Versatile: Alternate World

Since it was far from where she was being chased, we are safe in the gazebo of the playground for the time being. Of course, we are still not truly safe but we have to make sure that she will not be followed.

"You...you are the guy who received the same tattoo version of the Reality Verse..."

"No time to explain, please remove anything from you that has been given by your fiancee."

"Huh?! How do you..."

"Just hurry up! We can't afford to let you get followed by them, aren't you?"

Because I made a firm decision to do it, she decided to oblige and removed her watch, earrings, and necklace. She also removes her sneakers and has given them all to me.

"I apologize but this is for your own good too."

I activated my mana and ignited everything to flames.

"Hey! What are you doing?!"

"I will explain later how I can do that but I also have to explain that I have to do this because it might be one of these things that contain a tracker device. If they still can track you again even without them, then there is somewhere else in your possession to contain a tracker. Now, that I have removed a few things, let's get out of here and move to another location. We can test out whether you still have something in your possession that way."

"W-wai- AAAAAHHHH!"

I grab her again and started leaping again to the rooftops. She is still not used to it but there is no way as we will easily get seen by her pursuers if we use the streets properly. As for how I am capable of doing this, with my enhanced abilities to jump and run, it was much easier to do it. I may look like a ninja doing this but I am not. And I would rather avoid doing this if necessary unless needed to escape or something close.

After jumping for a while, we arrived on the hospital rooftop. It was the nearest hospital near the small playground with a gazebo and it is empty so I decided to land in there and it will help us escape from anyone if they found us out. After all, we can see what is happening below the hospital and we can escape on short notice the moment the pursuers pinpoint our location.

"We will stay here for 30 minutes. If there is no one else who followed you, we are now safe and we can head out normally now.

"Why are you doing this? I don't even know you and you suddenly appeared."

"You are Harmless Sparrow right?"

"Huh?! What?! How did you..."

"It was easy for me to know since you didn't alter that much on your face in real life and your in-game character. Also, I know you in the game so you can say we are acquaintance."

"Acquaintance? I don't think I know anyone that seems to resemble you..."

There is no point in lying and hiding my identity now. Now that Harmless Sparrow is no longer affiliated by any group or guild, she is now on her own. And I am not even intending to hide my identity so there is no need for me to hold back in saying who I was to her.

"You might know me if you see this."

I swipe my hands across my face and the Wolf Mask I use in the game and the mask I used to cover my face while fighting against the people who made our whole school hostage. Seeing that, made Rika surprised. It wasn't something she expected from me after all but I have to do that if I needed to make sure she trust me.

"Wha... Bladeheart?"

"That's good that you can recognize me the moment you saw my mask. that saves us lots of time on explanation. So what is happening? Why are you being chased if you just said you are secure on your data gathering?"

"Yeah, that's what I thought until I went out of the hotel to buy some of my necessities. I was about to enter a convenience store when they spotted me. Since they started chasing me without apparent reason, I decided to escape and now that you took me away from them, I can now sigh in relief."

"We are still not out of the trouble. We don't even have a clue whether they still have something that is attached to them. We can't afford to let them get their way on this one."

I looked below the hospital grounds and check whether there are something or someone around. Thankfully, I don't see anyone. When I checked on the sky though, I found two flying drones. Seeing them, I quickly scan the area to check whether there are other people using it. Seeing that there is no one around there that seems to be using it, I decided to shoot it down just in case. Better be safe than sorry. And if I shoot down an innocent drone that is not even doing anything other than fly, then I am sorry to the unlucky person.

"What are you doing? Are you trying to shoot a Spirit Gun or something?" Rika frowned seeing me form my left hand to a finger gun and aim it somewhere.

"Haha, so you also watch that show? Well, it's a yes and a no. Also, I don't have any kind of power similar to that. Mine is different."

Then, I stir up my mana into my fingertips and aim it to the nearest drone flying. I feel my finger tingling for a bit and after feeling that little sensation, I shoot it out and cause the little drone to halt its functions the moment the electric strike hits it. I repeated the process and do the same to the other drone.

Once that is done, I checked around the surrounding area to see if there are any other flying drones around so that I can shoot them down. Thankfully, no more drones appeared to fly around the vicinity. Still, it wasn't safe still.

"I don't know about these guys but perhaps they are now using some drones to locate you after you disappeared to their sensor and since they are now using drones, perhaps the trackers that you possess are now gone, and to locate you, their first thought would be to use the sky as their advantage to search for you with eyes in the sky, allowing you to not escape their sight."

"What are we going to do then?"

"There is one thing we can do."

"One thing?"

"Yes.. Let's go shopping."