TF Chapter 52 Relaxation

***Nathaniel***

With the giant that was this ship, no one had any trouble being assigned an entire room on their own. I was stunned by the sheer space I had been given.

Three rooms with the living room so big I could probably host over 10 others and still have space to spare! The theme was black and white with a personal AI hologram on call to attend to my every whim. This was practically paradise as even back on Earth I was only able to afford a 5sqm room!

"Is there anything you need, guest?"

The hologram appeared, gaining a likeness that was very tangible. She was female, and if I hadn't seen her materialising, I would have thought of her as a normal person.

"This is my first time here. Could you give me run down of this ship?"

The explorer in me was curious. This was the pinnacle of human ingenuity. I wanted to learn more about it.

"History is pointless to me right now so I would like to enjoy some facts...little tidbits that haven't been revealed already..."

I walked in and slumped onto the sofa. It was very comfortable causing me to want to smuggle within and forget my worries for the moment. I could even feel some sleep creeping in. It had truly been very tiresome having to sleep on hard ground for the past year.

Since I was inside one of the safest places in space, I withdrew my nano suit. No matter how comfortable they had manufactured it to be, it was still very cumbersome if you weren't used to it.

"The first fact is that this ship can't compress space and perform warp travel..."

"Wait! What?!" I jumped off the couch as if my butt had caught fire. Hey! Is there something wrong with the AI assigned to me? This was troublesome. I had to report it right away.

"...it travels by widening wormholes." The rest of her words caused me to breathe out a sigh of relief. I had thought that something had happened to corrupt her data archives. How embarrassing! I almost disgraced myself!

"...(cough)...I know a bit about wormholes, so does that mean that the news that we have managed to step foot onto the closest star systems a lie?"

"Yes. Some of the discovered wormholes even connect to distant galaxies and the dark void."

Now this was very eye opening. After that first piece of knowledge that had blown my mind, she continued to reveal more and more, but for some reason, my eyelids kept wanting to lower, so I dismissed the hologram and slept right there on the couch, finally managing to enjoy peace.

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The ship was being prepped for wormhole traversal, a task that was going to take over 12 hours, and we weren't going to be needed for anything until after it arrived at the next destination. So I had plenty of time to get some sleep.

***Bora***

If someone had said that I would one day have to live without even getting to take a shower a few years before, I would have been skeptical, yet that was what had happened during my lengthy stay on Musana continent.

I snuggled deeper in my robe while watching the hologram displaying the many events that had happened during the past year. I had to keep myself to date. Information was man's strongest tool after all.

"The shares of the Bora group have been falling...it looks like that man still hasn't allowed the forgers to be hired..." He was way too stupid and stubborn...probably too ancient for the times.

"Has there been anything related to me in the news recently?"

After asking that question, the AI female construct replied with a negative. What was that man up to? There was no way he hadn't received my little present. I wonder what facial expression had crossed his face when he had read it!

Anyway, that wasn't important. What was important was that I had to try and find out where we were headed.

"Where are we headed?"

"That's confidential."

Huh!? ...it looks like it won't be easy for me to find out anything. Maybe I should just give up and sleep...mmm...this sofa is comfortable, completely different from those hard rock floors on Musana!

***Danny***

"The stars became brighter in luster. Wherever we are headed is where the legend is going to start. Senior Nat, I wonder how powerful you will become in the future."

The warm water running along my skin caused an euphoric feeling within me. I had been in the shower for almost an entire hour, yet I couldn't get enough of the warmth along my skin.

The time had finally arrived where I was going to witness the rise of a legend alongside the person themselves...though a tiny hiccup had cropped up, Alistair. That was a human whose calculative nature rivaled my own. If someone else had figured out my intentions, it would have been easier to get rid of them. But from the time I had spent with that man, I knew for certain that he wasn't going to let this go...and getting rid of him quietly wasn't going to happen.

But doing something about it was going to be...(sigh)

I verbally issued a command to stop the water. Just the thought of Alistair had already soured my mood enough that I couldn't enjoy the warmth anymore.

There are some people in this world that I didn't want to ever meet again or have any interaction with, yet their attempts couldn't be stopped. As I sat there on the sofa, the AI continuously provided me with notifications that THEY wanted to speak with me.

I didn't hate them...just that it was always tiring to speak to them.

"Our darling boy, how come it took over a 100 messages before you answered. Did we do anything wrong? Husband! It couldn't be that he hates us, right!"

An urge to shout at the woman almost overcame me as I gazed at the couple on the screen. Those fake tears! She was always like this! Is life really dramatic for her? Does she need to act exaggeratedly every time?!

"Don't worry. If he shows even a tiny bit of hate, I will discipline him for you!" The man parted his chest and promised with gusto.

My father wasn't any better than her. What a pain! These two were very very different from me causing me to always wonder whether they were even my true parents.

"Son, we heard that you have been having a hard time, sleeping on stone floors, missing meals...should we have a chat with the management?" My dad asked.

"Honey! Look how thin he has gotten! Is that a tan on your skin? Oh my God! What are we to do?!" She exaggeratedly placed the back of her hand on her forehead as if she was really facing a dilemma.

"Mother, aren't you tired of these theatrics?" I was exasperated.