{1st person view}
8 years ahead.
In a few weeks it will be 13 years since my girlfriend and I were reincarnated into this world as siblings.
We are keeping a low profile, so to speak, since although we are very good at physical activities in general, I prefer to keep my grades average so that I don't have to be called to do uncomfortable things often.
My sister, on the other hand, just hasn't adapted very well to the Japanese education system, although it seems to be more rigorous than what we had before. 'At least for me'.
Since we are now 12 years old, our parents have allowed us to sign up for clubs and dojos to practice, and I am currently in one of these clubs.
*Fwoosh*
The sound of an arrow cutting through the air is heard in the room, at the same time it is possible to see a practice arrow flying until it hits the center of a target, joining four others that were in the same place.
"Owwww".
"That was amazing Yanagise-kun."
"You really look like a pro Ya-kun."
'Really? Ya-kun?, there's nothing better' I thought in exasperation as I heard the nickname one of my archery club colleagues had given me.
"Ahaha, it's not that bad guys, I haven't reached the level of a pro yet" I laughed without amusement at what they said, and it was that's actually true since my archery level would currently be classified as intermediate.
'At least for normal people' I couldn't help but think as I compared myself to the man I inherited most of my powers from.
By EMIYA's standards, I was just about to complete the basic level of archery.
My current range limit is around 1,300km to 1,500km, and that's without relying on magecraft, which is quite impressive since I'm close to Shirou's level of 3km without [Reinforcement].
'And to think that's a beginner's level for the Archer class, since EMIYA could comfortably shoot Broken Nps at a distance of 10km';
"Guys, guys, let's not get too carried away, okay? It's almost time for you to go to your other classes" my thoughts are interrupted by the voice of our instructor.
"Ahhhh" I hear my classmates chorus as they remember that we still have half the afternoon occupied by classes.
"Alright Sensei, I'll be going now" I turned from where I was shooting and went to put away the equipment I was wearing.
"Ah! Alright, have a great day Yanagise-kun" the instructor waved goodbye to me before turning to the other students.
"Hm, I'll be going" I muttered quickly before leaving the club facilities.
I walked through the halls of Sainan High School towards the entrance.
In fact, Kallen and I shouldn't have been able to carry out the school club activities, but with a little persuasion (Divine Key), everything worked out.
I continued walking through the halls while some students avoided me.
I kept an eye on my surroundings in case some idiot tried to mess with me, which is practically impossible now.
A few days ago, the incident with Rito's garden happened.
It turns out that a dog had destroyed our school's garden, and Rito, who had arrived there during recess, tried to fix it.
But it turns out that a random girl arrived at that moment and accused Rito of destroying the garden when she saw him with a shovel in his hand while trying to fix it.
Which obviously didn't make sense, since there was no way that Rito, who had just left for recess, could have destroyed the entire school garden.
Apart from facts like the fact that the marks on the garden weren't from a shovel and that recess hadn't even started for 5 minutes, Rito loved that garden, he would never do that.
And when I heard about this, I couldn't help but storm into Rito's classroom, as soon as I heard Rito's story I was burning with rage.
I understand that children usually act without thinking and let themselves be led by others, but even the teacher was accusing Rito of doing that without proof.
So Kallen and I took out our anger on them (more me than her), since I couldn't go around hitting them I started scolding and yelling at them.
The girl who accused Rito and incredibly the teacher couldn't handle my criticism and ended up crying, even I was surprised by this, but not much, I focused most of the criticism on her.
Let's go!
What kind of sensible teacher accuses his own student of something without first trying to find out what really happened?
'Heh, it didn't help that I was a little bigger than her' I thought with a bit of pride.
And it seems that the news that I made a student and teacher cry has spread, after all even the students of Sainan High School are avoiding me.
'At least the first years, and a few seconds'.
My thoughts stopped as soon as I saw Rito waving at me at the entrance.
He usually waits for me here in front after leaving the gardening club.
"Hey, how was the club Rito? Did you finish the reconstruction?" I asked him as soon as I got within reasonable distance to talk.
"Oh yeah sure, I've already managed to rebuild the Garden, but there are still some flowers missing" he starts cheerfully, but lowers his voice a little towards the end.
"Hey! Don't be like that man, I can get you some if you ask me" I said quickly as I patted his shoulder, he was 1.60m at this point.
Rito was taller than canon because I've been making him train with us since he was 8 years old.
Although I did brainwash him a little into thinking we were playing warriors whenever I increased the strength and intensity with which I attacked.
I taught him how to fight with daggers, mainly because his footwork is incredibly good, unimaginable as it may be, Rito is one of the best soccer players in our school.
'This guy, how can he be so good at dribbling, but at the same time trip in midair every time a girl comes to give birth!?'
I couldn't help but complain about Rito's romantic comedy protagonist power, although with my help during training I made him have these incidents less frequent than before.
"Although they still happen," I muttered in a low voice, but not low enough for him not to hear.
"Han? What are you talking about, Damian?" Rito asked as he turned to me.
"I'm talking about this supernatural power of yours to randomly fall on girls and grope them," I said with an obvious tone of humor and sarcasm in my voice.
"Ha!? HUUM!!??, and I already told you it's not my fault!!!" Rito exclaimed as he pointed to my face.
"HAHAHA, right, right I believe," I let out a slightly exaggerated laugh as I agreed with him, with an obvious skeptical tone in my voice.
"Tch, yes, yes of course you do," he grumbled as he turned his face away.
We continued like that as we went home, talking about what we had done today and what we had planned for the weekend.
And speaking of the weekend, next week we will have our first tests.
I wasn't worried, for me all the subjects were easy, and I got a 9 in almost all of them, only in physical activities I got a 10.
That was because I always fell asleep in class or didn't pay attention to the teacher, so they took points off my grade, but since I always did the work and got the questions right they couldn't take more than 1 point without cheating my grades.
'Well, I guess school is easy when you're reincarnated with perfect memory and an almost infinite library of information from an advanced world.'
I learned a lot of things using Void Archives, although I focused more on Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
They were the most useful before technology-related things, and I took those three as a priority.
'Well, there are certain phenomena that are practically impossible to make weapons with purely technology.'
My Herrscher powers are not limited to just items, I can recreate anything I fully understand, which includes other powers and phenomena.
And while it is indeed possible to create weapons that do things like shoot literal fire bullets, they are aided by honkai energy or are Divine Keys like Shamash.
And it ends up being much easier to just recreate or manifest the phenomenon itself than a weapon that reproduces it, of course there are exceptions, especially if I use [Projection], it becomes more practical, but most of the technology that does this cannot be applied to weapons–
"Damian, we're here!".
"Ah! Sorry, I was thinking about something" I said to Rito as soon as we stopped walking, I had lost my thoughts again.
"Okay, but you heard what I said, right?" he says uncertainly as he looks at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah sure! We're getting together to play with the school team on Wednesday, then we'll study on Saturday and then play that new game on Sunday" I say with all certainty.
Having more than one train of thought at the same time was pretty easy, so even though I had been focusing mostly on my internal musings, I had still recorded and given my opinion throughout our conversation.
"Right! That's exactly it, for someone who claims to be lost you remembered everything we talked about!" he says with a tone mixed with sarcasm and amusement.
"Aha..hah.ha" I gave a few humorless laughs at what Rito had said.
"Well, I guess I have to go, Kallen will be here soon and I have to do my chores" I said in a low tone.
"Sure, see you tomorrow Damina!!" Rito waved goodbye to me before walking to his house which was on the right side of mine.
"See you later Rito!!" I also said goodbye before entering through the garden gates and going to the front door.
I unlocked the door and entered the house with a yawn, I took off my shoes before heading to the kitchen to make a snack.
Just as I was reaching the kitchen counter, an alert sounded in my mind, alerting me that three presences had crossed my preparations.
It was strange, I expected Two Presences to have crossed paths since I left a delimited field in the Yuuki house, but the third individual surprised me, and the alert did not come from any of the fields I prepared around our houses.
"Hmm! Interesting, but I will have to find that later" I say to myself as I take the ingredients from the fridge and shelves.
My food was simple, a traditional sandwich just to calm my momentary hunger.
But my drink was more unique, I prepared a Flat White with extra ingredients.
A Flat White was similar to an Espresso but with a layer of white foam on top of the coffee, although the foam does not exceed the line of the glass, remaining linear to its edge, hence the name "Flat White".
But when I mentioned 'Extra ingredient', I added a bit of Valerian Root, it is a part of the plant commonly used in medicinal treatments since it has sedative and relaxing properties.
I managed to convince my mom to buy it so I could make drinks for my dad, although considering that it's usually something that makes me sleepy, it doesn't affect me that much, at most it makes me relax since even if I want to, my brain doesn't stop working.
A side effect of Herrscher's powers I would say, my brain is always working trying to understand and comprehend the things around me unconsciously and also slowly digesting the memories and experiences that come from EMIYA.
That's why I decided to add this extra ingredient to my coffee today, some "Little Accidents" happened and now I have to fix the mess.
So after preparing my snack, I went up to my room where I sat down and pulled out the homework I had to do for school.
At the same time, I divided my thoughts into three main lines.
Line-1: 'Tch! these homeworks are a pain to do, why do we have to do this again!?'.
Line-2: 'Just do it already, I have to check all the alerts we received and review the information gathered!'.
Line-3: 'Alright, I remodeled the communicator then.'
{LINE-2}:
I had made quite a bit of progress in the areas of research I had planned to start when I was five, although EMIYA was no good with any magecraft unrelated to the sword and the three basic ones he already used, I should be different.
No.
If EMIYA was barely classified as a third-rate magus, then I was genuinely a third-rate magus.
Aside from the three basic spells that EMIYA could use, he was practically unable to use anything else, even though he had read countless books and learned a lot of knowledge with the help of Rin and Luvia, he was unable to use them.
Although Archer was able to execute basic bounded fields with great difficulty, I wouldn't be much better if it weren't for my slightly better talent and Herrscher powers.
So through EMIYA's memories I was able to learn and use all the basic types of bounded fields.
'Man, when they said that the calculations needed to create a bounded field were complex, they weren't kidding.'
Although it was easy to memorize all the matrices behind these fields, what made it difficult was my lack of ability to use them correctly.
I managed to master the basic fields and their variations such as:
Sound Cancellation.
Illusion.
Mental.
Alert.
Scan.
Block.
Most of them are self-explanatory, but three of them are quite different.
The Mental field is not something like mental manipulation or anything, it is more of a delimited field that generates a mental compulsion on people around or inside it, generally used to repel or attract people with weak will or who do not know magecraft.
While the Scan field is a type that reports information about the creature or thing that is inside the field, it is generally used to know if there are useful ingredients around or to know details of magus that enter their territory.
And finally, there is the Blocking type, which works mainly by preventing beings from passing through the field without the creator's permission or without the use of force.
These, along with the runic art, were the only "magical" things I was able to obtain through EMIYA's memories. Although it may seem incredible that I obtained runic magic even minimally, it is quite restricted.
I can only use three runes, which are the reinforcement runes, the research rune and a rune to create small flames.
'Although the last one is at most useful for lighting a bonfire or fireplace'.
But!.
Combining with the technological level and knowledge I obtained from the Void Archives, I was able to create multitasking fields and slightly modify their general functioning.
I implemented only four delimited fields throughout the city, three of which are well within my reach.
The first two are obviously in my house and in the Yuuki house, where I installed delimited fields that send out alerts, scan individuals who pass through them, and have a special blockade that only allows entry to anyone not listed in the "system" if they are verbally or physically invited to enter the building.
Of course, I also can't leave out the largest field I made, the field that is around the Sainan institution, this institution encompasses both the upper and lower schools of the city, which are run by that damn perverted director.
The field I built around the institute has the scanning and alert functions, where through the modifications I made to the field, it will scan both the magical and biological capabilities of anyone who passes through it and send that data to me.
It sends this data, which includes bone age, blood type, DNA structure, physical composition, etc., through a wave pulse in Honkai Frequency.
Although it may seem dangerous, it is actually quite the opposite, since I developed this specific frequency only to emulate the frequency variations generated by Honkai energy.
These frequencies do not pose any danger to the world since they only emulate the intensity and pattern of those generated by Honkai energy, rather than their composition.
And these frequencies are sent to my communicator and to my shed.
I managed to reproduce the communicator/phone used by the inhabitants of the world of Honkai Impact, which is basically a floating screen.
I styled this phone to be projected from my bracelet on my left hand, which I also transformed into a mystical code that generates a small mental field around me making people ignore the floating technological screen clearly far ahead of the time I would be using.
'Speaking of which, let me check the information I received from that third alert' I thought to myself as I opened my futuristic wrist phone.
As I did so a small wave of energy came out of the wristband and covered me before turning invisible.
'Let's see, Ah! Here!' I typed in the passwords to access my data server on the floating keyboard.
This server that I have is currently stored under the shed that is in the back of the house, which is also covered by a delimited field that is configured to perform all types of fields at the same time.
I built a sort of bunker underneath the warehouse that holds several of my projects. It took a while, but I managed to create an entrance hall, a laboratory, a warehouse, a chemistry room, a testing ground, and my own private room that contains the automated server I built.
This server collects the data sent by the fields I set up in Sainan, recording the information collected with the government database and also storing this data in a separate file.
It also records the activities around and within the fields I created, recording the number, gender, name, time and date of entry and exit of each individual and being that enters the delimited fields.
'Oh, right, I should check the records.'
'Right! Let's see who the person was who entered the school grounds.'
[Government data system:
Name: Mikado Ryouko
Age: 27
Birthday: September 9th
Blood Type: O
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Doctor]
'Wait! Mikado??'
'Wasn't she that alien nurse? I wonder if this is when she becomes a school employee?'
'Let's check the data collected by WAVES.' I came up with that name randomly.
'And mainly because I thought it was cool.'
[Welt Archive Envelope Viewing System (WAVES) Data:
Race: Unidentified
Physiology: Extraterrestrial
ANH: Long Ears (Non-Human Abnormalities)
Bone Age: Approximately 20~30
Magic: Unrecorded
DNA: Unknown Sequence (Recorded for Study)]
[ALERT!!! POTENTIAL THREAT DETECTED, PERFORM OBSERVATION PROTOCOL]
'It really is her.'
'Well, at least I don't have to worry about a threat since Mikado isn't someone that dangerous.'
'But I guess that ends the data check, now I can just focus on fixing the damaged communicator.'
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I looked at the communicator on my desk.
It was damaged on the inside and burned on the outside.
'How?' I really wondered.
This morning my dear sister had the brilliant idea of trying to flood the communicator with energy.
They were designed to use a predetermined amount of energy to generate a barrier that covered only the user.
So when she tried to increase the size of the barrier by putting more power in, the communicator kept forcing the barrier to maintain its shape.
'And with this conflict happening, the communicator ended up not being able to handle it and short-circuited, causing it to burn.'
After remembering why the device was in such a state, I started working on it.
I spent quite a bit of time fixing the device, the core had to be replaced and I also had to disassemble the external part of it before relocating the internal structure and replacing the damaged parts.
'Also, I added an extra function as a surprise for my dear sister' so she won't try it again.
'I hope she won't try it.'
So once I finished fixing the communicator, I dropped it on my sister's bed and walked back to my side of the room before sitting on my bed.
"Ahh, what a pain man, there's not much to do now" I complained out loud, because I really had nothing else to do besides trying to come up with projects.
So I sat there thinking about how I could improve my training while drinking what was left of my coffee, which was already getting cold.
'Well I guess I'll have to turn around but—'
"DAMIAAANN!!!"
My thoughts are interrupted in the middle by my sister's scream that I hear coming from the front door.
'God in heaven help me' I think as I hear her hurried footsteps on the stairs.
"DAMIAN!! IT HAPPENED!!" her voice echoes as she practically breaks down the door to our room.
"IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!" she repeats again.
"Calm down, hey."
"What happened?"
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Cliffhanger because I don't know how to continue the chapter.
It took me a while to post this here and it will probably take me a while to post another one until I have a break from my academic activities.
There is a lot of work to do.
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