Winter.
Here in Russia- Wait. I am sorry. I made a mistake
Ahem.
Here in Ursus, winter is one of the harshest season for a simple reason.
Every day it's fucking minus 5 degrees.
Nah, I am not joking. Sometimes it goes even lower! The freezing temperatures makes living in this part of the planet so freaking hard! Try to go out at night I dare you. You would be lucky to only get a little hypothermia and get a bit of frostbite after 10 minutes. And when it's humid, you can feel the cold in your bones, no matter the amount of clothing you have on.
And now, think that for me to complain about the frosty environment like that is a lot.
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Why?
Ah! Right, I forgot to mention it! Really, sometimes I forget really important things, don't I?
I am a vouivre!
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You already knew that didn't you?
Well, but I am sure you didn't know that I am an Ice Vouivre!
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What the difference you ask?
What can I do with you? Not knowing such an easy thing!
Ahem.
Well, being an Ice Vouivre means that I am more resistant to freezing temperatures both internally and externally, this being a great help because I can maintain my body temperature to 30° degrees Celsius without problem!
But I still feel cold, so that without problem is a little of a lie. But still, being able to resist 6 degrees more than a normal human is something almost unheard of.
And to tell you the truth… there is something more about me being an ice vouivre but… I would feel better if I didn't know it…
Being an Ice Vouivre… Haa… Makes you easier and faster to use Ice Arts… And as you know…
I can't use them so… Yeah…
Life sucks.
"Concentrate!" A shout makes me come back to earth so fast that a cheetah would be left biting the dust.
"Y-Yes!" I respond while trying to see from where the shout came.
Right now I am playing hide and seek with Yith.
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Well… We are not playing per se.
We are training.
How?
I need to find and catch Yith while he is invisible with an illusion on this hell of snow and trees.
And it's really tiring. And I mean really tiring.
If it were only the hide and seek part, it would be so much easier! As its winter, the snow is literally at my knee, making it even harder to walk some meters ahead of me!
Thanks to god that at least we lowered the snow height, as before it was at my waist, making it pretty much impossible for me to move. Still, catching him is close to impossible because he changes locations regularly, so my probabilities only went up like a one percent in comparison to before.
Now. It doesn't end there.
That is part one of the tri-training we are doing.
Ah I didn't say that it was three trainings at the same time didn't I? I really forget a lot of things recently so I am sorry. The second training is-
*Thuck*
"Argh!"
A shout of pain resounds inside the barrier.
I am sure you know who shouted, but just in case I'll tell you. It was me. Why? Thanks to a pebble that was thrown to my little and frail arm. Hear me out, a pebble shouldn't hurt that much for such a shout of pain right?
Wrong.
Think that you are me. A seven year old. Really healthy, and fit for someone of that age right?
Now think of Yith. Literally an adult. He has more strength than a freaking seven years old. He is maybe related to some eldritch god, I am sure of that. And he has those claws that makes him more scary than necessary.
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Okay okay… Yith is a good trainer. He applies the negative reinforcement of Nietzsche pretty well, I am a living testimony of that. Now. He isn't good with kids. When I think of Yith I think of pain. Pure pain.
Itching.
Scratching circuits.
Sometimes hell.
But he is a good trainer.
Ah! Right! I forgot to mention it! I am seven years o-!
*Thuck*
"Urg!"
I should stop changing topics so fast shouldn't I? And let me finish the sentences in my head please!
Without knowing it I started to crouch.
T-That one was in the stomach... It h-hurts...
M-Maybe he isn't a g-good trainer after all.
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L-Let's continue.
After getting up I prepare myself for the next pebble.
The second training if you didn't see was dodging, and as you see I am not good at it. Why? I can't FUCKING move! I really try, but the snow doesn't let me! The only thing I can do as dodging is throw my body and lay in the middle of the snow waiting for pebbles to rain on me!
Ah…
Now you must be asking:
Why are you training how to dodge in a place where you can't move?
Well… I present you the third training, which is moving in complicated terrain.
Combined, the three are known by myself as the tri hellish pains.
Why I say that?
Because more than training, I feel like Dante passing through the nine hells. And to tell you the truth. I don't think this training is working pretty well.
"I don't think this is working." Yith says finally getting out of his illusion in front of me.
He was in front of me?! And now you realize it isn't working?! I stood here trying to dodge for half an hour only to be hit all the time!
"Yeah I think so too." I say while throwing myself head first in the snow. Even if it's freezing, I can finally relax a little. "My body hurts." I say dead-toned with my face looking head first the snow.
"…"
I turn around a little to see Yith's… face. Even if it passed two years, it's still strange talking to him. I mean he knows a lot of things and is mysterious as fuck. All of this time I tried to know a little more of him but couldn't find anything. Not from mom, nor dad, nor Yith himself. And it's pretty unnerving, because I am training with someone I don't know almost nothing…
The only things I know is what he said in that challenge two years ago and that he will work for Penguin Logistics in the future…
Wait.
Does Penguin Logistics exist right now? I mean, Mostima and Yith will work- or are working for Penguin Logistics so… Maybe I should search it later.
Back to the present, back to the present.
When I come back to my senses I can see Yith with his claws extended to me. I take his hand and with his help I get up.
"Let's try for now only movement on a hard terrain." He says after thinking some time. "To tell you the truth I got a bit excited and put a much harder training first, thinking that if you were adept at dodging on an easy ground, this would be okay. Which clearly wasn't."
I could say something pretty annoying, but I will hold back.
"Alright. How do we continue then?" I say while looking at him… I really want to know of what is made that suit. Even in the snow it looks like it's totally dry. And how does he not feel cold with only that and a scarf?
"Well… First let's try moving like we usually do. Try to do some jogs around the barrier." He says while moving his hands in a shooing manner, like keeping away an insect or something.
…Really?
"Come on. Don't look at me like that. Think that today's sweat isn't tomorrow's blood." He says… smugly.
Don't think that I can't see how that… thing is becoming more like a sadistic smile!
…Maybe he is a sadist? I hope not…
I try to start jogging, but the snow complicates everything so the only jog I can do is with the knees close to the chest. Slowly but surely I continue. This will be hard.
"…Let's reward you a little. If you complete five jogs I will take you to eat something. If you reach ten I will tell you something about me. I would tell you that you can walk on the sixth one, but I don't think that will be easy with the snow. You can try though."
Well at least he uses positive reinforcement sometimes. And the thing with the "I'll tell you something about me" happened so much times that I lost count! He always says that when he puts a hard exercise in front of me. The only time I could get him to talk about himself was two years ago then no more. They were and are too hard!
*Thuck*
"Argh?! What was that for?!" I yell to Yith as he threw me a pebble yet AGAIN.
"Mh? What do you mean? I didn't do anything." He says nonchalantly.
I swear to god-
*Fiuuu*
"I saw that one! You were stopping time and throwing me pebbles!? Didn't you say that with the barrier you can only accelerate and slow time a little!?" I cry in his direction.
"Well, you need to know that people lie. And because I used it a lot these past years, I got more practice, so I can use a bit of stop now. Now less talking and more dodging."
As he finishes talking he-
*Fiuuu*
Throws another pebble.
What the hell?! Wasn't it only jogging?!
"People lie… lie… lie…"
Why can I hear that with an echoey voice?!
"I ask myself, do you make some plans before hand or not?" I say irritated to Yith while we wait for our order.
Right now we are in section 15, next to section 14, and is known for the amount of restaurants and business here in Moscor. In reality it's the third most transitioned section of Moscor, the first being the fourth section, where it's known as Business's Cay. I don't think I need to say more about that, the name is pretty straight forward. And then the centre or section one, where the nobility of Ursus resides, and most of the important work happens.
What important work you say? Government things and the like.
Well, anyways, we are in a fast food restaurant because I completed the five laps of intense dodging. It's one of those trash food diner places, where a lot of families come because their children like the food here even though it's pretty unhealthy.
However I like it too, so I am not someone to criticize.
Coming back to the results of the training, I couldn't complete the tenth lap. I literally stopped metres from reaching the end of the ninth lap. The will said yes, but the body said no.
"You must know that I do plan things out, but as the saying goes, 'No plan survives contact with the enemy'. Being the enemy your inability to complete the task I ask you." Yith says casually while getting up to get the order from the front desk
Well that's a rude thing to say to a seven year old, doing ten laps in the snow at knee height is something that even a normal adult will have difficulty.
And don't you dare quote Sun Tzu in front of me! I am pretty sure you didn't even read the book!
Hmph!
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Wait, how does he know Sun Tzu?!
It took a good amount of time for that to settle in. Sun Tzu is from Earth, not from Terra!
But wait, isn't Terra almost a parallel to Earth? Doesn't that mean that a Sun Tzu was born, lived and died here?
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I should remind myself of researching that when I can get access to the internet.
I look around myself for a moment to see if there is someone close to me.
Nobody, good.
I take out the diary from my inner pocket and write fast the reminder. With that, I put it back from the pocket which came from and act like nothing happened.
I know that my movements are suspicious, but the one doing it is a seven year old. Maybe they'll think that it's a child playing a game or something. I don't know and I don't care.
I am so tired and sore right now.
With a sigh I look around me yet again. The restaurant is small and filled with a lot of colours, to appeal to the different children running. I look towards the window right next to me. It's pretty different from the greyish outside, generating a strange contrast if you ask me.
It's strange and for some reason calming.
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Fuck, I am getting sleepy.
"What are you looking at?" I look towards the direction of the voice and I see Yith with the tray in hand.
"Nothing, I was only thinking." I respond to him while yawning and still looking at the outside.
"Then let me reformulate the question. What are you thinking?" He says while sitting in front of me across the colourful table.
I could easily say nothing yet again and end the conversation, but…
"Yith can I make you a question?" I say turning to look at him seriously.
"…Well, of course." He says nonchalantly. "Remember to eat it while it's hot. Even if we are indoors, the cold easily passes through here." He says pointing to the hamburger in the tray.
I nod and take a bite out of it.
It's pretty good and oily, as a hamburger should be.
"…Now, what do you want to ask me?" He says while relaxing himself in his chair... Well, at least tries to. "It's small. A little bit more and-"
"Yith, why are you trying to be so mysterious?" I say straightforward without thinking that I interrupted him.
"Oh? You say I am trying to be mysterious? Why do you ask that?"
With those words the atmosphere becomes tense.
His tone changed.
It doesn't have any emotion behind it… Almost like a machine.
"It's just… that you never talk about you, and when you do its things that I already know."
Plus, what the hell is with those things about if I complete X laps you tell about yourself? Isn't that to strange? And what the hell is with that use of time and illusion arts?
"…And-"
"Micha, who are you truly?"
With that question he shuts me completely. And I look at him incredulous.
"Your way of thinking is nothing at all like a children. When children are playing on your surroundings, you choose to study, think or train."
"…"
He is right, but-
He comes closer.
"I could say that you are a genius and end it there, but your way of thinking isn't the same. You know a lot of things. Things that not even a genius should know."
"…"
Scary.
For some unknown reason my body is shaking.
I am nervous.
I should not have made that question.
"And not only that, but you know me."
I slowly raise my face and look at him. It's… heavy.
The atmosphere is so heavy I can't breathe.
"When we first talked you didn't know it, but your face made a surprised expression, like you saw someone you didn't expect to be there. Someone you knew." He says inching closer. "Plus you know Mostima, which raises a lot of questions."
With each word, my body becomes more nervous and start feeling a bit ill.
"Now, tell me. Who are you?"
"…"
I can't talk. I feel like a lump is in my throat making me harder to say anything or breathe.
"You won't answer me right?"
I… I slowly nod.
"I see… Then sadly I can't talk about me. If you don't trust me, then I can't trust you. I am sorry Micha."
I…
I want to say something, but I can't. This remembers me to that time with dad, or when I was with mom.
I want to say something. I really want to!
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But I can't.
"Haaaa…" Yith sighs and with that I look at him yet again. I thought that I was seeing him, but in reality I was looking somewhere else, like I lost myse. He passes one of his hands through his head and says. "Look, I am sorry, I spoke a lot more than I wanted, but I don't want to talk about myself. There is a reason, but I can't tell you now. Knowing it will make more harm than good."
"I…"
I finally open my mouth but…
"…"
I close it yet again.
Why?!
Why the fuck it's so hard to even say a word?!
Just. A. Fucking. Word!
Just say it!
"Yith…"
Fucking finally!
"What?" He says a bit harsh.
"I-I am…"
"…!"
He suddenly gets up, moving his hands trying to stop me hurriedly.
"Wait-"
However I cut him before he can continue.
"Sorry."
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I don't have the balls to tell the truth. What do you think I am? If I just say that I am someone reincarnated in the body of a child and that I know him, Mostima and pretty much the future of Terra because of a game…
Then he must think in retrospective which Mental Hospital to put me in.
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Although I would like to tell someone about this… It's as he says. I don't trust him.
Even if he is someone which helped me through these years…
I can't get myself to trust him yet.
"Oh… Oh… Sorry, please continue eating." He says toward the people around us looking at us with strange eyes a little bit stunned.
With that he sits and passes his hand yet again through his head, but this time with a napkin that he took from the table.
"Haaa… I think recently I am becoming older thanks to you." He says jokingly, but his joke passes completely over my head.
"…What did I do now…?" I say dejected.
Shit. I think I took more damage that I thought with that pseudo-interrogation.
Ah fuck, stop being so fucking desolate for a moment in your life.
*slap*
"?!"
"…?"
"…"
"…"
"… As I said, continue eating." He moves a little his hands and comes close to me and tells me. "Are you okay? That slap looked like it hurt."
"I am okay." I say while caressing my cheek.
Yes.
Yes I slapped myself.
I needed to wake the fuck up.
Why the hell I am so fucking passive all the freaking time?!
I am tired of being like that! It becomes so mind consuming and disheartening that literally makes me want to kill myself!
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Let's stop for a moment there.
But the point is still that I feel so pathetic when things like this happen! First when I met Yith, then with Mom, later with dad…
*slap*
"Good thing I put an illusion around us this time." He says without caring about the situation at all.
*slap*
"Okay, that's taking it too far." He says now caring about the situation. "Stop for a moment. Look at me and take a deep breath." Yith says while grabbing both my hands and trying to calm me down. "In…"
*Huuuf…*
"And out…"
*Haa…*
"In…"
*Huf…*
"And out…"
*Ha…*
"Drink a little of the juice in the cup."
Of course I do as said. Even I know that I need to calm down.
"Better?"
"…Yes"
I am okay now.
I still ask myself what the hell is with my emotions so suddenly, but I am okay. Maybe I am too tired after exercising and I need to rest.
"Now I will put down the illusion yes?" Yith says calmly.
I nod.
"Great." With that he moves a little his hands.
The illusion is undone, and the people around us don't mind us like nothing happened at all.
With that a bit of silence appears between us. Of course, there is a hell lot of children playing around us, but that sound is almost non-existent at the moment.
"I am sorry for making such a scene." I say apologizing after like a minute.
"Don't worry. I put a lot in your mind to fast I think. Plus you are probably tired, so I don't think it's a good idea to talk about such serious things right now… And to tell you the truth I am partly in fault too, as I said a lot of things I shouldn't have." He says scratching his head with his claws.
It's the first time that I see him change emotions so fast. And it's pretty refreshing.
"So… All is pardoned?" I say to him while extending my hand with a slight smile.
"…Hehe. A kid saying that as an old man and extending his hand it's pretty strange, but… yeah. All is pardoned."
My little hand and his gigantic claw is a strange combination, but with a little of struggle we make a handshake.
All it's solved as fast as it started.
"Continue eating, before it gets… colder."
I touch the hamburger to see if it really is cold and…
It's mild.
With a sigh I start eating right there...
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Wait.
I have an idea.
"Yith do you want some fries?" I say innocently, without any malicious intent behind those pure words.
Say yes, say yes, say yes…
"…Alright." He nods after thinking for a moment.
Yes! At least I can confirm if what he wears is a mask or in reality is his real face.
Even after two years, I don't know the answer. Sometimes that line moves, but when he is talking it doesn't move at all. Like what the hell right?
He slowly takes a fry from the little basket and-
"It's pretty good."
He says casually as nothing happened.
What?
He took the fry and…
It disappeared.
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Wait.
Wait!
"You cheated!" I shout while pointing to him.
"Mh? What do you mean I cheated?" He says in a cocky voice while cleaning his hand.
He stopped time so I couldn't see him eat the fry!
What the hell?! How can somebody be so petty?!
"Don't think I am that of a fool. I know your intentions." He says with the same mean tone as before.
And does the same thing again.
With a sigh I just admit defeat.
Let just finish eating and go home…
Today was not a successful day.
"By the way…" I say after taking some good bites out of the hamburger. "How much time did we pass here?"
I am truly curious, as we were a good amount of time in here.
After hearing me, Yith stops for a moment and hastily checks his wrist, where an antiqued watch resides.
How many years does that have?
"We spent a total of… fifty six… minutes…"
"…"
"…"
The moment that Yith said those words I start eating fast, like it's my last meal.
"Shit! We need to hurry up before it's too late!" Yith curses in panic. "Right now it's 16:46 and you need to be at home at least before 18:00 when the sun is already completely set. So we have an hour and twenty four minutes!"
With that said, I start chewing so fast that it look like I am doing one of those eating competitions.
"If we get late, then your mother will hang me!" Yith says flustered AND nervous.
*gulp*
"Why are you so nervous?" I say after seeing how worked up he is. "I mean, she will only get mad right?"
"Just do your part and eat!" He says still hot headed.
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She won't kill him right?
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"And don't forget the Ushanka!" He says rapidly while we are leaving.
"Ah!"
"Ah… My body is so tired." I say while slowly entering the bathtub. "I can't believe we made it in time."
What I refer to is of course the sprint we did after exiting the restaurant and the Odyssey to get back.
First, I forgot the Ushanka, then while we wait for the bus to come, the first one to go to section 16 totally ignores us and continues his way. Then we lost half an hour for the next one to appear which went so slow, that I am sure I was able to go faster by walking. For last we had a hell lot of snow waiting us when we got off the bus and I couldn't move fast, so Yith took me like luggage, put me on his shoulder, and sprinted to the apartment with the power of a god behind him.
The good and maybe bad thing of getting to home in time is that Yith didn't die in the hands of my mom.
I was a little troubled in how to treat Yith, but after experiencing this I can tell that he has more emotions apart from sadism. So now I think I can treat him a little better. Both as a student and someone who respects him.
With those thoughts in my head, I start washing myself getting out all the grime of the day.
"Shit I was sweaty and dirty." I exclaim with total astonishment. How did I get this amount of dirt in my body if I had a ton of clothes in me?
Whatever.
After a refreshing bath I step out of the bathtub and stop for a moment in front of the mirror.
"That isn't the body of a seven year old." I say with surprise.
My height is around one metre and thirty centimetres. Pretty big for someone my age and I am sure that only a nine or ten year old is this huge.
Not to mention the muscles.
I am fucking ripped!
Well… not really. I mean, I can see easily a bit of the muscle and the baby fat isn't gone so yeah. I am not ripped. I am more on the side of lean.
It still doesn't denies that this body shouldn't be one of a sever years old. Plus I have a good amount of scratches and bruises thanks to Yith's training, so it looks like I received a beating.
A pretty bad one.
Thanks to god that he didn't targeted the head.
Now that I think about it I started doing muscle training with Yith this year and not only had I commenced developing a good amount of strength this way, but there is other thing that makes me happier…
I am able to use painkillers!
*sniff*
The pain of overusing my circuits is lessened.
*sniff*
I am so happy that I can literally shed tears!
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Wait I am crying.
C-Calm down, calm down me! It's something to be happy for, but not to the point of crying!
After some breaths I recollect myself.
I suffered greatly these two years, and although he only uses them for moderate to severe pain, it's still a blessing.
With that I finished bathing and I am all dry. If I continued in the bathtub I am sure I would have slept in it.
Haa… I am so freaking tired. Today was a pretty chaotic day…
About school I couldn't skip years, but I was able to get advanced classes.
What are they?
To put it simply, while the others in the class study how to sum and subtract, I learn how to multiply, divide and start using simple equations.
Even if I cannot skip years, I can start learning harder subjects, and at the same time if I do them well my resume will be better and have more possibilities to go to a school I want.
For the moment, the plan of getting to the Victoria Royal Guard School it's pretty bleak and needs a lot of work. Only with this level of knowledge isn't enough to enter a school for the gifted both in brains and brawn. Brawn isn't a problem, as I have Yith training me, but the part of the brain is harder not because I am stupid or inept in learning the subjects, but because the fucking school doesn't want me to study the harder topics.
Why? I don't know! Is this country really that fucked up? I think so!
Haa… With the amount of sighs I do someone will think I am an old man.
About Misha and Alex, I remembered who they are.
To tell you the truth I am disappointed in myself. How the fuck couldn't I know one of the most important bosses in Arknights?
Skullshatterer.
Even if he isn't that great around Talulah, Mephisto or god forbid Patriot, I remember him clearly as he was one of the hardest bosses for me when I just started the game. His AOE and power behind the attacks was so annoying that I struggled more that I want to admit in the first stage he appears.
Good thing I got Hoshi as my first six star…
Wait. A smile becomes plastered in my face.
Now that I think about it I can meet Hoshiguma! My favourite operator of all the game!
But… The only problem that she is in Lungmen and if my memory isn't wrong, she is a gangster, so if I meet her I will receive probably her spinning shield to the face.
My smile droops with one of helplessness.
I don't want that.
But still she is so cool! Especially using that shield as a saw!
Ahem.
Coming back to the thing about Misha and Alex, I remembered because I went to their house and met their parents, Sergey and Liana. Sergey is a full blown scientist, unlike my father, and he always wears a lab coat. Even in his own home. You must think that he is crazy, but in reality he is a lot better than Yith and is good handling children.
He secretly gave us some candies when his wife wasn't watching.
Then Liana… She took my full attention. Not because she is beautiful. Nobody can beat my mother in that department.
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I expect that when I grow up I lose the Oedipus complex that I can feel when I talk about my mother.
Anyways, she is an infected. I fear that something will happen to her, as she is a sweetheart, but even if I know the future of Misha and Alex, I don't remember a lot about Sergey and Liana. I know that Sergey knows Kal'tsit and they worked with the famous sarcophagus but nothing more comes to mind.
So even if I want to change their future for the better I don't know how.
Interacting with them?
I mean yes but I am scared that I change the future for the worse… And I don't want to be related to Reunion.
Warning them?
Nay. I could, but will they trust the words of a seven year old?
Telling them the future?
Nay. Double Nay. I don't want to be in a Mental Hospital at the age of seven. Ant it's almost the same as the previous option.
The good things is that I made some other friends too, but they aren't as close to me as Misha and Alex.
However…
Now thinking about the future, Reunion, Rhodes Island, Lungmen and even the oripathy, I can't help but think…
Can I really make a change?
Thinking about Talulah, one of the greatest art users in the era. Someone I am sure I can't beat even with a thousand years.
About the Doctor, and his calculative and cold mind, capable of even making Babel go toe to toe with… I can't remember the organization, but it was a powerful one. Even more than Reunion.
About Wei Yenwu and his actions. The promise he did with the rat king and the cleansing of the slums. His position and power being one of the strongest people in the world.
And lastly the oripathy, which doesn't even have a proper treatment now. Not until Rhodes Island emerges. And will only continue killing and accumulate the discrimination to the infected without stop.
Thinking about that...
Will I be able to go against that? Or even better, Will I have to go against that?
I am not confident.
At all.
Even if I best Talulah, even if I avoid the machinations of the Doctor and go past the power of Wei Yenwu, the root of all of this, the oripathy will not go away…
Root…
…Root?
I put my clothes hastily and get out of the bath.
Root! That's it!
I enter my bedroom and take out the diary from the jacket that's thrown in my bed. I look at the first and second page.
'The source of all your problems…'
The root of all of this, the oripathy! It's that!
Think!
Root is almost the same as origin and I am pretty sure that source has almost the same meaning!
It's like 1 = 2 - 1 = - 1 + 2
They are different, but at the end it's all the same!
The origin of the oripathy… its Originium...
And the source of Originium is… the catastrophes…
…
And like that I gave up.
I thought I had a lead for a moment…
I am so close! I know it! But no matter what I can't think how to continue, as the catastrophes are things that doesn't have almost explanation behind them.
And if there is, there is a shit ton of locks in it. I can't access it as easily like a picture book.
With a sigh I put back the diary in the jacket.
I give up… for the time being.
It's disappointing, but at least I have a better lead than only 'the source of all my problems'. It's related to Originium that's for sure, but I can't investigate more about it. So I should stop thinking about it for the time being.
…
Yeah. That's right.
I shouldn't think about the parts of the Staff or if I can or cannot beat Talulah, the Doctor or Wei.
My objective is the cure for oripathy.
Even if they are related to it, it doesn't concern me for the moment.
I only need to look out for the oripathy and only that.
If I do that and manage to make a change to it, maybe I can stop things like Reunion or the cleansing of the slums.
Alright.
Don't think about them. And even if it pains, you don't think about Hoshiguma.
Just think about the oripathy.
If I do it right I can make a change for the better, and-
*Yawn*
Fuck I am tired.
Let's continue tomorrow.
I want to eat and go to bed.
I get out of my bedroom and go directly to the living room this time, where my parents are.
It's strange. I went out of the bathroom running straight to my bedroom and they didn't say anything or came to see.
Why?
When I enter, I see mom and dad looking at the TV with worried faces. Just as I was going to talk about why are they like that, I was interrupted by a loud noise coming from the television.
It was akin to an explosion.
I look at the TV where a reporter is in the middle of a battle, telling about what is happening in his surroundings.
"Urgent news! A conflict started between the military and an unknown group in the middle of Zela- *boom*" An explosion occurred near the reporter and with it the transmission ended earlier than expected.
"Micha?! How long have you been there?" My dad says preoccupied while coming closer to block me so I don't see the tv.
But I didn't hear him as I was thinking about what I heard and saw.
Then there is what the reporter said suddenly.
'A conflict...'
Without looking at my mom or dad I run back to the bedroom as fast as possible.
The year is 1077.
There is only one thing noted in the game about this year, and even thought it's mentioned one time.
I close my door and get out the diary from below the bed.
After hearing that dad or mom aren't coming I open it and start looking through it. Some seconds later I found it.
A terrorist attack? Against the empire? That's a joke.
The rebels against the empire appeared after the actual monarch died, but right now he is pretty much alive.
So there is only one explanation.
Zela is the city closest to Chernobog and another one which doesn't belongs to Ursus...
The Great Lungmen.
Even if it's far fetched and I am wrong.
I think this is the start of the Ursus-Lungmen Conflict.
What I think, it's the trigger of the events of Arknights.
Chapter 5, Start of Hell: End
Author's note: ON!
Yo!
It's been a long time since I last updated, right?
I don't have a lot to say, as life is becoming harder.
It looks like that trying to study a short career, while finishing the high school and studying for the exam of a University is pretty hard.
So yeah. I am sorry.
But anyways, you don't care about this stuff!
In this chapter two years passed since the last one!
Crazy right?
Not as crazy as what will happen in the next ones.
Hue hue hue.
I hope you continue liking Out of Time, and even if I update in three days, a week or even three months later, you'll continue watching Micha's Journey!
Anyways that's all I had to say!
Goodbye and see you next time!
Author's note: OFF!