The Fate Of The World Is In My Hands, But All I Want To Do Is Eat! Chapter 39: Alice, you asked me to tell you what happened

"Hey, I wanna ask you sothing." Alice said. "That day I stumbled on the red gate, the day I first heard your voice, can you tell what exactly happened?"

Leo went silent for a while and Alice did not rush it. She waited for him to respond, hoping he wouldn’t brush it away as information that she wasn’t strong enough to listen to.

It still confused her how the agency was so convinced that she was an S-class awakened just from the video they watched of her and the red gate.

She didn’t rember doing anything but killing the three-eyed red wolf, barely able to, in fact, and then watching the gate fade away.

She could still rember how pissed and disappointed she was but she couldn’t help but feel that sothing else happened there.

At least, that was what they were all convinced by.

"So, what happened?" She asked.

*That day...* He paused. *It was the day I got attached to you, yes and the dium was that red gate.* He explained.

"I don’t understand. Can you explain in a simpler form?" She requested and it explained clearly.

*You know the act of rebirth, don’t you?*

"Uh, I think so." She said with this not-so-certain gaze, but he liked to assu she had at least a little clue of what he was talking about and continued.

*That day, you were reborn. Your future self woke up as soon as your eyes caught that red gate and thanks to the red gate being active, I was able to locate you fast enough and attach myself to you.* He explained and waited to check if Alice was following and thankfully, she was. *I thought I would be able to manifest as a human right away and put you through, reminding you of the contract we signed but you-*

"You ntioned the contract before." Alice rudely interrupted him. "Will you tell about the details?" She asked, not understanding that her interruption made Leo furious.

But he let it go and said,

*I would if I could but I can’t. For now.* He answered and she pouted. Such valuable information was always withheld. *Ahem, as I was saying,* he proceeded to continue. *I manifested as a voice in your head. A guide and-*

"A system!" She once again interrupted, pissing him off and he yelled,

*Will you just let finish?*

Alice picked her ear, darting her eyes aside.

"Sorry, sorry." She said. "Please continue, oh honored one."

*Alice, you asked to tell you what happened, so why are you acting like you are forcing this information on you?* He asked.

"I don’t know." She kicked her legs. "It just feels like I know what you’re going to say next and since I do, I hold no interest anymore. Sothing like that."

*...*

"Anyway, if my guess is right, the from the future who had been reborn, saw the red gate and went right in fearlessly." She demonstrated with her hand in the form of an airplane. "She, no," she shook her head. "... I killed all the monsters in the red gate, but one got out, and I had to kill that one for the gate to close, right? But when I got out of the gate, my future mories suddenly vanished, right? I saw the red wolf and hid. And the rest is history."

She rested back on the throne and asked,

"So, did I get it right?" She asked with a lazy look in her eyes.

*Well, yeah. Yeah, you got it right.* He answered. *And you probably know that I couldn’t speak frequently back then because I wasn’t, well, charged.*

"Ha, now you’re going to admit you were charging." She laughed and got up. "Well, that’s that. I understand the situation fairly enough." She interlocked her fingers and stretched her arms, tilting her body to the side. "Now, I believe it’s ti to get out of here."

*Don’t you want to know the rest of your rewards for defeating the boss?* Leo asked but she shook her head.

"I want to but we can do that once we’re out of here." She said. "I believe we’ve spent enough ti in this damn place."

*I guess so.* He said. *Well, no need to waste ti. Just stretch your arm out and let the ring do the rest of the work.*

Alice blindly listened, not knowing what would happen, but as she stretched out her arms, thinking of how to get everything in the reward room to get into the ring, they all started turning into fragnts and were being sucked into the ring.

She was astonished. She had never seen anything like it.

Her eyes sparkled at how convenient the ring was, and in no ti, the hall was empty, and they were the only occupants.

Even the throne got sucked in, probably because she wanted it to.

*You can access the things inside with a single thought.* Leo ntioned. *So, it’s very convenient.*

"And after this, I still have space in there?" Alice asked.

*I believe so.*

"Whoa!" She stared at the ring. "It’s very very convenient."

*You can also keep your hamr in it.* Leo said and Alice looked at her hamr beside her. *You can get it out at any ti and any place.*

"That would be nice." She stretched her arm towards the hamr, and it turned into fragnts, its form disintegrating and disappearing completely.

Alice looked at her hand, the ring, especially.

If there was such a convenient item, then she was sure the big shots in the awakened agency and most popular S-class awakeneds would’ve been in possession of it.

But it wasn’t known anywhere.

Then, was she the first one to possess it?

But she couldn’t shake the familiar feeling she got from it.

Maybe she ca across soone who had it in her past life. Yes, that could be reasonable.

"Hey, so, where did you get the hamr anyway?" She asked, raising her head.

*It’s yours.* Leo simply said. *It was and will always be yours so I took it with when coming back here.*

That last part was a bit vague but she could interpret it as him bringing her hamr from the future.

She could still rember seeing the hamr in her dream, lying next to her older self.

And then the demon that occupied the entire sky. A giant eyeball.

Evil eye.

Was that sothing she would have to face in the future? It looked like it.

Then, to be able to defeat that demon, she needed to get extrely strong. And after that, she could see herself sailing on a yacht, getting a vacation, and enjoying life to the fullest with all the food she could eat.

*You’re not thinking of food right now, are you?* Leo asked and Alice snapped out of it.

"Uh? What? I wasn’t thinking of anything." She denied it straight away but failed to hide the coveting expression on her face.

*Yeah, maybe if you wipe that drool off then I might believe you.* He said and she imdiately wiped the drool from her mouth. *Let’s just go. It’s been so long and you need to put on sothing.*

"Huh? Clothes?"

She looked down at herself.

Her clothes were this close to falling off. Her pants had been reduced to shorts. Tight shorts. Her top was just barely covering up her boobs and well... The rest of her body was exposed.

"I guess so." She said, and the gate exit opened up right next to her.

*Ti to go.*

"Yeah," she stretched her body and smirked. "It’s finally ti to go back."

She walked through the gate and instead of getting welcod, she... Well, she was indeed welcod but not by a celebration party but by a troop of awakeneds, all under the awakened’s agency, and among them, there was Mark.

"Okay, not what I was expecting."