The car was moving at full speed, but despite Xi'an's attempt we could not catch up with the ambulance. The time wasted searching for my brother's blue crystals was difficult to recover, but Tamamo's insistence was greater. It had already been 10 minutes since something strange happened where a burned man fought against Elise, I think, I don't know what happened exactly, it all happened very fast. Apparently the result of the battle was that only one of the two survived the confrontation and that person had been taken by ambulance.
As soon as we arrived at the hospital, Tamamo herself was the first to get out of the car and run into the building, the rest of us followed her, after entering the reception area we went to the emergency area, somehow inside we were already knew that the situation was bad. Nobody said anything, we all just ran in silence through the corridors, my mother was barefoot to run better through the corridors, one of the twins was pushing Levia's wheelchair while the other was helping her to turn when needed, even the siren was trying to help to push with her arms the wheels. Even Lisa, who was quiet in my mother's shadow, didn't say a word, she didn't want to disturb.
When we got to the emergency area we started to search like crazy, we looked everywhere frantically, already out of breath, the nurses couldn't help us because we were looking for the man with no name. Tamamo cleverly came up with the idea of shouting Leon's name loud and clear, after all, my mother had sent him to the hospital first because he was wounded during the shooting in front of the naval base, he must have seen those who had come in by ambulance. i was almost sure that she had used some magic because i think it was heard perfectly everywhere. My brother appeared from one of the benches, my worried mother asked him about the burned man to which he pointed to one of the rooms. The place called the reanimation room, my hair stood on end, I felt as if time was stopping little by little, I felt as if I weighed nothing, as if I were flying. Tamamo instead did not care and kicked open the door to go in and look at the situation.
A group of doctors were shouting in panic among themselves, they intertwined in a chorus of instructions and calls for attention, the machines buzzed and beeped constantly, the hands moved quickly everywhere, a battle against the unrelenting weather, on a stretcher was the body of a badly wounded man, full of blood, his body gave horrible spasms. The monitors turned red, began to blink reflecting an erratic rhythm, a machine charged with electricity, a shock to his chest, then the deafening sound of electric shocks from a defibrillator, the body jumped violently, the machines gave a distressing and crucifying beep, the scene was repeated once more and then another. I was watching live the battle to save the life of a person, and for an instant, I thought I saw angel wings behind the doctors who were desperately fighting, I also felt as if everything was happening very fast, at the same time that everything was going very slow, I was watching it happen live, at the same time that I knew that I would remember it all my life whether I wanted to or not, I felt as if a giant hand was pushing me to continue watching what was happening.
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This was the price to pay for protecting others, his family, my brother always knew this and still went on. Now he was the victim lying in bed depending on others to survive.
A nurse came out of the hallway to tell us to get out of there, but Tamamo threw her to the floor and instead entered the room to help, from her hands came out a beautiful green glow as she checked the body on the bed. At the same time, two other doctors were struggling to stop the blood coming out of the wounds, shouting orders to each other, they spoke a language I didn't understand, but I didn't need to, I knew it was bad.
My mother grabbed me by the shoulders and moved me to stop looking, I could see from her face that she was crying. It had been years since I had seen her do that, she hadn't done that since Cesar had returned. I felt two cold hands taking mine, I turned to see, they were the androids, they still had their cold and inexpressive faces, but I knew what it meant, I knew what was the real feeling inside, they were full of fear for their father. The twins were not people who showed physical affection very often, but on this occasion holding my hand was their only way of showing their fears. No one wanted to say anything, believing that we would call bad luck on them, but we all knew what was happening, my brother, their father was dying.
One of the medics approached us, the guy could barely speak English, and with the few words he knew he tried to tell us that they would try to stabilize the burned man, that it would take about fifteen minutes to get all the machines ready and working. If the man could live through those critical fifteen minutes, there was hope for him to still be alive. The best we could do for the moment was just pray.
We all gathered in the waiting room, on the wall was an analog relog that looked tired from walking, yet I couldn't take my eyes off it. Tamamo did not come back from the reanimation room, somehow she managed to stay. My mother was sitting in a corner crying, next to her in the darkness you could faintly see Lisa's hand on her shoulder, showing that she was there too, suffering and waiting too. Levia was next to me, she was drinking tea for her nerves, the twins were trying to get more for the rest, I had my hand inside my bag, inside was Tifa, also hugging my hand looking for comfort, she surely would like to be outside but she couldn't, there were too many people everywhere. My brother Leon was looking out the window, he was quiet, he didn't seem to know anything He didn't know what was going on, my mother seriously explained to him who Elise really was, that in reality he was Cesar, but with everything that had happened it was difficult to create a situation that was already a fantasy in the first place, even though he didn't understand anything, he knew that for the good of the others, this was an extremely difficult time for us, the best thing he could do was to be quiet and not say anything,
Time seemed to move very slowly, the clock on the wall didn't seem to move at all, even the people in the room didn't seem to move. I was not the only one to notice it, Leon looked around and asked aloud what was going on, he even approached a person and shook him, but he didn't react at all. My mother saw that something strange was happening, she got up from her chair, Lisa even got out of the shadow and started to walk around the place without fear that he would see her, but she was also confused saying that she hadn't done anything.
From one of the corridors we see walking a girl in white, we already knew her well, it was Stella, next to her was walking Tamamo, both had a serious face, something very unusual in the Goddess, both came walking without hurry, my mother was scared by the result, I felt like every second that passed it hurt me more and more. Stella approached us to talk to the group.
"May you all have peace"
"Do not take my appearance as a sign of bad news."
"Right now the Emperor is alive."
"But I'm afraid there is a lot of work to be done for his recovery."
"Stella!? Tell me, how is the situation?"
"How is Cesar?" ask my mother in desperation.
"He is currently alive"
"But I am afraid that in his current situation, the chances of his recovery are nil."
"The main problem is his body, to put it in simple terms it is completely destroyed."
"A human should at least be able to recover, but at the moment he doesn't have the body of a human."
"Although he looks like the man he once was, what his soul is currently inhabiting is a doppelganger."
"A creature that specializes in adopting the appearance of a person, in this case, the burned man Cesar was shortly after his accident, probably from some lost photo."
"This doppelganger's body is on its last legs, although with the help of machines, he will still be alive, he will not recover in any way"
"He will be in a coma for the rest of his life."
"Oh my God!"
"Are you serious? Is this for real?"
"I'm afraid it's just as Stella says," said Tamamo in a disappointed voice.
"So my brother......" said my voice without my permission.
"Maria"
"...."
"I'm sorry, if I had realized it earlier, maybe this wouldn't have happened" The goddess tried to apologize.
"However, there is still hope"
"We angels will not let one of our best allies fall in this way."
"Not with a betrayal like the one that happened."
"But we will deal with that problem later."
"For now, we already have a plan to help the True Dragon of War recover."
"But first we must move him from here, one of our facilities."
"The equipment available in this human hospital is far too rudimentary for what we need to do."
"Alpha SolarisMed 13 is an exceptional medic space station, with a large professional staff"
"Most importantly, it has a state-of-the-art development laboratory, a Biomolecular engineering lab"
"We were already working on a way to help Cesar regain his original appearance before this situation arose"
"Unfortunately the project was a long way from yielding any results"
"However, by heavily modifying the project to make something that works for now it should be possible"
"We should be able to give a body to the Emperor to be able to use."
"However, I must warn you that this is only a part of it, as we will also need your help."
"The family"
"Well if it's our permission to move it, sure."
"Go ahead, you have our permission" My mother said for all of us.
"Excellent, in a few minutes, a medical care ship will come to transfer you to the space station."
"It is an advanced support ambulance, high-class medical angels."
"There won't be any problems."
"But I'm afraid that's not all."
"As I said before, getting him to the SolarisMed station is one part of the battle."
"But there's another that still needs to be solved."
"What do you mean Stella?"
"What do you mean you can't save him yet?"
"The new body will not be human either."
"His compatibility with the new body will depend a lot on his mental state"
"As it is right now he does not want to change his body"
"If this does not change, no matter what we do, it will be a failure."
"We need him to voluntarily want to change his body."
"We need to convince him to do it himself, and the best way to do that is to talk to his family."
"Talk to him? But he is unconscious"
"That's right, so we'll do something different."
"Instead you will go to his dream, to his subconscious and try to talk him out of it."
"Have you seen the movie Inception? It's very similar to that."
"You must go into his mind and talk him into accepting the change."
"Darling is not someone who can be called mentally stable even if he tries to hide it himself."
"What are you not telling us, Stella?" Tamamo said suspicious of what was going on.
"There will be no risk to your lives, in the worst-case scenario the system will disconnect you and you will wake up a little confused."
"Now, the problem is as Tamamo said, Cesar has been someone who has kept a lot of things to himself."
"Too much"
"In order not to bother the people close to him, he has hidden inside himself a lot of things that are undoubtedly very problematic."
"I'll be honest with you, we don't know what kind of things are in there."
"But if he is a True Dragon of War, I don't think what he keeps inside is pretty to look at."
"Maybe he will have mercy and show you something nice, like what he thinks of each of you."
"Or if there is bad luck he might pass on some of his worst memories without any filter, memories of his worst days, the despair and darkness that he refuses to show."
"You will see the worst things he never wanted to show you about himself."
"Oh God" Said my mother
She certainly knew that what would be there would not be good, we all knew that. We have all witnessed her manic attacks at one time or another.
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"I'll do it" Said Tamamo quite determined.
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"I will go too, I want to help in any way I can" Said Momo shortly after.
"I will definitely go to rescue him, no matter what it takes" The demoness offered as well.
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"You'll only make it worse!" said my mother, but not worried?
"If you go unsupervised you will no doubt just make the situation worse for everyone."
"I will participate too, I am his mother, after all, I raised him."
"If there's anyone here who knows him better than anyone else it's me."
"Besides, you said it was safe, didn't you?"
"You will not be physically harmed in any way."
"But the experiences they live through, those will stay."
"There's no way of knowing what they will be."
"They may go back to a childhood, they may end up on the day he lost Nanami."
"That will depend on him" Stella explained again, trying to make the risks clear.
"Well, it's something we have to try anyway" The mermaid also joined the trip.
Several people came out of one of the corridors, they were all doctors, also angels, they did nothing to hide their origin. They walked as if they were a group of soldiers, in perfect coordination they walked to the room where my brother was and took him on his stretcher to the outside of the hospital, where the ambulance entrance was, right next to the cars there was a beautiful spaceship, with thousands of details in white and gold, but also marked as an ambulance.
"Wait, we're really going to space!?" I asked, a little excited.
"Oh right, you haven't traveled in a spaceship yet."
"What are you talking about? You're human too mom!"
"You haven't traveled to space either!"
"Of course, I have, when I was kidnapped, the way back to Atlantis to the house was by spaceship" Adelis was a little cheerful with her answer, even with her makeup smeared with tears.
"Very well, please, I suggest you board the spacecraft."
"Oh and please don't worry about your luggage, we've already taken care of it."
"This is all crazy, I can't believe anything I'm seeing."
"Is all this really real?"
"Those are angels, spaceships, stop time!"
"Am I the only one who sees all this weird?" Leon was certainly surprised by all this.
"Well, after living with big brother for a while you get used to everything."
"Mr. Leon, although I know you'd probably like to join us."
"I'm afraid this is a medical operation that may take several days on the ground."
"Which is why I'm afraid it could affect your work."
"Right now several watchmakers are maintaining a time dome over this hospital."
"The people affected will be stopped in time in place during the effect, only the chosen ones will be able to move freely."
"But this is not stopping time itself for everyone, outside the sun continues its course, as soon as we leave everything will return to normal."
"People will only feel that they lost track of time for a couple of minutes but nothing more.
"So it might be difficult to explain their sudden disappearance to the other humans."
"Leon, you stay and go home."
"I'll call Xi'an to escort you home to be safe."
"We will make sure that your brother is well again" My mother spoke again in a determined manner, it was a relief to see him regain a little of his ways.
"Well, I think it's for the best too."
"This has all been a lot of flies to process."
"My head hurts a little now that I can be a little calmer."
Leon stayed in the hospital to watch the dome effect fade and return home. While all the others boarded the spacecraft, which in a short time rose to the stars. In even less time I began to travel far away from Earth, time was now passing quickly as I enjoyed gazing out the window at the wonders of space. Before I knew it, we were arriving at the special station that Stella had mentioned before. I was a little confused, this was supposed to be Heaven, but everything here looks like something out of a regular space sci-fi series, only with a lot of angels walking around.
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The medics took Cesar to a monitoring room, it seemed that he was doing quite well for now as the room was much cleaner and simpler than the one he was in on Earth. It looked more like a hotel room with just a couple of extras, very different from what I imagined an intensive care ward would be like.
Levia was next to Cesar, holding his hand, the fairy was looking out of the window that faced the outside of the hospital, or rather the window through which you could see inside the space station, where you could see a huge city in the shape of a tube, Momo was outside in the hallway talking on the phone with her parents since she was back in heaven, she was back to being naked again. At one point I went to the hallway to use the bathroom, but I got lost for a moment, but at the same time by chance, I managed to overhear a very difficult conversation.
Tamamo was arguing with Lisa, by her voice it seemed to be a very serious topic, which it probably was. I thought it would be about how Lisa's mental state would only be a problem for what we would have to do with Cesar and that Tamamo would tell her that it was better that the Succubus would just stay outside waiting. But instead, it turned out to be something different. It was Lisa who was asking the Goddess for help, she was sad and scared, the first time I heard her talking like a normal person. She said that she was afraid that Cesar would recover, I think both Tamamo and I jumped when we heard that, but right after she explained why.
It was her phobia, Lisa not only hated men, she was also afraid of them. It was something that she simply couldn't handle, it was something that she didn't know if the origin was her mind or her body, however, it didn't change the crucial fact, she didn't like to be around them for any reason. She revealed that being in the same room as the unconscious Caesar had been her biggest struggle to contain herself, with dizziness and the urge to vomit. She struggled to contain her disgust at being around such a broken man. But the most amazing thing of all was that Lisa was asking for help, she was asking Tamamo for help on what to do because in spite of her repulsion towards my brother's current body, she still loved him, she wanted to keep fighting to stay by his side, but at the same time she was afraid that Cesar would recover and go back to being a man forever, she was afraid that in the long run, she would end up hating him too. Tamamo just came closer to her and hugged her, Lisa started to cry for a long time while the fox girl accompanied her and calmed her telling her that it would be something that they would work on once everything calmed down, that if she really loved Cesar, she would make it through the long road.
I didn't want to interrupt their moment so I turned back. After a while more lost and finally finding the bathroom, I had to take a moment before returning, I didn't want the others to realize that I had overheard them arguing in the hallway. When I returned to the room I could see Stella enter with a couple of strange machines, it seemed to be something called a PASIV device, which will allow us to see Cesar's mind, I think I had seen it before in a movie. The other was a container, in it was a light blue liquid, the same color my brother's eyes used to be just a few days ago.
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"What's that over there?" asked Adelis curiously.
"This is the Emperor's new body."
"Wait what!?"
"That? That bottle?"
"Correct."
"Once again it's hard to explain, but this is what you would call a Slime."
"A slime?"
"Why a slime!?" asked Momo in confusion in conclusion.
"Strange as it may seem, there is a bit of background to this decision".
"There are quite a few reasons but I will try to explain myself in an orderly fashion".
"The project started as a way to repay Cesar for his enormous contributions to our efforts over the years"
"The original idea was to return a body similar to the original, as well as a replacement for Nanami and Luna as normal humans after their issues were resolved."
"The challenge of the project was to create a soulless body in order to integrate the residents without compatibility problems into their new homes."
"Unfortunately our project was only in its initial stages when this tragedy happened"
"After thinking about what to do it turned out that by modifying a lot of the original project we could get a functional product in much less time."
"This one here is the result, the slime."
"Although this one here is a bit more special than the others."
"It is made for the True Dragon of War after all."
"First of all it has no possible disadvantages that a being of this type could have."
"It doesn't evaporate in the heat, it doesn't freeze in the cold, it doesn't leave any kind of liquid or slime as a residue, will not dilute when in contact with water"
"But it also has a lot of advantages, it can regenerate lost body parts, it can change shape at will, it has a much softer,bouncy and jiggle body, it can be crushed and nothing will happen to it"
"We put special emphasis on her abilities as a slime and we believe that her ability to shape-shift will be essential for a normal life from now on."
"After all, it seems that the "white girl" is quite popular on Earth."
"We can't get rid of her image and put slime in her place, can we?"
"Stop the peddler talk."
"You said that the project was just starting, what are the problems?" replied Momo annoyed.
"....."
"Well....."
"Like every project we were busy to see the viability of it completing positively before anything else."
"To do that we focused on the easiest tests first."
"....."
"So the slime only comes in female."
"...."
"Since Cesar has been inhabiting the body of a woman recently, his soul, so to speak, remembers this form more easily"
"So doing it this way will increase compatibility and faster recovery."
"...."
"The second is that it takes a lot of practice to control the new body."
"The body of a slime is controlled very differently than a normal one, so a long period of training and practice is of course necessary."
"But we are well aware that time is crucial for you."
"So we have worked on a solution to make things easier."
"The slime does not need a core to function or to stay alive, however, we will use one as a "training wheel"."
"We will put a crystal inside his body with which Cesar will be able to change the shape of his body so that he doesn't have to be in ball form until he learns to maintain a human appearance."
"It will be something like playing an interuptor, and she will be back in her previous form before all this, the albino fox girl"
"Now then, I have to make several more clarifications."
"The first is that this slime is much more advanced than normal, but that also makes for some disadvantages."
"This slime is able to take not only the external appearance of what it is copying, but also its interior, in this case its organs."
"That is why it is so complex to learn to live with this body, we believe that the learning process would take at least 10 years."
"That is why we will use the nucleus, which in turn generates another problem."
"We don't have time to program the albino body as we would like to take advantage of the new advantages, it would also take years of development, so instead we uploaded the complete information of nanami's body and simply re-edited it so that it again suffers from albinism."
"But when I say it's a full information template, I mean literally."
"She will still be infertile, small, all those things."
"But also the slime will copy everything inside her down to the smallest detail."
"Which means that if she gets a mortal wound again, well, it won't be slime not coming out but real blood instead."
"Again it could be wounded like any other flesh creature, although I guess that's not something new to most of you"
"Still, for that reason we want him to have a secondary appearance, so that when he doesn't have to pretend to be the "white girl".
"But this body has to keep part of her slime status so that she continues to have the special properties of being a slime."
"This way, with the power the core will only have to switch between fox girl made of meat or slime girl made of ..... well... slime"
"Geez, that's a lot of stuff to process.""
"...."
"He's going back to having a different body after we got used to him coming back."
"But it's not like it's anything new anyway."
"Ah, in a way, even I can already imagine him back in the house lying on the floor as if nothing had changed in the first place" my mother said to herself.
"My dear Goshujin-sama will still be my dear Goshujin-sama, no matter what," said Tamamo, as she opened her goddess fan, on which was written the word love.
"Well, then Cesar and I will have one more new thing in common," said Momo smiling.
"....." Lisa said nothing but still nodded.
"Well, I have no reason to disagree" said Levia still holding the hand of the burned man.
"I wonder what will happen if I water the house plants with some of your slime" It seemed that even the little fairy was already looking into the future.
"We want to play with daddy again."
"Maybe he'll even find new ways for us all to have fun together" The androids also gave their approval.
"Don't worry Stella, we agree to continue."
"Cesar is my son and I will do whatever it takes to help him recover." Said my mother again with determination
"I understand your concern and I appreciate your courage, ma'am. I am sure that your decision is in Cesar's best interest."
"My brother...."
"My brother liked a figure of a slutty slime girl a lot"
"It was Melona, his favorite character from his favorite anime, Nonoa the battle android, even though he tried to hide that she is just the porn character in the series"
"I'm sure if she had to choose the body appearance she would have to live with forever she would like to go for the sluttiest option possible." I said without knowing exactly why.
"Okay, I'll write it down."
" In fact, that's a very good idea!"
"It will help us a lot in facilitating his recovery and acceptance."
"I'll talk immediately to the lab that's still working on the core."
"While we work on it, you will go into your subconscious to talk about it."
"We will make preparations immediately."
After bringing several more chairs, the girls prepared for the mission. I also offered to go and accompany them, my mother was strongly against it, but I had already made up my mind, I was going anyway, I had to do it. My brother had done a lot of things to make sure I was okay, he had even agreed to live like a little girl just to help me. Now it was my time to repay him for all the support he had given me all this time. After I plugged in that strange device it gave me a huge sleep, in no time I was asleep.