//Herta Space Station//
Amon adjusted his monocle as he made his way to the centre of the space station looking for Asta.
"Hello Miss Asta, Madam Herta had tasked me with delivering these documents and has passed on a message reminding you to settle the bill." Asta was Herta's walking wallet with pink hair with a father who was super rich. Asta took the documents and sighed before nodding "Thank you?"
"Amon" Amon smiled before leaving, however his little prank had not ended yet. The Erudition had hid itself and the closest one to be able to meet him would be Herta. Amon walked among the numerous staff members as multiple avatars were created. He would need bait, something so interesting but hard to decrypt that Herta would seek Nous.
Soon the Monocle Horror spread to the Herta Space station. Soon mysterious doors with patterns began to spread across the space station. Many people who entered found the doors connected. Although one rule was established, one must enter with their eyes closed for failing to do so would mean death.
Many speculated that the doors contained a passage of eldritch horror and that looking at it would kill you. Although Amon did make sure to revive them later or just pull them from the historical void.
Soon the fish bit the bait. Herta's dolls immediately activated and started spreading their attention. Amon's body contorted and shifted as he soon looked exactly like a Herta doll. Simply stealing the thoughts of a Herta doll allowed him to blend in and follow tasks similarly. Now it was time to put pressure on Herta, the real one.
Soon he took control of more and more Herta dolls and continued to act normally while under his spirit strings. Soon the staff who were already frightened by the Monocle Horror freaked out when they saw a few Herta dolls place monocles on their right eye.
Soon more and more placed monocles on their right eye.
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Herta noticed something amiss, some of the dolls she was controlling or had given commands, suddenly placed monocles on their right eye. She soon realised she no longer controlled those dolls and that they all have the same grin seemingly staring at the other Herta dolls in which she saw through.
At first she dismissed the Monocle Horror as pure fantasy but soon those mysterious doors appeared, likely linked to the Monocles. Yet there was a strange gut feeling that she kept dismissing. She immediately disconnected the Herta dolls as the real Herta soon appeared in a flurry of shards and mirrors.
A flash of red as Nous appeared before her. The mirror portraits around her reflected herself and allowed her to unleash attacks from all sides with the same intensity. Nous's red eye flashed as it stared at Herta floating with her key.
"All seeing presence, I ask you. What is the nature of the disaster on the space station?" Nous's red eye flashed even more intensely as a chuckle rang out immediately Herta realised that Nous was moving away, attempting to flee.
A flash of light as space itself was locked down. Doors soon appeared everywhere and her mirrors in a way were also a doorway to another realm.
Herta turned her head only to find herself looking at her assistant in one mirror and the other mirror images of herself all had a monocle on their right eye. Amon gazed at Nous before looking at Herta. The mirror seemed to ripple as Amon exited and entered the space.
"I quite like your sense of fashion, quite similar to mine I'd say with different aesthetics. I might try out your hat."
Herta watched as a gray fog rolled into reality as Amon pulled out an identical hat to the one Herta was wearing. Amon patted it down before replacing his pointed hat with the one she was wearing.
Amon gazed in the mirror before humming, a bit too much purple and also smells to much of that clean floral scent. Herta was already thinking only for Nous to speak.
[Observation: Amon has not replicated the hat but rather taken it from history that has already passed.]
[Conclusion: Amon is the Lord of the Mysteries and the one behind the Monocle Horror and the doors]
Herta watched as the other mirror images of her with monocles also stepped out and bowed while taking their hats off.
It didn't take a genius to figure out what was going on.
"Now Mr Erudition. You've been avoiding me for sometime. I just haven't had the energy to go looking for you. However I have a favour to ask of you."
The red eye flashed again signaling him to continue.
"There will be a day that the trailblazer will come, she is special. Destined to attract many gazes. I myself will be participating in this story. However, that means I will not be focusing myself on spreading my name. All I ask is under the power of Erudition, spread my presence. Afterall, as a miracle invoker, I do need to grant some wishes don't I?"
Nous flashed its red eye again before agreeing.
Amon looked back at Herta as he smiled "It was fun playing your Assistant for the last week so I'll be continuing until the Nameless arrive. I'll also be expecting overtime pay." Amon snapped his finger as the mysterious door materialised in space.
Herta stopped him as she felt the strange feeling gnaw at her, "You weren't my assistant?" Amon smiled as the monocle flashed "Question yourself this, who was your assistant? Did you even have an assistant?" Herta's mind came empty, nothing came up. Anything past the last week, she couldn't even remember the fact that she had an assistant.
Amon chuckled "No need to worry, it's just some fooling and a few errors being exploited. As much as you never had an assistant. The fact that I am your assistant is indeed true, I will be around."
With that he entered through the door and made his way to play with Peppy. He was quite fond of the dog.
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Herta remained silent realising the hint that Amon had given. That man had become her assistant and she treated it as if he had always been her assistant. That meant that her own memories and thoughts had been altered. The two key words that she discussed with Nous.
Fooling and Errors, Nous provided the answer closest to what Amon had done.
[Hypothesis: Subject Amon has shown to be able to reach and take objects from the past, yet in doing so by taking your hat, you still retained your hat.]
[Conclusion: Subject Amon does not affect the chronological time stream when using this ability.]
[Contradiction: Herta has had her memories altered, yet no sign of psychological change was discovered with no sign of tampering, Subject Amon's testimony concludes that he was your assistant in the truest sense.]
[Conclusion: With the keywords of Fooling and Error provided a new hypothesis is generated]
[Hypothesis: Subject Amon perhaps went back to an event in time and became your assistant, however since we have concluded that taking your hat in the past does not affect the current you, even if he became your assistant in the past it would not affect you either.]
[Conclusion: Subject Amon became your assistant back in time and using Error and Fooling proved that the events that happened in his time happened in your time. Therefore causing your memories to remember him as your assistant despite never having one.]
[Additional Observation: Likely Error and Fooling was responsible for infiltration into this space. You are Herta and Herta dolls are also Herta, a logical fallacy would conclude that if he could take over a Herta doll he could also use this logical error to infiltrate this space via your mirror images.]
Herta sighed as she felt another headache incoming.
[Advice: Treat Subect Amon as usual.]