Chapter 300: Me

|Author's note: 300 chapters, thank you, and go touch grass.|

Perseus POV

"Man, that device looks cool, can I see?" A somewhat familiar voice asked.

I looked up to see the same guy who shooed me away the last time I peered into other dimensions.

"What the fuck?! What are you doing in my world and how come I can't sense you?"

A slightly more rugged look, and he got purple-colored eyes instead of brown. But what's scary about him is that even though I'm staring at the guy standing before me, I can't sense his presence at all.

I kept charging up the machine but I did get distracted a bit when he pulled a bit of my hair.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"To tell you that I'm here physically." He answered, "Sup, I'm Perseus Silver."

"Uh yeah, same. So why are you here?"

"I kept sensing a guy trying to watch me in my private time, you'd think that after fighting in Ragnarok, the multiverse will let me retire in peace, but here I am." he shrugged casually, "What about you? Why are you in this stupid dingy cave?"

"Safe place to open a portal for time travel."

"Right, be careful with that, I once traveled to a universe where the Perseus there was a girl and my adoptive mother finds me hot, worse she kissed me before I could even respond."

That sounds like some adult content plot if I've ever heard one, adoptive mother...in another universe...right, I'll stop thinking about it, and you guys stop imagining it, he's technically a me from another universe, so that's just...beyond weird.

"How can't you respond? You're like super strong, right?"

"She's the goddess of lightning, she was really really fast." he answered, "Anyways, I'm here to just make sure you don't mess up and go to my universe by accident."

"This is a time-traveling gadget, not a-"

"Don't matter, traveling through dimensions and universes is easier than time anyway, so if a machine can time travel, it can definitely do the formers, they're always interconnected. Like...I don't know, cereal and milk?"

"Fine, just don't disturb me."

"I sense that you're not just drawing mana from the air around you, but from the moon as well, how?"

"Short story, Moon god, turned the moon itself into a strong relic of sorts, I forgot the details, but I'm currently very overpowered."

"Unfortunately not powerful enough to fight a god." he commented while inspecting me.

"You're good enough to fight a god?"

"I've fought Zeus. I also helped him receive divine punishment."

"How'd you do that?"

"Fought him, beat him, and had a goddess castrate him, long story."

"What?"

"Your universe is weaker than mine, don't worry about never being able to reach my level."

"Aight, cool, so you're going to stay here till I finish this thing, what about your children?"

"I got my wives, parents, a wolf, and a cat to watch over em. I also have a dragon and phoenix come by often, we're very safe."

"How do they fit in the house?"

"Rare endangered creatures like them evolved to have transformation abilities to hide themselves, so they got human forms."

"Alright, I'll freak out now...You got a dragon AND a phoenix?! What the fuck?! That ain't fair."

"You got this essence of death around you, you dating a ghost or something?" he asked.

"Well, she's a guardian spirit born out of a rose, a rose of death, so close enough."

"We really are alike, I married a goddess of death."

"Don't worry, I got a goddess girlfriend too."

I then can see Buddy rushing in and saw the alternate me, he had fierce eyes as if he was preparing to attack, but backed down once he saw that I wasn't harmed.

"Great fox." Perseus 2 grinned, "I could hear him fiercely sniffing the air before rushing in, a good nose like that should be useful.

"A goddess of death...damn, your other wives goddesses too?"

"Nah, a literal princess and a weaponsmith, hurry up man, I would rather spend my time elsewhere than here, no offense."

*****

It's already been 24 hours and the machine has only been half-charged, it really does drain a lot, currently, Buddy is feeding me some precut fruits using his paws and picking them up to feed me directly.

A really cute gesture, but I was distracted by the other me who was just reading a book nonchalantly while having his back against the wall at the other end of the cavern.

I don't know why I just suddenly got the question, but I shoot my shot anyway. I asked him to help with Vince's problem and told him of every one of my suspicions.

"Right, having people figure out that you're a reincarnated guy would be troublesome." he commented.

"Well, a lot knows since to possess the black rose, I'm required to die once."

"Yeah, but I'll go do something about it, focus on that machine and try to just close your eyes where you're peering into the different multiverse, unlike me, most can't sense you watching and I doubt that they'll appreciate you messing with their privacy."

"Fine, just help my little brother, we'll talk about what's morally right later."

*****

Leilah POV

My heart pounds in my chest as I stand at the entrance of an old-fashioned wooden cabin. The instructions I've painstakingly followed; a goat and a horse...have somehow led me to this abandoned place on the outskirts of town.

I can almost taste the anticipation mingled with excitement. I'll force the person to tell me the location and I'll go home and be rewarded by my adorable boyfriend.

So I put on my disguise of vibrant colored clothes and donned a mask before getting in and asked for the location of the homunculus, the person just thought that I was sent by the king and told me the location.

I then sent a small puff of pollen that cause the person to die immediately before I soak the place in oil and burn it down to leave no trace behind.