Chapter 213: The visitor from another world (two)

'Wait, then how come everything is still here then?'

"But how is it possible to hide something this big in a mere hundred years?" It didn't make sense. 

There were 3.2 billion people on earth and that was a lot of people!

"Well, about that." The headmaster chuckled. "It happened a few thousand years ago and someone changed the space-time and history itself. In the original timeline, the world was ruined and humanity was almost extinct. Only a handful of people survived- the strongest of the strongest- and came back to the past to stop the invasion from the first place."

Sounded very complicated.

"And you know that because?" Because he sure didn't seem like a hundred years old man to me. 

He chuckled. "I'm one of them."

He still didn't look a hundred years old. 

"And the invaders were from Neil? But wait, something doesn't make sense."

"Of course it doesn't. History itself was altered and so were the memories of the inhabitants of this world. The vaccine for the first virus outbreak was invented 79 years ago: but before that, two-third of the population had already died. And we brought that vaccine- it took us three centuries of tireless research to invent it. We brought the 2nd one too. If we hadn't, both viruses would have ravaged humanity for the next three centuries. And we stopped the Aliens that came through the portal and we also made sure that the natural evolution of the people hastened as much as it could." He paused. "And the invaders aren't from Neil. It was Neil who helped us with the vaccine. It was a joint endeavor of the two worlds that made the survival of this one possible."

"Wait, doesn't that mean, you should be older than 79 at the very minimum? And-"

And why the hell was I thinking about his age of all things?

"Well, in your terms I'm 148 years old. But unfortunately, I took a pill in the future and that doubled my life expectancy. It's pretty neat." He chuckled. "But that's the problem. In the original timeline, Neil never got attacked but I guess I should have seen this coming."

"Bu- but I heard gramps went to this academy with you and-"

He chuckled out loud. "Well, when we went here, we weren't really teenagers you know: well, at least I wasn't, Julio was a different story. Anyway, we'd just saved the world and since we couldn't go back to the future anymore, we just decided to stay behind and have some fun you know- fool around a little."

"Wait, we?" I thought he was just talking about himself. 

"Well, he's dead anyway." He snorted. "Might as well." He was talking to himself. "There were six of us who came from the future."

"And-"

"Yes, it included your grandparents, myself, and a certain moron. And another girl but-" He grimaced. "Anyway, recently you met your grandmother too. I was really surprised back then, you know. She didn't even notice me though, I guess I've aged."

"So, both of them- came from the future? You're not making sense and you're just complicating this without answering me. And-"

And my head was going funny. This was too much, there were just too many things going on here.

"Yes, I know. And if it weren't for your grandmother this whole thing wouldn't have been possible. She could manipulate time- she made us look younger too. I was really hoping one of you would be able to do the same, but you guys just got the genes of that ugly bastard instead." He chuckled loudly. "I know it doesn't make sense and all of this is confusing but bear with me, it's all true and it's a real threat. We've stopped the viruses but the bigger threats would be here soon."

He took a deep breath. "Now that that's out of the way. What do you think? The world as we know it is about to end and Neil is just one of the problems. The third outbreak would be here soon and we didn't have a cure for that even in the future. Though we defeated the aliens, we couldn't win against the virus, we couldn't create a vaccine. If we had, your grandmother wouldn't have died."

"SO that rare disease mom talked about-"

"Was probably the third one." The headmaster sighed. "And here I was hoping, I wouldn't have to go through this again. I should have never taken that damn pill." He chuckled loudly. He then sighed and reminisced. "But I guess I've had a good life."

"And you're telling me this because?" A shiver went down my spine as all the hair of my body rose up. "And don't just set up your death flags!"

Telling me this stuff only made me agitated and have a small existential crisis. 

He chuckled weirdly. "I made a promise to your grandfather that I wouldn't involve his family if something like this were to happen but- I'm out of options. The current world isn't ready for a massive invasion. We don't have the ideal powers and we don't have the military strength. If normal humans are insects compared to us, and Kin are monsters, then the kin are just insects to those aliens. Take a look at this girl. She's far superior in strength compared to the girl next to you though both of them are the same breed and they are losing! I couldn't go toe to toe with one of them even when I was in my prime. Now imagine an army of them coming through."

I actually couldn't tell. And imagine something like that? Yeah, I didn't want to.

"He's right," Enira admitted. "But not by that much." She winked. 

"How long do we have? And if you can't beat one of them, you think there's a chance we can beat an army?" 

All of us looked at the girl and she said some weird words. 

"Exactly seven months."

She also mentioned things like how those aliens from another world had abducted humans and perfected their virus even more. 

"I wouldn't say we could win against an army of them but- they are actually a weird race. They often bend down to strong warriors, even if that warrior is from another world. So." He grinned. "So, imagine if someone just randomly beats their general or something-" His grin intensified. 

'This guy is going to ask me to fight them alone, isn't he?' I so, so wanted to grimace. And it wasn't like I was the strongest or something- this old geezer was still probably stronger than me. 

He was literally dubbed the world's strongest!

But the question remained. "Who are you and why are you on our side? And can we even trust you? If so, why?"

The girl stood up and stood in front of me, eyes straight. "My world was destroyed. Our resources were taken and we were made into slaves. I used all of our resources and came to this world." Her eyes were shimmering but she didn't cry. "And you can trust me, as you are one of our people."

She didn't seem to be lying but I wasn't the best judge of character. 

And me, one of her people?

"We can believe her for the time being. Even if she's wrong it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when," The headmaster said. "Besides, your grandmother was from Neil as well, and we kind of went through this similar thing back then." He chuckled, remembering something. "I still remember your grandfather squirming at how beautiful the girl was."

Yeah, too much information.

My head started to hurt. Just one problem wasn't enough and now I needed more?

"I can really believe everything you just said?" I stared at the headmaster. 

"You can confirm everything with your grandmother. I mean, the one that's still alive."