Chapter 212: The visitor from another world

In front of the gate was a crowd and in front of the crowd, was a girl. 

She had light green hair, emerald eyes, something like crimson leather armor, and a ponytail. What was weird though, was her horns and tail and her uncanny resemblance to Enira. 

"You have a sister or something?"

"I don't know. I was pretty crazy back in the day, maybe I had a few kids or something?" 

I had no idea how old this dragon-snake thingy was and I had no intention of knowing.  But seriously, she had kids and didn't even know about it?

Wow.

Just, wow. 

"Anyway, should we leave her here or-" 

"Maybe, we could take her core? I mean, she seems so delicious-" Enira licked her lips and drooled. "Might prove to be difficult though."

I gave her a slap on the back of her head. "Yeah, no thanks. Let's just ask her some stuff. It's entirely possible she's here on other business." I didn't really want to get involved but the girl was literally the spitting image of Enira when she first came out of the saber that morning. 

And since Enira had three small cores and she already absorbed two, it was possible this one was just Enira herself. It was also possible that this girl was a product of Enira's evaporated cores manifesting. 

There were loads of possibilities.

"Hi there, got a minute?" I went through the gates and seeing me, the crowd parted. 

"Uhg-ghan tiath sk gfaht!" The girl glared at me but when she saw Enira next to me, she looked a bit more composed. "GHTHSAsd hant tiaght ao?"

And I had no friggin idea what language was that. The words were weird and her accent was making my ears hurt.

She was rather quiet but the moment she saw me, it was almost like she exploded or something. 

"Do you speak dragon?" I looked to my left and Enira just giggled. "Just translate already!"

"I hail from another world- that's what she said. I discarded the first half by the way, she said some very unpleasant stuff."

So that meant she wasn't this moron's sister, daughter or even she, herself?

"Yeah, I didn't need to know that." I sighed. Another world- huh? "Well, I guess she doesn't seem to be related to you then, so let's go. I have about 25 mins before class and I'd rather not be late."

"Han ga chialoso!" The other girl however looked at us and pleaded for something. Her voice was similar to this moron too. 

I was seriously starting to doubt this. 

"I wouldn't be too sure of that," Enira said. "Anyway, she asks our help to take her to the king of this land."

"King? I guess she's looking for the headmaster then?"

He was technically in charge of this place, so-

"Maybe?" Enira threw her hands up in the air and giggled.

Yeah, she wasn't helping. 

The weird girl, however, still looked at us, pleading.

"I don't see any disciplinary guys out here." And most of the kids here were first years, and I didn't know them. 

I was really feeling weird about this. But some part of me felt like this girl was related to Enira and because of that, I couldn't just leave either. 

'I've become too soft.'

"Haran sitha dhtat fikta irak skinc sdhk  jknxc jg iwbnjnm mink aaknkn nnafhf."

"Now what she say?"                                               

Enira looked a bit troubled. "Apparently, there would be an invasion and she needs to see the king of this land quickly."

Now I really didn't want to get involved in this. 

But I had my family on this island and if somehow a terrorist invasion took place and they get hurt or something- that'd really weigh on my conscience. 

With a sigh, I stared at the girl. She stared back. "You- with me."

There was a lot of pointing and a lot of nodding.

I had no idea if she understood me or not, but she started to follow me and Enira as we walked towards the main building. 

***

The girl quietly followed us. Sometimes she and Enira had a conversation or two. 

Enira did not tell me a single word though. 

It took us about ten minutes to reach the room of the headmaster and upon reaching him we wanted to say our farewells but he made me sit tight- his reasoning- he needed me here for translation purposes. 

And for that, I wanted to leave Enira behind but she just insisted I stay here too. I really didn't want to though. I had a feeling the headmaster was about to ask something very-very – well, something of me. What that something was, I still didn't know. 

The girl was speaking in some mysterious language- and it really wasn't from this world, as our Holo couldn't really even recognize it. The Holo- though advance- could recognize languages. It couldn't do live translation though. 

Enira translated everything- it went both ways- so this was a very slow discussion. 

However, I didn't know why but I could understand a word or two- and it was kind of getting better: her accent didn't seem that weird either. 'Is something wrong with my brain?' 

"I hail from Bargett. A small nation in the world of Neil."

"Neil? Are you sure, your world is named Neil?" The headmaster looked a bit surprised. 

"You know something? Because I'm totally out of the loop here."

The headmaster looked at me. "Keep quiet about this but there are more worlds than this. And no more questions."

Then why the hell did he even want me to stay here? I didn't complain though. 

"Yes, Neil. Our world is a very prosperous land and because of that we attracted them and they plan to-"

"Invade this world." The headmaster sighed. "I see, so that's why." 

I raised my hand like a kid. They didn't want me to ask anything but I had to ask at least something. 

"GO ahead-" The headmaster held his head. He looked very depressed and stressed at the same time. 

"Explain this to me, please. What is Neil and what does she mean by invasion?"

"So, a meteor struck us about a hundred years ago, you know that, correct? And because of that Mutors, Kin, and our powers were created, you were taught as much if I'm not wrong." I nodded and the headmaster continued. "That's actually only partially true. You see, the meteor was a hoax. It did land on Antarctica but it brought some DNA from another world. A world far away from our own galaxy. And incidentally, a portal also opened in Antarctica- near the meteor crater and most of the Mutors came from that portal. And some inhabitants came from that place too."

I mean that much was obvious. A meteor fell on earth and it brought some viruses. But I didn't know it came from another galaxy: and Mutors weren't from this world? We weren't a space-faring civilization yet but we were on the verge of it. So hearing the word- outside of our galaxy really felt weird. After all, wasn't the galaxy, really, really, really big?

But this- the fact about Mutors being from another world was kind of groundbreaking.

Seeing my silence the headmaster continued. "It was the first attempt of an invasion. But unfortunately for our invaders, humans evolved very rapidly and we stopped the invasion a long while before it even got to its third phase. Ninety percent of the population died and the rest were going to die soon too. The world was almost destroyed."