Red POV
... hell, my head hurts, actually my whole body hurts a lot, you know, it feels like when you exercise a lot and then at night you feel like you still do it.
Or rather, when you go to the pool or the sea, and after swimming for too long, at night do you feel as if you are floating? Well, that's how I feel right now, just replace the sensation with rocking and clever
...I feel hungry too, no, this is not the time for that, why? They will say, maybe it's because I have no idea where the hell I am, hm? I just noticed, but am I not too calm about this situation?
Although thinking about it, I have always been like this, even before falling off the bridge, I have never been easily upset, although I have had reasons to worry
Wait!, concentrate Red, again you deviate from the topic, looking around me the only thing I notice is that it is dark, oh there is also the humidity in the air, I also notice some bars of metal I think?, so I'm in a cell? Either way, looking again I see I'm not alone
On the other side of the cell is an old man with the typical white beard that implies that he is wise, you know the one that the old wise men from stories have, he also wears a white shirt with short sleeves and brown pants with the part where the broken or worn feet begin, I also see that the feet are chained
oh look at me strange
"Oh you woke up kid, I was starting to think you wouldn't wake up for a while" said the old man, what does he mean by that? Have I slept for too long?
"hmm, excuse the question, but where am I?"
"hmm? Well, I really don't know where we are" .... so he doesn't know where we are, that only means one thing, or he hasn't been here very long or he's just senile, although I can ask him directly
"If you don't mind me asking, you're saying it because you don't know exactly where we are, or you just don't know what we're doing here."
" I know I should have specified, in any case, it's the first thing, since I know what we're doing here, but not where we are"
"Oh then can you tell me what I'm doing here?" asked
"well to summarize, you are here to work as a guinea pig" oh I don't like where this is going, if that's how I think of course
"Since I mean by that, you are wondering, well of course, to experiment with you" the old man seemed to want to tell me more, but he stopped after hearing the sound of sliding metal
When I turn around I see two guards? approaching me, he said it because of their swords at the waist, they wore armor on their chest, forearms and ankles, just that, as soon as they approach me they take my arm, and they cover my mouth with a kind of strange mask, what about? why is it strange? because when I tried to complain, my voice was not heard,
The guards lift my arms on both sides and take me away, and I helplessly try to get them to let me go, but they are too strong
While the guards take me I see more cells, they were not empty, there were more people, some elderly, a few other adults, but what stood out the most were children, yes children, quite a few in fact
I couldn't see more as we walked away from the cells and instead they took me to a room, where there were men in lab coats, I have to assume that they are scientists
In the middle of the room there was a stretcher with tables around it, I don't like this at all, my mind screams at me to try to leave, but the damn guards put me on the stretcher, as soon as they tie me to the stretcher one of the scientists approaches me with a syringe that glowed a deep crimson color
As soon as he injects it I feel like my body is burning with pain, but I'm not able to scream because of the damn mask
That's the last thing I think before I faint
a while later |
third point of view
The old man was in the cell that Red had left with the guards and he kept wondering what would happen to the boy he was about to meet, in fact, he didn't know his name,
The old man's name is Alexander Oliver, and he is an old man who has been here in this cell for too long, the reason for his concern is what would happen to the boy after he was injected with the mutagen, the old man knew well the dangers of this crimson substance
What was it doing, you wonder? As you can imagine, it is a substance that can give various results to different people, from giving them supernatural abilities such as telekinesis, super strength, unique magic or some strange ability, these abilities always have consequences.
Some are more serious than others, but the truth is that they are never to the liking of the person affected, Alexander for example had several abilities, but as always with consequences, since if he used his powers too much he could become deformed until he died or even worse could reach become a mindless beast
Because these people did that to people, simple, to have slaves, for their personal taste , to sell them to some noble for their personal taste, to someone interested in cannon fodder or disposable but useful warriors
That's why he worried about Red, since he knew that something bad would most likely happen to him, why did he worry so much? Because Alexander had been a slave for more than 400 years, sometimes as a warrior, other times being tortured due to his absurd regeneration or other times being subjected to tests just for the taste of scientists
Alexander kept thinking of scenarios where the child they had recently brought would end up like one of those in that place, or something worse would happen to him.
He didn't care anymore, after all, too much time had passed, none of his acquaintances was left alive, so he didn't want someone else to go through the same thing, all the more reason if that someone was a child.
So when guards brought Red back, alexander wanted to check that the boy was alright, to alexander's relief, Red was fine, although he seemed to be sleeping, but that was more than enough for alexander
somewhere|
A man could be seen who seemed to be speaking to some kind of floating blue screen, he was tall, with loose long black hair, wearing a brown button down shirt with dark blue dress pants, over his shirt he wore a sweater coffee, the man seemed furious as he kept complaining to the screen
"Damn system, you are useless, how do you expect me the great Xiao Han to become the master of all realities and make all the women of all damn fiction his own if you don't give me useful things"
[the system is not responsible for the bad luck of the administrator, it also thinks that if the administrator is not able to take advantage of the items that the system gives in the gacha it is not his fault]
"And what the hell do you want me to do with a damn dumb armor I can't even wear it because of the weight, if I wore it I would lose all my dignity, give me a damn cultivation book with which I can reach a power capable of destroying mountains"
[the system has told the administrator that it is not up to him what he gets in the gacha, also the armor is a much better option since even if the administrator had such a book, he most likely could not use it due to impurities of his qi, and most likely would end up dying]
"But what a useless system! If you can't give me what I want, that only means that you're useless, the only useful things you've given me are the rinnegan, the sharingan and an extra roll on gacha, how do you want me to be able to with those powers take advantage of the members of the chat group, if they become too powerful they will no longer need my knowledge, then they will no longer listen to me and I will not be able to fulfill my goal of conquest"
[the system reminds you that being an administrator you already have the administrator privilege, with which you can receive several things in one roll, also the administrator has too much time to get power, after all no missions have been done yet and still has time]
"I precisely need power and fast, but I can't have it if you don't give it to me, also give me more points for the gacha, after all the big me is the "administrator" which you say has privileges"
Xiao Han didn't seem to be very satisfied with what the gacha was giving him, so he thought that by complaining to the system, he would give him what he wanted, after all he had administrator privileges.
As I continued with the discussion, in the chat group everything seemed to be going relatively normal since its members seemed to have their own discussions, although these were more normal.
[hero of the shield: I still believe that this group thing is an excuse from whoever created this system so that some idiot worked for him]
[misaka mikoto: because you're so bitter, isn't it exciting to travel to different universes and act as a special force protecting those universes, it's just amazing!]
[satou kazuma: come on, misaka san, don't bother naofumi san so much, after all if what the administrator said is true then he is a lonely person who doesn't trust people easily]
[sinon: yes, kazuma is right, after all a person who has been treated like this cannot easily trust people, much less something as suspicious as a system that allows you to talk to people from other universes at the same time as send strange missions]
[uchiha itachi: misaka san, you can't just be so forceful with someone like naofumi]
[shield hero: stop making fun of me you bastards, I'm not lonely!]
Meanwhile on Xiao Han's side|
"Listen you fucking system, I demand you give me what I want, you stupid system."
As anyone could tell, the conversation between Xiao han and the system had gone nowhere, and it seemed that Xiao han had not stopped insulting the system.
[the system tells the administrator that it does not value the help provided by the system since it has not stopped insulting the system, so it asks the administrator not to disrespect the system, after all the system has helped in everything you could to the administrator]
"damn system, you still give the admin a notice, instead use the roll in the gacha"
At the moment of saying that on the floating screen, a roulette with different colors appeared, the roulette began to spin and after a few seconds it stopped in a square that had an ability called purple haze
Xiao han didn't know about this skill so he checked his description and when doing so he was not very happy
[purple haze: it is a stand with a great destructive power, highly dangerous
The reason that makes it so dangerous is because in its knuckles are capsules that carry a powerful virus which devours living beings while decomposing them.
In addition to being a short-range stand, it has considerable strength
The only bad thing is that it is not able to distinguish between enemies and allies and the only thing that is capable of stopping it is a light source,
This stand is not recommended to be used unless required]
"! useless system!, you gave me a useless ability again!, seriously you are useless, fucking system "
[the system has detected that the host has not stopped insulting the system, so it will start uninstalling the system and searching for a new administrator]
Hearing this, Xiao Han turned pale, as it meant that he would lose his chance to be the master of all universes.
"h-hey system, you're kidding right? Can't you take my admin position and remove me from the group, aren't you supposed to be mine?"
[system warned administrator multiple times so uninstall can't be canceled anymore]
[70%]
"! system! I'm sorry, please don't leave me"
[…..the system doesn't recognize you as a member anymore so it won't ignore you anymore]
[85%]
"hey stop uninstalling"
[90%]
"stop her I said"
[95%]
"Don't you listen to the big me! Obey the damn useless system!"
[99%]
"Obey!"
[100%, complete uninstall]
"System?, h-hey s-system, respond"
...….
"ANSWER DAMN IT!"
in the chat group|
[the system announces that because the administrator did not stop insulting the system as a whole, because he abused his privileges as an administrator, he was expelled from the chat group, so he will find someone else to be the administrator]
[satou kazuma: did the administrator abuse his power?, wait, that means that the administrator has privileges, that's unfair!, besides, it means abusing his privileges]
[uchiha itachi: that could only be found out by knowing what privileges the administrator had, and what made him abuse his privileges,]
[shield hero: maybe the guy wanted to take advantage of his privileges to take over the world or something stupid like that]
[misaka mikoto: although i think uchiha san is right, i'm also curious who the system will choose as administrator]
[the system gives notice that because of what the previous administrator did, the next one will be chosen more carefully, also checking the personality of the candidates, but that will take time, so the system asks you to be patient]
back in the cells|
Red had woken up after being unconscious for more than 4 hours, Red felt scared since he didn't know what that crimson liquid was doing, although he also felt hungry, but that Red knew that it was not time to think about those things
But even so, he couldn't avoid those thoughts, while he wondered if his parents were looking for him or if they already knew that he had disappeared after all, he didn't know how much time had really passed.
Alexander, on the other hand, wondered what the mutagen did to Red since you could never know exactly what it would do to a person, since it depended on several things, to give examples: his family or his ancestors, his habits, both nutritional and behavioral, their race, and the list would not end
He had that doubt because if he knew Red's abilities he could help him, he had decided to train Red to control his powers, partly because he didn't want anything bad to happen to a child and on the other hand because he had no one to help him. pass on his techniques, he had lived too long, but he never had the opportunity to have an apprentice, so with Red he would be helping him while he passes on his knowledge to his new apprentice
Alexander also knew the method that was normally used to awaken abilities, which was to be subjected to stress.
It didn't matter what type of stress was used, but the most used were torture or a fight against a guard, and it was most likely that they used the second method, since the first had a high probability of death.
And Alexander was not mistaken, since a while later the same guards arrived and again took Red away, only this time they came to a place with a white stone floor, on the sides of the room there were a large number of weapons different, among them some weapons caught the attention of Red
They were swords, only these swords were more than twice the size of Red, but one weapon interested him more than the others, it was the weapon known as the zweihander, he didn't know why, but something inside him told him that he had to use weapons. large
One of the guards brought him closer to the weapons and told him to take one, Red didn't know why these guys wanted him to take a weapon
Seeing that Red ignored him, the guard got angry and said in an angry tone "take a weapon", Red hearing this quickly took a sword or so it seemed to Red since the weapon was big, taking into account the clear net size
The guard only snorted at this, he took out his sword from the sheath on his waist and took a battle position, Red seeing this could only be scared since he did not like what was about to happen
The guard quickly advanced towards Red swinging his sword down, Red tried to defend himself as best he could, so using his weapon he blocked the attack, but his arms started to hurt, he was sure he heard the sound of something breaking, but he had no choice. Time to think about it, since the guard quickly launched a horizontal slash towards Red, I tried to defend him, but it wasn't fast enough.
The guard managed to cut Red's right arm, when he felt the sudden pain he could only scream in pain, the guard stopped and just stayed, looking at Red, when he stopped screaming Red noticed that the pain had disappeared and looked at his wound , but then he saw something amazing: his arm was in place!
The guard just looked at the surprised Red and muttered "so regeneration huh, and quite fast from what I see" Red could only look in amazement until he had suddenly started to get hungry, Red just ignored this and continued in amazement because his arm was instead, he then turned to where his arm was supposed to have landed and then saw his same arm still severed, Red was surprised as that meant he hadn't hallucinated
The guard simply called his partner and they both took Red back to the cell.
Alexander, seeing Red, was glad that he did not have any injuries, but then he noticed that there was dried blood on his arm, when the guards left, he was just thinking about how to tell him that he wanted him to be his apprentice.
Then he had an idea, he waited for a guard to pass in front of the cell and when one appeared he spoke to him in a friendly tone, like a good-natured grandfather would sound "excuse me young man, would you be so kind as to give me some wooden swords? Or could you give me a stick?
The guard hesitated and asked him why he wanted something like that, then Alexander told him that he was old and wanted to at least pass on his knowledge to someone, and just now there was a young person, perfect for teaching
The guard thought about it for a moment and agreed to the request, after all it was only a wooden sword, then remembering what the boy had used
When Alexander had the wooden swords he told Red "boy from now on I will teach you!" Red could only look at Alexander in surprise, while he said to Red "my name is Alexander, what is yours child?" to this question he only answered "Red, my name is Red"
some time later|
red pov
You know when I met my teacher he gave me the impression that he was a bit strange and now that I have spent time with him, my impression has not changed much.
After all, it's really weird, or rather serious because of his age, he says he's over 400 years old and that he's taking advantage of me being with him to pass on his techniques, that's fine, it's understandable, but what's weird is It seems that he is thinking of hallucinating things from the past
But changing the subject when we started training I asked him what kind of techniques he wanted to teach me, to which he responded by telling me something
Apparently he was a swordsman when he was young and he was the best of his acquaintances, he was called the best swordsman, but that ended when he was old, apparently he didn't want to talk about it, but anyway after living so long he became a swordsman. expert in fighting practicing a lot of different fighting styles so he created a fighting style that could be complemented with any martial art, fighting style even with all kinds of weapons
Anyway, after that I asked him how he ended up here and he told me that due to stupidity he was turned into a slave, to which some time later he was turned into a mutant with the crimson liquid, to this answer I asked him what he was up to meant
Then he answered me "a mutant is one that has been exposed to mutagen, this is the crimson liquid, it has different effects depending on the person, these people turned you into a mutant"
When I heard that I was really surprised, after all that I wondered why they did it
To which he replied that originally they were an idea to replenish the ranks of the armies with more powerful warriors, but later it was for money
That raised another question for me, why they needed warriors, followed by this he told me that it was to fight the black dragon, apparently this world is similar to the fantasy worlds of isekai, only that instead of a demon king there is the black dragon, wow i was surprised
I don't know how long it's been, but Alexander told me that I'm a really fast learner, and that he's sorry that it didn't take me too long to learn.
I didn't understand what he meant, but then he told me that he had an ability to pass on his knowledge to me faster, it would only be a matter of practicing it and I could be the best warrior.
So he did and honestly after that I just felt pretty weird,
After a while the guards took me to the scientists,
They studied me since I had a fairly strong regeneration, with the only disadvantage that after healing I would get hungry,
When the scientists knew this, it occurred to them to see what happened if I didn't eat and kept regenerating myself, how did they do this? They torture me easily, cutting me, hitting me, among other things that I don't want to mention,
This is how I spent a good time until the hunger grew, I could only beg for food, but they did not listen, and they continued, at some point I stopped begging and just endured the hunger, but it was impossible
I thought they would stop, but they didn't they went on and on, All I could think about was hunger, hunger, hunger, hunger
"HUNGER!" shout,
It's the last thing I remember from that moment.