I Got A Cheat Ability In A Different World, And Become Extraordinary Even In The Real World (LN)

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Part 2

“Akira-kun!?”

“Why are you here?”

While Kaede and Rin were surprised, Ryo and Shingo remembered that Akira used to hand out flyers here.

“That’s right! Akira, you said you were working in this shop the other day!”

“T-That’s why I thought I recognized the name of the shop.”

While everyone reacted in their own way, Akira’s eyes also widened.

“No, it’s just a coincidence.”

“That’s a bit of a letdown.”

Akira held his chest at Rin’s words.

“But I’m more surprised that you work here…!”

“Yeah, yeah! You weren’t here when Rin-chan and I came here to eat…”

“Well, I don’t work every day. But more importantly, you came here to buy a cake, right?”

“Oh, that’s right! I’ve come to order the cake for the Christmas party we talked about before.”

“Ah, I see… In that case, I recommend the whole strawberry cake!”

As he said this, Akira showed them a whole strawberry cake that looked delicious even though it was an orthodox style.

“Wow… it looks delicious!”

“As you can see, it’s made with lots of strawberries, and the cream is not too sweet, so it goes really well together! It’s a popular product, but the reservations are almost full, so what do you think?”

Ryo was surprised by Akira’s unexpectedly serious explanation and discussed it with Rin and the others.

“What do you think?”

“The other cakes look delicious too, but the one Akira recommended indeed looks the most delicious.”

“I think the cake Akira-san recommended is the best too!”

“Okay, then we’ll have the whole strawberry cake! Akira, let me make a reservation for that cake.”

When Ryo told him this, Akira smiled and bowed.

“Thank you very much!”

“…It feels really strange when you act like a normal shopkeeper.”

“What do you mean?!”

To Akira’s friends, who knew his usual self, the sight of Akira working so diligently seemed very surprising.

When they finished paying for the cake, Akira suddenly asked them.

“By the way, where are you going to have the party?”

“Ah…”

The completely carefree Ryo and the others suddenly realized that they had not decided where to hold the party.

“Wow… we were so excited that we completely forgot about it…”

“Even you, Akira, noticed it, but we didn’t realize it until you pointed it out… It’s embarrassing.”

“Isn’t that harsh?”

Akira retorted to Rin’s harsh words, but everyone brushed it off.

“Well, it’s a little late now, but where shall we hold it? Since there are so many of us, should we rent a place?”

“I wonder if there’s a place around here…”

“There might be a place, but people who are thinking the same thing as us might have already booked it.”

While everyone was lost in thought, Kaori shyly raised her hand.

“Um…”

“Kaori?”

“How about if we do it at my house?”

“Kaori’s house?”

Ryo and the others were surprised by Kaori’s unexpected suggestion.

“Eh, is that okay?”

“Well, it’ll be quite a big group…”

“Um, me, Yuuya, Shingo, Kaede, Rin and Kaori…”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“Also, I invited Merl and Yukine, and they said they would come as well. So that makes eight people.”

“When I hear it again, it’s a big group. Are you sure it’ll be okay?”

Kaede asked with a worried look on her face, and Kaori nodded with a smile.

“Yes! With so many people, it will be fine!”

“A-as expected from Princess Kaori…”

“Are eight people a lot…?”

“Well, when we were at the villa before, there were about the same number of people…”

“As expected of the rich…”

“Well then, we’ll take you up on your offer and have the party at Kaori’s house!”

With the party’s location decided, Ryo suddenly asks a question.

“Oh, by the way, are you sure you can’t come, Akira?”

“I really want to come, but…”

“Do you have something to do, or are you working part-time or something?”

“”──Nii-chan!””

“!”

Suddenly, the voice of a small child echoed through the shop.

When Ryo and the others turned their eyes toward the voice, a boy with a big smile on his face and a somewhat shy-looking girl holding hands appeared.

Akira’s eyes widened at the sudden appearance of the children.

“Itsuki, Subaru!”

“Eh?”

“Do you know them?”

While Ryo and the others were surprised by the unexpected situation, Akira came out from behind the counter and crouched down in front of the two children.

“Why are you here? I told you not to come here while your brother is at work, didn’t I?”

“I-I’m sorry…”

The girl lowered her head in response to Akira’s admonishment.

The boy, however, paid no attention to Akira’s reaction and continued with a smile on his face.

“I came to buy a cake!”

“To buy it… but where did you get the money?”

“…I’m sorry, Nii-san!”

Once again, another girl ran into the shop.

The girl, who looks to be around junior high school age and wears glasses, looks around the store out of breath. As soon as she saw the two kids, she rushed over to them.

“I told you not to go out alone!”

“Eeh?”

“Don’t eh me!”

As Ryo and the others became increasingly confused by the sudden exchange, the girl with the glasses looked at Akira apologetically.

“I’m sorry, Nii-san. While you were working…”

“No, it’s okay. Speaking of which, Subaru said he wanted to buy a cake…”

“Mom said we should order a cake for Christmas, so we thought we’d order it where you work, and then Subaru and Itsuki went out on their own. Even though they’ve been here a few times, it’s dangerous to let them go out alone, so I wanted to go with them, but they ran away before me.”

“I see, so that’s why…”

When Akira understood the story of the girl with the glasses, he suddenly remembered Ryo and the others’ presence and smiled wryly.

“Sorry for the suddenness.”

“N-no, it’s fine…”

“Who are these kids?”

When Kaori asked, Akira introduced the children again.

“This is Kaname, the energetic boy over there is Subaru, and the quiet one is Itsuki. They’re all my younger brothers and sisters! Everyone here is my friend!”

“I’m Kaname. Thank you for always taking care of my brother… Say hello to them, too.”

“Yo!”

“…..”

When the girl named Kaname introduced them, the boy named Subaru raised his hand energetically, but the girl named Itsuki just hid behind Subaru and bowed her head.

Kaname sighed in disappointment at this sight.

“Hah… I’m sorry, they didn’t greet you properly…”

“…N-no, that’s okay…”

“Y-younger siblings…”

Everyone was stunned to learn that these were Akira’s younger siblings, and they all froze.

Then Rin looked over at Kaname and the others and turned her attention back to Akira.

“Compared to Akira, you all seem really smart.”

“Isn’t that a bit harsh?”

Akira replied to Rin’s words, and Ryo opened his mouth.

“Speaking of which, from what I heard, those kids also came to order a cake for Christmas, right?”

“Yeah. We were in the middle of a conversation earlier, but I already have a part-time job lined up for Christmas, and after that, I want to spend time with my family!”

“I see, that’s why…”

Ryo and the others understood the reason why Akira couldn’t join the party.

“That’s why you should enjoy the party! Hey, Subaru, Itsuki! Have you decided which cake you want?”

“Not yet!”

“…I’ll look at it now.”

“Somehow, he’s really acting like an older brother…”

Everyone was surprised by this unexpected side of Akira.

──In any case, the preparations for the Christmas party continued without Yuuya’s knowledge.

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“…Hmm, ah… where am I…?”

Rikuto, who had lost the mock battle with Yuuya and fainted, woke up feeling a bit sluggish.

Then, his comrades, who had noticed his condition, called out to him.

“Rikuto!”

“Are you okay?”

“Y-yeah… but where am I…?”

“You’re in the medical center.”

“Medical center? How did I get here…?”

Rikuto said with a confused look on his face, and his cronies looked at each other.

Then, a member of the medical staff who happened to be passing by opened his mouth.

“You lost the mock battle against the savior and fainted.”

“The savior?”

For a moment, he didn’t understand what they were talking about, but Rikuto immediately remembered the confrontation with Yuuya earlier.

“Ah, right, I fought that incompetent…”

And just as he was about to say that, he immediately remembered the details of the battle and was stunned.

“O-oi… you’re not saying that I lost, are you…?”

“W-well…”

His comrades were at a loss for words and mumbled, but that was the answer.

Rikuto’s blood boiled immediately, and he lashed out at his surroundings.

“Screw you! How could a nobody like that… It must be a mistake!”

“I-it’s true that he can’t use superpowers, but he could use a different power!”

“Huh? What kind of different power?”

“That’s the magic that brought you here.”

“Magic? That’s a fake! There’s no such thing as magic!”

“No, but there was! In fact, you were defeated by it…”

“What!?”

Rikuto shouted as he grabbed the neck of one of his comrades.

“Guh?!”

“Say that again! You’re saying I lost?!”

“B-but actually…”

“There must be some mistake! The old humans who couldn’t even use superpowers… and even more, the ancestor of that bastard Kazuya, there’s no way he could have that kind of power! If he really could use magic, then there should be some kind of record of it left in history, right?”

“Th-that’s…”

“See, there’s no such thing left, is there?”

Rikuto said, throwing away the cronies he was holding by the neck.

“I won’t accept this at all. That Kazuya must have done something behind the scenes. I will definitely uncover this secret…”!

Rikuto, who still couldn’t believe that he had lost to Yuuya, muttered this while burning with hatred.

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Behind the scenes of Yuuya’s arrival in the future world.

‘──Warning! Warning!’

A shrill warning sound echoed through the Machinery Tower, the stronghold of the mechanical knights.

The Machinery Tower was the tallest building on the future Earth, made entirely of metal and machinery.

Its imposing presence gave humanity, which had been defeated by AI, a deep sense of despair. It was a building that truly symbolized the era in which humanity was oppressed.

In the deepest part of the Machinery Tower, the Machine God Mother was quietly conducting her analysis.

‘──Detecting a disturbance in space-time.’

A huge machine hovered in the darkness.

It was a strange object that could be called a mechanical brain, with countless machines piled up to resemble the shape of a human brain.

Connected by countless wires, this mechanical brain floating in the lifeless darkness was the Machine God Mother that controlled all the mechanical knights.

The reason the warning sound echoed through the space where Mother existed was because Mother had detected the space-time disturbance that had suddenly occurred on Earth.

And the reason for the disturbance in space-time was…

Confirmed intervention in this era by an object whose era could not be measured.

It was because Yuuya had been brought to this era.

Kazuya and the others had thought that they had secretly brought Yuuya here, but to their surprise, Mother had detected Yuuya’s presence due to the disturbance in time and space.

At this point, however, Mother could only tell that an object that had nothing to do with this time period had intervened in it.

Mother immediately began to calculate.

‘The possibility of humans causing a disturbance in space-time… Estimating the level of human technology… Spontaneous long-term disturbance of space-time… Impossible. However, spontaneous temporary disturbance of space-time… Possible.’

Mother immediately deduced that this space-time disturbance was caused by humans.

‘Originally, our victory rate against humans was 99.9%. However, we have revised the win rate to account for the uncertainty of someone intervening due to a space-time disturbance. The current win rate is 99%.’

Given the current situation between the humans and the mechanical knights, it was only a matter of time before the mechanical knights overpowered the humans and took control of the Earth.

Even if Mother’s victory rate slightly changed due to humans’ distortion of time and space, it did not change humanity’s hopeless situation.

Because…

‘The ways in which humanity can defeat us. Long-term battle… we will win because we have the resources. Short-term battles… there is a slight possibility that humanity will win through total war. However, our numerical superiority will remain unchanged. Therefore, in order for humanity to defeat us, they will need a weapon with a powerful force that overwhelms numbers. However, there is no record that such a weapon has existed on Earth in the past.’

Mother assumed that a powerful force was a weapon.

This was because weapons with the potential to destroy the Earth, such as nuclear weapons, had existed in the past.

However, in this future world, there were many new weapons that were far superior to the weapons of the past, so there was no reason to bring weapons from the past.

If such things were brought in, it would ultimately mean that humanity could no longer live on this planet, and there was even the possibility that they would be taken away by Mother and the others.

The only remaining possibility was the intervention of a human individual with great power, but Mother immediately ruled out that hypothesis.

Even if you searched through all the records of Earth’s history that Mother knew about, you couldn’t find any evidence of a human individual with the same power as a weapon that could destroy the world, and in fact, the current human race had evolved and become more powerful, so Mother had concluded that there was no need to go to the trouble of bringing a human individual from the past.

‘Considering the intervention of the future world. Based on the current situation… the possibility that the future of humanity will continue is less than 1%. Therefore, intervention from the future world is unrealistic. Even assuming that the future of mankind continues. As a result, if intervention were to occur in this era, there is a high probability that the future would change greatly. Conclusion: Intervention from the future is impossible.’

Mother made various hypotheses, but in the end, she was unable to determine what humanity had summoned.

However…

‘The effect on our victory… is extremely small. However, it is essential to eliminate the element of uncertainty.’

Mother concluded and immediately activated the entire Machinery Tower.

At that moment, the Machinery Tower began to move with a dull sound, and a tremendous amount of energy began to be generated within the tower.

When the generated energy gathered at Mother’s location, it was released all at once toward the top of the Machinery Tower.

Once the released energy converges at the top of the Machinery Tower, it becomes a special electromagnetic wave that envelops the entire planet.

‘──Space-time suppression complete.’

In order to eliminate any uncertain factors, Mother enveloped the entire planet with a huge amount of energy to prevent any further interference from other eras.

As a result, even after using Divine Authority, Yuuya was unable to return to his original era.

Of course, taking control of the entire planet’s space-time continuum was no small feat.

This could only be achieved by operating the Machinery Tower at full capacity and gathering energy.

At present, the Mother had constructed a complete energy recycling system, but when so much energy was consumed at once, it was impossible to recover all the energy immediately.

Therefore, the power of the Mother and the Machinery Tower temporarily decreased.

‘──Enter standby mode. Give orders to the mechanical knights. Capture humans and recover energy resources. And detect and destroy any unsafe elements.’

Originally, the Mother and the mechanical knights were always connected by a special electromagnetic wave, and the Mother would collect information from the mechanical knights and give them orders whenever necessary.

However, due to the sudden energy consumption, the Mother, which had temporarily gone into standby mode, gave the mechanical knights instructions in advance about what to do while she rested.

Then, after the instructions were given, the driving noise of the Mother gradually became quieter, and it went into standby mode.

At the same time, the sound of the Machinery Tower also disappeared.

In order to maintain the minimum amount of power required, the emergency power device was activated.

Then, hundreds and thousands of pale, eerily glowing objects began to float around Mother, who was shrouded in darkness.

These objects were huge pods filled with a certain liquid, and they were the emergency power generators for Mother and the Machinery Tower.

It was in this somewhat fantastical room that Mother gave her final instructions.

‘──Proceed with the development of new weapons using the bodies of the awakened.’

With these instructions, Mother went completely into standby mode.

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