Chapter 26: More like me.

This chapter will probably come out on Friday, because that same day I'm going away for the weekend and will not be back home until Sunday, so if someone leaves a review that they know they probably will not answer until Monday, for citizens of The USA may be somewhat later due to the time difference.

In this chapter we take up the main story, so let's go.

I woke up a little nervous, because as expected although there was something more than two thousand kilometers from Hamburg to Kauhava, I could expect that woman to come here to finish the job.

The truth is that the idea of leaving now for Britannia, given the situation, was quite good.

No one who knew me would expect me to have gone there.

And considering that Anabuki went almost two thousand kilometers chasing me to kill me, I had no intention of staying here alone.

I was afraid, so that lying, confronting the neuroi is one thing but facing other human beings produces fear; if you take into account that the witches are not normal humans what is produced is dread.

Sybilla, I'm scared. Even with the ability to dim emotions, I am very afraid. I want to go to Britannia as soon as possible.
Considering what you have gone through is not surprising. I have never put an impediment to travel and now it will not be the first time. Take your things and get ready for the trip, I will mark the waypoints so that the trip is easier for you.
Thanks Sybilla. We will leave as soon as I have breakfast.

I had a breakfast of one of the combat rations they gave me in Kauhava before leaving for the mission of Lappeeranta. I still had some others, it was quite possible that even in Britannia I ate Suomis rations.

I finished breakfast, and I put on all my equipment. Ahh, I missed the coffee with milk and cookies that I used to drink every morning in my world. He had to be strong, maybe if he could live long enough he would go back to breakfast with milk and cookies someday.

Stop complaining so much, there will be occasion to eat cookies.
Yes mom…

Take the indoor hangar units and climb up to the roof. Once there, I simply dropped by the edge of the building while working the caterpillars in reverse to stop the fall. I reached the ground at a speed more than acceptable, surprisingly the idea had come out very.

I went to the river Elba and activated the spells and interchanged the energy distribution of the "travel form"; It was a set of support spells along with a "preset" of energy optimization in the units to make long trips at high speed without spending so much mana. It was not like I was going to turn into a big cat, I was more of wolves, but this "form" would allow me to cover long distances in a short time with a lower expenditure in mana. Around thirty percent less than before, thirty percent in fact; Pretty good if at the end of your trip you expect for combat and you need the mana for something more than to drive the units.

I followed the same road as when I went north, only this time when I arrived at the island of the Elbe, I took a course 306 with an approximate distance of eight hundred kilometers, this trip was going to be short. It would take a few seconds to get to travel speed and this speed would reduce the journey to a few minutes but it had to be careful, Britannia was heavily watched as a bastion against the neuroi; if I tried to approach the island at travel speed I would be treated as a potentially hostile target and, when they realized it was a wizard, some would open fire on me. Sybilla did the calculations for me; A little less than twenty minutes would be late. I think if something was detected at that speed approaching the island, it would be destroyed and then maybe they would ask what it was.

I would at least obid like that, first shoot and then maybe we asked.

After a few minutes of internal deliverance I decided to do the last hundred kilometers calmly and at low speed. To avoid suspicion. We already know from recent events that if someone finds out that there are people like me they send whoever needs to kill you.

So I accelerate to travel speed with the negative friction spell to the maximum, so they could not detect me so easily, because when an object crosses the sound barrier it does so with an explosion produced by the layers of air superimposed in the form of a shock wave. Something very showy but without friction there was no barrier, no explosion and as it traveled literally flush at sea level it was undetectable to the radar so unless they had a night witch patrolling at this time, there were not many possibilities of being detected or of attracting attention.

It hurts a lot when you see that the witches can do incredible things and in the sight of all; nobody is going to be scandalized by it; but if you try to do something incredible they will send someone to kill you.

I ended up resigning, I could not do anything else, at least until people came back to accept our people in society.

Now I had to stop fooling around and focus on finding the focus of the "transfer event," which was what Sybilla called it; I called it the place to "where the kidnapped person was brought".

I was bored to go so slowly so I increased the speed and I asked Sybilla to put a mark when I reached the hundred kilometers to slow down.

We were not going to pass near Folkestone or Wright's Island or for a few kilometers, even though I was a little nervous to cross paths with some "known" witch and have to go back on the run. Then I thought about it coldly, even though they detected me, there was still no weapon capable of intercepting me at my cruising speed, so if I realized that I had been discovered I should only abort mission and accelerate to return home. I also counted on the fact that no one in their right mind would try to follow me or chase me if I entered Central Europe as the situation was.

I had several factors in my favor, even with everything I decided to bet on a strategy of low exposure, since the last time I went straight and openly the situation ended with my commander trying to kill me.

Being honest, I did not know very well how to act at this time, I did not know if in Britannia there would be more people trying to kill me but probably if it would be like that, we should not forget that Maloney and the people who developed the Warlock came together because they hated the witches, It could well be that they just hated the witches like they hated all the "magic users" alike.

When you get to the map mark, lower the speed to "only" three hundred kilometers per hour to reduce the speed gradually as you approach the coast.

When I reached the coast I was about 50 km / h at a relatively short distance you could see fishing boats and other boats and decided to go a little further north, where according to the map the area should be uninhabited.

I arrived at the beach without being apparently detected, I left the water and I began to notice an unpleasant sensation while walking, before leaving the beach I found the cause. That the water support spell allowed me to walk on it did not imply that it did not get wet, of course, it is water and the water wets; sand had crept into the tracks of my units and had turned to mud along with the seawater.

The sensation was similar to walking in a bathtub, obstructing your pace. I decided to ignore it because the amphibious vehicles when they leave the water are covered in mud in the same way but it does not seem to matter much.

I started to roll directly towards the position marked on the map, during the road I stopped having that sensation, because the water of the mud was dry, it was detaching from my units while it was moving.

I arrived at the marked area and cautiously reduced the march, paying attention to my surroundings, in the aforementioned brand there was nothing; not even some indication that something with a large amount of energy would have used that energy there. Where I appeared there were no marks but they could have been camouflaged with the fact that he appeared in a city in ruins. But the place was intact, as if nothing had happened.

I decided to explore the surroundings a little in case I found any clue about the person who had just arrived. After an hour or so I gave up; I had not managed to find anything. It was as if it had never happened.

OK, I'm done, Sybilla performs a 360 degree sweep at full power and filters everything that does not have a magic signal. I'm getting sick of having to look for"traditional way" when I can do it more efficiently.
Understood ... But be careful, if they discover that the magic pulse has been emitted, and by a boy, we'll start the problems again.
That's why you have to do only one and give me all the data. I do not want a second sweep superimposed to have confirmation as you usually do.
You noticed ...
Of course, after all you throw it through me.

Sybilla emitted the pulse while I remained completely still waiting to "hear the echoes" of the magic signals, as the time went by more and more I became impatient, because even though it had been just a few seconds, I was getting the same results as with my exploration of "traditional" form.

After something more than a minute, although I was eternal waiting for the news, something did "ping", had only one address and a rough distance, but for me it was more than enough to undertake a search that although it was driven by despair and hope at the same time as there was the possibility that he was no longer alone. I would no longer have to do the mission alone.

I hurry to abandon my position, for two reasons; a find as soon as possible the origin of the signal that "ping" during the sweep and the other to avoid being discovered by other people who had felt the sweep.

I undertook a race towards the direction of the "ping" brand, during my journey I saw a beautiful country landscape dotted with forests as small redoubts of wild nature among the cultivated fields that plagued this land.

In about three kilometers I found a lake or rather a marsh followed its shore until it reaches six kilometers and I noticed how in the "ping" there was no one. In fact, there was nobody in the areas.

I was about to ask Sybilla for another sweep when I heard something behind me, I hate when something is behind me. I turned around as I unsheathed the MG-42 and inserted a drum magazine into its slot. The FLAK could be more powerful but in this situation of short distance the MG would be more useful.

When I turned around, I noticed that what had been making noises among the tall grasses was suddenly freezing. That which was hidden and lurked must be human, since I react to my weapon. That must be the other person "kidnapped."

- Come on, come out, I will not hurt you. I know you're there, I could notice your nervousness.- I said with the calmest voice I could. But without releasing the weapon. But only the wind answered me, however I was sure it was right in front of me in the grass. -Go, I'm not going to shoot you.-

Hang my MG over your shoulder and raise your hands to chest height with your palms open in peace. A few seconds passed and the individual still did not move. I made the move to move toward him when I heard a characteristic metal crusade to load a weapon. I turned my head to see what threatened my life.

A redhead girl with a woodland camouflage pattern sweatshirt with hood with a single pocket of those big ones that go from one side of the sweatshirt to the other with a well-known sports brand as a print on it, some khaki sport leggings and some mountain leather boots, topped by what appeared to be a hunting gun with two horizontal cannons.

The girl was also carrying a shoulder strap hanging over her left shoulder and through her chest they made me see that she was right-handed, that and that she was holding the gun with her right.

I went around completely when I heard the brush of grass on the other side. The girl was trying to cover the person who was hiding in the tall grass.

Wait for the person on the grass to rejoin because he was curious to know which of the two was the kidnapped person, although the modern clothes of the girl did not give rise to doubts.

Once again fate had prepared a surprise for me. Another redhead boy with a fishing cap with the same pattern of camouflage and a full army uniform with digital pattern had just risen from the grass.

Then it happened again:

-Two? Sybilla has kidnapped two? -

Speak out loud, the result of surprise.

I have not kidnapped anyone, never in my life.
And how do I come to end here?
I prefer the term invoke.
If you were not the one who was, is there more like you?
I'm not sure…
What I missing ...

-You said kidnapped, right? - Asked the girl trying to stay calm.
-Yes, he said it.- the boy in the uniform answered.- What do you know about this? Was it you who brought us? -
-No, I'm in the same situation.- I said trying to calm the over stressed boy.- Let's see, who "carry the supervisor"? - I tried to ask.
- How do you know about that? Answer- The girl asked with the shotgun while threatening her. -Tommy, come behind me.- She added quickly, taking charge of the situation. The aforementioned boy, who apparently must have been called Thomas, hastened to surround me to go behind the armed girl. Now that I look at the two of them together and closely shared many common traits.
- Are you family? - Ask trying to be nice.
-I am the person that make the questions.- Aggressively answered the girl with the shotgun. -How do you know what a supervisor is? - He added immediately.
-Sybilla, which is how I ended up calling my supervisor told me a summary very little summarized the first night.- I answered with conciliatory tone and face.
- How? Your supervisor? - Added the girl
Sigh.-Look, about five months ago I came to this world I suppose in a similar way to you to fight in this war. I've been growing all this time, accumulating experience and fighting. When I notice the "arrival" signal from someone else, I rush to come here. You will have a million questions, I had them, but nobody could answer them; It is possible that you have more luck. - I answered with all the sincerity of the world, if they were in the same situation that I could be allies and relationships are not built on lies. I also understood perfectly his situation, because it was mine a few months ago.
-I have not asked you about all that. And yes, you are going to answer ALL the questions.- The girl replied.
-First of all, let's introduce ourselves, I can give you the name I use here or mine, although it is irrelevant because I can not return to homeworld.- I go ahead with their interrogation with the hope of getting some information about them.

She sighed and when she did it seemed like she had eliminated a whole year of stress.

-Okay, my name is Iona O'Brien and this is my brother; Thomas O'Brien.- She said while pointing with her left hand on her chest and then pointing to the redhead boy similar to her behind. -I'm indifferent that you name me but you should explain to me that you can not go back. -She seemed calmer or more confident.
- Iona? I-400? - I just laughed at my joke, surely nobody caught the reference, however the "brother" said quietly "that was good.'' -Here I call myself Erik and no surname because I can not go home anymore and because here, naturally I have no family. Sybilla burned my old body to obtain the energy necessary for the transfer. So for now I have no way to go back. Sybilla also told me that the way she disappeared was sounded and that it must have appeared on the news. Apparently leave a "shadow" burned on the walls of my house .- If they came from my world was very possible that they had heard the news, so I could make sure of it and get more information with just a simple question.
- You were the disappeared as if they had detonated a nuclear bomb in his house? - He advanced the boy in an impulsive way.
-I suppose,- I shrugged. -I was not there to see it.- I got the information I wanted, exactly. They were world and, more or less the same time, because if it was an old news few would know about it.
-Well, now that we've introduced ourselves, will you tell us what we're doing here? - The girl asks nervously.
-You're not the one carrying the supervisor, right? That's why you ask me, Sybilla explained everything to me the first night. And you seem to know nothing. - Answer with an air of superiority.
- Actually as we are twins we both have the same "supervisor", but my sister wanted to contrast the information he had given us with another source. -Answer the brother.

Now I must have looked like an imbecile, both had the same "power" and the girl in her certainly higher wisdom decided that it was a good idea to contrast the information instead of believing it so. And I scoffed at the witches for believing the lies of the command but I had believed what Sybilla told me without contrasting it. Then it turned out to be true, but at first I decided to believe everything without asking.

-OK is I get caught by surprise, to all this, can we move? I did a search pulse to find you and are probably looking for the source of the pulse, also someone with units stands out so it will not take long to get here if you are really looking for .- I urged the two brothers. The last thing I wanted was for the League to lay its hands on them.
-Why were we going to have to flee? And what units do you speak of...? - She does not finish the question, I looked down and nodded to my StuGIV, the girl fell silent when she realized a great detail that had been overlooked. - What are those things? ? They look like strikers but they have tracks... - Wow, I thought the otaku would be the brother.
-Do you know what they are? Do you know that, although it does not look like it, they are canon? - I asked the girl to press her.
-No, i did not know. Did you know, Tommy? - She asked her brother
-No, but I suppose it makes sense after all. But why should we go? - The brother had entered the conversation and had made his contribution.
I sighed again. -Because if you are in the same situation that I your supervisor must have given magic, which can be normal and well seen in women- I said while looking at Iona- but not in men- I added as I looked at Tommy.
-But, why? - Asked the boy.
-Good question, let me know if you get an answer. And now if you excuse me, I'm getting tired of having my hands up. - Lower your hands to take the MG and, to the surprise of the brothers instead of taking it to threaten them, use it to place me in the rear and cover it. -Well, we have to move.-

We spent some time walking until we got deep enough into the woods to make sure they did not follow us.

-Well, where do we start? - I said as I sat down addressing the brothers.
-Starts at the beginning- Iona answered
-The beginning would be an anime marathon of two or three days. But we do not have the time or the means to visualize it.- Explain in a sarcastic tone.
-Don't worry, we are twin, so we are very similar. We both like anime and we are both fans of that series. I still do not believe it's true. -Tommy answered.
-OK, that simplifies things. I'd tell you to go down to Folkestone so you can see a witch in the flesh and bone but I have bad memories of the witches. - Respond joining me to the thread.
-But if it is this world then those black and red monsters are also out there.- Iona added joining the anime conversation.
-Indeed, the war is against them.- I answered to Iona. -This is going to be a very long explanation, it hurts to not have coffee.-
-It does not matter much either, it was not going to take effect if what the supervisor said is true.- Tommy answered.

Apparently they had received skills similar to mine or the same.

Sorry for the short chapter, but I have to go to work tomorrow and after traveling and I still have to translate all this. Leave reviews if you think it is convenient.