"Sometimes you get stuck. Sometimes you go numb. The color drains away. You stop trying, and that just feeds the spiral going down. Maybe you'll get lucky one day. You see yourself in the mirror and snap out of it. But for some of us... it takes more. To friend. To stranger. A story. A helping hand."

  — Drifter

  As I move through the stones and rain, i think about how I'm going to deactivate most of my new powers, Yeah Having an energy shield is very useful but having full healing When I've just had an accident, it's not a good sign,As I grew up there are 3 types of situations as a result

  1 They give you the pretentious and insulting title of "God" (Really false god is more specific) and they follow you everywhere which will only attract the wrath of the creator and believe me That's the last thing you want to happen in your entire life.

  2 The government kidnaps you under the guise of national security to experiment on you or force you to do its will.

  3 the same but with a rich guy or some terrorist cell

  Personally, I prefer to remain stealthy and use my abilities carefully Why? It's very simple: he who controls the pace controls the game.

  It's something you pick up over time as you go from dimension to dimension looking for cultist heretics or fictional characters who serve a bunch of pesky demons.

  It shouldn't be too different from my old gifts, well Herrscher's powers are a totally different set but my years with the honkai energy and the Feng huan down Style should come in handy.

  I stopped and concentrated. I began to feel the natural energy of my body. This was an exercise already known to me from my gifts. I detected the energy that arose between my heart and my spine. There I was able to detect a Herrscher nucleus. On previous occasions I had already been in contact with them thanks to my wives, specifically Bronya the first one to show me and explain to me How it worked on her, and how she used it, was one of those quiet days, before the wave of recognition from the people of the sky reached the moon, Following his instructions I calmed my mind, and slowly cut off the unconscious "Use" signal that was active, However, I noticed something surprising: this core did not radiate Honkai energy like the others. Usually, Honkai energy leaks almost uncontrollably everywhere when there is any, and little by little, It is increasing, although the drip is normally constant, which translates into a signal that puts you on the radar. This core is self-contained and will not emit energy without my permission or reveal me like a light in the darkness. This also led me to observe the nucleus and my surprise was great. Instead of the blue I'm used to, it's a transparent orange color with mixed colors like a rainbow.This is not the core of reason, it is very similar to the core of Finality , that Kiana showed me on the moon.

  Even though hers, was transparent and multi-colored, with a bit of purple, Kiana had explained to me that she didn't really need the core, the cocoon of the Finality was her core itself, But I'm pretty sure this isn't the core, I mean it's transparent orange and it has... I think it has chibi drawings of everyone making a face or just smiling.... Yes I can see that Kiana did this by hand, How I managed to put all that together?,

  I have no idea.

  I even use the language I chose as a reward for the war, as.. a mark of protection?, that explains why I couldn't feel the core until you use it unconsciously.

  Time to check if my war gifts work, maybe I can change my clothes for more comfortable ones, wearing a suit like Bronya in his company makes me very uncomfortable. Even if I loved taking it off when she came home, nope, don't go in that direction, especially since the tool I used for those occasions is no longer there. Oh no, this is going to make me depressed, at least I used it enough to have several daughters.

  Finally, after an hour and a half later, I managed to get back on the road and later to the scene of the accident, There was already a help service on the scene and they had towed the truck and removed the driver, I have two options:

  1: Go down and risk being forced to go to the hospital. This will leave more traces of my DNA.

  2: ignore everything Pretend nothing happened but that will draw more attention to me

  3 ..... I already made a mistake, I left the impala with my blood on it, I should have used the power of reason to clean up the scene Maybe make the car disappear completely with the restructuring, Shit, leaving my cells with Honkai energy active is going to plunge this world into a Honkai impact. Even if Kiana took Authority from the cocoon, the Honkai energy is designed to affect life. I need to check if there's any energy around here. I can't let it spread.Concentrating, I closed my eyes. I'm far enough away from people and I just need to do what Elysia taught me, and I looked for signs of Honkai energy, .... Nope .... Nothing There are no traces, this is strange, this is wrong, how is it possible? I had already used this ability at home so why doesn't it work? I don't detect anything. I know it works because I detect people ahead but I don't see anything else, No loose or scattered Honkai energy, so how is it possible, what did Kiana do to this core?

  Suddenly I felt a presence directing its attention towards me, one of the police officers who was taking statements stopped and turned to look at me. Mmm, he seems to have a natural detection ability, I can see that he noticed my existence, but I'm still very far from him, while I thought about what he was thinking I felt that particular sensation from the core Energy flowed to my eyes and my whole body and before I knew, A set of experiences and instructions were integrated into my head They were carefully and orderly separated into sections that were completing my head. Upon completion

  A peculiar laugh appeared in my head and the feeling of a kiss on my right cheek rumbled, I opened my eyes in surprise and turned my head There she was with that smile with touches of sweetness and superiority, quite conceited and somewhat pretentious , Wearing a Hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing), Dark blue-gray hair, red eyes, white skin, Slender and with marked lines In its curves .I froze, a smile appeared on my face and tears flowed, seeing me cry his smile distorted a little and he looked at me with pain

  I'm sorry I was an idiot and...

  Hua, I'll interrupt quickly.

  I know, i already know, I'll look We talk later, but for now, the basics.

  We're fine, we miss you and the girls miss you too.

  I know we didn't say goodbye on the best of terms, but it was just a bad moment and we've already gone through that, don't cry, it's behind us.

  Stolen story; please report.

  I don't like to see you sad, you should be happy we managed to save you, and I left this construct here with you so that when you woke up you wouldn't be alone so be happy, The others are going to kill me for leaving a surprise with you but I knew this was going to happen.

  I took a breath and composed myself.

  Hua: Okay, that police officer is approaching and has already deduced that you were in the crash, I'm going to create an illusion Over your eyes, let go of the control of the honkai energy, I'm going to take control. You talk to the cop, I'll make sure he believes us and leaves us alone.For now I'm making them believe they saw you stagger, but I need full control.

  Very good I let go of the control and concentrated. I hadn't even noticed that the police officer had gotten into his patrol car and was approaching with paramedics. Miss, are you fine? He asked me with concern as he approached me , The paramedics immediately sprang into action and took medication from a first aid kit and began disinfecting my wounds.

  Yes I am, I just twisted my ankle a little, this rain isn't helping, Excuse me, could you tell me if the truck driver survived or if I need to kill him myself for ruining my car?.

  The policeman was a little stunned, He gave me an awkward but genuine smile,

  If you make jokes like that you must be right, miss.

  I smiled at the officer as I took a lock of hair, revealing a medium cut on my forehead.

  Not so much, I was somewhat trapped in the car but getting out with this alone is enough of a gain.

  One of the paramedics grabbed my head and started treating me. Paramedic: Well, miss, you're lucky if this is the most serious thing you have. Let my colleague check you in the ambulance and I'll see if I can give you a pain killer.

  Or suddenly my ankle hurts a lot, do you think you can prescribe me a bottle of those? The paramedic smiled at me while shaking his head with laughter. No, I don't think so. The police officer invited me to get into the patrol car and took me to the ambulance where a pretty paramedic girl checked me for any internal or external injuries that they hadn't seen, after this I gave my statement.

  Police: Well, everything fits together. I'm glad this idiot didn't kill you.

  Let me guess. He was drunk.

  P-man: Yup

  I figured

  P-man: Don't worry, the truck has a camera that corroborated the incident.

  Hua: (Damn)

  Me: (Fuck me)

  Excuse me, could I watch the video?

  P-man: of course The policeman called his partner and took a small camera from his car, pressed a few buttons and gave it to me.Hua: (Okay, I'll take care of it. Let me see if Rin taught me well.)While watching the video I noticed that you could see a light blue light when the truck hit, not very noticeable But I wasn't going to take any chances.. Hua immediately copied the video, replacing it with another Where we had the same accident erasing the traces of the use of powers

  P-man: You were lucky, it seems to me that the truck stopped early but the rain left the tires skidding, even with that it seems that it only pushed you, the impact was not that serious,

  Me: I don't know, the fall was the real damage, .... well, what do I do now, officer It's my first crash and I think it's also my last one. I won't be taking another trip like this for a while.

  The officer gave me a look of pity. Well, the driver's company will send you a lawyer in a few days, so you'll have to stay a couple of days. If you don't accept the compensation, you can take them to court for reckless driving, Whatever happens, you'll have to stay here for a few days, since you're in good healthbWhat do you say I give you a ride to the town and see you tomorrow at the police station To give you the name of the company, we received the crash signal from the automatic warning on the truck but we do not have the data registered. If they want to recover the cargo, they will have to stop with the sheriff to give their information.

  Me: Thank you very much, that would be helpful.

  After taking a picture with what was left of my phone screen, of the face of my Impala-killing truck driver, I thanked the paramedics who took the truck driver away, By the way, the guy's name was Carl, yup Cliché I know.

  As I opened the patrol car door, a mental projection of Hua got in first and then looked at me with a face of come on, you're taking too long, As I sat down I saw out of the corner of my eye Hua pull a teapot out of nowhere.

  And while she was drinking I could feel a memory sensation of it, As we both enjoyed the brief moment, a profane thought occurred to me.

  I was about to be murdered by a total normie with alcoholism.

  Hua sensed my thought It froze and spat out his metaphorical tea while losing all grace and bursting out laughing.

  A slight smile escaped me and I heard one of the police officers clear his throat, I paid attention to the next conversation.

  P-man: So miss, what are you doing so far from home?

  Me: work, I had to solve a problem with a supplier

  The patrol car stopped suddenly and both police officers looked at each other and at the same time exclaimed: The coal table.

  My surprise showed and both police officers smiled at me, Are you by any chance the girl who entered the main office with 3 lawyers and burned them?

  Yes it's me

  Both police officers smiled i didn't understand anything.

  Hua looked at me strangely.

  Could you explain to me how you know them? The officers proceeded to tell me that in the last year The company changed its CEO And the policies got ugly: less vacations, less salary, more working hours, and even bribes that didn't amount to much until a few months ago, They started to become successful and act like gangsters, One day just before a shareholders meeting a girl appeared with her lawyers And the newscast where on national television he proceeded to burn them, A fter this the country proceeded to crush them, this became national news

  Hua He looked at me with amusement as he shook his head.

  Me: They asked for it,

  when I just arrived their secretary called a new girl, she didn't even let me explain myself and when I was going to introduce myself to one of the bosses of my district, By the way, I have no idea why it's in Canada and not in the EU.

  A kid approached me with his Italian accent and tried to introduce me as his secretary, so I ignored him.

  Went up to the director I asked him for an explanation for the poor quality of the wood, he apologized and said there was nothing he could do, so I decided to burn them in public.

  The police smiled at me and proceeded to explain that they had been having problems with the company bosses, apparently an Italian boss had bought the company and started trying to gain a foothold In Canada, but by using the Italian mafia style, many of his clients stopped buying from him, which lowered his capital and that's why the wood is so bad, in the end, the government offered to collaborate with the company that i later hired "beaver builders." And they ended up buying the company back, sharing the profits between them.

  And the Italian? Well, he decided to give up and return to what he knew, This was kind of embarrassing, in my original body I was part Italian so yeah ouch, Mi porta la pizza, No way, they treated us badly, it's not my fault. After some conversation and getting to know each other a little, they took me to a nice, quite rustic hotel inn in a small town.When I passed by here I had already seen this place, it looked nice but I didn't have time for tourism so I passed it by.

  I thanked the officers For the ride, they gave me directions to the mall and other places of interest When we say goodbye the youngest gave me his phone.

  Hua burst out laughing, I explained to the guy that I was already married under the table.The boy turned red, thanked me and He took his note with the number and ran to the patrol car, his boss told him it was obvious you don't leave a girl like that without a ring, he got into the patrol car and they left.

  I waved at them, turned around, then looked at my hand and sure enough, it was there.

  A ring in the shape of a Fenix I looked at Hua with slight surprise and she looked at me out of the corner of her eye.

  What? Remember you're already married so I have to leave something to prove.

  Of course, and is it a grey phoenix a pure coincidence?

  Well, as long as I have you all to myself for now, no one will tell you anything else, right? I gave her a sincere smile and sent her my feelings of happiness. This made the gray phoenix turn red.

  Okay, let's see what's in the restaurant, I want to eat, sleep, and tomorrow we'll see How to move forward in the future .

  Hua: okay hey I want some cake , or what if they have hot pot too.

  I doubt they have it but we will try to see. Hua smiled and jumped celebrated However, he stopped and looked at me, while looking at me with a troubled face. Hua: Hey, cancel that, order room service, we need to talk. He said as he brought a hand to his face to make the classic stress sign. Ok that doesn't sound good