Kael led her to a room in the station where he mostly stays most of the time with less orky "pollution".
A cracked porcelain tea set sat on a table salvaged from the canteen of the station . The chairs were mismatched: one was a throne stolen from a pirate lord, the other a repurposed bolter ammo crate with a pillow taped to it. A lamp lit up the surroundings , and a Grot peeked out of a nearby pipe, watching them, talk about privacy.
Kael casually waved it away.
"Shoo. We're havin' a diplomatic thing."
Selene sat stiffly on her pillow-crate-chair, looking at the gaint man fiddle with the galactic version of a cofee maker with a strange look. She was tall in this life at mor ethan 6' but that dude was almost double her height.
Kael, across from her, poured himself a cup, slouched, and stared at her like she was a riddle.
"So," he said. "You're from Earth. Korea, right?"
Selene blinked. "...Yeah, how did you die?"
"Die?"
"I mean how did you appear here? From the fact you don't know the plot you definitely didn't read the book"
"those were some bad memories," he muttered. "Lightning strike. Died. Woke up in a sci-fi horror set with an army of greenskins."
"...That's horrifying."
"Yeah, but now I'm captain of a giant space hulk, so it kinda worked out."
He raised his cofee. "You want some?"
Selene hesitated, then agreed.
'Okay. He's weird. But not… maliciously weird.'
"So," Kael said after a sip. "Let's get to the big question."
She tensed again.
"…Are you edible?" he added, completely straight faced.
"WHAT?!"
"Jokin'. Mostly. You've got that scaredy cat energy like kobeni if you even know her, Just wanted to see your reaction."
Selene gave him the most withering glare she could muster.
Kael chuckled. "Alright, alright. So… you read this world as a book?"
"Yeah. It was a web novel, your cliche mech story. 1000+ chapters. Sci-fi fantasy mashup, your typical insterstellar world building."
"Any idea where the MC's supposed to be? And his powers?"
"The protagonist is someone named Chen Xu. Total nobody that Lived on a waste world called Junktown-12, barely had shoes at the start of the story but finds and fixes a broken construction mecha."
Kael took a sip. "Classic rags-to-riches. Go on."
"Right. He finds an ancient nanotech core in a derelict military base. Turns out it's a lost prototype from an extinct AI empire. Long story short, it lets him evolve his mech endlessly."
"what do you mean evolve?."
"Like... Devour . He defeats an enemy, absorbs the data and materials, and upgrades. Add more limbs, stronger armor, and stuff."
Kael paused and looked at her. "That sounds both OP and completely unbalanced."
"Exactly. The plot's just him power creeping every villain until he probably becomes galaxy-tier in the end of the story but it's still ongoing when I died so I dunno"
"…Any hidden background or something ?"
"Nope. Dirt-poor scavenger. Had a tragic backstory, everyone underestimated him. Blah blah."
Kael scratched his hose. "And where is he now?"
"According to the timeline? Still probably building his scrap mech hasn't even acquired his cheat but will probably a few months later."
"So… why didn't you just go ther and get the cheat?."
Selene snorted. "I would have allready if it wasnt "miraculously" coded that not everyone can get their hand on it" Selene added, straightening her back. "My duchy is also falling apart, dad was your typical totally bad villain wagimg wars everywhere in his youth add to that that were in the border between our empire and the MC's empire that a sure way to die if two factions fight each other which js already showing signs of starting now"
"Say how about we cooperate?" Kael grinned at her.
"By cooperate what do you mean?"
"I'll be the muscle and you'll be the influence, your duchy should have a lot of wealth and power right?"
"Besides.." kaels eyes suddenly narrowed remembering what the ork gods said.
"We might not be the only reincarnators"
"Wha- what do you mean?" selene suddenly perked up and her voice trembled.
"I mean we're already here right? And ww even reincarnated in different ways who can say there's no other ones after all the Universe is big"
"I'll agree but we must help each other to the best of our abilities, I'll provide you coordinates of the lucky encounters of the mc and you'll help me deal with problems in my territory what about that?"
"Alright, Duchess. You've got a deal."
Selene didn't relax she just swallowed and nodded.
This is insane.
But if I play my cards right, I might survive this galaxy after all.
And with that, a unification was formed between two people who found themselves in another wolrd.
Selene's image:
[AN:Here you go 3 chaps I was stoo busy to upload in the past days and will probably won't upload a day or two again.]
WAGHHHHHHHHH hard boyz