Guilty Crown: ROB's Wheel c60 (Patreon)

Chapter 60

*Hmph*

"Is my Julis jealous?" Alex asked with a teasing voice.

"I am not!"

"Indeed. How could some simple devil girls impact our iron-clad relationship." He wrapped his hand around her shoulder and pulled his girlfriend closer to himself.

"Y-Yeah."

Julis realised that she might have overreacted; she should trust him more. But it's a hard thing to do when someone like Rias Gremory is pushing her melons on his face!

"If only we could get away from these devils!" The girl said that while biting her nail and thinking of something.

They could pull out of the school. But then Julis won't be able to live with Alex! Her parents could take her back. If she is to say something, they might even start investigating the school.

They could interact with the devil kind, who could use some mind magic to alter something.

"Wait! Don't you have cards which lead to different realities?"

"Yeah… I have Guilty Crown and Oreigaru." He nodded while saying that.

"Great! We can stay in one of those places! Until they calm down." Julis regained her vigour as she smiled at the idea.

"I guess. I mean, Oreigaru is a regular world without any superpowers, and Guilty Crown has advanced technology thanks to a meteorite, which brought a special virus."

"Virus? Is it dangerous?"

"Depends. I have no idea. I have never been there. I only saw the anime itself a couple of times. The powers in that place developed from researching the virus and how it interacts with humans.

All I can do is speculate how it will react to us when we cross over."

'You should try out, partner. It's a good test to see how transitioning to another reality affects you.'

Albion said his part about this idea.

'I guess. It's a good idea. I do wonder how the King's Power would work on me.'

'Precisely, it could either be a powerful addition to you or useless. It's not like you will lose anything.' The dragon mentally shrugged. Alex felt the shrug.

'I am more interested if the dungeon will change in some way. That could be fun.'

'You just want to kill different beings.'

'And you don't? I can sense the excitement in you.'

'Indeed. I do wonder if the dungeon changes. What I do know is that the lottery wheel will be different.'

'I see.'

"Well, what did the resident dragon say to you?" Julis asked curiously.

"He said we have nothing to lose."

"True. Well? Let's go back and ditch those devils!" The Pinkette suggested with a grin. She grabbed Alex since they were close and pulled him towards their house.

Their classes were over, and they were supposed to join Rias and her Peerage in the hunt for Stray Devil.

But Julis plans to ditch them and go to a different Reality altogether!

"Sure, I guess. It's not that I am against it. I am curious in a way."

"Great! Then let's go!"

~~~

Alex pulled out a card from his card; it was a green card with the world inside it.

[World Travel: Guilty Crown]

The White Dragon Emperor focused on the card; it glowed before shattering.

That moment, his phone with the ROB's app glowed, and the world travelling screen glowed.

"It appears the option appeared in the phone."

"Yeah, the world travelling part is directly linked to your phone. I wonder if you could give specific world travels to other people?" Julis pondered that out loud.

"Why for?"

"It's a great weapon! Think about it: if you have a strong enemy, just throw the glowing card and send him away!" The pinkette said with a grin.

"Are you sure? If we send a bad guy to a mundane world, they could kill billions." He said with an eye roll.

"... I guess."

'Sometimes females can be super selfish…'

'As they say, partner, the female rules the castle while the man rules the kingdom. A man must care about the wider group of people while a woman will care about her brood.'

'I guess… where did you pick this up?'

'I have been watching YouTube videos you watched a while ago. They are not that bad.'

'Right…'

Alex didn't want to know the details of what the dragon saw. As far as the teen can recall, he has watched some stupid videos from time to time.

'Indeed. Some brutal facts, but facts nonetheless. Anyway, I want to see this guilty crown world in the flesh. The anime I saw through your memories is quite a sad one.'

'Yeah…'

"Anyway! Let's stock up some things before we go!"

"Fair point."

~~~

After getting everything ready, Alex used his phone to open a portal to Guilty Crown.

The world turned grey and white as if time itself had stopped and, followed by a white door, glowing doors manifesting, replacing the regular doors.

"Amazing, it's like time has stopped." Julis, who was hugging Alex's hand, looked around with awe.

"That some powerful phone you got there, partner. Time has stopped as far as my senses can reach. I guess the time flow has stopped everywhere."

The pair of wings said with a curious tone. The white dragon wondered how much power the phone had to make something like this!

"I guess I don't know myself."

Now that he has seen the power the phone can exert over reality, he wonders what that lightning strike gave him.

It is evident that it struck him, and then he touched his phone to change the soundtrack. It would seem the power flew over to the phone and developed into an APP.

Then, of course, the lottery wheel itself.

He recalled all of his pulls. His waifu pulls for Julis. The list of girls he saw. Their power varies by a lot. From cultivation Goddesses to Supergirl, they were all there.

'Hmm, I see… so this is what Apple does to regular people. From fancy boxes to ecosystems. Even if the phone's specs are below average, one would still buy because one simply likes their products.'

'The dungeon is a corporation with a monopoly over power; it feeds on a person's desire.'

'That's quite a theory you got there, Partner.'

'I have spent enough time in the dungeon to see the real face of this place.'

"Anyway, let's go, let's see Guilty Crown…"

"Yes~"

~~~~~~Guilty Crown Verse~~~~~~

The pair walked through the doors into a frozen-in-time city. The moment they walked away from the white doors. The time flow continued.

"Oh, now this looks much better! I could feel more resonance with such a place!" Julis looked happier than ever before. She was closer to her level of tech! Besides, this place evolved closer to her tech levels because of a meteorite!

So it has a 'special' resonance with her just because of that!

"Yeah, it looks nice. It appears that meteorite has accelerated technology growth."

"That much is obvious. Events like war and cataclysm would accelerate technological progress."

"And the fact that corporation has taken over the whole country." Alex then remembered that a company had taken over the whole country because Japan had fallen into a crisis which they couldn't handle and needed help from outside.

"...It did?"

"Yeah. The meteorite has landed on an Island in the south of Japan. A girl by the name of Mana was the first one to touch it. The virus started to spread through her, warping her mind.

She grew obsessed with her brother; the virus was unique as it warps DNA, and people who can't control it turn into crystals.

But the brother declined, and she went crazy and exploded; the virus spread through the whole city, and it crushed the economy."

"...Did you just say 'explode'?" Julis looked at him with wide eyes.

"Yeah, she, in layman's terms, decided that he is her 'Adom' and she is 'Eve'. To bring a new age of humans." Alex explained as he remembered that vivid image of Mana blowing up in the middle of Tokyo and spreading the virus far and wide. Killing so many people that it caused an economic meltdown in Japan.

"...Damn…"

"Yeah, however, the virus isn't that simple crystallisation from what I can tell; it alters DNA to some degree, which allows one to weaponize a person's very life."

"Right…I don't know how to feel about that." Julis wasn't that power-hungry to get a virus in her body.

"It's fine. Let's go and explore for now."

For now, the pair explored the surroundings; one of the first things they did was to check if their power worked and if Albion was still around.

Thankfully, everyone was working, from Alex's Dragon Thunder Force to Julis' different fires.

Once they had their powers secured, they were not as skittish. They started to look around in earnest.

One thing they noticed is that there is no police force. But white armoured man with futuristic weapons. These people are the paramilitary corporation controlled by the GHQ company.

"So this is the future…" Alex saw the date on a holographic board.

"It's past for me…" Julis shrugged at him.

"Yeah, whatever, it's still 2039; we could get some stuff and bring it back to our timeline." The teen pondered about smuggling tech into his timeline. The year is 2008 there. He could get a monopoly on tech.

'Now I sound like some evil corporation's young master.'

'Not far from it, you are considered an 'old blood'. You could fit into the whole Illuminati thing. Like that LOGOS from Gundam Seed.'

'Gundam this time?'

'Yeah, I watched Guilty Crown and now switched to the mainstream Mecha genre. I think I did like the whole Code Geass thing. It's an interesting interpretation of Geass, the contract magic of the Celts.'

'Oh, yeah, do you think I could get Geass?'

'I see why not, though its power would be limited, depending on how your body harnesses it.'

'True…'

The group continued to walk around Tokyo; they explored it quite a bit. But as always, good things come to an end.

"...Did you notice?"

"...Yeah…"

White-armoured people started popping up on each corner. Alex looked around for a bit.

He noticed cameras on crossroads, on the buildings, on light poles.

They are everywhere.

"Knowing the power of the tech, the GHQ most likely found that we don't exist."

"True, we are like aliens —I guess? Inter dimensions aliens?" Julis realised that the obvious thing was that they WERE aliens to these people.

It only took a few minutes, but a heavy SUV and armoured men started to surround them.

"Alex… I don't think we can ignore this. I am sure they won't." Julis nervously looked around. She is not afraid of guns, but the one thing she is scared of is that their 'laying low' method is a burst.

"The only thing we can do is fight back. I don't plan to be experimented by a company who can ignore Geneva treaties."

"True on that as well."

"You two are surrounded! Come with us!" One of the armoured men with thick Japanese loudly exclaimed. And he pointed his rifle at the pair.

"...About that…"

*Lightning Screech*

"I will have to pass."

Alex stepped and disappeared, appearing in front of the guy who demanded surrender. His Dragon Thunder blade sliced through the weapon.

"Whoa!"

"Holy fuck!"

"Who is this guy!"

"Shoot! Shoot him!"

Before they can shoot flaming balls, slam into more of them.

Making the guys catch on fire.

"Aghh!!!!"

"Stop! Stop!"

The armoured men started to trash around, rolling on the ground, trying to control the flames and take them off, not realising that these white flames were not standard in the first place.

"Alex! Now!" Julis loudly exclaimed as she used her flaming wings to rise into the air.

"Right!"

The White Dragon Emperor used his Divide Dividing to fly as well; the pair rushed up and landed on the roof.

"Let's go and find a place to hide for now. We should think of a way to deal with this company." Julis suggested the moment Alex landed next to her.

"Sounds like a plan."