Chapter 770: Paradise of Infinity: 1 (2/2)
'Beautiful bastard...' Clearly, this one couldn't.
”H-hello, are you feeling well?” The nurse sighed and inquired. Finally realizing why his rather irresponsible senior would relinquish this task to him so quickly. Given the meager amount of self-respect she controlled barely, that would slip in her drunken stupor and the silent records of her irresponsible behavior all indicated that the foreigner in front of him was that 'bad' decision that might end up getting her fired.
However, the dark-haired patient only tilted his head inquisitively. Although he spoke something, the nurse couldn't understand it at all.
”Not a native tongue, huh...” the nurse smiled and stretched his hand towards the man making the patient flinch for a moment but what followed was a surprising moment. With an intense stare, the patient's eyes acted as a warning and the nurse stopped in his action.
Awkwardly taking his hand back, he picked the empty glass set on the stand next to the hospital bed and poured water before offering it to the patient. This action was met with a warm welcome as the patient took the glass with a nod and drank it.
'I can't even communicate. Only two ways about it. Either learn the language or raise my authority point enough to purchase it from that mysterious... organization.'
He handed the glass back to the dark-haired youth in a white t-shirt and trousers before looking at the single mark on his left forearm.
'It's real... I managed to escape her... nice!' His eyes glowed. Excitement bubbled in his body and he instantly stepped out of the bed. His gown was pulled by the blanket a bit carelessly and the nurse's eyes widened.
'Sweet mother anaconda... that's limp?!'
The nurse wanted this patient outside the country at once.
”Nik...”
Nurse's brows twitched. This word was clear enough. Sounded a bit western but too short to categorize it as such instantly. Seeing the patient pointing at himself and speaking the word: Nik, once again, realization flickered in the nurse's eyes and he sighed softly. It was hard to get mad at such a face that looked so sincere.
”Takato,” the nurse smiled and pointed at himself.
”Taco...” Nik nodded and walked past him, pushing open the only door to find a rather familiar type of toilet which instantly brightened his mood.
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”So? Any theory?”
”Have you been watching those detective shows again?”
Two men in blue uniform walked through the neat corridor of the hospital with the antiseptic scent making them inwardly bitter for a moment. One of them was partially bald with an oily spot that reflected the light and the other one with greying sideburns. Exposed by the older of the two, the one with grey sideburns scowled and asked hesitantly.
”How did you know?”
”You would usually say: Did you find anything, Shinto-san? And I saw you taking that Holmes series back home. And you are supposed to be the energetic and aspiring detective... sigh,” the man with whitened hair shook his head and the younger partner couldn't help but chuckle in embarrassment.
”But, no. That kid is not present in any records. And that mother-daughter pair seemed convinced that this kid suddenly fell from the sky and broke his nose... good thing that they turned him but... if he wasn't unconscious, the kid would have been looking at serious sexual assault charges.”
”Um, Shinto-san, isn't it possible that something's wrong with that... uh, what was it... yeah, Amano mother-daughter pair?”
”They did not seem under the influence of any substance and called an ambulance instead of going crazy and accidentally hurting the kid... you tell me if they are on any substance.” Shinto's lips twitched.
”Anyway,” the younger one sighed, ”If that kid is really a foreigner, then we have a little trouble in our hand. I will send out notices and requests to other prefectures to post his image in the missing column and look if anything surfaces.”
Shinto nodded, ”Let's do that.”
”Still, what about his accommodation? That Takato guy said that they will be forced to dismiss 'Nik' by tomorrow. He doesn't even have any clothes...”
”Why don't you take him home, Raiji?” Shinto chuckled.
”Shinto-san, don't kid me. One look at his face and my wife will be all over him when I'm not around...”
”Oh, about her, did you already get enough evidence?” Shinto grew a bit solemn.
”Yeah, thank you for hinting about her... actions to me. I'm consulting a lawyer so when it really goes down, her infidel ass cannot get a single asset!”
Raiji huffed.
”Well, all the best. I will contact the mother-daughter duo to finalize the formalities and ask them if they have any thoughts of providing accommodation to Nik. Still, we should have Genta-kun take a look. Doesn't he boast that he knows quite a few foreign languages? we'll know if he has been telling truth or lies!”
”Say, Shinto-san, if we happened to be jumping into a teenager's backyard and fell to unconsciousness, would be considered perverts or some unknown victim?”
”Pervert...” Shinto's expression turned bleak.
”That's what I thought... maybe we should really charge that bastard...”
”For what? Being more handsome than you? Just walk forward,” Shinto snorted and the two policemen exited the hospital.
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'Alright... according to infinity, I only have to think of eligible actions allowed and...'
Nik silently lied on the hospital bed and his gaze brightened when a crimson screen with golden edges appeared in front of his eyes. It was translucent and the striking golden words finally made it sink into Nik that he had a new job with at least one benefit thoroughly known— he gets to live again.
[Name: Nik Faran
Age: 20 (80)
Code: GC—EHG—98034
Authority Rank: 0 (0/100)
Paradise: Transmigration
Bloodline: Adonis' Ember (Common)]
Nik silently looked at the number '80.'
'My natural age limit, huh... now, what else. Hmm, Authority Benefits...'
[Authority Rank: 0
No benefits.]
Pursing his lips, Nik began to check whatever he could.
[Transmigration in: 156:46 hours.]
[Skills:
Bloodline—
1) Charm of Adonis: The user's charm can attract the opposite gender and similarly oriented individuals.]
Nik continued to look in a daze.
'That's it, huh... I can't even communicate here. And...'' Nik thought once again and looked at the ring of red on his left forearm. Resisting the urge of doing something so stupid under the presence of many individuals constantly checking up on him, Nik did not invoke the mark of infinity branded on him to look into the other side. Instead, he took advantage of this flexible system of the mysterious organization that this infinity represented and quietly thought of something else.
[Acquire language of the homeworld?
Cost: 1 AP (Rank 0)]
'One authority point, huh...'
Nik turned and looked at the empty glass before glancing around and leaned down to pick the small candy wrapper left by one of the blue-uniformed men and suddenly, the wrapper disappeared from his hand.
[Authority Rank: 0 (0.00007/100)]
Nik sighed and leaned back. This was a hopeless endeavor.
From one cold world to another, Nik could only close his eyes and rest. He wasn't the least bit impatient. After all, he was going to live here for a long time so he wanted to make the best use of the comfort provided to him because even if he was from another world, he knew hospitals to be a rather lucrative form of organization and such a location wouldn't waste their rooms on penniless individuals.
'Still, not being scrawny any longer is already the second-best thing to happen to me aside from being resurrected.'
The next day, another uniformed inspector, Nik realized by now, came over. Unlike the two previous officers, this one was younger, his body build similar to Nik's and he also brought a package with clothes, one pair of it.
”Kaese ho aap?” The man began with a smile and Nik blinked. Gazing at the younger officer with a strange expression, Nik finally spoke up.
”I'm... good.” He understood it, a little. The language the man spoke was quite similar to his own world's and given the fact that the man scoffed a chuckle meant that the two of them were on the same page.
”That's some good fortune. I didn't know Hindi would actually work. I spent three years of college in India as an exchange student,” the man smiled but confusion once again took over Nik's expression. He couldn't understand half of it.
Seeing this, the man shook his head and introduced himself, ”My name is Asagi Genta. Can you tell me what happened?”
Nik looked at the clothes in Genta's hands and then grew a bit thoughtful. In the rules stated imprinted by Infinity in his head, there was no such thing as not talking about his experience of reincarnation. There was only one thing Infinity demanded but that wasn't the issue. But even if reincarnated, Nik wasn't kicked hard enough in his head to just spout the truth fully realizing that it may either be considered a fool's rambling or some secret that shouldn't be exposed in the first place which may lead him to a mental asylum or a dangerous and confined ward.
”I don't know. I was taking a bath and the next thing I know, I'm in this hospital. I can barely talk to others, too,” he replied while sighing. He wasn't fortunate enough to get a window room or he might have already tried to escape.
Sitting down, Genta placed the clothes on the bedstand and crossed his arms. Solemnity flashing across his face, ”You don't remember? Your file does not state amnesia.”
Nik smiled and nodded, ”I don't.”