The past few days, Aleph found that he got more exhausted than his battles with the honkai beasts.

  ‘I am already going this way. I deserve this… at least.’

  Aleph was aware of polygamy. It wasn’t very unon to see these types of things in people of high status. Even the cilors of Fire MOTH have multiple women at their beds.

  It was just him.

  He couldn’t accept such thinking.

  What Aleph sought was a siionship. To that, he was willing to offer his everything. His cept of love ure, mainly due to his ‘bachelor’ status in his previous life.

  He was aware of the struggles—situationships, first moves, numerous unsaid rules—in his previous life. That was the reason h had the ‘formu’ every time he notices something wrong with others. He wasn’t a blockhead who disregarded others’ feelings.

  So long as Aleph could bear it…

  He would go with it.

  Click.

  It was the sound of a doorknob turning. When he opehe door, he was greeted by the rare sight of Mobius in her office. She was usually in her boratory doing practical experiments. She only signed paperworks once every two weeks… sometimes even a month.

  The eime Aleph sat down, not once had Mobius gnced upon him.

  “What did Klein tell you?”

  She asked in her usual ical tone.

  “It’s nothing.” He replied as he tied his shoulder-length hair. “I was the one who told her things.”

  “...Why bother spreading your private life to others?”

  “Klein isn’t an outsider, and so are you.”

  All this time, Mobius hasn’t g him. She was talking as she sighe paperworks.

  “Was that why you dared to do that st night?”

  “That’s right.” He answered.

  Faced with Aleph’s hoy, Mobius paused. She looked up a his eyes.

  “Is that so?”

  Mobius’ snake-like eyes narrowed down. Her enhanced senses immediately caught something.

  “You slept with one of them. Your so-called childhood friend.” She ented. “It’s surprising you have good self-trol.”

  From the lingering st on Aleph, she khat he was with Kurumi on the bed. What surprised her, however, was the fact that nothing happened between them.

  It made her rethink Aleph's impression st night.

  ‘He’s better than a phinderer. How pure. If…’

  Mobius’ thoughts began to enter a slightly dangerous zone. Her heart tracted as chaotic thoughts entered her mind.

  It caused her to break away from Aleph’s stare.

  The very thing that bothered Mobius since her MANTIS surgery returned.

  She was fident she could deal with anything, but this…

  ‘...’

  Aleph’s voice broke her out of her inner dilemma.

  “Almost a year has passed since our first meeting. Back then, I could remember how baffled you were when I accepted your terms.”

  He began to retell their past. His words dug out the doubts Mobius had before.

  Tap.

  “Why did you readily agree?”

  She pced her pen into the desk. Her gaze returo Aleph once more.

  “Heh. Haven’t we talked about this before?” He rhetorically asked. “ot scared of your reputation, but I saw your talents beh it. I am also fident of what you find on myself. I mean, isn’t there the ‘Holy Blood’ used in high-ranking MANTIS surgeries?”

  “...Tell me the things you left out.”

  “...”

  Aleph had an urge to py dumb when fag Mobius’ questio he did not choose to do that.

  ‘As expected. Really…’

  He might have been able to hide things from most people, but not from Mobius.

  “I saw the future.”

  “...”

  “It was very early on. I saw the future. sider it as another one of my superpowers.” He calmly said. “I already have two if you think of it. Heh.”

  Aleph revealed one of his biggest secrets. It was very huge to the point Mobius could not react properly. Aleph’s light tone did not make it any less impactful.

  “Everyone fought hard. Twelve Herrschers were defeated with everyone’s efforts. You were one of the people who fought.”

  “What did I do?”

  “Bad things. That descriptor wasn’t enough to enpass everything you did.”

  Mobius nodded. She already had a gist on the bad things she did. She knew herself the best. Given such desperate circumstances, it wasn't far-fetched she could disregard human lives and the likes.

  It was then did she realize—

  “...Was that why?”

  “Hm?”

  “The reason why you kept pushing yourself.” She calmly said.

  All of Mobius’ chaotic thoughts were long gone. Aleph’s revetion was enough to wash them away, even if temporarily. She became more ed of the future he said… as well as its effe him.

  “How did it end?”

  The most crucial question came to fray.

  “You died… presumably. And so did others. Only a few thousand humans lived.”

  Aleph’s invisible burdens preseself to her.

  Withholding future knowledge, just his current duty was already heavy enough. He served as the front against the honkai. If the reason why he kept fighting was due to the ‘bad future’ he saw, that pressure multiplied several fold.

  Her eyes looked down. Nobody, not even Aleph, knew what she was thinking.

  ‘Kindness… Hah. To think I would…’

  There were only a few times Mobius experie. Bnca’s assistant, Klein’s friendly , and noh’s as to ge the bad future he ko ge the person she would bee.

  To describe it, her current feelings were molded and tied together to form something difficult to describe. Her eyes narrowed down the same time as her heart tracted.

  “I apologize for hiding it until now.”

  Aleph’s sincere apology resounded in her ears. It made her look at him again.

  ‘This is why…’

  Mobius did not hesitate anymore.

  Aleph might have briefly fotten why he went to this offid told Mobius about his secrets, but she did not.

  Mobius leaned over the desk. She grasped Aleph’s colr with both her hands. The distance from her to Aleph’s seat wasn’t far in the first pbsp;

  The startled look of the tter fshed in her eyes.

  Without having the time to react, Aleph’s lips were greeted by a soft sensation.

  ‘Wha—?’

  The slight pain when his nose bumped into hers no longer mattered. All he could think of was Mobius’ lips.

  Five seds ter, she separated from him. Nothing out of the normal could be seen from her face, but Aleph saw the tinge of blush on her ears.

  “This is what you came for. Two weren’t enough.” She calmly stated. “So, what now?”

  At this moment, a ing snake ed around Aleph.