I Fall In Love In Another Dimension
Chapter 25

Rodriguez gently grabbed his shoulder to calm him down, looked him in the eyes with a fake smile, to invite him to talk in private, with two gentlemen he had never seen, they rushed into a private room where the man who looked older than everyone because of his white hair, who was also the tallest of the four, was the first to introduce himself, bowing:

-Mr. Estiben, it is a pleasure to meet you, my name is Boros, I am the owner of Gens, the largest arms producer in the world and high advisor for Peace in the organization of the world countries, I admire you very much and you have all our resources at your service. He then proceeded to introduce himself to the other gentleman, this one had the appearance of a good-natured man with very large glasses:

-I am Billy, I am also the owner of the largest company in charge of managing the stock market, besides being the secretary of the union of military troops, I also reiterate my admiration and I am here to serve you in whatever you need. Estiben, opening his eyes and awkwardly moving his hands, used his great diplomatic gift of speech:

-I was hoping to receive the support of the presidents, although I thank them very much, because I urgently need to bring a friend from that place to be treated in the best hospital here.

The emperor tried to answer him, but was interrupted by Boros, who moved his hands imitating him, perhaps to mock him or thinking that this was the way of expressing himself of the people of this region, he said:

-Mr. Estiben, the presidents are temporary, we are not; it is true, they have a lot of power, although they always have more powerful people behind them, it is as they say, there are those who pull the strings in the shadows. Billy nodded his head and spoke to complement the sentence:

-of course, presidents are needed, so that the people assume they can decide who rules them, that's democracy, it gives the illusion of freedom, rest assured that making deals with men like us can be much more lasting and fruitful. Again, the elder Boros complemented him:

-it is true, the presidents thing is a complicated matter, although it can be summarized like everything else, it is one more business of economic power, which is not the same as money, since the first is the ability to transform, produce and control the second, how many times you see money from some countries that is not worth even the paper it is printed on.

Billy, moving his arms like a puppeteer, tried to complement him:

-Of course, democracy calms people down a little more, maybe the idea of choosing or that their rulers are not perpetual as in a monarchy, leads them to revolt less, when many times the candidates who champion change are nothing more than puppets that are controlled by the same individuals who often finance the campaigns of both sides, It is funny to see how the common people fight among themselves, for their future presidents to know that in the end although a candidate may say he wants to help the people, in the end he will only help himself and those close to him.

Rodriguez looked at them a little scratched, although the laughter escaped him, and with his head nodding he said:

-yes sometimes power is just an illusion, look at me I work 20 hours a day, I try to make this country move forward, look at all I have achieved, however, now all these presidents joined together with the sole purpose of stopping my aspirations. The elder Boros looked at him with a fake smile, cleaning his nails on the lapel of his suit to answer him:

-that was your problem, you forgot the script, you thought you were all-powerful, you invested yourself with the title of emperor, you started a successful conquering career, your territory grew 10 times, I don't see the use, that will give you more work, what is hard for me to believe is that you thought that the great powers would not be threatened, men like us don't care, we make money in war or peace, in democracy or dictatorship, whatever, The more these nations see their sovereignty threatened and of course as you don't have a powerful military arsenal, hopefully nuclear, you don't have many options but to stop yourself so that diplomatically you can negotiate, so you can gain as much as you can, however, I do think that the idea of governing the whole world is very egocentric and would demand a lot of work, I personally would prefer to be on a beach with many beautiful women, liquor and drugs.

Estiben understood that they were too drunk to say this kind of comments, so he took the opportunity to answer some questions:

-Is it true that you finance wars in countries with a lot of resources, so that you can buy cheap products from them and sell them armaments?

Billy laughed out loud, clutching his belly, Boros answered him dryly:

-if it were that way, that would be a very profitable business.

Estiben turned to Emperor Rodriguez with great anguish to whisper, because he did not know how much these people knew about his adventure in the other dimension:

-Sir, please, I need a lot of help, I have to go get Dr. Yací.

Rodriguez bent his head down trying to think what was the best thing to tell him, finally he decided to tell him the truth:

-I am very sorry Estiben for what I am going to tell you, it turns out that some heavily armed men entered the hospital where she was and took her away, they kidnapped her, that was what Pollux told me, who I don't know if he will be king or president, of course everyone refers to him as "leader", that world is a crazy thing.

Estiben clenched his fists in anger, not wanting to believe that this was true, with many tears I answered him:

-crazy and incompetent, just like many people here, damn it, that must have been what Altares referred to, now what am I going to do?

The other three responded in chorus:

-calm down, that's what we're here for, to help you with anything you want.