Chapter 1: The Conceptors

Hello Stranger i m Xash EX12 a weird name can't do anything with it that's a name given to me by my billionaire parents who understood one third of the whole concept of physics and given me this weird name by bending the laws of physics and that's pretty much it, i m currently 19 living my rich billionaire brat life as a loner without spending shit which i don't know why after completing my graduation i got bored with luxury so i decided to move out and live a self independent life no one knows me because of my weird name and no achievements in life i work as a bartender at this bar named "Mamacitas" yeah my life is dull and no fun without any love interest because of the stories and society i read about only those who have some jackass "conecepts" live their lives to the fullest and gets all the girls and this dipshit bar doesn't have any female worker while there are these two macho and gay type waiters which makes me get frustrated whenever i see them, oh sorry that was a long introduction and pretty boring and hype stealing too but while my life is this shitty there is some spice too and that is me on the internet with a profile on every social media platform and the bio i put under these profiles got me 2000+ friends, 12+ nerd best buddies and 60k+ follower on net i m an advanced class conceptor with a understanding of concept of water sounds pretty cool right? like you can do stuff with water like those superhero conceptors in movies do basically i m a internet nerd you can say, so while living my life like this daily, Today on day 3rd of 2048th Centurion calender's 12th month at Rentica city, Mamacitas bar my life got truly started and troubles were included as today the National Conceptors Assembly (NCA), announced a knowledge exchange event to be held globally on 3rd planet of Zirconian solar system in ten days and right after this announcement the National Assembly of Non Conceptual People announced that the non conceptors shall follow their daily life without getting involved in the conceptor's event and stated no travel entry for non conceptors on 3rd planet, after listening to this huge news while i was a bit excited i felt sad for not being able to attend this event as in real life while i have the knowledge of concept i can't access it, it's as if while i m trying to read the lines there are tapes on the words they are covered and thus while i was maturing understanding this i was not qualified as a conceptor because i couldn't tell them about my concept so after this right on 12 pm 12 minutes after the news someone came in bar as a matter of fact i saw it was exactly 12:12:12(H:M:S) pm when he entered i clearly knew that its a coincidence and nothing else but i was in a daze until this person ordered apple wine it was weird like who orders apple wine in noon at a bar while drinking alone right when he said the order, me out of daze poured him apple wine and exactly for 12 minutes he told me a lot about time he said "I was just crossing by this day and i don't know why i came today but one thing is for sure this wine made my travel better, kid listen to me very carefully because what i am telling you is no less then the knowledge of any concept this is about time before and after time everything this is the same and if you finds any difference in things between a ten second gap then it was these ten seconds that remained the same what changed was the place of these things and the fun fact is that kid every single thing that happened in every second was meant to be at that specific second, its all predefined like dominos you can know it all if you know the equation of the current second with the smallest unit of time but you have to know the question and the answer at the same point in time" as he said this i paid a whole lot of attention and the other two in the bar was busy chatting on wechat and right after drinking this man paid and left and when i checked the time again it was exactly 12:12:12 pm and i was in a shock i checked the time again and again but it was the same all i knew is that he spent exact 12 minutes in the shop which i don't know how i knew it was like i had a clock in my brain at that time while the cup and the bill he paid was still there the time he spent almost like he came with it and took it back with him and after a long day of work i left at 8 in the evening and on my way home i saw many advertisements related to the event to be held my house was in Rentica city the conceptor capital on 3rd planet and it was near the coneptor's assembly hall while getting many ideas about the event i suddenly remembered what that person said and the words, "You have to know the question and answer at the same point in time" repeated in my mind like crazy until i reached my apartment on 12th floor of Yunova building i just took off my clothes and directly went to bed the ringing in my ears was crazy i took sleeping pills and slept for 17 hours it was next day and i woke up on exactly 12 pm after that i thought about leaving the job and studying the books about some random concepts hoping that maybe i can find out about my concept by reading some random books and as for the books every basic known concept was written in books to make sure that if needed for the non conceptors they can know more about their concepts and doing so can sometimes result in awakening your conceptual abilities if you reached the necessary level of understanding and so i ordered the most basic concept books about human body, elemental and universal physical laws and at that about 12 books knowing that it may not work i still read every book in 7 days time and without realizing right after reading the 12th book i thought if possible i could have more time and read more books i went to bed in an angry mood that none from those 12 concepts was mine so i took sleeping pills again and went to sleep and then i dreamt that i m sitting on a chair in an empty room there are 4 clock paintings on the four walls without hands i didn't know what is going on and drew clock hands for hour, minute and seconds randomly and suddenly the room opened i was standing on a chart when i looked clearly it was this year's centurion calendar it was the same month i was standing on 10th day without knowing i walked and thinking about that person the bar that day i stopped on 3rd day and just as i felt that what to do now i woke up in the bar, i was out of daze that the man entered the bar on exactly 12:12:12 i was shocked i thought i was dreaming so i out of mind shouted, "Mother fucking hell fuck this freaking dream" and right after saying this i bit my palm it hurt like crazy so i knew now this was not a dream the man sat on and ordered apple wine as if ignoring what i did and said just now i poured my wine and checked the watch again it was 12:15:33 then the man this time spoke nothing he just drank and after finishing said,"kid sometimes you can know both answer and question in dejavu" after this the man left and i again checked the watch it was exactly 12:12:12, his bill and glass was still there and after thinking about it i laughed for a few minutes and both my colleagues were telling me to stop laughing and asking what what happened and then i quit the job took my stuff and reached my home like usual at 8:15 i was excited at the same time i was tensed, excited because i had awakened my conceptual abilities but still don't know what is it and how to properly use it and tensed because i don't know who was that person and why he came to the bar, why he said those words? why to me? did he know me? many and many questions like that was in my mind now that i have time to prepare for the event and yet while having a concept i still don't have any knowledge that i can share at the events as that is still not clear to me and while thinking about so many questions my dad called me at 9 pm i picked up,