I'm Not Really Him

"As expected of the boss!" Boothill bared a mouthful of shark teeth and gave Busitu a thumbs-up.

"Haha, I got lucky and met someone who helped me." Busitu scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.

"All right, let's go meet up with them now."

Busitu sent Sera a visitor request, and Sera accepted it without a second thought.

Busitu and Boothill had just teleported over when they heard several people shouting into their mics.

"Feifei Fox, behind you! There's someone behind you!"

Sera's voice rang out, sounding somewhat frazzled.

"Huh? Behind me..." Feiying turned her character around in a circle.

"There's nobody behind me?"

"Hey! Sera, save me, someone got the drop on me!" Kiana stood up from her chair and leaned over toward Sera.

"No, I..."

Sera had a headache.

"Save me too!"

Feiying shouted, because she had finally seen the person behind her-but only because she had already been shot dead.

"This is..." Busitu felt a little lost.

"Boss, is this what geniuses are like?" Boothill was a little dumbfounded too.

"They're playing a game."

Cyrene spoke up to explain.

"Miss Kiana said she wanted to try a game from the galaxy, so Sera invited Feiying to join them."

"Oh, I see." Busitu understood, then pulled Boothill over to sit on the other side.

"So, boss, what are we supposed to do now?"

"I guess we wait."

Busitu looked at the three people playing the game and thought they would be at it for quite a while.

Busitu felt the two of them shouldn't have come so early. Sera had been pulled into playing a game, the ladies were having afternoon tea, and he and Boothill were sitting at a table, staring at each other, unsure what to do.

"Yay, White Kitty, you're amazing!" Sera had revived Feiying.

"Come save me already!"

Kiana was still calling out to Sera.

"Coming, coming."

Sera controlled his character and hurried toward Kiana.

"How did you not react in time?"

"He was lying in a corner without moving. How was I supposed to react?" Kiana sounded a little aggrieved and angry. Even she, a Herrscher of Finality, hadn't been able to react in time.

Sera reached the place where Kiana had gone down, and the person was actually still lying there.

"This guy's something else. He shot you and he's still lying there."

Sera sprayed the area with his Da Ba, forcing the person out. Seeing that he had been exposed, the person used his ultimate to lay down smoke and tried to run, but Sera cut him down with a burst.

"All right, time to get out."

Sera revived Kiana too, then took Feiying and Kiana to pull the lever and extract.

"Finally, it's over." Sera felt mentally exhausted after that round.

Sera controlled his character, running at the front toward the extraction point under the bridge.

Sera had only just relaxed a little when he saw three glints appear on the bridge.

"Don't take the fight!"

Sera was alarmed and tried to dodge his way to cover, but it was too late. Three snipers riddled him with bullets.

"You two, get behind cover, quick."

Feiying and Kiana immediately hid inside a building, only to hear three missiles coming.

Feiying had just moved her character to see what was happening.

"Let me see what's going on."

The instant she poked her head out, a missile hit her dead center.

"Aaagh!" Feifei Fox went down.

"Whoa!" Kiana cried out in fright.

Dense flames filled the space in front of and behind her.

To escape the fire, she had to leave cover, and she was riddled with bullets just like Sera.

The three stared at the big words on the screen-extraction failed-then looked at one another and fell silent.

Sera's face visibly reddened.

"Whoa, hot chili pepper." Feiying exclaimed instinctively.

"I can't let this go," Sera said through gritted teeth, his face bright red.

He raised a hand, activated his Corruption ability, and hacked into the three players' backend data.

"Oh, perfect, the boss has spawned at Launch."

Sera laughed, brought up the footage, and watched it with Feiying and Kiana.

"Turn on the boss's auto-fire, and lock on through walls."

"Bang!" An intimidating gunshot rang out.

Close behind it came...

"Boom, boom, boom..." A continuous barrage of missiles came flying in.

Amid the constant bang, bang, bang of gunfire, the three bridge campers went down.

"Now to target your data too."

Sera still wasn't willing to let the matter go. He raised a hand and added an algorithm.

From that moment on, whenever those three entered a match, they would always be targeted by bots, would never get any good loot, and their opponents would always be among the strongest players online at the time.

"Phew..." Sera calmed down, and his red cheeks turned pale again.

"Let's stop playing. I'll take you on a proper tour of the Dual-Phase Paradise."

Sera stood up.

"Let's go."

"Yay!" Kiana's eyes curved into crescents, and her smile was radiant.

"Sure." Feiying raised her hand in agreement too.

"Want to go out and look around?"

Sera walked over to the others, who were still drinking tea and chatting.

The women all agreed without hesitation.

"Coming along?" Sera looked over at Busitu and Boothill in the distance.

"Sure." Busitu nodded. Since they had been dragged into this game, they were naturally going to stick with the main group.

"Wait a moment, I'll ask Himeko." Sera took out his phone and sent Himeko a message.

"Himeko... Aunt Himeko in this universe will be all right, won't she?"

"Mm." Sera didn't hesitate.

[Feather of the Eclipsed Moon]: Himeko, are you free? Take us on a tour of the Dual-Phase Paradise.

[Murata]: I am, but something's come up over here. There's someone...

[Feather of the Eclipsed Moon]: ? Don't tell me you've been dragged into the Holy Grail War too?

[Murata]: Oh, you know about it?

[Feather of the Eclipsed Moon]: The Holy Grail is in my hands now.

[Feather of the Eclipsed Moon]: So is there something wrong with the person you summoned?

[Murata]: Yes...

[Murata]: I summoned Wojian from when he was the train's navigator...

[Feather of the Eclipsed Moon]: ...

[Feather of the Eclipsed Moon]: I knew it. A Holy Grail War classic: fighting yourself.

[Feather of the Eclipsed Moon]: Let's talk in person. Send me a teleport request.

[Murata]: Okay

"Is something wrong?"

Kiana looked at Sera, whose expression had changed.

"Yes. Himeko is a Master too, and she summoned Stargazer Wojian."

"Who?" Busitu exclaimed.

"I didn't expect it either..."

Sera held a hand to his forehead.

"She summoned Wojian. Is he going to fight himself?"

"Interesting."

Herta's eyes lit up.

"So you can even summon someone from a particular period of their life."

"Hi." Himeko and Suzi teleported over with Wojian and greeted everyone.

"Wojian..."

Busitu looked at Wojian, who was clad in white robes, with a complicated expression.

"Ah, La Mancha." Wojian looked up, saw Busitu, and greeted him.

"Don't worry. I'll personally purge that traitor."

"No, you're Wojian, but you're not Wojian."

Sera studied Wojian.

"Indeed."

Wojian nodded in acknowledgement.

"I am the Wojian created by the Holy Grail from the fantasies of people across the galaxy, born from a fusion with the Wojian of real history-a navigator devoted to the Trailblaze."