Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 29 What you see is what you usually ge

Lord Gallius’ mood has turned for the worst when he saw that Alina and Alex huddled at the corner of the room, with them talking at each other discreetly.

To make matters more irritating for him, Lord Gallius noticed Alina using her Esper Ability to prevent sounds from coming.

As such, he can only watch the two talk with each other.

"..." After a few seconds of watching, Lord Gallius saw Alina becoming extremely angry, followed by her slap at Alex.

"D**n! I do not know what happened, but just keep at it, Alex!" Lord Gallius thought to himself as he watched at the conversation intently.

He resolutely ignored the afro guy, who was still busy wiping the capsule with a cloth.

To his dismay, Lord Gallius found Alina looking like she has calmed down, followed by her and Alex talking again for a few more minutes.

"That was refreshing." Lord Gallius heard Alex saying these words as Alina dispelled her sound nullification field.

Both of them approached the afro guy once more, with Alina’s formerly despondent look replaced with a determined expression.

"Oh..." It seems like the afro guy has noticed the change in Alina, as he paused what he was doing in the capsule.

The afro guy peered at Alina’s determined eyes, before he looked at Alex who was just standing beside Alina.

"When you came in here, you look like a soulless sailor, whose goal is to just go where the ship goes. But right now, you look like the ship captain. You look like you have a destination in your mind right now... I like that." The afro guy said as he stepped away from the capsule.

"So, I presume that you have a different request now?" The afro guy muttered as he kept the cloth in his shirt pocket.

"Yes, I have a different request." Alina replied.

When Lord Gallius heard this, he could not help but feel a sinking sensation in his stomach, as if he could feel that something unpleasant was about to happen.

"....." Lord Gallius pushed this sensation down as he refused to believe that something bad will happen right here at the WEO Headquarters.

"I want the other 50% of the World Diagram to be brought here..." Alina said, much to Lord Gallius’ surprise. "That is my request, and I think all my contribution points is enough for that."

"...You want to see the whole World Diagram in its entirety..." The afro guy muttered these words like a spell. "Is that... really your request?"

"It is, and I won’t change it anymore." Alina replied with a defiant look on her face.

"Sigh..." The afro guy shook his head as he sagged his shoulders.

"You know that the reason the two parts of the World Diagram were separated was because it ensures that the World Diagram will be much safer from attacks... What you are wishing right now puts the whole World Diagram in jeopardy..."

"Well, I only need to see them at the same room for a short amount of time..." Alina replied quickly again. "There is no problem if that is the request, right?

"Hmmm... I know that you are plotting something in here." The afro guy muttered to himself as he gave Alina and extremely serious look.

"Well, with all your security here, do you still have to fear for the World Diagram?" Alina drawled as she stepped towards the afro guy.

"Hmph! Victoria! Should I allow Alina’s request?" The afro guy suddenly shouted out.

In response, the capsule began to glow blue as it began to talk.

"Chances of Alina doing something nefarious against the World Diagram: 0%. Victoria confirms that Miss Alina has no intent to destroy the World Diagram."

"Huh?" The afro guy widened his eyes in surprise as he heard what the capsule said.

"How about him?" The afro guy pointed his fingers towards the direction of Alex, who just raised his eyebrows in curiosity.

"Chances of Alex doing something nefarious against the World Diagram: 0%. Victoria confirms that Mister Alex has no intent to destroy the World Diagram."

"What?" Now, the afro guy is really surprised.

"Hehehe..." Alex shook his head as he saw that flabbergasted expression on the afro guy’s face. "There is no way that your machine can detect danger from us. After all, I have Asteria with me!"

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What Alex told to Alina earlier was just simple.

Instead of requesting to see her sister, Alina should just request for the two parts of the World Diagram to be brought together.

Alina obviously objected at this, as she said that there is no way that the afro guy will allow this to happen.

And even if he allowed it, the afro guy will will surely use the World Diagram to foresee if Alina and Alex had hostile intentions against the World Diagram.

In response to that, Alex’s reply was that he had a countermeasure for that.

This countermeasure was Asteria, the stuck-up Fairy Queen.

"Hmph, so that is what you are planning to do huh." Asteria muttered as she heard the conversation between Alex and Alina. "Tsk, now that we are here, I have no choice but to do what you are implying to do..."

Asteria flew up in the air as she scattered some of her precious Fairy Dust on both Alina and Alex.

This time, instead of creating an illusion of their faces, Asteria’s Fairy Dust created the illusion of safety.

Alina had some faint intentions to destroy the World Diagram, while Alex arrived in this place to fully destroy the World Diagram.

If afro guy asks the World Diagram to scan both Alina and Alex, it will surely detect their killing intent towards it.

Asteria’s Fairy Dust however, used its illusion ability to cover up the hostile intentions of both Alex and Alina.

This was the reason why the World Diagram had deemed that both Alina and Alex had no evil intentions against it.

While Alex was relieved after what happened, Alina retained her poker face as she stared at the afro guy intently.

"...." The afro guy was silent, while Alex looked so smug.

Alina repressed the urge to sigh as she decisively ignored Asteria whispering to her.

"Alina, you can see me just like Alex... Why don’t you just tell Alex that you can see me too? That way, Alex will not be this tense in front of you."

"......."

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Aside from her Weak Space Manipulation, Alina had another ability.

That ability was to see through all kinds of falsehoods, and only see the truth.

This allowed her to know when someone is lying, and it also allowed her to see through illusions.

She does not know how she got this Truth Ability, but Alina knew that she can just do it.

There are some people that she cannot use this ability on, and it included Lord Ergo.

Unfortunately for Alina, she was not sure how Lord Ergo became immune to her ability.

But aside from Lord Ergo and other rare people, she can use her truth ability on almost everyone, and that saved her from a lot of unnecessary effort.

And Alex was included in this ’everyone’.

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------Around 9 days ago.------

When Alina saw Alex inside Clint’s house, she was able to see through Alex’s facial disguise with the Fairy Dust.

Alina felt like she can see Alex’s real face using her Truth Ability, while she can see the fake face of Alex with her naked eyes.

At that time, Alina was about to attack Alex, as she recognized that the Alex in her uncle’s house was the Class S Intruder that she was chasing.

Alina was sure that Alex used his Intruder Abilities to change his face, allowing him to approach her Uncle.

But she restrained her impulse to attack as she noticed three weird things about Alex at that time.

First is the fact that her Uncle allowed Alex to stay with her.

Even if her Uncle has no way to see through illusions like she can do, her Uncle is still one of the best Espers there is, and there is no way that he will allow someone like Alex in his house unless he deemed it safe.

Second was the fact that even if the World Diagram has considered Alex to be an Intruder, the disguised Alex did not act like he was one.

He seemed... too human for Alina.

An Intruder, even an Intruder that is good at infiltration will not act as human as the Alex in front of Alina.

If these two weird things were the only things that Alina saw, they will be not enough to stop Alina.

It was the third weird thing however, that effectively stopped Alina.

"...." Alina could see a small, human-like creature sitting on Alex’s left shoulder.

This creature looked like e female human.

A beautiful, blonde, and sexy woman.

She was only the size of a small bird, but her overall appearance managed to light up the whole room.

"Cute..." That was the only thing that Alina thought to herself as she saw this small blonde perched at Alex’s shoulders.

Alina was not sure why, but she felt the sudden urge to approach and pet the small blonde.

However, she restrained herself from doing so, as she realized that this small blonde is not seen by her Uncle and his family.

"So this small blonde must have been only be visible to this guy..." Alina then acted like she did not see the small blonde, so that she will not rouse Alex’s attention.

Alina then narrowed her eyes as she remembered something about that small blonde.

That was the fact that this small blonde was not with Alex when Alina tried to kill him at their first meeting.

"That means that this small blonde just appeared after this guy escaped from me earlier..." Alina thought to herself as she gazed at the small blonde with interest.

The small blonde suddenly trembled, as if she felt Alina’s gaze on her.

Alina tried to hastily avert her gaze away, but the small blonde caught Alina staring at her.

"..." The small blonde gave Alina a dazzling smile, which just served to intrigue Alina more.

"Ugh, I want to take her home as my pet..." Alina thought to herself as she tried sneaking glances at the cute blonde.

Because of that small blonde, Alina lost her chance and drive to kill Alex at that place.

----Minutes later.----

"...." Alina left her Uncle’s place with a brooding expression as she tried to understand the enigma that was Alex.

And naturally that includes the mystery of that small blonde.

"That Alex guy... he is not just an Intruder..." Alina thought to herself as she reached her current dwelling place.

"I need to investigate him more... especially that small blonde." Suppressing her urge to sigh, Alina changed her clothes as she went into a deep sleep.

Her sleep however was thwarted when she felt someone entering her room.

It was around 3 in the morning when Alina detected someone intruding her room. Her body tightened in tension as she looked at the intruder warily.

"Hey, it seems like you really can see this Fairy Queen. Hmph, you should have been happy that you saw my visage!"

The person who entered Alina’s room was actually Asteria.

Alina reveled on Asteria’s extremely adorable and beautiful appearance as she tried to sense if Asteria was here with hostile intentions.

As far as Alina could sense it, Asteria was not here to fight.

"Hmph, I applaud you for not trying to kill Alex earlier." Asteria said as she gave Alina a haughty look. "However, with that ability of yours, Alex’s chance to stay discreet is in danger of blowing up. Because of that, I have no choice but to talk to you right now."

"Woosh~"

Alina suddenly stood up from her bed, revealing her nightgown which hugged her lithe and shapely body perfectly.

Alina ignored Asteria’s somewhat intense gaze on her body as she asked her,

"So, small blonde, you want to talk with me about keeping Alex’s secret safe?"

"Yes. That is my intention here." Asteria said, with her eyes looking enviously as Alina’s silky black hair and slender legs. "Will you accept this Fairy Queen’s regal invitation to talk?’’

"I agree." Alina nodded her head quickly, like she was a chick pecking on some grains.

But before Asteria could start talking, Alina suddenly stretched her right hand towards Asteria’s direction as she asked Asteria,

"But can I pet you first?"

"...."