Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

0077 Meg's Strangeness and the Primordial Tower Trade Market

Knock! Knock!

"Come in!"

Kai saw Meg walking in. The clock was striking eight, and the world had gone dark outside. Stars had come out, and the early moon was smiling down over the town from the horizon, just short of disappearing.

Kai had changed his torn clothes and cleaned the room. His face was still light pale, but it was less from weakness and more from recalling what he had seen over the Blood Ocean.

There was one more change.

Petyr was standing by his side, acting as his voice.

Kai didn't like it, revealing the Character so. However, he had no other choice as well.

He had been already struggling with Advance Emotions Manipulation, hoping to get a good control over it. Then, out of nowhere, his another Elementary Ability became not Advance, but an Elite. It was as if the Universe' rules had overwritten what language meant for Kai. He knew the language he used to speak, but when he actually spoke, only hisses came out.

Moreover, Petyr Baelish was a teenager in appearance, making it hard to relate him to the Master of Coin known across the Primordial Tower's Contestants.

Kai could afford gambling on Meg now recognizing Petyr's real identity, but not her hearing his hisses and not realizing he was speaking Parseltongue.

Morning Mist's gaze landed on the black-haired boy and her eyes widened. "Who's he?!"

From the Mission assigned to her, she knew Red had come alone to the Random World. He couldn't call other Contestants, too, for he wasn't a Captain of Guard yet. Not to mention, she had already concluded Red didn't belong to any Organization. For him to have contacts in this Random World, it didn't make any sense to her.

"Don't worry about me," Petyr said, smiling. "Please report your findings, my lady."

Meg frowned. She looked at Red and found her looking back at her with dead eyes. Something happened when I was gone, she thought. Something 's changed.

Morning Mist remembered a few things, looked at Petyr again, and her heart thumped.

Across the room, Kai's heart thumped, too.

For a moment, just for a tiny moment, his Perception had screamed bloody murder, the woman standing in front of him becoming the Ukrainian Ironbelly. However, in the very next moment, everything returned to normal as if what his Perception had picked was nothing but a mirage.

Then he saw Meg approaching him and he found it hard to stay still. His hands itched. For the first time, Kai realized how much he actually missed his sabers.

Meg crouched in front of Kai and spread a roll of map. "We are here, the town of Alto Mare, the setting of the movie's plot. It is an island, south of Azalea Town of the Johto Region."

Kai's eyes narrowed seeing the names written on the map. Meg's fingers then traced the coastline towards the Southeast and stopped over another town.

"The closest research center is in New Bark Town," she reported. "It is home to the lab of Professor Elm, who gives out the starter Pokemon for the Johto region. To reach there, we must first take a ferry to Azalea Town and then go to the New Bark Town on another ship. The entire one-way trip can take anywhere between 10 to 12 days."

Kai nodded.

"And?" Petyr asked about the second thing Kai had asked her to do.

Meg folded the map and passed it to Kai, taking a furtive glance at Petyr. "The Tour de Alto Mare, or the Water Chariot race we saw at the start of the movie, will be held on 28th June," she answered, taking a seat on the sofa. "I want to take part in it."