“Calm down, calm down…. It is getting hard to breathe in here.” I said to him while holding my throat, but what got my attention was our surroundings. All of the objects in the room were turned into floating black lines. A floating table for example turned into 8 lines. While the lines were separated from each other, they still formed a "table". Finally, the feeling of discomfort gradually disappeared.
“You are really amusing with your words huh?” He said with an eerie smile while closing his eyes.
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“So, what now?” I asked in response to the awkward silence we were in.
“Who knows?”
He said with his relaxed tone while putting his foot on a floating table. It seems gravity does not exist in this room, or rather you can just move wherever you want. Kind of like dragging your character on a videogame across the screen.
“Tell me, what would happen if she had killed me?” That question made Jay look at me with a confused face. It was as if the answer was really obvious.
“You’ll die obviously…. After that, your killer will eat your corpse” How should I know they were going to eat my corpse? And really? Eat me? And so I asked if it was a metaphor.
“Literally?” He simply nodded at my question. I really got eaten by that thing... But why are they even trying to eat me? How did I survive that process? Was he preventing me from dying? Did this guy give me my regenerative abilities?
“Ah no, you survived all on your own, no surprise.. really. I only did two things there; First, I watched you get beaten up by her for my enjoyment, and second, was killing her" He just shamelessly admitted doing nothing for a while when I was being mauled by her. "There is one big reason why those people want to eat you, they want to get your powers. Eating someone is the best way to get their powers; that being dimensions, mana, knowledge, and many more.”
“So if I eat your finger now, does that mean I can get your powers?” Logically, that should be the case, but my question caused him to giggle. So it doesn't work huh?
“Eating someone to gain their powers has more processes than just digesting someone. The first thing is that it needs someone to trap your concept within your corpse. That can be done by conceptual manipulation. After which, when digested your concept gets reduced into small parts to be absorbed by your consumer.”
“What is this concept you talk about?”
"You. A concept is all of the information about you. If your concept gets changed, you yourself will get changed” So it is like a soul then? “No, the soul is a part of your concept. Think of the soul as the blueprint for the forms for all of your planes” The “planes” he was referring to were probably the two-dimensional figures I learned in geometry back when I was elementary.
“So, why are they trying to eat a mortal like me?”
"you, a mortal? H A H A H A H A H A!" He began to. After a short while of laughing, he stopped. Suddenly a knife appeared in his hand and he threw it at the table. "stab yourself in the head, you won't die" Fair point, so I am not a mortal... But that doesn't mean I can't feel pain, why should I stab myself in the head?
“So, how was school?” He suddenly switched the topic by asking me personal questions as if to form a personal connection with me. I had no reason not to form one, so I answered honestly.
“Boring, I could learn much faster by just reading straight from the book.” That was the truth, I can easily understand mathematics, science, and language.
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“I see, got any friends.” I stayed silent for a couple of seconds. Why was it that I never had any friends? No, it was me who did not want to make any friends. Back then, many kids my age would approach me and request me to play with them, however, I felt empty. I just shook my head at his question
“I see, got any anxiety disorder or are you depressed?” I shook my head again. I am not really depressed. But what I do have is the feeling of emptiness and social anxiety disorder. That anxiety disorder really makes my life much harder than it should be.
“Then you wouldn't mind missing school right?” A chance for a vacation? Count me in!
“No”
“Then, would you like to learn about magic, dimensions, planes, laws, and concepts” That sounded interesting, and he may be very smart, considering he is a multidimensional being.
“Sure”
In an instant, piles of books appeared on the table. I felt my emotions drop to the ground. ‘Calculus’, ‘geometry’, and‘ physics’ words are on the cover page of the book. They were the words that caught my attention. Hold on, am I going to learn all of them? 1, 2, 3…… 6, 18, 54….. 54 books in total.
“I am going to tell your adoptive parents to tell your professors that you are on a vacation outside the country.” Wait, how does he know that I am adopted unless he stalked me? Oh well, since he is a multidimensional being, I will forget what he said. “Starting from here-” He slapped the top book from my left side. “To there” He slid his hand toward the right side of the table in my perspective. “The order where you get a book is in descending order”
“That’s the order in which you will read the books. You’ll first need to learn calculus, then chaos theory, physics, then lastly geometry. Don’t worry, the physics part only has 1 book. The majority of them are about chaos theory and geometry.” I just stared at the pile of books, was this even a vacation? This sounds like a summer class. “Don’t worry these are just the basic fundamentals! After these, you will need to learn about THE WORLD all by yourself, that is you experiencing it.” I held back some tears from driving down my eyes.
“Oh well, I gotta go. There is everything you need here, just imagine it appearing at it will appear. I will be back in exactly 1 month, I know you can understand them all in 1 month! I believe in you!.” He said with a gentle smile. He really believed in my capacity. HOLD ON!
“What? Where are you even going?” Is he really going to leave me here all alone? Isn't there a threat that someone will go to this place and just eat me?
“Don’t worry, they won’t. They don’t even know a place like this exists.”
“That doesn't-..... WHERE ARE YOU EVEN GOING!!!!" I am now panicking, this man just abducted me and is going to leave me here all alone.
“I am having a date with my wife." He replied with a calm demeanour, suddenly that calm demeanour vanished. "She is going to love what I am going to tell her about you!” He spoke with great enthusiasm in his voice, he looked and sounded like a teenager wishing to impress his girlfriend. In an instant, he disappeared from the room. Wait, is this even a room? I looked around and it was more like an empty void. There were no floors, no walls.
I let out a sigh and just stared at the pile of books. This was just forced abduction. I could probably learn all of this, I don’t know how but my brain is really good at it. Best to start now.
A month later, I was stuck. I had only started 35 books out of the 54 books that he gave me. I finished all 35 books in like a week but I couldn't even understand the second book on geometry. The first book about geometry was really simple and was like for PhDs but for the second book….. It was impossible.
I thought he had misplaced the book, so I skipped to other books, but I could not understand a single thing! All the books were really well written and I could understand them easily, however, geometry is just too much. What made it difficult was that the pages for the geometry books involved 3-dimensional holograms that I used to move around. Learning higher tiers of dimensions using just 3 dimensions is ridiculously difficult. At most, I can visualize the 10th dimension, so I guess that is a good thing.
No, it was not a good thing, not learning all of this put a bitter taste inside my mouth. The 11th dimension was just impossible to visualize and gave me headaches. But still, it was quite a miracle that I was able to visualize the 4th dimension, even more. I was satisfied with what I had learned and also really disappointed that I hadn't finished the books he left me.
“I’m back!” I heard a familiar voice behind me. Hearing his voice reminded me of something in the back of my head. His voice was similar to mine, just more energetic and lively. My regeneration, my fast learning capabilities... Were we relatives?
“Maybe?” He said with a smile and a tilt of his head.