Chapter 74: Traveling back to Japan.

On the top floor of the tall building, the bigwigs are in the middle of appointing several personnel. These appointed people were given certain level of authority over some Black Sphere all across the world. If Kurono was here, he would recognize some familiar people among the appointed personnel.

"Now, you all may leave." said one of the masters. "Go, and prepare for the upcoming Catastrophe."

"Roger!"

All the people who got appointed saluted towards the bosses. After that, they left the room. The masters watched as those personnel leave one by one, until the last person left.

"Is that necessary?" Asked a white haired man.

"Well, It could be a good back up plan for us. At least, we know that there are people that willing to be our subordinates." replied another man.

"So, how long do we have before those aliens reaches this planet?"

"It should be around three days. More approximately, we got 91 hours." said a long haired middle-aged man.

"Are we not going to do anything about it at the moment? Like, try and intercept those aliens?" A man who looked the oldest among the people in the room asked.

"Why do you ask? Are you interested in doing so?"

"Not really." said the old guy.

"We already agreed to let those aliens reach our planet first. That way, the Earth population could be reduced."

"Yeah. Doing that could help to shake the foundation of many countries which hold some big powers. That is necessary for us to broaden our control over this world." said the man with long hair. The ambitious nature in his heart was now shown on his face.

Bang!

Right then, the door to the room got forcefully opened, and a man came rushing into the room. The man didn't bother to say any greetings. "Bad news! Someone have stolen the Advanced Black Sphere."

"What did you say?"

"Impossible! That ball is too big to be carried away." said the white haired guy, frowning at the sudden news.

"Did the aliens infiltrates our base?"

"Are there many of them?"

All the bigwigs were alarmed. The hurriedly inquired the details of the bad news.

"Actually..." the man who reported hesitated.

"What? Quickly, tell us."

"Actually...the culprit is a nine headed dragon. It's specific name should be Xiangliu." said the man.

"What? How did a dragon appeared inside the building?"

The bigwigs and the man then rushed into the room that was the supposed place to keep the Advanced Black Sphere. Not long later, they arrived inside the room. In there, there are many guards in Hard-Suit, but the Advanced Black Sphere is no longer there. Those bigwigs froze in place when they saw the empty space where the black ball was placed. At the side, there was the person identical to Gantz, who is no longer breathing.

"F@#king dragon! F@#k that Xiangliu!"

Those bigwigs spouted some curses at the alleged dragon thief. They were furious, but at the same time feeling confused.

"Aren't there many of you guards here? How in hell are you unable to kill a F@#KING shitty single lizard? " shouted the long haired middle-aged man, feeling so angry at the loss of the Advanced Black Sphere.

"Those guards were unable to kill that dragon." replied the man.

"What? Bastard! You punks are so useless!"

"Actually that's not the problem." said the man who reported the bad new, while shaking his head. He continued, "That Xiangliu can turn intangible, that they couldn't touch it, what more to kill it. Even worse, that alien could teleport away instantly."

"WHAT???"

This time, all the masters were greatly shocked. If that's the case, that would be hard for them to fight that alien. It's even harder to trace it if it really have a teleportation ability.

"What now?" asked one of the masters.

"Now? All of us are doomed to die!"

...

Kurono appeared once again inside Jericho's house. However, the house was empty. "Look like Jericho didn't wait. Where did they go?"

After searching for the man and his family for a while, Kurono decided to check back on the guy who kidnapped Jericho's family. He turned invisible while doing that.

When he arrived in the sixteenth floor, he saw all those black suited men was busy running around. They are searching everywhere for the lost black ball. Kurono contemplated for a moment, and thought that these people doesn't have time to go kidnap back those little family.

"Well, it's time to go back to Japan." Kurono then tried to contact Tensho. However, he couldn't reach him. "Oh no! Is it because of the long distance? This is bad. I forget to tell him a specific time to send me back to Japan."

Kurono considered on how he should go back. "Should I fly there, or should I just do a long distance teleportation?"

Kurono calculated the time taken to go back to Japan. The distance between Germany to Japan is approximately 9,000 kilometers. He haven't tried to teleport for such a long distance. So, he first experimented on how far he can go in a single distance.

Pi!

After some testing, Kurono realized that he could go as far as twenty five kilometers in one jump. If he stretch it further, he could go as far as thirty to thirty three kilometers in one go. However, it would then start burdening his mind.

Right now, Kurono already tested teleporting for around ten jump, and he is already almost three hundreds kilometers away from his previous location.

"If I continue at 25 to 30 km per teleportation, it should take me around 300 to 350 jump times. A single jump plus minus the delay should take me roughly three seconds. So, it would take me around twenty minutes to reach Japan." calculated Kurono. He then started his space jumping journey like what he had just calculated.

What happened in real situation is that, it took longer than what he calculated. Kurono needed some time to rest his mind, for every twenty to thirty times teleportation. Other than that, he also needed to check his location everytime he teleport away. This is to make sure that he didn't lose his direction.

After traveling for thirty minutes, and repeating several tens of teleportation, Kurono then started to feel dizzy. Right now, he still hasn't reached Japan. He found a large tree, and sat down below the tree. He then leaned on the tree, and took a nap to rest his mind.

...

"Hey, look. There is a man over there."

"A foreigner? Is he a Korean?"

"I don't think so. I say, he is a Japanese."

"Is he dead?"

"He is snoring, you know."

"What is he doing in this place?"

"Oh! He is waking up."

Kurono woke up from his nap. As he glanced around, he saw some people were looking curiously at him. Many kids was talking and pointing at him.

"Chinese? I see, I'm in China right now." mumbled Kurono.

Previously during his free time, he had asked Tensho to transfer the knowledge of all the languages in the world to him. Tensho complied and controlled the Gantz to gave Kurono those knowledge. So, right now, he can be said to be a walking dictionary. He know almost any spoken languages in the world.

"Hey young man, are you a Japanese? What are you doing here in Niujie Village?" asked an elderly man.

"Hey Grandpa, he is a foreigner. He might not understand you." rebuked a young girl.

"Really? He should know our language for being able to come here, right?"

"I do understand." nodded Kurono.

"See. I told you." said the man, proving his point to his granddaughter. He then looked at Kurono, and asked, "So, young man, do you mind answering my question just now?"

Kurono nodded, and replied, "I'm a Japanese. I've been traveling around for some times, and got tired when I reached this place. That's why I took a nap below this tree. I'm sorry if I've come uninvited."

"It's alright, as long as you don't cause any trouble." said the elderly man. He then asked, "You said you are traveling around. Which place did you visit previously?"

"I was in German." replied Kurono. "Alright, I should continue my journey now. By the way, I'm a bit thirsty. Is it possible for me to ask a cup of water?"

The elderly man looked at Kurono, and saw that the guy looked a little pale. The elderly man thought for a bit then said, "Come to my house."

After that, the elderly man and his granddaughters turned around and headed towards their house. Kurono stood up and followed the two. The people in the surrounding looked curiously at him, and watched as he followed the grandfather granddaughter pairs.

"By the way elder, how may I address you?" asked Kurono.

"I'm Chen Li. Just call me old man Li." replied the elderly man. "This is my granddaughter, Yiren. What's your name young man?"

"I'm Kei Kurono." introduced Kurono.

While they are talking, they reached old man Li's house. Old man Li then said, "It's about time for lunch. You should join us and have lunch together."

As they entered the house, a lady in her early fourty saw them, and quickly approached them. "Father, Yiren, it's good that you two are back. It's time for lunch."

Suddenly, the lady saw a young man was standing quietly at the back. He observed Kurono for a second,and then turned to look at old man Li, asking, "Who is he?"

"He is a Japanese who was traveling around." replied Chen Li. He then introduced the two to each other, "Shue'er, meet Kurono. Kurono, meet my daughter, Chen Shue."

"Hello ma'am." greeted Kurono.

"A Japanese, huh. It's rare for someone overseas, especially Japanese to come visit this place." said the lady. "Are you here to court my daughter?"

"What are you talking mom? He is just traveling around." rebuked Chen Yiren.

"Maybe that is just an excuse. Everyone know that you are beautiful." said Chen Shue. "I bet he is staying in the town, and have come here just to pick young girls in our village. Is that right, young Kurono?"

"Stop it Shue'er. Anyway, I'm the one who brought him here." said old man Li. "I also already invited him to have lunch with us."

"Father! Why are you inviting foreigner to have a lunch with us?" asked the lady. "We don't have much food to serve to any foreigners."

"Shue'er!"

Kurono frowned for a second when he heard Chen Shue. However, he calmed down as soon as he frowned. He bowed a bit towards old man Li, and then turned around to leave.

"Young man, where are you going?"

"I'm continuing my journey." said Kurono. He then walked away.

"Wait..."

Old man Li tried to stop Kurono but he already headed out, without looking back. Old man Li looking coldly at his daughter and scolded her, "What have you done? Why did you intentionally talked inappropriately towards that young guy?"

"I hate Japanese people." said Chen Shue. "Don't you hate them too father?"

"He is different. You cannot just assume that he is the same as the Japanese guy that killed your grandfather." replied the old man. He sighed when he remembered about his father.

"He is still a Japanese. I don't like them."

As the father and daughter talked about their opinion about Japanese people, the granddaughter, Yiren silently prepared a bottle of water, and packed up some foods. She then rushed away to find Kurono.

Not long later she saw Kurono was standing beside a well. Just when she was about to call him, she suddenly saw him stretches out his hand and somehow manipulated the water inside the well to come out. After that, he created fire out of nowhere, and boiled the water.

"What!? What is that?" exclaimed Yiren in shock. Her cry surprised Kurono, and caused him to drop down those floating water. He looked at Yiren with a frown, "Why are you here?"

"I came to give you this." Yiren quickly handed to Kurono the water and the food. "I'm sorry for what my mother said. I hope you didn't hate our family for that."

Kurono looked at the girl with a surprise. He watched the girl for a moment, before receiving those water and food. "Thank you. Actually, there is no reason for me to hate your family. I am just a traveller. So, I expect that much of a treatment from the surrounding people.

Thanks for the food anyway. Let me pay you back."

"It's no need for that. Just assume that is an apology from my family." said Yiren, bowing her head a bit to Kurono.

"No, can't do. I'm not used to getting favor from other people. I need to pay you." said Kurono. "Okay, I've decided a payment. Do you want to learn psychic powers?"

"Huh? What?"