Aeon Nether & Idol Effigy

Chapter 29- Replies

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Essentially now Emma's family has gained recognition through myself becoming somewhat of a public figure and will gain more than one person who'd lament their deaths. Even if they know that their world was in the wrong by glossing over the circumstances that led to me killing the family with the little news provided to them, they'd compliment their existence in such a way that I'd end up becoming a devil by being an opponent or force against them.

What was I supposed to say to that?

'Hahah, yeah. I had a vision that I was living through a tortured girl's life when I was reborn into this world. She basically brought me into this world and killed herself, whilst forcing me to relive her exact life when I was a child. Don't worry though I can live my own life now and succeed in killing my/her family.'

'Oh, so that's what information you gained as a transmigrated person?'

'No, I gained information from a web novel I read from someone else's perspective. Emma just sent me her life story when I was born here.'

'? That's a bit far fetched to say that a dead person you'd transmigrated as, sent you something like that? Won't that consist of too much information, even if you've been transmigrated?'

'I-is it? Also, I didn't transmigrate into her. I was reincarnated and just happened to be birthed by her biological parents.' Isn't Trina or what's her name, the one who had too much information? But she did alright... until she died.

'So, it's your ability-'

'-Ability, no it's Emma's.'

'How is it possible for her to send something to you when she's non-existent and you've taken her place already? Didn't you kill your family, because of these delusions...'

'No, they sold me off when I was born and tried to abandon me when I was two.'

'So you remember all this stuff when your brain was that underdeveloped? Or do you have some sort of proof?'

'... The news covered it... Well, they sort of, -there should be some places you can screenshot and zoom into...'

Yeah, something like that would happen. Even with the little information I had on transmigrators from the teachers, I remember understanding just how strange my situation is. This was only made more apparent to me when I asked 'hypothetical' questions to adults.

Thinking back to the replies I get, I remember how shocked I was when I found out that there were limits to things in this world that had ability users who could do something amazing like change gravity in an area or etc.

What's more is that I only fully understood this when I was told that transmigrators only get some information from one source. For example, my information was from Trina's point of view from a web novel. Even if my information was lacking like this, it would be considered as coming from one source in the same way as a web novel from an omniscient narrator or one from multiple perspectives. That was it and then we transmigrated.

But I got two lots of information.

Why and how was this the case?

Am I missing something?

The only thing I'm sure of is that I'm an idiot.

That's exactly how I felt under the gazes of the people in the room.

It filled me with a kind of wanting to know what those types of 'fan' gazes that were currently on me, at the very least. Does it sound bad?

I would like to think that maybe they'd treat me like usual from this point and when we end up with a lower number of contestants that we'll communicate more regularly with in an actual friendly format, like the usual trend of this show.

Smaller classes and a less tense environment when I meet other contestants in the second year of this show, where four hundred of the people on the show won't actually be competing in the show at some point. Hopefully, those things don't change from the novel and I can attend to my university subjects in a better environment as the show progresses.

At least that's what I hoped for.

...

A day passed.

I still hadn't found out the name of the uncle's family member that was hosting the game yesterday.

Curiosity didn't overwhelm me though.

This was especially the case when the day was coming to a close.

Everyone was distancing themselves from me. It was something that was somewhat expected from me. Maybe they saw me as a murderer. My face had been on the news all around the world when they were younger. I had also made more headlines when I started attending a school at the age of 13.

This wasn't strange. It was expected. But that didn't make it any less disappointing for me.

Right now I am finishing one of the lessons for my courses.

It sounds weird to be taking university courses when I was only 16, but I suppose that university material has always been slowly added to appear earlier in our education than previous years of students. Or at least that's the way it was for my last world. I also still had my past memories of the previous 23 years of my life. So it wasn't strange. Just gruelling like the normal education system was supposed to be.

The problem was that this was my first year in idol effigy. Although a sizable chunk of the educational years had passed and everyone my age was quite literally all over the place, a lot of people still attended different universities in a normal fashion. If I wasn't on Idol Effigy my timetable would seem more normal, but now I had to attend most classes between 5-9pm.

Most people that attended the university I went to weren't those on reality TV shows in the area of Effigy, but those that had failed to survive on their shows. It was done on purpose.

Who'd want to stay with the people you were on a reality show contest with 24/7?

Not me. So normally everyone was split into different universities near the place the show was being recorded.

It was odd, now that I think about it.

Why were there so many universities near the sets of the first year reality shows?

It was probably designed like that. The shows have been going on for a somewhat long time and this was a world I still haven't gotten used to. But I just couldn't help thinking about it. Even the fact that they gave us another year where just on this idol show we'll have to complete or study 70ish degrees briefly. It was shocking. There weren't enough hours in the day nor on the show. People had to pick ten to attend each week and revise like crazy. The only good thing is that everyone's memory or species was upgraded in some way to accommodate for this illogical situation.

Well, illogical to me anyway.

It really makes you wonder about the people on the show. Given that all the contestants have always passed ten or so degree courses, at the very least by the end of the second year.

Although thinking about it... Won't we have to study more given that the show we got on wasn't so much career or future focused? You couldn't just tell the world that anyone can make it into becoming a celebrity in the entertainment world. Sure you might get ten seconds of fame, but... What about after those ten seconds?

Thankfully the show was somewhat practical and offered more variety of paths than my past world's education system. Or at least that's what I think.

I looked around the emptying classroom before going to the dorm assigned to me on the show.