'On the second half of my journey, I met a handicapped person,' he thought, remembering what had happened a few moments ago. it just shattered his view of this world again and it also felt weird.
(few moments ago: yipppe yippe yippe)
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That person, whose legs were crisscrossed, eyes looking left and right, held the arms of MC and asked in a pleading tone, "Boy, if you don't mind, can you do me a small favor?"
To which our MC flinched and replied, "Yes, Mr., how can I help you?"
He was stuttering and said, "Iiif ffff you don't mind me asking, can you give me a sum of 20 Nierian and some food if you have any?"
To which he contemplated for a while. He kinda felt pity for this man but also felt that he was in a tough situation. He searched his pockets and found Glucond, a tablet-like, orange-flavored glucose candy, and gave it to that person.
He just saw him, didn't ask anything, just looked.
From behind, someone covered his eyes. "Guess who I am?" the unknown masculine-voiced person said while still covering his face.
Our MC thought he was back in his world for a second. He just, out of instinct, said, "Bi## Krnzer, is that you? My rival who always loses to me like Aary to Gash!"
"F### you, man! You turned into a meatball, didn't you?" he said sarcastically while releasing his covering hands and pinching MC's fat belly.
"I thought you would've had 2 to 3 girlfriends by now, not turned into Laxsnor," Krnzer said to our MC.
"Hehe, if I wasn't fat as you said, many would've fallen for me, but you would have none, so I sacrificed myself for you, my friend," he retorted while jabbing Krnzer's belly.
"Damn, bro, you turned into some metal cyborg or something! Why are you so sturdy? Why does it feel like I'm hitting a tank or something?" he said in astonishment.
MC remembered how Krnzer's parents were always so kind and was about to ask about them, but he turned and saw that disabled man taking something from his pocket and giving a side-eye to Krnzer from MC's blind spot.
MC saw it but acted like nothing happened to him. 'Never be involved in shady business, or something bad will happen, like some sorta cannon event happening to those nosy MCs transported to other worlds by some eldritch abomination entities,' he reminded himself.
"Hey, even if you saw something, don't try getting involved, alright pal? And especially stay away from people like them," he said while pointing to the handicapped person. "Hey, 1, come here."
To which that person obediently came near Krnzer.
"Do you know the population of our city itself has reached a billion? Not even 100 million, but a billion. Don't you find that strange after what happened 1000 years ago? Why introduce all this tech of the past now? What are those people planning?" he said to MC while pointing at himself, MC, and 1, saying, "We all may look like humans, but some of us are modified above 90% of the body. Like 1 here, he or anyone like him is dangerous, so be careful, alright pal?" he said melancholically while looking sad. He just pulled one of his legs and typed something on it—it turned into a gun.
...….
I gasped when such a magical thing happened, but it wasn't magic; it was tech. Calling it magic would be a disgrace.
But something felt weird as I looked around. The people in the metro didn't even bother glancing at us and simply passed by the side. None felt weird or anything. In a metropolitan area like this, why wouldn't people even look at something or feel weird when something was blocking the path?
As if reading my brain, Krnzer just smiled and didn't say anything, just doing shooting poses with his prosthetic leg-gun, smiling at me as if asking me to ask anything. And to his side, 1, or that handicapped person, stood there like a doll, not doing anything.
'Would he kill himself if Krnzer asked him to do that?' I thought while looking at both of them and feeling nervous. To break the ice of silence, I asked the question I had just thought of.
1's face changed, and it felt like he was about to remove his other leg. "You darn brat, I will just shoot you here, you hear me?" But maybe he felt embarrassed that if he took it out, he would fall on the ground.
To stabilize the scene, which didn't go as Krnzer expected it to, he coughed and brought the atmosphere back and again did a pose while waiting for me to ask him the question.