18_ who are you

Margaret's year is 2022.

All of the trips to my next job were so silent. I didn't talk to Erox. I was still frustrated at him due to what happened last time. I was naked for pete's sake, but instead of saying sorry, he just said that there was nothing to be angry about since he wouldn't desire my body.

What the hell? The last time he said he liked me a bit, now he was saying this?

We were going through the location where the first shooting would be held. When I got there, I saw the two other co-reporters were already there. Ezekiel and Judy.

"Good morning." Ezekiel, I said, smiles and waves at me, while Judy completely ignores me.

I looked for a seat so the makeup artist could start to put some makeup on me.

But to my surprise, Judy suddenly pushed me and said, "That was my seat. You go find yours."

The push was not that strong or something, so I didn't even bother to complain about it.

We are just 3, so the makeup artist could take care of us very well.

After I was done with my dress and makeup, I decided to take a look at the beautiful surroundings. This was my first time coming here, and I can say that it was indeed beautiful, even though the place is so ancient now.

"What are you doing here?"

I was surprised to see Erox lingering around; I had assumed he had been waiting for me inside the car for several days.If he was not on his phone, he was reading a history book. He completely ignored me, which irritated me even more because he didn't even apologize after seeing me naked, which I explained is normal for him.

"Do you think that I'm going to stay inside of the car for how many hours just waiting for you? And besides, I really miss this place. It's been too long since I last saw this palace. "

I look around again and I raise my eyebrow.

"Have you already come here?" I asked because he looked familiar with the place.

"We literally grew up here. Memorize every color of this place. "

My eyes grew wider.

"We?" I asked, then I looked around if there were any other houses around. But it seems like this place was too huge to see if there were other houses out there.

I sigh; Erox was dense at times, though not in the way you might think.I don't know back then before we both drowned in the ocean. I didn't care about him, but since then, he has been acting strange. I think there was a kid that I had been taking care of. even though he did not look like one.

"Why are you staring at me like there is something in my face? Is there dirt or what?"

"Nothing, it's just I was thinking you were just a bodyguard. I wonder how you would grow up in this kind of place." As I can see, there are no other houses that might be your house or someone else's house where you spent your life as a kid here. "

Erox laughs...

"I just don't ask. Even if I explain it to you, you will never understand. And even if you understand, I know that you wouldn't believe it." I shook my head.

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Erox Lander-


I don't have to explain myself because I know that Margaret didn't understand either, even if I explained it to her.

The Margaret that I know was not her. The Margaret that I grew up with was totally not her, so there is no point explaining to her.

As I was walking, I was thinking the last time that I saw this place, there were a lot of houses all over. It's like the palace was surrounded by villagers not far away. But now I couldn't see anything other than a huge building not far away. It's like this is the only thing left ancient in this place.

Margaret had already walked through her job place while I was still wandering around.

Someone suddenly blocked me.

He was wearing a black outfit. I know that he did not come from my world because he came from my world because the outfit he designed was totally from this world.

However, I stepped backwards because he was holding a gun that I knew would kill me if I was hit by that thing.

"You are Erox Lander?"

I narrow my eyes when he looks at a picture and then at me.

However, when he pointed the gun in front of me, that was my cue to run away.

I heard nothing much. I saw how the bullet passed through the body of a tree beside me while I was running.

I was always on my phone and always searching for all of the things that I didn't know in this world either, so I know that he was now using a silencer gun. That's why I couldn't hear anything other than a not too loud sound. Maybe because you didn't want to call attention.

I look around and I see a lot of trees. I was inside the woods and I knew that I was far from the other people who were working together with Margaret or even the people who were just maybe visiting this place.

"You don't have to run away. "You're just giving us a hard time."

I heard the voice of the man who was coming after me, and sometimes he was firing at me. However, maybe I was faster than him or maybe I was more trained than him. I could easily dodge the bullet. I was not a general for nothing. I was the top general and no one could defeat me back in my world. Even if I were in another world right now, I know that my ability was enhanced more than that of the other people leaving this world.

However, when I was running, I suddenly bumped into someone.

And I was surprised when I was looking into the face of someone who looked exactly like me.

We both pointed at each other. Simultaneously ask, "Who are you?"

When I tried to touch him, to my surprise, I couldn't touch him.

I looked around and I thought that I was in the same familiar forest where I grew up. However, the problem is that, I could just saw it but I couldn't touch it. Its liked it was just a ghost who decided to let me see.