Chapter 850: I Can Explain

It was weird. The streets that Riley and Alice Prime were walking on right now were clean — there was no rubble, no debris, not even a single crying child. The streets, they were normal. Everyone was just going on about their days, with some busier than the others as they seemingly walked faster or pressed the horns of their cars.

In almost all cases, there would be no issue in this type of normality — but this type of normality was no longer normal in the world Riley walks in. And he walks these streets with his silky, white, frilly dress bouncing with each step; the fake flower pinned on his short brown hair, almost glittering as it reflects the sunlight peacefully veiling him.

"Pft..."

Alice, who was walking with Riley, was circling around him as she took videos of him walking with a certain bounce in his steps; elegant, and yet approachable at the same time — courtesy of Hera's teachings.

"Psst, Riley."

"...Yes?"

"Hurk, my kokoro."

And as Riley glanced at her with his pink luscious lips, Alice could really only just clasp her chest again. If it wasn't for Riley catching her with his telekinetic abilities, she would have truly allowed herself to fall on the cold hard ground. It wasn't helping her case that Riley also altered his voice by compressing the air coming out of his throat.

It wasn't only Alice staring at him, all of the women who were passing by them all glanced at Riley, some longer than others. There were no men staring at him, however... solely for the fact that there truly are no men within the nearby vicinity, and probably in the next country... or perhaps the entire planet.

"This world seems to be functioning well even when all of their species' male counterparts seem to be slowly dying out, Alice Prime."

"I checked their internet for a bit — and they seemed to have saved their balls or something before they were completely wiped out by some sort of virus," Alice hid her phone as the two continued to walk, "Every alien that has a dick or equivalent to it is also probably already dead too."

"Hm..." Riley placed his hand on his chin, "...Do you think the reason why my clone is suddenly missing has something to do with the fact that everyone here is a woman?"

"Yes," Alice did not even hesitate to answer, "Definitely, yes. He's probably getting it somewhere."

"No, I can't detect him anymore. He probably did get it, but he has probably already died from overexerting himself."

"...You're clone can die from something like that?" Alice batted her eyes.

"They can choose to die anyway, anyhow, or anywhere they want to," Riley shrugged, "He probably wanted whatever his last moments to be whatever his last moments were."

"...I don't really understand this, but it seems like one way to go, pft," Alice shook her head as she continued to follow Riley around the city. And soon, Riley suddenly stopped walking.

"This is the last place where Ahor Zai detected the signal from the transmitter," Riley then started looking around as they reached some sort of building. They couldn't approach any further, however, as they were stopped by security... a heavily suspicious security for an inconspicuous and humble building in the middle of the city.

"So... that doesn't look suspicious at all," Alice sarcastically whispered as the two backed away from the building. The two then started scanning the outside of the building to check it, going to a nearby cafe afterward which had a view of the suspicious building.

"How do you want to do this? Should we just destroy the place or what?"

And as the two ordered their drinks, Alice started presenting plans — but Riley only shook his head every time. And as always, the people inside the cafe were staring at Riley, some of them even secretly taking photos of him and sending them to their group chats or even posting them on social media.

"You dressed me up, Alice Prime," Riley blinked a couple of times; his long eyelashes batting as he looked Alice in the eyes, "I had the notion that this is for us to go unnoticed in this universe."

"Oh, no. Psh," Alice giggled, "I just wanted to see what you would look like in makeup and dark hair, and I have to say, you did not disappoint, my little white chocolate universe-destroying monster."

"..."

"But you do have a point, though," Alice then looked at Riley from head to toe as he started slurping the glass of vanilla milk he ordered, "It'll be a waste not to use your disguise."

"Hm," Riley nodded, "We have a lot of time too since I already found Sister."

"...So you only care about your sister?" Alice raised an eyebrow, "The sentiment doesn't seem to go both ways, though. She's been giving you the cold shoulder ever since she got back."

"I prevented her from saving trillions of lives, after all," Riley did not even deny it and just nodded, "I too, also used to find it disappointing whenever I did not get to kill anyone in a day."

"You're a freak," Alice once again giggled, "But I've actually already read everything about you in your universe. You really only came out a few times as Darkday."

"But I did kill everyday, Alice Prime," Riley shrugged.

"...What?"

"Yes. At least once a day. You could find many unsolved cases of murder, a lot of those would be mine," there was a slight glimmer in Riley's eyes as he seemed to reminisce his young adolescent life, "Some were even thought to be done by several serial killers, they didn't know it was all just me."

"You have serious issues, Riley," Alice could really only take in a big gulp of her drink as she looked away from Riley, "I wonder what would have happened if you were raised by me and Dee instead though. That would have been something."

"Maybe. But I think I have always been destined to be what I am — your variant somehow knew that in all her insanity, and that is why she killed me. But it turned out to be the start of everything."

"Jesus... what a mess, huh?" Alice winced as she sucked in a breath. She was about to say something, but she noticed the security around the suspicious building starting to move, "Look."

Riley quickly turned his head to look at the building, only to see several black cars parking in front of it despite the already narrow road. More security emerged from the newly arrived black cars and started surrounding one of the cars and lining up.

And soon, a woman stepped out of the car; covered in a thick coat of fur even with the blistering sun; her face, covered in a pair of wide sunglasses.

"...Is that one of us?" Alice quickly said as she grabbed her camera and zoomed in on the lady.

"No," Riley, however, quickly shook his head. The two continued to watch the woman as she reached the main door of the building... only to also be stopped by the building's security.

"Hm...?" The two then watched as the woman presented some sort of red card to the guards. And as soon as they checked it, they opened the door and gestured to the woman to enter; completely leaving all of her bodyguards outside.

And after an entire hour, the woman came out of the building; her once perfectly blow-dried hair, an utter mess. She wasn't even wearing her sunglasses right and her guards had to carry her back to the car. Throughout her struggle, however, there was a weird smile on her face.

"...I think I know what is happening here," Alice could really only just let out a small gasp as she started tapping Riley's hand, "We need to get inside—well, you need to get inside. I'll stay here and watch."

"Why can it not just be both of us, Alice?"

"Then no one is going to watch. What if King suddenly appears in this universe?" Alice then suddenly pinned something on Riley's clothes, "That's a spy camera so I could... spy. Now go, go!"

And with Alice just forcefully pushing him out of the seat, Riley could really only just let out a sigh and walk back toward the building. And of course, he was once again stopped by the guards — but as soon as he presented a red card completely identical to the one the woman from earlier showed them, they quickly let him in without as much as a word.

"They said your name is Ms. Riley?"

And almost immediately, Riley was welcomed by several women in elegant dresses.

"Do you want to take something before meeting our Savior, Ms. Riley?"

Riley didn't even have to change his name. After all, more women had his name than men.

"No, just take me to the Savior."

"Very well. Please, follow us."

And almost immediately, Riley was taken to an elevator and to a hall with a large door.

"The Savior is waiting for you inside, you may enter."

And as the women opened the door for him, a large lavish room welcomed him — an oversized bed being its center. There were also a lot of unnecessary large pillows there, and even some... tools hanging on the walls.

And there, comfortably sitting on the bed was a man with his back turned on them.

"Everyone, you may leave."

"Of course, Savior."

And as soon as the other women left, the man immediately turned around; barely clothed with only a blanket covering his lower extremities.

"Please, you may approach me, Madam," the man very gently raised his hand and stretched it toward Riley.

"No," Riley, however, just stared at him with a blank expression on his face, "Your daughter is waiting for you back in the space station, Bard."

"This...

...I can explain."