

  The ambiehin the air-ditioned library pushed the man to his utmost tration. His homework was steadily being pleted as time passed.

  “Yawn… It’s been three hours already? This is it.”

  He stretched out his arms as he yawned. Some of his bones made a popping sound due to his poor posture. He took off his earphones, carried his bag, and began desding to the ground floor. When he reached the library’s entrance, he took out his ID with the noticeable words: [xxx Ainsworth].

  Just like most uy students, Ainsworth was buried by projects. Who told him to choose an engineering major?

  “I really o finish chapter thirty one soon. I’ll put my dailies in Star Rail on auto ter.”

  He took out his phone and opened a game. The familiar elevator appeared on his s. He walked towards the bus stop as he waited for the game to load.

  Soon, he rode on the bus. He took out the phone in his pocket and stared at the game on the s dazedly.

  “Honkai… It’s iing, but it’d be dangerous iy. Still…”

  Ainsworth touched the hand of the gray-haired girl on the captain’s hangar.

  “[Captain. Please let me fight with you… forever.]”

  “Sigh… Sometimes, living in their world might not be a bad idea.”

  He thought of the human’s instinctive nature to pity—to emphasize—even to “fial” characters. It wasn’t that deep. A pelling story elicits a rea from its readers.

  Beep-!

  Beep-!

  Ainsworth’s attention was intercepted by a loud alert. A notification appeared on his phone as it tinued vibrating.

  It wasn’t just him. Everyone ihe bus took out their phones in a hurry. The ft s television ihe bus also let out one such alert.

  “EAS..? What’s it all about?”

  “One of my friends sehis.”

  “War? Huh? Are they kidding?”

  Soon, the annou became evident to everyo was a about the impending World War Three. Fifteen nuclear bombs were sent to their try, which was intercepted by the Aerospace Defense and.

  “...Huh.”

  As most men did, Ainsworth heaved a deep sigh.

  “I’m going to get scripted…”

  Just like that, the Third World War began.