Dear Readers,

This story is getting a reboot. My first try did not work out as I liked and going to make some modification. For example, Tanya will be in Japan when...

ShirouKuroEmiya


Prologue

100 Years Pre-Japan Gate

"FUCK YOU, BEING X! I WON!" I screamed at the top of my lungs after I passed away at the unbelievable old age of one hundred and ten years old, leaving behind one of the most powerful and influential superpowers that surpassed any on Earth in both my first and second life.

To my great shock, I found nothing waiting for me in the afterlife. Absolutely nothing, as if Being X didn't want to show up. I thought that way for just a moment. There was no way Being X could resist mocking me about how I had overcome just about everything it could throw at me, but had been unable to escape old age.

I continued to look around, but to my mixed feelings, there was nothing.

What I saw didn't match Being X's normally condescending behavior. It wasn't the type to keep me in suspense, or at least I couldn't remember it being so. My memory had started to get spotty after I passed eighty, no matter how well I tried to keep my mind sharp, body in tip-top condition, or had the greatest doctors attending to my advanced age.

As I looked around, I realized something that I had missed. There was an empty void around me, but there were several objects in the distance. Celestial bodies like the Earth and Moon, with the other planets in the Solar System being much more distant.

I looked at the Earth of my second life. It had once looked exactly the same as the Earth of my first life. That had all changed when the nutjobs and power-hungry, blind fools had used the various nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons devised to destroy entire cities and nations.

My home country had largely avoided what many called the Apocalypse War. Well, it largely had to do with my paranoid outlook of predicting and trying to prevent just about anything that Being X could have done to fuck me over, like several possible end-of-world scenarios created by humans. Nuclear war? Check. Global pandemic capable of ending most of humanity? Check. The zombie apocalypse? Check. Just about anything that I could remember from my past life's fiction.

Bless the nation that I had helped create. It was only through the collective intelligence and teamwork that several contingencies of varying degrees, from riding out the end of the world to preventing the human extinction event from happening in the first place, had stopped my proud nation from ending up in ruins.

I quickly snapped out of my musing when I realized that the Earth of my life as Tanya quickly started to move away from me. I turned to my surroundings to find it wasn't just the Earth and the Moon. Every celestial body in the Solar System became more distant.

"Move!" I commanded my body. While I was dead, that didn't mean I was going to give up. It didn't matter if I was similar to a spirit. I tried to move, but for some reason, I could move my body around with no problem.

I despaired as I found myself launched out of the Sol System and saw celestial bodies that I had no knowledge of. All that I could remember was the general type of what the celestial bodies were from my limited knowledge of astronomy.

Time lost all meaning as I was hurled through space. The celestial bodies that I saw and became familiar with for several minutes too disappeared to be replaced by new ones in a never-ending cycle.

I swear only my mind, honed through countless trials to overcome Being X's plans, stopped me from going mad.

The thought of giving up started to form in my mind when I saw a habitable planet for the first time.

I finally stopped near the upper atmosphere where I felt the presence of twelve beings similar to Being X.

- O -

The Day that the Gate opens

"This is CNN. We bring you breaking news. A city district within Tokyo, Japan has come under attack. The identity of the attackers is still unknown..."

"I am Garrick Twitty, a BBC reporter. We have just arrived on the scene after the first calls to the local authorities about the attackers were made, which was about ten minutes ago. I can tell you the rumors going around that the attackers were Roman soldiers seem to be true... Pat, what do you mean look up... Jesus, is that a dragon?"

"...Japanese News Network correspondent, Murayama Rei. We have reports that there are many more different forms of fantasy creatures attacking Ginza."

"It has been thirty-five minutes since the first emergency calls about the Romans appeared, and it is estimated that there are potentially thousands..."

"We have just received unbelievable news. Photos and videos are showing the 'Romans' and fantasy creatures being killed by what looks like a flying female soldier that somehow, with a rifle, was able to produce the firepower of artillery. The most bizarre thing is that the flying soldier is reportedly wearing the German Air Force uniform. People are wondering if this is the case of a German super-soldier program..."

I watched several television screens simultaneously displaying different news channels until the only door leading into the room opened.

It pleased me that the one to enter the room was a familiar face.

"Itami-san," I addressed the tired-looking man walking up to the table and chairs I was using, in slightly German-accented Japanese. "Thank you for accepting my request. I am grateful that I can talk to a familiar face instead of an intelligence officer."

"Did the German intelligence services burn you so badly that you dislike spooks?" Itami asked curiously as he sat down opposite me.

"Something like that," I replied ambiguously, when that was very far from the truth. "So, what does the Japanese government want?"

"Well, a lot of things, but it's the German government that's the problem right now," Itami groaned. "You stirred up the hornet's nest. In some ways, the discovery of Germany having nukes might be less troublesome."

I really sympathized with the pressure Itami and the Japanese government must be facing from the German government. The German government, well, they might as well have been a victim of an invasion, but the diplomatic and media kind. My lips twitched as I imagined the headache and tireless hours I would be putting in if I were the German Chancellor.

Nah, it wasn't that bad. It couldn't compare to the last few years I had faced as the Germanian leader. I had literally managed a nation that had faced just about all manner of apocalyptic scenarios happening at the same time.

"Something funny?" asked Itami.

"You could say that." I smiled. "So you must have a list of questions and demands that your superiors gave you. Out with it."

Itami sighed. "They want to know everything. About the invaders, what is on the other side of the Gate, etc."

"That's going to be a tall task," I grumbled while massaging my temple. "If I wanted to give you a reasonably good summary, even that would take days of talking. There is simply too much you need to know before you get a good grasp of what is going on the other side of the Gate. How about this? You get me a laptop and I can type up a 100,000-word report."

It was not surprising that I received a dry look. I would have reacted the same if I had been in Itami's shoes. My proposal would have been impossible to do if it weren't for what had happened to me in Falmart.

"How about this," I smiled. "You ask your superiors to give me a laptop with access to the internet, and I will teach you a little bit about magic."


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