Versatile: Alternate World



This is making me feel conflicted about whether it is fine to involve everyone in my problems but they are my friends and they would be very angry at me if I suddenly ghosted them, and disappeared without talking to them.

They are my allies, and they are my closest friends. But there is still the fear of being rejected. The feeling will feel more like a betrayal for me and I hated to feel that again after being betrayed back in the past timeline. But it's not really a betrayal if they decided that it's not worth joining my endeavors and besides, it's pretty risky stuff I am about to do. Not only this gives a possibility of being a wanted man, but there is also a chance that their normal lives will be ruined as a result so it's also understandable that they would refuse.

But I am a little bit worried about their safety. Since the tracker is present, that means Nobuhiko knows who are the people I was with in real life and who he can use to threaten me of coming out if I choose to be a renegade soon.

That day, I didn't go back to the Alternate World but instead have some relaxing time by myself. It's not that troublesome to wait for Pandora to go offline as she usually goes offline around the evening to take her medicine. As for the others, they are pretty much irregular in schedule so I am not that certain when I will be able to speak with them.

For now, I am scouring the internet to look for information and stuff. It's best to learn what is happening around the world while I am busy with the Alternate World.

Most of the news I get is exclusive in Japan but there is some news that is stuff done from other parts of the world. As the Reality Verse is expanded overseas, it's natural that people will try to buy it due to the ability to gain magic abilities. But this is also concerning. The more it expands, the more surveillance footage Nobuhiko got from these people who gets to find the Tree of Life first.

But with Renatta and the others doing the work and progressing quite well now, I am now confident we might be able to catch up soon enough.

Still, to think he has a purpose of changing the real world into a magical world, it seems he is planning to generate those present in the Alternate World in the real world. It's basically like he is ready to convert this world into a magical place, bring forth the monsters, and make chaos in the world.

While looking through all of the stuff happening on the internet, I got hungry and so I went out of my room to check on the kitchen what I can cook or eat immediately. When I arrived, Pandora was currently with Riko, and Rika currently eating. From the looks of it, they are just eating lunch for now but I think this is also a good opportunity to talk to them.

I immediately communicate with Pixie via Telepathy. With my connection to Pixie, I can talk to her anytime despite our distance using only our minds, making this much easier for me to talk to them.

"Pixie, are the elves currently still up?"

"Yep. Pretty much awake and still doing their usual work. Why is it, Master?"

"Let them know that I wanted to talk with Pandora, Riko, and Rika now and I needed their presence."

"Okay, got it."

After that, I cut off the telepathy connection. Unless Pixie contacts me again via telepathy or vice versa, then the ability is disabled for now.

A few seconds later, the trio along with Pixie went outside of their rooms. That's when I also went down as well and go to the kitchen. The girls immediately saw me and they were surprised when the elves also followed suit. Nevertheless, they still greeted me like usual.

"Hey, Manato. I think it was quite some time since I saw you and we teamed up. Are you doing some solo play for now?" Riko asked.

"Oh, I definitely agree, it was like he is definitely avoiding us on purpose," Rika frowned.

Pandora nodded in response as well.

"Guys, I have something to discuss with you all. But first..." I then give a signal to Renatta and the others and the three immediately disable their tattoos. They already disabled mine while the girls are talking to me and I was still joining in with the elves.

"Huh? What is going on?" Riko frowned.

"What did they just do?" Even Rika who was calm suddenly got surprised by the actions.

"Don't be alarmed. We just disabled the trackers and surveillance spells present on your Tattoos," Renatta explained.

The three were surprised when they can suddenly understand Renatta."

"Woah, woah there... wait, I am pretty sure Renatta has yet to learn the language properly but how come she can now speak fluently? What is going on?"

"Trackers? Alarms?" Riko is getting more and more confused.

"Listen up guys, we will discuss these things with you all. We just need you guys to listen to us. However, it's pretty confidential and that is why I am quite busy that I barely meet up with you guys and why we decided to suddenly disable some stuff on the tattoos."

"Alright... then we needed to hear it. Because I am totally confused as hell right now as well as the others being not sure what is happening."

"Okay, guys, do the trick."

"You got it," Labo then snaps his fingers and a thin veil covered all around the kitchen.

"With this veil, anyone who is unauthorized to enter here will not see us and hear us. With the preparations done, I will now begin explaining what is happening."

And so, I began retelling them what happened to me, how I met Nobuhiko and learned about his plan, how he tried to tamper and delete my memories only to be blocked by something causing me to remember what I should have forgotten. I also added that the Alternate World is not really a game but an alternate world, parallel to Earth, and how this magical place was the home ground of the elves and how I asked for help on them. I also revealed the tattoos as well as their hidden spells.

Hearing all of the stuff I explained was a bit too much for them but they are not happy with what they heard.

"Wait, so they are basically spying on us even when we are outside the game? Do they have surveillance on us?! Isn't this an invasion of privacy?!" Rika is angry."

"That's basically why we disabled it in the first place. It's only for a limited amount of time but that allowed us to bypass the surveillance and keep the plans I formulated to be secret until now."

"So you are saying you are gonna go against Nobuhiko and you are asking us whether we are going to help with you this plan?" Rika asked.

"Although it's pretty close, the precise way of what I was planning to ask you guys is that I needed you all to become a renegade, and remain in the Alternate World with me for an undefined time until we get a solution to the situation or even stop it. In short, we will live in Alternate World for quite some time to evade the eyes and people of Nobuhiko that he will send to take care of us," I revealed.

"By the way, we will be coming as well so once the plan is going to commence, we will accompany Manato-kun to the Alternate World and help him with this problem," Renatta added.

The three were silent at first. However, Riko was the first to answer out of the three.

"Sure then. Just living in the Alternate World for quite some time? That's fine then. Since it is confirmed that we can live in the Alternate World just fine and live there, then I think I am in. I doubt I will be able to talk to my parents for quite some time and I am still upset. So with that said and done, I don't have any pressing tasks left, it is going to be a good chance for me to join you on this. I don't think letting you carry all the burden of saving the world is something that is good for your health. So if you are going to do the plan, then I am in.

Contrary to Riko, Rika, and Pandora are hesitant. Both don't know what to do and what they needed to answer.

"I think I needed more time. I still don't know much about leaving my normal life. So I apologize, however, I am not entirely declining it. I still need extra time to think about it."

Pandora raises her board. "I am going to ask my brother for permission first. It's pretty sudden so I don't know what decision I should make."

"It's fine. However, if you guys plan change your minds, then just call me."