Another: Memory of Another World

Ch. 49 Epidemics

After the night passed, the morning sun finally greeted the city of Rimun. The city in the middle of the wilderness, looks so majestic along with the light reflected on the roofs of buildings and city walls.

Antares soon woke up from his sleep, sitting for a moment while looking out through a closed window. His eyes could not see through solid objects, but his sense of perception captured a wide variety of frequency waves on the outer streets. Then he yawned for a moment, stretching his body.

The day has just arrived, but the residents have started their activities.

Steve woke up not long later, his bare-chested body still looks very impressive despite having entered old age.

"Oh, Morning."

"Mh." Antares replied not so excited.

Honestly, after becoming a night watcher, the quality of sleep becomes much better. Also, he did not need to sleep for a long period of time. He did it to trick the spies who loved him. So there should be no reason for Antares not to get excited.

Antares immediately got out of bed, went to the bathroom, and did the morning activity followed by Steve shortly afterwards. When he returned, Noir was already on his bed, licking his nails like a normal cat.

"You've come home, Noir, .... '.....' I was awake but still yawned. Maybe less oxygen?" The thought disappeared as soon as Antares opened the window of the inn room.

He got an east-facing room, which presented a view of the city from the second floor. What Antares could see was only a little higher than the roof of the surrounding buildings, then confronted by other multi-storey buildings and walls in a few blocks not far away. Antares was a little upset, and to dispel the thought quickly, he turned to the spy who was still watching him. There were at least three people who had ominous soul fluctuations around him. He had no intention of touching them for now. And it's weird to use spies as encouragement.

Antares simply rolled his eyes, then turned around.

The first floor of the inn is very crowded at certain hours. Unexpectedly, there seems to be some gold and platinum class adventures staying here, in addition to travelers and traders. Antares immediately saw their status using Odin Lost Eyes, but nothing caught his eye. So, his excitement evaporated a little for a moment.

"...res, Oi, Antares, do you hear me?"

"Ah, no, what did you just say?"

"What's the matter, are you interested in that girl, or are you interested in becoming an adventurer?" Steve asked with a wicked grin.

"Not both." Antares replied firmly, to which Steve had a small laugh.

"So, we're going straight to the association or what?"

"I'd like to take a look at the city first. Buy some stuff, and gather some information." Answer the boy.

"All right." Steve just agreed. Because if the child fails with his small goals, he can turn into an adventure at any time. And there is no age limit.

Unbeknownst to Steve, Antares had already circled the Western district as Noir. But the view at night, and during the day tends to upside down 180°. Where the crowded area was filled with people turned black. In addition, Antares wants to do legal business for starters. Although there will be problems later, but it will not be as complicated as a dark and dimly lit business.

Hm, I wonder, are drugs legalized in this country? considering there are several prostitution places that are legal and often visited by big people and children of the rich. // Antares put wet bread in his mouth. // In addition, for some reason there remain illegal brothels in this place. From what I see, the negative fluctuations there are so thick that they resemble mud, similar to a cemetery but also give the impression of a nasty tainted. I don't really know about the social strata in the city, so far, I don't see anything like slaves which is good news. The main concern may be the high mortality rate of minors. While a person can be considered an adult once he reaches the age of 15 years. What has the dukedom done to date?

In just 10 hours, Noir had found more than 300 children under fifteen years old dead in this western district. While his sense of perception said the number would be many times over if Noir visited the southern district. He selected several children to be hosts of the Antares parasite. Currently, they were exploring the streets of Rimun city as they should. Of course, they did not need to eat because their energy was provided by the Staff of Life and the Armband of Mars. For his own personality, they only had half of it, similar to what the Night Watcher experienced.

In that time period, some children were abducted by certain organizations and are now placed in basements with many other children and women. Maybe they will be exported to a certain place, no one knows. To be honest, their actions were impressive enough for the underworld class, until Antares thought they were affiliated with a particular organization.

I feel sorry for them, but it's too early to act now.//thought Antares. He still intends to parasitize the homeless through the intermediary Noir.

After a long time, Antares and Steve finally came out. Both take the road north. On the way he could see some starving homeless people, the beggars went from one store to another to get one or two hard buns only to be chased away by the store owner. He also saw many dead-eyed street children walking aimlessly. When their eyes met Antares, a light of jealousy spread to his face.

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Age: 10 years Race: Human.

Talent: None

Description: He is a jolly boy from a simple family. But his life changed 180° when his father did not return from the battlefield, which was followed by his mother shortly afterwards. Now he survives by becoming a pickpocket under the Silver Knife gang.

Biography : ...

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Age: 27 years Race: Human

Talent: none

Description: A man who works as a factory worker. Unfortunately, the factory went bankrupt 3 months ago. His greatest hope is to die on the battlefield

Biography : .... >>

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Age: 15 years Race: Human

Talent: Item Craft

Description: After fifteen years, she can finally open a new page as an adventure

Biography ....

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Persona Antares came to them one by one. Parasitize those that look attractive to Antares. He changed their personality a little bit and let the rest. In just an instant almost all the homeless, homeless, and street children there turned into hosts for the Antares parasite. The existence of the child, similar to the plague that continues to spread and infect many people. And with so many people passing by on the street, no one was aware of the incident.

For now, at least the target is those who are not affiliated with any organization or just a low-level gang. Letting them live as they want but still in full control of Ren. [Virtual Bug] only has usage restrictions in the absence of any negative effects. Make a host, become a kind of avatar for Antares. While the level of the parasite is at the level of a person's soul, it is not easily detected, nor eliminated. The level of the parasite suddenly became much more frightening with the existence of the [Variabell Collapse] which could make the dead parasite rise again and its status as a Night Watcher].

As a host, they will get reinforcement up to a certain point. When the parasite controls his body, his abilities are on par with those of the original Antares.

To be honest, its existence was rather frightening to exist in the real world. When the day changed, maybe half the population in the city of Rimun already became the host belonging to Antares.

(connecting.).

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