章 31: 7: Time Travelling

After talking to the future trio, Ryoichi went back to his residence and wrote letters to his people, informing them of his absence for some days due to some business in the Land of Snow.

And then regrouped with the group in the holding cells and finally released them.

"Finally! Ya know, you should have released us before leaving." The brown-haired said in a giddy tone.

"And risk it you guys leaving without me" Ryoichi retorted, making the brown-haired snort.

"What a pain~ but we wouldn't have left even if we wanted to…" the lazy teen spoke in a tired voice, causing Ryoichi to arch an eyebrow.

"Why?"

"Sigh~ because the device we used to travel back is on low-energy, we have been supplying all our Chakra to recharge it, that's why we are also on low Chakra even after arriving yesterday."

"Is that so?"

"Yes."

"Hmm? I have something that can help." Ryoichi spoke and disappeared with a flash.

The trio looked at each other as they waited for Ryoichi to teleport back which didn't take long as Ryoichi teleported back with a bunch of blue glowing stones.

"Chakra stones!" Aina delightedly shouted, recognising one of Ryoichi's useless creations.

"Yes."

"You already invented them."

"Hmm, by your tone it seems they are rather useful in future unlike now."

"Yeah, most of the technologies are run by these Chakra stones since anyone can create them with a Chakra carving device, not to mention their improved version the Nature stones were pivotal in the Intergalactic War," Aina explained with a nod.

"But aren't Chakra stones have very little Chakra in them?" Aina continued with a question, making Ryoichi look at her in confusion.

"I don't know how the future Chakra stones developed, but these stones each have enough to dwarf any Kage's reservoir," Ryoichi said, causing the trio's eyes to widen.

"Is that enough to fill your device's battery?" He asked.

"Yeah…" Aina answered as she brought a pocket watch eerily similar to a time-travelling professor from a certain alien series.

"Really?"

"Don't ask me you were the one who made it."

"How unoriginal, as expected of me." Aina became confused at Ryoichi's words but shrugged it off, thinking him commenting on copying old pocket watches.

"So how long would it take you to refill its battery?"

"Not long…" Aina muttered as she proceeded to place the Chakra stones on the device which started sucking Chakra like a hungry beast.

It didn't take the device even a minute to complete the first Chakra stone worth a Super-Kage before Aina placed the second one, causing the device to fervently suck… Chakra from it too. In less than 10 minutes the device absorbed 12 stones before it finally stopped.

Ryoichi now looked at the device in wonder as he thought how could such a small device carry almost three tails worth of Chakra.

'No, probably more since the three are also supplying Chakra from yesterday.'

"Are you sure this much is enough?" Ryoichi questioned.

"What do you mean?"

"I read the reports on your arrival, you dispersed almost a tail worth of Chakra." He Clarified.

"Ahh! That!!! its all right, only opening the Entry to the Timeline and exit take that much Chakra, travelling the Timestream doesn't take that much," Aina explained as she tinkered with the device.

"All set. Ready?" She asked, causing other future travellers to nod and tap on their Nano suit making it create a helmet and cover their heads.

As she readied to jump, Aina saw Ryoichi standing in his black robe and facepalmed.

"Ahh, I forgot you don't have a Nano suit."

"Yes… but is it necessary?"

"Yes, entering the Timestream without a Nano suit is dangerous, your body would either age out of existence or de-age out of existence, even Sage-rank Powerhouses like my father and Lord Boruto take caution," Aina spoke, specifically stressing the last part.

"Hmm? So how should we do this, I don't have a Nano suit, and I don't think you have an extra one either." Said Ryoichi, making Aina hesitate and look towards the lazy teen.

"What do you think Shiki?"

"Go ahead, we already told him enough to completely change the timeline so this much more won't matter." The lazy teen— Shiki spoke before he telepathically continued.

*And I'm sure you plan to use your MENGEKYU's ability on him.* he messaged causing Aina to nod.

Ryoichi noticed the same Chakra flow from Shiki and arched an eyebrow but before he could question it he saw Aina walking toward the iron cage with the last remaining Chakra stone in her hands.

Ryoichi saw the matrix in Aina's hand completely absorbing the Chakra from the stone before she placed her tattoed hand on the iron bar. The Nanobots on her ULTI-MATRIX started eating? the bars and started creating more Nanobots.

'This…' Ryoichi thought as he saw the new Nanobots condense into a small cube in Aina's hand.

"This should do, supply Chakra and it will do the rest," Aina said with a smug smile as she tossed the cube at Ryoichi who had a blank face. By now Aina had already realised what Ryoichi's blank face meant.

'Inexperience? Nah… probably not many things in this timeline that could really surprise him.' Aina thought as she remembered her father telling him how her great-grandfather was known for his control over emotions.

Aina's expression didn't go unnoticed by Ryoichi, but he ignored it as he cut off his emotions. He had stopped actively suppressing his emotions a few years back as he realised bottling up could lead them exploding at critical point. But that doesn't mean he can't suppress them he just doesn't need to since very few things can affect them at this point.

"Let's go." Ryoichi calmly said in his usual voice, no one realised his cut of emotion due to his supernatural charisma and facial expression, not even Aina.

"K~" Aina replied clicking the button on top of the device.

The device lit in a bright golden colour and endulf Ryoichi and the trio in a cacoon of the same colour.

Ryoichi's eyes got blinded by the bright light causing him to shut them close instinctively. When he opened them again, he found himself floating in a green water-like stream beside Aina and the other boys.

Ryoichi scanned his surroundings carefully as he stopped suppressing his emotions to let his curiosity and fascination take over.

The stream was wide and with no end to its length, Ryoichi even saw multiple turns and small tunnels leading to another stream. He concluded those turns and tunnels as parallel timelines created by the deviation in the main timeline. And other wide stream connected to those turns and tunnel as parallel Universe.

After examining them for some more time Ryoichi turned to Aina who was busy observing the time stream herself. He tried to say something but found he couldn't speak, or more like the concept of sound did not exist here.

Ryoichi shook his head at his foolishness and tapped on Aina's shoulder, causing her to turn towards him. Ryoichi used his hand to question her with sign language, but the device in her hand blipped which caused a blue portal to open and sucked them in.

~Unknown place, unknown year~

A blue portal opened inside a deep forest and dumped off four people with metallic armour. The portal immediately disappeared after dumping Ryoichi and the future travellers, but its opening and closing caused a huge energy spike which was noticed by a pale beauty with horns sitting in a huge mansion some twenty kilometres away.

The beauty put down the teacup she was holding and looked towards the direction of the forest. Her pale white eyes squinted as her round eyebrows frowned, suddenly the slit in her forehead wiggled and shot wide open, revealing a blood red eyes with spirals and tomoes.

"Jikan ihan?" She muttered and disappeared from the mansion, appearing before Ryoichi and the time travellers who were groggily standing up.

Her pale eyes scanned Aina and her companions before they met Ryoichi's golden ones as she confusingly questioned.

"How do you have Chakra, human?"