Sorcery or Teleportation

Hanji stood like a statue at a distance with surprise hearing Jin's words. He couldn't believe how confident Jin was about escaping even in such utter predicament. Jin looked at him standing still. He still couldn't get out from the shock.

"Hey you okay?", Jin asked Hanji.

"I'll ask you one last time. Are you sure about what you're doing!?", Hanji asked Jin ignoring his question maybe out of shock and not out of intention.

"Yeah I'm absolutely sure. Believe me in this. Both of us are gonna instantly escape from here. When I ask you just hold my hand tight", Jin answered in a rather calm voice this time trying to convince Hanji about his escape plans.

"Just who the heck are you? Why aren't you getting the current situation we are in! There's just no way we can escape right!? You're....you're just insane!!", Hanji shouted at Jin. He got furious this time. Jin was still rather calm about that.

"You won't believe me right?", Jin asked Hanji in a cold voice.

"Just how can I believe you? You're being insane!"

"Listen I want you to believe me in this. I'm well aware of the current situation and I'm gonna get both of us....", Jin was stopped midway.

"No you don't!!", Hanji shouted as he stopped Jin.

"Okay fine. I'm gonna escape alone. You can die after you see me escape. Hope you won't regret it later", Jin was way cold at Hanji this time. Hanji was shocked by Jin's sudden change of attitude. "You were never in the mood for cooperation right from the start. You sure know how to make poor decisions even on the verge of death", Jin looked at Hanji one last time with a cold glare.

"If you wanna escape just do it already. There's no need for a dying person to care about anything you say! It was always my fate dying a pathetic death like this one just like my father. I accepted it long ago but for now what I hate the most are dreamers like you!!", Hanji returned the cold glare to Jin.

Jin felt really sad this time. But he saw already that there was really no way left to convince Hanji into cooperating with him. Hanji just won't believe him. The fires and fumes around the place were also growing and chasing them rapidly. He shouldn't be wasting time anymore.

The belt Jin was wearing, it was actually a futuristic gadget, called the 'teleportation belt', developed by a research team led by the world famous scientist Dr. Black. He was also Jin and Marcy's teacher at the University. One of the first teleportation belts that the team developed was given to Jin for experimental purpose. All the previous tests of the teleportation belt mostly resulted in a success and so Jin was quite confident with the abilities of the belt. The belt as the name says can teleport the whole body of the user within a 200 to 250 meter distance by setting up the direction manually, something that Jin was doing a while back. In emergency situations it can also teleport 2 persons including the user but only with the other person's cooperation. That was the reason he didn't try to convince Hanji anymore into escaping with him.

"Goodbye man. It was only a short while but let me tell you who I am before I take leave", Jin said calmly looking at Hanji. He still had that cold glare locked at Jin's face.

"I don't wanna hear", Hanji said coldly.

Jin ignored his answer as he continued, "Although you won't believe me but it's actually true. I came from the future. From the year 2050. There's a world famous scientist in our timeline. His name is Dr. Black. He invented a machine that we call 'The Time Machine' and using that machine I was sent here in the past."

"You're right of course I don't believe you", Hanji said in the same cold voice.

Jin continued ignoring what Hanji had to say, "I don't know how many years I've traveled back in the past nor the place where I've landed. But from the looks of what I've seen I know this era. In the history books of my time it's called 'Industrial Europe.'"

"I care much less of what this era will be named. But I'll be glad if you take your leave already"

"And using one more of his inventions called the teleportation belt, that's attached to my waist I'm gonna escape right now. You'll believe me when you'll see me disappear right in front of your eyes."

"I don't believe in Sorcery like that"

"It's called teleportation and not sorcery. Okay goodbye man....", Jin was suddenly stopped. But not by Hanji this time.

"You just wait for a sec!", a man shouted from a distance. "If that wimp isn't gonna save his life you just save my life instead. Also my life is much more worthy than that of a wimp!", the man's footsteps can now be heard clearly as he was approaching the two of them. "Just get me out of here, I don't care whatever you have", both Jin and Hanji saw the shadow of the man approaching them. "Sorcery or Teleportation", the man smiled.

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