Chat Group : Another Fate From Honkai

"Not bad... They actually figured out my next target is the Origin Stone."

Nagami floated casually in mid-air, hands tucked into his pockets, as if he were out for a post-dinner stroll.

He paid no mind to the towering mechanical beasts below, all aiming their guns and cannons straight at him.

Wherever his foot touched the void, faint ripples shimmered in the air.

"Commander of this facility—how about handing over the Origin Stone? If you do it now, I might just call off the infiltration."

He didn't speak loudly, yet his voice resonated in every soldier's ear, as if he were casually haggling with a street vendor.

Pilots across countless mechs, still connected through their neural links, stared through their displays at the boy who seemed more like a god descending than a human being.

Awe and disbelief welled up in their chests.

But discipline held strong—until they received direct orders, not a single one pulled the trigger.

In the control room, Major Segai narrowed his eyes, mechanical gears whirring faintly within his artificial eye as it rotated at unprecedented speeds, scanning Nagami's glowing aura.

"...Nothing..."

He frowned deeply.

But rather than being disappointed, he was intrigued.

As far as he knew, only the power of the Void could grant a human such divine abilities.

"Oh, newborn king... please accept my belated congratulations!"

With manic enthusiasm, Segai's voice boomed across the night sky through the facility's external loudspeakers.

At the same time, he pressed down hard on the button of his old-fashioned flip phone.

The moment the command was issued, a deafening barrage of fire rained down from all directions—an overwhelming storm of gunfire and missiles, forming a dense wall of destruction aimed directly at the lone figure hovering in the sky.

Nagami didn't move a muscle.

Instead, a gorgeous wave of Honkai energy surged around him, forming a shimmering, high-density energy barrier before him.

'BOOM!'

Missiles exploded violently, fireballs roaring across the sky, flames and white-hot gas mixing into a sea of destruction.

Smoke and shockwaves rippled through the air, the sound of the explosions merging into a chaotic, metallic symphony.

The firepower barrage lasted for several minutes.

But when the smoke cleared...

He was still there.

Unscathed. Unbothered. Floating silently, as if nothing had happened.

"What!"

"U-U... Unscratched?!"

"No way... no way!"

In the control rooms, across the mechs, soldiers and officers alike stared at the boy—whose clothes hadn't even been singed—and swallowed hard.

Even without an energy shield, a Herrscher's armor wasn't something normal human weapons could ever hope to damage.

"Well, your little fireworks show was flashy, I'll give you that," Nagami said with a faint smirk. "But being that close was a bit much. Would've been better from a distance."

He tilted his head slightly.

That madman's speech had taken him off guard—then he remembered.

'Ah right... Guilty Crown did have that lunatic Segai in it.'

"You won't be seeing any Void Light from me," Nagami said lazily. "But since you were kind enough to send a gift... I guess I should return the favor with something nice."

He considered showing Segai what it looked like when stars shattered—but the Origin Stone was still deep inside the research facility.

Using the Zero Output Mode of a Divine Key on mere mechs felt like a total waste.

"So... let's try this instead!"

Raising his right hand, Nagami snapped his fingers with a crisp click.

Glowing particles of azure light swirled like stardust, coming together and taking shape in midair.

Under Nagami's mental control, they followed the blueprint forming in his mind.

A thermobaric bomb—also known as a fuel-air explosive.

A hybrid between a high-explosive and an incendiary device, it was essentially a high-energy weapon saturated with fuel.

Its detonation velocity was slower—around 3 to 4 kilometers per second—but what it lacked in speed, it made up for in destructive intensity.

Enriched with powdered elements like aluminum, boron, silicon, titanium, magnesium, and zirconium, the bomb would ignite these materials during detonation, unleashing an overwhelming burst of thermal energy and shock pressure.

He had considered using a mini-nuke… but that would've caused nuclear fallout.

Not exactly environmentally friendly.

So instead, Nagami went with a "quasi-nuke"—a cleaner, more eco-conscious option.

And of course, he made sure to dial in just the right yield.

A gleaming, steel-blue bomb materialized before him, pulsing with a radiant blue light.

Inside the control room, Segai's gaze burned with obsession as he stared at the screen—at that impossible glow of the Herrscher of Reason's power.

"Oh, and just so you know," Nagami added casually, raising a single finger to the nearest camera. "This isn't Void power. It's Herrscher power."

"Now then… enjoy the gift."

He located the Origin Stone below, activated an acceleration skill, and vanished from the sky in an instant.

Moments later, deafening clangs echoed from within the research facility as walls were torn apart by steel and sparks.

The bomb detonated the second Nagami disappeared.

A dense, high-energy cloud of fuel particles engulfed the entire area, suspended like dust in the wind.

Then came the second-stage ignition—and a fireball erupted.

Anaerobic detonation. Anaerobic combustion. Oxygen-fueled combustion.

All three phases of the explosion completed within a millisecond, releasing a colossal shockwave that visibly rippled through the air as the fireball expanded outward, consuming everything in its radius.

Blistering heat and crushing pressure engulfed every End Rave unit in the area.

After the inferno from the explosion dimmed, the lingering smoke sucked in surrounding air, rising into a massive, terrifying mushroom cloud.

Beneath the trembling research facility, one of the remote control pods slid open.

The pilot inside was drenched in sweat, curled into a ball, clutching his head, and screaming in sheer panic.

Daryl Yan—who hadn't charged forward immediately due to Nagami's unexpected method of arrival—now found himself completely paralyzed by fear.

Just before that devastating light descended, his instincts as a seasoned combatant kicked in. Without hesitation, he disconnected from the neural link.

"You bastard! Segai, you bastard! You absolute piece of—!"

'You told me this was just a stronger enemy. One I could enjoy fighting?!'

'What kind of messed-up idea of 'stronger' do you even have?!'

Sure, Daryl was a battle-hardened maniac, but he wasn't stupid.

Still, no matter how loud he shouted, there was no one left to answer.

Five hundred meters underground was relatively safe—but everything above had been completely flattened by that quasi-nuclear blast.

No one could've survived that blinding burst of energy. No human being, anyway.

"Damn it! That monster's after the Origin Stone! He'll be here any second—I've got to run!"

He bolted out of the pod.

The officer who was supposed to monitor and sever his neural connection in an emergency? Is Long gone.

Not that he had time to care.

"Ora!"

A strange, almost playful shout echoed through the corridor—followed by a deafening crash.

A ten-centimeter-thick alloy blast door exploded inward as if struck by an unstoppable force.

"M-Monster...!"

Eyes wide with terror, Daryl—who had once slaughtered innocent civilians without hesitation—now trembled like a frightened child.

For the first time, the battle-crazed killer felt what it truly meant to be afraid.

The boy walking toward him—refined and youthful—radiated power so overwhelming it could only be described as divine.

"Incredible... someone's still alive?" Nagami remarked with an amused smile. "But calling someone you just met a 'monster'? That's kinda rude, don't you think?"

He casually patted Daryl on the shoulder. "Hey there, buddy. What's the password to the room next door? Mind opening it for me?"

Sure, he could just punch through the door… but why waste the effort when there was a perfectly good keypad?

Besides… why break things if you didn't have to?

"Hmm... you do look kind of familiar," Nagami added thoughtfully.

He gently pushed the speechless Daryl—who was frozen in fear—toward the lab door where the Origin Stone was secured.

As he walked, Nagami pulled up his group chat interface to review memories from Guilty Crown.

When Daryl shakily entered the code and scanned his fingerprint to unlock the door, Nagami finally recalled.

"Oh, right. You're that twisted kid."

In the depths of his memory, the face matched.

With a smirk, Nagami studied Daryl's panicked expression and slowly reached out toward his chest.

A radiant blue glow flared at the point of contact—a circular emblem of light formed across Daryl's sternum.

It was the activation of the King's Mark, triggering the latent Void power within.

The crystal embedded in Daryl's chest began to writhe violently.

The air itself seemed to resonate with a faint hum—like a whisper from the Void.

"Looks like the Kaleidoscope still has some use."

Nagami reached in and extracted a crystalline weapon shaped like a prism—Kaleidoscope, a Void weapon capable of reflecting attacks.

With a swift karate chop, he knocked Daryl unconscious.

Mercy had no place here.

He wasn't going to let a warmonger like Daryl off easy.

But killing him now would mean the Void within him would vanish as well.

Nagami took a few seconds to analyze the Kaleidoscope with his Alpha Stigma Eye, then crushed it with a single punch.

As it shattered, Daryl's body began crystallizing and Void energy began corrupting his very being.

Nagami's special vision watched carefully, noting the reaction.

"Huh... this method of transmission…"

He fell into brief thought, then turned to the now-unlocked lab.

Inside, sealed behind layers of advanced security, sat the Origin Stone—pulsing with ethereal light.

Glancing at the glowing King's Mark on the back of his right hand, Nagami didn't hesitate.

A flash of brilliant lightning—faster than thought—tore through every security mechanism in place.

The defenses shattered instantly.

He stepped forward and picked up the Origin Stone, its radiant energy swirling beautifully in his palm.

Without missing a beat, Nagami flew upward through the path he'd carved during his entrance, vanishing back into the night sky.

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