Trust.
That was a word Aleph could not accept easily.
In his previous life, the reason behind his death was a trusted friend of his.
Otherwise, how could a bomb be dropped in an extremely important place? Their own missile defense systems would have intercepted it before it could even be dropped.
It was different now.
‘I feel lighter…’
More than half of the people in this room knew that Aleph has his own secrets. It was impossible to hide these ...
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Hua’s gaze turned to Mei. She saw no changes 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 available seats, waiting for the explanation to come.
Nevertheless…
‘I wonder who she is…’
A weird feeling came to Hua. She could not properly describe it. Though, i...
2024-11-28 16:25:10 +0000 UTC
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After calming down the excited Vill-V, Aleph headed towards where Kurumi’s clone sat. Beside her was a sleeping Klein. The latter’s head was resting on the sofa’s head.
“Mobius-san asked me to take care of her.” She spoke with a smile. “You took your sweet time.”
The original and the clone looked at each other. A moment later, the black cat jumped into the shadow, only to return to Kurumi's original form. She unhesitantly sat on Aleph’s lap.
‘...I always re...
2024-11-27 16:13:07 +0000 UTC
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‘She’s silent.’
Carrying the black cat in his arms, Aleph proceeded to the lounge as per normal. On the way, he couldn’t help but wonder why Kurumi did not do any of her usual teasing today.
“Why, you used to pet me before, no?”
Kurumi’s voice rang in his head and made Aleph freeze. He recalled the times he habitually patted her cat form while she was asleep. What came next were the memories of their close contact.
It only happened twice.
Once was w...
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“Alright, alright. I’ll leave now…”
Aleph paused his words as he took one last look at Satoru.
“...but not without dealing with the troublemakers above.”
“...You don’t shy away from work.”
Satoru could not help but say these words.
“Heh. I’m not like you. I don’t slack off.” He soon began walking. “Then, I’ll get going.”
Nobody knew there was someone who could make Satoru Gojo speechless.
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“Hup. Thi...
2024-11-25 15:52:14 +0000 UTC
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Thud-!
It was a very swift work. All that was left on the former Mahito was his severed body parts. Soon, they disappeared upon being exorcised.
“This move works universally, I see…”
Aleph stared at the bits of Mahito’s body completely disappearing. His gaze then turned into the half-burnt Nanami.
“Ahem. It seems like you got in a huge trouble.”
“...I did.”
To Aleph, who was a completely unknown Sorcerer to Nanami, the latter gave a...
2024-11-24 15:35:10 +0000 UTC
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Ding-!
Aleph’s attention was taken by the prompt that popped up.
[Achievement Unlocked: Nemesis of Frauds]
[Nemesis of Frauds: Defeat the King of Curses in a frontal and full-powered battle.]
[Achievement Unlocked: If You Want It…]
[If You Want It…: Successfully separate two souls using Yamato.]
They appeared the moment Aleph defeated Sukuna. When he saw their rewards, he nodded with satisfaction.
[Information Imp...
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Shiing-!
Shiing-!
Shiing-!
The first thing that greeted Aleph was the swathe of invisible arcs headed towards him. The moment they touched his body, however, they seemingly lost all of their functions.
The entire twenty-meter radius where Aleph stood was turned into nothing but a space for these arcs.
Most combatants would have been seriously injured with it. The strongest special-grades would have to put their mind on operating th...
2024-11-22 13:12:27 +0000 UTC
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It wasn’t the first time Sukuna faced off against egotistical enemies.
However, the man opposite him gave off something different.
A feeling of death.
Tap.
Tap.
Tap.
The man, Aleph, took his time leisurely. He strolled to Sukuna’s position as if he was walking in a park.
“Hoh..?”
Sukuna tested the waters. His current strength, having eaten sixteen fingers in total, almost brought him to his peak....
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The first thing Aleph noticed was his body.
“It’s the same… a complete replica.”
He didn’t hesitate to use his elemental sight. In his chest lay a fragmented crystal. It was pitch-black in color.
The next thing he noticed was his clothes. It was none other than the formal ‘Fire MOTH’ uniform most personnel wore.
“Hm… Indestructible, huh…”
Aleph tried to peer into its composition, only to find out it was made of ordinary materials.
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“Evolution Cube..?”
Aleph tried to glean any kind of information using elemental sight.
“Ugh…”
The moment he did so, he was greeted with a sudden influx of ‘indecipherable’ information. It was akin to a static radio noise blasted to his ears at full volume.
He had to rest for a while before he recovered.
“It’s similar to the Sanctum. They should have the same origin.” He wondered. “Great Sage. Try to decipher a part of that...
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Aleph could not respond to her question. His mind was too blank due to what happened just now.
‘She…’
{Result: Excessive shocks produced by external factors are detected. Entering procedures…}
The automatic activation of his thought acceleration and parallel minds allowed him to gain a brief solace.
‘...Mobius is really Mobius.’
The lethal look she directed to him made his heart skip. It was a mix of the two’s initiatives—Mei’s lethality and Kur...
2024-11-18 05:45:27 +0000 UTC
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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 uncommon to see these types of things in people of high status. Even the councilors of Fire MOTH have multiple women at their beds.
It was just him.
He couldn’t accept such thinking.
What Aleph sought was a sincere relationship. To that, he was willing...
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Midnight.
Aleph was sitting at his bedside. Beside him was none other than Kurumi.
‘Hm… It’s like this…’
A week ago, Kurumi recovered enough by intercepting his cursed energy. Her authority as a Spirit was unlocked.
Tick.
Tick.
Tick.
The cold handle of a flintlock gun appeared in his grasp. A vague phantom of a clock appeared on his back.
Aleph pointed the flintlock above his shoulder—to the ...
2024-11-16 15:30:49 +0000 UTC
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Aleph skipped [Albion’s Remains] and headed straight into the [Red Strings of Fate (Upgrade)]. Like the [Seven Swords], it was an ‘upgrade’ to his existing ability.
[Red Strings of Fate (Upgrade): Grants new abilities to the pre-existing ability Red Strings of Fate. (See More)]
An additional drop-down prompt could be seen from it.
[Red Strings of Fate — Upgrade: Every person tied with the red strings of fate could sense the locations and states of each other...
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For a long time, Aleph was tormented by romantic matters.
He knew how to solve things like the Herrscher’s attacks or even political problems. Only romance was something he couldn’t handle well.
He was very level-headed. He could see things beyond normal. Great Sage’s addition allowed him to predict something accurately.
{Result: The calculations, without factoring sudden actions nor out-of-record reactions, indicate a 78.55% chance of the plan succeeding.}
The g...
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The series of events happened all too suddenly. At one point, Mei was making her offensive to Aleph. The next moment, a random girl came out of nowhere and introduced herself as Aleph’s childhood friend.
From the moment she heard the name “Kurumi”, it explained many things.
‘For so long…’
Mei knew about Aleph’s childhood friend. They spent time together for three years before ‘drifting apart’, or so his own words tell. Nevertheless, she was exactly the r...
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Fifteen minutes later, the transport ship arrived on time.
“Heh. For those old guys to give you most of the work…”
“Don’t think much about it. Aren’t we doing something behind their backs? It makes it easier to hide everything.”
Mobius became busy with the round of MANTIS surgeries today. Aleph was left to his own devices, thus he had the leisure to walk around the fifth institute with Mei.
“Where did Kevin go?”
“Ah. He said that he wants to v...
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A/N: I changed about Kosma’s part. He’s not a MANTIS for now. Things seem a bit forced when the same thing already happened with Elysia’s Mahesvara. No worries though, I’ll be putting it as another plot point later on.
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“Right. You also told me about an interesting girl.”
“Ah, right.”
Aleph went straight to the fifth institute after he settled the eastern continent’s problems. During the eight days he was gone, there had been dozens of new MANTI...
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“Hello? Major? Yes, I took down the last one. Can you bring a transport carrier over here?”
“Got it.”
It was a brief talk. Aleph touched the earpiece behind his ear and ended the call. He was standing not far away from Vayu’s large body.
“It’ll take some time for them to arrive. Do you want to come out for fresh air?”
As he asked, the tattered black cloak swayed along the gusts of wind.
“Mn.”
Hearing that, Aleph used his Sphere Bound...
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It was a complete silence.
Kurumi went on the offensive with her ‘teasing’ looks. Aleph couldn’t do much except to re-organize himself.
‘This is…’
Admittedly, it was the reason why he treated Mei’s gradual advancements passively. A part of him belonged to his good friend who was with him for three years. Only when he entrusted Kurumi with his power did he realize that these feelings might exist beyond normal friendship.
After all, a split-se...
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It was imperceptible, but it was there. A heavy pressure surrounded Aleph. That was why Hua saw through a part of his current conflicts.
“Are you willing to become stronger?”
Suddenly, Aleph asked her this question.
She didn’t hesitate to give an answer.
“I am willing.”
“Alright. I will put you in Project Soldier’s list. You should have heard of it from your superiors.”
Due to the prior notification to the Commander-in-Chief, there was alrea...
2024-11-08 15:51:27 +0000 UTC
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The meeting ended with Aleph’s plan to wipe out every single emperor-class honkai beast in the Eastern Region. Since the third major eruption was still recent, its aftermath stacked with the fifth major eruption. Moreover, the two cities that did not spawn any Herrschers tend to have more ‘honkai energy’, thus creating even more emperor-class honkai beasts and the likes.
Aside from the Western Continent and the Mu Continent that spawned Herrschers, the remaining two places of the ...
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‘Hm… So that’s it.’
Aleph’s elemental sight went through the emperor-class honkai beast. From the moment he saw it, he had a familiar feeling.
Turns out, it once cooperated with the emperor-class honkai beast from the fourth eruption, codenamed “Vayu” (lit. God of Wind).
‘Heh. It’s one of the honkai beasts in this region?’
He placed these thoughts away.
Fwoosh-!
Icarus, whom he left to fly in the stratosphere...
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Throughout the flight, Aleph and Kurumi continued to talk about various things. Only when they were alone could the two catch up. The latter also respected Aleph’s time with his friends, more so when she just came back from years of disappearance.
‘What did I miss out on~?’
Stemming from her desire to catch up, Kurumi adapted this approach. Even though she was ‘attached’ to him, she couldn’t take all of his time, more so when Aleph is busy saving this world.
O...
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Aleph’s luck streak didn’t end with the events after the fifth eruption. It only took him a day to accomplish the Project ELF with Einstein. It was very different from the planned week-long schedule.
With that, he decided on the next thing to do.
“Mei gave me the details. I’ll be responsible for cleaning up several cities in the Far East.”
The Western Continent experienced two consecutive major honkai eruptions, and so did the Far East. Out of everyone in the Ea...
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It took a while for Kurumi to process everything.
“Fu… Hahaha..!”
Aleph could tell that her laughs contained a hint of unbridled joy. Her gaze never left Aleph as she stood her upper body from the bed. Her gothic lolita dress became even more messy, threatening to reveal more than just her cleavage.
“Hee… I thought we wouldn’t meet again, Ain.” She said with a smile. “I still haven’t returned the favor.”
“You mean, that mirror? There’s no ne...
2024-11-02 16:52:23 +0000 UTC
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‘It feels pretty stupid to act like that… childishly.’
Aleph never thought that he would fall up to that point. He has a certain degree of confidence in himself. Everyone who reached a high political status has that. Only, he let his doubts consume him more. All of his plans—be it his initial contact with Mei, the papers he published as an initiative, or him stealthily playing around some companies to gain influence to some extent—were disrupted by his parents’ sudden death....
2024-11-01 16:22:44 +0000 UTC
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Creak.
Kalpas’ fist remained steadily enclosed within Aleph’s palm. The latter’s right hand visibly gained black scales. His fingernails became sharp. It was akin to a black gauntlet filled with varying purple lines. The transformation halted on his elbow. Circuit-like purple lines decorated his entire body.
With such a luxurious treatment, Kalpas wasn’t able to force him to move an inch.
Crack-!
The shockwaves of his attack caused cracks to a...
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‘She’s tall.’
A random thought went to Aleph’s head.
‘If I didn’t have any surgeries, or even Achievement Hunter…’
His original height was 165 centimeters. With his improvement of strength as well as the MANTIS surgery, it was pushed to 185 centimeters. The miraculous improvement of 20 centimeters was something that many would die for back in his previous world.
Aponia’s height—lying at 175 centimeters—was enough to reach his nose. Meanwh...
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