Chapter 20. The cruel mores of this world.
Chapter 20. The cruel mores of this world.
I still couldn't sleep that night. After sleeping for just a moment, I was woken up by a woman who was standing by my bed. She had a short haircut and red-black hair. Her face , physique and costume…
Precisely! It's Kaji! I thought in my head, making a joyful grin.
- Did you understand who I am? The woman asked, looking at me with a smirk.
- Yes, it's me, Uyato-san, whom you know, I went after you, but seeing that you had already begun to disappear under the influence of the book, I rushed to you, but it took me to this world when it was already too late. I started asking passersby about you and one of them told me that you were heading towards this hotel. Then I asked the woman who gave you the keys to the rooms if you had come in. Of course, you didn't change your names, so I was able to find you quickly, but if you called yourself something else, it would be difficult to find you.
After this story, he looked around our room and ourselves, and noticing that we were in our guises that were with us before we came into this world, he asked me:
— And why are your bodies of the same sex as in the last world…
But after a moment, he put forward his guess about it.
- Probably you had a card that gives the ability to change the appearance of others, so you changed them back to your own.
He was right about part of it, because I got a card similar in ability. But I decided to tell him the real truth.
"Well... not exactly. Yes, I did have a card, but it turned out that the ability from this world of Miki is the transfer of abilities to other people.
He noticed that this was a very good ability and at the same moment began to pull Nila's hair sticking out of her.
She woke up and, half asleep, hit Kaji. To be honest, I would do the same, because who is pleased when you sleep, you just start pulling your hair.
And finally opening her eyes, she screamed at the whole room :
— Who is this woman??? Akishito! Help me!
I ran up to her and began to calm her down. But at the same moment our neighbors, Mika and Mimika, came in. They captured the following scene:
I was sitting and stroking Neela's head, and a woman in a business suit was watching with a grin.
Mimika and Mika stood and looked at it, as if some kind of romantic drama was taking place here. I, in order to dispel their assumptions, began to talk about what was happening here, because even Nila did not understand what was happening here.
- Guys, calm down, this woman in a business suit is the same Kaji from our world.
Mika came up to him and touched him with her hand and gave him the ability of appearance. It didn't become clear to me what case I needed the "appearance" card, because Mika already knew how to do it.
Kaji turned into a man and straightened his tie and said to us:
— We are all going to the place where you arrived in this world, you need to pick up the book that lies there, because without it we will not be able to return to our world in thirty days.
We quickly gathered, taking food for ourselves, and so on, in small things…
We walked slowly. There was a weak, damp breeze on the street, banners with advertisements shone everywhere, which in turn illuminated the entire street along which we were heading to the library from which we had been transported to this world.
When we got to the library, we noticed that she wasn't standing there at all.
There was some kind of research center surrounded by guards. Kaji was looking at this center with his old grin, and at the same time as I looked at him, he turned to us and laughed. A little later we realized the reason for his laughter. And all this was due to the fact that Kaji read the inscription that hung on this building and it read as follows:
"Kaji Uyato Magic Research Center"
After reading this inscription, we breathed a sigh of relief, because we didn't even have to look for a way to break through the guards. Kaji turned into his own kind of this world and walked up to the security post and informed us that we would enter with him.
The guards just let us through and at the same moment we went after Kaji. The research center itself was very large, everything was very white. It's even strange to remember that just a few hours ago, instead of this huge building, there was an old library with cobwebs and dust everywhere.
Approaching a place that reminded me of the very research basement that was in the publishing house in the last world, we began to search this very place and so, after fumbling a little on the wall, I found a button, after which the door began to open. The door opened very slowly, so that everyone stood with faces of complete expectation and also full of boredom, because everyone wanted to sleep at least a little. But soon their boredom was dispelled by the following.
A woman who looked exactly like Kaji was standing in the doorway.
- Uh-is that me? - there was a sound from behind the door, she said it as if she was afraid of us, but in the end she rushed at us with some empty card. But when this woman flew past me, I noticed that it was not completely empty and it was written in small print
"Test sample No. 4 is an Empty World." But when I noticed this inscription, it was too late… After all, when she flew past me, she hit Uyato-san with this card. He disappeared into oblivion at the same moment.
The woman laughed and started screaming hysterically: I've got it! Caught you!
It was clear that her character was the complete opposite of Kaji Uyato of our world, because ours would not gloat over a person. And the Kaji of this world was a crazy woman and also very inhuman towards us.
My thoughts and laughter "Kaji" interrupted Nila, who was running and shouting: Step aside!
She ran very fast, so everyone immediately dispersed, but Kaji didn't react in any way and just stood there, as if she wasn't afraid of her at all. Although Nila was running with her hand bent into a fist, but at the same time she was holding something in her pocket with her other hand, as if she was preparing to make a counterattack if her main attack was not successful.
A moment later, Nila was already being held by Kaji, who did not let her make a punch, then I ran closer and saw that Nila was holding a card in her pocket with the same small print, after which Uyato-san disappeared. It was test sample No. 5... I helped Nila get this card and touched it on the "Kaji", after which it also disappeared. The test sample was not from the same group, and this sample meant disappearance. In general, we will never meet that woman again. But how do we get Uyato-san back? I left this question for later, because when I asked it in my head, I heard the alarm noise, because Nila had already managed to take the book and shouted to us: run! Let's run!
We ran and flammable shells started exploding behind us, which could have easily fried us if they had stayed in that place.
We ran all the way to the hotel, even though the road was long, because not only the explosions threatened us, but the whole security post was chasing us, but halfway to the hotel we broke away.
It was already morning, there was a crowd on the street, so the security post was all confused, among the people, and we easily maneuvered between the piles of people and so we got to the hotel, which seemed to us already a paradise in this world, because our fatigue had no limit. We went to our rooms and finally managed to get a good night's sleep.