Different Reality

"W-what did you just say?" Allen blurted it out subconsciously after what Sia had to say.

He couldn't believe his ears.

What he just heard sounded absurd and unreal to him.

And yes, 'Sia' was the name he gave to the twin of Spirit after she beat the crap out of him, and after that, what he heard was now the real deal.

"What?" Sia glared at him fiercely, her eyes fixed on him with a piercing intensity. Her voice dripped with annoyance as she berated her idiotic master for not understanding things at once. "You want me to repeat myself, master? Huh? Are you really that dense?!"

Nod. Nod.

Allen nodded his head vigorously; it looked robotic, but he didn't have the time to care about it.

"Tsk!" She sneered at him, her expression filled with disdain and her voice dripping with arrogance. "Prostitute."

"You are a male prostitute, master."

She turned her face away, shaking it as if trying to rid herself of the distasteful words she had just uttered. Under her breath, she muttered, "Despicable master."

"M-m-ale..." Allen shuddered; he wasn't even able to say the words properly after confirming what he heard was correct.

His ears were not failing him.

This body which Allen was currently inside, which was another Allen, was a male prostitute.

If he wanted more evidence about his job, he just had to turn his head to the right, and he would have real-life evidence of what his job was.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

His heart was beating crazily as if it would burst out of his chest anytime soon.

"Hoooooooo! Hooooooo!" He took deep breaths to calm himself down, but alas, that was not happening.

Memories of how his little brother was chopped off viciously by a female were returning to his mind.

Sure, it was traumatic.

He subconsciously kept his hands on his crotch to check on his brother and dumplings.

'F-fine!'

That was the only thought that came to his mind after checking up on them.

Nonetheless, this didn't stop his wildly beating heart out of fear.

However, it was at that moment...

Paat! Paat! Paat!

Three flying slaps landed on his face.

"Snap out of it!" He then heard an extremely annoyed voice from Sia: "What are you, a baby? Can't handle such things? So what if you died that way? What? Are you going to let that haunt you forever? It was just a normal 'saw,' understand? That cut off your d*ck, so what? Going to live like that? Being a pussycat forever? Man up, master! Don't be a freaking coward, master!"

She slapped elegantly every time she asked the question. If one looked at her, her face looked out of a fairy tale. That same mouth was saying such profanities with grace, and her slapping action also seemed elegant, as if she had practised it for many years for such moments.

Allen came back to his senses, or rather, those slaps beat the sh*t out of him and brought him back.

She then locked eyes with Allen; her eyes were filled with haughtiness and elegance, but her voice as she spoke dripped with disdain. "Master, now I understand why that biatch gave you that mission. But you better toughen up, or you'll end up dying a more gruesome death in his pathetic world."

Allen bit his lips and closed his eyes. He felt horrible, not because Sia ruffled him badly but because of how his behaviour had been since he died and was reborn.

'Take over the sect.'

'Fuck!'

'I thought it so casually, even without having anything to back it up.'

He then remembered his conversation with Sia just after he named her.

She had looked dead straight into his eyes; there was no arrogance when she spoke: "Master, I don't know what you were thinking back then when you dared to challenge Yonas, but let me enlighten you. You were a complete idiot. Did you really believe this was some novel or fantasy drama where you're the protagonist and everything revolves around you? Well, newsflash, you're not. It's pure idiocy to think otherwise."

Her words dripped with merciless criticism as she continued, "You thought you could take on Yonas? That's the most laughable thing I've ever heard. You didn't even bother to understand your own condition, your circumstances, or the world you're in. You recklessly charged ahead without a second thought. Did you even consider Yonas' cultivation level before spouting some nonsense about shaking hands?"

She shook her head in disgust, her haughtiness returning full force as she emphasised, "Immature master, listen up. You're not on your pathetic little Earth anymore, where cultivation and levelling up are mere fiction. You've entered a realm where these things are real."

"In these worlds, mountains crumble, seas are overturned, gruesome wars are fought, and lives are taken for a mere touch. It's all 100% authentic, and you better start grasping that reality."

Allen shoved his face inside his hands, remembering all of this.

'I was really thinking of all of this as some fantasy.'

'I've got to be serious and have to be myself.'

'Myself, who was not afraid of challenges and did his best in everything.'

"Hoooooo! Oooooh!"

He inhaled and exhaled deeply and steeled his resolve.

'No, not like this.'

He removed his hands from his face and clenched them into fists.

'I'll have to do it the old way; I'll have to be myself, my old self.'

'Whatever challenge is to come,' His face gleamed full of determination rather than that of someone who was scared sh*t less earlier, and rather than thinking to himself, he spoke out loud the motto which followed his whole life: "I can, I will, and I have to overcome every challenge."

"Alright, we have wasted enough time already; we've got to go."

Allen stood up, or at least he tried to stand up after hearing Sia, but he was unable to do so.

He felt a different kind of pain coming from his little brother and the dumplings down below.

They didn't feel as if they were hit, but rather, the pain felt like emptiness.

As if their juice had been squeezed out.

"Oh, come on! Stand up already, master?" Sia looked totally pissed and irritated; she didn't want to stay any second longer inside this room where three women were lying fully naked beside Allen, and Allen too was naked with only underwear on.

"Hehe..." Allen laughed dryly as he tried to move his lower body, which was turning out to be an extremely difficult task.

'Ah! Fuck! Why is every bad thing happening to me when I'm with this Sia spirit?'

He felt that this was not his fault but was still told to correct the mistake.

***

Allen, after putting in lots of effort, finally stood up. His whole lower body was aching, but it was bearable. He looked around the room; it was vast and had red bulbs glowing throughout. A single bed that was large enough to let 20 people sleep at a time, but currently three beautiful naked women were sleeping. Their faces told the untold story of their deeds last night with Allen.

"They look awfully satisfied, master, don't they?" Allen then heard the devil's whisper in his ears—the tiny devil that was sitting on his right shoulder.

Allen shook his head and said, "No. "

He cherished his life, so he did what he was an expert at swiftly diverting the topic.

"Ahem, so where am I? This is not the cultivation world in which I was reincarnated."

"Tsk! Master, the only thing I and the inferior version of me know is that we were separated and ended up in different realities." Sia's tone carried a serious edge as she delivered her words.

"You see, the moment you fell asleep in that reality, your soul shifted into this body and entered a different reality, and now you are on a planet known as Super Earth."

"What the-?" The moment Allen heard the word Earth, he jolted and spoke out loud.

"Oh! Shut up, master! Let me finish!" She yelled even faster than Allen jolted and spoke out loud as if she had anticipated this would happen.

"Listen carefully, master; this is no small matter what I'm about to tell you." Her countenance became even more serious for what she was about to say.

"Our separation, me and that inferior, we don't know anything because unless and until we found you, we didn't have a conscious, but there is one thing I'm certain about: our separation was intentional."

"By someone or by yourself?"

"We don't know, but if someone else has done it, then you have to be very careful, master."

Allen started walking, picked up the towel, and went in the direction of the bathroom. He was going to take a shower.

Sia was a bit surprised and asked, not understanding his action.

"You didn't exhibit any major reaction to this master?"

He gave a soft chuckle and spoke, "Let me have a shower first, then I'll tell you what my analysis of how things currently stand is."

His hands reached out to the doorknob, twisting it until a satisfying click sound was heard. He then swung open the door to the bathroom.

Swish!

And what greeted him was a lightning-fast punch hurtling towards his face.

'Fuck!'