บท 8: Chapter 8 - Starting a walk into Uncharted Territory [Rewrite]
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[Congratulations! For bringing a significant change in the course of history, you gained 20,000 UP!]
[UP: 5,700-->25,700]
Looking at the new notification popping in front of him, Ryo felt like smirking and laughing out loud. He gained 5000 UPs previously for making Zero Two dependent on him, but this reward was just on a completely another level.
With this all the knowledge that he had of the anime 'plot' will become useless for the most part as there was no mention of what happens to Zero Two during the massive time skip they had.
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With that, Ryo internally asked, 'System, show me the price for the cheapest Eidetic Memory ability.'
[Ability 'Eidetic Memory' found. Current price: 8,000.]
'Hmm. So 500 UP increased from the last time I searched for it. So there will be no major increase in prices even if I have a lot of UP. But still, 500 UP is a lot when compared to the amount of UP I was getting.'
'Anyway, System, purchase the 'Eidetic Memory' ability.'
[UP: 25,700-->17,700]
[Congratulation! You gained a new ability[Eidetic Memory]. Please check your abilities to understand more about this ability.]
'Hmm. Show me all my abilities.'
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Abilities:
[Knowledge (C-Rank)] -- [Hand-to-Hand Fighting (D-Rank)] -- [Weapon Proficiency (E-Rank)]] -- [Emotion Management (D-Rank)] -- [Focus (D-Rank)] -- [Acting (S-Rank)] -- [Adaption (D-Rank)] -- [Strategist (B-Rank)] -- [Persuation (D-Rank)] -- [Innovator (E-Rank)] -- [Negociator (D-Rank)] -- [Keen Instincts (D-Rank)] -- [Survivalist (D-Rank)] -- [Regeneration (C-Rank)] -- [Natural Resistance (D-Rank)] -- [Pain Toleration (D-Rank)] -- [Instinct (D-Rank)] -- [Hive Mind (F-Rank)] -- [Eidetic Memory (C-Rank)]
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[Eidetic Memory(C-Rank): You will permanently remember all the things that you might have sensed previously to every single detail until the limit of your mind overload.]
[Note: This ability depends heavily on the bloodline. Normal human beings can gather 80 years' worth of memories before dying because of brain overload.]
[Bloodline Fake Klaxosaur detected, your brain capacity has been increased and you will be able to keep a memory for more than several hundred years.]
'Hmm. That is great. In my previous life, I was also said the same. Due to my ability, I was told that I would live around 70 years old, while other mutants live more than 200 years. I used to curse gods and stay in an irritated mood in the middle period of my life.'
'I am really starting to love this bloodline. It just has too many advantages. Sadly with how the evolution speed has been decreasing recently, I will have to find a way to improve my bloodline myself.'
'Thankfully, hundreds of years are more than enough to accommodate enough UPs to travel the world. Wait, looks like I will have to ask the System about it.'
'System, how many UPs will you take to answer my following question? Are you alive or not?'
[Host does not have enough authority and power to have answers to those questions.]
'... Thought so. Still no answers? Even with all my abilities and my highest status of [Mind] reaching F+, I guess I am still far from gaining answers from System. But it was to be expected. Right now I am still in the lowest rank. But one thing is sure.'
'Every world that I will be traveling actually has its own conscious, the so-called 'World Wills'. These world wills control the destines of the Main Characters of the 'Story' of their World. They make sure that everyone follows the path that has been already written by their body. But here comes a variable.'
'If any character, by mistake, moves out of their designated path, the so-called 'World Wills' exerts a special energy which is used to indirectly correct the path of the 'Story' of their destiny. This energy, I will name it 'Paradox Energy', as it is a paradox to Reality itself.'
'Paradox is more like a Mystery from the 'Type-Moon' world but in a larger and more understandable way. It can't be explained or understood, but once understood, this power will become weak.'
'An anomaly changing the fate will be considered a 'Paradox' in a way as technically I originated from the world itself, but was able to function outside of its own 'judicatory'. The Higher Dimensional beings never pointed out my System, and although they might have considered the possibility, they can't be sure.'
'This makes me sure that World Will won't be able to understand how I came to be. It is like a human being suddenly finding his own organs suddenly starting to change how they function. And this could even lead to the world dying unless it finds the cause and how it came to be.'
'But when this energy is used but still the desired outcome is not acquired, the 'Paradox Energy' that the world had exerted will be wasted as a residue. Now, here comes the work of System.'
'Since I am someone who is not bound by the 'Destiny' itself, the 'World Wills' cannot use the 'Paradox Energy' on me, but they can still use it to directly obligate me to not cause any more damage to the 'Destiny' of the Main Characters.'
'But since I have the backing of the so-called 'Him' and the System itself, the 'World Will' cannot kill me directly.'
'Then what will the World Will do? Yes, it will try to indirectly kill me by sending the Villains of the 'Story' itself. They will try to kill me if possible.'
'But since I will overcome the difficulty, the 'Paradox Energy' used over the course of action itself will be formed as a residue, which is absorbed by the so-called System itself.'
'The the System will use this nigh-omnipotent 'Wish Granting' energy to form the UP which I can use to form or 'Buy' the desired item which I require. This solves the mystery of how UP is formed. An easy assumption but quite accurate if thought about.'
'This is also the reason why I feared working against the two forms of 'System'. One can directly obligate me, while the other can protect me and help me grow. So of course my choice will be the latter one.'
'Now comes the Entity who are the Laws of Reality themselves. Since each of these entity are made up of Laws, they are bound by the Laws themselves.'
'They have the control over only the designated Law which they are formed from. But there can be Laws like Time and Space which are connected to each other, who can affect each other.'
'Anyway, since they are Higher Dimensional Being, they are not generally able to affect the lower Dimension, until or unless they descend to the lower dimension by sending their avatar which are weaker than their original body, but still nigh-omnipotent.'
'Thus they can affect me at any point in time if they wish, but because of the backing of the 'Him', I am safe and sound. They cannot affect me in any form.'
'But I still have to follow the set of rules formed by them like not creating Paradoxes themself using their laws like how the System had told me. This also makes use of the 'Paradox Energy', which is actually probably the highest form of energy.'
'This also solves how I will be able to unlock my sealed 'Core' and make me understand the concept of 'Astral Body' itself. But I have also theorized about it itself.'
'Since the body has some sort of 'Soul', there should also be a sort of 'Higher Soul'? Shouldn't there be? This 'Higher Soul' is what I think is called the 'Astral Body' itself.'
Amused by having almost figured out how the worlds, multiverses as well as how the 'System' itself works to some degree, Ryo felt like smirking. He had long figured out this much from all the hints, loopholes, and the given information.
As soon as the System answers the question he asked, he will be able to figure out a much much bigger mystery. There are three possibilities, but as soon as the System answers, he will be able to figure out many things.
"...", Shaking out his thoughts, he focused on the ongoing situation.
'The future me will have the real trouble. Hope he braces through it~', He wanted to laugh at his future self. 'He will be having an existential crisis heh. I know myself the best... If everything goes according to the plan...'
With how things have been recently, the main control system would have been alerted by Hiro's actions of breaking the window. And probably the camera, which the so-called 'Adult' thought was hidden in the room from his observation would have also captured the moment of the incident.
But with his actions, he completely removed the plot of 'Memory Removal' that Zero Two had to go through because of escaping. An advantage of his choice.
The only problem was that if he had chosen to take Hiro and then later on betrayed him, he would have been brainwashed, and thus he would adapt to the brainwashing, increasing his [Mind] attribute.
This in turn will negatively impact Zero Two. He has figured out some plans for her. He can't make her feel scared of him, and since they are at a crucial part of the story, the World Will can enhance her memory of this part and make her cautious of him.
There were just too many pros and cons for every situation, but he chose to take the most stable option with the least disadvantage.
He believed that if he was captured and brainwashed, he would probably never get his memory back, and the 'World Wills' act indirectly, trying to kill him. For Ryo, he knew that he was not protected, providing continuous entertainment to 'Him' and forcing Ryo to grow further.
He never believed in the so-called 'Luck' being in his favor. DIO had told him that since Ryo is his entertainment, if Ryo does not show wits to save himself in various dangerous situations, he will only be thought of as a fool and it will, in turn, become a Cliché, which will bore the 'DIO'.
That is if he even is watching.
Ryo was not completely sure if 'He' only saw him as entertainment. He was sure that 'He' wanted something out of him. But that was thoughts for another time, although he had anticipated almost tens of possibilities of what 'he' might want, but right now he have no power to even think about retaliating.
These thoughts could further result in the removal of the System and him becoming the easiest target of various Entities and being tortured for eternity by their actions. So he had not thought anything related to 'Him' for now.
Ryo knew that his so-called [Infinity] 'Core' was something really special with how the 'Chaos' acted and talked about it, hinting to him how he is an easy target for any predators out there in the Multiverse.
'There are just too many loopholes. Too many variables. It's too soon to trust anyone. Especially not 'Chaos' and 'Order'. I would rather believe in 'Him' than these two Concepts... They are just equally suspicious...'
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Just as Ryo had expected, as soon as he pushed Hiro off the tree, tens of soldiers and doctors instantly flooded into the room after hearing the sound of glass breaking, capturing him and Zero Two, while investigating the scene of the incident.
After understanding that it would take a lot of time to deeply investigate the scene, both Ryo and Zero Two transferred to another room with better security.
The room was just like how both Ryo and Zero Two used to live but renovated with better room paintings and toys to play with.
On the other hand, Zero Two was hugging Ryo and the book called 'The Love Birds' to her chest. Although she was confused by Ryo's actions, she still believed in him.
After all, she never had anyone else whom she could rely on, with the only exception of her 'mother' Stella who betrayed her expectations by leaving them.
Her eyes looked around, observing the guards taking them to another room by carrying them, while having their Electrocuting Baton ready for some unexpected circumstances, making her hug Ryo tighter, almost merging herself with him if she could have.
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-(-- 7 years later --)-
*Trinng* *Trinng*
*Click*
Wincing by the sudden sound, Ryo slowly opened his eyes slowly. His face was married with a frown as he stared at the dark brown ceiling of the room. 'Today marked my 12th year in this world...'
Feeling a weight on his right chest and hand, he looked to his right to find a girl clinging to him. Hugging him tightly.
On his right side, a beautiful reddish pink-haired girl with a bit of pale white skin, hurdled in his embrace, resting her head on his right chest. A frown was married on her face because of getting disturbed out of her sweet dream because of the sudden sound.
As if feeling annoyed by the sudden disturbance due to the sound of the alarm and breaking her dream bubble, she whined cutely and hugged Ryo tightly, trying to find the familiar scent and warmth. All the while, her legs pushed the blanket covering their body away and placed them over his legs.
Looking at the scene, Ryo didn't feel anything special even after all the time they had spent together. Instead of feeling good, he felt nauseous. He felt like he wanted to vomit. His head felt heavy, but he controlled himself.
It had been several years but the trauma from his past life had left a huge scar on his mind. It is not that easy for him to push aside his nightmarish experience. But he had started to get over it.
'She turned out to be of good use than I thought.'
After the incident 6 years ago, he had deflected the main plot by a huge part, making him stay low-key for a while while training his body secretly. He was confident that as long as he stayed low-key, the 'World Will' wouldn't be able to indirectly affect him.
With the incident, the security around them was tightened but slowly and steadily, as both he and Zero Two acted kinder and 'loyally' like brainwashed slaves, they were soon given more freedom as time passed by.
He had already trained ZeroTwo while changing the language they used to communicate between themselves, removing any possibility of their communication being interpreted in any way.
He had taught Zero Two and showed how and why to act like a dog while actually being able to resist the brainwashing that they had put them through.
Two years after the incident, they were provided better living conditions and were implanted with a C-Rank Identity Pass in their right hand, just above their wrist, the same pass that can be used to access areas that were restricted to them.
Sadly they were only able to move through a selective room inside a small 'apartment'-like area.
They were given something like a small house to live in with a bedroom with twin beds, a bathroom, a kitchen with a long table, and a main hall with two sofas, a table, and a Holographic set that could be used to entertain themselves.
The kitchen, a bathroom, and the main hall were on the ground floor while the bedroom and one of the bathrooms were on the next floor.
Just last year, the experiments they had honed through were reduced by a huge margin. But then they were soon provided with various liquid serums which they had to consume through their mouths.
These serums were explained to convert both his and Zero Two to look more human-like.
Although Ryo thought it was just corrupting his genes, he decided to consume it. He didn't know if the serums were really degrading his genes or just altering them by a small margin and not doing any damage otherwise.
Not consuming it will also in turn disrupt the plan. And he was sure that Fraxx wouldn't have approved serum intakes if the genes were degrading 'his' potential study material.
Thankfully, after talking to the system and getting an answer for 100 points, he found that although it would indeed affect his genes, it would also destroy the chances of his clone being made while not much having an effect on his genetics and his adaptation.
Furthermore, now they can control what feelings they want to share with each other and what not to; but if one is too focused on the other person and looking into his or her eyes, they are able to perceive whether that person was stating the truth or not.
A good advantage as well as a bad disadvantage, especially when Ryo had plans for Zero Two, and he had planned to take her with him. If something happens and Zero Two turns against him somehow, he won't know when she did as he won't be able to perceive it.
But that worry was for another time.
This went on for a few months till he started to notice major changes in his biology. His pure white skin got a skin color hue as his horns, which were previously long and growing uncontrollably started to slow down.
This went on for 4 more years as he was almost like a human but with horns.
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Looking at Zero Two for an instant, Ryo signed. He had told her repeatedly that the small bed would feel uncomfortable and congested if they both slept in the same bed, but he can only blame the book called 'The Love Birds' for this.
After reading and seeing the images of two birds sleeping together in the cages, Zero Two started to follow the actions in the book.
With a deep breath, Ryo slowly moved her hands and legs away from over his body and rested his body by the bed headboard, pressing the alarm by his bed as he yawned and straightened his back, trying to clear his mind. But Zero Two hugged his lower body back, resting her head on his thigh and taking deep sniffs.
With the improvement in their bodies, their natural senses had also been improved, resulting in them being able to see long distances clearly, detect smells accurately, hear small movements clearly, and have higher body stats.
This was not the end, he had sort of gained something like a danger sense, which he could consider as his sixth sense.
With the sixth sense, he could 'feel' where his opponent stands in the predatory chain. He could see through whether the opponent that he was fighting was a prey or predator, whether they would be able to harm him or even kill him, and stuff like that.
With this sense, he was able to assert the situation easily and eliminate enemies that posed the highest threat first.
The second advantage that he had with this ability is that he is able to sense any attack made to him if he has already sensed the person making the attack.
It is not like the spider sense, it's more like if he could only see whether the enemies that he had already sensed would be able to harm him or kill him or not. He can by a very small point sense close danger danger, but can't feel long-distance attacks.
But after all these abilities that he gained, his evolution had almost stopped.
He can feel that the only thing that his bloodline had been providing him with an advantage is the ability to digest food properly, heal super fast, maintain a perfect body filled with muscles, and heighten stats and senses.
The third advantage that his body had is that he was able to decode some sort of 'Mental Messages' that had started to appear in his mind.
As soon as the first telepathic message popped into his mind, he understood that this message was from the one and only Humanoid Klaxosaur Princess, 001.
The voices that used to urge him to do their bidding, which turned their body to become violent and uncontrollable, were now reduced in strength and now they were able to control their body and mind when those voices kept talking to them.
But other than the telepathic messages, he could no longer feel his body stats increase at this point, but even after being a 12-year-old child, his body looks like that of a 15 or 16-year-old teenager, quite a huge difference if one sees.
The same goes for Zero Two. Even after being a 12-year-old, her body looked like that of a 15 or 16-year-old girl.
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Coming out of his thoughts, Ryo shook the girl embracing his lower legs and had already fallen back into her sleep, he started to shake her shoulder, trying to wake her up as today was an important day for them.
That day they will be provided with more freedom as a gift for acting 'good'. Their Identity Pass rank was going to be improved and they will be able to freely move through most of the faculties as long as they don't break stuff.
Whining in annoyance, Zero Two replied, "Darling. Just 5 more minutes.", The word 'Darling' made Ryo twitch his eyebrows in annoyance.
Just a few years ago, Zero Two started to call him 'Darling', just because of the stupid book that she made him read every time when they were about to every day.
But probably because of the frequency of how much Zero Two continued to call him 'Darling', he had been feeling as if his trauma had been reduced by a huge margin, although not completely cured.
Furthermore, by this time, he had already 'accepted' the fact that he cared deeply about Zero Two. 'Did I really think that I cared for her? Heh. Isn't that also part of the plan... I should find a way to remove my memories as fast as possible...'
'The more I wait and delay it the more time I will be wasting...'
"..."
Knowing quite well that if he doesn't force her to wake up, she will continue to sleep, Ryo decided to stand up, removing Zero Two from his body, and started to stretch their body.
"Well, you can have your sweet dreams while I will go take a bath."
Knowing quite well that Zero Two would come to follow him, Ryo said it out loud. From the very start, they had been together. So wherever Ryo went or whatever he did, Zero Two would try to follow him or mimic him.
But as soon as he replied that, Zero Two opened her eyes a little in resentment and pulled Ryo's body by his stomach, making him fall on the bed and start to lay on his chest by force like a dead body to show her resentment.
But knowing that if he spoils her a bit for today, they will be late for the important day. Ryo had tried to do various ways to make her wake up fast, but she just didn't care much until or unless he forced her to.
Zero Two didn't care much about this stuff and it usually caused them to be late, but the same cannot be said for Ryo. He had made an image of a diligent child who acted as a 'good boy' to the APEs.
So he quickly rolled his body, capturing her hands, and pushed them on top, such that he was on top of her while she was just below. Then he quickly moved his mouth to her ears and whispered, "If you stand up quickly, I will let you enter the bathroom."
Although he had been trying to bath alone, Zero Two always tries to find a way into the bathroom and tries to have a bath with him. Usually, he would just let it be, but due to having a bloodline that is related to an 'extinct' species, his body gets 'excited' very easily even with just a small stimulus.
Because of his biology, his Billy is long and is accompanied by two large fat friends who are much bigger and fatter than natural limits, probably to increase the chances of reproducing more offspring as much as possible to save their 'endangered' humanoid Klaxosaur Bloodline.
And... This feeling was pumped up multiple times because of the curse.
Thus he had never allowed Zero Two to enter the bathroom alongside him as the first time he did just a short while ago, she started to ask stuff regarding his long stick while sitting in front of his little Billy making him almost [Stand Proud] in its full glory.
From then on, he had never allowed Zero Two to enter alongside him. He didn't want to walk out in tight suits with his stick standing out, making the female nurses and doctors stare at it, much to his embarrassment.
Although they were taught a lot of scientific stuff, they had been introduced to the biological stuff, and seeing it with their own eyes is completely different.
From then on, Ryo made a proposal. If Zero Two did anything good or followed his instructions, then and then alone he would allow her to accompany him to the bath once a week.
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As soon as Ryo whispered in Zero Two's ears, a small blush married her face as she felt the soft breath itch her ears and make her feel tingles accompanied by her heart beating faster.
Just like Ryo, Zero Two shares the same bloodline as him, so the same effect that Ryo experiences every time, she also feels the same.
As she had reached the age to do the deed 'Biologically' because of the Klaxosaur Bloodline, she had been feeling her Heartbeats fasten up whenever Ryo did the actions which made her feel a chill run down her spine.
From what she had seen in their pretty book, Zero Two understood that this feeling was the so-called 'Love' that the two love birds experienced. Making her try the same stuff that the two birds do when they do when they turn into human beings.
This included sleeping together, bathing together, and calling Ryo her 'Darling', much to his dismay.
But as soon as Ryo started to deny her series of new actions, she saw how although Ryo showed annoyance and resisted it, he at least didn't threaten her or do some stuff that made her sad. This made her gain confidence and she started to act as my 'Lovey Dovely' as possible to show her love to Ryo as much as possible.
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Finally, we are in the main plotline! Main Characters are entering! What changes will Ryo bring in the plot!? Continue to watch Drago-*Ahem* Code: Infinity Reboot.
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