“Bro, I’m going out”

“Uh-huh, be safe!” did he just call me “Bro?”, I never heard him call me that way before. Oh well, since he is still a child, it is bound to happen that he will change. But I do wonder why his mood was really great. He was even smiling which was odd and rare.

It is now a quarter to 8 in the morning, and Yang just went outside of the house. I do not know where and why, but it was perfect timing since I was going to be out for a while.

While waiting for the message Obediah was going to send me, I began testing out what I could do, manipulating all planes in a dimension.

On a small sphere in my hand, I did my tests. First, I merged the digital plane with the astral plane, the next step I did was to put a small cube from the physical plane into the sphere. After that, I intentionally erased all planes in my right hand, all except the spiritual plane.

‘Concentrate, concentrate!’

I had to concentrate more to not mess this up, unlike all planes, the spiritual plane houses two bodies. The soul and the spiritual form. For this test, I had my soul interfere with the cube inside of the sphere. For the next test, I will have my spiritual form do it. Of course, I could erase the arm for my spiritual form, but that would be easier than using my soul.

“Finally”

I muttered to myself after finishing the task I gave myself. After the task, I redid it, this time with my spiritual form.

After the second task, I advanced to a different task. I will combine planes, switch planes, and interfere with a different plane, this time I will do it with speed.

Fifteen minutes passed and I finally received a message from Obediah, I stopped with my tests. I will resume my tests later. In those fifteen minutes, I tackled fifteen decillion planes, I do not know how many combinations I did since it was all random. But at least I tackled the important planes.

In a single dimension, there are infinite amounts of planes, I already finished with the first and second a couple of days ago, and I will probably finish the 3rd dimension three days from now.

I am only intending to go until the 10th dimension since it is tiresome to do so many combinations. After the tenth, I will just refine what I know and what I can do with master plane manipulation by doing them faster and faster. Oh right, I should also probably start experimenting with space and law manipulation.

I changed my clothes in an instant and teleported to a restaurant he picked. For some reason it was on this planet, I do not know why. Coincidentally, it was in sector 13, the same sector where he recruited me.

When I got there, there were only a handful amount of people inside. Was it a bad restaurant or an expensive one? I can’t tell because of the different designs and food I can see.

I looked around until I could find a familiar hair, he was sitting a bit far away from me while facing his back at me.

I walked towards him with a casual expression. While walking towards him, I noticed a female with him that looked like the one in the paper. She would be my partner, or probably not, who knows there might be a twin that was just using the bathroom.

He noticed I was here a couple of seconds late. He turned his body around to take a glance at me, and once he took a look at my face, he stood up from his seat and turned his body around to meet me.

“Miss, this will be your partner for now. Mzichey meet Jared, Jared meet Mzichey”

Obediah just casually introduced ourselves to each other. Also, what did he mean by “for now”? Does this mean my partner here is only temporary?

“Nice to meet you”

She greeted me with a small nod and a smile. I responded with a nod.

Now what?

“Now then, I will give both of you two some time to familiarize yourself with each other. I will send you the tasks after ugh-“ he took a glance at his wristwatch “fifteen-twenty.”

It is now 10:02 in this sector, so he just gave us more than five hours of free time. After giving us free time, he teleported away to somewhere I do not know. I have finally decided to stop procrastinating and improve on my space manipulation no matter how hard it is.

Now what?

There was silence, both of us just stared at each other.

Her appearance was like a model, she had raven-like hair and crimson-like eyes. I quickly averted my eyes from her chest, one thing that I can say is that it is neither big nor small. I do not know how tall she is however because she was sitting.

“You can sit you know?”

She initiated the conversation, and I silently thanked her for that, starting a conversation was never my thing.

I pulled out the chair that Obediah was previously sitting at and sat on it. I remained silent after sitting and just waited for her to start talking.

Now that I remembered, why exactly did Obediah call her “miss”? Looking at her appearance, it would be funny if she somehow was my relative.

“So let’s start from the very beginning, my name is Mzichey Goftkza, but you may call me “Mizy”, I am currently 157 thousand and seven hundred hours old, nice to meet you“

She introduced herself with confidence and elegance. And 184 thousand hours…. Divide that by 24 and 365…. She is 17 years old. How old am I again? Ah right, 17 and a half years old. Multiply that with 365 and 24, I will get.

“I’m Jared Everos, I am 153300 hours old, nice to meet you”

She widened her eyes, was it because of the language I used? Pardon me, but I can’t hear a single word you say in a different language because it will automatically translate for me. Or was it because of my name? Since Obediah implied having “Everos” as your name may be illegal. Maybe it is both?

She began to move her head around as if she was expecting someone.

This went on for nearly a minute until she stopped moving her head around and revealed something drastic.

“Does that mean we are relatives?”

Huh? I was just kidding when I thought to myself that it would be funny if we were relatives.

“Explain…”

I said in a serious voice. I can’t believe this, or rather I won’t believe Jay to just shag another woman apart from mom. While he is unserious, one thing that he is serious about is his love for her. And knowing she will be his wife in the future, I doubt he will sleep with another woman.

This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.

And so, she explained the whole thing.

To start off from the very beginning, the Goftkza is a very old family in the empire. The family ruled and is currently ruling the second planet to join the empire.

This is where things get messy and absurd. To join the planet, Jay and the princess of the planet must have an heir. And so they supposedly did it and then the planet joined the empire. After the heir is produced, Jay just leaves them. That does not make any sense, that is totally out of Jay’s character. And what happens next is just mind-boggling.

Jay’s son, my “brother” became crazy thinking it was his divine right as Jay’s son. He killed all of his family members including his mother, and then he made an absolute stupid decision.

In an attempt to please Jay, he decided to make a child every 25 years, after 25 years, the child will then be eaten by him to retrieve Jay’s genes. After that, he will then make a new child and repeat the process.

If all of this is true, she is supposedly my niece.

“What are you to Jay”

“I am his son….. does that mean you are technically my niece?”

“Huh….”

She just stared at me with widened eyes. While she was staring at me, I took a look at her soul, concept, and genes.

For starters, her soul has no signs of being celestial. There are no unused blueprints for her, she is just human. The same as her concept, no signs of her being Jay’s grandkid. Wait-

I took a look at my concept. With all of the information, there was a single branch. That single branch has the concept of my mother and father. And on Jay’s concept, I can see my grandparents who no longer exist. Hold on, does that mean I can revive them? Maybe I will test that later.

I magnified my eyes and looked at her left hand to see her DNA. No signs of it being celestial either. Even on my human side, there were no similarities in our DNA. I guess I will check on the intersection later when I can finally learn it.

“Hey, can I have a picture of your father?”

She silently nodded, took out her phone from her pocket, and gave it to me after a few seconds of using it.

“He really looks like Jay”

Except he has a scar on the left side of his eye.

“How old is he again?”

“Around a couple (quintillion years) old”

(AN: they don’t use years for time and instead use hours or seconds. I will just simplify it so that I don’t have to keep using a calculator)

Odd, how does he still have a scar on his face? He is an immortal being who obviously knows magic. So why? Why does he have a scar? Maybe this photo was just a brand new one and he got attacked just recently? Maybe his soul or concept got damaged? Who knows. But maybe she knows.

“Hey”

“Hm?”

“Why does he have a scar near his eye?”

“Oh just ignore that, he deliberately keeps it on because it makes him look scarier”

….. Maybe somewhat he is Jay’s son?

We were stuck in the restaurant doing nothing, we hadn’t talked for like a few hours. That was until she released a few sounds from her voice.

“Jared… Jared…. Jared”

She kept muttering my name. Is she going to curse me for being boring?

“Can I call you Jade as a nickname?”

Why does my name even need a nickname? It only has one syllable and it is “Jeyrd”. And my nickname sounds like a woman’s name. But still, she gave me permission to use her nickname, and it would make me feel guilty if I didn’t allow her to use my given nickname even tho it is a girl’s name.

Never mind, this feeling inside of me that would allow her to use “Jade” as my nickname was just my side that easily bends over. It was never about feeling guilty, it was just that I didn’t want to argue with her about my nickname.

(AN: yup, it is Jeyrd, not JA-red, JARE-id,)

“Sure…. I guess”

I said while scratching my ears. She immediately noticed I was uncomfortable with that nickname.

“If you are uncomfortable with it, then I can just call you Jared”

“No, no, no, no, no! It is fine!”

I really am pathetic….. I hope I can have a connection with her that would allow me to argue with her. The same connection I have with my family.

“As you say so”

I really wished she hadn’t said that. I wished she just said, “I’ll call you Jared then”.

“You are really bad at conversations huh?”

I just nodded even if it hurt me a little bit. Am I an introvert because of my experiences with having these eyes? Or am I an introvert because I was born that way? I don’t know, my actions back then contradict each other. I was a shy kid, but I also sometimes liked interacting with many people. I guess my introversion just blew up because of the bullying.

“I see….. then since you allowed me to call you Jade, I will call you that….. any objections”

She said with a smirk on her face. I stayed silent which caused her to be disappointed After saying that, she took a glance at the clock hanging on the wall. “13:10”

“Jade, let’s go somewhere more fun.”

She stood up and walked away from the table, I too stood up and followed her to where she was going.

As we were walking along the streets, the entrance of a bar on the opposite side of the road entered my vision. If she decides to enter the bar, my opinion of her will definitely sour. Please don’t, I don’t want to go to Obediah just to request a change in partners.

Please don’t enter.

Please don’t enter.

As I waited for the impending doom for her to cross the street, she didn’t, instead she kept on walking.

‘I wonder where she is going’

We kept on walking…. For I don’t know like half an hour? I wonder why she just doesn’t teleport? Maybe she doesn’t know how? If so, she should just ask me to since she definitely knows I know how to teleport since I did teleport inside the restaurant even if she didn’t see me.

We finally stopped walking in front of an…. Arcade entrance? But instead of entering the arcade, she turned around to meet my gaze.

“Jade, are you wondering why I just didn’t teleport us here?”

I stayed silent, I wondered what she would do…… Just kidding, I just stayed silent. Who knows, maybe if I say “yes”, she will then say “Then why did you not ask me before?”

“To waste time!”

She turned around and finally entered the arcade, I followed her inside.

She slid the bowling ball on the ramp and it caused all but one pins to fall.

“Aah”

She moaned with disappointment in her voice. I too would be disappointed if I made all but one bowling ball collapse.

“Jade, want to try?”

She said while holding a bowling ball in her hands. I slowly shook my head. I do not want to abandon the fries that I ordered. Seeing the motion my head was making, she puffed out her cheeks.

She put back the bowling ball on the ball rack and approached the table that I was in. I ignored her and continued eating my fries. That was until a hand appeared on my fries and grabbed some of them.

“Hey, I thought you said you did not want to eat?”

When I was ordering these fries, I obviously asked her if she wanted to order anything with me paying it all. She with her infinite wisdom refused to, and now she is eating my fries.

“Yep”

“Then why are you eating my fries?”

“My mind changed”

Oh well…..

And so both of us ate my fries with her talking about any random topics she could think about like bags, lipsticks, and politics. Of course, I just silently listened to her yapping session while nodding my head.

That was until my phone vibrated. I took it out and looked at what happened. Obediah sent a huge list of targets that we were supposed to kill. The amount was not infinite thank goodness, however, it was uncountable.

I looked at the time on my phone. “11:45”. I did some simple maths inside my head. He sent the list an hour and a half a bit too early. Was this normal?

“Hey-“

I was about to inform her about the task I just received, but she interrupted me.

“Hey hey this, hey hey that! I have a name!”

She shouted with an irritated voice causing everyone inside of the arcade to look at us. Great! But I wonder what she is so irritated about.

“I have a name, and I also gave you my nickname. So use it!”

She looked at me straight to my eyes with an angry face. I tried to fix the situation by changing the subject.

“H-hey-“ I was about to once again inform her about the task Obediah sent us, however just before I could tell her, I felt a force suddenly hit the right side of my face.

She slapped me-

…..

She maintained eye contact with me with a new pissed-off face…..

“Forgive me…….”

I stopped saying her nickname out of a sudden. Why is this? I can completely say Yang’s, Jay’s, Fedra’s, and Obediah’s names without any trouble, so why am I struggling with hers? Her name only has 3 syllables, while her nickname has two.

“Hm?”

“M-“

“Forgive me mizy”

Hearing me say her nickname seemed to calm her.

“So, what were you trying to say?”

“Obediah sent me a target list…. Just very recently”

She summoned a dimensional storage beside her and she took out her phone from it.

“Oh…. I see”

She took a glance at a wall clock to look at the time. “Let’s stay here for an hour, after that we will move to a private place”

That seems uncomfortable

“Why?”

“Well, you wouldn’t want to bleed out and spilling out your guts in public”

That is fair, who knows, maybe someone in the target list knows how to access the intersection. Well, that is what I am hoping so that I can learn how to access it.

“Can we go to your place if you have one”

“Why not yours?”

I protested, maybe Yang already has returned home and I wouldn’t want to explain this whole thing to him.

“I do not want to be in close proximity to that man. That was the main reason why I joined the army in the first place”

“That man”, she was probably referring to his father my quote-unquote brother. But she was absolutely correct in avoiding him, based on what she told me, that man is crazy and belongs in a mental institute.

“I see, then can’t we just rent a random place?”

“Sure, but you will pay for it!” I nodded. Being satisfied with the conclusion to our problem, she stood up from the table.

“Jade, let’s go bowling.”

She turned around and left the table, and seeing that I no longer had any fries, I followed her.