adbindia Chapter 705: Store a Car.
Chapter 705: Store a Car.
A screen with a progress bar appeared before Bella, quickly filling up before disappearing. She didn’t know how to feel about her NIM being accessed so easily.
Though the world has grown comfortable with the implants, the horror of what can happen if a skillful Diver got through their security was cemented in public consciousness over the decades. Bella knew that her boss was a powerful Diver, but she never even imagined him doing anything malicious to her implant. Still...
"Hm?"
Something about the UA superimposed on her field of vision changed. In the bottom left corner of her, two icons appeared. The first one had an E, the second one had an S.
"Your hand."
Snapping out of her thoughts, Bella saw that her red-haired boss had his hand up, as if asking her to give him something. Remembering what he just said, her ears started to feel a little hot as she raised her hand and placed it in his. Of course, he didn’t ask for her hand just to hold it, so it wasn’t much of a surprise when he turned it around and placed something in her palm.
"Keep your eyes on this for a few seconds."
He wanted her to stare at a gun, and so she did, not questioning why. A couple of seconds passed, and she finally got her first hint.
"Some... green lines appeared..."
"Good. Just wait for them to connect." He replied. "Choose yes on the screen that will appear."
"Okay..."
The green lines crossed paths at several points, creating a net that enveloped the pistol. The instant it finished forming, a notification popped up in front of her.
[
Would you like to Store this Item?
>YES. NO.
]
Bella wasn’t that big of a gamer, but even she recognized such a mechanic at first sight. Doing as she was told, she gave the "YES" option a mental tap. The notification blinked then disappeared, and with it went the pistol.
"... huh?"
It took her a while to realize that her palm was now empty, and when she did, her eyes shot wide open.
"Can’t believe that actually worked..."
She hadn’t dropped the pistol, and going by her boss’s reaction, it disappearing was the intended result. The short message displayed on that notification flashed in her mind, and she soon understood what had happened, somehow.
"Listen, Bella..." Dante, her red-haired boss, inhaled deeply before letting it all out, as if preparing himself for a difficult conversation. "When you installed my old implants, it seems that some of my abilities were transferred to you. For you, that’s some pretty good news, but..."
Searching her mind for what abilities he was referring to, Bella quickly understood that they likely weren’t anything he had shown anyone. As she began to form a guess as to what those abilities were, it became increasingly clear why his explanation just now ended with a "but", and all of a sudden, she understood why he brought her to this pocket dimension.
"Relax, I’m not going to dispose of you just because of that."
Her heart almost jumped out of her throat, and her breathing suddenly became manual.
"You’ll have to keep it to yourself, and you must learn how to use it without anyone noticing."
Her fears had been confirmed just now, somewhat. The Red Demon would have no trouble making her disappear, and no one would bat an eye or try to look into the matter. What he said just now could be considered a threat, telling her to keep her mouth shut about it or risk being disposed of.
Fear grasped Bella’s heart, but just as it began to tighten its grip on her mind, her thoughts suddenly went in the opposite direction. Her red-haired boss had awarded her one of his personal implants, and when he found out that she gained a power he didn’t want the world to see, he decided to teach her how to use it instead of disposing of her. He decided to risk granting her that power instead of making her disappear to ensure that it remains a secret, and what would that be if not a show of great trust?
"I... I will do my best, Boss." Suddenly feeling a rush of determination, she looked him in the eyes and made that declaration.
"Good," Nodding with a smile, he held his chin for a moment, then started another explanation. "The abilities you received are connected to each other. The first is Storage, and as the name suggests..."
Realizing he was waiting for her to finish for him, Bella thought for a moment, then spoke.
"It lets you store items."
"Correct. Storage lets you transfer items in and out of an extra-dimensional space. Though there is no real limit to what you can put inside it, the larger and more complicated an item is, the more difficult it is to scan, so transferring them takes much longer. Avoid storing anything larger in a car."
"A car!?"
Somehow, she had never expected the ability to be capable of that much, especially with her first impression of it being to store a pistol. Being able to store something as large as a car and then take it out whenever she wished was terrifying. As her mind began to conjure all the ways she could use it, her boss continued his explanation.
"You should have two new icons on your OAM. The one with an "S" lets you access a list of the items you have stored. Focus on it for a moment."
She did as he said, and a new screen appeared before her. It was mostly empty, with only one thing listed at the top, NailClipper 25.
"Is that the pistol from before?"
"That’s right. Now you will no longer have to worry about carrying a weapon around. Just keep a bunch in there and take them out whenever you need one."
As if to display what it can do, he began taking out random weapons and making them disappear. Knives, pistols, rifles, rocket launchers. He had everything, and from the looks of it, there was still a lot he wasn’t showing her.