(POV Sanji)
She's gone already? Does my wife hate me now? Is she just playing around with me and seeing other men while telling me not to cheat? No, that can't really be the case. I refuse to believe that.
She may tease me alot, but she doesn't seem like that type of woman. Well, my real reason for believing that she wouldn't do something like that was because any man who tried would probably be lead to their death. She was a goddess of calamity after all. Over the last week I used some LP to find out more about my wife through the system shop.
She trusts me enough to allow me access to all sorts of information about her. Thanks to it I've gained a much better understanding of her. She's never been in love before from the information I've gathered so far.
There were suitors in the past, but they always mysteriously disappeared one by one. My wife had long given up on thoughts of such a relationship. At least, that was until she met me.
From one of the memory fragments I got from the system shop I was able to understand fully the events behind our meeting. My wife could not stay in one realm for a long period of time. Even in the upper realms where her father was, she realized she couldn't stick around for long or misfortune would befall even them.
By the time she realized this it was already too late and the misfortune that had built up around her father was to a level where a calamity was bound to befall him. That was about three billion years ago.
Two billion years ago she also left her master to venture the realms to seek out a method to suppress the impending calamities that could potentially befall the people close to her. As for that master of hers, I'm not going to lie, her master was at the same level of my wife in terms of appearance, but she had a far superior sex appeal.
If my wife was the sort of mischievous fox who jumped about from place to place. Then her master, on the other hand, was truly a demonic seductress who sucked men dry and left woman trembling in ecstacy.
For the past two billion years she has ventured across uncountable realms. She didn't spend much time in each realm, ranging from a bit under a month to almost a year. There was a time where she tested how long she was able to stay in each type of realm. If it was a mortal realm, normally she could only stay for a month before it would be brought to the verge of collapse.
Only the upper god realm she was born in could withstand her presence. Middle god realms could withstand her presence for a hundred thousand years. Lower god realms would last one thousand years before it reached its breaking point. Saint realms were the realms right above mortal realms, she could stay within them for about one year before they nearly collapsed.
All alone, for two billion years, my wife moved from place to place without anywhere she called a home. If she stayed for too long disasters would follow.
It wasn't until just over a month in where she stepped into my realm. The moment she did she was astounded by the aura of fortune contained within the realm. From one end to the next it was as though the entire realm was blessed with boundless fortune.
My wife had heard of this realm far off in the boonies from her master one time and hadn't had much hope for it initially. While her master heard of this realm from some clown she had fooled around with that happened to be a distant relative of Sen Kami. He was a certain religious figure known in our realm and was the son of a certain lower god that accidentally stumbled upon our realm. None of the gods in the upper gods realms took notice of the mortal realm back then or took the clown's words seriously.
After all, it was deemed the weakest mortal realm. All the gods had their heads far above the clouds, how could they seriously turn their eyes towards some insignificant mortal realm out in the boonies?
It was only when my wife actually went first hand to my realm in the spur of the moment, out of pure curiosity to see for herself the veracity of the clown's story did she stumble upon me. Back then the clown boasted that it was a low level realm where a party trick, like turning water to wine, would make people worship you. However, after some time passed, he realized that the realm was much unlike other realms.
The humans of this realm, instead of advancing in cultivation, they advanced technologically instead through science. The inhabitants of this realm also heavily focused on the entertainment industry. Yes, that was what my realm came to be known for in the eyes of gods. A convenient place that had many ways to pass the time.
It was a backward realm where instead of pursuing a long boring life, we pursued enjoying our short lives to the fullest.
On the other hand, my wife that visited the realm for the first time witnessed the unbelievable levels of fortune and suspected their had to be some sort of source. It was unnatural for such good fortune to exist after all.
After searching throughout the entire realm she eventually narrowed down the source and discovered the planet Earth. She locked onto the source located on Earth where it all originated from and teleported directly behind it.
When she got too close, the sudden increase in strength of the fortune surrounding her caught her off guard which led to that sneeze of hers.
Everyone knows how the rest of that story played out. The freakishly fortunate idiot who died thanks to being shocked by an ethereal fairy became the husband of the beauty who could never be wed due to her misfortune.
How can I doubt a woman who spent two billion years searching for a way to go against her misfortune like that? A woman who ventured forth on her own for two billion years completely isolating herself from others to avoid causing random disasters. Of course there were many times where she still caused disasters, but there was nothing she could do about them.
At the beginning, just existing was painful for her, but over time she became colder, more desolate, uncaring and indifferent. She became a social misfit and was unable to understand others well. People pursued her blinded by her beauty, but they would all eventually mysteriously disappear or die. When she was younger she never thought much of it because she thought death was a common occurrence. It wasn't until she noticed those who ended up hurt were only hurt after they met her.
Due to her lacking interaction with others, her personality developed to become slightly childish at times. She didn't like overly serious people and preferred to take things as they come.
She was aware that those that disappeared were among the more fortunate group of individuals. She was also aware that her father played a part in a majority of those disappearances as he feared his daughter being hurt by their inevitable death.
However, one day, she returned to her upper realm and pleaded with her father to save a random mortal without telling him the real reason. She said it was because she felt bad, but it was because she believed she could use my fortune to fend off and deter any calamities her loved ones may face thanks to her.
She's really unreasonable though. Placing your hopes on a weak mortal like me, aren't you just a dying man grasping at straws? After I came to learn of these things I felt a bit used, but somehow, I didn't want to let her down.
Yes, although I didn't want to let her down, I still didn't want to bore myself to death trying to speed up my cultivation.
Isn't there an even easier way for me to speed up my breakthroughs? Don't underestimate human laziness, humans from my realm advance even quicker because of laziness.
It's really thanks to laziness that a lot of our technology was created. Laziness was really a never ending cycle of advancement.
For example, this was one particular man's conundrum in my world.
You don't want to do mental math? Well, here's an abacus. Enjoy.
What you don't want to use an abacus anymore? You say it's too tedious? Well, here's a calculator. You just need to punch in some buttons and it will tell you the answer without you having to think at all.
You find that pressing buttons is too tedious? Well, here's a program that can just take a picture of the problem and answer it for you.
Oh is that still to difficult?! Well, that's alright, we've got just the thing for you, voice recognition software, just say the equation and it will enter the numbers for you and even tell you what the solution is if you are to lazy to read what the answer is.
Is that still not enough for your lazy ass?! Fine! We'll just get a computer to predict what your problem is and answer it for you! What?! What do you mean you're too lazy to even think what the problem is?! Okay! Okay! We get it! The computer will just do everything for you in your pathetic life! Just go to sleep or something you useless incompetent bum!
See? Laziness is truly how humans advance.
I'm already somehow advancing by leaps and bounds without doing anything, but how do I advance even faster by doing even less? It is truly the conundrum of the century; no, rather than century, the conundrum of the millenia. Maybe that's not right either, after all, as a cultivator I need to think big exaggerated numbers or I'm not doing my job right. Let's go with the conundrum of the infinitium. Yeah, that sounds about right for a cultivator.
While I was lost deep in thought over these world shaking matters, I naturally didn't notice the curious and worried gaze directed towards me from my big sister who was squat down in front of me at eye level.
I only snapped out of it when she opened her mouth and asked, "are you okay now?"
When I looked directly into her eyes, although she forced an expressionless face, I still noticed the embarrassment and bashfulness hidden within her eyes.
What is with my sister right now? It couldn't really be what my wife said, right? Did something happen while I was unconscious? Why? Why do all the good things happen when I'm not conscious?
Do the heavens really have eyes? This is rigged, it must be! It's a conspiracy I tell you!
"San, are you really fine now?"
"Yes, I am."
"Did something happen while I was unconscious?"
"No, nothing happened."
Suspicious. Too suspicious. Please don't awkwardly avert your gaze so blatantly and say nothing happened.
My wife told me not to cheat on her, but did something really happen between my sister and I?
"You're sure you did nothing to me while I was unconscious?"
I said that with a stern expression on my face, upon which she lowered her gaze and just nodded meekly with a "mmm" sound without saying another word.
Who is this cute creature? This definitely cannot be my sadistic big sister. The gap was too great from what I was used to seeing. Even I'm not stupid enough to not realize it by now. Something definitely happened between my sister and the unconscious I. The expression of a maiden in love, even I wasn't blind enough to not notice it when it was this explicit.
What have I done? I should have just come clean from the beginning. Wait, not all is lost just yet. I can still save the situation. I just need to get her to dislike me and like someone else. That crown prince, I must get these two together as soon as possible.
"Big brother San, let's play."
Oi. Kid, were you not informed I almost died? You sure don't look even the slightest bit worried for a kid. Once again she's really confirmed my suspicions of becoming someone great. She could probably be a great dictator one day if she really wanted to be one.
Since I was fine now and I wanted to get out of this awkward situation with my big sister, I accented to her request. "Sure, what do you want to play?"
"VR Racing."
What? Did I hear that correctly?
"Sorry, I'm not familiar with that game. How do you play VR Racing?"
"Don't worry, it's really fun and easy to play. Just sit in the pod over there and we can play right away."
I had always wondered what that pod was over the past week, apparently it's turned out to be something ridiculous.
"Uhm, little girl, this pod… the VR you mentioned wouldn't really stand for virtual reality, would it?"
"Of course it does."
"And who made this game?"
"I did."
Ah, she was already someone great. I couldn't stop the sweat from rolling down my back. I graduated with a degree in electrical engineering and have not even a shred of related work experience. Yet you're telling me this little girl is a monster who made a VR game?
"By the way, who created this pod?"
"Me."
"You're not lying to me, are you?"
"Of course I'm not. What do you take me for, a liar?"
"Did you start studying from your mother's womb?"
She showed a troubled look on her face before she reluctantly nodded her head.
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