Elysia.

  Birthpce (?): Vdivostok-51.

  Birthdate (?): November 11.

  Age: 19 (?)

  These were Elysia’s on information found on Fire MOTH’s database. She was found by a gardener and was taken into an orphanage. She ter decided to travel the world once she came of age. Ohing happened after another until she entered honkai beasts, which led to her existence being found by Fire MOTH.

  What MOTH did not expect was she had enough strength to match that of a Herrscher’s. It remained an enigma to those who studied it.

  Some assumed that her abilities stemmed from her unpreted honkai resistance. Some attributed it to a ‘power’ of hers that allowed her to summon forth a bow and aim at enemies with honkai-made arrows.

  Elysia’s existeurned Fire MOTH upside-down. She was used as a basis to many studies, some of whiclude ‘honkai ons’ that would ter serve as a foundation for Divine Keys and Pri-ARMs.

  Tonight, her true identity es to light.

  “What are you pnning to do?”

  Elysia’s voio longer tained her usual pyfulness. Yet, one could still hear her softness.

  “Nothing. I wish everything would proceed as usual.”

  Elysia could not respond immediately.

  “Think of it like this.” Aleph spoke. “I knew you were hiding desserts now and then. If I had any harmful iions…”

  “...You would have stolen them?”

  “Exactly.”

  The dessert analogy somehow offended her. Then again, hearing Aleph’s true iions was far more important.

  “I k since our first meeting.”

  Before she could ask another question, he already went first.

  “You are a Herrscher, but… you sacrificed yourself for humanity. You died for our future.”

  Aleph’s words tained subtle hints. From the moment Elysia learned more of what humanity could offer, she had a faint foreboding—that she would e to face a crossroad iure.

  “Major Anna.” He told her a name. “It was supposed to be impossible for a humao exist oneone bees a Herrscher. Guess who opened up that possibility?”

  “...”

  “Of course, things are different now. You died before the battle with the fourteenth. I don’t have a clear answer as to why it took effeow. It might be due to how I ged the future. My existence, maybe?”

  It was the first time Elysia sah speak like this. His usual light-hearted tone remained, yet she could see a tinge of fusion in his words.

  It could be due to him opening up things to someone he was closely guarded before. Maybe it was due to him lessening the burdens of his foreknowledge.

  “...In the end, all that matters is that we win this fight… and I trust you for my back, Miss Pink Elf.”

  Elysia’s eyes met his purple eyes. It was the first time she saw his taciturn side. It created a huge gap from the Aleph she knew.

  “Heh. So you act like that, Aleph.”

  Like a reset button, her words wiped out the serious atmosphere between them. It also caused Aleph to momentarily pause.

  ‘My name…’

  All these times, Elysia called him ‘Sir Aleph’. It was the first time she called him by his name.

  “Right.” He recalled something as he turo face her. “You don’t o help others with first-aid. I deal with it by myself.”

  ******

  At oime, there were thirteen MANTISes who survived the Tragedy of Binding. The ones who felled the eleventh Herrscher who killed thousands of MANTISes.

  Looking at the people opposite him, Aleph sighed in mencholy.

  Kevin.

  Elysia.

  Sakura.

  Hua.

  Aside from Mobius and Vill-V who abstained in fighting, the rest of the people from that meeting took his invitation to spar. Even Major Anna, the Herrscher of Ice, did.

  {“I told you o I will tell this again. Try to keep it low.”}

  Mobius’ voice came from their earpieces.

  Beep-!

  Only the sileweewo sides remained.

  “Uhm. Ainsworth, you’re sure about this, right?”

  Kevin asked with a cautious tone.

  “Yeah.”

  “No, it’s not that. Are you sure we handle you?”

  His words nearly made Aleph ugh. Their previous sparri Kevin a shadow.

  “Yeah. Trust your powers. I also trol mine if you have any doubts.”

  “You said it. you give us a minute?”

  “Sure.”

  Aleph looked at them as Kevin started talking to them. It was the pnning phase, much like the times whenever MOTH soldiers were receiving a mission debriefing regarding an emperor-css honkai beast. Aleph’s status is higher than that.

  While he was waiting, he was greeted by a set of prompts.

  ‘Hm..?’

  A bck spark appeared twi his mind. In the pahat described his [Embryonic Power System], the word “locked” disappeared from one of the lines. Moreover, one of the question marks turned into two words.

  [Innate Cursed Teique: Adaptation]

  [Innate Cursed Teique: Star Rage]

  ‘...’

  He eechless.

  A moment ter, his heart started beating quickly.

  ‘Is the sun rising from the west?’

  First, it was his cursed energy. All three of the [Perfeergy Boxes] gave him han five hundred units. was the cursed teiques he received.

  Adaptation was the teique used by one of Megumi Fushiguro’s shikigamis—the stro o was also the shikigami used by Sukuna to kill Satojo.

  Maha.

  However, it wasn’t it that shook Aleph, but the sed teique.

  ‘Star Rage. This is… yeah. It’s that.’

  When he went to Shibuya, he wondered whether he would e across another special-grade Sorcerer. Unfortunately, he cleared out the fn sorcerers too fast, to the point he never got to meet her.

  Star Rage was Yuki Tsukumo’s cursed teique. Its capabilities were only revealed when she and Choso, a cursed spirit, fought against Kenjaku.

  Kashimo heard from Choso of her cursed teique—to add an imaginary mass to herself or the shikigami attached to her teique. With her hey knew more about it.

  So long as the imaginary mass does not exceed a certain point, it would not affect the target in a physical mahe moment it does, however, the opposite occurs.

  The imaginary mass could be added with no limits, to the point…

  ‘It create a bck hole that destroys Earth.’

  Aleph snapped out of his thoughts when he saw Kevin and the rest finish their pns.

  A smile untrolbly appeared on Aleph’s face.

  Seeing this, Kevin had a bad premonition.

  ‘He said he could heal our injuries…’

  Only now did he realize that it had another meaning—

  ‘He beat us more.’

  *****

  A/N: Well, this is it. Bom Ba Ye was one of the few cursed teiques I was frustrated about. I never got to see it properly since Kenjaku mao bullshit his way through it (Ehem, the Anti-Gravity CT he got from taking those backshots). It also fitted Aleph's current skillset of a close-bat fighter. Just guess what he could do with it iure chapters (Hint: Cursed Teique Reversal). Tbf, I'm still thinking on what it could do as well as what might happen when superimposed with aeique such as Ratio or... ahem, you know...

  Anyways, I should be able to write atleast one additional chapter this week, then the remaining two chapters week.