Chapter 4

Time Traveller Karya was lying unconscious in my house. I had to leave the house for a short time to get water illegally. I had to wake him up. Before that, I had to smell the vomit that had taken over the house. When he awoke, he would need a lot of water to recover. He compared the New World water his own vomit. However, he had to drink it or he wouldn't be able to recover.

Before leaving the house, I paired the smart system with my fingerprint and everything turned off. No one could get in or get out. I had to make sure she would stay at home until I got home.

When I got home, I found the Time Traveler where I left it. He lay like a corpse, not even moving.

I checked the water before I went to it, and it was flowing again. I filled a bottle of water and went to Time Traveller Kayra. I checked with my finger to see if he was breathing. Their breathing was very weak. His face was pale and his lips were bruised. It was like he was dying.

I brought my fingertips to his cheek and slapped his face. "To wake up."

My stern demeanor wasn't enough to wake him up.

I grabbed his chin and shook his face even harder. "Give me a sign of life, Time Traveller."

It wasn't enough for him to wake up.

"Don't be mad at me for doing this." I muttered to myself. "You must wake up before time passes any further."

I bent the mouth of the glass bottle in my hand and threw the water at his face. He took a deep breath and jumped out of his bed with fury. He was in shock.

"You…" he said forcefully, but still couldn't continue. He swallowed several times, having difficulty doing so. He was out of breath as if he had been resurrected.

"You should go back to 2021, Traveler."

"Why do you keep calling me a passenger?" I frowned and splashed some more water on his face.

"Aren't you a Time Traveller?"

"There is one step!"

"We don't use names in the new world." He frowned when I lied. "What?" His hand ran over her wet face. He tried to dry his face. "I have vomit on my face!"

When I lifted the glass bottle again, he raised his hand and stopped me. "Okay come on, I can't stand it."

He let out a deep breath as I pulled back the glass bottle. "So you don't have a name?"

I shrugged. "I don't need a name. We have ID numbers."

"It's ridiculous." He said it like he was spitting. "You can't call each other with long numbers."

I know.

"We can call out when there are at most a million people in the world."

"What?" This surprised him even more. "How can there be a million?" His eyes got huge. "A thousand years ago there was a population of almost eight billion. What happened? Has the virus become strong enough to kill everyone?"

Fake Virus.

He was tired again. He closed his eyes and squeezed. His shoulders were slumped. He could faint again at any time.

"I will not inform you, Traveler." I reached for his arm and started tugging at him. "You must go back to where you came from immediately."

He freed his arm from me. "What?" He made a face. "I didn't come here for a few hours."

I took a deep sigh. "But you can't stay any longer!"

"Why?"

"You don't belong this year."

"This is not enough." she shouted, and this time she tried to get up herself. "I didn't try to time travel in vain. The virus has taken our entire life away from us. I wanted to go ten years ahead because I was hoping to find a vaccine for the virus. Even after a thousand years, nothing will change. I will not go back to my own time without finding that vaccine."

My mouth was half-open. I just stared at him for a while without saying anything. He traveled through time to find the vaccine for the virus that ravaged the world, and the virus was nothing more than a depopulation operation concocted by the world's states. They already had the vaccine, ready even before they spread the virus. Still, they had waited three years to reduce the population. After three years, they said that they had found the vaccine to end the virus when the population decreased as much as they wanted. The country that found the vaccine counted the most money. America.

How was I going to tell him the truth now?

If he learned the truth, he could confuse many things in the past. People would revolt, states would collapse. It was going to happen, yes, but 2021 was too early for that. Humanity in the past was not yet ready for this.

"There is no such thing as a vaccine." I said at once. That was enough to shock him. He would soon pass out from shock.

"What?" He blinked a few times, straining his eyes. "How is it not?"

"No." I said, shrugging my shoulders. "Think of it like the flu, over time your immune system will take action accordingly. If you had lasted one more year, you would have seen it. You didn't need to time travel for that."

Another lie.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I took a step back as he stood up. It would take time to digest that, I knew. It was a big event in its time, but it doesn't matter now. The current state of the world was worse. Nor could I console him with the present world.

"Time traveler…" he let out an audible sigh as I interrupted. "My name is Kayra!"

"I know, but I don't care. You're going anyway, your name doesn't matter. As I said, we don't use names."

"Everything is nonsense!" I looked hard at him. "Your water is like vomit, your population is like it was in the early years of humanity." He lifted his hand and held it to one part of my face. "Your eyes are bigger, your face is smaller, your body size is just like in animated movies or game characters." He turned his hand towards the house. "There is almost no furniture in her house. As if you were a robot. You should at least have a frame or a flower?"

"You…" I muttered angrily and waved my finger as if warning him. "You are ridiculous! Says my city man from a thousand years ago? You have no idea about this time, Traveler!" I turned my hand to the door. "You can't survive if you take one step out of the house. You are weak! If you were a person of this time, you would definitely run to Mars. Judging people by their looks? Is this a joke from your ignorant time? The people of the 21st century are engraved in the dusty pages of history with their disgrace. You come from among the stupidest humanity in history!"

His hands clenched into fists and his face contorted in anger. My words against him must have gotten on his nerves. I didn't care, he could get as angry as he wanted. He could talk nonsense about my year without knowing it, but was it okay when I made real sentences about his year? I already hated him. As a man of a thousand years ago, he was a complete idiot. Even the inventor of time travel was an idiot.

"You people of the future…" he grumbled, his knees trembling and he could not speak. I rolled my eyes when I saw his hand, which he raised in anger, was also trembling. I waved my hand in the air carelessly.

"You are weak, Time Traveller, you are too weak." I moved on to the kitchen. "This Time Travel could kill you. I won't argue with you anymore. Pack up and get back in time."

"You're rude too!" His voice trembled as he said this. I was sure he was a strong man in his time, but this year he was just weak. He couldn't keep up here, wouldn't survive more than a day. If he went outside, he would die from the weather. I didn't just want him to go for me, he had to go for himself. "Thanks for everything." Stopped. "Whatever your name is." I heard him take a deep breath, but I didn't turn to him. I was checking the food in the fridge. I am looking for something that has not changed since ancient times. I didn't think his stomach would digest it right away. "They say the short of hospitality is good. I won't bother anymore. I am going."

I closed the locker and turned towards him. He was walking towards the door, his knees still shaking and his steps very slow.

Was going.

He shouldn't have gone.

He could die if he left.