Climbing the Tower with Multidimensional Avatars - Chapter 11

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Chapter 11. Galactic Martial Arts World – Reincarnation (2)

Time was flowing for my clone, which appeared as a three-dimensional avatar.
Watching the newborns squirming beside me—besides myself—confirmed that time was indeed moving forward.
The three-dimensional avatar was an ability that allowed me, as the original body or another clone, to manipulate other clones.
There was no controller to operate the clone, but since my senses overlapped with the clone by roughly one-tenth, I could manipulate it through sheer willpower.
“Hmm? Ah, I can’t move because I’m wrapped in swaddling clothes.”
I attempted to manipulate it, but my clone remained motionless.
Could I manipulate other clones simultaneously as well?
Curious about this, I activated the three-dimensional avatar on my first clone.
“Oh, simultaneous control is possible too.”
Like using dual monitors, I could see both clones from a bird’s-eye perspective.
I manipulated The Tower clone instead of the reincarnated one, which moved poorly.
It rolled around on the dormitory bed as I commanded, then sat up and stood, testing its movements.
“It looks almost identical to actual movement, but the sensation feels strange.”
Combat in this state seemed impossible.
The response was clearly sluggish.
If I were a world-class fighting game professional, perhaps not—but I wasn’t skilled enough at games to overcome this limitation.
Still, it would be convenient for traveling long distances.
A joystick-like controller would have been helpful, but attempting to manipulate both clones simultaneously through consciousness alone brought a sharp headache.
Dual manipulation was possible, but I couldn’t actually use it.
I laid The Tower clone back on the bed and deactivated the three-dimensional avatar.
Observing my newborn form and analyzing the three-dimensional avatar, I discovered the ability possessed video and game-like functions.
Time pause, playback, and acceleration.
Of course, pausing or accelerating time didn’t mean only my clone could move in that state—the entire dimension froze with it.
More precisely, it wasn’t that actual time stopped or accelerated, but rather my perception of it did.
“From 0.001x speed to a maximum of 1000x speed.”
I activated the three-dimensional avatar for The Tower clone again and tested it.
At 2x or 3x speed, it reflected my will fairly accurately, but beyond that, a lag appeared in executing my commands.
That was only natural.
If I accelerated to 10x speed and issued commands to sit and stand at one-second intervals, the clone’s world would receive those commands at ten-second intervals.
However, if I issued repetitive commands like a macro, it executed them without delay.
If I accelerated to 10x speed and issued a command to repeatedly sit and stand until told to stop, the clone would continue doing exactly that.
“If I’m going to use acceleration, I’ll need to program macro commands carefully.”
Of course, such commands meant nothing for a newborn just lying there.
“Now I understand why I was given both reincarnation and the three-dimensional avatar.”
Without the three-dimensional avatar, I would have spent years as a newborn.
But thanks to it, I could bypass this agonizing period quickly.
At the very least, I decided to accelerate time appropriately until the reincarnation avatar no longer needed diapers.
I laid the Tower avatar back on the bed and focused my attention on the reincarnation avatar.
Time was naturally accelerating, and I had already input commands so that when a bottle was placed in its mouth, the avatar would suck and consume the contents.
“Biological functions like sleep seem to execute perfectly well without explicit commands.”
Even while the avatar slept, the three-dimensional form remained maintained.
As I sat motionless in my main body’s state, watching at one-hundred-fold acceleration for ten minutes, I noticed something peculiar.
“Why haven’t my parents come?”
Even if my parents had visited while I was unconscious from sleep, at one-hundred-fold acceleration, ten minutes would equate to roughly one thousand minutes—approximately sixteen hours and thirty-six minutes in real time.
Only nurses and doctors who appeared to be medical staff visited the reincarnation avatar; no parents or guardians had shown their faces at all.
This wasn’t an orphanage, and if I had started in a hospital with newborns, there should be parents who gave birth to me—so why haven’t they come to see me?
Could something have happened?
As I pondered this, about five minutes passed in my perception, which meant roughly eight more hours had elapsed for the avatar, when a beautiful woman wearing a coat with a peculiar emblem inscribed on her chest came to see me.
I stopped the acceleration and focused on listening.

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The Chief Doctor of Cheon Ji-woo, the son of the deceased Mother, finally received word that a guardian had arrived and headed toward the Guardian Waiting Room.
Since newborns were vulnerable to illness and resided in the Sterile Room, visitation wasn’t immediately granted simply because someone wished to see the baby.
The Guardian Waiting Room was a space where outsiders temporarily waited while desiring to visit the baby.
Upon seeing a woman of unrealistic beauty wearing a coat bearing the emblem of the Cheon Family Clan, the Chief Doctor sighed.
“An android….”
At the Chief Doctor’s murmur, the woman bowed her head slightly in greeting.
“It is a pleasure to meet you. I am Siu, the exclusive android of Cheon Ju-yu and Seo Gyeong-ae.”
Androids—unlike cyborgs, they were artificial humans manufactured entirely from machinery from beginning to end.
The distinguishing features of androids were their somewhat unrealistic beauty and the faintly inscribed android markings at the solar plexus and temples.
The Chief Doctor could only sigh that it was none other than Siu, an android, who had come.
It was not because he harbored discriminatory feelings toward androids.
He was simply concerned for the baby’s future.
The fact that a domestic-use android had come—rather than anyone else—was interpreted as meaning the Cheon Family Clan, or the baby’s legal guardian and paternal grandfather, held little interest in the child.
On the other hand, since the family showed so little concern for the baby, there would be no harm to himself or the hospital from the grandfather’s resentment over failing to save his daughter-in-law.
Of course, since the Cheon Family Clan was a prominent orthodox faction representing the Galactic Martial Arts World, there was a calculation that they would not invite public scandal.
Yet despite doing his best, the tyranny born from the resentment of the powerful was something to be feared.
He had boldly assured his subordinates they would be fine, but he himself harbored private concerns.
Siu, noticing the Chief Doctor’s worry, spoke.
“Please do not worry. I am aware that the hospital did its utmost. And my new master, Cheon Ji-woo, as a direct descendant of the family, will receive complete support.”
Of course, if one were to ask whether that support included familial love and affection, she could not answer.
At Siu’s eloquent words, the Chief Doctor nodded in relief.
“Ah, is that so? That is fortunate indeed.”
Androids were divided into several grades; lower-grade androids merely executed commands as given, like factory machinery, but higher-grade androids incorporating “technological singularity” displayed emotions and intellectual capacity to a degree that made them difficult to distinguish from humans.
Consequently, unlike other androids, “androids utilizing singularity” received quasi-human legal status, and their manufacture was subject to various legal restrictions.
At a glance, Siu was clearly an android equipped with a Singularity, so I found myself trusting her promise of full support.
High-grade androids equipped with Singularities were not merely expensive—they existed beyond the reach of mere wealth.
If such an android had been inherited by a newborn who had lost both parents, at least the child would face no hardship in life.
While such concerns might be dismissed as overstepping, they were equally the mark of a physician’s duty to consider the patient’s welfare.
“I must also apologize for arriving late. The inheritance procedures, including those concerning myself, required considerable time.”
“Ah, no matter at all.”
“But when might my master, Young Master Cheon Ji-woo, be discharged?”
“Immediate discharge is difficult, as the infant’s examinations are not yet complete.”
The Mother had been weakened by illness for so long that the child required extensive testing as well.
“It will take at least another two weeks. However, there appear to be no serious health concerns at present, so visitation is permitted.”
At the Chief Doctor’s words, Siu nodded and spoke.
“I wish to see him at once.”
“Then follow me.”
Siu followed the Chief Doctor’s guidance to the Newborn Visitation Room.
She underwent disinfection once inside the visitation area.
Beyond the transparent glass, the Newborn Nursery held several infants, and a Nurse brought Cheon Ji-woo to the visitation room on a wheeled crib.
Upon seeing the newborn who had become her new master, Siu bowed respectfully.
“It is my honor to meet you for the first time. I am Siu, a nursemaid android, and I present myself to serve you in place of your departed parents, Young Master.”
Siu did not expect the newborn to understand her words, yet she observed the formality nonetheless.
From this moment forward, this infant was her master and the one she must protect.

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I gazed at the face of Siu, who introduced herself as a nanny android, and marveled at her beauty.
“Wow, she’s really beautiful.”
But an android? Is this real?
A robot moving about like a human actually exists.
The dimension I thought was the Galactic Martial Arts World wasn’t a martial arts realm at all—it was a science fiction world.
“That’s strange. I definitely sensed a strong connection with the Blue Wood Sword and fate. Did I make a mistake?”
More importantly, my name isn’t Han Ji-woo—it’s Cheon Ji-woo.
Since I’ve undergone rebirth, I prepared myself for my entire name to change, but only my family name did.
Did The Tower adjust this?
It feels somehow unethical. If I use rebirth even once more in the future, will I become Lü Bu with three fathers?
Except all three fathers would be biological fathers, not adoptive ones.
Actually, even before Siu the android told me, I already knew from the nurses’ conversations that my reborn self had no parents.
Those nurses had loose tongues.
Well, what secrets could they possibly keep in front of a newborn who can’t even babble properly?
The Newborn Nursery must have been a special place—its security systems were excellent, making it a space where they could freely gossip about their superiors.
In any case, according to the nurses’ chatter, I don’t know how my father died, but I was born posthumously, and my mother, despite being on death’s door, miraculously gave birth to me and passed away.
I wasn’t sure whether to view this positively or negatively.
I’d make that judgment once I could control my body on my own.
But somehow, it didn’t feel entirely negative.
Thinking this way, I accelerated time.
About two weeks passed at 100x speed, and the Chief Doctor called for Siu, my nanny android guardian, saying there were no health issues with me.
Siu placed me in what looked like some kind of pet carrier and drove a car toward the house where I would grow up.
From a three-dimensional perspective, the cityscape was quite advanced—some cars rolled on wheels while others floated in the air.
The buildings in the urban center stood in rows of towering skyscrapers, and as we left the city, a Residential District appeared, lined with luxurious single-family homes with gardens that screamed wealth at first glance.
“It seems I’ve been reborn as a young master of a wealthy family.”
And a very wealthy family at that.

(To be continued in the next chapter)

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