Chapter 279 - Chaptee 6: Just Your Average Salaryman (II) (1/2)

Year 2124.

Four years passed by in a blink of an eye. Four goddamn years Nao and Chelsea spent in this god forsaken hell hole.

A key underlying factor as to why Yggdrasil's transfer happened in the first place was the fact there were no lingering attachments to the real world.

And now that the two have lived for four years here, Nao could come to an understanding with this concept.

At first Nao and Chelsea materialized into their actual forms, and didn't receive any sort of notion that they were being spied upon. In fact Nao couldn't even find a single trace of Divine Energy traced to a singular entity. All of it was pure and untamed.

It was as if any notion of god didn't exist, or they had long given up on this place, letting the Divine Energy run rampant here.

But that was the least of their worries. Nao and Chelsea were able to squeeze their way through this unscrupulous society, by robbing. Robbing a lower end bank to be exact. The two only stole enough to create an identify for themselves.

Since the notion of the government no longer existed, it was much harder to prove their existence. Identification and who went in or out was monopolized by Trinity, and seeing what they did to Tokyo, or Neo Tokyo now, Nao didn't want to rely on them.

So they forced their way through the black market. The moment they found it, they were swarmed by loan sharks and greedy bastards. A few even wanted to take away Chelsea after pawning off her two katanas, as they appeared treasures to them.

Heads were sliced off that day. Chelsea felt good about it.

Seeing how powerful Chelsea was to the common eye, the rest held their tail between their legs and scurried off. It took a long time nonetheless to forge identification papers for the two.

What Nao really wanted to see was how it was done so he could let Fie give it a spin later. No way in hell he wanted to let these guys forge thirteen more papers for the rest of the girls.

That had to be done within the next two years though so they're officially recognized in their databases. Yggdrasil did lock their accounts to its sole person after doing an iris scan after all. If the iris couldn't match the system, they wouldn't be able to play.

Nao also paid to have school papers forged as well, since he found out that it was required here to enter any sort of job. The price was tiered based what graduation level it was on. Even elementary school had to pay high amount of tuition so it became pricey very quick.

But that went smooth. The two opted for college graduation papers after Chelsea forced the black market dealer they found to lower the price.

With their identification and background now out of the way, their next problem soon came.

They used up most of the money they robbed, only leaving enough for daily necessities and food. Nao debated whether to live in the city and decided against it.

Nao and Chelsea rented out a very run down building in the outer perimeter of the Residential Area, only for Nao to practice his space affinity. After he mastered it enough to where he could create a [Gate], he immediately did so, linking the White Palace to their spot.

Since no one could even identify what space powers resembled, they had no clue what a [Gate] looked like, it was basically invisible to the inhabitants here. Nao did a test as well and sure enough, they couldn't even see it.

Not to mention any notion of robbing the two died down as well, as Nao and Chelsea only appeared to be good-looking people but poor since they rented this place. So they quickly were able to hide away for most of the days they spent, and if anyone from the underworld spotted them, those underworld members would flee in terror. It didn't even take a year to circulate rumors in the underworld of an insanely strong duo to steer away from, if one wanted to keep their head.

With that said, Nao and Chelsea would take the time and come home to their White Palace after every night. It didn't take the two long to find jobs either. They both landed one at a decent sized computer engineering firm.

Nao and Chelsea had officially become average salarymen!

But herein laid their next problem, pay. It was horrendous. They were beginners, and received minimum wage. They also had a lot of overtime hours to where they would work up to 16-20 hours a day.

Most of the overtime money Nao and Chelsea earned was heavily taxed too, with about 80% going straight into >'s pocket. Also during the beginning of these four years spent, the two were basically slave workers.

Chelsea also received many l.u.s.tful stares from not only their fellow co-workers, and their managers, but even from their clientele. Chelsea only sent killing intent to anyone that did this, and not even a few months later did anyone dare to approach her anymore.

The first of four years spent was the roughest, but despite being a black hearted company, the company still followed work protocol. The two performed all of their tasks on time and even submitted some projects early, making the two rise in the ranks Only from second year onward did they receive enough promotions to be their own manager.

But the long hours persisted every day. If Nao and Chelsea didn't have Divine Energy constantly replenishing their energy reserves, they would have certainly become a certain purple acidic slime who couldn't tell work from reality anymore for having being worn out so much.