Hinata was sitting in the club room with Lelouch's friend, Anna. A demon specializing in helping souls regain their past lives memories. And to verify if their claim was just a regular joke to impress the opposite sex or they really happen. If so, this means they can access one of the most powerful, potent abilities you can ever think of as a demon. Full Dive. It's a result of the synchronization with the user's past life as he or she attempts to use it to boost ability or unlock a new stage of divine armament if they use it.
Meditating, Hinata tried to focus on her mind and the past, as Anna, another demon that resembled a Draenei in its looks, held her hands on her shoulders, to support her. Focusing on her raw mana, the two managed to connect through shared inner dimensions.
"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice." – A soft kind voice spoke its mind as Hinata turned around to her. "Wait, was that Neitze?"
"No. Charles Bukowski."
"Oh. Interesting quote. Where are we?" – Hinata was levitating in an empty space, as Anna snapped her fingers and made the inner world more comfortable than a maze made out of the motherboards, she originally planned to use. Where they landed, was an island archipelago with plenty of ships, swords, and buildings.
"Better. What you think, Hinata?" – Anna put her hand on her hip as she turned around and had a look herself. "Looks seriously nice. Can you really manipulate your inner worlds like that or only if they are shared?"
"Yes, you can if you have enough mental strength to do that. Most demons don't care tho." – Anna landed on the house rooftop, and made Hinata come closer.
"So… What now?" – Hinata looked at Anna. "Shit is going to be difficult so summon your Divine Armament."
"Divine Killstreak." Hinata summoned her beloved berries into the hand as she decided to check something before going on. Firing all 30 bullets, she hit the button on the grip and yelled commands.
"Reload."
The falling magazine immediately stopped in the middle of the air and filled with exactly the type of ammunition used in the gun. 9mm nato and magazine flew back to the pistol grips, and close themselves when Hinata pushed them forward with a bit of strength.
"You learn? Good. Now, let's focus on your memories. I need full access, so this will take time. What would you say for a mock fight? I heard divine killstreak is only limited by the user's experience with guns and what guns they saw."
"Worth a shot. So how do you access my past?" – Hinata asked Anna as she aimed at her, waiting for the mock battle to be started.
"I will synchronize my sacred lines with your memory vortex in the inner world. We gotta experience one of the earliest memories you remember until we can progress further with your training." – Anna draws her sword as she started to explain how this works. "Mock battle… Let's go ahead."
This launched a sound that was easily described as one-time alarm sounds. Simple buzz, in a dark tone.
As Anna focused half of her effort on the synchronization, she had to focus on Hinata, who advanced at her and lifted herself up, aiming at the succubus, firing 30 bullets at her, while Anna reflected them all.
"Reload."
The mags immediately when started falling, were suspended in the air again and refilled with ammo, returning to the guns.
"All right.. Try something like.. Gun form, and imagine yourself a gun."
Nodding, Hinata searched her memory for a second and managed to find a suitable try.
"ENGAGEMENT MODE! GARAND!" – Yelling this was a correct way to change how the gun looks, from two berretas, it changed to M1 Garand, 8 shot rifle of WW2.
Firing 8 bullets, and ping was something impressive to hear as the word "reload" was spoken, the cartridge that jumped out of the gun, refilled with ammunition, and returned to the gun. Divine Killstrike is basically an unlimited ammo cheat.
"When God gives you cheats… Use them" – Hinata said that as she imagined herself a bayonet on the gun, making the change happened in real life, and rushing towards her opponent, trying to stab her, firing bullets from time to time, reloading as well.
As the fight dragged on, Hinata experimented with weapon models, AK-47, AK-12, Kar93, Garand, Thompson, MP44, MP40, all kinds of guns, Hinata knows about and knows how they look. The Divine Killstreak as suspected is an unlimited ammo cheat in real life.
After 23 minutes, Anna asked for a break.
"Can't keep up, Anna?" – Hinata sighed as she made the gun back to its original form – two berretas – and put them into her holsters.
"No... I am able to access your memories now. Which one do you want to check? – Anna asked as she looked at her, waiting for Hinata's call.
"Something cool first. Or as cool as you can see." – Anna focused on searching through her mind slowly, as she noticed one interesting memory with seeing her as a part of a squad.
"How about some badassery in space?" – Hinata opened her eyes when she heard that. "WAIT, I WAS A SPACE MARINE IN MY PREVIOUS LIFE!? THAT IS AWESOME!"
"Do not get your hopes high.. You were... Quite a shy but handsome dude… Mmmmm these abs. Anyway, seems like this is an invasion on earth. 2040 after 2039's China's invasion on Japan."
"Wait you serious?" – Hinata deactivated her armament and flew to Anna who browsed through her memories and chuckled. "You know she wanted to fuck right? You were too dense to realize the signals."
"Huh? Impossible!" – Hinata watched the memories as they were sorting out in random, to try to find a sense of the most important moments in her past life.
"I have to sort them through to mark the beginning and the end in chronological order. Mind giving me few minutes?" – Hinata nodded as Anna laughed once again.
"What!?"
"You damn perverted neet. Ah, this porn stash is full of classics. I respect you even more for that."
"Huh?"
Hinata was stunned. 'I was a pervert in my previous life and a shut-in neet?' Blinking, she wanted to know more about what kind of a loser she was in her previous life. Or what kind of hero, if she had a military record.
"Fine, gimme… This."
As the memory blobs stopped at the scene where the squad sits in the trenches, and nodding to Anna, to do it.
"I wish I could use regular memories but I guess we can test your mental fortitude. Ready?"
"Ready."
As Anna grabbed her head, she pushed a fist through one of the blobs, breaking them and creating a connection to Hinata's memories.
Waking up in a trench barracks, she got up and grabbed her gun, noticing in the mirror, that she is now a dude. Yup, handsome as Anna said. Looking around, she noticed that body is now getting itself on autopilot.
'Shit looks like some kind of fps.' – Hinata was walking under the trenches until she found light and the trench tunnel had some visitors – 10 T-90 tanks, used to try making a pass, breaking through aliens defenses.
"Kazuma, finally. How long was the last nap? Come over."
Another soldier from his squad approached him. 'Shit I have to remind myself this is on autopilot. I am just watching a cutscene from my past'
"Sergeant, we are nearly breaking the Reptiles defenses in this region. If we do it, then we might get a chance by getting to the mass driver launcher they set up and get the fight in the orbit."
One of the commanders trusted him enough to share.
"Takayama, You will lead a scout team after we will break through the alien trenches. Damn these railguns, we still did not figure out how to counter them."
"So.." – Kazuma spoke – "Should we wait for the push or make a dire rush against the defended trench?"
"Nah, you wait. We selected your team, you are spared from the horrors of the charge."
"Noted."
'Charge? Wait you aren't serious right? Why did previous me sing up for the trenches in the first place?'
Boys walked through the trench as the tungsten rods fell through and through, hitting the line behind the trench, sometimes hitting the ground.
'WHY I AM SO CASUALLY WALKING AROUND THE TRENCH DAMNIT! YOU SHOULD RUN! I SHOULD RUN'
Hinata was getting panicked internally as she observed the events through the eyes of her previous life. Meeting the recruits assigned to the operations, they looked like Slavs and Koreans.
"These are your men and women, Lieutenant Takayama. You are long enough on the front to know the drill, right?"
"Yea." – Kazuma nodded, as he looked at his squad.
"All right people, our mission is to get through the line when the boys break their defenses and verify how much of the tech is usable by humans with two arms, two legs, and one brain. We will use that get to get the fight to space."
"Sir yes sir."
The crowd said as they awaited orders.
"For now, stand by, troopers. We wait for the trench to be cleared. The enemy trench that is."
Nods were given as they returned to their beds, getting better rest, before the charge, as it was what the commanders allowed for yesterday. They still seem to not fully recover from 3 days' lack of sleep.
As Kazuma went back to his room through the trench being bombarded by tungsten rods yet again, the news of the trench being broken reached him, and the commander notified him by the cable line that the mission will happen tomorrow.
When this conversation ended, synchronization ended as well, making Hinata wake up and gasp for air, as she tried to get what just she saw.
"Tungsten rod being fired at us and I casually walked through them without a glimmer of fear in the way I moved back then"
"Maybe…"Anna paused for a moment." You are more combat-experienced than you imagine?"
Hinata sighed, as she laid on the ground and rested, taking deep breaths in the inner world.
"So what you say, enough for today, saw too much?"
"Yes, I did." – Hinata said as she tried her best to keep calming down. "Enough for today, I must get through the thought of being a soldier in the trenches or the fact that I was a dude before. I had nightmares of being bombarded from orbit from time to time but I was myself, in my own body…"
Anna has woken them up fully in the real world as Lelouch kept observing these two. Gasping for air, Hinata got up and landed on the sofa.
"So, Hinata." – Lelouch put the manga on the table as he got up to her. "What did you saw?"
"Aliens."
"Huh? Like space aliens?"
"Mhm."
"Sooo… Want me to leave you alone for a bit?
"Mhm." Hinata nodded again as she used her hands to signalize for him to go out for a bit.
"Fine. Just lemme know when you will be in a mood for interaction. Anna observes her if she will do anything that is weird for her to do."
"Got it, Lulu."
Lelouch got out of the club room and went to the class when Anna made herself a fake cover in form of fake looks that disguised her as a regular human woman and sat on the sofa, relaxing, watching Hinata, as she rested.