The Tale of Insane Scientist Hououin Kyouma! (II)

The tale started with Okabe's first meeting with the main-female character, Makise Kurisu, and then finding her dead in her own pool of blood. He then sent a text about it to his friend Itaru, the hacker, immediately after which, all the people around him disappeared. It was the first instance of Time Travel.

The tale then proceeded to Makise Kurisu joining Okabe's lab, and their subsequent finding of the time machine, a phonewave-operated microwave oven. Then they started doing experiments with D-mail, sending text messages in the past. It also mentioned him later bringing a rare PC named IBN 5100 to the lab to hack into SERN, a powerful organization, and finding that SERN experimented with time machines, using humans, in a program called Z-program.

The tale hadn't ended even there.

It proceeded to mention Okabe's experiments with the D-mail. He found that they only worked between 10 am to 6 pm. These text messages affected the past, altering the present, and only he remembered the change, as other members' memories were altered to fit the new timeline. He decided to call that ability Reading Steiner.

Abruptness was the nature of the Tales of Beedle the bard.

The tale had ended like a waterfall falling off a cliff but never reaching the bottom.

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Story: The tale of insane scientist Hououin Kyouma

Story Status: Incomplete

-Primordial Theater-

Act 1: D-mail

Grade: E+

Specification: The character uses his mobile to send a text message to the past, which will be transferred to the past Contestant's mind directly.

Requirement:

 1. The Will of a true scientist

Attributes:

 1. The size of the text messages is 36 bytes only; any additional content will be cut off

 2. There are 5 units available to the Act, D-mail

 3. Charging 1 unit sends the text back to 1 day

 4. Charging all units sends the text back to 5 days

 5. Base Consumption: 50 MP, 50 SP

 6. For every successive unit, Base Consumption +50% of its predecessor unit

Effect: Reading Steiner

 1. The Contestant will retain memories related to the change of timeline

Note: Updating the tale will update the Skill as well

WARNING:

 1. The use of D-mail will generate a Divergence Number (DN)

 2. DN remains between 0 and 1 with the suffix P

 3. DN tells how much the timeline is affected by the use of Time Travel

 4. 0P represents the minimal change

 5. When the DN becomes 1P, the World will end.

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"Run, master," Meg shouted in his ears, holding his hand. "We are running out of time."

For the first time after his arrival, Kai found himself struggling to know what was going on. What time? Then his eyes found the answer.

00:05:03

What?! Kai's expression crumbled.

"You there!" someone shouted from behind. "Stop!"

Kai looked over his shoulder and saw a bald man running towards them, his eyes raging. He kicked the road, disappearing into the nearest market, Meg leading the way.

After a few minutes, they again found themselves in a secluded alley.

Kai looked at the timer, leaning back on a wall. He still had 3 minutes left. The book was still in his hands, and now that the paramount task was finished, he recalled he needed to do one more thing using Meg.

He called out Cersei, ignoring the upgraded Item for now.

Cersei came out parting the veil dressed in the same black suit and pants. Kai was sure that she had deliberately come into these clothes, trying to look better than Meg. In a manner she did, he observed.

Meg snorted.

Cersei gave a peck on Kai's cheek and then turned away, giggling at Meg. "Know your place, slave," she said, sneering. "Remember what happened to our dear Squirtle?"

"Enough!" Kai snapped. "Meg, I need to check something using her Act. Cersei, use Blood Prophecy."

When only a few seconds were left, Meg opened her eyes, her face pale. She was dying, and if not supplied with HP soon, it would take days to regain enough HP to get back her original regeneration rate.

Still, Kai didn't feed her any HP capsule.

"I… saw nothing," Meg said, trying to push herself up.

Kai nodded to himself and picked her up over his shoulders. "I want to return to the Main Mission's Random World," he said, grinning, finally figuring out the mystery behind Blood Prophecy's odd failures.

A blue shine covered them instantly, and they were teleported out of the Switched World.

00:00:00

*

*

It was almost midnight.

They arrived outside Pentos' city walls in their original clothing and took some time to move away from the crowd. Kai put Meg down and chuckled. "Well," he said, brushing hair off her face and tucking it behind her ears. "Wasn't that something?"

He stood back up and looked around. Desolation was everywhere, and in the distance, the flames of torches over the ramparts were dancing like tiny lit candles.

"Chaos," he called out, "compress the remaining time."

47200 MC vanished, and Kai blinked away his ire.

Only then did he look down at Meg, who was trying to sit up. "OK," Kai said. "You did extremely well. Don't enter the city and follow the plan. Mission over. I would let the White Room take care of your HP. No need to waste an HP capsule when you are already going there."

Kai was smiling, feeling quite good.

Finally, the time was coming near for him to reincarnate as a main storyline Character, and that too in his beloved magical world of Harry Potter. Yes, he loved sabers, but he could practice that art by himself, too. Magic. Now that was something else entirely.

A blue shine appeared around them, like a soft silk blanket.

It was then that Meg lifted her face.

Kai's heart skipped a beat.

In these last months, Kai and Meg had shared many days and nights talking to each other about one random world or another. They had made plans, discussed theories, and laughed over some hideous, cunning remarks.

Was there ever a need for Kai to mention that there was a heart beating inside his body? Was there ever a need for him to say that in his veins ran blood just like it did in hers? And was there ever a need for him to share that they were alive because they could think?

No. Such things were common, and one needed not to say them.

Yet, there was one thing that Kai had taken for granted, thinking that it was as common as everything else.

So when he saw confusion written over her face, the earth slipped away from under his feet.

At this point, Kai just wanted to cancel this teleportation. His mind was beating, his heart screaming, and everything seemed not to make any sense.

But the blues had become bluer, and there was nothing he could do about it.

She opened her mouth, and Kai cursed.

"White Room…" Meg blurted, taking deep breaths. "What White Room, master?!"