Disclaimer: I don't the characters, they belong to Rick Riordan. I don't own the plot, it belongs to MBC. I just joined them for fun.

Episode 13: Part 2

"That man..." Nico heard Will complain as soon as they left the coffee shop. "He made us waste twenty minutes on him..."

"I don't need to give you a ride, right?" Nico checked with him but didn't wait for a reply. "When you go back, draw it right away."

"I got it." Will nodded to him. "But it's not something dangerous, is it?" He couldn't help himself to ask.

"You know that I can do what I want freely. Don't worry." Nico reassured him but Will didn't sound convinced.

"Be careful, really." Nico had no other choice but to nod at him.

"I'll call you." He promised before climbing in Will's car, the one he was still using to move around. He noticed how Will waited until he was out of his vision range before walking to his father's home.

I wonder how everything is back home... Nico couldn't help himself to still think the manhwa world as his 'home' since he technically was born there. How is Reyna coping with all of these changes I'm integrating into the story...? Nico's mind wondered around while he drove towards the doppelganger of his former home.

However, his shock was great when he saw Reyna by the hotel's door.

Nico stopped the car abruptly- somehow, he had decided to use the tourist's car entrance so he wasn't causing a collision or something. He looked at Reyna's figure over the mirrors, to confirm that he was not hallucinating- no, she was there.

And she had seen him.

Taking a deep breath and thinking fast how to explain all this, Nico got out of the car to confront... no one. Reyna was not standing by the hotel's door. Actually, despite the doorman, there was no one else around.

He had to confirm it.

"Where are you?" He greeted Will as soon as he picked the phone up.

"I'm going home right now." Will replied, seeming to have missed his urgent tone.

"This is not inside of the manhwa, right?"

"What are you talking about? How can you talk to me if you are inside of the manhwa?" Will reasoned with him, logically. "You are talking to me right now."

"But why is Reyna...?" Nico wondered to himself. But Will heard him.

"Reyna? You mean Reyna Ramirez-Arellano?" Despite the circumstances, Will's tone was full of curiosity at his statement.

"I mean..." By this point in the conversation, Nico considered he was going crazy himself.

"What are you talking about?" Will's worried tone reached him and Nico decided not to bother him now.

"It's nothing, I'll call you back. I don't know what it is." I promise you a better answer when I figure out what happened...

As soon as Nico was inside the hotel, he rode the elevator to the penthouse and transported himself back to the manhwa world.

That was one way to avoid the crowd.

There, he took a shower and changed some clothes before waiting for Percy to arrive.

"When did you come?" Was the first thing out of his cousin's mouth as soon as he saw him comfortable sitting on a table.

"Just now." Nico half lied to him.

"You told me not to empty this place, so I left it as it is." Percy admitted before asking. "What are you going to do?"

"When I come here sometimes, I need a place to stay." Nico confessed to his cousin, serious.

"Where are you coming from?" Percy was naturally curious to where his cousin was living now but Nico knew he couldn't tell him so decided to tease him.

"From the star land?" Nico pointed up, smirking.

"Jeez. Do you want to anger me? I'm serious..." Percy rolled his eyes in frustration before telling a few truths. "I had your funeral service yesterday. How can you make a joke right now?"

"I'm sorry. It's a complicated story to explain." Nico apologized to him. "We'll talk about it slowly. Where's the will?"

"Here." Percy showed the envelopes that he was carrying with him. Nico immediately set down to read and sign every single paper. He knew time was different, so he could take the time to do such activity.

All under the careful eye of his cousin.

"Wanna know what I'm leaving you...?" Nico annoyed his cousin, knowing he had made no effort in reading what he was now signing.

"Don't entrust me with that. I hate things like this." Percy pointed out when Nico showed him his share of the inheritance.

"Who would I trust if not you?" Nico argued, smirking.

"Didn't I tell you I'm going to retire?" Percy came back at him. "I'm going to start working out again. I'm really not going to do it. I hate going through files." Nico knew Percy good enough to know he was half lying, half telling the truth.

"I'm going to put it under your name for now." Nico acknowledged to him, smirking. "If you really don't like it, find your replacement."

"Oh yeah." Percy began, looking at Nico. "Have you seen Reyna?"

"What?" Nico looked up from the papers he was signing, all traces of jokes gone.

"It looks like Reyna saw you."

"Where?"

"At the lobby a little while ago. She said she saw you riding a car."

"Has she really seen me?" Nico's mind was racing. So, I didn't imagine her after all...?

"I had such a hard time covering for you! Be careful, will ya?" Percy advised him before answering his ringing phone but Nico was already in deep thought.

Is there another variable? He wondered to himself. That's right, I was thinking about Reyna at that moment when I arrived at the hotel. He reminded himself before trying to think logically. I'm the main character. And at present, I'm living in the real world.

Then the third hypothesis.

If I register the characters in my mind, then those characters in the manhwa can be summoned to the real world?

"No way, I couldn't have-" Had Percy been present while Nico had his realization, he would have seen his cousin panic for the first time. "Without realizing, have I summoned someone before...?"

Having a bad feeling about this, Nico rushed to his cousin who was still on the phone.

"Cousin! Can you check where Zeus Olympia is right now?"

Evidently, Percy hadn't heard him as he was shouting at someone through the phone.

"How could that happen? How is that even possible inside a police station?" Nico had seen Percy really angry a few times, and this was one. "This is really unbelievable. I understand. Call me back."

"What's going on?" Nico wanted to know, worried.

"The police called. Orcus, that jerk..."

"He died?"

"He didn't die, he escaped."

"What?!"

"Does that make sense?" Evidently, Percy was furious about the turn of events. "Are they in their right minds? How could they lose a murderer? Inside a police station at that!"

"How did it happen? Did they tell you?" Nico pressed for information out of Percy and Percy was so angry, he shared with Nico.

"They said he just disappeared while he was being interrogated. And he even killed a police officer on the way out! Does that even make sense?"

"When was that?" Nico demanded.

"I think it's been about an hour." Percy checked with his watch and Nico got even more worried.

"Cousin, I'm sorry. I'll call you later." Nico rushed out of the penthouse and into the elevator while Percy watched in confusion.

Once in the elevator, Nico returned.

While all this was happening, Will had arrived at his childhood home.

"Kayla!" Will began calling, ringing the bell. When he didn't receive a reply, he dug for his key and began calling for her again, all while walking around and searching. "Kayla! Kayla!" Upon not getting answers, he realized she wasn't home. "Where did she go again?" Irresponsible child... He pulled the keys to unlock his father's room when he noticed something important.

The door was already unlocked.

Trying not to panic, he made a call.

"Hello?" Kayla's voice replied from the other side.

"What happened to Dad?" Will wasted no time in getting to the point.

"What?" Kayla asked, evidently confused.

"The door was opened but Dad is not here." Will explained to her before repeating. "What happened to Dad?"

"I clearly locked the door and came out." Kayla swore, her voice tainted with worry.

"I'll look for him and call you back." Will told her before hanging up.

"Will." He heard from behind him.

"Dad." Will called him before rushing to hug him tight.

After a while of hugging each other, Will forced his father to sit down.

"Are you sick anywhere? Are you okay?" Will asked his father, seeing that he was still a little weak.

"Yeah, I think I'm okay." Apollo replied to him, softly.

"Should I bring you some water?" He offered to him before receiving a trembling nod. "Rest for a bit, and then let's go to the hospital." Will's training kicked off and that was calming him down. "You need a comprehensive checkup. We don't know where you've been hurt or how."

"What exactly happened?" Apollo questioned him when Will went to get him some water. "How did I return to normal?"

"The story is the way you originally planned. Nico di Angelo came here and rewrote it." Will explained to him. "So that Zeus Olympia kills the real culprit. He said that was the only way you could come back."

"Nico di Angelo did?" Apollo stuttered a little.

"Yes, Nico di Angelo came here, Dad." Will told his father but, by the way he was looking at him, he didn't seem to remember that. "You don't remember? You've spent time with him in the last few days."

"I don't know. I don't know." Apollo shook his head fast in frustration and Will placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Don't think about it. For now, you must rest, Dad."

"What about Nico di Angelo? Where is Nico di Angelo?" Apollo asked, and Will wondered what he feared it had happened.

"He went back there."

"To the manhwa?"

"Yes. Without knowing you're back." Will added. "Once he confirms the death of the real culprit, he will come back. I should call Kayla. She'll be so happy. Poor girl, because of you, she even developed heart disease." Will joked a little picking his phone up, unprepared for the new turn of events.

"Then, Nico di Angelo isn't here right now." Will's eyes shot up, ignoring his phone and concentrating on the voice change in his father. "Ah, I waited for no reason!" Apollo sounded annoyed, even frustrated. More assertive, even.

A completely different man from five minutes ago.

"What?"

"What I'm saying is that I thought this was a chance to get rid of both of you at the same time."

Will's head was spinning.

This was not his father.

"Orcus..."

"It's been a while, Will Solace." Orcus teased Will, smirking at him. Will tried very hard not to show his fear but he didn't hide his shock when Orcus pulled out a gun from behind him. "You were the problem." Orcus scolded him as if he was a bad-behaved child, all while pointing at him with the gun.

"You were! Because of you, the story became a mess! Because you kept drawing. Nico di Angelo should have died cleanly early on." While Orcus talked, he walked closer and closer to Will who kept walking back until he was 'trapped'.

"You hid him and brought him back to life just because you were bewitched by a manhwa. You even made us resume the story! Hey. If it wasn't for you, this manhwa would have ended neatly already! What is all this trouble? Seriously!"

Had Will not been trying to control his fear, he would have thought he was facing an angry fan, not a psychotic killer. But that never entered his mind, especially when Orcus decided to get closer to him, trying to intimidate him.

"I read the whole manhwa after coming here." Orcus acknowledged to Will, whose mind was going overdrive. "I found out how Nico di Angelo's been going back and forth, too. It's nothing once you figure out the concept. Turns out it's something I can do, too." Oh, crap... "Should we go together? To find your husband?"