Hua’s gaze turo Mei. She saw no ges on her face whatsoever.

  ‘I am missing something.’

  As a soldier who fought for more than half a year, Hua learned how to properly analyze her surroundings. She wasn’t as rash as the time during the third eruption.

  She sat on one of the avaible seats, waiting for the expnation to e.

  heless…

  ‘I wonder who she is…’

  A weird feeling came to Hua. She could not properly describe it. Though, it was for certain that it made her unfortable.

  Oher hand, Kurumi took the initiative to get off Aleph’s p. She then sat on his right. Mei took the remaining spa their sofa, while Mobius sat opposite them.

  No words were said, yet the temperature ihe air-ditioned lounge decreased slightly.

  ‘...Yeah. This is my fault.’

  Whehree met together for the first time, Aleph asked this question oo Great Sage. The respohat he got was:

  {Result: Women may have a specific phase whereas they face tradictory feelings, which may result in improper expression and misuandings…}

  Simply put, girls could act like that. They accepted the on sensus—that the three of them would share Aleph—but a part of them that wanted him solely for themselves remained.

  He thought for a while before he acted out. He decided to point out the invisible elephant ihe room first.

  “It should be time to show yourself, Sakura.”

  The moment Aleph spoke, Sakura undid her teique. She appeared out of nowhere in a blink of ahere weren’t any visual indicators.

  “I apologize if it was disrespectful.”

  Aleph met the pink-haired fox’s gaze. Without the hood to disguise her fox-like ears, it articurly promi.

  He uood the words she did not say just now.

  ‘She thought it would be inappropriate to interrupt us…’

  After a silent apology, Aleph spoke to Hua.

  “How was it?”

  “It is alright…”

  Unlike Hua’s inal indit as a MANTIS, she received the surgery instead. It removed her ces of activating Garuda’s Active Honkai Rea during a fight, though it was nothing but the price she paid to acquire it earlier.

  “Let’s spar ter… and Sakura too.”

  “Hum..?”

  Sakura instinctively grasped the sheathed bde by her waist. She could still recall the beatdown they received a few months back.

  “Hum, fet about it. I will fight everyone else.” Aleph spoke after a light exhale. “Sakura, Hua, Kevin, Elysia, and Anna. I will fight you all together.”

  Hua and Sakura could not speak for a while.

  “You are pnning to destroy my boratory, no?”

  Mobius said with a sarcastie.

  “We won’t fight ihere’s an unused airfield outside.”

  “What kind of battle are you pnning to have?” She asked again.

  “A serious one.”

  Aleph smiled as he said so. His right hand was still being pyed by Kurumi. Mei and Mobius saw his somewhat evil smile, however.

  “Shall I ready the medical bay?”

  Mei asked with a serious tone.

  “There’s no need. I learned a eique that could heal injuries.”

  Hearing Aleph’s revetion, Sakura swiftly turned her gaze to him.

  The former paused before he tinued expining, “I am not sure when I would be able to teach it to others. It’s different from the previous ones I taught.”

  “Hum.”

  Over the course of a few months, Sakura learned what Aleph gave to her. That included Sasaki’s experiences in swordsmanship, as well as the Sphere Boundary. This teique simply fitted her skillset like a glove.

  The only thing she could not learn as of now was Juezhao.

  ‘Aeique… Senior Aleph learned a new one again…’ Hua thought.

  The exact opposite could be said to Hua. She learned Juezhao swiftly. Her previously leareiques were already simir to it. That teique fitted her as much as the Sphere Boundary did to Sakura.

  The two women kneless the teiques they learned were. It was certainly more difficult to pioneer such a teique.

  While they were talking about these things, Kevin arrived along with the two teers.

  The Miss Pink Elf immediately saw through the silent tension ihe room. Her gaze also met with the unfamiliar girl sitting beside Aleph.

  Seeing so mahings, a question came out of Elysia’s mouth.

  “When will this meeting start?”

  *****

  There was a feren in the fifth institute. It was more than enough to hold a rge meeting. Although, Aleph thought it would be o have a ge of atmosphere.

  “I wao talk about the sixth Herrscher… and the potential dangers she might bring.”

  Aleph stood up from his seat a while ago. He was currently standing as he discussed in a serious mood.

  “But first, I have something to fess… to everyone here.” He paused before he tinued, “Aside from my eyes, I have another power. The power to see the future… once.”

  Nobody raised any questions and the likes.

  “Some people ihis room might have wondered. Some of my as seem a bit rushed. That was because of that oure I saw.”

  The inal trajectory of the Previous Era unfolded from Aleph’s words. It was fragmented, certainly, but it was enough to tell everyone ihis room of the future they were headed into.

  From the third eruption up until humanity’s demise in the hands of the fourteenth, Aleph talked about it. He talked for more than fifteen miraight detailing most of the things he knew regarding the Previous Era.

  Everyone fell silent. They digested what was revealed to them. Only Mobius, Mei, and Kurumi remaihe same.

  Aleph let the rest be.

  ‘It is better like this. It will only be worse if they do not have any awareness of our current situation, though it will bring them more pressure…’

  This meeting was something he decided on after a careful deliberation. Instead of keeping them in the blind, it is much better for them to know of the dahey are fag.

  The only differeween Aleph and Aponia was that the former fidently fided everything he kneonia’s inal trajectory cursed her to never be able to ge the future she saw. Be it revealing her visions to someone or attempting to ge their ‘threads’, it did not work.

  “Aleph. What are you pnning to do?”

  Mei was the first person to ask a question. They already talked about this revetioerday. It wasn’t just her. Mobius and Kurumi were the same.

  “That’s simple. That future o be ged.”