Chapter 3 (1/2)
Pa.s.sing through is not a simple matter
A planet similar to Earth, its area is seven time the Earth, and the ratio between sea and land is almost a 7:3…
The youngster looked at the 3D image of a planet that was floating in front of him and said: “This is the world where I have to pa.s.s through?”
“That’s right! My specially made planet.”
“Specially made? What do you mean?” The youngster asked somewhat baffling.
“This planet is a western fantasy style according with the novels, in simple terms, is a planet where the organisms are in the middle of their evolution and some gave birth to wisdom. Even if there are two types of species, they will slowly eliminate each other, but in this planet, in order to imitate the western fantasy style, I deliberately had many species survive …”
The youngster interrupted ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ and said: “Wait, you said in accordance with the western fantasy style novels, don’t tell me… you made it from the beginning.”
“Bingo!” ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ loving to joke said: “It’s not entirely like the beginning of those novels, the planet was modeled from the fantasy of what all the human race has dreamed, generally speaking, it’s the synthesis of the idea of the ma.s.ses.”
“But evolution requires at least hundreds of thousands of years of time, that the starting point is such… Forget! You’re a ‘G.o.d’, ah!” The youngster laughed at himself.
Stretching his body, ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ with pride said: “I know what are you thinking, the evolution requires a long time, but I have to merely create a planet and put it in another s.p.a.ce with accelerate flow of time. Then it will only take several years to complete the evolution of those species that otherwise would have need several hundred thousand years.”
“Oh!” The boy nodded and said: “Don’t discuss those profound problems, go to the main point, a question.”
“Tell me!”
“Do you still watch Ikkyū-san?” (TN: An anime, more information here: /wiki/Ikky%C5%AB-san)
“Of course, and I still think it’s good.”
…After a short awkward silence, the youngster raised his finger and said: “Panda, you are letting me go to another world, so you have already prepared another body to throw me in, or you will resurrect me into a dead body?”
As if ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ were quite embarra.s.sed answering the question, after moving away his vision for moment, he said: “In fact… I have not determined yet about how you are going to pa.s.s through.”
Seeing the change of the youngster’s complexion to a one very ugly, ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ hits the ground and said: “Is that… I wanted to hear your ideas, we can discuss this issue in depth.”
“That’s easy, right now I’m in soul form, so you only need to give me a strong body! The appearance must be handsome and elegant, as for strength… The enmo martial double cultivation, so I can kill a dragon with bare hands, in addition several dozen of million in a.s.sets, it would be the best if you can make a beautiful princess of a big country fell in love with me, and of course if you can also strengthen “that aspect” too… Otherwise I will be unable to use my lower body to fight for the world… I forgot this, don’t forget to give me several mysterious artifacts, and sacred devices kind…”
At one hand, the youngster pa.s.sed a extremely big pile of ‘reasonable’ requests for when pa.s.sing through, and in the other hand, ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ was listening absent-minded for a long time before spitting some words: “A fart I will let you pa.s.s through, ah, I might as well go directly to the internet to find some generic and unrivaled pa.s.sing through otherworld novel and I would have finished, s.h.i.+t! You always said that the most annoying is the invincible type b protagonist, isn’t that right?”
“It’s one thing to read a novel and it’s another if you really pa.s.s through, who doesn’t want to become as strong as possible when pa.s.sing through.” The youngster not agreeing with him said with a smile.
‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ also had no choice but to nod in agreement: “If you want a formidable body, I can give you one, however I will have to restrict you!”
“A restriction?” The youngster inclined his head and looked toward ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’: “So it will not be turned into the kind of meeting a strong opponent, or the strong meet weak, (note 1) that kind of inferior product.”
“Oh! You can rest a.s.sured, I will restrict your power to a certain extent, if not, you could sweep around the world and that would be very boring!”
“You’re saying that I would be invincible in a fixed range, and leaving the place would be out of the question?”
“Correct, but it’s not that it would be out of the question going outside of your range, rather, you will not be able to leave the place. I will give you some restriction in your range of action, and as it should be, I will give you some missions and those will let you expand your range of activities as long as you complete them. It’s not like I want to make it difficult for you, I just that I hope that you don’t use violence blindly or strength to settle the problems. By restricting you, I merely wis.h.i.+ng for you to use strategies.”
“Don’t say that, in fact, there still a more important issue that you need to resolve!” The youngster waved his hands and said.
“Please say!”
“It’s the… spirit… How can I describe it?”
The youngster seemed somewhat distressed thinking what to say: “Panda, you already know that I’m merely a person who has less than twenty years of life, my mental capacity, my spirit,,, What I mean is that after pa.s.sing through, I’m afraid that it would be hard for me to adapt to the environment of this new world.”
“You can talk in more detail?”
“It’s simple, if a modern man is thrown back into ancient times, maybe they will be unable to adapt to their lifestyle. I will be a man who pa.s.sed through an unfamiliar world, completely alone, I will not have a friend to rely, a stranger in a strange land. I’m afraid that my spirit… will not be able to hold.”
“So what are you saying that you could get is a mental disorder!” ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ said with a playful tone.
“Certainly, you think when suddenly a person pa.s.s through another world, he will be like the protagonist of those YY novels, and will give a big roar, oh!!! G.o.d-bye my past life, h.e.l.lo beautiful younger sisters of another world, now come here and kiss your husband, that type of silly words?”
The youngster said those words quite excited: “I can promise you that if I were alone, and suddenly I was sent to a forest of another world, perhaps after a few days my spirit will broke, or maybe I will look for some branch and I will hang myself so I can resolve the problem.”
‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ was covering his mouth from letting out his laugh.
“I understand you, is indeed as you said, a ordinary person’s spirit will suddenly break and it will be no possible to adapt to that pa.s.sing through kind of type. But I can help you to resolve that problem!”
“How?” The youngster asked with both hands folded in his waist.
“It’s very simple, I will strengthen your mental awareness, this will let you reinforce your spirit endurance capacity.” While saying that, ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ points his finger towards the youngster’s forehead.
“Wait a minute!” The youngster quickly evaded Panda’s evil claws and said: “You said you will strengthen my spirit, but that kind of thing… Uh… I mean, if you strengthen my spirit, then, after, my personality and my memory will not… be considered mine anymore?”
After stopping his action, ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ hurriedly explained: “You can rest a.s.sured, you’ll be still you. When I said that I will strengthen your spirit it doesn’t mean that it will alter your personality or memories. To give you an example, is like when some people is born with acrophobia but some day because of a little stimulation they are completely cured. Being afraid of the heights and being fearless are two different things, it doesn’t mean that he is not himself.”
“Spirit… If it’s like that, then I have to trouble you!” The youngster nodded, at last he felt a little relieved.
“Feel relieved, if I really wanted to alter your memory, then you will not have been aware.”
“Then why didn’t you just alter my memories to begin with, and let me pa.s.s through directly.”
“In that case, that person it would be not you?” ‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ tone changed to a soft one: “And I don’t want to do that to my friend, I respect your feelings and your freedom.”
…Hearing ‘Panda’ talking, the youngster stay blankly without muttering a word.
“Thanks…”
‘Gla.s.ses Panda’ was laughing embarra.s.singly without saying anything, he only placed his finger on the youngster’s forehead, and then a faint light of light. The youngster felt only a warm flow going through his body, even when touching his forehead, he didn’t feel anything strange.
“That’s all? I didn’t feel anything.”