Arc 20 - It gets better

Nazar is confused right now. He could gain all the information he needed, but not knowing things is making him excited.

He teleported to his base on Earth to learn new information.

However, that place was not there. He found himself stuck between the atoms on the moon, just like it happened earlier today when he wanted to travel to the enemy base.

She manipulated the reality, so Nazar never left Earth and never created his own base on the moon.

He frowned and teleported back to Earth.

He did not know where his new ‘home’s is supposed to be. Therefore, he appeared in front of Emma who was about to leave her house.

As soon as he appeared, she gasped and her shoulders jerked. “Geez. A little warning next time.”

“That’s not important.” Nazar paused. “Have you ever been to my house before?”

“What kind of weird question is that?” She paused. “It’s like 5 minutes away by walking.”

Nazar was confused right now. He wanted to know what else has changed in this new reality. Apparently, in the new reality, he did not move out to the moon. Therefore, it can only mean one thing: her reality warping goes beyond just one planet.

“I live on the moon...” Nazar said with an expression that showed like it was something obvious. He asked this just to confirm it.

Emma burst into laughter. “Wait, did you forget where you live?”

“No, I live on the moon. You can only get there using teleportation.”

“Nice joke.”

She took out her phone and started typing something. A second later something started to ring in his pocket. He reached his pocket and there was a phone there. Nazar threw away his phone a long time ago. He did have one at his home but never used one. Plus this phone was different than the one he had with him.

“What the…?”

He looked at the phone in confusion. The screen was lit up, so he saw a text message. The text message contained his new ‘home’ address.

As Emma saw the confused expression on his face, she asked, “What’s wrong?”

Nazar collected himself and said, “N-nothing.”

(Not knowing things can be… exciting?)

He vanished into thin air again.

This time he appeared in what seems to be his ‘home’. He appeared before the door. He was about to open the door using his powers, but someone else opened it.

It was a familiar figure. Someone he has known for a very long time. Emily opened the door. She had long blonde hair with big blue eyes. Her body features were the same as her other self from the other reality. She was wearing a blue dress now.

When Nazar thought about it, people’s personalities and memories were changed but their outlook was the same.

“Oh, hey babe.”

As she said that, Nazar thought he should just off the bridge.

Nazar decided to look back and around to see if there was anyone else around. There was no one around.

(W-w-w-w-what the h-h-h-h-hell is she t-t-t-t-talking about?)

He was found speechless.

She leaned over to kiss him, but he dodged it by moving to the right.

With a puzzled look on her face, Emily said, “Huh? What’s wrong, babe?”

“My name is Nazar.” He paused. “And why do you keep calling me ‘babe’?”

“Because we have been dating for years?”

(Y-y-y-y-years?)

Just as she said that his mouth opened wide and jaw dropped. He was in literal hell.

“T-t-this is supposed to be my house...”

Emily smiled and said, “You mean ‘our house’, right?”

(What the hell have you done, Aria?) He looked like he would cry any second. (I swear to God, I will kill you.)

He needs information and all of his suspicions have been resolved. He has all the necessary information he needs. But how will he get the information he needs?

“Anyway, you are here on time.” She reached her hand out and held Nazar’s hand. “We are all having a family lunch.”

“No, we are not.” Nazar let go of her hand and prepared to teleport. “Bye.”

As he said that, he teleported out and started float above the city.

(Reality Anchoring.) Also known as Reality Warping Immunity. This power will allow him to be immune to all effect of Reality Warping. (Just in case if she becomes even more powerful than she already is.)

Nazar then proceeded to use his vast amount of powers to search for other superhumans, but he could not find them. Superhumans, especially Psychics leave a trail behind them, but for some reason, he cannot find them. The one person he knows is 001.

“I cannot find any of the other superhumans,” Nazar muttered. “Their technology or rather they have been hidden from me.”

He searched deep down in his memories. He did not know where other superhumans might have lived or who they were.

While looking through his memories, he remembered a face. A face of a woman he has never met.

He saw her face when he was searching for the old man who recruited 001. That woman was someone who seemed very close to the main boss of IO. She was his assistant.

He then proceeded to go through her memories and find out where she lives.

“So, she lives in Venice,” Nazar muttered.

He chose her because if she is an assistant then he knows he can get more information about this from her than anyone else.

He now knows where she lives. He then proceeded to go to her house.

She lived in a small apartment in the middle of the city. Her apartment looked very cheap, but the way she dressed, he thought she might have been very rich.

She was tall and beautiful. She had long black hair with brown eyes. She is the same age as Nazar.

He teleported into her house, but she was not there. The inside of the apartment did not have anything that indicated she was rich. The apartment was very small with two small bedrooms and a small living room.

He went into the living room and there was no one there. The living room had an old sofa in it and a very old TV.

He then opened the door next to the living room, which was a bathroom.

He closed the door and took a few steps. He had used his power to not make any noises.

He opened the next door and it was a small bedroom with an old bed in it. The whole room did not have anything in it. Nazar was about to close the door when he saw the door of the cupboard was open.

Inside the cupboard, he saw many branded clothes and other stuff. He was confused by that. The clothes and other products are very expensive, which did not fit with her living situation.

He left the room and opened the door of the room. It was another bedroom.

Inside the room, he saw someone. Not the person he was looking for but a 12 years old boy. His head had no hair at all and he could not move. Nazar knew that he could not move because his eyes were open but he did not do anything when he saw Nazar.

He walked closer to the boy and asked a question, “Who are you?”

However, he did not receive any answer from the boy.

He then went and sat on the bed next to the boy. He noticed that the boy seemed very scared from his eyes. The boy's eyes were wide and they were a little teary.

He used his telepathy and created a space in his mind. An empty space where he can take someone else with him and talk freely. Their physical bodies become lifeless.

Inside the mind space, Nazar can go anywhere. He can be in space while talking because it’s just an illusion. But Nazar, as usual, went with a big room with no windows or doors. Everything around him become white as a chalk.

Once the young boy entered the mind space, he was surprised. He started to show expressions on his face. He looked around his body and he could move, which made him both surprised and happy.

But then he noticed Nazar. Nazar wanted to ask a question, but the boy’s happiness was replaced by fear.

“” The boy spoke in Italian. Nazar noticed both anger and fear in the boy’s tone. While he was talking, he was holding both his hands out towards Nazar.

At that moment Nazar's eyes widened when he noticed something. This boy was not affected by reality warping, and that made Nazar happy.

“” Nazar asked in Italian. Nazar had a power called Omnilingualism, which allowed him to instantly understand any language.

“”

Nazar could not stop but smile. He has finally found someone who is affected by reality warping.

Nazar left the mind space and came back to the real world because he felt a rift being opened.

As soon as he came back to the real world, the boy returned from his fantasy world.

“” Laura stopped mid-sentence because she entered the room and saw Nazar sitting there.

Her eyes were widened in both fear and surprised.

She said, “Let him go. You can kill me instead.” She sounded very angry and had a little fear in it too.

Nazar was happy to hear that. He found another person who is not affected by this terrible reality.

“I am not here to kill you,” Nazar said with a gentle smile. “I need answers and I think you can give them to me.”

He said this but Laura Marino did not look very convinced. Her fists were clenched. She was gritting her teeth.

“I swear, I will not kill anyone,” Nazar said without a smile this time. “Okay, how about we make a deal?”

“Deal?” Laura sounded surprised. “What kind of deal?”

“How about I heal your brother completely and in return you give me information,” Nazar said. “Does that sound good?”

“Why would you…?”

Nazar frowned and said, “The reality has messed some stuff up. I need information and you can give them to me.” Nazar paused. “So, deal?”

Laura chuckled and said, “I never thought I will sell my organisation to a killer.” She paused. “Fine. Deal.”

She was about to leave the room, but she heard a voice that made her cry straight away.

“” The voice belonged to Marco Marino. A boy who had never spoke in his life before, but she knew who it was.

She looked back and saw her brother was sitting down on the bed. And next to him was Nazar who started to walk away from there.

Her brother was completely healed.

Laura could not stop her tears and ran towards her brother.

“” She said it while crying.

She hugged him and she was crying.

“It will be better to smile at a time like this,” Nazar said while standing in the door and smiling. It was not an arrogant smile that he usually has it glued to his face, but it was a genuine smile.

The boy was happy, but Laura was crying because of happiness.

Their reunion took a few minutes, so Nazar interrupted it.

“I know you are happy and all, but are you going to deliver your end of the bargain?”

Laura stopped hugging her brother and wiped the tears off her face.

“Okay,” said Laura in a crying voice. “Let’s talk in the other room.”

They both walked out but were suddenly stopped when they heard the voice of the boy again.

“” The boy said this in a very low voice, but both of them heard it.

Nazar looked back and smiled. “”

After a few minutes, Laura finally delivered her part of the deal.

“So, what do you want to know?” Said, Laura, as she poured coffee in two cups.

“Do you know what is happening?”

“Yes,” Laura said as she finished pouring coffee in the cups.

“Good, because I did not feel like explaining it to you.” Nazar paused. “So, why are you guys unaffected by it?”

Laura placed one coffee in front of Nazar. They were sitting on the old sofa.

“I asked for extra tech.” She paused. “IO have tech that can allow you to be immune to the effects of reality warping. Because I already had one, I asked for an extra one.”

“Did IO use reality warping this morning, too?” Nazar asked.

“Yes,” Laura gave a small reply as she sipped her coffee.

“Do you know what their next plan is?”

Laura placed her coffee on the table in front of the sofa. It was a small wooden table. “I might be his assistant, but he does not tell me anything. He just orders me to take care of the superhumans and their related problems. However, most of the management knows about the project Perfect World.”

“Project Perfect World,” Nazar muttered.

“Project Perfect World is a project that was launched about a month ago,” Laura explained. “When we were looking for extra people, Aria, also known as 010 came to us. She wanted power and the boss accepted her. We did not know why, but yesterday we found out that she is your cousin. After she got accepted, she took the pill that gives the user powers for 24 hours. So, each subject has to take it at the same time and should consume every 24 hours. However, 010’s power turned out to be reality warping, so she managed to manipulate her own personal reality and was now an actual superhuman. She was thrown into the room in the name of training and development.” She paused. “However, the boss was extremely interested in her. He would visit her daily and would give her papers and other plans. In those papers, he would give her plans for project Perfect World. During the last month, she completed the project Perfect World.”

“She added things into it that can be used against you and things that will make other superhumans completely invisible to you. She also made many different changes that no one knows about it.” She paused. “This morning, phase 1 of project Perfect World was launched. A few minutes ago, phase 2 was successfully launched, too. There are a few more stages but I don’t have much information regarding that.”

“How well do you know your boss?” Nazar asked a different kind of question.

Laura was surprised to hear that. “I don’t know anything about his personal life. He also does not share a lot of work details with me either. He seems nice sometimes, but can be very scary sometimes.”

“Why are you working for them?”

Laura chuckled and said, “Because of you.”

Nazar who was staring at the wooden table finally looked at Laura.

“Me?”

Laura sighed and said, “Because you killed my parents and I wanted revenge.”

Nazar did not say anything afterwards.

Laura looked at him and then started talking again. “My brother has always been like this. My parents were scientists, so when they heard rumours of you in the scientific community, they and many top scientists started working for that mysterious organisation named NSE. They wanted to examine your results to see if they could find a cure for my brother. However, they were both killed by you last year.” She paused. “So, when IO was created, they wanted people with history to you and I was one of them. Because I had no special skill sets, the boss asked me to become his assistant. We worked with scientists and many other people to find a way to kill you. So, far nothing has worked.”

Nazar was still speechless.

After a while, he asked a question. “Anyway, why do you have so many expensive clothing and other stuff? It does not fit with your current lifestyle.” Nazar said that he looked around.

Laura chuckled and said, “Those does not belong to me. It belongs to IO. I am basically being forced to wear expensive clothes for some reason.” She paused. “I get paid pretty good, but most of the money is wasted on Marco’s treatment. So, there is not much left to go to a better house or have better bed or sofa.”

“Where is your boss right now? Or any of the other superhumans?”

“I don’t know. I found myself in the middle of nowhere when the reality was changed, so I still have no idea.”

Nazar stood up and said, “Thanks.”

“At least drink your coffee,” said Laura. “I wasted my time on it. It is rude to not drink it.”

He has never drunk coffee before, but he sat down and drank it. “I never had coffee before, but it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.” He smiled and drank the rest of the cup in one go.

He was about to leave but then he looked back and said, “I know it might not mean anything to you, but I am truly sorry for what I have caused you.” He paused. “Will you be able to help me again sometime in the future?”

“Maybe.”

“If you ever need anything, you can rely on me,” Nazar said as he vanished into thin air.

She was surprised to hear that. Everyone in the real world knew what kind of person he was. He was not the type of sympathise with anyone, let alone help a stranger. He is the worst of the worst, so she was surprised to hear that.

She just chuckled and looked into the empty space where Nazar was standing earlier.

She went back into her brother room and started talking to him. For once, both of them were happy.

Nazar appeared above London again. He needs to see 001. He knows that 001 can help him. He did not want to bother Laura anymore than he already had. Plus, her brother was finally able to move, so he wanted to give them some time.

He wanted to tell her how bad this whole world is at the moment, but she was too happy, so he just let her be.

He now knows that using his powers is completely useless in this world.

He was getting angry because they were completely invisible to him. He could not trace their energy signatures and cannot trace them using their brainwaves.

He teleported into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He teleported himself into the deepest corners of the see.

He found one spot where there are not many living creatures and it was dark. He liked it here.

He closed his eyes and listened to the ocean. He listened to the wave of the ocean. He just lied down for a few minutes.

But then at that moment, he remembered something.

“We are all having a family lunch.”

Emily had told him this earlier. He knew where he might be able to find 001.

Earlier today Mikasa had told him that she saw Jake earlier this morning, so it can mean that he is still around and he might come to this ‘family lunch’.

He knows it is awkward to go and interrupt the family time of another family, but he had no choice but to go there.

However, he did not where they were. So, he proceeded to find Emily’s specific brainwaves and trace her to a family restaurant.

He teleported out and found himself in the same restaurant.

It was a family restaurant filled with kids and families. To the side, he saw Emily and some other familiar faces. It was John Evans and Mary Evans, his foster parents.

He teleported out of there suddenly, so he was still wet.

He noticed it after a few seconds.

“Shit,” Nazar muttered.

He twitched his palm and just like that, he and his clothes were no longer wet.

He was about to walk towards where Emily and the others were, but he was surrounded by people.

“OMG, he is so awesome.”

(Oh God, not again...)

“Can I get a picture without?”

(Um… you are already taking one, so why ask?)

“Um… why are you not smiling today?”

(Wait, did I smile in this reality like an idiot...?) He realised something that made his shoulders to drop. He is always smiling like an idiot.

He walked his way out of the crowd and to the table.

Everyone is too happy for some unknown reasons.

Just when he reached the table, he saw Jake AKA 001 and he was happy about that.

However, 001 was surprised and he seemed like he wanted to get out of here.