2023-07-01 13:15:41“I am leaving, then….”
“I will take care of her, and we will wait until you are back.”
There was an awkward silence between them.
Jason kept his distance from Amelia and Hanna. Last time, Nyx got pulled in with him in the space wrap, as Amelia called it. He might drag the two people he had to protect into danger if something went wrong.
Hanna was still asleep, and he couldn’t imagine how sad she would be if she knew he was leaving for an unknown period.
‘The warning is useful. I don’t have to drag them into this.’
He didn’t know how long he would be away, and what kind of world he would fall into.
‘It won’t be the same as the last time, right?’
He thought of the children he trained. He thought of them many times and wished what he taught them was enough for them to have a safe life.
‘Sigh.’
His eyes darted to the silver-haired beauty who had her gaze fixed on him. He didn’t know what was going on in her mind, but he knew the one who sent him the message through the armband found her. Whatever the message that came through it in that unknown language was for Amelia.
‘So, she is truly an alien, right?’
He always knew this, but he never had a way to confirm his suspicion. However, the armband wasn’t part of Yuriel, and even at the end of his last life, no Grand Wizard had control over their armbands.
To receive a personal message through them, Jason couldn’t imagine how deep Amelia’s origin went.
‘I guess it doesn’t matter.’
He still didn’t see any malice in those pupils. It showed a rare sign of concern, and he knew he was the cause of that. However, Jason had no way of knowing what exactly made him worried.
‘Sigh.’
He sighed again as he looked at the clock reaching the last couple of minutes.
He walked to Hanna’s side and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.
“Daddy!”
Hanna whispered in her sleep as her lips curled into a smile.
Her gentle smile made Jason’s heartthrob. This was what made him always return, and what reminded him of where he truly belonged.
He met Amelia’s gaze again as they stared at each other in silence.
He traced his steps back, putting a distance between them. It was their silent goodbye.
…
Jason felt his body lighter than ever. He didn’t know where he was, but he felt like he was floating.
He wanted to open his eyes, but he couldn’t. He could only float and wait. There was no sense of urgency in his mind. It was peaceful. Just that he wanted to go back to where he came from.
…
“Hmm….”
His little hum was a loud growl that sent a shockwave across the atmosphere of the silent planet.
However, there was no response to his growl. There was nothing to respond to his challenge, but it was only for a moment.
“Beep! Beep!”
A small metal box crawled out of the pile of garbage. It had a body covered in rust and holes. There was a worn-out digital screen on its body. The robot climbed up along the pile of garbage filled with metal and plastics. Its cameras focused on Jason’s body floating above the pile of garbage.
It was about a metre in height and there was some worn-out text on its body.
The cameras moved in a disoriented manner, failing to identify the weird object.
A light emitted from the machine focused on Jason and scanned him for a few seconds.
“Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!”
The robot started emitting signals as it knew. There was a sign of life after an uncountable number of years. It was signalling the other robots to convey the message to the right place, but there was no other response. It had been too long, and even the mechanical life in this world wasn’t functioning anymore.
There were mountains and mountains of garbage scattered across the planet, and a single robot tried to greet the returned source of life.
Even though this source of life had a weirdly mutated body, and the vitality signs exceeded the level of any known creature, it was still a living being. A living being who just cleared the smoke-filled sky with a single roar.
A ray of light came down from the sky after days, and it fell on Jason’s mutated body.
His eyelids moved for a few seconds before they became still, again. He wasn’t ready to wake up while his body was yet to return to the fully mutated stage, and he had no idea a curious robot was building an emergency bed around him with garbage to drag him off the garbage mountain.
The small robot took a good hour to create a metal bed under Jason with its mechanical arms. Then it used metal straps to strap Jason's floating body to the bed.
“Beep! Beep!”
It rotated its cameras in confusion when the bed floated up with Jason’s body.
“Beep! Beep!”
The robot finally dragged the floating bed with Jason’s body by a chain down the garbage mountain.
…
“Mommy!”
“Huh?”
Amelia didn't want Hanna to wake up and walk out of bed.
“Mommy will come to the bed.”
She felt guilty, thinking Hanna woke up because she wasn’t by her side. Amelia didn’t know Hanna could feel when Jason wasn’t around anymore.
“Mommy! Where is Daddy?”
Hanna came to Amelia who was sitting on the ground with Nyx in her arms.
She felt how sad and distressed her mommy was. She didn’t know what happened, but she wanted to cry.
Mommy was sad about Daddy, but there was hope. Mommy was sitting there, waiting for Daddy to return.
It was the only thing that stopped Hanna from crying. Mommy was expecting Daddy to return, but Mommy was sad and worried about Daddy.
She hugged her mommy’s neck.
“Sigh. Daddy will be back soon.”
Amelia didn’t have an answer for Hanna, except she knew Jason would return to them. As long as he was alive, they should wait for him.
Jason was in another place and most probably in another timeline. The central brain was using some serious power and authority to forge Jason into a powerful weapon. The peace lasted for several millennials, and Amelia didn’t know why the brain wanted a Mythical Weapon.
‘He will be strong enough to form another Empire. Why is it in such a hurry to make him strong? He will eventually grow into a titan, anyway. Is there a war coming?’
Amelia didn’t think the brain would make a wrong calculation. If it was another war, she couldn’t imagine the scale of it for the brain to push Jason to forced training. What kind of war required the Emperor to personally move? A war that could end the universe?
‘How should we protect Hanna? What will you do if war comes for real?’
She couldn’t disclose these things to Jason. He already had enough on his plate, and he was too weak to be anything powerful enough to challenge the Emperor.
However, she had her own part to play. She had to protect Hanna until he came back.
“Mommy! Hanna will also wait for Daddy.”
Hanna’s whisper brought Amelia out of her messy mind.
“Yes. Let’s wait for Daddy!”
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