Chapter 490 CH 476: BREAKING DOOR

Chapter 490 CH 476: BREAKING DOOR

After a brief hug and congratulations, Natasha gazed at Adam, eyes filled with intense love and gratitude. In her mind, she could hear the excited voice of her new sister when their gazes locked on Adam. She was acting like a puppy greeting its master and just happy being around him.

"So where have you been? I was quite worried as I was unable to contact you. Also, could I ask about the new look? It looks... interesting if I say so myself."

She was pretty intrigued by his sudden change in fashion and wondered why he even had a need for an eyepatch. She was genuinely worried, wondering if this was the result of some wound she had inflicted on him when she went berserk due to Fenrir's influence but he simply shook his head in response to her words, seemingly already aware of what was going on in that head of hers.

"For now, this eye of mine is pretty sensitive. I simply need to protect it from light for some time and it will be back to normal. No worries."

As for where he was? A calm smile was Adam's only response. He couldn't exactly reveal that he had been exploring the Dreamscape and met Sae on one side, while on the other, he spent the day shadowing Tsubasa now, could he? Deliberately, he had been even dying repeatedly while traversing the dimensional portal that Tsubasa was able to invoke with her powers... just to increase his resistance to the shredding of space and perhaps get a skill related to the space-time continuum side of things. [1]

She nodded her head in understanding. She was curious but clearly also realized the fact that she didn't have to hurry him to reveal his thoughts. He would simply tell her what he wanted when he deemed it necessary to reveal that piece of information. She had all the trust in the world for her.

"Hello, Miss Aleksandra. It has been a long while."

Aleksandra looked at Adam, there was a faint tremor passing through her body, goosebumps rising slightly as she looked at him but the feeling did not last for long. Hiding the feeling of discomfort she felt near his presence, she bowed quietly and elegantly,

"Greetings, Young <aster. I am happy to see you as well." nOve-lb.1n

The last time she had avoided Adam because she was feeling quite awkward being near him. She had a strife against Cecilia and it was safe to say that this did not end well for her... Well, saying it like that was the understatement of the century but it was best not to uncover that hole.

However, while it was one thing to avoid him when he was just Natasha's friend or more precisely, boyfriend...

... Now that he had essentially become the savior of their lives and that of their honor and wealth, she had to show her gratitude to him to the best of her abilities.

"The Master and Mistress had expressed their wish to contact you and discuss some things... they wish to express their gratitude for the help you have provided to us in this dark hour of ours."

"I told them you might be busy but they really insisted I relay that to you."

"I will indeed be busy soon and by soon, I mean tomorrow actually. I am going on a mission in France."

There was no need to hide that he was the Red Magician [1] since they already saw him yesterday in all his glory.

'Though, I might not know how fast they regenerate.'

It was only after they reached Fedora's room that Adam stopped observing her condition while Natasha promptly knocked on her room.

"Fedora. It's me. Open the door, please."

No answer could be heard in response. Natasha looked helplessly at Adam who simply grinned before approaching the poor and knocked as well.

"Fedora. I will go from 10 to 0. If by then you do not open the door, I will blast it open. Okay?"

"Huh?"

Both Natasha and Aleksandra were quite a bit surprised, however, what followed was far more surprising, so surprising that it went beyond their wildest imaginations...

"10... 0, Open Sesame!"

Bang~!

The entrance opened wide, as the door was sent flying, finally shining light in the darkened room and showing a Fedora with a face that looked like that of a deer in front of headlights.

It was quite the funny situation in a way and Adam fought to not laugh as this was a serious moment. Laughing now would make it difficult for her to open.

"You didn't count..."

"Never said I would."

— And so Adam entered the hastily opened door. It was time to be on the side of therapy for once.

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[1]: This will be detailed in the Side Story soon. I think in the future all Dreamscape chapters will be named Side Story.

[2]: Just realized that Red Magician sounds awfully like Scarlet Witch. I swear this wasn't intentional. Perhaps it was subconsciously? It's funny how the two deal with reality manipulation. Obviously, Scarlet Witch is at a far higher level, at the moment that is. I could definitely use some inspiration from her later on.

(AN: edit as of 30/12/23?Hi! I keep apologizing again and again and I am sorrier by the day. I can't say this won't happen again. I am not trying to give an excuse, but I at least want to give you information about what is going on. As you know I terminated my contract with SHK not long ago with WN. Recently, I was in another contractual talk with a publishing house more geared toward Amazon and we were striking a deal for an Ebook/Paperback and most importantly, an Audio release. Yep, my story might be an audio which is honestly pretty cool. Anyway, after the WN contract, I was more careful and took the time to contact a few lawyers I know to read the contract. Increase in Royalties, more room to break the contract, and limited license in both rights and time. Wasn't easy but I had numbers of SHK to back me up and now we have settled on the clause it will soon be time to sign. Since I need to do all this alone, it's eating my writing time and for that, I apologize once again. Even now, I should be doing research and discussing but I decided I need to write because you guys are getting short-handed in this situation. Hopefully, once everything settles, I will be freer. )