Read XConnection (Eng.V.) :: Revelations

-Previously on XConnection-

The girl knows how to play, but was she really in control?

-Now-

The sun's rays penetrate the small room through the cracks in the curtain. In bed, Kalius woke up, half-naked, confused. He looked to the side and pulled out a note left under the pillow.

"If you are reading this, know that I killed you after the kiss. The proof that you returned is one more reason for me to stay away from you and find out more about this world. I'm sorry, I'm not Ellie ... I am Shimishiro, I came to this world through a portal. I am not in an Isekai, I did not die".

"What is an Isekai? Wait ... Did she kiss me?" He questioned himself, confused, looking at the note and his half-naked body.

Kalius went down the stairs, looking for the rest of his clothes. Arriving at the bar, the members were tidying up the place.

"Good morning, Morphius Sacred," he greeted, leaning against the wall.

"Good morning, Leader!" They replied in harmony.

"Where's Mark?"

"He wasn't here when we woke up," said Loomis, washing the glasses and cups.

"And Shimishiro? She is fine? She said she didn't need to be cured," asked Heath, handing him a glass of water.

"She left in the morning, said she needed to investigate something..."

Like a bang, a girl with long pink hair and red glasses, opened the front door of the bar, fatigued.

"What the fuck is this Old Kingdom?" she questioned him nervous, throwing various objects from a cloth bag on the table.

"Shimishiro, why do you always show up when I'm talking about you?" asked Kalius, removing the wig from her head.

"Because I see the future," she replied, taking the wig and putting it back on.

"Cool," he said, clearly, discredited. "What are all these things?"

"See... A 1965 radio tape, a 1990 Nintendo cartridge, a 2005 PS2 Memory Card, an 2010 Iphone, a 2019 Avengers Endgame movie poster, a Covid-19 vaccine syringe of 2021" she stared at them. "Does it mean anything to you?"

"We don't know anything" they answered together, like all the other definitions before... Confused.

"Those numbers you spoke of" Kalius stood up, thoughtful and surprised. "Are they years?"

"Exactly."

"But we are in the year 500."

"Exactly 500? What day and week?" Shizuna approached, scared.

"Day 90 ... Week 18."

"That leaves us with 2 weeks of 501. I have 10 days to deal with all this shit" she put the objects in the bag, ready to leave the bar.

"Shimishiro" Kalius took her by the arm. "We need to talk about that note."

"I already said everything I had to say".

"I mean the counter note."

"Okay, understand as you like" she left the place, leaving a mysterious air behind.

"Leader, what ticket was that?" Loomis approached, with a serious face.

"She said she kissed me last night."

Loomis looked at the other members, smiling.

"You guys can pay me the Rubies that owe me... 500 Rubies each. Give them me!" He said proudly, poking Kalius in the stomach with his elbow.

"You and her made? So, she is that easy?" replied Mark, entering the bar.

"How dare you?" Kalius took him by the collar and pressed him against the wall. "Nothing happened between us... Don't jump to conclusions. And stop betting whether or not I'm going to have sex every time I meet a girl."

"We didn't bet when you met Ellie," Mark replied, smiling.

"Are you two going to kiss or kill yourself?" Heath asked, separating the two. "You guys look like two teenagers fighting over a girl;"

"We are not fighting over her," they replied together.

"But I would win," said Mark confidently.

"She is not an object or a bet, does not speak like that."

Mark looked around, everyone stared at them with empty, critical eyes, saying nothing.

"Don't wait for me awake" he left the bar, looking serious.

"I'll just let you know one more time... Stop placing bets on my life and bet on yours to see if you will survive in this world or not."

Morphius Sacred, a previously full guild, now, for something that didn’t happen, everything was falling apart little by little.

Returning to the girl, Shizuna was walking in disguise through the simple streets of the kingdom. There were stalls and more sales stalls, all with varied products each year; gun and clothing stores. Even though everything there seemed confused, she felt nostalgia.

She walked distracted, lost in her thoughts and theories, for several hours, until she realized that she had reached the alley in which she appeared again. She also noticed 3 more passages forming an "X". She looked at the sky, it was already night. Her heart raced, and a sense of danger took over her.

"Go back to the Guild Bar soon. It's dangerous here," echoed the Demon King's voice in his mind.

"And ... I know. Don't worry about me" - she whispered, as she turned around.

"Are you kidding? You can't die in this world or in that time."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Did you forget? My soul is in your body... I know you are important."

"Don't meddle ... It's my body and my memories" she looked angrily at her reflection in a store window, as if she were talking to him.

"Now it's ours."

"Go on believing that..."

"So... what will happen in 10 days? I searched through your memories, but I found nothing."

"The end of the world... But I can't say much about it..."

When she started walking again, nervously, she came face to face with Mark.

"What do you do alone on that side of the kingdom?" he asked, putting a coat on her back.

"I was..." She looked away, looking at her reflection again. "Forgets. And what do you do around here?"

"I was looking for our beverage supplier. But come on, I'll walk you to the Guild."

"Right. Let's get going."

The way there was neither short nor long, but there was also no conversation to pass the time. Except the murmurs as answers that she answered to the Demon King.

"Hi you!" a woman jumped off a roof in front of them. "So you are the outsider that everyone is talking about?!"

"Get away, Morgana" Mark stood in front of Shizuna.

"Hi, cute Mark. How's the cuckold life?"

"Screw U."

"You already screwed me, you sucker, when you dismissed me for someone and told everybody of my kingdom that I spread confidential information about the king."

"Hi, excuse me. What's going on here?" Shizuna looked at the two suspiciously.

"So, Mark, are you already taking the stranger? How fast."

"Morgana, right? You are cruel, and I loved it. My name is Shiz ... Shimishiro Kazuma, it is a pleasure to meet you."

"It's a pleasure, girl. Look, don't give a damn about this clown here" Morgana pushed his shoulder. "When he finds someone better, he'll abandon you."

"Actually, Kalius is more of my type" Shizuna looked at Mark. "No offense, sorry."

"No offense," she rolled her eyes. "We'd better go to the Guild soon."

"Go ahead, sweetie. I'll protect her" Morgana wrapped her arm around her shoulders. "She's with me, she's with ... Yeah ... She's saved."

"Go on, Mark, it's okay!"

"Are you really going to be with a stranger from another kingdom?"

"Technically, you're also a stranger."

Mark sighed deeply, smiling.

"If you die here or are tortured in this woman's realm, don't say that I didn't warn you."

"More respect, babe, or I'll rub your face on the floor."

"Come on, Morgana" Shizuna pulled her by the arm, excited.

"We are going to fall at night!"

"Your verbiage is very ... Young thing."

"I saw it in a slang dictionary."

"This ... It's weird! But never mind. Where are we going?"

"Let's get out of W ... Let's go to Mirnus a little bit!"

"W? What is W?"

"Kingdom W, where are we now! Didn't you know?"

Shizuna was thoughtful and lost in theories in her head.

A scream echoed through her head and also made her cry out.

"Girl! What a scare, damn! What happened?"

"Just... I felt a twinge in my head out of nowhere."

"Stop thinking so much. Ah, our head is so full of thoughts that it hurts. Girl, just come home. Mirnus Scarlatt is a peaceful realm, but nobody knows how it works at night."

"Morgana, I'm sorry. But I'm not feeling well. I think there's something wrong with my head."

"Relax! I'll take you to the guild, the streets around here ..."

Morgana showed her the middle finger, made her nail grow and cut in half a fire bullet that had been fired at Shizuna.

"As I was saying ... The streets are dangerous" the woman smiled.

After the woman gave a long, shrill whistle, a person with wings appeared and, in the blink of an eye, carried Shizuna.

"Show up, I'll beat u up to a pulp, you coward" Morgana shouted, making all her fingernails grow.

Stepping out of the shadows, with slow steps in a dramatic scene.

"You suck, Mark."

He smiled.

"... I'm not in an Isekai, I didn't die. Turn -> against note: Don't rely entirely on people, especially members of your Guild".

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