School is a pce to learhings. However, it bees irrelevant to those gifted people. Mei was one such example.
She could’ve sped through the entire educational phase and graduated with a doctorate. The only reason why she didn’t was due to her father’s insistence.
“It’s not just knowledge you’ll learn.”
It was a serious remark. Ryouma knew his daughter was more than capable, but there are some things that could only be sought for by herself.
Making friends, socializing with others…
That was the only reason she went to school. The rest of her time ent in their boratory. What she did not expect was the enters her father said.
Aleph was the same as her. She immediately knew about his beyond college-level knowledge at a gnce. She also khat he iently looked at her now and then. The surprising thing was that he somehow had eyes at the back of his head.
Wheried to return the gnce, she found out he was already preoccupied with other things. The only reason why she caught him was through a refle.
In the end, their gng test ended when Aleph found Mei sleeping in the library’s closing time.
‘It’s like that… Like a game.’
Her miuro the office.
‘Hm… Am I missing something?’
For some reason, Mei felt slightly uneasy. She couldn’t see any abnormalities on Aleph other than his physical ges. She couldn’t see the sleeping bck cat on top of his head.
“About that theory… the Imaginary Space.” Aleph mentioned aopic. “The Divine Key Projebsp;is about to be pleted. We’re pnning to finish the first herrscher core first, then the sed.”
“roceed with the finalized pns. There’s o ask me about it.”
Currently, Fire MOTH is in possession of four herrscher cores. Over the years, they haven’t found the right way to use it.
With Vill-V’s ialent and Aleph’s cheats known as Elemental Sight and Great Sage, creating the divine keys was a matter of time.
Evea-Morph (MANTIS) project reached an unpreted height due to the knowledge Aleph brought out of the sanctum. Even, the ones he revealed weren’t the entire findings he had.
heless, it was more than enough for the safety standards and the success rate to go up. Mei’s three months was the exact time Aleph o aplish these.
“We found a way to deal with your issue.”
Aleph went to the most important topic.
“Giving you an emperor-css genome shouldn’t be a problem anymore.”
Uhe others, Mei suffered from a somewhat abnormal dition. Aleph already k from her death in the Previous Era as well as her usage of the Bnk Key during the Herrscher of Dominion’s attack.
It wasn't bad per se, but that her body could not pletely accept an ICHOR. She could use honkai ons, yes, but it bees a different matter when it es to impnting the ICHOR. It was quite simir to Kevin's insane patibility with ICHOR, and in turn, Honkai.
They inally had to develop special means to let her merge with a chariot or even a tempr-css honkai beast, but Aleph used the knowledge from the Sanctum as well as the reward he got, [Geabilizer], to directly circumvent the problem.
In theory, it should be enough to let her bee anh-ranking MANTIS.
“You will be able to act like Mobius. Isn’t that great?”
“...Thank you, Aleph.”
“Hm..?”
The atmosphere turned serious all of a sudden.
“I… I didn’t have the ce to tell you this before. When we were at Nagazora…”
Mei did not hold baymore.
“I am aware you might have known about it… my feelings. If you weren’t lucky…”
All of her worries and fears were exposed at this moment. Aleph couldn’t immediately react upon seeing this vulnerable side of hers.
“Back then, I didn’t have the ce… the ce to tell you straightforwardly.”
Highschool romance was like that. Either one of them was bold enough to express their love… or they get stuck at an impasse.
The rom-anga Aleph saw depicted just that. There were two members of a student cil who couldn’t fess their love to the other. It resulted in a hundred-chapter long spectacle made to ugh at their immaturity. That stituted the edy in a rom-.
Fortunately, things were different in real life.
“I like you.”
“...”
His heart skipped a beat. He directly received Mei’s gaze despite knowing this would happen. Aleph doesn’t know how to react for a while. His entire mind was seemingly sent into a blender.
Despite the multiple minds or the accelerated thoughts, he stopped thinking for aire moment.
‘Like… for two years… yes…’
Mei was the literal Yamato Nadeshiko (Perfean). Be it her looks, her cute personality (albeit somewhat unapproachable at first), Aleph couldn’t find anything bad.
In the end, it was he himself who had the problem.
After all—
‘...she’s not my only Yamato Nadeshiko.’
For the first time, Aleph wao sucker punch himself.
‘I’m a scumbag…’
Was it wrong to catch feelings on more than one girl?
Probably.
Was it his choice?
Perhaps.
Was it wrong to want all of them?
Only god knows.
That was why he avoided these matters in the first pce. He doesn’t know what to do with it. He would rather fight several herrschers at ohan face Mei’s fession unprepared.
‘Great Sage…’
Aleph became desperate enough to look freat Sage—
{Result: It is reeo bee ho with your thoughts. There is an objective 61.99% ce of the entity known as Mei to accept a poly…}
—only to be given unreliable (?) advice.
‘Stop, stop, stop!’
Iy, only one sed had passed. Mei saw his ears starting to turhat, and his frozen look.
‘As expected…’
That was enough for her. Those two years were enough for her to iigate. Although he didn’t reject her advances (i.e., teasing), there was something holding him back.
‘Was it his childhood friend? Her influence is big… sidering he lost both his parents…’
Mei seemingly made up her mind. Her voice became Aleph’s salvation to this deadlock.
“I am not asking you to reciprocate my feelings or ahem now… but I want to let you know.”
The moment she gave a brief pause, she let out a lethal smile.
“Even if you like someone else, I won’t stop, Aleph.”
‘Until I make you mine.’
The domineering nature of the Current Era’s Herrscher of Thunder overpped with MEI. Coupled with her cool stare and deadly smile…
‘What should I do…’
Aleph had seemingly fallen into a trap.
