101 Avatars
88. Negotiating

“Ah, I heard there are other avatar users besides the fake one.  Apparently it's you.”  Kaiser Dewantara said while looking at me suspiciously.

My heart ached at the moment to hear her words.

“Si fake?”  I murmured in my heart.

“So, what's the need for Adrian with me?  It looks so on Dik Adrian's face that Dik Adrian wants to say something to me.”

“Dik Adrian did he call me first?  I'm reminded of someone.”  Once again I murmured in my heart.

“Dik Adrian, that seems to be a good call.  What if from now on, I also call you Kaiser?”  I told the young man in front of me.

“I told you.  Call me as comfortable as Dik Adrian only.”  A gentle smile appeared on his face as he uttered those words that once again reminded me of someone.

No, they're not the same.  They are different figures.  Because if I consider it to be the same existence, then what is its existence?  No, my heart cannot be like this for the sake of its existence.

I tried to instill that thought in my mind so that I did not mix his figure with the figure of the person in front of me.  At least, that's my way of marking his existence in the world.

I returned the smile with a smile and said, “Nah, then set yes, from now on I will call you Kaiser.”

I saw Kaiser looking at me with great concern.  I who was uncomfortable with it immediately tried to say something, but first by him.

“Dik Adrian has not answered my question, right?”

Ah, apparently that thing he glared at me with concern.  I took a breath and exhaled it.  I tried to calm down and try to maximize my communication skills as optimally as possible to attract this man before me as my teammate.

My asimilas with Arjuna's keen senses and Sly Dark are getting better every day.  It caused me to have a sharper sense of sight, smell, and hearing than a normal human.

After I trained it, it turned out that I could also use it to detect human emotions such as fear, anxiety, love, and even lies through heartbeats, changes in the direction of eye sight, trembling actions, etc, the amount of sweat he was releasing, and so on the more sensitive I saw by sharpening my senses.

Brother Kaiser, I mean Healer, has taught me this well.  He can't fool me.  Although he looks very unsettled from behind his expression, heart rate, sweat production, eye gaze, and his body condition is too calm which indicates he is just acting.  But for what?  Who wants to be cheated on and for what purpose?

But let's leave that for a moment.  The important thing now is how to convince him to join our team.

I lowered my head and begged him, “Please, join the team to get rid of the remaining avatar monsters so that the disaster that will befall mankind can be avoided.”

I also looked at his good face, but full of lies and said, “No lie.  Brother knows?  I have the ability to detect human feelings.  Sister's current state is so calm to say that she is in a period of frustration due to someone's death.”

Kaiser looked at me for a long time.  One minute and 35 seconds he looked at me, before he finally said,

“Didn't Dik Adrian conclude all that because Dik Adrian did not detect the slightest feeling of anxiety due to the hormone adrenaline in me so Dik Adrian concluded I was acting?  Was that fake the one who taught you all this?  Where does he know human feelings because he is an avatar.  Dik Adrian like learning about the beauty of the world scenery in the blind.”

“You, stop calling him a fake!”  I began to be unable to hold back my frustration with her and then unintentionally uttered weakly in the angry tone of the words.

Once again this figure in front of me looked at me for a long time.

However, Professor Melisa suddenly mediated the silence.

“Ah, sorry, Nak Kaiser interrupted a little.  I haven't said yes?  the bracelet has a biometric sensory device so that only Healer in his human form has been marked as his master who can use it.  However, it just so happens that you are the human being he dimimiknya so you can use it.”

It appears that the figure considered the long speech of Professor Melisa.  But this time, Judith, Sister Syifa, and Mr. Aili also persuaded him.

“The most important thing for Judith is Brother's safety.  But for that sake, we have to go through the gaia disaster.  However, only Brother and Sister Adrian have a chance to save this world.  To be honest, Judith was also confused.  But I do believe in my hero, the greatest brother in the universe.  So please, please accept Kak.”

“Kak Kaiser, for the sake of mankind, protect us.  If I were the one in Big Brother's position, I would definitely be happy to do so.  But now, I can only humble myself, pleading with Big Brother who can, to fight.”

“Fight, lads!  There will be no future if we fail to protect the earth at this time.”

The figure of the Kaiser grumbled softly, but it could sound good to my sharp ears, “Ah, all of you why put your hopes on me?  Because of that fake.”

Then, he said to all of us, “Alright, I get it.  Give me one day to decide.  But I promise, after hearing the answer from Bomber, whatever the answer he gave, whether that's what I expected or not, I will be willing to replace the role of the pal.  But don't expect too much.  My body feels stiff, not as vit as it used to be, and maybe Healer has gone far beyond what I can do.”

The real Kaiser Devantara finally agreed to our overly selfish and one-sided plea to him that had actually just woken up from his coma.  However, I still couldn't hold back my anger towards him who always thought of his doppelganger as a fake.  Healer clearly has a personality that is shaped by interaction and experience.  It had clearly been different from the Kaiser Dewantara he had envisioned.

Nevertheless, for him who is in his current state, agreeing to all of that sooner than we expected, he has been great in his own way.  As expected of the host copied by Healer, my precious mentor, he is also a true hero figure.

We also ended the conversation that night to make room for Kaiser and Bomber as the fiancee of the murdered man and his killer to chat together, talk carefully about Andina.  I hope that then, Kaiser's revenge on Andina can be eased.

Because I think, rather than Bomber, it's more appropriate to point Kaiser's grudge at Mr. X as a manipulator of all these disasters that have occurred.