Trapp was the first to speak.“So you’ll be leaving soon?”“Yeah,” Arran answered.“Then have a safe journey,” Trapp wished him.“Thanks,” Arran responded. Then he asked in turn, “What will you do after I leave?”“I came here searching for something,” Trapp said.“I’ve yet to find it, so I’ll keep on searching.”“I had fun while it lasted. Let’s meet again if fate wills it,” Trapp suddenly said.“Of course,” Arran agreed.“If you don’t mind, can you tell me what it is you’re looking for?” Arran suddenly asked.“I’d like to see if there’s anything I can do to find it before I leave.”While Trapp and Brianna were both looking for something, unlike Brianna, who didn’t know what she wanted to find in particular, Trapp seemed to be after something in particular. Arran felt he could get Madame Veera to help Trapp look for it.“There’s no need to bother. I’ve already got someone searching, so it won’t take long before...”Shaking his head, Trapp was just about to refuse when suddenly, he pau
“The reason why the Sha are considered the wealthiest race in the universe is because each of them is born with two very powerful racial abilities, [Piggy Bank] and [Remote Control].”Piggy Bank!Remote Control!What kind of abilities were these?Just hearing the first, one could imagine what kind of ability piggy bank was. As for the second, it was a little hard to imagine what kind of ability this was, as it could refer to a lot of things.Nobody tried to guess, and they waited for Trapp to explain the two abilities to them.Indeed, without hesitation, Trapp started explaining everything to them.“The first ability, [Piggy Bank] as you might guess, allows the Sha to store any form of wealth inside a personal storage space which they are born with. I’m not just talking about hard currency here. I mean, anything that could be considered as having any form of value in this universe. It doesn’t matter if some things are considered worthless to some people, as long as others see value in
“Have you ever heard the expression blink and you’ll miss it?” Trapp suddenly asked.Everybody nodded in agreement. It was a very common expression used when one didn’t want to miss something exciting. But what did it have to do with the abilities of the Sha?Trapp explained, “this expression was first derived from the third racial ability of the Sha, [Blink].”“The ability, [Blink] is a powerful escape ability that allows a captured Sha to elude the perception of their captors when they are least attentive. Using this ability, as long as you remove your attention from a Sha for even a second, they will disappear. The only way to counter this ability is to monitor them constantly without removing your attention from them. And it has to be personal individual monitoring. Using cameras and other technological monitoring devices cannot stop this ability."“In the instance where you can afford round-the-clock monitoring on a captured Sha for a long period, it will still be impossible to f
As soon as Brianna finished explaining, Trapp finally interjected.“You are very knowledgeable. That’s right, that is the legend about the origin of this thread. Of course, it is just a legend. The truth is, nobody actually knows the origin of this thread. The only thing that is known is that this thread grants others the ability to avoid danger by changing fate. If there is something you don’t like, as long as you possess the [Goddess’s Unraveling Golden Thread], you can change it by going back to the past.”“Of course, although the thread is powerful, it also exerts a heavy toll for using its power. Only by consuming your life force can you power the string, so the further back in time you go, the greater the amount of life force consumed by the thread. Also, you can only change an isolated part of the past within a given time limit. The thread will anchor you to the present and will pull you back if the time limit is up.”“Still, despite the severe restrictions in using this artifa
Trapp left. Accompanying him was the Sha whose name the others did not get. Now only Arran, Eris, Charmy, Brianna, Vanna, Sadie, and Jon were left in the lounge. Soon after Trapp’s figure disappeared, Jon eventually spoke up too. “I guess we will be leaving now, too. Goodbye.” “Goodbye, everyone,” Sadie said. "Yes, goodbye,” the others greeted them. With that, Sadie and Jon also left the lounge together. At the same time, Elena also followed when only muttering a quiet goodbye without waiting for any response. The way she left was almost as if she was fleeing. Before anybody knew it, she was already gone. Arran sighed at this. While he could understand Elena’s urge to escape from both Eris’ and Charmy’s presence, he felt it was a pity that he couldn’t have any more fun with her. Almost as if she could sense what Arran was thinking, Charmy suddenly appeared by his side and pinched his waist hard. With a frosty tone, Charmy asked, “Are you so reluctant to see your little lover l
While the girls established their friendship, Arran watched everything unfold from the sidelines.Throughout their interaction, Arran began to wonder when he had been demoted to a side character. As the only guy here, Arran was being completely ignored. He felt hurt!Still, Arran was happy to see all of them getting along. These four girls were very beautiful and attractive, with each having their own distinct style of beauty. It was a lie if Arran said he wasn’t interested in the four of them.Some might argue that their becoming friends would spoil his chances of getting all of them. But Arran was not greedy enough that he had to have all of them at the same time. He could still settle with just being friends with either of them.With their friendship established, Brianna and Vanna waved at Arran and the girls and prepared to leave the lounge.At this moment, Arran noticed some activity coming from both sides of him. One from the entrance of the lounge and the other from the entranc
The journey back to the Aeth home world took three days. This time there was no wormhole to cut the journey short. That means that during these three days, Arran had to silently receive Eris’ and Charmy’s scoldings.During the journey, the relaxing time Arran expected was nowhere to be found. Instead of spending the three days having fun with the girls, Arran had been subjected to their relentless reprimands and cold shoulders.When they weren’t yelling at and scolding Arran, Eris and Charmy were either completely ignoring him or playing with the cat. Or they were locked up in their rooms hellbent on not seeing Arran at all.It got so bad that Arran found himself constantly frustrated and on the verge of a breakdown. Worst of all was that there was nothing Arran could use to distract himself on the ship at all.The vessel Arran was boarding was a military vessel used in times of war. There were no entertainment venues to speak of onboard and Arran was not even allowed to run around an
What did Arran want to verify?Arran didn’t answer Eris’ question immediately because he didn’t know how to reply.Naturally, the thing Arran wanted to verify concerned his birth. It was something so important that it might also help to shed light on the event that happened four hundred years ago.There was a question that had bothered Arran constantly ever since he received his natal weapon. The question was, ‘how old is Arran exactly?’Was a nineteen years old like he and everybody else believed? Or was he perhaps much older than that?This question was strange, not to say the least. That Arran would doubt his own age, thinking that he was somehow much older than he appeared. What was he thinking?From all the tests that had been conducted on Arran when he first arrived at the Etherium, as well as from what he could remember himself, Arran was without a doubt a nineteen-year-old boy. There could be no doubt about this. But there was something that made Arran doubt this undoubtable f