Lim looked at her boss in shock yet instantly sent an SoS signal to the main BASS.
Tobi was now putting back the contract and the feather pen to his inventory space, a smile painted on his face looking in a certain direction then he stretched up his hands and arms like planning to do something.
Lim: Boss please don't do the thing that you're thinking now. She didn't get a reply but a fierce gaze stunning her in the spot and something binds her.
Tobi rubbing his hands with a wicked smile then claps: I should use my favorite 10th untraceable cut, he he he. What clans should taste my annihilator doom cut.
This is the 1st time she heard the actual name of her boss, 10th sword slash… If she had drunk some beverage before hearing it she would surely throw it up. Her mouth being sealed and she still being bound yet her thoughts flew to Tobi's mind within their connection.
Lim words: BOSS you should try to improve your naming sense, it sucks so much....
Tobi didn't reply to her, he took a stance. A sword stance like he was holding a sword up to hack down vertically the space in front of him and started to chant...
My body and soul are always on the battlefield….
...…
Nameless and Gladiia started to deploy a camp to a created land floating inside the territory where their home world was.
Nameless pause then look at where Gladiia was to call her attention.
Nameless: Little sis can you take care of my human body for a while, dad is calling me.
Both of them know what their father did a while ago. Gladiia nodded at her, Nameless pulled up a futon and she put it up in front of a pala blue fire that served as their campfire to sleep.
Gladiia only moves next to her then pulls out in her inventory a set of cooking equipment and ingredients, setting the huge wok above the fire and looking at it perfectly she smiles then she starts to cook.
Gladiia: I felt sorry for the childrens and womans in the upper origin realm if dad and sis started a genocide. Poor Lim she cannot do anything, well is there an innocent being in it. A question without an answer, She pauses because someone touches her head.
She didn't detect it even when her Nen-Qi EN was fully deployed, turning and looking to see who it was yet she saw an asian woman smiling at her amusingly with super long silky straight dark hair and a white furball sitting in the top of her head that had slit-eyes, this creature was showing its sharp teeths grinning at her.
Gladiia: You two are….. but how??????
...…
This event is before or after Tobi did that...
A certain huge office in the main building of cosmic adventurer hub, a bunny lady was arranging some documents, ledgers and log books then she felt it. She knows she was inside of a huge outer soul, not one but two. 1st was her ladyship and second was from an unknown being she didn't know. The flow of spirit power that had been stable moves caught her attention, it was a huge movement for her as a peak tier 15 yet not to those below this tier nor didn't know about this situation then she shifted her gaze to her ladyship that pauses in stamping some documents.
Ame Warashi puts down the things she was doing then she asks Amiya. This is the 2nd time I saw that crown above your head, you said to me it was a life saving defensive mechanism yet I question you this time as one of my students. If there is a war, whose side you will pick to join in, the guys in the top or the side that owns this outer soul. You know having a huge outer soul means he/she already assimilated or everything already within his/her range of attack. You had this power before I picked you up that also made that admin want to kill you at that time.
For Amiya this was a serious question, a war: I… I try to remain neutral but I will follow you my master on what you will choose then she got her answer, the truth who owns this huge outer soul.
Ame Warashi: Neutrality hmmm? Do you remember what I told you back then about Gladiia's dad that he can kill anyone he wanted to, he owns this. She pinches the air like she caught the flow of spirit power in this outer soul. Now I think about???? Did she just enter the realms too? She has been monitoring Alice's movement using her own outer soul as a prying eyes.
Amiya froze: So it was your niece…. he he he…. I Am truly lucky….. She never got lucky like this even though she had won some gambling lottery within the cosmic adventure's hub.
...…
Some devourers stop a little yet they still continue their journey; they all know that the bystander will never harm a colleague or an ally.
A young girl who was alone walking in a certain void path in bare feet, just wearing a plain white dress without any design and had no accessories at all, she was holding a stuffed toy. This was the last devourer in that generation that had been killed by the three leading bystander. No one can tell her gender back then yet truthfully her old appearance was genderless but thanks to the blessing of the three she regained some of her sanity, memories and this appearance she had now was her actual one as a normal being.
I really don't want to go, she still had a trauma from them. Damn that guy keeps getting stronger, he can now kill anything within this kind of range and no one can dodge his attacks well there is none to begin with, she stomps her foot in the void path planning to throw a tantrum yet she didn't do it. She was lazy, she didn't want to be laughed at by the other devourers that would see her appearance. shrugging the feeling of high blood pressure getting high she pulled some condiments to chew then she restarted her journey.
...…
Before Alice entered the realms...
Alice was just observing the three consciousness like they were her new toys yet she suddenly had a bright idea.
Alice: Sikare I decided I'm the one entering…..
Sikare: EH eh eh….. but mom this information should be a top secret one.
Alice: What do you think, can anyone of those inside of them can handle us right Akuma. She really didn't care because even tier 16 were their enemies they could still win without taking a huge amount of damage.
The furball opens up its slit-eyes, golden red crimson pupils realising a dreadful killing intent was poured down at the three consciousness that had now a body. The three kneeled looking downward coughing blood, having hard to breath yet soon they heard Alice voice stopping the furball.
The three look at them, the eldest sudden laugh then said to Alice with a serious tone.
So all along even the contract that was made by several tier 16 cannot stop a bystander in your caliber.
Alice replied: You're wrong about that, the contract can bind us a little if we are inside the three of you, then she pulled her contract opening up yet the three consciousness smile bitterly because there are no words written on it. Just a blank one…..
The oldest said to Alice. Then everything that's happening now is a part of your plan, you all being kicked out limiting the range of those tier 16 and us in detecting the changes in the contract.
The three cannot even feel their powers in the blank contract that Alice showed.
Alice snaps her finger, the three consciousness light up slowly being healed.
The eldest: You? Did you just initiate the repairing codes inside of us? You are not our creator?
Alice passed by ignoring them and without turning she said to Sikare: Don't enter yet wait for my signal and just make these three stay here for a while, ah you three are banned from going back to your actual body. Oh yeah let them see it, who wants to go back inside the three of you.
The Three had no choice, a command line was issued and made them only to comply.
Alice and Akuma disappeared in that place and using her brother's outer soul she decided to instantly move to the kids that she hadn't met yet.
Appearing 1st inside of a kids room only checking the faces of two sleeping babies, in millisecond before Liliana detected them and Koko moved to that room she blinked to where Gladiia is. It was planned and executed so fast, Nameless human body was now sleeping when she arrived then slowly approached the small figure that was busy cooking. Letting her perceive them upon entering a certain EN that is deployed by Gladiia. Upon her niece looking up at her, she and Akuma both gave her a pleasant smile.
...…
Sikare: The three of you should sit up, cleaning that huge table that her mother materializes, removing those unknown documents and putting a tea set then pulling out some foods out for her inventory.
The three consciousness look at each other, the three materialize their own chair facing the other side of the table that Sikare standing making up the tea that they will drink.
Upon distributing it when finished she said her words: You know I really wanted to beat the three of you to the death in your current state yet I will not do it. My life was so hopeless, I should have died back then without reaching 8 years old, that time is also the end of my world. Watching it being swarmed by unknown monsters from a different world. Each pain of losing everything, the pain of being ripped apart being eaten by a horde of monsters yet she appeared, commenting on me who was the last being alive breathing my last breath. Upon death my soul just stands in front of her, she asks me if I wanted to continue living. I blink my eyes and those monsters disappeared like they didn't exist but my world was already in ruins. A furball jumps happily then arrives at the person in front of me.
I was already dead right, the woman replied yup, I had a commitment to follow. Save those who cannot be saved, she looks around then fixing her gaze to the spirit in front of her. All the dead beings here your soul was more intact so I will ask you again, do you want to live then hold my hand and become my kin.
I reached it, information flowed to me infinitely and soon she recreated my body. That was also the day I got the information about the three of you.
My brothers and sisters, every bystanders hated you three yet we did work for that being, the ruler who you three had chosen.
Her voice where sharp yet she shrugged only observing the expression of the three that were silent drinking the tea that she had made.
The three had their own opinions about them.
Sikare called their attention then pointed to the gate that her main body was holding.
The other side slowly being revealed, all the massive tentacles were connected to a lady in a black dress yet this being moved aside showing a graveyard but that was not it.
Truthfully Sikare's main job as a bystander was a gravekeeper, she's one of those who manage undead or non living beings that they materialize from those cards they had pulled, assisting them to choose from those who failed as family guardian beast to follow for their training.
Look carefully…. With her words the three increase their focus then they see it a huge realm matching the combined size of the lower and middle realm.
The eldest of the consciousness "EOTC": She is already in the same lvl of the seed that created us.
The lower realm consciousness: The bystanders racial race had small numbers and only a few clans followed them out. ha ha ha….. I see that that's how it is, for it to be that big. That BASS is still connected to us.
The middle realm consciousness: Those wreck systems and hosts that had been killed, their inventory and their companion who had turned to cards was being salvaged by her without us knowing or she just snatched them without us detecting it.
EOTC: Not only that, those beings who are asking to visit them, they are doing something. Tobi only focuses on training, Alice considers everything as a game and Noel is always busy with her hobbies. In total the one who will manage is the new head of the bystanders, not the main Bloodborne family right. She looks at Sikare with a defeated face.
The three made a bitter laugh…. they underestimated Alice.... No, they underestimated every bystander.
Sikare's main body shakes her head with a crazy smile.
...…
Upper origin realm, territories he had selected... Han Clan supreme ancestor Han Li slowly flew up to the center of his territory. He only waits because there is already an invisible white vertical line appearing in his body, not only him but every being in his territory, even the planets had it.
Han Li: Why just not snap your fingers bystander. He shouted but no one replied. The cries of his people echoed everywhere, a phenomenon that they didn't know except to those eligible to learn the existence of all taboos.
Han Li: I know your listening, can you at least spare the young ones…. we old beings are already enough for a bloodbath…. He had no regrets, he kneeled for those beings that should be spared. He knows it from the start even though he was one of those tier 16 made that contract and letting Tobi destroy his body by entering the main wheel of samsara for reincarnation.
Death is their ending….. erasing one's existence....
This event happens in some clans, Those old beings that had been selected were all standby, some even holding their weapons and the others were wearing their armors. They hate this kind of ending yet they cannot even do a thing, they wish to die fighting not like this.
Jeong Hyeon was observing the territory he was in, he was also one of those who made the contract yet he did not belong nor selected to be killed by him. He bypassed a mother holding her child in her hands crying while the husband was next to her listlessly trying to calm down his wife.
He looked up while holding a cup of shake like he was offering it to someone he said. Can you not kill womens, newborns and childrens, do they really need to receive your wrath? Is there a way for you not to kill everyone? yet he didn't get a reply. He threw the cup down to the ground and took a stance, a sword draw stance aimed at nothingness trying to block the attack from an unknown direction as long as it entered all his senses and perception abilities.
The center area of the upper origin realm, a middle aged man rushes to a room, upon entering he appears in a huge botanical garden. He didn't stop until he saw his parents, the couple looked like they were in the age range of 35-50. The wife was busy pouring her homemade tea into her husband's cup and the man stopped. He kneeled because he saw a line in their neck so visible that it couldn't be erased.
The man called his son. Why kneeled, from the very beginning he was stronger than me or anyone in the realms. After winning the throne you become so confident, you didn't even realize that the plan to kick all the bystanders was a manipulative one yet those who did it were also being controlled by one of the leading three bystanders.
The woman: Do you know you? You, your brothers and sisters would not be born if I didn't meet them. They were the one who pointed and led me to your father. Both of us never get mad at our children, right…..
The son just smiled bitterly: You never told me that? He looked at his mother's face, trying to help him to stand.
The woman: ? I did foretold this story when you're still little, you forgot it for real. The son just shrugged while being led to the empty chair to face his father.
The man was busy in his tea yet he said to them: I believe in my luck that he will not wave his sword down…. I did give them a place here, they had paid for it, everything of it by finishing all the impossible missions that I had ordered.
The wife and the son know that even luck or if this a game stats like luck was invalidity against entities like them yet why did he say that he believes in his luck.
Inside the man inventory, category: ETC. a small charm pouch, something breaks inside of it, the question is who gave or made that charm…..
...…
12:09 AM, Home….. Koko returned to where Liliana is…..
Koko: I almost caught them yet they were both quite fast to respond…
Liliana: Auntie is quite playful, pointing in a direction then waving up her hand.
Koko also looked in that direction in the starry sky, she saw Alice was waving back at them.
Koko: I don't care anymore I just sit here and be lazy…..
The two didn't notice in a certain bed room, Skadi wakes up…. She looks around, her tummy suddenly makes a sound, she puffs her cheeks within a minute, she thinks of a person who always had food next to them, of course it was her dad. She pauses, she had used her dad's outer soul to locate where he was, confused because it became so big yet she still found him. She disappeared in that bedroom with the plushie who jumps up attaching itself to her hair leaving Specter who is sleeping like a log.
...…
Every line he chant, another clan territory was being selected…..
Nameless in her sword form already materialized in his hands, she didn't speak….. the hymn of her blade echoes matching her dad's sword intent….
Tobi half away finishing his chant:
...
Everything can change but I never do,
I walks to any worlds but never leaves any sign,
My weapon hums a different tune,
The air turned sharp and the heavens choked,
Every earth can be cut, No stars cannot be disintegrated,
My build is wild, My path always in track,
I never turn back, I just return but truthfully I never left,
Reach, Reach, Reach, I step forward,
All range, My blade already aligned,
No name survives. No oath to stall, No final calling,
The Skies will be split again and again, I ends it all,
I'am a sword,
There is nothing this Bystan.....
Before he completes his chant and swings Nameless down someone tug his jeans...
He let go of Nameless, Nameless hovered and laughed... Dad I'll be going, who never knows she can do that already, see you guys at home. She disappeared instantly….
Lim was now released from her binding, using her link to her Boss she shouted that the whole realm can hear her voice, ah I mean those who are capable can hear it.
Kyaaa, Skadi....
Wah those beings in the top, this is their lucky day... Being saved by the boss' little daughter…..
She flew to the baby holding her dad jeans with her left and rubbing her eyes with the other, she had a sleepy vibes. She pokes her cute cheeks…..
Skadi: Nott punni Lim, mhmmm. Pa mowning...
Tobi looked down, taking a deep breath and slowly sat cross legs. He picks her up and observes her completely, his eyes become sharper when he sees the plushie. The plushie quivers and jumps out entering Skadi's inventory then putting her down.
Tobi: It's not even 1 AM in that world, midnight snap while patting her head…. well you ruined a moment, how about we had a little walk.
Skadi: A walk, is there a lot of food? Her mood lit up with anticipation.
Tobi: Depends if we enter a territory and depends if you want to visit a world if you know some. Lim dodge…..
Lim upon hearing his words, her body reacted fast, flickering appearing above Skadi's head.
She looks at the one who attacks her.
Why are you here, it's not virtual but a BASS in her actual body. It was Alicia the main BASS.
Lim: Boss if she is here then…..
Tobi: Bystander racial race rule, one of the priorities is to maintain the meaning of your existence. Oldge Lim you forgot a lot of things now, her concealment is always par on mine.
Lim smiled yet she ducked again, looking at Alicia who was holding a wrench and a hammer.
Lim: What are you doing…..
Alicia: Something's wrong with you so my 1st job is to fix you… She strikes again with unknown speed yet Lim dodge again in a minute subtitle, you good at dodging now eh…. Above….
Lim: Do you think I'm that naive, she made a dodge roll to dodge something from her back yet the moment she did that the area where she was now on a fast thing dropped above hitting her head.
Alicia: See like I said above. Even though it was big because both of them were fairy size beings she easily kicked the stainless basin that flatten Lim.
Lim was nowhere to be found, moving her hammer so fast with her reaction time she was able to block a knife strike aimed at her kidney.
Alicia: A kidney strike, Oh entering assassination mode then come at me I'll show you why I'm the main BASS. Seeing Lim wearing a suit like an agent 47 wielding a gun and a dagger...
Tobi didn't care about the two BASS squabbles, he was now busy changing Skadi.
Tobi: Diaper check, now then picking Skadi putting her on his lap applying baby powder on her back after he finishes it he snaps his finger materializing a top tank shirt. another T-shirt with a simple design and baby pants. Putting everything up on her, the next thing he did was to materialize a hair brush.
Skadi was observing the two BASS. When their melee weapon breaks, Lim was now out of bullets and her ability to reload it was being jammed by Alicia, Lim let go of her gun then both charged at each other, they were now doing a fist fight.
Skadi: Pa why not just stop the two of them? She looked up to her dad that focused on tending her hair yet she got a reply.
Tobi: They always like that when they meet, luckily the other one was not here. It will be more like a huge brawl but there's only three of them fighting…. Looks good but I almost forgot the sandals, now then everything was in place. He stood up carrying Skadi like a stuffed toy in one arm.
Tobi: Finish???? Lim, you're missing a tooth….. Looking at her in a haggard state with her tattered agent suit while Alicia was just hymning next to her, she didn't have any damage in her body nor to her plain white dress.
Alicia: Boss if you continue to dress your kids like that they will become a boyish type like the young boss.
Tobi: Really, I think it's fine as long as they can manage themselves when they grow up.
Alicia: When will that happen, you never look for a wife, even reject all the setup from my master and from the young master to break this curse from that book you signed up to become what you are now.
Tobi: There are a lot of things in that book well at least those talents or anything that a high being had if I was born one was being transferred to my kids.
Alicia: But still….. Alice never hides anything from her so she knows that book, her conjuncture that it was made from the wish that their father and mother did. A wish that they will have normal kids, a normal family and the most affected of it was the boss because he was their 1st child.
Tobi: Don't start this topic again, who's gonna love a normal plain being like me.
Alicia shrugged and looked to her side, she saw Lim who already returned normal also smiling at her helplessly.
Skadi: dad….
Ok ok, Tobi pulled out a fridge. Opening and selecting a certain category….
Lim had no choice to assist him, using her mental power to levitate and contain the foods in a customized picnic basket then picking a huge size burger of an adult was placed in front Skadi to hold.
Tobi: Eat slowly ok… we go for a slow walk, well if she is here I'm not needed to check up those guys right.
Alicia: You hate doing work like that, right boss so it's fine. Let master do it and there is a problem if she gets lazy but the solution was Sikare that standby outside the realms.
After demolishing half of the huge burger Skadi asks her dad: Pops if you wave big sister down in her weapon form a while ago those entities you aim will be cut and cease to exist yet everything connected to them also perish right?
Tobi: Yup, bystander racial race rule. Eradicating everything from the roots, example was me killing an ancestor of a race then my aura Nen-Qi and intent will scattered like a web erasing his/her sons, daughter and kins so on until nothing is left well as long as it was in range of my outer soul but actually even it was out range we still can perceive it, another role that a BASS should do.
Lim and Alicia nodded then flew on his head to sit on.
Skadi eyes are sparkling: Ohhh then dad can I be strong as you.
Tobi: Someday someday, you know I dream you back then when you guys are still in that timeline. Your killing method is quite gore, always leaves a bloody scene yet everything you swing your sword killing without regret like me then can dad ask you something. Now that you're in reality what kind of dream or someday what kind of being you wanted to be.
Skadi: After I become a hunter I'll take a subclass called a pirate, I will search for treasure as my trophies to every adventure I take.
Tobi: A cosmic pirate? But you need a crew yet there is a line, never take a woman sailing it brings bad luck.
Skadi puffing her full mouth cheeks: mhmmm, S..upers..tition belief that don't work to me dad. She swallowed the food she was munching hard then continued, I had a crew… I just need to find those cosmic monsters.
Tobi: Ok fine, as your dad I will just support you when you start your 1st pirate journey then.
Skadi nodded while licking her finger then she hymn a rhyme.
Tobi and the two BASS know this music, her own hunter song…..
The group started their small walk.
Nameless wakes up in the camp, she sees her family busy eating but for some reason she feels there is something wrong. She saw the large pot on top of the pale blue fire. The smell is quite normal but the content was dark. She looked at Akuma burying its face on a large bowl that can fit its round body then to her auntie who was savoring the food.
She slowly moves to a spot facing Gladiia who picks up her spoon, eats and swallows.
Gladiia notices her big sister yet she looks at the spoon, she looks at the bowl of dark cuisine that 100% she was the one who cooked it yet it turned to this, she cannot even stop eating it. The taste was a combination of sweet and spicy, every meat and veggie was like being marinated by this dark thing like soup then that unknown meat mix in it that she cannot appraise yet when she appraised the whole thing it only said a stew.
A minute of contemplating, shifting her gaze to her big sister then looked up like she was questioning her cooking skills.
Nameless: ????