Honkai Impact: The Anomaly (FemOC)

Prologue: The Unknown World

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I woke up staring at the starry night sky and gazing at the beautiful moon shining down on this vast world while finding myself lying on top of a small hill surrounded by vast, dense, giant forest trees.

"Where am I?"

I remember that I, Riana Alexandria Crowley, a 25-year-old single, went home after work, feeling exhausted after the whole day's work, but when I arrived, I didn't manage to get to sleep, thanks to my insomnia.

I knew it was bad for my health, but, leaving me with no other choice, I took a sleeping pill and managed to fall asleep.

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I didn't have any friends, not even a family; I was just a lonely orphan.

In my entire life, I don't have any remarkable traits, and I'm also not a special person. I was a working student when I entered middle school, which led to me not getting good grades and barely passing them. And I didn't even go to college because tuition was too much for me to handle alone, with only the part-time jobs that already barely kept me alive.

When I was a child, the caretakers didn't care so much about me and avoided me all the time, as if I never existed in the first place yet they took care of the other kids living in the orphanage.

I was baffled at that time as to why I was being treated coldly, yet they never hurt me. But it hurt me inside, so all I have with me is to read fictional books in the orphanage library.

One day, I might've learned why I was being treated coldly, and I also learned something about the Marites, I mean, the caretakers don't know how to keep their mouths shut most of the time.

I overheard them saying that I was the daughter of a prostitute.

Ah, so they thought of me as a dirty child that came from a tainted woman?

So I can be considered a mistake that shouldn't have existed in the first place because I was an accident.

I was an unwanted child.

I instantly ran to the place I often hang out by myself, which is the library, and went to the corner of the room and sat down, clutching my knees.

I can't help but cry my eyes out in silence.

Until I was greeted by someone.

It was the head of the orphanage. She is an old woman who goes by the name Catherine, but I refer to her as Sister Catherine. She was the only person who didn't avoid me and always spent time talking with me when she had time to spare.

"What's wrong?" She asks me.

But I just ask her without looking up at her, "Sister, am I an unwanted child?"

"Of course not," replied Sister Catherine without hesitation as I looked up at her and saw her expression with a reassuring smile. "If you're an unwanted child, you shouldn't be alive in the first place, and you're alive because you have your purpose that you haven't fulfilled yet."

"Purpose?" I parroted. "But I don't have any."

"And that's for you to figure out."

That's all she told me at that time, but these words stuck with me, yet the words left me confused.

Years passed, and I was about to enter high school.

It was also the day when I found Sister Catherine dead in her bedroom in the morning before I went to school.

I was drowning in sadness and crying my eyes out, but I knew that I had to go to school, so I forced myself to attend my first day of classes.

However, as if Sister Catherine's death was not enough for the day of my life, the new head of the orphanage asked me to leave the orphanage, despite I still hadn't reached the age where I had to leave the orphanage. I was confused as to why they were asking me to leave the orphanage, so I asked them, but they only told me that: