Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 296 They will be so broken, not even your mama can fix it!

8 HOURS LATER

"Alina, are you still angry at me? Please talk to me...." Alex whined through his teeth as he gave Alina a pleading gaze.

The aforementioned woman only gave Alex a harrumph as she gobbled down on her food.

"Nom nom nom."

These sounds of Alina chewing grated on Alex’s ears, making him wish that he could not hear it anymore. But Alina seemed to relish on Alex’s irritation, as she continued on vocalizing her chewing.

"Nom nom nom..."

"Alina, it’s been 8 hours since we arrived here. Surely you want to talk to me already..." Alex attempted to plead to Alina once more, but just like before, he was only met with nothing but her chewing sounds.

"Nom nom nom."

"Alex, don’t try to talk to Alina right now. She is still pissed at you." Queen Mother, who was busy munching on some kind of plant, said as she gave Alex a warning look.

Queen Mother seemed to be angry at Alex too, although she seemed to be not as angry as Alina.

"Let Alina do her thing. I am sure that once she has sorted out her thoughts, she will talk to you."

"Queen Mother, thank you for saying that. That is indeed what I am planning to do." Alina replied to Queen Mother, with her gaze averted away from Alex. "I will only talk to that guy once I want to do it."

"Wait, now you are calling me ’that guy’?"

"Hmph, you should be relieved that Alina is not beating you up right now." Professor Frances muttered behind Queen Mother as she gave Alex a disdaining look. "You kept some secrets on her, and you put your life at risk earlier! Do you really think that Alina can just say ’Oh goodie, I am not hurt that you kept secrets from me’ and forgive you? Hell no!"

"..."

Alex of course knew that what Professor Frances said was right, although the way that Professor Frances said it has grated on his nerves.

"Why are you even here, Professor Frances?" Alex shot back as he glared at Professor Frances. "Shouldn’t you be stuck at that world? How could you be included here?"

"Huh? What are you talking about? Right now, I am considered to be a property of Queen Mother, so it is inevitable for me to be brought here." Professor Frances replied as she shrugged her shoulders. "I am just like her clothes or special items, which will always be with her wherever she goes, unless she throws me away."

"So that means that since you are now Queen Mother’s property, you will always be stuck with her?"

"Yep, that’s the gist of it."

"...I am not sure whether I should be happy about that or not..." Alex muttered to himself as he shook his head.

He then looked behind him, seeing two more people in the room.

"Oh Big Bro, where are we now? Is this a new place?" The one who asked this question was Kiera, the little girl bestowed with the power of the Red Moon. She was staring at Alex with an excited expression on her face, as if she had already forgotten Emperor Litch’s cruelty towards her.

Behind Kiera was her grandfather, who was giving Alex an aggrieved look.

No matter which way you looked at it, Kiera’s grandfather was pissed, although there is no way for him to just complain to Alex.

"..."

Upon looking at these two people, Alex could only shake his head as he let out a sigh.

"So if I follow Professor Frances’ logic, then does that mean that these two are my property now? What the hell did I even do to make them mine?" Alex said aloud, ignoring the flaring anger of Kiera’s grandfather.

"Maybe it’s the fact that they were inside Alina’s Storage when we were brought to this world." Queen Mother interjected as she patted Kiera’s head. "Maybe Kiera and her grandfather were treated as objects since they were stored in that Storage. And that allowed them to be brought here along with us..."

After hearing this answer by Queen Mother, Professor Frances only nodded her head in agreement, while Alex’s eyebrows went up.

"Do you know how ridiculous that sounds, Queen Mother?" Alex replied as he raised his arms. "If what you just said was right, then does that mean that we can put any people that we want inside Alina’s Storage, and once we go to another world, those people will be brought too? Queen Mother, that just sounds unfair! Do you know how broken any mission could get if what you said was true? They will be so broken, not even your mama can fix it!"

"Say whatever that you want Alex, but you just saw that Kiera is with us right now." Queen Mother replied as Kiera giggled under her palm. "Of course, maybe their arrival here was related to the forced hiatus, but who cares about that? These two are with us right now because of us, so we have a responsibility to handle them."

"With many companions comes great responsibility." Alex muttered as he shook his head. "Sigh, at least this world seems to be peaceful compared to the ones that we had before. Maybe we can-Kehoff!"

Alex started coughing as his whole body convulsed in pain.

Blood came out of his mouth as the bandages covering his skin started to redden too.

Alex’s face also became contorted, as if he was experiencing pain that was too much for him.

"Hey, I told you to just rest!" Asteria, who was drinking another jar of honey, said to Alex as she hovered towards him.

The said fairy stared at Alex’s bandaged body while shaking her head.

"Alex, due to you draining your reserves during the fight earlier, you were only able to forcefully heal yourself to around 50% of your peak condition." Asteria said as she poked Alex’s right shoulder.

"Ouch! You dumb fairy! Where are you poking at!"

"Ever since we arrived at this world 8 hours earlier, your healing rate has slowed down to just 3% per hour, which is already great, considering all the injuries that you just incurred." Asteria said as she stopped poking Alex. "Right now, you were only healed to around 74% of your peak condition. If you want to be fully healed, you must not do anything strenuous!"

"You want me to just lie down here while I get ignored by Alina? Asteria, you must be kidd-"

Alex looked like he was about to give a rant even with all his injuries, but that was stopped when behind him, Sloth suddenly materialized.

Sloth lazily raised his arms as he hit Alex with the spell Lullaby.

The effect was instantaneous, with Alex’s eyes rolling back to his head. His convulsions calmed down as the blood flowing out of his mouth disappeared.

His bandages began to lighten too, as the blood seeping through them went back inside Alex’s body.

The tense atmosphere around Alex calmed down as he fell asleep, making its occupants sigh in relief.

"Hmph, thank you for that Sloth." Asteria said to Sloth as the latter let out a yawn. "But why did you not use that spell on this hooman earlier? He could have healed faster if you did that!"

"We Abyss Sprites became tired after we activated Master’s Original Abyss Spell earlier..." Sloth replied unwillingly as his eyes began to droop. "We were so tired, that we could barely use our other spells... We had to rest if we want to use our other spells, that’s why I did not use my Lullaby on master earlier.... I was just too tired to do i-Yawn... Can I sleep now?"

"Yes, you may sleep already, Sloth" Queen Mother spoke up as she gave Sloth a nod.

THe Abyss Sprite looked relieved after hearing this, as he wore a satisfied expression on his face as he disappeared.

Once the Abyss Sprite went back to wherever he came from, the whole room went silent again, as the people that were still awake struggled to find a conversation.

"...."

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"Ehem, so Alina, when will you stop eating?" Queen Mother asked hesitantly as she stared at Alina, who was still gorging on her food. "You have been eating non-stop since we arrived at this place. Don’t you think... that this is a little too much?"

"Don’t be worried about me. I am just stress eating." Alina replied hurriedly, with her mouth still filled with food. "There will be no problems even if I eat this many. I will just use my power to remove the excess fats out of my body."

"But still-"

"NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM."

"Fine... you’re also not in the mood to talk too." Queen Mother said as she let out a sigh. "Go on and enjoy your eating then."

"Nom nom nom."

Seeing that Alina was uncooperative, Queen Mother swiveled her gaze at Kiera, who raised her hands as she said,

"Big Sis, I want to play!"

"Ah, maybe later..." Queen Mother replied as she shook her head. "We are still in an unknown place, so it is not safe for you if you just go out..."

"Aww..."

After talking to the kid, Queen Mother looked up as stared at the kid’s grandfather.

"Okay, you don’t want to talk too." Queen Mother muttered as she saw he unbudging glare of the old man.

Queen Mother then looked at Asteria, who stared at Queen Mother back.

"What is it, tree hooman?"

"...You told Alex earlier that in this world, we are the only Travelers. If that was the case, then that means that we can already know about the Main Mission, right?" Queen Mother said to the fairy as she tilted her head. "And we should be able to buy our upgrades already!"

"Hmph, I can do that, but I still have to wait until Alex gets fully healed." Asteria replied as she shrugged her shoulders. "Only when he’s 100% healed that we will talk about the mission."

"..." After hearing this answer, Queen Mother gave Asteria a blank gaze as the latter crossed her arms.

A few seconds later, and Asteria let out a tired sigh as she looked away from the fairy.

"...Fine. I’m sure you have a reason for that, which I won’t ask anymore." Queen Mother replied to the fairy. "Just... continue slurping down that honey of yours."

"Hmph, you sure you don’t want to ask?"

"Nope, I’m good here."

"Okay then."

"...."

After her attempts at talking with Asteria also went unsuccessful, Queen Mother placed her attention on the last person in the room.

"Frances, did your spy drones get the information that we need?" Queen Mother said as she approached Professor Frances. "Actually, do you need my help for that? I can make your drones stronger if you want it."

"Tree girl, there is no need for your help anymore." The professor said as she flipped her hair. "I already created those drones to be perfect in their jobs! Why would I, the greatest bio-sculptor ever, need improvements on my already perfect drones? That’s just ridiculous!"

"Fine, fine, fine. I get it. All of you doesn’t want to talk to me!" Queen Mother’s temper got the better of her as she failed to suppress these words coming out of her mouth. "If you don’t want to talk with me, then I won’t try to bother you all!"

"!!!" Everyone in the room perked up as they heard what Queen Mother said.

Both Alina and Asteria gave Queen Mother worried looks, while Professor Frances looked at Queen Mother with incredulity.

"You think we are ignoring you, Queen Mother? We ’re not doing that! We’re just you know, tired from the last fight..."

"Don’t try to sugarcoat it, Alina. Ever since I joined this team, I am feeling... somewhat alienated." Queen Mother said as she shook her head. "I get that I am... not really human, but I feel like you were not giving your all in regards to talking with me."

"..."

"You know what? I can understand that alienation when it happened at the world of Superhumans, since we were just newly acquainted. But you still treated me the same way at the Four Moons World!"

"Queen Mother, we-"

"If you don’t want to talk to me now, then maybe it will be better for me to leave this room first." Queen Mother said as she stood up, opening the door of the room in the process.

Queen Mother then stared back at her comrades as a tired expression appeared on her face.

"Alina and Kiera, you can stay here and guard Alex. As for you Professor Frances... just focus on manipulating your drones. As for me, I... will just get a breather outside."

Queen Mother did not linger around to hear what her companions would say as she immediately left, leaving the door ajar.

She heard some footsteps following her, but Queen Mother did not take note of it as she only focused on leaving this place first.

As for when she will come back? Queen Mother will have to think of that later.