Chapter 7: Chapter 7

Hmm…

1 month has passed. And all I did is just do errands from the girl named, "Lea".. seriously, I know it isn't her real name, but the feeling of knowing that is making me feel like I should try to know what her real name is.

"Hey, you got a minute?"

Eep!... That scared me.

"Can you not try to surprise me, I may not look like it, but I'm actually pretty scared…"

I said while I walked towards her.

"Yeah, yeah… but it's fun for me to tease you… hehehehehe…"

She said while laughing really weirdly…

"Lea, what do you want me to do this day? I have a feeling that you didn't do the laundry today."

I said while I started to go towards the door.

"... Can you do that for me?"

Is the only thing I heard before leaving the room… damn you, if you are washing yourself everyday, at least do the laundry yourself, you workaholic woman. You aren't even sleeping, but you have the time to take a bath? That's some weird priorities there. Anyway…

–Yes, I'm here. Can't you let me sleep some more?

"No. Stop becoming lazy and don't follow that woman's example."

I said while I walked really quickly.

2 minutes later, I reached the room I need to be in.

"... *Sigh*... Let's go, me."

2 hours and a lot more has passed.

"8 hours passed… oh no… my head… "

I'm starting to faint again… did I forget what time it is? No, that couldn't be it…

–... Yes.

Figures.

*Thud*

An Atleus collapsed on the floor.

"... Does he have to faint each time he is on this room? I know I did make it so that it requires mental concentration to be in here… but how is he here for so long?"

Lea said while looking at Atleus like he is a foolish kid.

"He should only be here for 4 hours… how did he exceed that and only fainted after he is done with work?... And also, how is he not questioning that he is always fainting here after he stays for long period of times?"

–... Atleus is a workaholic. He will just blame it as he worked too much and it will make sense to him.

".. hmm… make sense."

She started to carry Atleus to his room before teleporting to her lab.

"Now… test subject this time is a time stone. I wonder if I can stop time with this again… Hehehehehe, I will find out later… hehehehe…"

 A maniacal laugh is heard all over the facility although only one could hear it, as the other one is still asleep.

–[Is everyone I'm meeting always insane? My partner is an oblivious workaholic who is technically smart enough to know that sacrifices must be made, and considers himself as the sacrifice just so that he could excuse his blood and also being adopted… and the other one I met is an insane powerful scientist who messes with a time stone and still is living after using it, and they have a body of a normal looking 13 year old, why are they a legal Loli? I don't know, I shouldn't ask myself that question… and I'm sure she couldn't read my mind here anyway, I hope.]

At the lab.

"... How did that old boy think that quickly? That was only 3 seconds…"

Lea sighed as she continued her experiments to a special legendary rare stone.

…

…

"Nggn… fainted again? I must have been overworking myself… nah, no way."

No matter. Can I get a time skip, translator?

(Wait, let me ask my boss.)

("... Eh, give me a second. Be done in 3 seconds later.")

1 month later.

"... I wonder what happened last month?"

–You slept… for an entire month… just cause you can… why?

{... Time skip.}

"Magic."

I just said magic and somehow, I immediately got teleported away… and how am I not feeling tired at all? Did someone fed me while I was asleep?

("Yes… and it's… Magic.")

–[Figures.]

(Anyway, breaking the fourth wall for today is over.)

"Nggn… my head…"

I definitely forgot something, but… no matter.

Let's go, to… oh right… my family is dead isn't it…

–Gloom… eh, doesn't matter… for all I know… they died of natural causes.

{Death is a natural cause, what else did you think happened? Died from not dying?}

"... *Sigh*... If only I didn't actually do that favor, huh… if only…"

–Regrets only happen if you don't think something is a good idea… Did you think that staying there was a good idea?

… I've met Lea. Is that a good enough reason?

–[And you will try to protect her too like your dead family? Eh, sure. Why not?]... Yeah, good enough reasons.

"... Lies. But I guess, lies are better than all the truth in the world. Cause lies aren't done to be evil, it's done to hide something. Hiding the fact that you're in pain, hiding the fact that you're experiencing emotional collapse and need help… it's just a way to say, you hidden something by saying something else than the truth."

{Even though I know they're dead, I'm certain that they're dead… I can't hide the fact that I didn't act like I'm caring about them… It just feels like I'm heartless… why is it that I don't feel sadness when someone dies?}

–[An unconscious ability to remain calm whatever the situation, makes someone feel heartless due to the fact that such a loss can't be felt by them. My first owner had it, and they're heartless… but I guess they do good deeds too, it's just that I got focused too much on his acting that I hated him… huh… misunderstandings always happen when someone lies… *sigh*... Being controlled by this power? An ability that is just made to retain calmness? Sounds good on paper, but… being controlled is not a good thing.]

"*Sigh*... What's wrong with me… I should be more sad… but all I'm feeling is nothing… Maybe I am Heartless… I am Heartless… I am Heartless, I am Heartless… I am heartl-"

–Shut up! You're noisy. I don't care if you get mind broken, but remember… all of this is something that you didn't regret, meaning, they aren't just minus, there's a plus in them that we just don't know yet… a plus that, we will never be able to know if we are both alone. Partner, I know we are just new friends, but you can at least trust me right? [If you can't… then… I'm… gonna cry.]

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Trust, the word that… of course I will trust you, you are basically the only weapon I have that doesn't use my concentration in any way at all, and you're the only one that can talk, the others weapon's consciousness is either gone or sleeping…

–Harsh… but I guess so.

After 2 more minutes.

"Where do we go now?"

Considering that I'm basically in the village where I first found you and I can clearly see that some person is getting close…what do we do?

–Hide for now, maybe they give information… hopefully.

Following the advice that I heard, I hidden my presence… or at least tried hard to while hiding myself from a random wall…

"What happened to this place?"

A voice is clearly heard after I hid, seemingly from someone I don't know yet. It sounds like a girl's voice… but this tone of being a boy is clearly being shown that I don't think it is that.

–... [This plot now feels like something for an Isekai entry. I died and now I got reincarnated as a girl, or something…]... Eh, sounds like it isn't a big deal, but let's try to follow their conversation, nonetheless.

"Well, Master. We don't really know the general area around yet, but it seems to be that this place was recently demolished. A month or two ago if you look at the traces around here"

{How do you accurately tell that it was 2 months ago that it was destroyed? How can you predict it just by looking at a ruin?}

I thought as I felt like someone immediately found me…

"Ah."

Not thinking of anything else, I immediately moved away from the spot I was on and barely just got hit by what seems to be, a beam of light.

–Laser. Call them lasers.

… Lasers.

"That scared me."

I immediately went towards the girl and did a bow.

"Atleus, At your service. May I ask why I got targeted?"

I said while summoning Cheating machinations.

"You eavesdrop on our conversation, isn't that enough reasons to kill you?"

A man in a butler-like suit said while-... I'm currently against death aren't I?

–... Bluff. [Confidence should work… hopefully.]

"... Ruthless aren't you, I'm just here, hiding cause someone immediately came here and accidentally heard their conversations… and then I'm gonna get killed by beams of light."

I said while sighing at the end, making it feel like I'm not in any amount of worry as to what is happening, when in reality, I'm pretty much scared that if I touch that laser, I will die.

"... Beams of light… well, I don't think this one could give me any information at all."

The girl who is wearing… also a butler-like clothing said while pointing a dagger towards me… and is that a gun?

–... Oh god… that's a gun. 

"After all… not that, where is he?"

{Misdirection. As long as you can make someone lose their focus on you, you can make sure to leave, if by chance that they didn't noticed you are leaving… but that thing I did only happened in one second, So I can't really leave yet… I can at least hide however…}

So… the best course of action is to… fool them I teleported and make it seem that I am stronger than I actually am.

–Yep, a good idea. I would have suggested just leaving, but… that's impossible anyway. [If it is possible, Atleus would already do it.]

"What? Shocks of my teleportation ability?"

I said while appearing behind the girl who is wearing this butler-like suit. My act caused her to shudder in surprised as I immediately put my sword towards her neck just so that I can use her as a hostage against the one behind me.

"Hey… if you let me live and leave here, I wouldn't kill you… can you please let me leave here?"

I said while making the cutting edge of my sword closer to her neck.

"... Fine. I wasn't even gonna kill a nice person like you who could actually bluff that well… why don't you follow me for now? Maybe I will actually let you live…"

I don't have anything to do at the moment… also did you just really noticed my bluff and let me be? Such kindness…

"What do you want to be called? Mist-"

Before I could continue…

"Master. Call me Master."

She said quickly while looking away from me…

"If you wish so master, then this servant of yours will follow you… before I want to leave, of course."

I said so and let go of her while making sure that I didn't touch her in any way…

"For your information, if I really wanted to, I could have killed you quite easily… but imagine my surprise that you can actually hide your presence good enough that it took me 3 seconds to find you… Anyway, my name is Liza. As your master, as long as you are my servant, you would follow what I would say, even if it leads you to death… remember that."

–If you will make an order that can be considered a waste of manpower. Since you only have 2 people following you… you can't really use efficiency over convenience anyway. I think… she will probably make you do all the work for her.

{If Master wishes to, I will do it… probably.}

"*Sigh*... Did I just took being a servant just to live?"

–Hey, you know that being a servant of a… probably nice mistress is nice you know, probably… let's talk about that later, for now, summon any sword. There's an enemy, 1 meter behind you in the next 2 seconds.

{Hmm… that so.}

I immediately summoned cheating machinations and as I felt a presence behind me appearing, I immediately turn around and slashed downwards forcefully with my mechanical sword.

"How's that? Pretty painfu-..."

–A fake. That one felt like a phantom being.

{Where is Master? Hmm… 3 km meters in a certain direction, I follow them later then, for now, I have to get rid of this bastards who are bothering me.}

"... Hmm…"

I ducked and slid to avoid an attack coming from above me while controlling 2 gears to hold down their arms while I slashed them again with my sword, or so it was supposed to be, but unfortunately… they rip of them right arm, blood spreading around the ground I am standing on as they grabbed a knife with their left hand and tried to stab me with it.

Noticing what they're about to do, I put a gear in front of me to block the attack before I sweep them to make sure that they will slip before grabbing them on the ground with my hands, punching them away from me before dashing towards them to grabbed them again and throw them into the air this time. I then jumped while flapping my wings as I did a downward slash until I reached the ground.

("It's basically a combo in which, you do a low attack to make them slip, do a grab that only is possible when they're on the ground, do a microdash before grabbing them and aim them towards the air, before doing a special move in which this time, just a downward slash until you reach the ground… yes, it's a fighting game reference, satisfied?")

"Atleus, at your service."

I said before lighting the blood on fire with the weakest fire magic spell I know, burn. Since I already mastered the spell, it only

I said before flying towards Master.

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