The Cursed Gamer

Chapter 492: 492: Marathon Begins

Chapter 492: Marathon Begins

The Kimi Doll had informed him that she had taken the form of Lucille because there was already a Kimi in the timeline, and there couldn't be two of them without her taking the form of someone else.

All this time, Neji thought she just meant she impersonated Lucille, who was a real person of her own rights.

However, that turns out to not be true.

Lucille, always, had been Kimi. From the first day he remembered meeting her in his first life, apparently, she was Kimi.

Her "gangster father" and all that was a random setting she chose.

"But, uh, I didn't plan the incident that'd happen with my false dad and your mother, and later on how your mother pushed you down the yacht. What she did was weird. She's a variable." Kimi explained slowly, "I guess it's just the Omniverse acting on its own to correct itself? That's the running theory for me. If she didn't push you, you wouldn't be born as Neji, after all, and if you weren't born and didn't meet me, I would never gain powers to time travel. It's basically the grandfather's paradox. Still, to be sure, I looked deeper into it to look for what was up with her, but I never found anything about it. It's really weird."

"I see," Neji answered with a frown and motioned her to continue. They were back inside Kimi's room, with just the two of them, and catching up on this incident.

After that were the events that he already knew from the doll. Due to the difference in time between Prime and Cube, in just a few months or Prime time, Neji already lived 16 years of life and reached the Babylon incident.

Then, Kimi, as well as Neji's rich sugar mommy Yasmin teamed up to take his soul within Eurynome Celestine's trap to make a simulation world for him to fight and kill monsters to level up just enough to get rid of his restrictions.

"Wait, hold on a second," Neji stopped her as he found another weird point. "Yasmin is a supernatural entity?"

"Uh," Kimi smiled awkwardly. "She is actually Nawab. It's a long story."

"...."

Anyhow, the story after that was simple. After trying to perform the ritual for 4 years on Neji and failing, Kimi left behind a doll and returned back to the past. That's when Neji, who had just dealt with SBOP, also was sent to connect the two dots.

"Ignoring most of the questions I have, I only want to ask this," he said. "So when you were in your Lucille days, we got into it so deep that you got pregnant? And in the end you didn't abort the kid and gave birth to it?! Why the fuck did you never tell me?!"

"...." She looked unsure how to answer.

He called himself seeing her expression and gently pulled her to his chest, "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell. Was it a son or?"

"It's a son," she replied slowly. "I didn't tell you because I was ashamed. Back then I was so mad and frustrated after you died to a stupid shark. Without knowing what to do, I just took the kid from my womb and threw him away in some alleyway." Which sounded insane, but who knew how her mind worked after she waited for him for eons, meeting him after an extremely long ritual, only for him to die to a stupid shark. "He should be in the streets, and I checked his fate and manipulated it a bit to grant him a good life. After all of this ends you can find him."

"You mean 'we', right?" He asked and she let out a sigh, hiding her face in shame.

"I'll be ashamed to show my face to him," she said. "I you know the reason I threw him out is because I was sure he'd remind me of you too much, as he's your blood, and I might end up doing something stupid with him. I'm such a weirdo, I'm sorry."

"...." He wasn't even surprised, rather he suddenly understood her actions. She's too loyal to not be a little weird in the head.

Neji kissed her head and hugged her a bit more comfortably. She relaxed into his arms and apologized several times, but it wasn't necessary since he could never hate her for it.

Still, this meant he had two sons now. As well as Kurai, of course, he would never forget to include her. Suddenly Neji felt a little weirdly happy.

However, even now, he was a little unsure how the child inside Lady Life would turn out.

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When Lady Life told Neji for the first time about her desire to have children, she used human mothers as an example. So in the end, they decided to let the child see the light of the world after nine months, the human time of pregnancy.

With the children issue put aside for now, they focused on other important matters.

Contessa Fate.

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She was granted her own room, which was secured with Neji and Godmother's omnipotent willpower, enchanted runes, and magic formations. It was all to keep her from fleeing. Her ankle was chained against a stronghold inside the room, and the chain itself was suppressing her in many ways to keep her imprisoned.

A few days have passed since she was captured, and she had given up all hope of being found or rescued by her people. If it was possible, they'd have found her a long time ago.

Today, Neji, Kimi, Godmother, and Anodi gathered in her room. They stood in front of her and Kimi nudged her to work her power to form a hologram in the air.

"According to my predictions," Contessa Fate said as she begrudgingly pointed at the routes of fate in the hologram. "These are the incoming events in the next couple of years." She said, "But keep in mind that nothing is solidified here since Class Zero beings, more than one, against whom my powers fall short, are an active force in this war times."

"We know," Kimi said with a frown. "Just continue explaining, don't waste our time with amateur expla-"

"Hey, Kimi, shut up," Neji interrupted her by hitting her side. "Don't treat her like that, she's helping us. And if you forgot, I don't understand these things on paper, I appreciate the explanations."

Kimi frowned but said nothing.

Naturally, it was an act. Why would he tell his sweetheart to shut up because of a random bitch? They were playing the good cop and bad cop roles, to induce Fate with the Stockholm Syndrome over time.

Of course, right now she didn't yet look at him with grateful eyes, she gave him a look of incompetence instead, for being so strong yet not knowing anything, but that'd change over time. It wasn't a fast mission.

"And according to this prediction," Fate continued, waving her hand in the air to highlight a few dots in the hologram. "...I believe these are the best opportunities for him to 'Level Up'."

Neji looked into the dots she pointed at, a small smile forming on his lips.

He was extremely strong right now, but he was sure he wouldn't win against the big bad yet. Kimi was Class 0 in the future too, yet she lost to the Primordial. After all, he was titled the "Killer of Paradoxes", so Neji had no need to challenge that guy just yet.

Since the First Gamer was mentioned a few times to have "reached such heights of power in only a hundred years", Neji was aiming to live that long too. He was sure the war between omniverses wouldn't end before that so only at the end of this century would Neji initiate the final attack.

Until then, he would level up.

Through a marathon of slaughtering.

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