I Fall In Love In Another Dimension
Chapter 34

The next day, with a terrible hangover, they got up early to work in the laboratory reporting their new discovery, for which President Rodriguez was very excited, although Estiben knew he was pretending, if they had already been able to get the substances to make nuclear bombs, it would be a matter of time before they also found the ingredients for the gunpowder or maybe they already had them, maybe what really motivated him was a pretext to be able to market heroin. But he also had to play along, make him believe that he had bought the story of the best friends and the spectacular turn that gunpowder was going to provide to his sacred war; so he began to tell him: -sure Mr. President, imagine the bombs, missiles and weapons we can make, we need to neutralize the Altares regime fast before it continues to develop nuclear technology.

The president embraced him fraternally with his right hand to tell him:

-Of course, that's the idea, the troops have already destroyed some nuclear laboratories and some biological weapons, we are close to liberate the capital, what happens is that Altares, hindered our progress by arming the entire population and placing many traps, but it is very close for you to be with his friend Dr. Yací, would you like that?

Estiben looked him straight in the eyes to give him the only possible answer:

-of course.

To which the president continued.

-Well, there is a way to accelerate things, because they can be complicated by the guerrilla strategies that the followers of the regime are now implementing and it can be the best option to end the war minimizing the dead, although it would be very dangerous, I don't know if you would be able to do it, but it is possible that when taking the capital Altares escapes to where Parala xi is and that could complicate the whereabouts of her friend.

Estiben without hesitation, as well as without thinking, spoke:

-"Of course, boss, I am capable of doing anything to save the doctor.

The president hugged him even harder but sideways, with only one arm, congratulating him:

-bravo! That is the winning attitude, it turns out that Altares is proposing a truce to evacuate civilians according to him, besides he wants to negotiate a total ceasefire, logical that the only thing we will accept will be his abdication and immediate unconditional surrender. It will be a perfect occasion for the future vice president to be the protagonist, besides you already know him so he won't pretend to be someone else and you can take advantage of it to make him hand over your dear doctor.

Estiben got very excited, imagining this scenario, until he remembered the time that President Rodriguez betrayed him in a suicidal plan where he used him as a guide for the missiles and who knows if they would already have intelligent missiles, apparently this individual was hiding many things from him; of course he had to be cautious and continue with his plot, anyway the main objective was to rescue his beloved, so like an actor he put on the smiling clown mask and also hugged Rodriguez telling him: It occurs to me that Pollux should go, or you, or your vice-president who was never heard from again.

Rodriguez, raising his eyebrows, let him go and began to move his hands like the conductor of an orchestra, saying to him:

-is that the vice president is a figure of adornment like a vase, only serves at election time, to get votes, depending on who has something to complement the formula, in my case it was Dr. Calle, who served me so that I was not branded as a sexist and when I won she was no longer needed, but as she was part of the team I gave her an ambassadorship in the country she chose, in gratitude for the votes she got me.

Estiben wrinkled his forehead to ask her:

-so I will be a mere accessory to get her votes?

The president pouted and puffed up his cheeks to answer her:

-Of course not, you are the scientist of the moment, surely you will give me a great advantage and you will be very useful in my cabinet, maybe as minister of education or technology, whatever you want, what matters is to be able to help the most needy, who by coincidence will be our relatives and friends; in my last campaign I promised to end poverty, what I did not clarify is that I was referring to my own and in the most successful way I achieved it, although it is also very comforting to do public works that benefit the people as long as you can get a slice of money from the funding.

Estiben listened to him surprised, not because he did not know that things were like that, but because he did not know the reasons for the sincere talk of his president, maybe he already had another betrayal planned, maybe it would be more useful to have him as a martyr in his campaign, that would automatically win him the election, only one more doubt tormented him, this one: -president, how is the investigation going to avoid the dimensional collapse?

Rodriguez laughingly closed his eyes, squeezing them, for a few seconds, until he opened them, looking at him fixedly to answer:

-well there we go, although that theory has not been well proven, we are investigating the way to avoid or correct this disaster, the first thing is to be able to consolidate the governments to be able to act together without detractors, we also do not know which world would collapse, there is the possibility that we would have to make a dimensional invasion or import as much as possible to ours, but the most optimal would be to save both worlds to have a great real estate and tourist market. I do not know what to expect, the most important thing is to try to have control of everything, I know that maybe my idea of being emperor of a whole world is a nonsense and the same would be to be the emperor of two worlds, because I am already understanding the difference between having, owning, governing and controlling, how much abysmal distance there is from one to the other.