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I woke up with a headache... Actually, I woke up feeling great. I don't think I remember, feeling so good ever. Despite how good I feel, I also feel nervous, because Holy Mom I'm in Worm multiverse right now and it's quite unnerving by itself, even without mentioning what awaits me.

I looked around the room where I woke up, and immediately noticed the girl on the right from me, sitting on the bed and just looking at me. Bright blue eyes looked at me with amusement and joy, which is not of maliciousness or cruelty, but instead of genuine happiness that I woke up and for something else. Her snow-white hair almost glowing, in the dim lights of the room, and her pale skin looks soft to the touch. She wears only a singlet and panties. Overall she looks beautiful, slim, and tall. "height 6,3 feet/190 cm " my HUD notified me.

Speaking of HUD.

On the left side of the girl, there is white text, which notified me about her height. I instinctively opened my status. It immediately covered almost half of my vision, but it didn't disorient me, instead, it all felt natural as if this was not the first time I'd done this. In my status, there are such things as my weight and height ("7,5 feet/226cm" ), body integrity, the status of weapon systems, the status of defense systems, sensory systems, additional systems, etc.

I focused on my status so much, that almost didn't notice, how the girl coughed to get my attention. I closed my status and looked at her. She looks a little frustrated now as if I had done something that annoyed her, which is cute. But despite her cuteness and superficial innocence, I know how dangerous she truly is.

After all, this is one of the reasons I took her.

"Simurgh," I said, with my new voice for the first time since my reincarnation.

"You know, that's not exactly my name anymore." She said, with her soft yet seductive voice.

I just rolled my eyes. ""Simmie" is not exactly a different name, more like a gentle version of "Simurgh"."

She just looked down and shook her head."Whatever. I just wanted, to joke about "Hey, you're finally awake!" but you immediately looked into yourself, or maybe somewhere else, and ruined it, but it doesn't matter." I gave her a deadpan look, but she didn't notice or just ignored it and continued her speech. " Because we don't have time right now, as you probably already know."

"A cape that I will meet after awakening," I said already knowing what she meant because I remembered what would happen after I woke up.

"Yep, it's Oni Lee. He checking this whole building for slaves who would try to run, because all guards in this building ran away after Endbringer alarms went off, to persuade them not to do so, and he would come to check this room 5 minutes from now on." She said with amusement evident in her voice. "Oh, and there's also some goons who arrived as well."

"And why exactly is Oni Lee checking this building, and not someone else? And also why did guards run away? Because I sincerely doubt, guards here running away every time, Endringer alarm goes off." I already know that Serial Suicide Bomber is here because I will meet a cape after my awakening, no matter what happens, but I don't know the specifics of this encounter, or rather how ridiculous the circumstances of this encounter can be. And about my second question, I have only a vague idea.

"I answer both questions at once. Oni Lee here and the guards ran away because it was a local Endbringer alarm, and some of ABB goons in other places, ran away as well, which left Lung without enough manpower to cover his whole territory and this brothel is one of ABB's biggest income sources."

While that makes sense, that Lung would want to secure one of his biggest income sources, it still sounded a little weird, that so many goons would abandon him in fear of an Endbringer, because as far as I'm aware he has a reputation of going toe to toe with one, even if I know that this is not true, and Leviathan could kill him in any moment, if it tried.

But even if it's a little weird, the fact that I will meet a cape would make it happen, I suppose.

Still, I have two final questions before we leave this place.

"Why it's local Endbringer alarm and not the general one? And why has Endbringer alarm gone off at all?" I already have a guess about both of these questions, but I want to hear her answers, so I can confirm them.

"Well answer to the second question is simple, and it's "Simurgh is gone."" She said, making quotes with her fingers. "And the answer for the first one is also simple, and it's because before you reincarnated and I changed, I sensed Queen Administrator trigger and turned my head in Brockton Bay's direction even if I don't need to do that, and when I disappeared Dragon reported everything she noticed to PRT higher-ups and the local PRT and Protectorate branch, after which they decided to activate local Endbringer alarm."

Well, that confirms it.

I got off the bed, sparing only a brief look at the destroyed handcuffs that lay on the floor, and looked at the small black cube, laying on the same bed on which Simurgh sat.

"Hello Mom," I said to Machine Goddess who became my Mom.

"Hello Honey"

"Do you feel yourself okay?"

"Of course! Why wouldn't I?"

"Well last time I saw you, you weren't a box, you were more humanoid looking" And this was true before she reincarnated me and herself she was 10 feet tall, a fit woman with silver skin, just as silver hair, and very beautiful face, with charming silver eyes.

I remember myself staring until she poked me in the nose.

"Honey, we already talked about that. I do not care about my physical form, so do not worry about that.

"Okay Mom" I said not wishing to continue this conversation.

After finishing our conversation, I picked Mom to put her into my pocket, only to notice I didn't have anything suitable because my outfit included only Snickers, a T-shirt, and jeans with pockets small enough that Mom would create a very noticeable bulge, which would look weird.

Sighing I used my Shapeshifting to change my clothes into a black leather jacket, black jeans with more spacious pockets, and combat boots.

After putting Mom into a pocket of my jacket, I turned to Simurgh who got off the bed as well, and paused for a moment.

"I knew I would be tall, but knowing and seeing are different things" I acknowledged my height, seeing the difference between Simurgh and me.

I shook my head to get my thoughts back together. "Oni Lee would be killed by me, everyone else by you"

She smiled and bowed to me. "As you wish, my mistress." She said, after which took my arm and kissed my wrist.

I blushed a little before yanking my hand out of her grip and walking towards the door.

I took the doorknob and tried to open the door, only to find that it was closed.

"Well, time to test my strength." 

I took the doorknob again, pressed my feet to the floor for support, and hit the door with my shoulder.

The door immediately flew off its hinges and its lock and did not fall to the floor only because I still held it for the doorknob.

Not seeing a reason to hold it I let it fall to the floor and turned back to the sound of clapping.

I gave her a look and said "Stop fooling around", before bending over to not hit my head on the doorframe while leaving the room and walking down the hallway, towards one of the staircases.

"Okay~" She said, before following me.

Our walk didn't last long, as a figure with an Oni mask who appeared beside the staircase out of nowhere, blocked our way.

I looked at him for a moment and deciding not to bother, quickly lifted my hand and teleported his brain into my palm, after which squeezed it, splattering blood everywhere.

Before his corpse hit the floor, I heard gunfire down the stairs. Going down the floors, I noticed corpses laying all over the stairs, painted red with their blood, and smoking guns laying all around. The same picture greeted us on the first floor.

I stopped in front of the exit and turned to Simmie "Your clothes" I said nodding at her.

She looked at herself, then at me "What about it?"

"You don't have it"

"And?" She said, with false innocence.

Sighing I decided to ignore her behavior and shapeshifted again, removing all blood from my face and clothes, after which changed my physique and clothes size to the same as hers, and started to undress myself.

"Dress up" I said giving her my clothes and not even bothering to be embarrassed by her staring, at the bulge on my trunks.

"What about you?" 

I didn't answer. Instead, I shapeshifted myself back into my first form, and after that created clothes, the same as the one I gave her, on my body. These clothes are still part of my body, and while this has its advantages, I would prefer, them to be just clothes. So I turned off my pain sensitivity and separated clothes from my body.

"Oh." is everything she said, before she started dressing.

When she finished I decided to ask. "Should we leave through the backdoor, or gunfire didn't attract much attention, and we can go through the front door?"

"The latter." she answered, finishing dressing.

After we got out of the brothel, I decided to confess in something. "I know that we need a base of operations, but I don't know where to start, so I will trust you to find something uninhabited, or choose something inhabited."

She smiled broadly, took my hand, and began to lead the way.

"Oh and there is also a kill list of beings that only I should kill, so listen carefully," I said, after which I began to list the sheet as we ran into the night.