Re-Awakening: I Became a Pay To Win Boss Monster

Chapter 900: Gauging Intentions

"You... What were you doing?" Melissa descended, gliding across the air effortlessly.

She was just like Altros. She looked more mature, and her strength was by no means a joke either. If Rael had to guess, then Melissa was just slightly stronger than Altros.

But then again, the two of them were still only Grade 2s, which wasn’t much by universal standards.

Well... It doesn’t matter, Rael mused and backed off, only for Melissa’s nagging to get even louder.

"I felt your presence since the moment you got here, asshole. You didn’t even try to come and help me out. How do you think it feels to be stuck in ice with your mana being constantly drained? It’s shit! You bastard... Just wait until we’re back home. You won’t be getting food for a whole week."

Oof...

"He still has no relationship, huh?" Rael chimed in from the side, clicking his tongue.

Melissa turned toward him with a glare. "And who are you, exactly?"

Rael raised a brow. "Did you forget me already? We met once like twenty years ago."

"Twenty?" Melissa paused for a moment, trying to recall him. Though for some reason, it seemed like she couldn’t really remember.

Well, Rael didn’t really blame her. He had only met her for a few minutes at most, and when he had erased her memories of meeting him, that might’ve set off some kind of chain reaction that deleted more.

Whatever the case may be, she seemed to remember Altros perfectly, and that was all that mattered.

"Well, I guess it doesn’t matter. I’ll be taking you two out of here, so—"

"No," Melissa interjected. "The reason I came here was to investigate an anomaly. I need to do this if I want to get a promotion."

A slightly disgusted look appeared on Rael’s face. "You have to work for a promotion? Can’t you just tell them what to do, and they’ll do it? It’s not like you aren’t strong enough."

Right as she was about to reply, Altros chimed in instead.

"She’s one of those idiots who likes to do everything by the rules. I’m already rich as shit, and Melissa is too busy trying to get a promotion at her minimum wage gig over in the Hunter’s Association."

Hmm.

"What do you hunt?" Rael asked.

Altros shrugged. "Nothing. They just do reviews and stuff. As for the anomalies, they’re just monsters that have come from a dungeon. They go into those dungeons to do research on just how many more types of monsters there are."

Rael whistled. "That seems boring as shit." Then, he turned to Melissa. "And you do this full-time?"

She pouted, her hands trembling in annoyance. Though she could easily tell just how powerful Rael was, and for that reason alone, her instincts told her not to say anything stupid. But she couldn’t understand why her brother was being so reckless.

She knew he was stupid, but was he stupid enough to the point that he had a death wish?

"That beard’s pretty ugly, by the way," Rael said.

Altros scoffed. "At least I can grow a beard. Look at you. You haven’t grown a single speck since I last saw you."

Rael’s brow twitched. "I choose not to grow a beard because I don’t like it. Plus, I can easily grow a beard if I wanted to."

"Yeah, maybe after a beard transplant," Altros replied.

Right as it seemed like they would get into a fight, Gaia descended.

"That’s enough of that. You said you needed to do some research, right, Melissa?" she asked.

Melissa turned toward Gaia and nodded, so Gaia continued:

"In that case, which monster is it? I have a collection of every single being and monster inside my head, so I can give you the information right away."

You’re spoiling her a little too much, don’t you think? Rael said.

Gaia’s expression didn’t falter as she replied to him with her mind:

[You would spoil her too if you weren’t such a coward. Now start prying into her mind, since I doubt she’ll tell me anything.]

And she was right, as instead of directly telling Gaia what the monster was, Melissa just began talking in circles. It was honestly pretty annoying, but that was why Rael read her outer thoughts and got a rough idea of just what kind of monster she was looking for.

Sounds like a giant dark rhino with three horns on its head. Did we have those? Rael said, musing.

Gaia thought about it for a moment before saying:

"You’re looking for the Darkness Rhino. It’s a Demonic Beast originating from the Demonic Lands. It must’ve swum all the way over here if it managed to enter your world through a portal. That’s pretty impressive."

"Pfft... She’s making such a fuss over a rhino?" Altros could barely contain his laughter. Though Melissa did clock him pretty fast as she sent a slap across his back, sending him flying directly into one of the walls of ice.

He sank deep into one, making it hard for anyone to see his body from the outside. He didn’t come out either, but Rael wasn’t too worried, since this was just sibling banter, maybe?

"Now that you got what you were looking for, you don’t have any reason to stay in this world anymore," Gaia added.

Melissa narrowed her eyes. "Is this the world of Sketa Online?"

"Originally, yes," Gaia replied without hesitation. "It’s very dangerous here, and you’re better off entering it through your headset. That way, even if you die here, you wouldn’t really be dead."

Melissa’s expression pretty much said that she wasn’t planning to die here, but Rael wasn’t really in the mood to be her father, so before Gaia could reject her once again, he decided to be a bit more open.

"I rule this world, so what do you want, exactly? Do you want to visit the big city up there, or do you just want to laze around and do nothing like your brother?"