We Are Only Mortals, Unable to Be Perfect

"Hmph, you didn't include me in the game again. Watch me eat all this stuff so you'll come back hungry!" The newbie left on duty at the base devoured the now-cold roast meat, feeling inexplicably uneasy. So much time had passed, why hadn't the captain and the others returned? Could something have happened to them?

The newcomer immediately slapped himself, "Pah, pah, pah! You jinx, what nonsense are you thinking?"

Just then, the fire station's phone rang. The newcomer rushed to the phone and picked up the receiver with hope, but what awaited him was despair.

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The inferno relentlessly devoured everything in its path, rapidly advancing towards the city like a walking natural disaster.

Build, in its Phoenix Robot form, flew above the sea of fire. The girl inside the armor looked grim. She took out the Drill Crusher, transformed it into gun mode, and then inserted it into the Whale Fullbottles.

"Kujira!" Ready Go! Vortex Break!"

A huge ball of water shot out from the gun muzzle and landed on the sea of fire below, slightly reducing the fire, but this was tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst.

"There's no other way... Cang Xuan, Dan Zhu, let me transform into Cloud Ink Dan Xin." Xing summoned Mortal Tribulation Difficult to Cross, and the Abnormal Twin Guns floated in her palms, but there was no reaction. "Hey, don't joke with me! I want to transform, now, immediately!"

Inside the Stigmata Space, the twins exchanged a glance and sighed. It wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they couldn't. If they used that power, the balance between the Stigmata would be broken.

"Damn it, what am I going to do?" Xing was so anxious she was almost crying. She wanted to do something, but this time she seemed to be unable to do anything. The water-based abilities in the Fullbottles she currently possessed were too few.

Amidst the raging flames, a charred figure rose to his feet. As if sensing something, he raised his head to look at the sky. Behind him, many other charred corpses, just like him, rose one after another. Red particles surged from their bodies and flew into the sky. After that, the heroes' bodies lost power and collapsed one after another.

At a World Serpent branch base, a serious fire broke out due to staff negligence. Just then, another fire broke out outside, and the employees fled, trapping the newly created hedgehog monster inside. The monster was eventually burned to death.

On the other side, unwilling to give up, Xing transforms into her experimental whale robot form and finds herself in the midst of a raging fire. Knowing it's all in vain, she still tries desperately, repeatedly pushing the whale's ability to Fullbottles until Little Te reminds her that she's almost at her limit.

"Damn it, we haven't reached the center of the fire yet, we can't stop!" Although the armor is not afraid of high temperatures and can filter toxic gases, there is no oxygen in the fire, and his vision quickly became blurred.

"I can't give up..." Xing forced herself to stay awake, preparing to switch back to her Phoenix Robot form to escape this place. She really couldn't hold on much longer.

But just then, Little Te reminded her that a special Honkai Energy reaction had been detected around them.

Pure red particles rained down from the sky, swirling around her, causing the surrounding flames to recede as if encountering their nemesis. At the same time, the whale -Fullbottles reached its energy limit, deactivating its transformation and revealing a girl inside, nearly dizzy.

In the embers of the flames, all the red particles flowed into the Blank Bottle in her hand, and a bright red, Fullbottles appeared before Sachi's eyes—Syoubousya (Fire Truck).

The girl realized something, and tears slid down her cheeks, only to be evaporated by the high temperature before they could fall to the ground.

Another white, murky particle slowly flew over from afar, and the impure Honkai Energy entered the Blank Bottle, turning it into a full bottle with unknown abilities.

The Fire Truck 'Fullbottles glowed faintly. Under a mysterious force, impurities were removed, and the Harinezumi (hedgehog) Fullbottles appeared.

"Harinezumi!" Syoubousya! Best Match!"

Tears streamed down her face as the girl suppressed her grief, gritting her teeth and cranking the scalding hot lever. Even as her palms burned and her skin stuck to the lever, she felt nothing. What did this pain matter?!

Are you ready?

"Stop talking nonsense! Transform!" Xing roared.

"Save Kenzan! Fire Hedgehog! YEAH!"

The red Water Gun and white spikes formed the knight's compound eyes, and the mask concealed the weeping girl.

Amidst the raging flames, Kamen Rider Build, in his Fire Hedgehog form, reports for duty.

The Multi Deluge Gun mounted on his left arm continuously spewed out powerful jets of water, extinguishing the raging flames.

The once rampant fire quickly subsided and shrank in size. With the support of the fire brigade that arrived later, the fire was finally brought to a stop in time.

Inside the makeshift base, Little Te stared incredulously at the data displayed on the screen. "Impossible! The energy index of this newly acquired Fire Truck's Fullbottles is clearly similar to that of other ordinary full-capacity bottles. Why can it be used for so long and even purify the impurities in an unknown full-capacity bottle? This is not scientific. Could it be a miracle?"

A choked voice came through the communication channel. "Little Te, this is not a miracle."

What is that?

"... the will of mortals."

Kane stood silently to the side, his heart aching at his partner's sobs. He couldn't help in this situation, and he couldn't have anyway, but she went anyway and gained this new power.

But Kane believed that, if she could, Sachi would never want to acquire this power.

"I can't do anything..."

Natasha, on the other side, had her back to them, so their facial expressions couldn't be seen, but judging from her clenched fists, she at least felt sorry for Sachi.

—Xing was just an ordinary person, an ordinary person with power—

On the lush green grass, a listless girl sat on a carpet, her right hand still wrapped in thick bandages.

"Little one, it's a rare treat to be out and about, so smile more, okay?" Natasha comforted her.

"Yes, Luming, those things are in the past. Shouldn't we look to the future?" Kane comforted her.

Xing glanced at them, then looked down at the green grass.

Seeing this, the two retreated to the side helplessly and whispered to each other:

"Manager, Luming has been like this for almost a week now, right? What should we do?"

"How about I beat you up and see if that makes her laugh?"

"Shopkeeper, do I have a grudge against you... wait, am I seeing things? Why do I see two ears growing on Luming's head? And a long tail growing behind her?" Kane rubbed his eyes, and just as he was about to take a closer look, he felt a pain in the back of his neck.

Natasha skillfully knocked him unconscious with a chop to the neck. "Oops, my hand slipped, sorry."

In a terrible mood, Xing irritably plucked at the grass, counting each blade one by one, then threw them on the ground, picked up new blades of grass, and continued counting, while Crimson Kite's Wings ate them with relish beside her.

A hand gently rested on her head. Natasha sat beside her and embraced the girl, who had just emerged from one psychological trauma only to fall into another. "I know you're very sad, little one. Think about it, ever since I first met you, you seem to have been constantly drawn into various events until you finally became withdrawn. I must say, you have a really good mental fortitude."

"This isn't the first time, Sister Natasha." Xing buried her head in Natasha's chest and sobbed softly. "I was depressed for a long time when my friend died in front of me."

Natasha was stunned. Sachi had never mentioned this to her before, and she had no idea that Sachi had such an experience. After all, in her eyes, this little guy was always invincible and had never experienced failure. No matter what danger he encountered, he could always turn the situation around in time.

But now it seems that she is not perfect either, at least not now that she has lost her power.

Natasha Siola gently stroked the girl's head and asked softly, "Little one, do you know why I chose today to bring you out for a picnic?"

Fortunately, he shook his head honestly.

Seeing that she indeed didn't know, Natasha sighed helplessly, "On this day last year, I met a very cute little guy on Taixu Mountain. At the moment I met him, I felt a very strange premonition. Later I learned that it was the beginning of my ill-fated relationship with him."

"Huh?" Sachi looked up in surprise. "Is today our anniversary?"

"That's right." The gray-haired older woman closed her eyes, as if recalling something. "You really caused me a lot of trouble. In Yae Village, you fought me in three different forms, and then you turned into that form and were picked up by that stinky fox... Tsk, if only I could have used the Zeroth Power of the Seven Thunders of Retribution back then! Unfortunately, it was taken back by the Gray Serpent when I left the World Serpent."

"In Changkong City, that was the first time you thwarted Jackal's plan. In the end, it was a great victory for you. Jackal lost both his wife and his army. Ha, I still want to laugh when I think about her expression at that time. It's a pity I didn't take a picture to record it."

Natasha told Sachi everything she knew about Sachi Kaslana. Sachi listened quietly, her droopy fox ears slowly perking up, and her tail wagging.

"...Now, I'm here with you, as your teacher, friend, sister, and—" Natasha glanced at the lost girl, then suddenly cupped her pretty face in her hands. Their eyes met, their noses bumped together, and they stared wide-eyed.

"Lovers."

"Ugh..." The girl who was being forcibly kissed kept slapping Natasha's back, hoping she would let go, but she didn't stop until she was almost out of breath before she finally let go.

"This is my first kiss, little one. Feeling better now?" Natasha teased, licking her lips as if savoring the memory.

"It feels even worse! What are you doing?!" Sachi wanted to get angry, but found that she couldn't be angry with Natasha, so she turned her head away with a blush, not daring to look at her.

"(This feeling... is it called shyness? I, I'm a boy! Why am I always the one being the one who gets rejected by the girls I like?)" The girl, who had almost turned into the shape of Natasha, thought bitterly.

Inside the Stigmata Space, Kallen (personality fragment) was about to hand the brick to Yae Sakura when she discovered that Yae Sakura had already fainted from anger.

"Hmm, you're talking so energetically now, looks like everything's alright." Natasha hugged her from behind, and amidst the girl's gasp, playfully tickled her armpits a few times. "Little one, considering you've been in a bad mood lately, I've refrained from doing anything to you for over a week. You'd better make it up to me tonight~"

"No way!" Xing shivered coldly. Hey, I'm still in my self-isolation phase, no shivering allowed!

"You don't understand. When you do things that make you happy, all your worries will naturally disappear." Natasha bit her earlobe. "Didn't you feel pleasure when we kissed just now?"

"This is not the same thing!" Xing pushed her away forcefully and stepped back several meters. Natasha noticed that Natasha had put on the Build Driver at some point.

"Little guy, you're not planning to transform and attack me, are you?"

"I won't hurt you, Sister Natasha. But please allow me to leave for a while."

"Taka!" Gatling! Best Match! Are you ready?"

Fortunately, he dodged Natasha's pursuit. "Transform!"

"Sky Thug! Hawk Gatling! YEAH!"

Natasha looked up at the knight flying further and further away and shouted, "Hey, little guy, where are you going?!"

Xing turned back and looked at her reluctantly. "I miss home. I'm going back for a bit. Don't worry, I'll be back before dark!"

Author's Note—

This chapter might be a bit confusing to read and may have caused some discomfort for some readers. You Hui for this.

Next episode, Kamen Rider Build! "Birthday Party! New Powers and New Enemies!"

When she returned to the St. Freya Academy, which she had been away from for a long time, she was surprised to find that everyone was actually preparing a birthday party for her.

She clearly doesn't have a birth date in this world, so how come she doesn't have a birthday?

"Besides, I'm not here either. What are Kiana and the others up to?"

Faced with the strange behavior of the Fire-Chasing Squad, Xing chose to observe from the shadows.

Meanwhile, Kane, who remained in Changkong City, also encountered an unprecedentedly powerful enemy.

"You stinking crocodile, stop getting cocky with me!"

Kane, transformed into Jelly Dragon, finds himself in a difficult battle. With his partner not by his side, will he be able to defeat the powerful enemy?

(The above scenarios may not actually occur and are for reference only.)