Chapter 21: The "Casual" Chat
East Coast of Yongho-Dong
Busan, South Korea
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Sherwin and Anna reached the southern part of South Korea and decided to run across the country to reach the China in the fastest time.
They didn't stop and ignored those few people that caught a glimpse of their shadows running across the road.
Those few people, close and scratch their eyelids and open them again. 'It's already night, maybe it's just my imagination.'
On their way.
Anna: "Darling, I forgot to ask, where in China that this Immortal Dad is currently staying now?"
Sherwin: "He is in Xiangjiang City, why?"
Anna: "... You didn't realize that, that place is in south west of our current position, did you? Why are we running straight like the equator?"
Sherwin facepalmed. "Hahaha, sorry sorry. Let's go." then opened the map function that he currently customized awhile ago.
Anna: "... Sigh, I didn't know if your stats are all rigged by Liang Sheng or your Mind stats are only for display." rolled her eyes.
Sherwin: "Nah, just think that they're only for display if my Gamer's Mind is Off." shrugged but suddenly get into serious mode, "Time Domain: Phasing."
A magenta dome was created and enough for him and Anna only. They stopped and.
*Boom
A sword, strikes the ground as it phased through the body of Sherwin.
"Ohh! That's a bit awesome." a man voice was heard inside the dust.
Sherwin is a bit interested for this man with this kind of strength and Anna is a bit confused and raised an eyebrow.
"After getting out from that Tutorial World, I just only found two people with superhuman speed eh?" The dust is clearing and they can see a Korean young man, smiling widely at them.
Sherwin: "Errr. English please?"
The young man was stunned and confused at the sudden different language he heard from this two people. He squinted his eyes and studied Sherwin and Anna. He noticed that they're not Koreans. 'This man is sure is Asian man while the girl is... Japanese?'
The young man coughs lightly for this awkwardness, 'Damn, I keep blubbering things but it didn't understand by this people.' scratched his cheek and, "Err.. My name is Lee Ho Jae. Sorry for this... different way of greetings, specifically from me." he introduced in English and continued smiling.
Sherwin was flabbergasted by this Lee Ho Jae casualness. Anna mumbles 'Another Sherwin-like person.'
Sherwin: "Lee Ho Jae, nice to meet you... and we really don't mind that... greetings of yours. By the way, what did you said awhile ago?"
Lee Ho Jae: "That I only just got out from Tutorial World, why?" he was confused as Sherwin and Anna looked at each other.
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Sherwin: "Oh well, sweetheart. I don't know what to do with this Luck of mine now. Haa" he sighed.
Anna: "Hahaha, your Luck or maybe right now we can call that (Not)Luck stats? Is working against you again huh." she smirks.
Lee Ho Jae: "What's wrong guys?"
Sherwin: "Sorry sorry, well, I'll give you a heads up, you're not in your Original Earth. This planet is just one of the Earths in the universe. Congratulations! You've been kidnap by some bastard that can run in the outer space like surfing on the ocean waves and put you into this fucked up world that will be mess up again." he said joyously while clapping exaggerated.
It was Lee Ho Jae turn to be gobsmacked by this person.
"So you're telling me, someone fucked me over after finishing that final floor of the Hell Tutorial?" his expression darkened.
Sherwin: "Yes." he answered simply. Waiting for this man to organize his thoughts.
Lee Ho Jae said after a couple of minutes, "Can I join you guys for a bit? I don't know what to do right now. And I don't think that you're just pranking me after you dodged that attack of mine." he decided to mingle with this people first as he really don't have thoughts crossing his mind right now.
Sherwin: "Ok, it's no problem. Follow us, can you right?"
Lee Ho Jae: "Yes."
Sherwin: "Just to add for another heads up. This world is currently on a brink of destruction. Literally." and explained to him the current situation. "Now that you had been updated for this world. System! Invite Lee Ho Jae into Earth to Dusts Chat Group."
Lee Ho Jae: "... After seeing this blue screen from you... I doubt you're from the Tutorial World." he stared into this blue screen and he is the only one who knew what he is thinking right now.
Anna: "Nah. No need to doubt about him or his system. It seems that he understood your personality from that little greetings of yours and he decided to trust you to be invited into the Group. After all he is only a second billion plus individual that hosting a system in the current whole universe."
Lee Ho Jae: "Only a second billion plus individual..." he mumbles. "I'll be damn, Only?"
Sherwin shrugged "Just deal with it, bro." and he sighed looking at his notification.
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They talk on their way to China and got familiarized with each other.
After ten minutes crossing the ocean from Busan City, South Korea to Xiangjiang City, China. They already in the front door of Mengmeng's Leisure Restaurant.
*Knock *Knock *Knock *Knock
After a few minutes they heard a shuffling sounds in the second floor and the window above them opened. "What is it?" the man asked with a bit of irritation in his voice. 'It's only 2:42 am, midnight.' he saw his clock inside his room.
"We're sorry for disturbing your sleep, sir. But we really need to talk to you and update you about this Earth as it's already threatened by outside and might be inside things later." Sherwin said while looking at Zhang Han's eyes seriously.
"Hmmm." Zhang Han was a bit shocked because this is the first time that someone reach out for him outside of China, but of course he didn't express this emotion on his face. He stared back at this uncommon color of eyes. "... Wait a bit for me and let's talk this inside." He said and closed the window.
Another few minutes again. They already heard some footsteps down inside of the restaurant. Then the door opens, "Come in." The three got inside the restaurant and look at it's simplicity but with elegant things inside.
Zhang Han: "Wife, please make some warm drinks for our guests." he asked Zi Yan.
Zi Yan: "Sure, honey." and looked at their three guests and stop her eyes at Anna.
Sherwin rolled his eyes after he saw Anna staring with Zi Yan and smiled.
Anna: "Darling, I'll go with Big Sister. Can I Mr.-?" he said to her lover and asked Zhang Han for permission.
Zhang Han: "No problem. I'm Zhang Han and she's Zi Yan" then he invited the other two men to sit with him on the couch in the center of the room as the girls entered the kitchen. "So, what's this 'things' that might be threatened the Earth later? As far as I know, the things in the America can be handle by those 'Heroes', no?"
Sherwin: "I see, you already got a gist of what's happening. By the way, I'm Sherwin Montaniel the root of this shits, the girl with your wife is my fiancee Anna Nishikinomiya and this man-" he stop and look at Lee Ho Jae.
Lee Ho Jae: "I'm Lee Ho Jae, one of the crossworlders... ... Sherwin, it's a bit out of place if I used that word for introduction..." contemplating what word to use.
Sherwin sighed "Then use what you think you were, before you've been kidnap."
"Hmmm. Then I'll re-introduce myself. I'm Lee Ho Jae, a Hell Player from Tutorial World.... Hmm... Sounds better." he was satisfied from what he said.
Zhang Han: "... Nice to meet you too, Mr. Montaniel and Mr. Lee. And yes, I felt some space-time shift in the whole China and just found out that the normal people are integrated with knowledge that this is their normal routine. I decided to tell the other cultivators of China to stay low for the mean time and to investigate this different Earth, and they found some 'heroes' and 'mutants' in America, 'wizards and witches' in Europe, etc. and that is very different for my Original World." he lean forward from his seat and look seriously at Sherwin.
Sherwin cast a "Time Boost: Domain Lapse" and explained again the world situation for Zhang Han but with the reason why he, Zhang Han and other worlders got kidnapped in the first place. Even Lee Ho Jae is getting the gist of things around the situations with Zhang Han. It took him almost ten minutes outside and two hours inside of domain to explain this.
Zhang Han: "I see, so you're saying that the person that have a conflict with the person whom you got your powers from, kidnapped you and us, the other nine crossworlders for additional entertainment for him/her?" he spat the words each by each as he got madder and madder. "Then how can you prove me that there are people outside living in the outer space?"
Sherwin: "System! Invite Zhang Han into the Earth to Dusts Chat Group."
On the very face of Zhang Han, a blue screen shows up. It made his muscles tensed a bit for sudden surprise. Even tho Sherwin already said something that he didn't know of. This thing is not one of those he expected to come. After some time, he got interested in this screen. He tried to touch this but his hand only phased through it. "How this thing works?"
Sherwin: "Use your mind to command it."
Zhang Han accepted the invitation and found the chat history of other peoples in it. "Then how this thing can prove that there are things outside?"
Sherwin: "... Sigh, System, Show Zhang Han my Friend List, The Notifications from Universe 101 Government and from 3 Supercluster Major General of Military Rank of Universal Space Army."
As Zhang Han reviewing the things that Sherwin thrown at him, Lee Ho Jae is playing with his partial system. He is a bit confused by it. "Hey Sherwin, what's with this incomplete system?" as a former player inside of Tutorial World. He kinda knew how the system works.
Zhang Han flick his head with unknown speed to Lee Ho Jae and then to Sherwin. "What did he mean it is 'incomplete system'?"
Zi Yan laughs after she heard that. "You're acting like a kid again, honey."
Zi Yan and Anna put down the drinks on the table and went to sit on the arms of the couch of their respectively lovers and slightly hugs them.
Zhang Han rolls his eyes. "C'mon, this is new to me. I'm detecting some kind of laws in this screen but can't comprehend it, maybe because it already reached a 'outer space thing' kind of law. That's why I'm acting like this."
Lee Ho Jae: "Ugh, why the fuck this bastard decided to kidnap me, alone?" he felt lonely, only by watching this two pairs of love birds. "I missed Lee Yeon Hee. Wuuuu."
The two pairs shut up for a moment and laughs a bit, they felt some connections to each other that's why they acting like this without worrying the outside things.
Sherwin: "Hahaha. Don't mind it bro." he taps Lee Ho Jaes shoulder.
Lee Ho Jae: "Psssh. Haa. Even if I want her to be with me here but at the same time I don't want her to be here too. Because we're in different Earth where threatened by powerful things than those things in Tutorial World."
Zhang Han: "Yep, if I had an option to choose between by myself or with my love ones. I'll decide to face this world by myself too." and he looked back at Zi Yan seriously.
Zi Yan: "Hmmp. You think you can go away from me and mengmeng that easily? Hmmp, you wish. I have this constitution and you helped me understand this power. With this, I, with your daughter, we will find where you might be in this fucking universe." she snorted and looked back seriously too at Zhang Han. With pinching this Immortal Dads cheeks.
Anna: "Yeah, don't under estimate us, women. With the love on the bet of being broken. We will smash the faces of those things that will threaten our love to turn to dusts. Do you understand too, Darling~?" she said to Sherwin. With biting his cheeks and got a response "Yes yes yes, sweetheart. Ugh."
Sherwin: "You heard the ladies, Brother Ho Jae?" he can't do anything with this crazy girl of his. 'Since when this girl have the habit of biting me, anywhere on my body?'
Lee Ho Jae: "Sir! Yes! Sir!" he answered faster than the bullet train with matching salute. 'They're scary.' he shivered under the two pairs of beautiful eyes that making not to say 'no' or else... 'I'll meet Yama king faster than expected.' he gulped.
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