Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 11, Real World I

Shin: What? So you are saying that this is the man who saved you all those years ago?

Saki: Yes. He was indeed the one although he wasn't bald and dressed as a monk at the time. I swore that he had a hair at the time.

Sozin: That...I wear a disguise when I leave the island for assignments.

Shin: ...

Sozin was the one who rescued Saki.

When Saki was a child and had went to the beach with her parents for a vacation, she was kidnapped by a mysterious organization who most likely possessed the same enhancements that you could only acquire from God's Dimension, along with other children, and her parents along with the other adults were killed.

Then Saki and the other children were brought to an institute and were being trained and experimented on for unknown reasons. Then the day came when a man, revealed to be Sozin arrived to the institute Saki was being held at and came to the rescue. Sozin was only abe to save Saki in the end, yet he was able to kill off her kidnappers. Then Sozin later used some technique to erase Saki's memories of those events, most likely for secrecy, but unfortunately for him Saki with her perfect memory allowed her to keep those memories in the end.

Hikari: Your really the same man who saved Saki? This should have happened close to twenty years ago. You look very... Young.

Hikari's statement was right on the mark.

This monk Sozin wore old and very much used monk attire, but he very much stood out. No only was the monk young, at most in his latelate 20's or early 30's, and he was a handsome man even without hair. If Sozin introduce himself as a grandfather no one would belive him unless he said that he and his child had children when they were preteens.

Sozin: That couldn't be helped. Like I said, I too am from the dimension. By the time that I had the power and means to collect 50,000 points for 'Return to the Origin', I had gained the genetic mutation of a Vampire, Ki Energy ( Life Force ) and had a high Cell Vitality. I don't really grow older anymore.

Misaki: So you are immortal?

Sozin: No, I just have high Cell Vitality and a mutation. I never did exchange for those outrageously expensive enhancements from God. I am well over 100 years old, but I am slowly reaching the limits of my body even if I don't look it. I'll probably reach the end of my life before I turn 400, and with the remainder of this life I am just looking after my grandchildren.

Hearing this, Shin had one of his assumptions about stats and other enhancements answered. Shin had been wondering since the time he gained his One-eyed Ghoul mutation, an enhancement that held high Cell Vitality and Immunization Strength stats. His curiosity has also grown even more after the Btooom mission where he nearly died from injuries several times and regenerated an actual functional arm.

Shin: ( So it is possible to live longer with high stats after all ).

Shin had suspected as much since with a high Cell Vitality it would mean his body wouldn't break down and grow weaker with age, and a high enough Immunization Strength enoug means he wouldn't contract any virus in his life time that could end or shorten his life.

Shin has read up on the enhancements that say can give immortality, and this includes lower B rank reward enhancements like the Ogre mutation, that say you can survive having half your body blown off, but even Shin couldn't really believe immortality or eternal youth was possible. The main character of UQ Holder is an immoral, but with his past tragedy where his family died in, it made him cynical to the idea deep down. That was because acknowledging immortality was an insult to his family and Zero who had passed away.

Shin: So immortality is a real thing?

Sozin: I don't have it, but I know of some that do have it. Why, do you want to become one?

Shin: No. I am okay with an extended life and youth like your, but I wouldn't want to live forever.

Aqua: Ah, that reminds me. Where are those brat kids of your.

Hikari: Aqua, don't be so rude. Also, shouldn't both you and Shin apologies for the fight earlier?

Sozin: It is fine.

Shin: Really? I don't feel like apologizing when you hurt both Aqua and I, but I would still understand if there were still some hard feelings on your side.

Sozin: Yeah, but it's okay. Ken and Kaiyo, my two grandchildren, it was fine of you to beat them down and knock them down a peg. Because of their abilities they were starting to have overinflated egos and were recently skipping out on their training. It was no good when I, their grandfather beat them since their was too big of a difference in power and experience between us and they have known this their entire lives, but with the arrival of a few stranger around their age...

Shin: Hopefully they learned the world is bigger than they imagined and that they were frogs in a well who have yet to even see the world ( Though I am not one to talk ).

Sozin: Exactly. Your teams leader is very wise.

Shin: I wouldn't say that.

Hikari: Sozin, please stop that. Shin's ego can easily be inflated by praise like that. If he isn't fighting a boss on a mission then it is best to keep him grounded in reality. He already believes that it is the most natural thing in the world for him to be entitled to a harem.

Shin: Well, I-

Hikari: Shut up!

Shin: ...

Then once Hikari were were done bashing Shin they got back to the subject at hand.

Shin: If the leader bashing is over, can we get back to the reason that we are here? Sozin agreed to tell us what he knows, so let's hear him out. So... Where should we start from? There are so many things we want to know and there are probably some answers we need, but don't even know the questions to ask. Saki. Aqua. You two are the most knowledgeable here about that dimension, so why don't you two begin.

Among the seven Players present, Aqua has the most experience being the veteran Player of over seven missions. Additionally, Saki is genius and who has been waiting for this moment her whole life to have her many questions answered. Shin is the kind of guy to take things as they are without worrying too much, so he didn't really have any questions for Sozin ready at this moment.

Aqua: Let me start off with the question I and possibly everyone here wants to know the most

Sozin: Go ahead.

Aqua: Okay then. First off... How did you escape that hell hole?

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Many questions will be answered in the next chapter, so sorry for the short chapter. Also, due to real life circumstances I may not be able to post new chapters for a few days. Depends if I have Internet access.