Despite what Akemi told him, Kaito still brought her back to life.
It was not difficult, he simply guided her along the same path he had taken. It became a little complicated when Akemi left that completely black space and crossed the sky returning to the earth, because her mind went completely blank and she began moving without any purpose, like a ghost without consciousness. Fortunately it was enough for Kaito to make a little more effort to direct her specifically toward her body on the ground.
As soon as she approached her body, as if something were pulling her in, she entered it at high speed and immediately opened her eyes.
Seeing this, Kaito followed her and opened his eyes as well.
The world, previously filled with gray and dull colors, returned to being full of bright and vivid colors in his sight.
"W-where am I? Am I not dead? Who are you?" Akemi asked while looking around.
This is going to be a long story, Kaito sighed in his mind, but even so he could only stay and explain.
Kaito spent almost thirty minutes explaining the situation before finishing.
"I... do not know if I believe everything you said" Akemi said after hearing the entire story.
"It does not matter if you believe me, you can confirm it with Shiho if you want," Kaito replied while searching in his pocket for a black card.
"Here, this is all the money I collected in this world. I have other accounts and money elsewhere, but Shiho already knows everything so it is not necessary."
"Wow, are we rich now? And what is your relationship with Shiho to give her all this? This does not sound like 'we became friends along the way' like you said" Akemi asked suspiciously.
Kaito ignored everything she was saying and instead handed her a paper with a number with a serious expression.
"Here, this is the number of a friend. She is a teenager who also has abilities, although they are not identical she can still help Eleven feel normal and regulate her abilities if something happens."
"Eleven... that is her, right?" Akemi asked, looking at the little girl who was watching them with curiosity while taking the number.
Eleven felt somewhat nervous at the presence of a stranger and tried to hide, but Akemi did not let her.
Before she could move behind Kaito, Akemi grabbed her by the arm and pulled her toward herself.
"Awww! you are very cute. Say hello to your aunt."
"H-hello Aunt Akemi" Eleven stammered nervously.
"How adorable!"
Kaito watched Akemi tightly hug Eleven while she resisted a little uncomfortably and smiled as he stood up and slowly stepped back without saying goodbye.
Eleven noticed this and gently waved at him.
Kaito returned the gesture, preparing to leave, when he heard a shout.
"KAITO, YOU BETTER TAKE ME WITH YOU TO YOUR WORLD. AS SOON AS YOU RETURN TO YOUR WORLD SUMMON ME. IF YOU DO NOT DO IT I WILL HATE YOU."
"I PROMISE" Kaito replied. Using basic wind magic he could project his voice into the distance easily, so he had not shouted in a long time, even so this time he decided to do it.
Without seeing Shiho's expression after his response, Kaito disappeared from the place.
But while he ran across the ocean, forming waves as he passed, his expression quickly changed as he remembered the conversation he had the previous night with Hinata.
---
"Are you sure?" Hinata asked with a worried expression while reading Kaito's message.
[Yes, is something wrong?]
"Actually, they told me to give you a message in case you asked that."
[Another message?]
"Yes. They told me: You promised I would have a normal family but you left halfway, you broke the promise.
If you break the second one then I will have to punish you.
Remember, the promise is more important than anything else."."
[A punishment?]
"This... I do not know what that means either, sorry."
[It is fine, just tell me where the last object is.]
"Yes, it is in Tomogashima, in Chiba Prefecture."
[Good, thank you.]
---
"So this is the promise I cannot break" Kaito murmured.
[Kaito.]
"What is it?"
[What do you mean what is it? Do you know where you just entered?]
"You mean the space of souls?"
[Well... yes, you guessed the name, but that does not matter. The place you just entered is the space of souls, the place where the central piece of the souls of dead universes is stored and used in the simulations.
By taking that piece all the fragments of soul from the other simulations joined together, it is similar to when you summon a character in Gaia.]
"I thought I had only entered the heaven of this world" Kaito murmured after realizing the level of the place he had accessed. "Even so, what is the problem?"
[What is the problem? Miyano Akemi now only exists here and not in other simulations.
It can be easily solved by retrieving her soul once the simulation ends since you only resurrected her in this world, but you still entered a space created by the administrators of the Gaia system. You could attract the attention of someone with bad intentions.]
"Someone with bad intentions?"
[Maybe not bad intentions, maybe just someone who thinks you are a problem for their plans.]
"So that is the most you can reveal, huh?
How interesting. I thought the objective of Gaia's creators was simply to create a multiversal Noah's Ark, but now it seems there is another greater objective" Kaito murmured.
Even so he had no more information about it, so he stopped thinking about it. Sooner or later he would discover it.
...
Minutes later, Kaito finally arrived in Japan again.
Having heard the name of the place he needed to go to, he already knew the story he was facing.
Erased.
The story is as simple as it is interesting.
A killer murders a classmate of the protagonist when he is a child. Years later, when the protagonist is an adult, the killer returns and also murders his mother. From that moment on, the protagonist gains the ability to return to the past before his classmate was killed.
His goal is to catch the killer in the past, since after killing his classmate he never acted again until the murder of his mother, making it impossible to find him.
Since the present of that anime occurs after the year 2000 and at this moment they were in the eighties, only the past storyline could be happening.
After arriving, Kaito quickly headed to the only school in the small town and, since it was a weekday morning, all the students were in class.
At a speed no one could notice, with everyone practically frozen in time from his perspective, Kaito incinerated the protagonist's classroom teacher, he first moved him away so the children would not be traumatized, who was also the killer, and then approached the protagonist himself.
Having already obtained nine before, he easily recognized the aura of the object of death, a small coin the protagonist kept in his pocket.
Although that did not exist in the original story, Kaito was not surprised, he had already seen enough changes in the history of this world.
[You have obtained 1 object of death.
Objects in possession: 10.]
[Leaving the world automatically due to the absence of more objects of death.]
---
"Finally out" Kaito said while sitting once again on a throne of hard black stone with violet tones.
Looking around he noticed that the hall was completely empty, no one had arrived yet. Resisting the urge to move, he decided to check his rewards first.
[Congratulations, you have completed the mission of Floor 6: Death World.
Completion rate: 100 percent, maximum possible.
Rank: SSS.
Rewards:
• Tower of Order
• Skill: Ownerless State
• Time Pendants x10
• Portal to another plane
• Attraction Tower, social
• Plane Declaration
• Skill Evil evolved to Negative
• Skill: Soul Manipulation
• Death Note upgraded, 5 uses
• Skill: Reflection
• Regression Card x5
• 200000 extraction or synchronization points.]
Crack!
A cracking sound was heard as the throne Kaito was sitting on began to fracture, and the walls around started trembling slightly while Kaito breathed heavily.
"Eight years... EIGHT YEARS... and this is all?"
[Kaito, remember, you are far ahead of the rest, these rewards are already incredible for many.]
"No, I understand that. I am trying to understand it, that I did not waste eight years of my life for nothing, but even so, what about those three?"
Kaito was referring to Soul Manipulation, Plane Declaration and Portal to another plane.
The first was a skill he already had thanks to copying it from an object of death using omnipotence. Of course, at this moment he did not truly have it, but by using a few synchronization points he could extract his version from inside the world and obtain the skill, which was literally the most basic use of those extraction points.
As for Plane Declaration and Portal to another plane, they were probably designed to be used together, since the first establishes all your territory as another plane, preventing people from accessing it normally and forcing them to use special methods, while the second creates a portal that connects that plane with Gaia to maintain a stable door at all times without depending on spells or other methods, usable only by the territory lord and his selected sub lords.
These two rewards are incredible, the first greatly increases the security of your territory while the second opens the path to it while avoiding many inconveniences.
The problem is that Kaito's territory is already another plane and already has portals to the outside everywhere. Even if he did not have them he could simply ask Mashiro or any fairy to open one.
"No, I know!" Kaito's mind, filled with anger a moment ago, calmed when he thought of an idea.
"First I will use some synchronization points... yes, this is it."
After using around 2000 synchronization points, Kaito obtained his Soul Manipulation skill again.
[What are you trying to do?]
"Silence!" Kaito said while closing his eyes. This time he did not go anywhere, he simply focused on his own soul.
As long as he did not claim the rewards they did not merge with him, in other words they were still fragments of divinity without form inside his soul until that moment.
Just like the last time he used omnipotence, he began moving that energy with a purpose, except this time he did it with Soul Manipulation instead of omnipotence.
[Kaito, even though later you will be able to control this energy on your own, at this moment it is still impossible for you. The last time you only managed it thanks to Omni...]
The system immediately fell silent. If it had a face, its expression of surprise would have been almost cartoonish.
[Impossible, how is it possible that you can do this? Is it because of your soul? It must be that, your soul is at a higher level which allows you to control it more easily than the rest. I do not know... you are simply a monster.]
Kaito did not hear anything the system was saying, he was too focused.
[That is not how it works. Even if you can manipulate it, it is useless if you do not know what to turn it into. You cannot think about anything else while doing it, you must be completely focused. That is why you need an emotionless system like me to do it.
Anyway, I will help you, what is one more broken rule?
But first, I need to know your purpose. Let us see... inside your mind... what you desire the most.]
In the middle of absolute silence several seconds passed, until laughter, audible only to Kaito, echoed in the hall.
[Ha... haha... hahahahaha!]
The one laughing at that moment was the system itself, which seconds ago had called itself an emotionless system, but now could not stop laughing at what it had seen.
[Good, good... it is madness, but I will help you. Who told me to be you and think the same way you do? In that case... yes, I know what to do. We will need help... I know... she is perfect for this.]
______________________________________
+15 chapters in advance on Patreon.
p-atreon.com/IAMME26
(just delete the hyphen)
80 power stones = 1 extra chapter (cumulative)