C9 Revelations (Part 3)

"Here's your Panda Wrestler Parfait, Ruka-chan~! Nya~" A cat girl wearing a maid uniform with pink hair tied up in twin tails said cheerfully.

"Thank you, Fayris. You can go back to the others, just keep the Stealth shield on okay?" Ruka said with a smile.

Fayris then saluted and said, "Yes sir, nya~! I'll distract the enemies that wander here so you can converse freely, nyan~." She then strode away to serve the other customers.

Okabe looked at his Omu-Rice and finally said what he had in mind since earlier, "Why here?"

Ruka just appreciated his own parfait that looked like a fierce panda and took a bite before saying, "Don't you know of the saying, 'Hiding in plain sight'. They would probably never expect us to be here."

"Ummm... about your base, was it discovered?" Kurisu asked him.

Ruka shook his head and said, "No, it was not. Just the Rounders or SERN would not find my lab. They would need the Council's assistance if they ever want to find me."

"Anyway, I would need you to finish the time machine in the shortest possible time. I will help you two by allowing you access to my DREAMLAND Project — aka the Virtual World."

"You can run your experiments in there and it will speed up your progress by a mile due to it being an almost perfect replica of the real world."

Ruka said as he slowly nommed on the Panda Wrestler Parfait. He made this project of his because he knew that in the future, there would be people who would make something similar to this. A simulation of the real world that is run by the AI Gaia.

Gaia's simulation would be so real that it would be the reason for the scientist involved in it to have an existential crisis. But I on the other hand would not be a subject to this as I knew from the beginning that I am living in a world based off of a video game.

"Anyways, you can surely start on researching the Phone Microwave first. Send some messages to the past and try to change some things. Like win a lotto or something." Ruka just said carelessly as he focused on his parfait.

~" . . . "~

Kurisu PoV:

We are now walking back to the lab after our talk with Ruka-kun. Even now I can't believe what he said. It was just so unbelievably like something straight out of a novel.

Suddenly, the pervert Kyouma stopped and looked at the sky. Then I was suddenly startled when he started laughing madly with his hands on his hips.

"What is your problem, Hentai Kyouma?" I looked at him as I said.

"Ahhh... I, Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma, have foreseen this! Let us finish the time machine together and lay chaos to the ruling structure of the world, Christina~!"

"How many times do I have to say?! '-tina' no kinshi!"

So we went back to the lab, arguing and fighting like cats and dogs on the way there.

~" . . . "~

Back to Ruka's house, the Rounders finished searching the house for anything that they can report to FB.

"Did you finish?" A woman dressed in a rider suit emotionlessly said. She is Kiryuu Moeka, a member of the Rounders under FB.

The other members put down the things they found odd and one of them talked, "These are all the things that may have information about the target."

There are a total of three safes they found and they took them here to see what its contents are.

"Open them. See what's inside." Moeka ordered them.

One of them stood forward and said, "It will take us a long time of we want to open it normally. Let's just bust it open."

The rest then shot their guns at the safes and busted it open. But when they saw what was inside the safes, they were dumbfounded.

One of them took out one of the items from the safe and said, "Who in their right mind would hide doujins in a fucking safe?!"

Moeka grabbed the book from the goon's hands and looked at it briefly before looking at them and saying, "What about the other safes?"

"It's all the same! They all contain these useless doujins."

"Burn them." Moeka ordered with a stoic face. "Also, take some furniture to make it seem like a robbery."

Moeka then left the scene with one thing in her mind.

'Horny dog. Though I will need to report my findings to FB regardless. Tsk'

~ " . . . " ~

"Achoo!" Ruka rubbed his nose and thought, "It seems like someone is talking bad about me."

"Here's your second Panda Wrestler Parfait~ Ruka-nyan~!" Fayris came to his table and gave him his second parfait with a smile.

Ruka then took the parfait with joy and began to enjoy it's succinct taste.

"Ano~ By the way Ruka-nyan~"

"Hmm? What is it?" Ruka looked at Fayris who was fidgeting there looking hesitant.

"Umm..." Fayris said before her face turned solemn as she continued, "Were those guys not trustworthy, nya~?"

Hearing her words, Ruka stopped eating his parfait and sighed.

"Regardless of the reason why they sold us out, be it due to them being scared or bribed, it's not our problem anymore." Ruka said.

"Are you planning on disposing them, nya~?"

Ruka stared at Fayris for a bit before he took the spoon and ate his parfait. He then said, "No, they don't know our real identity and our transaction was only done online. There's no need."

Fayris stared at Ruka straight in the eyes. After a few seconds, she gave a sigh and said, "I knew you weren't the type to do that, nyan~"

"Heh, if you knew why would you test me so suddenly?"

"Just in case. You never know what happens, Ruka-nyan~" Fayris chuckled with her hand covering her mouth as she said so.

Ruka then continued to eat his parfait in peace. He did not worry about those Rounders. Alpha... Wait, it's Beta, got that covered.