"The True Church played a big role in our world's history," Adrian said. "They even helped make the common language for the whole continent. But in the other world, things seem different..."
Adrian glanced at Cyrae, and I remembered something I missed before. Cyrae was speaking H-country language, but sometimes she used words I didn't know. Now I get it - the common language in her world is different from ours!
This means things changed even before the KTV incident. Like how their world has both male and female angels. That's not something that happens quickly.
Adrian continued, "The language difference isn't that important. What's really big is how the True Church ended the dark times of religious fighting a thousand years ago. But in Cyrae's world, another religion did this instead."
"The Ancient God Religion was once as strong as the True Church in our world. They had a big fight in the holy city of Jethrobaines. But Pope Garrick's knights beat them, and they disappeared from history. We hardly hear about them now."
"So if they didn't fight the True Church, the Ancient God Religion might have become like the True Church is now, just like in Cyrae's world!" I said, suddenly understanding.
"The True Church always looked for people with light magic to fight the monsters from the north. So in our world, humans didn't have as much trouble with monsters. That's why we never had 'Heroes' to lead humans against monsters."
"You don't have 'Heroes'?" Cyrae asked, surprised. "Then what about Fernando in your world? Isn't he the last 'Hero'? Did you meet him too?"
"Well, we did meet that guy, but his position..." I didn't know much about him, except that he was Michelle's follower and maybe high up in the Dark Council. Very different from Cyrae's world!
Adrian explained, "Fernando is quite famous. Records say he joined the True Church hundreds of years ago because of his talent. He was even a bishop in a part of the Ilandra Dominion Empire. But later, for unknown reasons, he left the church and helped start the Sage Council."
Adrian looked at me and said, "Remember I told you? He created 'demon-taming magic' and was the first head of the Sage Council's light magic school!"
"But wasn't the Sage Council started after he disappeared?" Cyrae asked. "And I never heard of 'demon-taming magic' in our world... Oh, right..." She realized the worlds were different in many ways.
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"Fernando in our world disappeared too. People say it had something to do with the angels..." Adrian said.
I didn't know about this stuff, so I just shook my head.
Suddenly, Raydwin burst in, out of breath and carrying lots of stuff. "I'm back! It was so hard to buy good drinks at this time. The shops nearby closed early, so I had to go outside. There were so many hills!"
When he saw us still standing there not talking, he looked disappointed. "Are you done talking already?"
"We're mostly done. Did you want to hear?" I asked. Raydwin clearly wanted to hear the story, but he's just a normal Earth man. I didn't really want him to know too much.
"It's okay," Cyrae said. "We're guests in his house, and he saved Cyra. I'll tell him the story again. You came to Earth differently from me, and now even H-country's army is involved in the other world's problems. He should know more."
Cyrae opened a beer and told me, "Don't worry, I'll be careful about the details you're concerned about."
"What do you mean, details..." I said, surprised she knew about the H-country army in the other world. But then I realized she must have been watching Aurora Entertainment for months.
Cyrae told the story again, adding how we came through the wormhole to Earth. This helped Raydwin understand. She left out the part about changing gender when crossing over, to avoid problems.
"Is it really that crazy? Time travel is real? You came from another world to Earth 80 years ago?" Raydwin was shocked, but he could accept it better because he'd seen angels fall from the sky before.
"So you're all from another world, coming through a space portal? That explains why Cyrae and Cyra look the same... Wait, Cyra!" Raydwin suddenly turned to Cyra. "Didn't you say you fell to our world because the Demon King's army attacked you?"
Cyra was trying to sneak into her room. Caught off guard, she argued, "I didn't lie! I was knocked down by the Demon King's army!"
Actually, there was no Demon King's army, just monsters. Cyra had come out of the space portal, flown up, and been knocked down by a strong monster.
"Then what about the final battle between the Heaven Realm and the Demon King's army? You said I was chosen by the gods! And I see you pray to the gods every day!" Raydwin pressed on.
"Well, that's complicated... Oh, right! You were chosen by Adrian to be his disciple, remember? I was wrong before. It's not the Heaven Realm, it's the Royals! You're lucky to be chosen by King Adrian from our world. That's what I meant!" Cyra quickly went into her room and closed the door. "I have an important livestream soon. Can we talk about these small things later?"
"Hey, this isn't small! What about the Heaven Realm? Does it really exist?" Raydwin kept knocking, but Cyra didn't answer.
"Is she really my past self? She seems so different..." Cyrae looked awkward and drank more beer.
"That's her alright! She used to be even worse. When she first crossed over, she thought she could do anything because she had the Lord of True Church backing her up. But she's calmed down a bit after getting some hard lessons from reality," I said, rolling my eyes. Then I started to laugh and told Cyrae about some of the silly things Cyra had done in the other world.