Chapter 128 - Talking.

"Hello outsider, fancy seeing one of you here."(Mysterious woman).

Her appearance was something that made me immediately alert, on the outside I may have maintained a calming appearance, but inside my mind was speeding at lightning speeds to find ways and possibilities out of this situation. Because without a doubt the woman was extremely dangerous.

It isn't even a question, it's a fact. Anyone capable of bypassing my [Observation Haki] detection must be a very strong being, but she started a talk so is better if I answer her.

"Hello, miss..?"(Aizen)

"Oh, how rude of me, you can call em Athena"(Athena)

"Nice to meet you, Athena my name is Aizen, how can I help you?"(Aizen)

"Direct to the chase, I like when they are more direct than all that small talk and bullshitting"(Athena).

"I understand, it must be very hard on you"(Aizen).

"You have no idea. So do you know how we deal with outsiders by any chance?"(Athena).

"Unfortunately no, so can I bother you a little to explain?"(Aizen).

"No problem, this is basically my job so it's fine"(Athena).

"You see, I and my family live in a pretty broad and special world, during the years we were able to acc.u.mulate a lot of strength, reputation, and Influence, so slowly we were able to secure a little bit of space in this crazy world. Well there weren't just us, there is a bunch out there, so a lot of wars were waged, and a lot of lives lost, but time passed and we finally reached some sort of equilibrium after a lot of pain and anguish."(Athena).

"Seems like a pretty tough past to me, I am actually impressed about how things turned out."(Aizen).

"Me too you know. I always thought everything would end in blood but by some miracle, we were able to reach an equilibrium with the other powers. But unfortunately, there is just a tiny little bit of problem here."(Athena).

"So, if I am not mistaken this tiny problem must be related to me somewhat, right?"(Aizen).

"Ahh, how I love when they are smart, it just makes the work a lot easier. Yes it is indeed related to you Aizen the outsider."(Athena).

"You see our world is divided into three types of people, be their gods oR devils. The division is between those who derive their power from their MIND, those who derive it from their MAGIC, and those who derive it from their BODY, and you an Outsider is a pain in the ass to everyone"(Athena).

"So the fact that I upset the very delicate balance of the faction by not only being from another world but also because I may use a different system from everyone."(Aizen).

"Yes, yes, you got it right. So the faction design some specific beings to 'greet' those outsiders depending on where they enter the world, and I being the lucky one got the worst place ever"(Athena).

"Oh, wait? why this is the worst place, looking around I can see that everything looks pretty fine"(Aizen).

"No you don't get it, A retard some millennia ago lost the love of his life, sadly for everyone the guy was also a genius wizard, so he thought it was a good idea to try to resurrect his other half"(Athena).

"Ought, resurrection histories never end well"(Aizen).

"And you would be totally right. In his madness the wizard searched the whole world for clues, materials, and anything that could help him, he was fairly helpless in this regard as resurrection magic doesn't exist, but he found some clues here and thus decided to build his laboratory on these lands"(Athena).

"It certainly didn't end well I presume"(Aizen).

"Let me finish and you will see. As this was a special place his research advanced quickly, but unfortunately for him, his lifespan was coming to an end so in a last-ditch effort he thought of building a portal to the afterlife. The portal did work, but not as intended, he somewhat built a portal that created a permanent role on the time-space multiversal continuum. So now almost every dam outsider ends up here at least more than 80% percent of the time so I am one of the busiest beings on the f.u.c.k.i.n.g globe"(Athena).

"Well, I am sorry?"(Aizen).

"Nah it's not your fault, but if a see that f.u.c.k.i.n.g wizard I will definitely kick his ass."(Athena).

"Thanks for the story and all, but you didn't tell anything about my role as an outsider"(Aizen).

"Ah, sorry I got really into the explanation of things sometimes, it's a bad habit of mine."(Athena).

"No problem, I am new and the explanations helped a lot."(Aizen).

"Ok so let's get into it, as an Outsider you are forbidden from entering any kind of organization in the current world. You can defend yourself but you must avoid taking part in faction fights, we really don't wanna outsider interference"(Athena).

"Sounds good to me, wasn't planning on joining any kind of organization anyway, and as long as they don't disturb me and my surrounding I don't see me intervening on another faction conflict"(Aizen).

"~It's good you get the rules, they are basically the norm in every corner of the world. But you see there is another thing I must address to you~"(Athena).

Her shifting the lighthearted tone of until now made me put on my guard immediately, my hairs are standing on end and my Haki is alerting me on imminent danger {Future Visoon] choose right now to conveniently stop working, which is bad, and she is looking at me now with some weird predatory eyes that definitely don't belong to a human being, not that I thought he was normal anyway.

"~Well, our Family seeing as we always have the more work decided on a new curse of action. Seeing as the outsider can't enter a faction normally, we found a very good loophole in the agreement, it said that OUTSIDERS can't enter a faction, it never said about outsiders turned legal habitats, so we immediately went on using the easiest way to make someone a legal habitant. A *whisper* soul *whisper* contract~"(Athena).

"A contract? Well, I must thank you for this offer but I don't want to be tied down you know. I like my freedom very much."(Aizen).

"~Understandable. But there is just a tiny, itsy bitsy problem with this~"(Athena).

"What problem?"(Aizen).

"~you don't have a choice!~"(Athena).