Don’t get cocky because you cracked one pocket world!

I cracked what you failed at, hahahaha!

Damn you! Do you think you are some special dude? Wake up! This is the vast universe we are talking about here

You don’t know this yet, don’t you? I paused on purpose, for a long minute, before adding, I got a race, one special race that can control time just like myself

This…

So, if you want my help, you can. But you’ll have to pay at least double that. If you want just anyone with time ability, then it’s fine. Pay and I’ll send one to you after ending my business here

Who said I was the only one with time ability in my kingdom? I got an entire race of descendants who could control time.

Sending just one would finalise this deal. But for a reason, I wanted to start venturing outside the vast universe.

I got enough power and backing to control my apocalypse cluster. I knew it was a hard and long tedious journey, but it was feasible as well.

So why wouldn’t I start working on and aiming for a bigger stage?

How was the outside universe? That was a question I never got an answer to.

I got one chance before to get to the Bringold impact meeting. Yet I was too young and naive, inexperienced enough to appreciate such a chance.

So why wouldn’t I go out there and help this dude? In return for that, I might gain lots of treasures and forces as well.

But who said me going out there would be the same as sending one of my boys out?

Humph! Who said I need you? Send that dude over when you got the payment

Ok, but don’t regret it later on

Regret what? Kiddo, you are speaking with a sovereign of the Toranks race! I’m not that weak or powerless

I know, but I’m just saying

Screw you! I’ll prepare your fees and you got to be ready with that dude

As you wish

I acted in such a way to make him question his odds there. He once went inside and failed. So he knew better than anyone the magnitude of challenges waiting for him inside.

If he had full confidence about doing it, then he’d just settle with one of my boys. And it wouldn’t cost me anything much. I’d just have to send one dude over, and that was all.

But something told me he wasn’t that sure. And that made me push more doubt into himself.

Anyway, I have lots of time before I’d do anything like this. And during that time, I decided to rest and not care about anything else.

“How is she?” After three days of travelling and constant sleeping, I finally woke up and got a chance to go and check on my chick.

She wasn’t alone. The two others seemed to care too much about her, even moving two beds and stuffed the room with them.

There was no space for a foot inside right now. So I had to stop at the entrance and ask while the two were seemingly lost in their thoughts.

They didn’t look any better to me. And it seemed they’d take more than what I expected to get better.

“She is still asleep,” Angelica said, “how are you by the way?”

“I’m fine,” I looked over at my chick. She was sleeping like a real princess in fairy tales, waiting for her prince charming to come and save her.

Sigh! I killed everyone of my enemies in that place, and ruined the weapon. So why wouldn’t she wake up yet?

“Where are we going?” Lily suddenly moved as she added, “I want to get back to work.”

“Right now?!!” that was sudden, “you need to rest. Your man is doing just fine.”

“You didn’t go there to check on him yet. How do you know he is doing that good?” She stood in front of me at the door entrance, making me take a step back.

Her words told me she was fine. But her eyes told a different story.

“If you went there and weren’t ready, then…”

“Don’t worry, only by working can I forget about what I saw inside.”

“What did you see?” I moved my eyes between the two girls, “what exactly happened in there?”

“…”

And as I asked, all I got was pure silence.

Before I’d sign in such helpless way and decided to drop the matter, Angelica suddenly said:

“I saw Earth getting devastated, not just like the apocalypse we got. It’s… It was something different.”

“Me too,” Lily nodded in such a weak way, “I saw my people got slaughtered, you got killed, and everything I held dear to my heart got ruined.”

“By whom?”

“By invaders,” the two said at the same time, “weird looking races that were so damn mighty and violent. All is caused by us, everything started with getting into that damn pocket world! I hate this place! Hate it to the bones! I don’t know how I was so deeply enchanted with going there. Cosmetics? Screw that word! I will never put a single speck of makeup on my face ever again!”

“Me too!”

The two girls said and nodded to each other, and I could only sigh inwardly while watching them.

What could I do or say but to let them vent everything in their own way and words?

“Fine, get some rest before returning to work,” I said to Lily, trying to cut the path on her to return.

“No, let me get myself busy with work,” yet she was quite stubborn. “It won’t take much from you. Just drop me back and return to doing whatever you are doing right now.”

I glared up at her and she stared back at me. “On one condition though,” I paused, “promise to not overdo it.”

“I can’t,” yet she didn’t even lie and say she would, “I… I have to lose myself at work. It’s the only way I got.”