Third Person POV
Under the quiet and peaceful everlasting night, a lone woman, with stomach-length white hair, pale skin, red eyes, and wearing a business outfit, calmly walks through the alleyways littered all over the city. She doesn't bat an eye at the sight of people sleeping besides her, though she does have to cross over a few bodies blocking the way.
"I told him over and over to buy the house nearer to the Hearth but does he listen? Noooooo, too expensive he says. Now I'm here having to cross over this pile of bodies that I can't even tell are dead or not and I don't want to ruin my shoes."
The woman quietly mutters to herself as she keeps avoiding stepping on a body. She just got done with her job as a Clerk of the Abyssal Hunter Headquarter, located right in the middle of Elith, the dome city she calls home, with today being a more stressful kind as Seaborn attacks become more frequent and putting more strain on the dwindling number of Abyssal Hunters.
Suffice to say, she isn't in a joyful mood right now.
The woman lets out a sigh, "At least I can finally see Skadi… I swear that she's the only reason I can make it through the day…" She trails off as she hears what sounds like a baby's scream in front of her.
"…Either something is mimicking that or somebody threw away another baby." She slowly takes out her knife from her pocket and notices that there isn't anybody around except for her and the lights inside buildings are off, "…Great, no help."
She carefully makes her way to the sound, since she needs to identify if a threat is in the dome or just a false alarm, while keeping an eye on her surroundings. She sees an alleyway on the left side of her path and hears the scream coming from there.
She hugs the wall then slowly peek into the alleyway, only to blink as she sees a baby sitting on top of a trash can. She looks around but sees nothing out of the ordinary, so she slowly creeps over to the baby with her hand holding the knife shaking a bit.
As she grows closer to the baby, she hears the screaming slowly die down, prompting her to stop and tense up even further as she prepares for an attack.
After a while of waiting, she finds no attack coming, so she continues her walk until she finally arrives at the end, where the baby is.
She surveys the area then slowly puts her knife back into her pocket. She carefully scoops the baby into her arms then examines it. She notes that the baby has black hair and a lone strain of hair standing up, black eyes that vaguely reminds her of dead fish, wearing clothes way too big for it, and a piece of paper right next to it with the words "Hachiman Hikigaya".
She stares right into the eyes of the baby then quietly mutters, "You look… Really strange… Ha, ci, man, hi, ki, ga, ya."
The baby, as if understanding the words, blankly stares at her then points at her, prompting her to blink and widen her eyes, "You're calling me strange?"
The baby nods, which sends the woman into a twitching mess, "I can't believe a baby is calling me strange. Do I look strange in any way huh?!" She brings the baby closer to her face but stops midway with her face morphing into disbelief.
"Wait a second, you can understand me?"
The baby nods again, prompting her to let out a quiet huh. She keeps staring at the baby for what seems like a long time until she brings the baby closer to her body.
"I've decided. I'm going to adopt you! Oooooohh, now Skadi got somebody to play with!"
The baby blankly stares at the woman as it hears her quiet mutters on how she would go on about to convince her husband on adopting it. The baby rolls its eyes then slowly closes it to sleep.
Hachiman POV
Day 1 of finally obtaining a diary to write in: Hachiman Hikigaya, aka me, male teenager that was chosen by Truck-kun for an Isekai "adventure" and chosen by a goddess to be reincarnated into Arknights world, Terra, in order to amuse her enough so that I can be sent back to my own world. Terra, from what limited knowledge I have gained, is a planet filled with people that have animal parts with varying levels of animalness of their body, with only selective body parts to full blown fur covering the body.
Basically, an otaku's super wet dream.
Ahem, the world is plagued by some sort of disease that has a 100% mortality rate, originated from some sort of rock called Origium… Yeah, that's it. For now. I blame the fact that no one in this house likes to read, so no books here, my adoptive parents don't want to tell me because I am too young, well more like adoptive father against it and adoptive mother saying I can learn it and all… In a more colorful language description...
And there's no library anywhere in the slum section.
Oh yeah, did I mention that I live in the slum section? Where there's basically only 1 school in the slum section and that Skadi should be attending so that I can ask her to bring back books for me to read? No? Then now you know.
…Holy hell, I am really losing it.
Anyway, the goddess gave me 2 powers, well more like 1 vehicle and 1 power. The vehicle, Sam System, is something I can't use right now due to limited space and me being a stupid 3 year old right now. The power, C.C, is something that I have been training in but probably due to my immature body, the results have been… Painful to say the least, although I have only found a few individuals that can use Arts, so it might be because of bad compatibility or something.
Training for power has been postponed for now since I don't want to torture myself and possibly wreck my developing body.
On to the goddess herself, I heavily regret the fact that I couldn't ask her more important questions, such as "Is she able to actually send me back to my world", "How should I know when you are amused enough", and more. The fact that those questions only came to me after she kicked me out is just pouring salt (acid) over my wound. Though, I was expecting for her to do something since I'm not exactly entertaining her from what I can see of this meter floating above my head.
Luckily the meter is invisible to everybody else or I would have probably been experimented on by now.
Moving on to my new… Family. My adoptive mother, Eir, sounds more like Air than Ear, is the woman who found me and called me weird, even though she is more weird than me. She's… Eccentric, to put it lightly, but she's a nice and caring mother to us at least, so I'll live with that. Adoptive father, Aegis… He does care about us and all but… He hides a lot of secrets with him. My adoptive elder sister, Skadi, is… I would say introvert but… More like selectively introverted? I don't really know how to describe her but she's interesting, likes to play with me, and drags me off to do things with her. Though, she would get overly protective of me whenever she sees me interacting with other people that she doesn't know.
…Is this how Komachi feels when she's with me? Nah, probably not. Still, it's interesting to be the younger sibling for a change.
You know, back when I was an otaku who liked to watch Isekai and other trash genre that Yukino would comment on, Yui agreeing with her, and the annoying fox chipping in along whenever she was in the club, I liked to see the story start out when the protagonist was in their baby form, where they were just starting out and needing help, instead of the usual trope of where they just drop into the world and go in with all gun blazing and shit that the majority of brainless otakus like.
…Totally not because I tried to make friends with other otakus but got blown off, so I chose to like what they disliked as a way to get my revenge.
Though… Now I hate that trope due to the humiliation I had to endure of being manhandled (babyhandled) by my adoptive parents!
Now I can't get married! Kyaaaaa~!
…Haaaaaaah, ignore that last line, stupid joke from an anime… Not like anybody would marry me either way… I miss Yukino and Yui, even though we had that awkward atmosphere around us, I still haven't cleared that up with them… Komachi, Iroha, Kawasuki, hell even Haruno… I guess Zaimokuza too… Saika… Maybe Miura but we only started to get close after Hayato shot her confession down at Destinyland… Erm, Ebina… Was there… And that little rascal Rumi…
…Huh, I only got 2 guys that I can confidently say are on good terms with me, one of them I sometimes find myself dreaming of marrying (Saika), while everybody else in the good terms category are girls…
…If my life was an anime, I would label it as a Harem just from the disproportionate amount of girls in my life, excluding Rumi since I am not a pedo and she's like a little sister to me.
Damn, what else… Come on brain, remember, I want to write a bit more into my diary in case I… Forget my life…
Even though it has only been 3 years since I came to this world, my memory of them has faded a bit… I don't want to forget about them and think this world is actually mine, like all of those Isekais back home where the protagonist immediately forgets their previous life.
…It's so idiotic, foolish, rash, and everything negative in the dictionary, to be writing about my previous life in this diary but… I want, no, need to write it down so that I won't truly forget. Even when their faces are gone from my memory, even when I can't remember what they sound like, even when my experiences with them fade away…
"Hachi! Time for dinner!"
I flinch at the sudden shout of my elder sister then turns around from my chair to shout back, "Coming!" I turn back to my diary to write one more line then go downstairs to eat dinner with these new people I should call family.
This diary will act as a reminder.
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A/N
Welp, been dealing with back pain for the past few days, lost my job, had to deal with annoying people at uni, got no money, and other tedious stuff that just annoy me to hell. Ahem, moving on from that painful real life shits, I think you guessed it but yes, 8man isn't an Aegir but a human in this one. Before I get any comments saying how it's boring that I made him a human, I had actually planned for him to be an Aegir that has to keep reminding himself that he is human instead of Aegir and all that existential pizzas, you know the stuff that I can confidently say I'm good at. But, then the human *REDACTED* thing came to mind and well... I was really torn on between the 2. So, I decided on to use the wheel to solve my dilemma.
The wheel chose human. Blame the wheel!
Anyway, on to the comments!
DrackNath - yep, 8man's luck truly works in mysterious ways. Also, do note that I apologize if the suppose "incest" (not really incest since they're not blood related *instantly gets nuked by comments saying it is* Fuck off, you twats!) offends you but I *REDACTED*. Oh, Mizuki, welp, 8man *REDACTED*
ALTER-BOT - same, though I do have something planned for that goddess... Hehe
Hachiman fan - no problem, as long as readers comment then I'll just respond to them. Stress does that to you lol. Thank you. To your 2nd comment, lmao, I think I read that one before but I can't remember it
MSDeus - ohoho? You want suspense, eh? Don't worry, the goddess *REDACTED*. Sorry, no Aegir 8man unfortunately, your idea is really similar to what I had planned for him though lol. And yeah, I like it more when 8man retains his name than like given a different one since it just doesn't really feel like him with another name, you know? Welp, they're adopted siblings in here (you can probably already guess where I'm going with this if you know Skadi's lore) and just like DrackNath, apologies if you don't like supposed "incest" (*comments raining again* IT'S NOT INCEST IF THE AREN'T BLOOD-RELATED SIBLINGS!). Oh, 8man was thinking the words due to his body being non-existent at the moment, and the goddess can read his mind
aidilamzar77 - eh, I did the whole skipping the introduction bit in a few of my fics, but I was bored of just skipping the process and wanted to write the introduction bit for AK. Same. Thanks
Ghostwarrior935 - 8man isn't limited to just 1 weapon, the Sam system is more like a bonded weapon. Thank you
