After arriving home, my grandfather tried to cheer me up, it was actually really weird to see that cold, distant grandfather acting so close to me. It just goes to show how much his cold act was a wall, to keep himself safe...
That wall must have crumbled the day the car exploded, and I was left in a coma.
-Grandpa, thank you for looking out for me, ever since my dad died... And even after that, I know you have just lost a lot of money in order to keep my skills a secret.
-Don't worry about that Jee Yon, that's nothing compared to having you back. But we still have to find ways to keep your identity a secret, something's changed while you were in a coma. And I think your skill may have had something to do with it, either that, or someone else with similar skills. For now, follow me... I can explain better in the meeting room.
We had just got home, I was kind of expecting some food, or some sort of celebration, not a meeting... I was in a coma for 2 years, who does a briefing after that?
But, coming from my grandfather, I'm sure there were some meaning behind his actions...
Now that I think about it, I dont think I've ever seen my grandfather do something on a whim, all he does is planned, one or two steps ahead of everyone else... Just how smart is he?
We arrived at a big room, with a huge glass table at the center, and a few monitors all around. Once my grandfather closed the door, he clapped his hands, and the table lighted up, as well as the monitors.
-I've used this room before to run simulations on the stock market, but since then, I've created a algorithm that can do that for me, so now, we mostly use it for meetings, the table is actually a touch screen computer, linked to the monitors that surround it, this way, we can analyse multiple sets of data at once. What I want to show is this.
He touched a small image on one of the monitors, and slide it across, trowing it at the table, once there, the image got bigger, filling the entire table. It was a satellite image of a few islands. They were a bit blurry, but we could see that all of those islands were connected by bridges. and all roads seemed to lead to the central island, where a huge building stood.
-What is this?
-We have no idea, those islands appeared about half a year ago, at least on the satellite images. But, when we actually went to verify the islands, this is what we found.
He double clicked the image, and a new one took its place, it was a video, a boat was arriving at the coordinates given by the gps, but there was nothing there. Not a single trace of the island. They kept going, untill, the boat disappeared from the video.
-This video was recorded by a nearby deep sea buoy. We did managed to find the boat a few days after this, adrift at the nearby sea... But no one was found alive, only a squeleton. And all the recording equipment, had stopped working... That is the only video we have of the island... That, and this image, that was taken from a analog camera, we revealed it's content...and found this...
Another double click on the table, and a new set of images. All of beautiful islands, filled with life, but the odd part, all the images were taken from the island, not the boat. Only the last one was taken on the boat, it showed a complete different scenery, fire everywhere, and a dark red hand covering part of the picture...
-The DNA extracted from the skeleton did not match that of anyone on the crew... In fact, it didn't match human DNA at all. It had 46 pairs of chromosomes. When we found that out, we started running tests on the boat itself. And even though the boat looks the same, he was composed of different materials than the original boat.
My grandfather approached a cabinet as he was explaining me about the pictures, he opened the cabinet, and took a single box from it, and, as he approached me and opened the box, a warning was launched by the system.
-Warning - Dimensional contaminant found - Purification required -
Ever since my second ego became the one in charge of the system, the messages would appear only to me, however, this one was not on his control. It was not my skill that let out that warning. It was something else...
-You've seen it too right? The warning? Every member of the team that studied the boat saw that message once they approached this rock.. And we only found it after dismantling the boat. It was inside a hidden panel, in this box. We managed to find 12 of those boxes, but only this one was open. And once you close the box...
He closed the box, and all warnings went away.
-When you sealed the transmigrator, the quest that appeared for you had a similar wording, "Purify"... that's one of the reasons I'm showing you this... and one of the reasons I think this may relate to your skill... But it's not the only reason...
My grandfather sat in a chair, and started typing on the table, once he was done, all the windows on the room were shut close, and a glass dome was lowered, surrounding the table, the glass dome turned into a blurry one.
-This is to make sure no one can see it. What I'm about to show you, is the main reason I thought this was somehow related to you...
The satellite image was brought back on the screen, but this time, it was no longer blurred. It was crystal clear, and so, the image began to close in to the central island, to the building that was there.
The closer it got, the better we could see the architectural structures of the building, it was unlike anything from any civilization known to man... But some parts, they were similar. Especially the statues. And as the image zoomed as much as it could, the face of the statue... was mine.
-This is the reason why I was the one to send the surveillance team, the reason why my company was in charge of the investigation, and the reason no one knows about the islands... You were there... Or at least, someone who looked exactly like you... Then, last week, all satellite images vanished, and the original boat appeared again, like no time had passed, and the people inside the boat, they were all okay, just a little confused, when we checked the surveillance system, all it appears is a open sea, and a blip, a one second blip, and they got back...
The image of that statue was still on my mind... It was me... Clearly it was me. Maybe a bit more overdressed, with a better hair, taller, with a heroic look on his face, and a glorious air around him, but other than those small differences, it was me...
-That's me? How can it be me?
-Well, a better looking, taller version of you... But sure. That's what I thought at first. But when the transmigrator appeared, look, I'll zoom in his left side.
The angle of the picture was bad, since it was a orbital picture, but, even so, we could see some markings on the left side of the statue, near the left eye. Something that reminded me of the marking the Transmigrator had when the merging was done.
-I think that statue is of someone who transmigrated into that place, into someone who was similar to you. Either on purpose, or as powered up version of the body take over process that made the subject look like the transmigrator.
-Then...what happened? Those islands, vanished?
-They were never there. The boat went through a time fissure, leading him to the same spot, but months apart, as for the other boat, something similar may have happened on his own dimension, but instead of a time fissure, it was a dimensional fissure... that brought the boat to our dimension. The only reason we could see the islands, was because the satellite was in a perfect spot to peek through the fissure.
Once again he started typing something, and a lot of spots were pinged in a world map, showing different images, on different places.
-Those are all similar, fissures in time, space, and dimension... All of then small, except for those 3, that appeared a few hour before you woke up.
The screen was changed to show 3 locations, one in the south hemisphere, one on the north hemisphere, and one on the middle of the open sea, on a small archipelago.
-The world government asked my company, to join hands with several other, to study the areas. That's the reason I wasn't there when you woke up. I had to take a helicopter to go to the hospital from the meeting we were having. But don't worry, Iris took my place in the meeting. I trust her just as much as I trust her father.
Iris was Richard's granddaughter, even though she was 3 years younger than me, she was already working for my grandfather, her skill was "Data Empress" and "Genius Strategist", those two skills allowed her to create a lot of money alongside my grandfather. He had the insight, and she had plans. Even though she herself, was a klutz, she was cute, but in a bratty way. I remember her looking like a mad scientist every time she had new data to analyze, but I really liked her, she was a good, honest kid, and never mistreated me because of my skill.
-She should be coming back in a few hours, with all the information from the government drones. From the information I got, those 3 places have become integrally different from anything else on the planet, as if it was a part of another world. I think your quest system, may have something to do with that.
That was way too much information, really, I've not even started to process the fact that I was a genocidal maniac, or the fact that the people from my dream worlds can visit mine, and let's not even bring up the fact, that I may be the reincarnation of this world's creator... And now, this world is facing danger, from something that has AGAIN, to do with me. And not only that, but somewhere, somehow, there's a taller, better looking, with better hair version of me...
Man... I just woke up from a coma, can I go back to sleep again?
My head was a mess... And the excess of information was taking its toll, but... I was not at all sleepy, I was tired, but not sleepy... Maybe the 2 years in a coma, made me have excess energy as a side effect of my skill...
My grandfather realized that however, and with a few more buttons pressed, the dome was lifted, the windows were cleared, and the desk and all the monitors were shut down.
-But all that can wait, now that you are back, how about we go eat something nice? We can talk about this again after Iris arrive. I've also stockpiled in all the video games that were launched while you were in a coma, and bought all the novels, mangas, comics, and everything else you used to like, so you can catch up in no time.
I had actually forgot about all of that... video games, comics, in the time I've spent dreaming, I was focused on waking up, so I didn't even thought about those things... But now that I was back, and with lots of energy to boot, I could probably run through all of those in a few days. That would be nice, for a change... But... the smell of the food coming from the dinner room, was the most enticing thing so far.
-Okay grandpa, let's eat. Thank you.
-No problem... And... I'm sorry...for how I was before... I... I was afraid to lose you too... But that only made me lose the time we could have spent together... Sorry Jee Yon...
That was the first time I ever saw him cry like that, my always so serious grandfather, who looked young enough to be my brother... Looking at him crying, made me cry as well, and there we stayed. I hugged him, he hugged me back, and we cried...
-Hmmm...am I interrupting something?
A sweet voice, charming, and innocent, pierced through the sobbing sound we were making, and as I turned to look, there stood a young woman, as beautiful as a painting, with long brown hair, green eyes, she was a bit on the short size, but that only made her more stunning. However, she... there was something about her, that felt, familiar... I was about to talk, but, I didn't, otherwise, the Casanova skill would take place, and even if I didn't stop because of that, the moment I turned around to see who was talking, her beauty had already left me speechless. And, the moment she saw me, she came running towards me, and hugged me, alongside with my grandfather.