Aremely lengthy dot was sooo Aleph.

  It didn’t take long for Mei and the others to narrow the targets down. There are three suspicious pces within the neighborhood where the Herrscher attacked.

  The first one was a meth b.

  The sed one was an unauthorized boratory.

  The third one ort for human traffig.

  After a round of searg, he found the girl whom he saw in his elemental sight. He read through her dots. The remaining clues were enough for Aleph to piece together a story.

  ‘...Fuck.’

  A few months after the third eruption, Aleph pushed forward for the crackdown of unauthorized boratories. He k was a hotspot for Herrschers to be created. Just by himself, he cracked down on dozens of them. It takes a night in general to fly to five hidden boratories.

  Despite all of that, they kept on appearing. Both the is he saw in the cilor’s base as well as Otto’s example in Siberia made him extremely wary of the dangers it posed.

  It was akin to a bacteria that couldn’t be removed no matter what.

  As other philosophers say, humans are ily evil. It would always exist at some point. It was just that this time, it shot them straight in the foot.

  ‘Humanity created another Sirin. Damn it.’

  The girl iion was called Ling. In official records, she was reported missing five years ago by her parents. However, the truth was that these parents trafficked her for a hefty sum of cash. Their tact person was the mother’s sibling, which made her Ling’s aunt.

  It was siing to see these kinds of things done by one’s parents. Not only that, her immediate family followed suit.

  ‘She was sent to the boratory ter on…’

  It wasn’t a surprise to know that human traffickers and unauthorized boratories were ected.

  ‘For five years… If I mao find this group back then…’

  Aleph couldn’t dedicate all of his time to hunting these small anizations. He first took out the biggest ones iher tis before settling in the Mu ti. It was a -up that targeted the biggest ones before doing another sweep for the smaller ones.

  ‘Sixth Herrscher. I o follow her trails stantly.’

  He thought of the sixth Herrscher’s abilities. It was described as the deposition and recreation of biological matter. If the girl was as determined as Sirin to wipe out humanity, she would know how to deal with Fire MOTH’s chase. If she was more intelligent than expected, she might as well tact several higher-ups of MOTH a them with her powers.

  After all, the sixth’s authority was the most suitable for that. Recreating an anic body ossible as long as she had access to honkai energy—to which she possessed through the core with her.

  Just then, Aleph recalled the most important point.

  ‘I ’t let her get to the Moon.’

  With all the ued ges, he was no longer fident of his foreknowledge. He had to take this more seriously.

  Zoom-!

  A silver streak appeared once more in the dark sky.

  *****

  “He’s moving frantically… Did you really see something?”

  Looking at the swiftly moving dot on the s, Vill-V fixed the gsses on her hey were cooperating as usual until Aleph asked her to duct a background search to the girls in the unauthorized boratory.

  Uher illegal boratories, this one worked on experimenting with the so-called Sea of Quanta—the same field the fourth institute focused on. The only defining difference was the former’s ck of restraint when it es to human casualties. Hundreds of children died over the past three years. There weren’t any doted successes, either.

  When Aleph heard about it, his speed became even faster.

  “Was it reted to his… superpower?”

  Vill-V knew she wasn’t just the one who thought so. Aleph’s abnormal strength—ohat couldn’t be expined—caught the attention of everyone in Fire MOTH. Most thought of it as a result of Mobius’ work, but only their circle k wasn’t that.

  Upon the pletion of the MANTIS surgery, he immediately adapted to his rise in strength. He could also freely trol his ICHOR, removing any side effects as he will. It was pletely different from the others.

  Mobius had to wear tacts when going outside due to her eyes. Elysia and Sakura had to wear the transfiguration hood Vill-V ied. It was a hood that creates a visual illusion to cover up their ears.

  Even Kevin suffered from it via his surroundings suddenly being colder and hotter, though it was the smallest recorded side effect so far.

  Time and time, Aleph showed his abnormalities.

  ‘Was it like that time? He shot all the cameras down…’

  For a while, Vill-V was sent into a deep thought. It wasn’t until Aleph’s voice came from the other side once more did she break out of it.

  “...Vill-V.”

  “Y-yes?”

  “ you pick up the readings around my locatio honkai or other energy readings…”

  *****

  Aleph looked at the spa front of him. The chase sted for nearly two hours. The trail e this exact pce, a mountaihere was an abandoned bck car along with several footprints.

  Upon further iigation, it e the start of the hiking path.

  ‘...It’s noisy.’

  His Deathly Intuition had been prig the back of his he moment he arrived. He used his Elemental Sight to s his surroundings, to which he found nothing. There weren’t any ambushes or the likes.

  All he found was a slight disturban space. It was extremely simir to Einstein's visualization of the Sun’s surroundings. Frankly put, the space was bent. It was as if there was something here akin to a sun.

  A while ter, Aleph saw the past. From Ling leaving the car up to her arrival in this pce, he saw everything.

  Then…

  ‘...That’s it.’

  Within this dark blue sight, her body turned into a simir color of the space. Just like that, she disappeared.

  Aleph took some time to resolve his inner flicts.

  ‘She went there. Sea of Quanta.’

  In the Current Era, the Sea of Quanta was the pce where Kevin was trapped. It was also the pce where Seele got stuck after an experiment that went wrong.

  It own as the pce where numerous world bubbles fall. It ce filled with numerous untrolled variables.

  Aleph thought of his on, Yamato.

  ‘It’s something that could create a portal to the demon realm. If it’s verted, at least to honkai’s standards…’

  It might be something that could forcefully open a way to other dimensions.

  ‘To enter or not…’

  The strong ‘prig’ sensation at the back of his neck disced him otherwise.

  ‘Is this a trap..?’

  A crossroad resented upon Aleph.