Reborn Girl, Journey to All Worlds

The next morning, a ray of sunlight shone into the house through the gap between the window and the curtain, waking up our sleeping Xue.

Unlike before, Xue did not get up immediately after opening her eyes, but sat on the bed recalling her dream from last night.

In that unreal yet somewhat real dream, he was not the former leader of "Sanctus" Hoshino Yasu who had graduated from Trinity Baptist Church long ago, but a girl named Nayuki Dozen who lived with her sisters in the slums of the Ariana Autonomous Region.

"Arius..."

Xue silently repeated the name of this lost land in her heart. She didn't understand why she dreamed of there, as she had never been there.

“…Forget it, let’s have breakfast first.”

After a moment, Xue, who had thought to no avail, patted her cheek and decided not to think about it for the time being.

Xue made a simple sandwich and ate it while sending a message to Teacher Xia Lai asking for information.

About five minutes later, Teacher Xia Lai replied.

"Sorry, I'm still in the game development department and just woke up."

Seeing the message on the phone, Xue couldn't help but be stunned. Did he stay there last night?

"…You stayed there overnight?"

"To be more precise, I played games with Alice all night and fell asleep without realizing it."

"Alice?"

Seeing this slightly unfamiliar name, Xue became curious. Who is this Alice?

"Alice is the android girl we brought back from the ruins yesterday. She's currently learning how to communicate normally by playing games."

"I see…"

Learning normal communication through games... well, it's a good method.

"Okay, I'll go find you teachers in a minute."

"OK"

After the communication ended, Xue ate the last bite of her sandwich, quickly changed her clothes, and got up to go to Millennium.

……

At the turn of the millennium, Xue did not return to the game development department, but went straight to the engineering department where she once served as deputy director.

Just on the way here, Teacher Xia Lai told everyone in the Snow Game Development Department that they were going to help Alice choose a suitable weapon.

"Ok?"

Before Xue reached the activity room of the Engineering Department, there was a loud bang and a ray of light shot up into the sky from not far away.

"That's..."

Xue was stunned for a moment, then let out a rare scream.

“…Engineering Department!?”

Seeing this, Xue directly carried out cognitive interference on the millennial students passing by nearby, and in the blink of an eye she arrived at the door of the engineering department's activity room.

"Identification verified, welcome back, former Vice Minister Hoshino Yasushi."

The main gate access control system designed by Xue that year completed Xue's identity recognition at the speed of light and was open to Xue.

"…ha?"

Walking into the spacious activity room of the engineering department, or the manufacturing plant, our Xue was immediately attracted by the huge hole in the roof.

No, what could possibly create such a large hole? Has the engineering department upgraded its technology in recent years?

"Sister An?"

Hearing the voice of her old friend from the engineering department, Xue came back to her senses and raised her hand to greet him.

"Hey, Utahara, long time no see~"

"Ah, long time no see. So the teaching assistant the teacher was talking about is you, Sister An?"

The girl with purple hair and purple eyes named Shiraishi Utahara looked at Xue with a little surprise.

"Well, you didn't expect that, did you?"

Seeing the girl's reaction, Xue nodded in satisfaction.

"Let's be honest, what is the situation now?"

Of course, everyone present understood what Xue was referring to.

"Just now, Alice got the electromagnetic cannon and excitedly tried to fire it, and then..."

Teacher Xia Lai spread his hands, his face showing a helpless expression.

"I see, it's a railgun..."

Xue looked with interest at the electromagnetic cannon in the bionic girl Alice's hand, which was almost as tall as a human and whose full name was "Sword of Light: Supernova".

Hmm, kind of interesting.

"Ever since I left the Engineering Department and Millennium, your inventions have become increasingly unconventional."

"This big thing must have cost the engineering department a lot of money, right? Let me guess, has it almost used up the club's entire budget for the second half of the year?"

Xue couldn't help but tease Geyuan, and Geyuan scratched his cheek slightly embarrassedly.

Sure enough, Sister An’s vision is still so accurate and sharp.

"Minister, who is this...?"

Looking at the familiar appearance of their own minister and the new visitor, the black-haired, gray-eyed girl with twintails and the blonde, red-eyed, and glasses-wearing girl beside them, who were obviously from the engineering department, couldn't help but feel curious.

"This is your and my predecessor, the former deputy director of the Engineering Department, An Xingye."

"Eh?"

When they heard Xue's name, the two girls from the engineering department were stunned for a moment and looked a little excited.

"So this senior is the same senior Hoshino An who led the Engineering Department to win the Millennium Award?"

"Yes, it's me. What are your names?"

"Hello, Senior. My name is Nekozuka Hibiki."

"Um... My name is Toyomi Kotori, nice to meet you, senpai."

The two younger colleagues from the engineering department suppressed their excitement.

"Please give me your guidance, two juniors~"

Snow smiled and waved, then looked at Alice.

"So, Alice, have you decided to use this electromagnetic cannon as your own weapon?"

"Well, Alice has decided."

Alice nodded, her eyes full of love for the electromagnetic gun.

"Oh, by the way, I haven't finished what I just said."

Utahara seemed to remember something and looked at Alice.

"What, what's wrong?"

Alice and the Taolv sisters beside her were stunned for a moment.

"Hiroshi, take out all the drones and robots that we were planning to scrap."

"…Are you ready to collect combat data on this railgun?"

Xue saw through Geyuan's plan at a glance.

"Yes, if you want to take this electromagnetic cannon..."

Utahara paused, and Toyomi Kotori continued seamlessly.

"Just defeat us first!"

Alice and Taolu sisters were shocked.

"?!"

"Huh?! Utahara-senpai! Why are you doing this?!"

"Just because of a weapon, you made such a big deal out of it?"

"If it was any other weapon, I would definitely give it to her without hesitation..."

Ge Yuan closed his eyes, then suddenly opened them.

"But I must confirm this weapon."

"Huh? Confirmed?"

Alice and Taolu sisters were puzzled. What were they confirming?

"No...it should be said that we are examining whether you are 'qualified'."

"Qualifications? You mean...?"

Green seemed to understand something and his expression became a little complicated.

"Combat drones and robots detected ahead, hostile response confirmed."

"coming!"

Alice directly raised the electromagnetic cannon and prepared to engage the enemy, while Green and Peach beside her looked helpless.

“Ahh, really!”

Looking at the three people who had already started fighting with the robots and drones, Xue looked at Utahara beside her.

"Have you discovered what's different about Alice?"

"Well, that child is not human."

Xue didn't say anything else, just chuckled.