Limitless The Strongest Revenant

"REWIND! REWIND! ANSWER ME, YOU MOTHERFUCKING BASTARD! TELL ME WHAT YOU MEAN!"

This deranged asshole! I only talked to him on two occasions before this. When he tortured me after I used {Recursion} for the first time, and during my vows at my wedding. Now this emo bastard comes in here and says some more cryptic shit before leaving.

"REWIND! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE! STOP BEING A SELFISH NARCISSISTIC ASS!"

Despite yelling at the top of my lungs, no one answered. My anger and annoyance had reached its peak.

Nothing made any fucking sense. First the doors were plain. Now the portraits of my girls were on them.

"He said that everything I was looking for was in these doors, right? So I should just open them."

I went to the closest door in the middle. It was the one with Jo's stained glass. But suddenly I heard a voice I was not expecting.

[My lord, I strongly advise you not to get involved with this place. At least not until we get more information.]

"Exa? How long have you been here?"

[I regained my senses a short while ago. You were screaming and cursing your {Fate}. How long have you been here, my lord?]

"I don't know. Maybe 10 minutes? Exa, does this place look familiar to you?"

[No, my lord. It does not. Have you been here before? I have no record of this place. It doesn't seem to be on Earth or Hellsgate. However, this place seems to be in something similar to the void subspace used by {Store}.

Even your {Kindred} link to the Sirens has been severed.]

When I tried to check my {Kindred} link, it was there, but there was no one on the other side. What the hell was going on?

"I guess I should get back. The girls might be worried that I disappeared."

[I don't think that will be a problem, my lord].

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

[My Lord, it seems that this place does not follow the rules of, for lack of a better word, reality.]

"You lost me."

[Please try to check your GRI, my lord].

I pulled my GRI out of my subspace. And looked at the screen. Aside from there being no signal to my carrier, there was not much different from what I considered normal.

"What am I looking for, Exa? Aside from the signal, it is the same."

[Please open your clock application my lord].

Following Exa's instructions, I opened the app and was greeted by a simple clock. It was the 12 hour version and set to 3:29 PM.

"It says the time. What is this about?"

[My lord, please check the seconds part of the clock app].

I then focused on the last part of the time display and noticed that it was stuck at 00.

"..."

I gave it a few more seconds and waited, but the time didn't move. It was stuck at 3:29.

"Is my GRI broken or something? Or is this app defective?"

[Neither, my lord. Even my internal clocks are frozen. I have no idea how we can still have a conversation. Maybe because I am no longer a pure AI?]

"Well, I find that strange, but so what? Time is frozen, like most sequences in anime or something."

[I am amazed at how quickly you switch gears. Maybe there is immense value in normalizing such concepts. You're not even phased by the idea of being frozen in time, my lord.]

"Probably because I can't understand it right now. If I am stuck here for eternity, I will definitely lose my mind. Anyway, how do we leave?"

[My apologies, my lord, I do not even understand how you are "here" in the first place. Therefore, I cannot give you any advice on how to leave.]

"What are you talking about?"

[My lord, look at your feet].

"Exa, you are being silly. My feet are naturally on the flo..."

I couldn't finish my words because all the time I thought I was walking in a blank white room. But when Exa pointed it out, I realized that I was standing on air. And as if that were not enough, instead of a floor, there was nothing beneath me.

Just empty darkness and what appeared to be white glittering dust. I looked up and saw the same thing. Suddenly, instead of a white door, I was in the middle of space.

Like in outer space. The kind with UFO's and planets. My mind understood that the white specks were actually stars.

My heart began to pound in my chest as my body tensed with fear. I could fight undead. I could even fight a demon or a Revenant. But what the hell could I do, I was suddenly thrown into space!

The silence, which hadn't bothered me before, began to instill fear in my body. I could hear nothing and see nothing. I quickly searched for the seven doors. I missed them at first, but they were still there.

"Fuck... that really scared me," I said as I walked towards them.

I tried to calm myself down and rationalize my fears away.

'Calm down. I am a Phantom, I do not need to breathe. Even if I am stuck in space, I could just fire my weapons or something. I don't seem to burn or freeze from the temperatures. Last time I was here. I just willed myself back.

Like I did with Hellsgate.'

When the thought of dying disappeared, my breathing returned to normal.

Just as I was about to go home, my faithful partner asked a question.

[My lord. Have these images on the doors always been here?]

Surprised by her concern, I clarified what she meant.

"What do you mean, Exa? The images? No, the last time I was here, they weren't there. They looked like the girls, but I am not sure. I don't even know where to begin."

[Perhaps I can be of assistance, my lord. You are not the only one investigating these people.]

"!!!" Discover hidden content at empire

Alarmed, my tension went up to eleven. These pictures had the faces of my girls. Was someone planning to murder them? Had someone managed to steal the contents of my brain or something?

"How can someone else be researching these women? I just saw them today!"

[My lord, you misunderstand. The ones investigating them are the Sirens. Their research has nothing to do with this place. It may be true that you just saw these images today, but the ladies have already seen them for a while.]

"Huh? The girls saw them? Explain."

[When you gave the ladies the [Exa Network], they started using me liberally. Most of the things they do not know, I am the one who investigates for them. All seven of the ladies have memories of lives they believe to be their own. ]

"You've got to be shitting me."

[No, my lord. The images presented on all seven doors are consistent with the ladies' appearances in their supposed past incarnations. You should already be familiar with their names. From left to right, the seven women before you are Freyja, Ishtar, Rhiannon, Vela, Minerva, Satis, and Inari.]

"..."

These names were very familiar to me. I would go one step further and call them valuable. I stood in front of each door and touched the images. From what Exa had just shared, the girls probably all started seeing these images before they even made their Graveyard Ids.

"They all contacted me before my first night. So they were dreaming about these women even before I did?"

[That is not all, my lord. In addition to their own lives, each Siren had me investigate one other person].

I already had an idea, but I still asked, "Who?"

[They had me secretly investigate a face from their memory. I will display them.]