Storm I: DanMachi - Chapter 12

After we ate our meals, we entered back to our room and talked first because Kane seems to want to say something to me, and I feel it’s not something bad.

“So. Spill the beans.” I said.

“Woah, woah! I’m not hiding any secrets from you… Well, maybe a thing or two, but it doesn’t matter. Also, I am gonna give you permission to go to other worlds on your own using this pendant.” He said and showed me a pendant with rainbow colored gem.

“What’s the catch?” I asked because he can’t be that generous to me, he never really gave anything for free.

“You can only enter 3 worlds back and forth or between those worlds. I’m going to tell you in advance, when you’re in another world, the time here stops. But!”

I cut him off and spoke, “But it also means that I’ll owe you favors, right? Three to be exact.”

“Yep! Perceptive as ever. Anyway, aside from 3 favors, I want you to entertain me because I will be monitoring you through this pendant.”

I sighed at what he said. Entertain? I don’t even know how to do that, nor am I even a clown. He can monitor me using this pendant, and an item that should be sealed in a box when inside a bedroom or in bathroom. I’ll make one of those as I’m pretty sure he only use basic enchantment on it.

“Fine. Which world are the ones available?” I asked.

“The ones you want to choose.”

I raised an eyebrow at that and then started thinking about which worlds should I choose that will benefit me more?

“You can also choose which timeline you want, even the alternate timeline. Basically, you can enter on different timelines, but you can’t meet yourself or it will cause a paradox, so I suggest you should enter when the past you left the world. Also, I’m gonna tell you that secret I mentioned earlier if you ever chose ‘that’ which I won’t tell you which.”

I only nodded at him.

I can learn more about the First Magic if I enter at the ancient times where Magic lies, not Magecraft, and learn more about Magic and deepen my understanding of it, I might be able to get closer to the Root, but that also means risking my life.

So, Nasuverse is on my list.

Next world, I need a world where there is a way to protect oneself while also obtaining a power or two. And that kinda sounds like RWBY if you ask me. Weapons, check. Aura that could protect you and prevent you from getting scars unless your Aura is broken or depleted, check. Semblance that is very compatible to the sould of the said person, check.

Now, I wonder what kind of semblance will I have? It doesn’t matter right now, and RWBY is on the list.

I kinda want to learn more breathing style, so Demon Slayer is on the list. Other than that reason, I want to teach Bell a breathing style, and then seal his memories that slowly weakens whenever he’s in danger or in a pinch. The amount of memories unlocked will be based on how fire his situation is.

“Okay, I’ve decided.”

“Okay, which world are they?”

“Nasuverse, Demon Slayer, and RWBY.”

“Wow, you chose RWBY, huh?”

“Well, you’re a disgrace to gods who didn’t even tried to get God Eater world, which I would have chosen but it wasn’t available.”

“…”

“Don’t look at me like that. Meeting adjourned.” I said and left the room.

“Wait a minute!”

My steps halted.

“You know, I think you and Shiki would be a great couple.”

Fortunately, I have a knife hidden in my blue jacket and pulled it out from its sheath.

“Yep, you two will be great husband and wife!” He added with a stupid smile.

I waved my knife at him and sent a sword slash that shined slightly as if what I used was a sword and swing so fast that you can only see the light getting reflected from the blade.

He didn’t move because he knew I only sliced the fly that was kinda annoying me because I can hear it flying. And then, I left without any word.

• 3rd Person POV •

Back in the room, Kane only sighed at the kid who was smarter than how he looks and shows to all people, he almost thought he’s still doesn’t know about a thing or two but it always ends up in Silver showing his intellect.

“That kid… Hm… Should I make a clan of which Silver is the sole surviving member after being massacred by an unknown person. But that person from Kokutou family. Hehehehehe, matchmaking master is here.”

Kane laughed sinisterly…

“Oi! I’m not that creepy, am I?”

You sure are. Also, you seem like a pedophile.

“What?!”

Just shut up and don’t break the 4th wall!

Meanwhile…

Silver looked around the village once again and decided to let his feet go wherever it would take him.

Taking a turn, he saw some adolescents bullying a weak and small boy that seems to be 10 years old. He walked near them, presence erased, and his steps being as silent as he could which were being covered by strong sounds of flesh hitting flesh.

“…Sleep.” he whispered when he finally arrived in their vicinity.

All kids in there fell asleep as he already have mastered the basic sleeping spell. Of course, he broke some few bones of them that will never be healed. They can only use it on small task such as writing, walking and the like, but if they go running or tried to carry heavy objects, they will feel pain.

With some Mind Magic, that what they used to call it, he erased their memories of bullying a kid nor will they remember being knocked out if they even remember that. Then, add some traumatic memories that will make them see it on their sleep, making them traumatized and not sleep.

Silver is a person who will punish a person according to what they do, however, if he found out that there’s more that they did, he will not hesitate giving them a live concert ticket to hell. As they live, they will feel hell upon them.

These bunch of 12 to 14 years old kids, rȧpėd a 10-year old girl who was later found dead. Now, everytime they sleep, they will be the ones that are rȧpėd.

Then, he healed the sleeping boy and true to read his memories so he could just drop him off to his home. He touch his head and read his mind. After a few seconds later, he was stunned, but his face was still the stoic face carved into a wall.

This ‘boy’ was a ‘she’ not ‘he’ as he saw her memories when she was hiding her ‘growing’ ȧssets and was acting like a boy because her father wants a boy but she is a ‘girl’ and her mother was forced to do the deed day and night. But…

‘He tried to ɨmprėġnȧtė her in order to get a son, but was not deserving to have one, thus his futile attempts never became fruitful which resorted into him sleeping with other women instead. That also caused her mother to get depressed which further made her father to sleep with other women more because of stress, making her ugly. I can see that the mother loved her husband, but a child witnessing these at an early age, will make them rebellious than normal. But…’

He picked her up in a piggyback because giving a princess carry or bridal carry would be inappropriate and might cause misunderstanding since she was wearing a boy’s clothes and acting like a boy in order to help her mother.

‘But this ball of sunshine managed to convinced her mother to go to another village and leave that man. Good choice. Then, they found this village and managed to get a house given by a wicked mayor. Then, there is a rule here that all married women can only work on their houses while young women can do nothing but get married. So, she dressed herself like a boy in order to be able to work. What a sad story.’

After reaching the house, Silver knocked on the door. The door slowly opened and a woman who seems to be slightly stressed can be seen, despite that, she still have some beauty under those stress. Some people just don’t look properly.

“Excuse me, ma’am. Is ‘he’ perhaps your ‘son’?” He asked while also dropping hints using his tone.

The woman let him enter and took her ‘son’ to ‘his’ bedroom.

Meanwhile, Silver was looking around and looking at the house. It seems like this house was that of a rich person’s house and a person like her wouldn’t be able to pay it even in a decade.

‘The mayor saw her beauty, huh? Then gave her a house she could never afford to pay and will pressure her into paying. When she’s desperate enough, he knew she would do anything and would agree into marrying him. What a bastard.’

He left quitely but left a letter and lots of gold nuggets that he normally uses for crafting items because they have many uses and is one of the metals with high conductivity. Also, it’s not a big deal for him to give these gold nuggets to them because, compared to his gold ingots that he have, those nuggets would not even the value.

After leaving, he immediately escaped from the vicinity as if he committed a crime, but the reason why he did it is because they look like the people he knew in the past which would not help him in the present, which is right now.

Time flew very fast, it is already nighttime. Silver and Kane are meals together.

“Hey, Silver.” Kane called out.

“…”

But he didn’t seem to hear even though he continues to eat which is kinda unbelievable for someone who was deep in thinking.

“Oi, Silver!” Kane flicked his head to bring him to reality.

“!!?” Silver was about to retaliate but stopped along with thinking deeply.

“What?” He asked as if nothing happened.

“I want to tell you something, but that’s for later. Right now, you seem to be thinking about something.”

“Well, I saw someone familiar. She looked like my friend in my past life. And both of their financial status are the same—poor broken family—and will probably end in a tragic end. I’ve never had the chance to help her due to prioritizing school, but I decided to help now since I already have too much and sharing excess things is not a problem.”

“…” Kane only let out a small smile.

• On their room •

“And so I’ve decided, that you can either chose to enter a certain world that will have the same time ratio as the other 3 worlds and you can also stop the time from other worlds aside from the world you are in. Remember, once you are in your main world, DanMachi, you can chose which timeline to go in other worlds but you can only come back at the same time you left your main world.”

“Meaning, I can’t time travel in my own world but I can in other world?”

“Yes. Because everytime you enter another world, you are protected with high level protection from entities like Alaya and the like. And since this device right here considered this world as ‘home world’, you can’t time travel here as the protection bestowed on you also allows you to time travel as well, and it disappears when you’re back ‘home’.”

“I understand.”

The next day, Silver did his usual routine of running for over 20 kilometers, did a hundred-thousand of push-ups on each arm, did a hundred-thousand squats with each leg, and did parkour, agility, and dexterity running on the forest nearby. He did all this in just 3 hours.

After doing exercises, they ate 7 in the morning, which is early, they set out a few minutes after eating so they can prepare their things and depart from this village.

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[Vault of Information]

Silver, in his past life, loves to play Summon Night Series games and was very interested in Summon Arts and might try if he can use it.