Versatile: Alternate World



Pixie dragged me to where the elves were. Before we reached them, I scanned the whole place to check whether anyone is up, and from the looks of it, some were still sleeping while most are in the Alternate World as I can see the indicator that they are currently using the tattoo.

"Don't worry. No one will know that we are discussing things unless you want them to know. We created a little barrier to erase our presence and stop leaking our voices out of this little barrier. Once we enter it, no one will know we are here."

"Why are you guys doing this in the open? Isn't it pretty risky?" I asked.

"The room is a little bit limiting and we can't just do some stuff when testing there as the limited space hinders us. Therefore, we decided to move out in here and use up the barrier I mentioned," Pixie answered.

We both arrived at where the three elves are gathered. Renatta smiled, disables my tattoo just like usual, and started talking which made me immediately understand what she was saying.

"Hey there, Manato. Glad you are finally out of the room. We made a big breakthrough from our experiments and research!"

"Wait, huh? I can now understand what you were saying all of a sudden. When did you suddenly get fluent in speaking Japanese?"

"Haha, silly, I haven't mastered your language yet and I am still unable to speak like that so fluently. This is from the help of the spell that was in that tattoo that we copied and replicated. It took some time for us but now, we finally recreated it. We can now speak with you without the need for translation help from Pixie. It is much easier to communicate with you like this as I can speak my language just fine and you will understand what I am talking about due to the auto-translation ability that was present. It's not that perfect just yet, and we still needed a proper way of stabilizing this but so far, it's good."

"Then, will Pixie be out of commission now?"

"Haha, you think so? I don't want Pixie to disappear though. She was like my long-lost sister incarnated into a fairy. And her presence alone is making me much happier than I have been in the past. Please don't let her go," Renatta begged.

"What are you talking about? Even if Pixie will not be the one helping with the translation anymore, I am not going to just purge Pixie like that. Letting her remain is a lot better as you have been enjoying your stay here and you are already attached to each other. Why would I cut that off? Besides, I doubt Pixie would just accept it if I just terminated her."

"Indeed! I might just be a contracted spirit in the whim but I have been here for so long that I don't want to return to nothingness once more. I would be super mad if Master suddenly does that. I won't forgive if he did."

"I am not that heartless. Anyways, based on your excitement, it seems that was not the only thing that you guys have done?"

"Indeed. Alena and Labo will explain the next segment since you can understand us properly now."

eαglesnᴏνel "Alena and Labo?" I frowned.

"It's our names, Sir Manato. I am Labo and this is my wife Alena. We apologize for not introducing our names for too long. We just didn't want to be close to humans due to how the former humans who captured us treated us so we are quite wary. But that is gone now with you giving us the chance to live normally here. And the fact that we are also getting the chance to return to our world is also something that means a lot to us as well. And since we are now certain you are one of the good people in this dimension, we are ready to reveal our names as well."

"I am delighted to make your acquaintances, you two... but is it really fine for me to know who you two are?"

"It's fine. Besides, there's no literal meaning in our names anyways and they don't hold powerful secrets if revealed, we just didn't want to talk too much about our identities."

"Anyways, enough of that, we will now share what we finished these past days. Aside from the translation spell that we replicated, we are also almost done with studying all of the spells present. We have also finally pinpointed the trackers on that tattoo and where the actual transportation stuff is present. We also found that there are some mind-wiping magic circles present as well as mind-altering spells.

"Mind-Altering spell?"

"Yes. It's one of the things that are capable of altering what you are thinking or what you are seeing in reality. It's pretty much a brainwashing spell alongside the mind wipe spell. The only difference is that the mind-altering spell is much less in priority of a function and more like it was just there. As for the mind wipe, it can be activated anywhere which makes it a pretty dangerous spell to be in the tattoo and which made the person who tried to delete your memories able to just do that without a problem and without you even noticing it. Same with the mind-altering spell. Once it was cast, you will not know that it was activated unless detected or foiled," Alena explained.

"So there is a chance that I won't know this spell activated at all if they ever tried to use it?"

"Yes. It's pretty scary to think that a spell stealthily added to the pile of magic circles was there and is readily able to rewrite and erase your memories depending on what the one who activated the spells does. This kind of spell is easily one of the probably forbidden but can be used in certain circumstances. But to this scale, it's certainly punishable by the laws of the elven kingdom very easily. To think this kind of activity is being done without the knowledge of the common people," Labo keeps on nodding as he added his complaints about the spells.

Indeed. If all the people in this world know that the tattoo they had had this kind of ability, they would panic, they would protest, and would try to ask for the removal of the Reality Verse in its entirety.

Then, I just realized something. Is this tattoo possible to be removed?

"Hey, can I ask whether this tattoo can be removed in its entirety?"

"You mean, removing not only one part of it but all of the spells of it? The very whole spell?" Renatta tilted her head.

"If that's what you are asking, the answer is no unless we tweak it. However, this tattoo is meant to be a permanent addition to your skin. Even if you lop off the skin that has the tattoo, that won't work as the spell will just transfer to the flesh instead and remain there. You can say that this thing just became part of your body and removal of it is something that you cannot do at all. One of the last spells that are added to anchor it to your body is serving that purpose. Unless that was entirely purged, the entirety of the spells won't be removed and so far, a method to remove that "anchor" does not exist just yet or perhaps they exist but we don't know who holds it. Perhaps the people who made this must have it," Renatta answered and explained.

"Are you planning of removing that from your body?" Labo asked.

"No. I don't plan to run away but I just got curious whether there is a way to remove the whole thing entirely. But I don't plan to. It's my only portal in and out of the Alternate World and losing that would be not an ideal thing to do."

"Ah, speaking of the tattoo, we are almost done with the spell removal that we are making to remove the tracker and the memory-related spells. We are close to completion. And I think this is also the time you tell everyone what you are going to do and what you need to do," Renatta pointed at my tattoo. "Once we remove those spells, we will be targeted by the man himself. Therefore, you need to make a choice soon enough. Of course, if you plan to discuss this with them, please make sure that we are there as we need to disable the spying spell to ensure they don't track your movements and conversation anymore."

"I think if you want to talk to someone, I think Pandora-chan is your first choice, Master. She is asking for you and she relayed to me that you need to talk to her once you receive my message," Pixie suddenly suggested.

Pandora huh? It seems I really needed to do what I really needed to do soon. Who would have think that it would come sooner?