The Male Student (A Honkai Impact 3rd Fanfiction)

Chapter 53: The Otherworlds

"I expected more out of you," Herscherr of the Void said to the boy, who recovered from getting thrown. He took note to try and train more often, as he was a bit sluggish as of late. Around him, mechs and fire blazed out of control, as he felt the heat and felt like choking from the smoke.

'What more do you want from me--'

His thoughts were cut off when his left hand was twisted in all the wrong ways, making a loud 'crack' sound which made the boy seemingly writhe in pain, forcing his body to follow the pattern of the hand.

"I simply want you to give it up, my son. Join me, and we can erase humanity altogether. Don't you--"

'I do not. . .' The boy regained his composure, despite the searing pain at his left hand with it bent in all the wrong places. Glancing at it, he began to think of Sofia's treatment.

Taking a deep breath, he took hold of said hand and after some painful positioning, forced his hand back to its previous condition, with another loud crack that gave the boy a massive pain at the arm. Tears welled up in his eyes, but he remained composed.

'I am not like you. . .' He thought, shaking his head. He didn't notice a symbol began to form on his throat, a symbol that resembled a round shattered mirror with mechanical, blunt edged wings sprouting from it. The setting changed into a singular empty room that the boy remembered vividly as the room he was trapped in for a few years before he was brought out. And this time, his 'mother' changed into a girl with long light purple hair in a white dress and yellow eyes. He found himself dumbfounded by the change in setting, added with the fact that he didn't remember seeing a girl with such an odd look to him.

"What exactly makes you think that you're not like me? Face it. We were both experimented over our experiences. I became a powerful being able to control your infected arm at will. You were experimented even before you were even born, being a test tube new born and my child. Besides, you hold the crest of the long extinct Koslov stigma on your throat. What could you possibly have that led you to protect humanity?" She questioned. Hearing specifically of the stigma and the crest, the boy held his throat with a single finger. He couldn't feel it, but the boy could tell that she wasn't lying to him. Her subtleties show no effort of even trying to. Regardless, the boy decided to use it to his advantage, and with a shift of the setting, it turned into the dorm Max lived in for the past month or so. In the living room, there was Himeko, Sofia and Fu Hua on the sofa, the former wasted from drinking alcohol, Fu Hua intently reading a book while nodding incongruously to whatever it was Sofia was saying in her drunken slurring. Sitting on the floor was Kiana, Mei and Bronya intensely playing against each other in Homu Bros Unlimited, with Kiana being tryhard as usual, Bronya ever so calmly besting Kiana, and Mei just watching the two fight while her character just stood still at the corner not doing anything. Soon, the door opened, revealing Cocolia with a visibly frustrated expression, an expression that was immediately melted when Sofia noticed her presence and pounced onto her. Her frustration turned into anger, trying to pry the drunken woman's hands off of her, only to end in failure as she tightened her grip.

The little girl saw all this, and all she could do was cringe.

"So, you have loved ones. . ." She said darkly. The boy, noticing the change of tone, walked towards her and put a hand on her shoulder. The girl soon looked at him, and the boy smiled. No words were thought from the smiling boy, causing the girl visibly crackle, as if she was a scratched record. Noticing the anomaly, he let go of her shoulder and backed away as the setting shifted once again. This time, it took form of a humongous tree, with multiple number of branches and bubbles all over it, with the boy standing on one of the bubbles.

Meanwhile

"Okay, we need to shut it down now. He will know too much if we keep this going."