Crystalized Changeling (A HSR x Genshin Impact Crossover)

Chapter 8

Alhaitham read through his book, waiting for the witness to be brought here. He was reading through a history book about Europe in the 1000s. One case that caught his attention is the Witch trials incident. Where masses of innocent people were crucified for experimenting with this so-called dark magic. People in that era would be surprised that this year, 2040 is now filled with people who have magic and they're a lot more common due to science experiments.

Alhaitham was one of those experiment subjects. with his brother, both of them never had a father or mother as they were the result of creating humans with magical powers using the DNA of these supposed magical humans and combining it with normal human DNA. They may not be as powerful as their supposed DNA but they are quite strong enough.

He chuckled to himself how humanity is going circle from living peacefully with these magical beings to exterminating them due to religion, now humans try to recreate these magical beings to "protect the world" even though they make him and his brother just to be used for their selfish gains. He knew this, he'd been through all of it after all

The door swung open revealing a man in a suit wearing black glasses as he bowed down to Alhaitham indicating Alhaitham's high status in the Akademiya, he squinted his eyes in displeasure, he never liked being seen as some sort of human with higher status. Besides the man was a little girl with beautiful strawberry blonde hair and heterochromia eyes.

She seemed so petite, her face was filled with trauma and paranoia, black circle was under her bags as if she hadn't slept for days at all. Alhaitham's heart softened at the sight, he knew how hard it must be for this little girl to witness her parents being brutally murdered by a killer who could shapeshift to anyone. 

Yet his face seemed unfazed like usual as he stared at the little girl for a bit.

"This is Gabriella sir.." The man stated with a formal and cold tone, Alhaitham nodded slowly as he dismissed the guard.

He was left alone with the girl inside of the interrogation room. Alhaitham sighed as he stepped closer to Gabriella. Gabriella backed down in fear, she was scared of Alhaitham's huge build, he bent down as he reached out to her with his muscular hand, his eyes were filled with warmth as he spoke up.

"I'm not gonna hurt you little one, you can trust me.." He whispered with a low and kind tone, his voice was similar to a loving father.

Gabriella opened her eyes carefully as she gazed into his eyes, Alhaitham opened his palm as he summoned his power. a lot of ancient green words came out of his hands floating on top of his palm as it glows like emeralds. He hands over the ancient words to Gabriella, her eyes gleamed with excitement and curiosity.

She moved the ancient words with her little fingers putting them together like a puzzle game. Alhaitham only watched her trying to put the words together. He's glad he could calm down the girl by making some ancient word puzzles. He wasn't sure if she would like it at first, but it seemed that she liked it. When she couldn't solve it, she looked up to Alhaitham.

"Mr Gray Hair, can you help me with this puzzle? I couldn't figure out some of it." She requested feeling a bit shy about it.

Alhaitham nodded as he lent out his hands, helping her to solve the ancient puzzle words. Once he put the words together, teaching her how to solve them, he used his power to translate the words as it revealed a proverb.

"A heart never created hatred; speech created hatred"

Gabriella blinked her eyes as she tilted her head before her body started shaking. Alhaitham noticed and patted her shoulder, a bit of concern could be seen in his eyes. Gabriella tried to stay calm as she rubbed her arms. 

"She killed mom and dad..." She whispered in fear as her breath quickened, Alhaitham's eyes widened but he shook his head, this girl needed to be calmed down.

He pulled the girl close to him, patting her head and rubbing her back, her breath became stable as tears trailed down her cheeks.

"She said they've done a lot of adultery... I don't know what she meant... she kept saying people like those should died while she was stabbing them.. Those people are just gonna hurt others.." Alhaitham stayed quiet hearing it, Adultery?

 Were those nobles, even the supposed pure ones committing those types of stuff? What the heck is happening? It's like after these victims' deaths... the government and the news just paint them as good people yet "The Changeling" knows the truth about it. Things... aren't like what it seems and are more complicated... Just who is this "Changeling" person?