'Time to loop again it seems' Yuki Terumi thought with a sighed as he watched Ragna and Nu-13 fall into the Cauldron once for the umpteenth time.
It had been some time since the time loop had originally started. The events would replay repeatedly. The same basic thing was happening repeatedly for unknown amount of times. However there were small changes that happen though they were not enough to change things enough that the time loop ends.
'This does not seem to be working though' he thought
Upon learning that time looped, Yuki Terumi decided that he wanted to gain both Ragna and Nu 13 as a fusion that would be a weapon under his control. One that would possess the powers of both. However the problem was how to do this without the result becoming the Black Beast instead. After all one of the thing that got this whole time loop started could be the two of them becoming the Black Beast in the first place.
'Seem that those Takamagahara fear a fusion of Ragna and Nu-13 as much as they do him getting killed' Terumi thought 'Maybe its time to try something different. Seeing the trash getting taken out repeating is getting boring'
Yuki looking at the corpse of Tsubaki Yayoi and kicking it as time then began to loop once again.
At first the plan was to use continue using Ragna as the base with Nu13 being fused into him but in manner that leave the fusion controllable. So as Hazama, he worked to set up events so that they would not form the Black Beast but his ideal fusion that would be his weapon to control. However the process was not really working out that well as it would always result in the Black Beast.
Some of the ways he had tried were….
"Right, so this get me together with Ragna" Nu-13 said as looked at Terumi.
"Just do as I tell you and it you should be able to accomplish your desire" he told.
This method was arriving early so that he could interact with Nu-13 before Ragna thus trying to change events that way. Massive one was not required at first just something to build off of to start with. Slowly building up changing over time to get his own final results.
Of course that would end in failure every time as no matter what he told Nu-13 the result would the same as they would fall in the Cauldron. Then time would loop and of course since only few were aware of the this it would require tell convincing her every single time to go along with him.
Giving up on trying use Nu-13 as eventually agent of change, Terumi decided to go about using Ragna instead. A much harder thing to do giving just how much he hated him after all. So this required him using his Hazama alias to attempt in achieving his goal.
"I do not need your help in taking her down" Ragna told him swatting away the files that Hazama was trying to hand over.
"Why not? Knowing your enemy is the first step to victory" he said.
"Why would you of all people have such information in the first place?" the Bloodedge said narrowing his eyes at them.
This attempt too would end in failure some time with Ragna not even getting to Nu-13 as he would figure out that Hazama was just alias for Terumi. Though just like before this would end in failure as the Ragna would still lose to Nu-13 falling into the Cauldron or would not make it there at all. Thus causing a new time loop once again.
Time and time again, Hazama would try these method or version of them as one thing that you gain from being in a time loop was the constant trail and error as if one thing did not work out. Then the next time try something else to see if that would work instead. Of course eventually this cause the green hair man to wonder if he was merely doing the definition of insanity. In that he was trying the same thing over and over again expecting the outcome to change.
The weapon he wanted was something similar to the Black Beast but controllable. However that seem to be impossible as that being The Black Beast is basically a Cauldron. Which itself was a gate to the Boundary that is used to extract magic element from it. After fusing a Murakumo Unit with someone who wields a Blue Grimoire. Then, the Grimoire becomes the body, and the Unit is the heart. That causes the Cauldron to become a creature made of a high concentration of the magic element. It is an uncontrolled, self-Observing weapon that is outside of reason.
After watching his latest attempt at fusing Ragna and Nu-13 into his desire weapon fail. Taking out angry passively on the corpse of Tsubaki Yayoi while he still could. Kicking and stomping on it as garbage like her could at least be useful in this manner.
"Wait! Is that the problem though. I am trying to make the uncontrollable into something controllable in the wrong way" he said stopping a kick to the dead red hair on the ground.
The uncontrollable part was indeed true as how could you control something that exist outside of reason. This was where the mistake was being made constantly as he wanted a weapon that always existed outside of reason thus could not be controllable with reason. So the answer was not to always have them outside of reason but to have them bound by reason. Then have the ability to exist outside of it at moments notice and fully at will.
Thus the method being used was not acceptable anymore as Terumi decided to switch things around making Nu13,the Murakumo Unit, the body and Ragna, someone who wields a Blue Grimoire, the heart. Rather then just letting the Cauldron naturally fuse them like it had been doing all this time to just become sentient Cauldron. Instead he would make it smelt them into Murakumo Unit that would give him what he wanted all this time. A fusion that had the powers of both Nu13 and Ragna.
Although with this the plan trial and error was the name of the game. Once again as this was something that would take practice and a little luck to do successfully. After all there was probably only 3% chance of success with this plan thus that meant a 97% chance of failure. Even within that 3% chance of success the ideal result were not guaranteed to appear before him.
It was here that Yuki Terumi noticed that people from the 7th Agency was trying to create their own Black Beast and use it to fight against the Novus Orbis Librarium. Of course this would end in failure as they would wiped from existence by Takamagahara's Nox Nyctores. In some timelines this would result in the Murakumo Unit being killed in the blast and others they would saved by her cocoon, and the Origin used the blast's energy to recreate herself within them.
Being the founder of the 7th Agency as Terumi himself did help in aiding their creation. Things were changed so that it was not the 5th Hierarchical City "Ibukido" that the 7th Agency would use gather the needed souls to temper a Black Beast. Instead it would be the 13th Hierarchical City "Kagutsuchi" instead that they use thus prevent the chance of The Origin recreating herself within Mu. Of course this lead to number of other changes that had to be dealt with but again they were all dealt with until things were perfected and that ideal chance within that mere 3% chance of success was finally achieved.
After being defeated by Nu13 as he had done so countless time before now. Nu13 dropped into the Cauldron to fuse with him and what should have result in the Black Beast did not as things had been set up before hand to smelt them together use them both as the base for a brand new Murakumo Unit that was being tempering with her cocoon as Takamagahara fired their Nox Nyctores fooled into that another Black Beast was being created. Of course this fully wiped out Kagutsuchi leaving only the cocoon left in the wasteland that once Hierarchical City.
Some time after Kagutsuchi was wiped out...
"Sir is this really such a good idea for you to be going alone" Hazama was asked.
"Of course as the head of the Intelligence Department of NOL. Gathering intelligence should be primary objective what is going on here. I am going alone because there is nothing known about that wasteland that was once Kagutsuchi. This not just for your safety but for those of everyone at NOL as well those we serve " he responded.
'They really did a number of this place though' Hazama thought as he made a beeline for his desired location.
Having done this so many times already it was not required to look around at all. Since there was only one survivor here and everyone and thing else was wiped from existence.
'Though it seem that my plan is working' he thought laughing to himself.
This was referring to the Takamagaharas that were being fooled into not realizing something has been changed. After all while for most time was constantly repeating itself thus there no moving forward for them. That was different for those that were aware of the time loops as the memories they acquired were not wiped and reset with every loop. Thus every time the Takamagaharas released him from the Boundary, they were being effected by something Terumi was exposing them too. It was not nothing massive but it was enough to cloud their thoughts and vision just enough to overlook certain things.
The cocoon was not that hard to miss as this entire area was level to the point where you would clearly see the one thing that was not wiped out. The cocoon began to open revealing that the plan was indeed successful as it seem the new Murakumo Unit was fusion of Ragna, Nu13, and the Origin who used the power of Takamagahara's Nox Nyctores to recreated themselves within them. It was with this addition that Terumi hoped would help stabilizes the fusion as not having the Origin within them cause the new Murakumo Unit to become a failure thus resulting in needing to try again.
The body as Terumi had desired was clearly similar to that of Nu-13 however they looked more like female Ragna. Their hair while remaining long was now more similar to Ragna's. For it was spiky rather then how Nu-13's hair normal was. The eye patch was missing along with Nu-13's visor as well that was replaced by what look like a crown with horn that stuck upwards and large green gem in the center. The fusion's ears were covered armor that not look similar to horns but covered not just them but stretched along the side of their face down to the start of their chin.
Emerging from their cocoon seemingly in their combat mode as result the rest of their body being revealed. The fusion's combat mode being heavily influenced by Ragna and both Nu-13 and the Origin desire to be with him. Which they both now were as all three of them were one within this form. The coat that Ragna wore was still there however the only part of it that was the upper half. The collar, shoulder, and portion of the upper shelves. The Nu-13/Ragna Murakumo Unit had bodysuit but it was black in color just like Ragna's shirt was and even took more from his shirt then Nu-13's original bodysuit. At the top of their breast cleavage was tile and at the bottom was another green gem. The mark on their lower body was one similar The Origin showing they were within this fusion. Hips covered in armor with green gems and seeming having gauntlets that covered their wrist and hands.
Upon fully emerging from their cocoon, Alpha 01 as she would go by from now on. Switched from combat mode to her normal mode where she looked similar as only her horns seem to go away. Standing there in the field as Hazama came closer to her. She just stared vacantly at nothing her eyes ( the left one green and right one red) devoid of emotion at the moment.
Alpha 01 just continued looked straight ahead at nothing as Terumi walked around her. This was indeed what he desired as they would be very nice weapon for him to use.
Since being a Murakumo Unit which is a special types of Dimensional Boundary Contact Prime Fields. It seems that Alpha 01's emotions were sealed away, make her little more than an emotionless machine who kills anyone that obstructs her programming or whomever she determines to be hostile. Alpha 01 was not programmed to do anything as that what Terumi set her for. He did not want to give her any programming that could be prove harmful to him later.
After all this time and effort to to create her. Terumi was not going to mess her up with programming. So he would personally being giving her a purpose that he had already planned for the moment he started down this path.
Terumi then realized that Alpha 01 was motionless because though she had emerged from her cocoon that merely meant that her body had been completed and that apparently there was still some finishing touching being done with her mind. After all she was two different being smelted into one Murakumo Unit with another recreating themselves within them. So it was clear that the mind would take more time to settle down then the body after all.