Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  Never had Aleph seen the world to be this beautiful.

  It was a weird sensation. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw far beyond the simple physical world. All the processes taking pce, from the movement of molecules up to the dazzling ges in the subatomic realm, were presented in his eyes.

  ‘Elemental Sight… is closed.’ He thought as he focused.

  Aleph discovered that he had an instinctive thought of his will extending up to a certain radius.

  ‘A domain.’

  It was simir to the Sorcerer’s Domain Expansio also differs from it.

  Dozens of ratio lines appeared in his sight. Aleph felt that he would be able to obliterate this entire room by striking on any of their divisions.

  It was then he realized.

  ‘Albion’s power… and the Domain Expansion from Ratio.’

  Albion’s power in the series he knew was extremely vague. Only i statements such as Melusiransformation to its dragon form as well as occasional statements were known.

  As the st living ‘true dragon’, Albion’s status was akin to a Grand’s of Aya’s Throne of Heroes. It wasn’t merely its raw power that was strong, but also its uhority.

  Hassan-i-Sabbah, the frand Assassin, held an authority that allowed him to kill even the “unkilble gods”.

  Albion’s authority could be summed up as a form of passive and active skill.

  The sers Melusine used held destru. It could be used on its own (a ser) or an enhao an already power attack. There was also life. It maed in the form of a tough physical body and insane recovery.

  It was simir to the Realizers Aleph faced in Kurumi’s world. His power enabled him to briefly defy physical ws at his will, in turing specific effects.

  Then there was this special state, the one he was currently in. Not only did his sight undergone a huge ge, Aleph felt he could do something beyond that, as if his mind alone could influehe world around him.

  “...Ugh.”

  Aleph felt a pang of headache. It wasn’t even a sed when he saw how drained his mind had bee. It wasn’t an issue of energy, but its sheer burden.

  For now, he felt that going into his Active Honkai Rea was the furthest he could go.

  He immediately ‘removed’ his influence over his surroundings. The ratio lines remaihough the overwhelming force around him disappeared.

  “Is this it..? It was supposed to be Mysteries…”

  In Albion’s world, it wasn’t only authority and magical energy that mattered, but also mysteries. The great figures were capable of utilizing mysteries to bolster their power.

  However, it wasn’t the case on the power ied by Aleph. His iance did not involve mysteries and the likes. It only required him to spend ‘energy’ in the form of cursed energy, dark energy, or even honkai energy.

  ‘I didn’t ask about this…’ He mented. ‘I should ask Albioime.’

  Aleph was floating above the ground. It was simir to cursed teiques’ nature. Even if Domain Expansion wasn’t used, it could still be utilized with limited funs.

  By the time his feet o the ground, the scales all over his body disappeared. Only the pure golden light in his eyes remaihat, and small pieces of bck scale embedded on his forearm.

  “Hum… That’s right.”

  Aleph felt a stinging gaze at his back. His eyes met Mobius’ beyond the gss wall. A sense of chill went through his spine as his [Informatioribution] acted up.

  Seeing Mobius’ name in it, a certain thought flew in his mind.

  ‘Just what is she spying on..?!’

  *****

  In her nearly thirty years of life, Mobius experienced a lot. She wasn’t simir to an inexperienced girl who would blush at the sight of a naked human.

  Yet…

  Dum.

  Dum.

  Dum.

  ‘Why..?’

  It wasn’t a matter of embarrassment. There was simply a feeling deep withihat was extremely curious about Aleph’s ‘evolution’. The disturbances he made made it evident it wasn’t a simple one.

  ‘I want to pce him iable…’

  “Hey? Are you sleepy?”

  Aleph’s voice woke her up instantly. He was already dressed when he left the airtight room aered her ‘office’. It was the typical Fire MOTH uniform, which was something he received when he pleted the mission on Shibuya.

  “It’s fio sleep. How many hours… no, how long did it take?” He asked.

  “Five days.”

  “Five days… I k.”

  He wore the expression of a person who expected something.

  “Even if it isn’t that long for others, it’s just right I did not ask them to undergo this process.”

  “So, what happened? Your state earlier… was it the theorized Active Honkai Rea?”

  Mobius asked with great i.

  “Yeah. I haven’t tested its power yet.” Aleph seemed to have recalled something. “Did I make too muoise?”

  “The entire world knows something happened here.”

  With a yawn, Mobius expined everything that occurred while he was unscious.

  “I’m sorry about that… If I k would be like that, I would’ve chosen…”

  “It’s alright.”

  “...Uhm?”

  Seeing Mobius disregard it lightly, Aleph paused for a moment.

  “You will have to make it up.”

  Her words made his heart skip a beat. He saw her snake-like pupils narrowing down several times. Coupled with the spying he received from earlier, Aleph knew he was about to faething.

  Mobius stood up from her seat across her desk. She walked towards the sofa he was sitting on.

  Tap.

  Tap.

  Tap.

  Her heels made a noticeably loud sound with each of her steps. She did not hesitate to cim her snty over Aleph’s p. She sat sideways, with her face looking directly at Aleph.

  ‘It’s even worse..!’

  The throbbiion on his head took a turn for the worse. These sporadic urges appeared as a side effect of his MANTIS surgery.

  With the activation of his Active Honkai Rea, nothing much ged except for this sporadic urge. Somehow, it mao bee even worse than what it was before.

  Mobius’ st has not ged since five days ago. Her favorite shampoo and bodily st created something that was uo her.

  ‘Thirty years old… Is this why she’s different from Mei? But if it es to age, Kurumi should be the oldest…’

  Aleph’s messy thoughts were put to an end when his lips met Mobius’.

  *****

  A/N: To be ho, Fate's sg was simple, but several rets and other fusing things made it... well, fusing. For simplicity's sake, think of it as rock-paper-scissors. For example, Sefar and Amaterasu. Amaterasu has a higher power level than Sefar (the 387 mil thing). However, because Sefar works effectively against the World (Anti-World), and unfortunately, Amaterasu's powers use it as a basis (The Sun), she was defeated. Sefar used a scissor on a paper. But then, there's a random human with Excalibur that defeated Sefar. He (or she) shouldn't have been as strong as Amaterasu, yet he (or she) did it. Excalibur was able to bypass Sefar's ability to absord energy for her own use; she was overloaded to death. That human used a rock against a scissor.

  I expihe thing above to prepare everyone wheime to open up Fate-reted abilities es (Albion, ahem). If it gets fusing (or if there are any mistakes), do let me know.

  Happy Reading~!