Hiro realized that the person he woke up as was not him but someone else entirely. But the person he woke up as looked almost the same as him, with some minor differences in the facial features like the eyebrows, and eyes.
Both Hiro and the person he woke up as shared the same face-cut and were almost like twins, in an exaggerated sense but people would call them brothers if they stood beside each.
The person woke him up called spoke to the other person, "Kyouko, go wake your husband up."
"Yes, mother-in-law.", another voice replied.
Then, two people entered the room, one was an elderly woman and one was young one who was pregnant.
The person whom he replied to as 'Mummy' entered, "Geez, Hiro, how long are you going sleep Hiro, you need to take care of your wife."
"Honey, you need wake up.", the pregnant addressed him as honey. To which he thought, "Is she my wife?"
"Aarya, stop staring at the mirror. You are married and are not going to impress anyone."
"Sorry, Mom.", He replied and wondered about how he replied and who 'Aarya' was.
Then, he realized the person he woke as was called 'Aarya'.
Then, the demon dragged him out from the place saying, "Just watch, don't act weirdly. I'm not only showing you the past but you are almost living in it. Mess something up and a new timeline can be created."
"Okay.", Hiro replied and went with the flow without having control over Aarya's body.
He felt as if he were experiencing what Aarya had been doing at that moment. It felt completely real as if he was Aarya but at the same time he was not.
Hiro was confused about the thing which was going on.
"What is going on?", Hiro wondered.
"It is a proxy time travel."
"What do you mean?", Hiro asked the demon.
"You have been brought back into the past.", the demon replied
"Ehh!?"
"Your consciousness has been brought back to the past with you 'U-cells'. You almost took over his body which could've made you interact with the past and create a new timeline. Just stay calm and see the past from 'his side'."
Hiro without thinking, blindly followed the demon's words.
Aarya, who was there looked at the old woman saying, "Nothing, Mom. I just woke up after all. Just wondering about how to set my hair."
That moment, Aarya's mom looked at him saying, "You're already married, is it really necessary to look stylish?"
That moment, the pregnant woman giggle at Aarya's mom saying, "He's always been like that. It just shows a part of him."
"I've got no one to impress Kyoko.", Aarya spoke to her.
'Kyoko', the pregnant woman, "Not me too?"
"No.... I...", Aarya fumbled on his words and continued, "We both are already married and you're pregnant so....."
Kyoko smiled a little saying, "Well, just freshen up, Dear. Today's an important day isn't it?"
Aarya's face turned blank upon hearing it. From a confused face to a serious one. His mother's face also turned serious upon hearing that.
"Yes, it is.", Aarya replied and went to the bathroom to freshen up.
Kyoko looked sad upon taking out the topic of 'important day'.
Aarya went inside his bathroom and put his hands on the wash basin there. He looked at the mirror there. His eyes were blank, his hair and his beard were messy. He remembered the reason behind the 'important day'.
He was going on a battle for his motherland 'Kruz' against the country 'Haru'.
Aarya could be called a soldier but he was a 'MECHA' pilot.
He was worried because there was a strong chance that he might not return alive after the battle.
"Why must this war go on?"
5th day, 6th Month, C526, Aarya was just 22 years old. Yet, he was going to be a father at that age. His wife was someone whom he married. She was a person who belonged to the nation of 'Haru', the one which was hostile to the nation of 'Kruz' and 'Kreiss'.
The year was C526.
At that year, in the world, there existed three nations. 'Haru', 'Kruz' and 'Kreiss'. Kruz and Kreiss were sister nations which shared land while Haru was an island nation. Kruz and Kreiss had been in a war against the nation 'Haru'. The war had been going on for over a year.
It was over the monopoly of 'MECHA'.
But the matter wasn't simply over that.
The people of 'Kruz' and 'Haru' each possessed a special ability akin to their nation.
'Kruzians', the people of nation 'Kruz' could the ability called 'Spatial', which allowed them to move from one location to another freely. The ability can be simply be specified as 'Teleportation', in a rather popular culture. They were a democratic, sovereign, secular and a republic nation.
'Haruans', the people of the nation 'Haru', had inhumane strength, and some even possessed intelligence which wasn't equal to the average man. Haru, being an island nation was a separate nation which wasn't involved much with the other two countries for a few years. Then, it opened up its diplomatic relations to the other nations. Haru, was an imperial and a monarchial nation in name only. It had a royal family which were rulers of the nation but the other governors who worked alongside them were decided by the people there. It was in short, a democratic and a republic nation which lived under the pretext of a monarchy.
Meanwhile, 'Kreiss', it was a nation composed of people with no special skill. They were an extremely monarchial, classist and an imperialistic nation. Kruz and Kreiss were sister nations because they shared land. Kruz was once the oppressed part of Kreiss. Soon, they separated from the nation, declaring their independence as a country. Thus, becoming sister nations.
The people of 'Kruz' and 'Haru' who could use these 'supernatural' abilities had a special sort of cells in them. They were termed as 'U-Cells', the abbreviated form of 'Unknown Cells'.
Everything was peaceful, but that peace only lasted for a few years.
With a certain aggressor, the peace which lasted long was destroyed.
The one to destroy the peace was none other than him, the one who got married to a MECHA pilot of Haru and then killed the first prince of her nation.
It was none other than.....
"Aarya"