Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 2 - 3, Real World I

Late at night.

On the swing set gently rocking herself back and fourth was the middle school girl, or former middle school criminal hacker girl Hikari. She had just left her home and was had nothing to do so she went over to the park she used to visit as a little kid.

Hikari: I must still be a little kid to come back here just because I am depressed. Also, why didn't I just tell Shin? For whatever it is worth the otaku is my boyfriend.

Hikari sighed to herself. She was kicking herself over for not telling Shin what was going on with her when he called. She had ignored everyone elses calls till now and when she finally found the courage to speak with someone, and Shin at that...

Hikari: I lied to him. I said everything was a okay and not to worry. Why didn't I just tell him? He may be a stupid, indecisive otaku who pushes girls down onto bed, but...

Shin: Hikari!

Hikari: Shin?

Shin had saw Hikari as he was riding his bike to her house. He had felt that something was wrong with Hikari when she finally checked in with him over the phone, so he immediately left home and rode his bike to see her because he was worried about her.

Hikari lived one hour away from Shin by car, but with his inhuman physical condition and almost wreaking his bike, he made the trip a little over a half an hour. Shin parked his bike that was almost done for and walked over to Hikari once he spotted her.

Shin: Are you okay, Hikari? Why are you in the middle of a park at night. It's dangerous.

Hikari: It can't be more dangerous the zombies or the Btooom Lord we faced before. You didn't need to come over to check on me.

Shin: Even so your fighting ability isn't the best, Hikari. You can never be sure about that a criminal with a feather might-

Hikari: Feather?

Shin: Ah, it isn't anything important. Still, why are you here in the middle of the night? Why aren't you home?

Hikari: ...

Shin: Did something happen?

Hikari: ...My parents.

Shin: Your parents?

Hikari: My parents... Are not home.

Shin: Then where are they? Are they out?

Hikari: ...They, they were relocated by the government.

Shin: ...

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Shin sat on the swing next to Hikari and heard her story. Once Hikari was done expliani explaining Shin was shocked, but if he had gave it a little more thought about her circumstances then he wouldn't have been.

Shin: So your parents are in some kind of witness protection program?

Hikari: Yeah. Before I was abducted and brought into God's Dimension, the authorities were getting close to finding out my real identity. Yet when they finally closed in to arrest me, I was already gone.

Shin: Okay, but why did they take your parents?

Hikari: They were made targets in my stead. When I saw my house up for sale and couldn't find my parents, I looked it up online. 'Middle School Hacker', was in all news headlines. The media got wind of the authorities failed arrest attempt and made it a hot topic. A few days later the police got word that the survivors of organizations that I had harmed, more specifically the criminal ones, they were found to be making threats towards my family now having found out my real identity. Their lives were in danger and they were the parents of a hacker genius with who knows how much information that could be used for good or evil, so they placed them in witness protection.

Shin: So if you ever come out of hiding...

Hikari: The authorities could use my parents as a way to force me to turn myself in. I found a lot more details online, but that sums it up well enough.

Shin: ...

That was... Wow.

Hikari's back story was already something being a genius hacker and all, but now it reached all new hights. A few more details and it would evolve into a full blown conspiracy themed light novel. Add in a hero of justice who would recruit Hikari into his side then you would have an amazing story... But I couldn't tell her that and had the good sense not to.

This wasn't a Manga or Light Novel for Hikari, but real life. Hikari's real life. She has been deemed a criminal by her country, other criminals are after her and her parents are gone. The life that Hikari has known and built up till now was gone, and possibly gone forever.

Shin: So what do you want to do now? With your hacking ability you should be able to locate your parents through police files and emails. Saki even made that Hi-Tech computer for you, and she herself is a government contact you can use if you want ( Though sometimes I forget that ). You can do it right?

Hikari: I can, but...

Shin: You don't want to?

Hikari: I do want to see them, but do they really want to see me? I... They never knew about any of the things that I did and I disappeared out of thin air once the authorities came looking for me. Such a child... Who would want to see them again.

Shin: You can't think that way.

Hikari: How can you say that!? They do hate me. Or what, there are no parents who hate their child in this world? Turn to any new channel and you'll see that the world isn't that perfect.

Shin: ...You're right. The world isn't such a nice place were such good belief holds true for everyone, but it doesn't matter Hikari. I don't know and you don't know how family feels right now, Hikari because you have yet to face them. That is why you have to see them to confirm the truth. You'll keep thinking about it otherwise and worry yourself to death if you don't.

Hikari: How would you know?

Shin: Well, I wondered for a long time if my family hated me for being the only survivor in an car accident that kill them.

Hikari: Shin... You, that just can't be true. Also, your situation is still different from mine. That had nothing to do with you, but this is all 100% my fault. I uprooted their lives and abandoned them because of some grudge that I had that went way out of control. The result... Is this. Maybe this is a good thing.

Shin: How so?

Hikari: Me never seeing them again could be my parents blessing and my punishment for my past crimee. I don't believe the God in that world is the true god, but sending me to that world... That hell dimension must be...

Divine retribution.

Justice.

Karma.

Hikari probably meant one of those kinds of words to explain everything that happened to her. Her guilt won't allow her to just forget everything and move on, or try to fix it to make things better.

Shin: Hikari.

Hikari: What?

Shin: I'll make you a promise.

I then leaned over and hugged Hikari. There was no impure attentions behind it. It was just something that I needed to do if I were to ever allowed to call myself her boyfriend at this moment. If I didn't do this now then I would have really just been playing around with her all this time.

Hikari: Shin.

Shin: Once we have escaped God's Dimension for good lets go look for your parents together. Even you don't want to look for them now then that is fine. I, I personally don't believe in a higher existence and that world's God is no true god, but if you believe that world is your punishment then overcoming that place with me will be your redemption. Afterwards, you can be free of everything, your past included and face this world proudly and harem or not, I want to live to see that day myself. We will go together to your parents and explain as much as we can.

Hikari: Do you think they will forgive me?

Shin: I don't know, but that will just be another turning point in your life, and so what if they don't. You will have me, your sister wives and the comrades we escape that place with by your side. We can even do what this one protagonist did and live our lives on a privately owned island with his women. We can definitely get the funds for this on the other side

That's my dream.

Aqua, Hikari and my many, many more wives/anime heroines. We are all on my island in the south, maybe can be the same one from BTOOOM for the heck of it and enjoy the sun, fresh air and swimsuits. No BIMs flying around would be sad, but our it would have been dangerous for our future kids as well ( Who should be mostly girls ).

Hikari: Wait wait wait! And where did the sister wives and buying an island come from?

Shin: That isn't important, so what do you say?

Hikari: ...It can't be that easy.

Shin: It can be. For starters you will come back home with me, so I can introduce you to my relatives.

Hikari: Aren't we moving too fast!?

Shin: How so? We already share a bed.

Hikari: That was one time!

Shin: I don't play around with women in that way, Hikari. I don't desire some superficial real world harem that don't care for each other. Even if I am with many women, I will definitely devote my life to them since I am asking them to share a great man like me.

Hikari: ...

Hikari gave me a 'Why are you acting so high and mighty' and 'Ah, I forgot Shin was this type of human garbage', kinda look. Then after a few seconds she began to cry in my arms for a while. As she did I had to wonder how did I come up with sich lines, but maybe it meant I was boyfriend material... Or becoming more of a protagonist.

Shin: Whatever. Either one is cool.

Hikari: What was that?

Shin: N-Nothing. Anyways Hikari it is getting real late now, so lets go home to my place, but before then... I have to now tell you something.

Hikari: What?

Shin: This isn't anything that you have to be a part of, but there is something that we have to do here in the real world now that we have the chance to with our powers.

Hikari: Such as?

Shin: ...Taking care of the criminal trash who dare to bother us.

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