A Brief Journey Through Worlds

"Sure enough… possessing someone in the first world was a huge perk."

Yota trudged weakly across a wasteland, lamenting the experiences he had gone through recently.

He had already traveled through four worlds in succession. This was now his fifth, yet his mission to find supercomputers was only halfway complete.

Of the four worlds, two had been completely useless to him. One had been an ancient Celestial Empire with a queue-wearing dynasty. It was probably the world of some TV drama—those people’s queues had all been sleek and glossy, not rat tails.

However, Yota had no interest in it. After being harassed several times because of his hair, he simply activated Kamui and appeared in the imperial court, then served them a round of Kotoamatsukami, turning every official and the emperor of that queue-wearing dynasty into genuine public servants.

Afterward, he looted their private treasuries to replenish some gold, dusted off his hands, and left that world.

Yota then arrived in a modern society. After searching online for ages, he still could not tell what world it was. Unable to stay put, he bought plenty of information about modern society and continued his journey.

After all, the world was vast. If it happened to be the world of some sitcom, even if Yota spent his whole life looking, he might not find where the actual plot took place.

The third time, Yota’s luck was hard to judge as either good or bad. He had actually arrived in the world of Academy City—the world of Imagine Breaker and Railgun.

That world’s power system was bizarre and incomprehensible. Whether it was esper abilities or magic, there was no viable path forward at all. It was completely incompatible with Yota’s own power system.

As for its danger level, according to the original author’s settings, there were monsters who could destroy star systems with a flick of a finger or restart the universe whenever they pleased—though you could not tell from the manga at all.

Still, the technological level of Academy City’s world was indeed high enough. Around that time, the wreckage of a Tree Diagram happened to fall from the sky, so Yota snatched it and immediately fled that world—the waters there ran too deep. Who knew whether the strength of those background characters was just exaggerated nonsense or the real thing? Even without counting those background characters, there were plenty of people capable of beating Yota flat.

And as a world traveler like him, he might end up placed on an operating table.

For one thing, the entirety of Academy City seemed to be under the surveillance of some upside-down man. Yota knew that much. So he might as well grab what he could and get the hell out.

Then he traveled into the world of Lord of the Rings—unfortunately, he encountered neither the Fellowship nor any Hobbits. Instead, he encountered Iluvatar!

More precisely, the Creator God Iluvatar had intercepted Yota the instant he entered that world.

The god smiled and told Yota that his power was a little too far above the limit; he could not enter as a note. But his strength was also somewhat too low for him to join the ranks of the singers. (The world of Lord of the Rings was formed from a piece of music created by Iluvatar and the gods under his lead.)

"If you really want to enter the world, you can follow Gandalf and the other Maiar’s example. I’ll make you a human body, and you can go in and have some fun."

Yota hurriedly shook his head. "No need to trouble yourself, Iluvatar. I’d better leave right away."

Honestly, if he had nothing else to do, Yota would not have minded taking a look around the world of Lord of the Rings. Even if he were weakened to Gandalf’s level, at least his life would be guaranteed—demigods like the Maiar would not truly die. Even if their bodies were destroyed, their souls would return to Iluvatar’s side.

But first, Yota really was not that familiar with Iluvatar. Staying beside a Creator God who could kill him with a single breath was simply too stressful. Second, Yota still had things to do.

Alright, to put it bluntly, Yota had chickened out. That was a Creator God. Even though Iluvatar had seemed exceedingly kind and had not minded Yota’s arrival, Yota still felt as though he had been caught climbing through someone’s window, only to discover that the homeowner was heavyweight boxing champion Tyson in his prime.

Even if Tyson smiled and told you, "Hey, buddy, are you hungry? I’ve got buttered bread at home. It’s on me," would you really dare stay as a guest?

Terrified, Yota scampered out of Middle-earth. Fortunately, after Yota refused, Iluvatar did not say something like, "You ungrateful wretch," and slap him beneath the volcano of Mordor. That finally let Yota breathe easy.

At last, he arrived in a post-apocalyptic zombie world.

Yota looked up at the sun and calculated his bearings. "Why is that damn place, Raccoon City, so hard to find…?"

That was right. This wasteland world he had arrived in was the so-called world of Biohazard! After Yota saw the red-and-white Umbrella Corporation emblem and a heap of disgusting zombies, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had at last found his ideal supercomputer world.

It was just that this world was a little too disgusting… In any case, Yota would not use Devil Fruit abilities or taijutsu against zombies. Most of the time, he simply incinerated them into ash with Fire Release.

The sputtering roar of a motorcycle suddenly sounded. Yota looked mildly surprised. "Oh? There are still survivors here?"

A typical blonde American beauty sat on the motorcycle approaching from afar, though her chest was somewhat flat.

"Alice?" Yota muttered in confusion. "Or a clone?"

To be honest, Biohazard was full of clones. Yota was not sure whether the Alice he had encountered was the original. No, even the first Alice had been a clone. Yota could only say that he did not know whether the one he had met was the protagonist.

"This should be the first year after Raccoon City was destroyed. If I remember correctly, wasn’t Alice captured around this time in the original story to be studied and cloned? So was this someone sent by the Umbrella Corporation? But it doesn’t matter…"

Yota raised his head, glared into the eyes of Alice, who had just gotten off the motorcycle, and directly controlled her with an illusion.

"Take me to Raccoon City!"

Rinnegan patterns immediately appeared in Alice’s eyes. "Understood, sir."

Ignoring the scientists sitting in an underground base and controlling Alice’s clone, now helplessly raging in fury, Yota had no desire to play games of wits with the Umbrella Corporation. He intended to strike at the root of the problem instead.

As far as he knew, the spread of the T-virus had not yet reached the point of destroying the world. Only the Americas had been thoroughly devastated, while zombies had only recently begun appearing in other countries.

Once he reached the Umbrella Corporation base, he would first seize the Red Queen, then spread the antidote. By then, the enraged nations of the world would naturally tear the Umbrella Corporation to pieces. That was precisely why he could not even be bothered to talk to Alice—he did not need her help anyway.

Besides, who knew whether this was the original or a clone, or what the Umbrella Corporation had implanted into her mind.

In any case, he did not believe this was a chance encounter. Most likely, the Umbrella Corporation had spotted him with nearby satellites when he used his teleportation technique.