After the second jump
November 14, 2023 at 10:33 AM
He showed up at the warehouse after the jump. After examining it, he saw various junk lying on the shelves and scattered trash on the floor. He no longer remembers why he bought two hundred multi-colored spinners or eight Killer Bee katanas. A model airplane occupying half of the steel warehouse was the most incomprehensible thing. There were even seats and dashboards inside. The most understandable thing was his latest car from Aston Martin. This austere car was the epitome of solidity and had a good engine. Unfortunately, he left it here after the breakdown and it could not go without repair.
He went to the computer chair and laptop, which were in the middle of this creative mess. Pulling a red oak desk in front of him, he put down his laptop and entered the jump document. He has already decided on it. Although he was smart and knew mathematics with philosophy, science was not his strong point.
After glancing at the crystal, which no longer gave him a headache, he returned to his laptop and opened the next jump document. The origin of Genius. After selecting useful perks, he closed the jump document.
Then... He moved into the world of the first jump.
He was almost thirty years old. Much younger than when he was barely living, feeling pain in his joints and lower back at the age of forty. He kept his job so as not to remain an old wreck in this world. He even gave a bribe a couple of times so that he would not be fired for scandalous relationships with students. And now, ten years later...
He found himself in the courtyard of a former house. The old asphalt was replaced with a new one, of the worst quality to update every year.
He examined the old shops and entrances. Ignoring the people who saw him for the first time, he went up to the third floor. When he got to apartment 36, he called.
An unknown girl of about twenty, a red-haired and blue-eyed beast, opened the door to him. He didn't recognize her.
"Who are you?"
It was rude. Without a greeting. He didn't pay attention to it.
"My name is Sebastian Prygunoff, I'm looking for my relative, Sebastian Severov."
"Aunt, a relative of your ex has come here! Looking for him," the girl shouted inside him... Ex-wife.
She moved away from the door and prepared to listen to gossip.
His ex-wife came over. A dyed brunette in her thirties, the tired expression on her face said the most about her.
"Hello, are you related to Sebastian?"
"Hello, I'm Sebastian Prygunoff. Are you the wife of Severov Sebastian?"
"Yes, I'm Kristina, but he went missing ten years ago. Come in, you'll be a guest. Maria, take him to the kitchen. To me... I need to wash up."
The girl, Maria, took him to the kitchen table and poured him tea.
"Thank you, my throat is dry. It's hot outside."
"For several years now, the temperature has been above thirty all summer and there is almost no rain. Where are you from?"
"I came from America in search of the last living relative. Unfortunately, he was left alone by the family.
"And how is it?" the girl asked curiously.
"Taxes. The IRS is Americans' worst nightmare. Imagine that you earn ten thousand dollars. Seven thousand of them will be spent on taxes and accommodation. Parking, car, apartment, groceries, and the worst thing is the doctors!" Sebastian made a mysterious face.
Many did not have such a salary, but he took a rounder and decimal amount for clarity.
"What's so scary about doctors?" Maria was interested.
"Prices! In the CIS, they are low, but in America... In addition, in our country, it is impossible to buy medicines without a prescription from a doctor."
While he was telling stories about how he lived in America, Kristina came up. Her reddish eyes showed that she had been crying recently.
"Sebastian, I can say that you are very similar to him. My ex-husband was very similar to you in appearance, if you were German and not American, I would say that you would have the same facial features."
"You're exaggerating, Kristina. How did he disappear?"
"One day he went to his mistress and didn't come back. I'm sure it was Karina who made him disappear!" Christina said angrily.
"Mistress? And you weren't against your husband's mistress?" Maria was surprised.
"I was unhappy, but that's in the past. I haven't told anyone about this before. Then our son Maxim had just been born and I couldn't have sex after giving birth. Sebastian... He was always active. When I was in school, I heard rumors that he had a high school girl as a mistress. I was a teenager and wanted to experience everything, so I got close to him. Strict school teacher and student... He was in good shape and at forty-four could break a wooden table with one blow."
"Wow!"
"I was a fool in love and when he proposed marriage, I did not hesitate. We had a quiet wedding. Soon we had a son. Sebastian has found another mistress. I knew about her, I knew several of his former mistresses. Karina wanted to get a job at school and he helped her," Kristina sipped tea.
Maria looked at Christina incredulously.
"Why didn't you get divorced?" Sebastian asked.
"Where was I supposed to go? I had a newborn son in my arms, there was no property and no money. He provided for us and his salary was high. And the mistress... Many married couples cheat."
"Well, you give," sighed Maria.
"I confess I'm confused. I was hoping to find the last living relative, only to find out that he was missing."
"It's Karina! She didn't want to be with him. Few people will love a forty-six-year-old man."
"I will investigate the truth. Where is Maxim?"
"Maxim is playing with friends on the street. Do you want to meet him?"
"Then I'll wait. When I arrived at this address, I didn't expect you to live here."
"If only. We live here with a new husband and his daughter."
Sebastian froze in shock. Has his wife remarried?
"Soon after Sebastian disappeared, I met Alexander. We were acquainted before, but after... After Sebastian disappeared, we got together."
They talked for a long time until the bell rang. Maria went to the door.
"Maxim, did you forget the key at home again?"
"I didn't forget, I just left it!" a child's voice was heard.
Sebastian got up and went into the corridor, where he saw the boy. He was brown-eyed and brown-haired, like Sebastian himself. His Body Fashion perks provided heredity. The boy's clothes were covered with dust, but his face and hands were clean.
"In the dust again. Shake it off!"
Maxim shook off the dust with his palm and became clean. It was obvious that his son had inherited his physique.
"Hello!" the boy noticed him and greeted him.
"Hello, Maxim. I'm... your uncle."
These words were hard for him. He felt what it would be like to have a son. Have... Family. He had been living a promiscuous sex life for twenty years. He wanted to go back ten years ago and live a normal life with his family.
Then he came to his senses. In the last jump, he was 46 years old and he did not want to repeat this experience. But his longing for his family has not gone away.
"He's a relative of your father. Not Alexander's dad, but his own."
With these words, he came to his senses. His son was raised by others who did not consider him a father. He didn't do anything for him. There was no kinship between them other than blood.
They talked until the evening. It turned out that the ex-wife got married and was already an Oriental Christina. After exchanging numbers, he went to look for a hotel. His warehouse was a mess and not suitable for life. Of the sleeping accessories, there was only a sleeping bag, canned food, and an army-dry ration.
The hotel asked for documents. He didn't have any money, but everything was solved with a hundred dollars. He checked into the best room, but tonight it seemed too empty.
When he went downstairs, he saw a girl at the reception. The long-legged brown-eyed brunette was beautiful, even if she had a second breast size. Her name, Anastasia, was written on her badge.
"Girl, will you keep me company?" he asked, handing her a thousand dollars.
She was hesitating. She wasn't a prostitute, but a thousand dollars and a handsome foreigner...
"Dear, I have to keep you company! Do you want me to show you everything here?"
"Yes, show me my number in more detail."
He talked with Maxim and met his ex-wife's husband and Maria's father, Alexander Vostochny. He was an ordinary man of forty years. He was younger than him in the last jump but older than Kristina. When Alexander married her, he was thirty and had a twelve-year-old daughter. His ex-wife left him for another, leaving him a daughter.
Maxim studied well. When he came, he tested his knowledge. If he had been given the opportunity and trained by professionals, he could have graduated from school ahead of schedule. It was an intelligence inherited from him. He was pleased with his son, even though he recognized only Alexander as his father. It was a complicated feeling.
He noticed the surveillance of himself. Entering the alley, he was followed by a couple of men in black sports uniforms and with telescopic batons in their hands.
"And who are you?"
"Give me your money!"
Sebastian sighed. With telekinesis, he took their heads and twisted them until they crunched. He hurried away from there.
When he arrived at the hotel, he heard rumors about his wealth. In the evening, he found out where Anastasia lives and waited for her to come home from work in the yard. When he saw her, he pulled her leg with telekinesis and then twisted her neck. She made the mistake of telling him about his money and complicating his life. Once he spared his robbers, but this time he won't let them go.
After two days in this world, he got sick. He had no immunity from most of the local viruses. Fortunately, he only had a sore throat. It was difficult to get a sore throat in the summer, but he coped with this difficult task.
Maria took care of him while he was ill. For this reason, he did not leave this world, although he could have received a new body in another world and recovered. He was stupid to stay because of a woman, but he wanted to take revenge on his ex-wife and Alexander, the husband of his ex-wife, for getting married. It was stupid logic, but jealousy didn't need logic!
Maria was not against his revenge. He slept with her. The girl was a virgin, which was a rarity in the 21st century. She was twenty-two years old.
It was already 2034 in this world. He started buying electronics. His laptop has undergone some replacement parts, retaining its more mystical properties of wireless connectivity to wired-connected equipment.
"I'm leaving the day after tomorrow," he told Maxim.
"Uncle, where exactly in America do you live?"
"Seattle. It's not the best city, but I like it," Sebastian lied.
"When are you coming back?" Maria asked hopefully.
"I don't know myself."
"Can I come with you? Or stay here!" there was hope in the girl's eyes.
"I have a job. I can't put it off. Besides, you don't have a passport."
At the end of the month of rest, he transferred money to Kristina and Maria, enough so that Maxim did not need anything and grew up a spoiled child, but not enough so that they were robbed or cheated. Surely his son will grow up to be the same asshole as him, Sebastian was not against it. He put Maria out of his mind, it's just another girl in his bed.
He had to admit that he led a depraved life more by inertia. Such a life full of emotions and travel bored him. He learned Chinese, Swahili, and Arabic. He knew a total of six languages and could understand three more. I have been to all continents and had a girl with any skin color. It was boring. Therefore, he chose the next jump, which helped to solve the pending case. The secrets of the crystal beckoned him.