"Back off or the chocolate bar will be a melted murder puddle in a few moments!"
"W-wait! I-i surrender!" Kiana immediately kowtowed before me without any hesitation.
I examined her for a moment and contemplated if this idiot even had the brain to lie, but i ultimately chose to be cautious.
"Kiana, just know that I'll destroy every sweet shop within Nagazora city if you dare try and retaliate…"
Surely she won't believe that-
"YES! I WOULD NEVER DARE TO!"
She actually believed it…
I sighed mentally having to deal with this idiot.
I turned off the lighter and threw the chocolate bar to Kiana, the creature was so ravenous that she heard the bar sailing throw the air as she opened her mouth like a dog to catch it.
I walked over to my sofa as I heard the creature munching on it.
"Hey Dante, why didn't you tell me your place was awesome! It's like an expensive mansion! And why didn't you ever tell me where you lived?! That's it! I'm moving in as of today!" The idiot Tuna proclaimed as she puffed out her cheeks with a hand on her hip while the other in a fist pointing upwards to the sky to resign her decision.
"Oh Hell no! The whole reason I never told you was because of this very reason! Oi! Get away from my kitchen! I'll cut you up and eat you, you dumb Tuna!"
"I'm not a Tuna! Why do you keep calling me that?!"
"I don't know! It seems appropriate!
…
(Dante's apartment image)
A few days had passed and things only more difficult for me, Kiana moved in against my will and efforts to deter her.
When I locked the door, she kicked it down despite it being state of the art and personally designed by me.
She would find some way to break inside my place so I gave up, be it through the window, door or heck even the ventilation shaft.
I had to pay to repair the damages that ended up costing me more than $30,000.
(I don't know the currency used in HI3, if someone can correct me if I'm wrong I appreciate it.)
I can't explain it but I just had an innate gift from when I was reborn into this new life.
I was a genius in every sense of the word and that wasn't just arrogance. It was a fact that i tested ever since I was young. Growing up at an early age, sure i surprised everyone with me walking and talking early on.
However, my intellect was boosted, I had eidetic memory, enhanced comprehension and analytical capabilities that allowed me to become a walking library.
If I had been reborn as a magic user I was sure I would be unstoppable, but I got reincarnated into a boring world that only had the difference of being more advanced than my past life Earth and was Homu hemed. Homu being some kind of weird figure like a bunny everyone loves.
And my physical capabilities were always at its peak and always kept improving.
That didn't mean I was lazy in the past 17 years. I had learned how to hack with ease, allowing me to access the hidden side of the world. I did learn that there were two highly advanced factions called Shicksal and Anti-Entropy, but other than their names and opposing ideals for the 'good of Humanity against the Honkai', I didn't learn much.
Honkai was a term that intrigued me but the security of ANti-Entropy and Shicksal was so absurdly advanced I needed to resort to finding a different way to learn what I wanted to know. So I had to hack and read the redacted files from the agents and operatives they sent out. Fortunately, Mei's father Raiden Ryoma was a part of Anti-Entropy.
ME corp was one of the most technologically advanced companies on the planet, so I didn't even dare to entertain the thought of hacking into the ME corp.
I did, however, hack their employee's personal information and over two years I learned a great deal.
However, the greatest discovery was the single piece of information I obtained related to the Honkai which was the disaster in 2000.
Turns out, the world was almost destroyed because of a little girl that had been experimented on by Shicksal.
The girl was Sirin and she was commonly referred to as the second Herrscher.
I tried to learn more information but only learned that upon the defeat and death of Sirin, multiple gems were recovered from her body that granted powers.
It wasn't specified, but there was alot of contradictions in the redacted files and what the public footage around the world had recorded.
Shicksal and Anti-Entropy naturally tried covering it up, but not even they could recover every single camera and phone and block all the footage or cover it all up. Especially when my father worked for Shicksal as a common soldier.
But over time I had been able to piece things together.
The Honkai was an alien threat to the world and Humanity as a whole.
Shicksal is an organisation that conducts human experimentation to evolve Humanity in some way to become warriors to being able to fight against the Honkai.
Anti-Entropy also wants to protect Humanity, but they focused more on technology and mechs than endangering more Human lives.
But both sides are both good yet evil, that was the mindset i had until i learned the deeper secrets and hierarchy of these organisations.
As for the Honkai and Sirin, Sirin was originally a Human but became 'infected' by the Honkai and became what is known as a Herrscher. An emissary and a powerful being that aligns itself with the Honkai's goal to destroy Humanity.
Based on my thesis, it seems the Honkai can corrupt individuals that meet certain criteria.
Since Sirin was being experimented on by Shicksal meant that she had a unique body, be it her blood or physiology.
Next was her deep hatred, anyone would hate people that tortured and experimented on them against their will.
It seems these two criteria need to be met for a potential candidate to become a Herrscher once 'infected/corrupted' by Honkai.
At that point they will gain tremendous powers.
The only ones i could conclude from the reports i pieced together and footage of various cities and disasters caused by Sirin in 2000.
She could control molecules to the point she can teleport and create constructs along with control over flames and the ability to decay objects.
The meteors she sent from space was proof of teleportation since one recording showed that they just appeared out of Earth's orbit before they rain down on the Earth below. Decay and flames I judged too since two entire cities was affected in those ways.
There were two other specific locations but it was near impossible to know what powers caused the destruction of the environment.
Anyway, that was all i had been able to learn.
Thus, I didn't slack off and put everything i had into becoming stronger so i can survive against a Herrscher and the Honkai.
I had hacked into many bank accounts across the world and drained them dry, those people didn't need them anyway.
Furthermore, I made a legitimate source of income with that stolen money so that I can generate even more through legitimate means.
I don't want Shicksal or Anti-Entropy on my ass, i already took a risk trying to hack into their servers which i didn't actively attempt and was prepared for. As i suspected, the place where I initiated the hack from was immediately swarmed by two different factions' forces. I guess they deemed my hacking a serious threat since it turned into a heated confrontation between the two sides to find the hacker (me).
Over the last few years i put my mind to good use by creating a lot of technology, especially with the stolen research notes i had been able to obtain, even if they were lackluster and not important to those organisations, the science behind it was of immense value.
And so i had made myself my personal gaming setup which Kiana had hijacked!
(image)
"Dante! Why don't you have any Homu games! What is all this? Why the heck is this game so hard!" Kiana complained as she died for the 7th time.
I looked at the screen and saw the classic two words that made gamers rage quit and smash their controllers and screens over the years.
[YOU DIED]
Yep, Kiana was playing Dark Souls 2, which was the hardest game of the franchise of games since Dark Souls 2 set the skill sealing apart from the Noobs and the Veterans.
Right now, she died to a gigantic humanoid Hippo creature even before she got the hut where she is meant to meet the Old Crones to start her character creation and get a weapon to finally start the game…
Kiana, all these games were personally made by me, they aren't released to the public yet.
Her blue eyes went wide as she spun around on my gaming chair. She immediately grabbed a hold of me and started shaking vigorously.
"Unhand me woman!"
"Your'e telling me you can make games! And you sell them!"
"Obviously! How else do you think I earned enough money to pay for everything here!"
After my reply, i think Kiana began seeing me in a new light since from that day she started calling me with a 'Sama' at the end of my name even when i told her not to. It was getting weird but she refused adamantly, so i told her to use 'Sensei' instead which sounded better.
But what i still can't wrap my head around is why is this girl so freaking strong!
Maybe she is like Sirin in terms of her body. Maybe she already has that hidden condition related to the body just like Sirin that is needed to become an Herrscher.
If so then i cant let this girl harbour any negative hatred like Sirin did for the Shicksal scientists, which then extended to Humanity.
But seeing the young girl being a walking goofball I doubt that could ever happen.