Next Morning…
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"So this is Aisha. She will be working with us from now on,"I introduced Aisha to the rest of the people here. I waited for them to speak, though all I got from the other people in the room was silence.
Right now we were in the living room of my apartment, on the 64th Floor in the Libra building. The place where everything started. The place where I woke up to find myself in the apocalypse having a system that changed my entire life.
In this room were Irene, Aisha, and me on one side. Angela and Caroline on the other side. Their expressions were filled with curiosity than just surprise… but more than that… they looked charmed.
'I could understand Caroline, but Angela too?' I thought as I looked at her. Angela, on the other hand, simply kept observing Aisha before slowly turning her head at me as she spoke,
"How come you end up finding one strange girl after another… though… this time you really went overboard, didn't you?"
Caroline rapidly nodded at her words without letting her sight go of Aisha.
-Click!
Aisha clicked her finger as Caroline broke out from her daze. It wasn't just her, but Irene, who seemed to look at her with a 'different' gaze, turned pretty normal. Did she reduce her charm or something?
"Could have done it from the start,"I looked at Aisha with my eyes narrowed and she chuckled as she answered,"What's the fun in that?"
"This girl…." I could only shake my head in dejection before turning to Angela as I asked,"How are things here?"
It's only been a day, so I wasn't expecting much, but I still wondered which projects they went with first.
"We contacted George and Alex, but sadly, White wasn't here. We couldn't locate Adam and Blake either, but we were working on it. As for the transformation, I created a field around the perimeter. For now, except the exceptionally strong ones, no one would be able to enter here,"Angela spoke as she counted the things which she did.
"I went and collected a few more things about tenants and people living here. With the help of Angela, it was easy, so it was her work most of the time. Here is the list of everyone living in this building. It also contains information about their families and backgrounds. Unsurprisingly, not all of them are Human,"Caroline added as she looked at me with a serious look.
"Also about the Yggdrasil. Did you know it from before?'' Angela asked as she looked at me and I nodded at her. I knew about it from the last time I entered this apartment.
"Yggdrasil?"Aisha, who first heard about its existence, turned to me curious.
"You don't know?"I asked.
"No… just surprised to hear its name,"she said with a slight doubt, and it got me curious.
"You know something about it?" I asked.
"Hmmm. Just that it was going to be the boon of the entire universe… and it got cut apart by a certain regressor who gained power of decay. Probably that Zombie King of yours,"she spoke as she recalled a little. Then, after a bit of thought, she spoke,
"One of my friends was the caretaker of the tree. So that's how I came to know about it."
"Erina?" I asked, as I figured it would probably be here.
"Erina was a queen. She did have the authority to watch over Yggdrasil, but caretaker is a different thing. Her name was Lilith… She was once a demon but then turned Angel… and soon she became a fairy which took control over the Yggdrasil,"Aisha spoke as she recalled in bits about their history. Looking at her, it seemed she was recalling not a few years ago, but way long before that.
"All right. That's enough chitchat. Tell me what are you going to do next?"Aisha changed the topic as she looked at me.
While I was interested in her story, I respected her privacy as I answered her question,
"We will be dividing the entire thing into two parts and deal with it accordingly. One would be the search party that will aim at finding the source of everything. As for the other party, we will mostly focus on finding and training a small army that will help us fight against the enemy."
She nodded as she looked at me for a couple of seconds before speaking,
"That's good as a base, but you need to subdivide the things while also adding a main point that we should focus on."
She then looked at me as if she were looking at a student of hers,
"What you need to add is increasing the non-combat powers as well. Financial, Political, etc. You need to either assign your own members or take in someone suitable for that. This will let us do many things at once.
Other than that, divide the search party into three. One that will look for the source of changed reality. Another that would look for more people who can work with us, and finally a search party that will work as a scout for us. Like an information collecting organization. That will smoothen things for us.
Divide the combat part. It would be better if you personally teach them. You have some abilities regarding that, right?"she looked at me before glancing at Irene.
I simply nodded at her as she nodded back before continuing,
"And add another combat group that works mostly on defense and training. While the initial training and defense will be provided by you, we can't have you coop here forever. So try finding some people with teaching talent."
Looking at her, I was kind of surprised. The confidence she had when she spoke those words and the way she perceived… she had led a team before, hadn't she?
'Plus, her experience must be much more than mine… just who is she?' I was really curious about her. She was as absurd as I was. But still for now…
'I still need to gain some experience and reach level 30. Before that, I won't be able to teach everyone to their full potential.' I gave it a long thought before I asked Aisha,
"Is there any way I can get to kill a lot of strong monsters?"
I also turned to Angela as I had asked her in the previous reality. It was a sad thing that the reality changed, but well, whatever.
"A lot of strong monsters?"Aisha asked with slight curiosity as she observed me.
I nodded without speaking anything, and she smiled before giving a little thought. She then chuckled as she nodded,
"Well. It's not something I share with everyone, but since we are in this together, I guess I can share some things with you. Though only you."
Her eyes scanned the rest of us here before she waited for my response.
"It's fine. I won't tell anyone. The rest of you, can you please go out?"I asked them. While they were skeptical, they still nodded as they were about to stand and leave from here..
But they stopped as Aisha spoke,
"Nah! It's fine. Now that I think about it… training them would be better if I tell them about it too. Though only this. I won't be adding anyone else."
This girl… just what was going on in her mind.
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