So I was still waiting for the reaction story from Bi_Catastrope16 in AO3, but it's been almost a year since his/her last post. The need of a Honkai React story causes me to make this myself.


If there's a word to describe the future, it would be 'unpredictable'.

As 'the train' to the Cocoon of Finality arrives, Herrscher of Origin and Herrscher of Finality give each other a final look of goodbye before the latter heads to the awaiting door...

When suddenly, a portal appears beneath them. Before they can react, hands of darkness pull them into the portal within a blink of an eye.

The trip through the portal is not pleasant to all of them, though it lasts only a few seconds before they're dropped through its end and landed on a comfy sofa. Mei immediately recovers and jumps out to the area behind the sofa, her eyes dashing around the area to detect any dangers around them, quickly followed by her partner with their weapons ready in hand.

The result… is beyond their expectations.

They seem to be in a spacious room with the size comparable to a lecture hall. The sky, to Mei and Kiana's surprise, is almost the exact copy of the one where they transform into Herrscher of Origins and Finality. The comfy sofa they just landed on is on one side of the room, with several more in all sizes and shapes spreading around the area. In front of those furniture are multiple tables filled with food and drinks from various cultures. On the other side of the room stations an expensive-and-advanced table with hovering holograms and screens floating over the surface. Behind those screens, stacks of papers are placed out-of-order, and upon looking a bit closer, the duo sees someone sleeping with their head lying on the table.

"...Mei-senpai…"

"Let's wake them up." Without finishing the sentence, HoO agrees with HoFi having in her mind. They slowly walk to the table while keeping their guards up…

Until a similar blue light appears next to them… and reveals Herrscher of Truth.

The petite girl blinks once, then twice, being confused at the scene before her not being the same as she imagined. She then turns to her left and her eyes widen in surprise when she sees her best friends also staring at her in surprise. "Kiana… Mei-neesama? What happened?"

"We are… not sure." The latter replies. "Something dragged us here. What about you? I thought you were returning back to Earth."

"That's Bronya's intention too." The girl looks around the area and finds themselves in a foreign area, then to the sleeping person. "Who is that person?"

"We are about to find out." Kiana tilts her head to the direction, and Bronya immediately understands and calls out her spear while the trio approaches the table again.

Upon getting close enough, they see that the person has a headphone over their ears with muffled music blasting from it. Kiana plans to reach her hand out and tap on the person's head, but then she notices the hair color and the hair style, and she freezes for a moment. Mei also flinches for a second, but calms down and places a hand on Kiana's shoulder, causing the girl to turn her head for a moment to see a reassuring smile. Shaking the uneasy feeling away, HoFi nods back and taps on the person's head…

The person's head slowly lifts up, and the trio quickly backs away, preparing for an attack. To their expectation, the face of the person is the same as…

However, to their utter confusion, the person's hand starts putting the headphone down to their neck then they start scratching the back of their head. They don't even make an attempt to attack…

"I wasn't told there were visitors. Did the Oracles send you to me?" The person has the same voice as one of them, but they hold zero hostility as they ask the trio while stretching their arms with their eyes still closed. "Accepting an entire week of work is never fun to do."

"...Bronya suspects you are the one sending us here."

The person's eyes open slowly, and they start looking at the trio's face… then they rub their face a couple of times while replying: "Yeah, I think I'm still dreaming…"

"Herrscher Of The End needs to sleep?"

Between their own fingers, the eyes turn left-and-right to see the trio's serious expression. The person then turns to one of the screens and leans their face a bit closer so they can see their own reflection… and groans as they lean back on their chair. "Great…"

"...Unless you are not her?"

"Of course I'm not HoTE." 'She' responds to Mei's question. "My apology, I assume you were in the middle of something important before getting pulled into my office. Can you give me a rundown of what you just did a couple of moments earlier?"

Despite not feeling anything dangerous from the woman, the Herrscher trio feels a shiver on their backs…

Then Kiana recalls the fight with Deliverance Kevin, when Ai-chan managed to 'call' for help to deal with his shield… when she enters the new Hyperion… the 'blessing' of the people she couldn't see… "You are… Captain of the Hyperion, correct?"

"...What did Ai-chan spoon-feed you now?" The woman chuckles as she puts her hands down to her chair. "If I was the Captain, I could have done much more to help you… but then, things will change, for the worse even… but in a sense, yes, I am one of the Captains."

"...Can you explain further?"

"Don't you have any better things to take care of…" 'HoTE' then notices the sky and questions in surprise: "What the heck happened to my office?"

"...That should be our question." Mei is half-amused and half-surprised at the woman's exclamation.

"Well I don't mind it, but I don't usually overdo the decorations…" Then she looks over Bronya's shoulder and sees the sofas and the food. "Oh for… F-king great, now I see why. More are coming."

The trio immediately turns back only to see no one. They quickly turn to the woman, only to see her standing up and pulling out a comb from thin air and starting to fix her hair. Now they have a full view of the woman's appearance, and if they don't have the previous conversation, they could have been convinced that HoTE is standing in front of them.

"Sorry for not introducing myself, but I think it's better to wait for 'them' to come altogether. I hate repeating myself."

"And who are they?"

"I don't know yet." Sensing Mei's suspicious eyes, the woman explains. "Hey, I know who's dragging them here, but I don't know whom 'he' is dragging here. However, given my luck, they could be someone you know. And with those numbers of sofas and food… And they're here."

A combination of yelpings and shoutings draws the trio's attention as they turn again, and now they see multiple groups being dropped into the sofas. The trio watches as everyone yells in confusion and surprise, some seem to want to fight as well…

"AHEM…"


'You owe me a vacation, you bastard.' I cough out loud to gain everyone's attention, including the first trio. "Can you three find yourself a seat? I will try to explain from here."

"...There are a lot of us here." Mei points her thumb to her present-time group as an example.

"I will manage." Seeing I 'might' have a plan, the trio nod and head to their group. Once the talking stops… "Before my explanation, may I ask if any of you may have a single clue of what dragged you here? If yes, raise your hand."

None. Great…

"Hey there Captain!"

"...Of course." I turn to a certain carbage who waves at me with a smile on her face. "Ai-chan, you knew?"

"Ah… no." To my surprise, she sheepishly replies back. "I kinda guessed? If you are who you look like, I don't think we could hold a conversation right now."

"True. Anyway, I will be honest with you and say that I don't have one either. However, given my experience, I can predict that: this is the work of the *beep* who is also my other self."

Yes, that's a curse word. And yes, everyone here can hear the beeping sound that overwrites that word.

A certain Elf from the Previous Era raises her hand up and asks me: "Can you send us back, please? We're in the middle of an important operation."

"Rest assured that your universe is currently 'frozen'..." I make a quotation with my fingers. "So there's no need to be scared if something could happen during your absence."

Now that makes a lot of people sigh in relief. Taking a small glance, I notice that there are a couple of free sofas, which means not everyone is here yet… Can't you just drop them at once, The Creator?

"Oi! If you are not Herrscher of The End…" A certain 'scamming expert' between the Herrschers asks out loud as she points her finger at me. The start of her question also causes many to raise their guards up. "Then why do you look like her?"

"The same guy who kidnapped you decided to mess with my power during my sleep and forced me to stay in this form for now."

"Like I would believe that!" A certain hot-headed Flame-chaser stands up, his punches ready to release. Even from afar I could feel the heat of his power raising up…

"Kalpas, 'please' sit down." Much to his annoyance, one of his 'companions' starts using her power on him, causing him to grunt before sitting back. She then tries to use it on me as she speaks: "My apology for his behavior. 'Please' tell us everything you know."

"...For your information, Aponia, none of your power works on me." Only those who are very close to her could see the faintest surprise from her. Me? I just have enhanced senses. "Anyway, you are here to… well, observe."

I decide to stop, and unexpectedly, everyone holds their breaths and waits if there's anything else after that…

"...Wait, that's it?" The cat thief questions in surprise. "Observe what?"

"Anything that *beep* sent to me to show you." I cross my arms and continue: "I think it's time for introduction so everyone knows each other."

"Do you have a list of the names of everyone here?" If I didn't already increase all my resistances to near maximum, I might have fallen for the Pink Elf's cute expression. "If yes, can I do it? Pretty please?"

Taking a look around the presented groups, I notice some anxious faces. And I can tell that they have something they don't want to expose…

"Sorry Ely, but it's better if I do so. There are some word choices I need to use so everyone can be comfortable."

"Aww… you already called me by my nickname! I'm flattered!"

'...How the *beep* did I slip that up?' I have to fake-cough once to lessen the red on my face before continuing. "I will introduce you guys based on the timeline, from old to new. The first group is from the Previous Era…"

"Previous Era!?" The entire table asks in surprise which causes other tables except HoO Mei to turn to them due to the surprise movement.

"...The face you're looking at is the reason." Eventually they sit back down, and some of them are not happy about it. I sigh in sympathy. "Anyway, other than Doctor MEI…" Keep in mind that I gesture to the person with my hand when I introduce them. "The others are called Flame-Chasers in the future. We have PARDOFELIS, HUA, GRISEO, MOBIUS, KOSMA, SAKURA, SU, KALPAS, VILL-V, EDEN, APONIA, ELYSIA and KEVIN."

Most of the Flame-Chasers decide to put the bad thoughts to the back of their minds as they wave their hands to greet the other tables. MOBIUS is staring at me with hungry eyes, though. KALPAS is definitely doing the same behind that mask. KOSMA and APONIA get themselves a bit closer to GRISEO in case I try to hurt her. And ELYSIA… can you stop smiling please? I'm melting here. EDEN, please entertain her so she will stop sending me that look!

"I believe whatever we're going to watch will show you guys, so I will make it brief. The next table… if I'm correct, you guys are from around the 15th century of the Current Era. We have Otto Apocalypse…"

The man politely stands up and bows down to everyone. Those who do not know him (or not fully) nod or clap to greet him. Others…

"...who did not hold responsibility for what he's about to do in the future. The same goes for everyone here."

If that isn't the reason which immediately swipes away the smile on his face, I don't know what else is.

"Next is Kallen Kaslana, the most powerful Valkyrie of the time. And her lover, Yae Sakura who's a shrine maiden."

The duo instantly blushes, followed by the counterpart of the shrine maiden due to her recognition of their almost identical appearance. ELYSIA starts teasing the poor girl as well, with many of the PE crews giving the love birds looks of curiosity. The other tables also start commenting too, though their voices are quiet enough so only the ones in their own groups can hear. Except the mouths of the Kaslanas.

Once everyone calms down a bit, I continue: "I almost forgot, Otto and Kallen are from Schicksal, an organization which fights against the Honkai in the Current Era. Which leads to the next ta…"

"Maybe I can help you with this." Ai-chan leaves her seat and stands next to me. "I can tell that we have the same experiences in this matter."

"...While I'm glad you can help, do you think you can handle the next table?"

The table I'm talking about consists the family of three with the parents looking a bit anxious and the baby looking curious, a certain Herrscher who's shifting uncomfortably in her seat with her 'servant' trying to find a way to lift the girl's mood… and one of her 'dead' friends hugging her.

The Navigator, after a few seconds of analyzing, sees why I said so. "How about skipping them for now?"

"No need. I have a way." I shake my head and start the introduction again. "They are from the Second Eruption time. The family of three are Siegfried Kaslana, his wife Cecilia Shariac who's the strongest Valkyrie of the time, and their daughter Kiana Kaslana."

The Kaslana-in-training immediately glances towards the table and she seems to try to do something, but her redheaded teacher and her 'bestie' already nudge/pull her, causing her to slump down.

"Next to them is Sirin Shariac, their adopted daughter. The one hugging her is Bella, and the last is Benares, they're twins and neighbor friends of Sirin."

The three mentioned snap their eyes at me in surprise, and even Ai-chan gives me a questionable glance. I only nod back to them, showing that I have no intentions to reveal the truth… yet.

The Herrscher slowly turns her head to the woman she was 'claimed' to be adopted to, and the Valkyrie smiles back while giving her biological daughter to her much to her surprise. To further it, the small Kiana starts giggling as she cutely tugs the purple-haired girl's arm, likely asking to play with her. Melting over the sight, Sirin slowly accepts it and starts grabbing some of the nearby food and feeding the baby who gratefully takes it. Bella, seeing her friend smile, smiles up also, with Benares (in her human form) also follows.

Turning back to the PE table, I see some of them start taking the food for themselves, though EDEN is trying to hold ELYSIA back from trying to 'steal' the baby due to how cute she is. Doctor MEI is watching the other tables, and she sees two different versions of herself with curiosity, a few more who look like KEVIN but gender-bended, a split image of HIMEKO…

Otto watches the two lovebirds next to him with slight envy in his eyes, though he seems to have some relief. I decide to track back when they were before they're dragged… and I can see why.

Siegfried is a little afraid that the Herrscher of his time might hurt his daughter, but upon seeing their interaction and Cecilia's smile, the feeling vanishes as he smiles as well.

"To the next table, the year is… somewhere around 2015 and 2016, yes?" I decide to look directly at the Principle of St. Freya and ask.

"Shouldn't you know that information already?"

"Like I said, I didn't drag you here. I can make assumptions based on what I saw, which are usually correct. Anyway…" I divert my eyes to a general direction. "The young miss here is Theresa Apocalypse, the Principle of St. Freya where the Valkyries are trained to protect the world from the Honkai disaster."

Cecilia gives her friend a smile, seeing that their future dream is fulfilled.

"This is Himeko Murata, a teacher of the school…" I stop for a second to think if I should reveal it… and decide: "...and a very important playmaker in the future fights."

The redhead blushes a bit though she's very proud hearing that…

But that immediately causes the table from the future to feel sad for a moment before smiling up, hiding the previous feeling away.

"The rest are their students: Kiana Kaslana, Mei Raiden, Bronya Zaychik and Fu Hua."

Upon hearing her own name being mentioned in the different table, HUA gasps in surprise as she finally sees the resemblances between them…

"With the latest being the same HUA of the Previous Era, and the one in the next table as well."

The three of them start looking towards each other, with the previous tables also watching them in surprise. The eldest one is not surprised at all, though she finds it a bit amusing seeing her early self and her amnesia self's reaction to the information…

"OI! Why aren't you mentioning me!?"

"...I was about to, please be patient." The Herrscher's shouting causes some to also realize the familiarities between her and Fu Hua. "Now, to the current last table, the year is 2017 to 2018. First are the humans. We have Rita Rossweisse and Bianka 'Durandal' Ataegina, two of the S-Rank Valkyries of Schicksal with the latter being the most powerful Valkyrie of all time."

To my amusement, the 'strongest girl' is in the middle of stuffing her mouth when I call for her, so she quickly gulps it down and composes herself, though that's enough to earn her some giggles. The maid also greets everyone with a small hand wave.

"Next to them are Li Sushang and Susannah Manatt, S-Rank and B-Rank respectively, with the latter being supervised by the previous three S-Rank. And of course, we have Theresa, Fu Hua and Siegfried of the current time too."

The two Principles give each other a nod of acknowledgement while the youngest Kaslana is looking at his older self and wonders what happened to him in the future…

"Next to me is Ai-chan, the AI of Hyperion Aircraft Carrier, though she's currently a bit more than that."

"Trying to sell me down, aren't you?"

"Just to make sure I didn't accidentally spoil something out."

A small banter between us earns some giggles.

"The twins in pink and blue are Rozaliya and Liliya Olenyeva."

"And we are Volka Girls!" The former shouts up and poses with her finger pointing to the air, which causes all to giggle at the energetic girl. Her sister also poses with her, albeit she holds her words back since the pink girl already does the job well.

Once the two sit back down, I take a moment to watch the shy girl with her dark personality somehow materialized into existence… "The shy one in dark blue is Seele Vollerei, and the one who's sending me death stares in dark red is also Seele. How she is here is beyond my imagination."

The former bows down cutely while greeting everyone, and the latter just keeps staring until HoTr decides to nudge her, causing her to drop it.

I then take a deep breath so I can introduce the rest as quickly as possible without getting interruptions from the others… "The rest are: Herrscher of Sentience, Herrscher of Void, Herrscher of Thunder and Herrscher of Origin, Herrscher of Reason and Herrscher of Truth, Herrscher of Flamescion and Herrscher of Finality."

To my expectations, the other tables immediately back away a bit in surprise and fear, not realizing that five of the most destructive forces in their world are staying with them.

The younger trio is the most shocked ones, since they're seeing the future selves being the very thing they're learning to fight against, especially Mei who's in the effort of subduing the Herrscher in her. Their teachers are also shocked, not knowing what they did wrong that caused the girls to become Herrschers. However, they feel some strange doubts when they notice the future Principle smiling proudly for the girls.

Sirin is surprised that her title is passed down to someone similar to the girl in her hands right now. HoV notices her stare and nods back to the girl, much to her surprise. Benares is conflicted that she should answer to the girl next to her or the older version, considering she can definitely feel the existence of her 'Mistress' in HoV. Bella only watches back-and-forth in confusion as she's playing with the baby Kiana who's oblivious to everything.

Siegfried and Cecilia are horrified at the sight, seeing that their daughter has become the Destroyer of the world… until the girl waves back at them with a bright smile. That calms them down, and gives them a hope that maybe something has changed that made the Herrschers more docile. Though, the mother feels something from HoV being familiar…

Otto, Kallen and Sakura are surprised at the revelation as well, but they don't react much since they can see that these Herrschers aren't causing trouble at all.

Most of the PE crew almost had a heart attack because they didn't expect that many Herrschers gathering in one place. Granted that the 'MC' is almost mistaken as one, the actual ones are with them. Though ELYSIA looks at HoO with curiosity in her eyes, feeling something close to her and the other Flame-chasers…

"And it's all thanks to ELYSIA that the Herrschers of the Current Era are fighting for humanity's sake."

"...Eh?" The Pristine girl's eyes widen in surprise, not expecting that she manages to contribute something that enormous and important. Though she quickly turns to her cheerful self as she asks: "Aw, you're flattering me. I'm just a normal pretty girl…"

"I can confirm his words to be true." HoO smiles at the girl, seeing that her simulation self and her real self are the same. "You and your companions' actions managed to give us the chance to escape from the Will of Honkai's control."

The Herrscher Trio gives the first table their grateful smiles, further proving that they're indeed not as dangerous as the Herrschers PE group had to face. And that also eases up everyone's fear too…

A notification suddenly pops up on the screen behind me with a loud noise, causing me and Ai-chan to turn to see what it is. Upon a few swipes, I recognize what it is. "So this is what they're going to watch first."

"So… 'your other self' is sending you these things so the rest can watch?"

"That would be correct." I confirm the Navigator's theory. I turn back to the group to see that they have calmed down and turn to us upon hearing the notification sound. "Alright everyone, it seems we got the first thing here to watch."

"Before that…" Doctor MEI raises her hand up and asks. "Can I ask if we have some additional items… other than the food and drink…"

In response, I flick my finger with surprises HoV and HoFi a bit due to how similar I mimic their moves. Afterwards, multiple tablets appear at the tables, along with papers and pens for the kids if they want to draw or mess in different ways. "This is just on top of my mind. If you want something different, just imagine it yourself. I have authorized the room to listen to your demands, as long as you don't plan to hurt anyone."

Ai-chan gives me an impressed look as she asks: "I didn't expect a Captain like you to have such power."

"I'm just different from the rest." I shrug.

"If we don't know better, we might have seen you as a Herrscher." Vill-V exclaims as she pulls out her engineering tools and starts building random stuff...

"Well… If we decide to go for the dictionary's definition of Herrscher, then yeah I am one." I have to stifle a laugh when I see the petrified expressions. "I mean…"

"We hear you clearly." SU speaks up for the first time. "It's just… we didn't expect you to have such… authority…"

"Yeah sure, authority that doesn't give me an escape way out of those paperworks." I point my thumb to the paper stacks on the table behind me.

"So what are we going to watch now?" The Bearer of Infinity questions, her hands already running through the tablet to see what she can find useful.

"The sins of a simp."


Pretty obvious what I'm about to do in the next chapter.

And yes, I purposefully hid some stuffs like Theresa being Kallen's clone or Red Seele is born from Blue Seele's Stigmata. It's better for them to know from the 'visions'.

By the way, if you have any suggestions for the cast to watch, you can give it through reviews or PMs. Otherwise, I have a couple of stuffs for them to watch for a while.