Chapter 16 - Chicken Sandwich (1/2)

Hecathe sighed as he picked himself up, ”Let's just get breakfast and figure out my purpose later.”

With this plan in mind, Hecathe made his way to the bathroom and got freshened up before taking out some presentable clothes from the closet and getting dressed as he headed for the elevator.

He buttoned up his shirt inside the elevator and looked at his reflection on the metallic door of the elevator that wasn't a mirror but it could still reflect a blurry image of oneself.

He couldn't help but sigh as he wondered why he hadn't noticed it before. It was clear that this body didn't belong to him but it took him so damn long to realize this obvious fact.

The original Hecathe had a better build and height. If someone called him narcissistic, he would probably agree to it because according to him, although Alphius was quite a handsome man, he was still no match to the original Hecathe who had a much more mature and eye-catching face.

The elevator was quite fast and as soon the doors opened on the ground floor, he was once again greeted by a line of people bowing their heads in respect.

”Captain!”

”Good morning, Captain!”

”I hope you had a good sleep, Captain!”

Good sleep? He almost wanted to laugh as he heard that.

He hardly had any sleep at all...!

He was too busy gathering information and figuring out what his purpose of being here was!

The woman who looked like his office worker was also in the line of people that greeted him.

She lifted her head with a warm smile, ”Captain, have a great day!”

”You... What's your name?” Hecathe asked.

It was probably the first time in his life that he was directly asking for someone's name like this.

According to him, everyone he met wasn't worthy enough to get their names remembered by him, but right now, the situation was quite different and hence, he had to ask for her name.

By asking her name, he wanted to check something.

”Captain...?” The girl clearly looked to be taken back by the sudden question.

”It's Xanie!” She answered enthusiastically after a minute of shock.

”I knew it,” Hecathe mumbled as he heard her.

He couldn't remember exactly what the girl from his office was called, but he had certainly heard her name once or twice, and because of how unique the name was, although he didn't bother remembering it, he was still able to recognize it if it was said again.

Xanie... They both had the same name.

”Do you remember the woman who came up to my room yesterday?” Hecathe questioned with an expression that looked to be curious and at the same time, he also managed to look unbothered.

The girl seemed to ponder over the question for a bit before she reluctantly asked, ”Captain, do you mean Zather?”

”Oh...” Hecathe didn't know if he was supposed to laugh or cry as he heard this.

The girl tilted her head as she waited for a response but it didn't look like Hecathe was going to say anything more.

Hecathe was busy wondering how Azazel would feel if he learned that in this world, he was really a woman.

Zather was also the real name of Azazel but there were only a handful of people who knew it. Hecathe just so happened to be one of them who knew his real name but still preferred to call him Azazel purely because that was the name the man liked to be referred with.

Azazel would probably choke on his morning coffee if he heard that he was a woman with big breasts in this world.

...

Hecathe suddenly sighed as he realized that he won't ever be able to tell the man that he was a woman in this parallel world.

He was already dead in his real world.

Hecathe, the Zelium legend was taken down by a goddamn truck...!

It was still a bit hard to believe and sounded utterly ridiculous for Hecathe who was clearly breathing and walking just fine.

”Captain?” Xanie snapped him out of his thoughts, ”Is there something wrong?”

Hecathe shook his head with a naturally grumpy-looking expression as he asked, ”Where's the breakfast?”