Chapter 10:

"…I can't seem to find a solution" Histy said on top of my head.

"…Just rest, your head is all bottled up" I turn a page of my research.

"…haa…" Histy goes all belly on the top of my head.

The very next day, morning to be exact, I'm at the couch reviewing my work that I did for 5 years. I don't know if it could help though, because for one, there's no particle accelerator in Gamindustri that I could use. But maybe I could find a hidden formula that might prove useful, like using the standard model to create another black portal or something.

Rom and Ram are playing some game on the carpet floor, not a video game mind you. Uni and Nepgear are out, presumably doing some morning shopping. I kinda knew that all three of our guest will be staying here for a night or two.

"…What are you looking at exactly?" Histy asked.

"The thing that sent me back here" I review my derivation of the Higg's boson formula as I answer.

"I've been meaning to ask… How did you get back here?"

"I went and created a blackhole… jump in it, and hoped that I don't get stuck in the singularity…" I answer.

"…You're joking right?"

"No, I'm not apparently. You can read the details about my work under this plan guide that I made for my fixer" I held out a piece of paper.

"..." Histy takes it and read its contents.

"…! Th-this is… mind… blowing…" her voice seems to be a mixture of 'amazement' and 'scared'.

"…*Sigh*… You really are one amazing person…" she gave me back my plan paper.

"Doing everything I can for the woman I love" sounds cheesy but that's my honest feelings.

Returning my eyes on this 27 page work of 'how to get back to Gamindustri' thesis, I find nothing of the sort to help me out. Well I can always make a particle accelerator of my own but that would be too difficult and one that could take me a year max with Planeptune's technology. Hrm…

"…If Neptune is gone for a whole year. Planeptune is doomed, right?"

"'Doomed' is an accurate description…"

"Right… well, making another LHC is thrown off the window" that sucks, I wouldn't mind going into another one.

"…You were actually thinking that?

"Of course, but since it would affect the nation, I'd rather not. Besides, Neptune would want to have a place she would come back to"

"…Ah, I thought you would make Neptune to jump into one?"

"You were actually thinking that?" she won't survive that black hole, you know.

"*Sigh*… I don't know, guess I need to search some more in my index…"

"I can always read your book though. It would probably cut the time for your search"

"True. But I believe you need to go shopping for clothes, right?"

"Yeah" it's a good thing that I have one more set of clothes that I can use. But the rest are a mess, and earlier, when the garbage truck came around, I went and throw them. If I even try to patch them with a sewing kit, people are going to say that I'm wearing some rags.

"…In any case though… are you sure that my cards can be read in the ATM's here?"

"They can. Most of Planeptune's ATM's are metamorphic"

"In other words they can read any card" sounds convenient, but I'll take that with a grain of salt since my card is from another dimension. So I won't expect much.

Thinking that, Histy floated away from my head as I put down the papers on the study table. I gave myself a light stretch, a glass of water from the kitchen, and headed towards the exit down the hall. Well, I was about to go when I sensed two shrimps following me.

"Going out as well?" I ask the twins.

"We're going home! Sis will be all mad at us if we're out too long"

"…Mhm!" Rom agreed to that.

"Hrm…" well, I am looking for clothes and my attire can probably fight the cold off especially if it's Lowee's.

"How about I escort you two? Besides I want to meet Blanc and see how her face reacts"

"…You want to go to Lowee too?" Rom asked.

"Yeah. But I need to withdraw some money first at the ATM. Okay?"

"Okay!" the two chorused.

I called out to Histy to and say that the twins are going back to Lowee. After I got confirmation, we exited and let the elevator fall with us in it. We exited the Basilicom after, and proceeded to one of the border exits.

As we are being transported through these blue tubes of advanced technology, we notice that it's packed with employees trying to make way towards their work. It's kinda funny. As advanced as Planeptune is, it's noteworthy to see that it's not using the easy way out and just use automatons in doing all the work. Most people would want some labor or office work. Because humans, as inefficient as they are, and we've got admit that, have judgments which are not that easily emulated in mechatronics. Because robots are just predefined methods all stacked together to react to certain scenarios whereas humans judges solely on how they feel, react, see, and many other layers that are too complex. Hell, we haven't understood how our brains work, scientifically speaking.

-Essentially, we don't judge between 1's and a 0's, because emotions and feelings are not always about cause and effect.

As I was thinking about such things, there was a woman opposite of us that is handing out some fliers, as she was being transported. When we she was able to reach the flier to me, I take it and read its contents… Nope, don't need to read it. It's the same bullshit as before. The 'World is a better place without CPU's'.

"Hrm…" I'm not against such protests, but I was thinking that people believes in such bullshits. The proposals here can't even stand on their own. And if you read between the lines, it mainly targets CPU's in general and does not solve a nations problems or anything.

"…I'll talk to Histy about it later"

When we came out of the blue tube, to my luck, there's an ATM a few strides away. It's just sitting there begging to be used. That's convenient.

"Hey you two, I'm going to withdraw some money"

After my announcement, we headed over there and confirmed that it's on and waiting for a card to read. I pulled out my wallet and brought out 'one of' my black cards. I do hope that it can read it. I slide the card on the reader, and prompts me type in on my pin code.

"…It works" that's good.

I type my pin code and waited for a few until it welcomes me. I have a few options here, but first I touched the 'check balance' option. The UI isn't so bad. Things that are important are shown in easy to find places and the loading time isn't so long. After a couple of seconds, the screen displays the following:

Name: Rasleigh Diego

Current Balance: 2, 967, 475, 820, 591, 030, 834 Credits

"Holy…!" I stop myself from swearing. There are kids here after all. But c'mon, I only have a couple million dollars in my cards, well saying that just hurts to the guys that are not well off, and I'm able to get this amount!

-The name is fake, by the way.

"…If I release all of this, it might cause an inflation" don't want to have the economy run around like a headless chicken.

Before I withdraw a small amount, take note 'small', I checked the dial keys and the screen and anything around the machine for something sinister. I don't want to have my pin code logged after all. And checking that I'm in the clear, I withdrew a few amounts of money, put it in my wallet, and then logged out.

"Okay, little ladies, we're going to Lowee now? You ready?"

"HO!" Ram raised her fist.

"…Ho…!" Rom tried to execute the same but came out in a shy way.

"Okay! Let's GO!" I give a cheer and the twins followed suit.