Rick and Morty: My Grandfather is Rick?

Aren't you guys just messing around?!

Come back! Let's finish this serious business before you go messing around with each other again!

Chapter 265 Don't Get Into It Any Deeper

"Motty, how do you know the coordinates of the Mirror City?"

"Grandpa wouldn't just casually reveal something like this, would he?"

Back in the Mirror City, Morty, heading towards the celestial globe at the very top of the steps, heard Sangmei's question but didn't stop. Instead, he continued forward, explaining how he knew the coordinates of the Mirror City.

Actually, long before C167 brought him here, during the Pokémon live show, the coordinates of Mirror City were already on the teleportation gun left behind by Grandpa.

Morty was afraid of being caught, so he wrote down the coordinates.

But since there's never been a teleportation gun, what use would it be for him to remember the coordinates?

Is this thing from a planet?

Can you find your destination using coordinates?

fart!

This is a huge problem when it comes to getting through the cosmic barrier!

Without a teleportation gun or portal, this string of numbers is basically useless, just like an IP address on the internet. If you want to find someone's computer by following their IP address, you have to write some code or use some tools, right?

So Morty never got to use this thing.

After getting the teleportation gun from C167, Morty was also angry with Grandpa for pulling this stunt on him. Plus, Grandpa definitely wouldn't be in Mirror City at that time, so he didn't go back to find him.

Now...

Then we'll have to test just how good this thing really is.

Morty, having finally climbed the steps, arrived in front of the celestial globe. Just as he was about to operate it, he discovered that the beams of light connecting the five mirror cities had all disappeared.

Along with this, the armillary sphere in front of us also lost all its power.

"Damn! He's really planning to just leave!"

The meaning behind the changes happening before his eyes was self-evident; even a fool could tell that his grandfather was telling him in another way.

Don't come looking for him.

"Damn it! When did this old geezer become so fragile! It's just a major setback! Life is never smooth sailing!"

"I suffered so much torment at his hands, but when it came to his own turn, he was defeated outright?"

Sangmei, who didn't quite agree with Morty's words, said that the blows her grandfather faced were not as easy as Morty made them out to be.

After all, the pressure you experience isn't like playing a game where you receive numerical values, such as 100 points of emotional damage.

Instead, it's a 100% progress bar.

Some things are like 20%, 60%, 90%, until they completely explode at 100%.

It's definitely not about having a mental resilience of ten million points.

"I know! I know it's not easy! But what he needs most right now isn't to just walk away! He needs to rebuild his mental support!"

Seeing that Morty was also clearly a bit off, and was showing signs of becoming agitated, Sangmei stepped forward and looked at her younger brother, who had suddenly become confident and strong since half a year ago. She reached out and rubbed his head.

With a gentle tone she had never used before, she said, "Don't worry, if Grandpa is really going to die, he won't turn off the power to Mirror City to stop you from finding him. Right now, he's definitely trying to forget all of this."

She stared blankly at the person in front of her who had suddenly started playing the role of a caring older sister.

For the first time, Morty felt that Sammy finally looked like a human being...

Compared to before, when she would constantly complain about how the world treated her, so she decided to give up, yell, and take drugs, and was always self-destructive, she suddenly started comforting people.

This truly represents a leap forward in the evolution from ancient apes to Homo sapiens...

Not wanting to voice his true feelings and hurt her, Morty shook off Sammy's hand.

Since Grandpa is emotionally distraught at this moment, he still hasn't forgotten to turn off the celestial globe and prevent me from going there, then it's possible that, as Sangmei said, Grandpa doesn't want to end his life yet.

Since he wants some alone time to deal with his emotional issues,

no problem!

Go and solve the problem on your own!

But for me, suddenly losing my direction and starting to have nothing to do is quite frustrating.

I can't stay idle at all these days.

I always feel uneasy if I don't do something.

As Morty pondered how long it would take for Grandpa to return this time, something occurred to him, and he suddenly trembled, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes.

Wait a minute! Looking back at past events, I always feel like I've been constantly believing what others say?

Where has my skepticism gone?

"Okay, this isn't about playing the role of a caring older sister anymore. I'm starting to feel like something's not quite right with this whole thing."

"What do you mean by that? Are we going to start testing your brain again?"

"This is mind-boggling... So this is how you usually see me and Grandpa...?"

"Otherwise what? You two have so many tricks up your sleeves and weird ideas that sometimes even I, as an observer, feel a little scared. When will this constant commotion ever end...?"

"Maybe it'll always be like this, never mind! That's not the point. Now, be quiet! I need to think about this!"

Since Morty had returned to the Mirror City and was no longer supplying mental energy on the other side, Tzeentch automatically returned to Morty's mind after the allotted time.

Once she was called out, the two people, who both had something to say, spoke at the same time and gestured for the other to speak first. In the end, of course, Tzeentch spoke first about his long conversation with the tough guy Rick.

She learned something quite unexpected.

"Therefore, all the Ricks trapped inside the limited central curve are Ricks with tragic pasts who have lost Diane; those Ricks who live happy and fulfilling lives are almost all excluded."

"But in reality, every program has bugs, and nothing in the world is perfect. So this wall is not invincible. According to Rick, a tough guy, several illegal immigrants have escaped from here, and several illegal immigrants have escaped from the outside."

After hearing this, which had nothing to do with him at the moment, Morty immediately asked Tzeentch to look at his memories and see if some things were particularly strange.

On that planet, they kept believing in others...

Does this mean the Shadow Group deliberately set up a trap there, luring them in, and then using some kind of mental construct to destroy Grandpa's long-held motivation in order to get rid of a big problem...?

“Morty…” Tzeentch looked helpless. Seeing that Morty was about to continue, she immediately put a hand on Morty's shoulder. “Wake up! Wake up! You're already too deeply involved in this! There's no such thing as a conspiracy here!!!”

"Don't get any deeper into this mess!"

This world is not a world shrouded in conspiracy!!!

"You should take a break!"

Chapter 266 How did you become so brave?

the next day...

Morty woke up in bed. He hadn't slept well all night, and the anxiety and unease that had been in his eyes since yesterday hadn't lessened much.

From the moment he returned to Mirror City from the pleasant atmosphere of that planet, his intuition kept telling him that the Shadow Group was definitely not a good person.

That intuition... that peculiar intuition, is haunting me like a nightmare.

Even though Sang Mei and Jian Qi both told him in unison that he was living a very tiring, dark, and even torturous life.

But Morty knew that this was definitely not something he had imagined.

There's definitely something wrong here!

So Morty, who had tossed and turned in bed all night without sleeping well, stared with his red eyes and decided to return to that planet in the NK-920 universe.

Go and take a closer look at these guys.

Morty, who didn't intend to tell Sangmei about it, got dressed, went downstairs, grabbed some food from the refrigerator, and ate as he returned to his bedroom, preparing to open a portal and head to that planet.

Jerry just happened to come out from the master bedroom.

This new Jerry, compared to the invincible troublemaker of the past, is much more cowardly and timid. However, the only good thing about him compared to the original Jerry is... he's genuinely, really, incredibly cowardly...

He was so cowardly that he didn't dare go downstairs to check for hours after hearing an explosion downstairs.

From another perspective, Morty can tolerate his timid yet capable nature, and his insistence on doing something to prove his strength.

Like the original Jerry, he's cowardly and pathetic, yet he insists on doing something to prove his status as the head of the family.

Morty thought it was great.

Unless Beth wants back the real Jerry, who wasn't even her original husband...

Damn... this Pokémon show has made it so that, apart from me and Summi, the other three people in this house are from three different universes...

[This is truly a cobbled-together family...]

Ignoring the awe-inspiring look Jerry gave him, Morty returned to his bedroom and then went back to the NK-920 universe through a portal.

Hearing that there was no more movement inside, Jerry, who had been holding his breath, finally dared to take a deep breath.

He had no idea what had happened to Morty during this time.

He suddenly became incredibly fierce, and his confidence, strength, and even the aura of a true man filled him with envy.

My son has become the kind of person I always wanted to be.

This is something to be proud of for every father.

But for the new Jerry, things were quite different. He started to feel jealous, jealous of... all the things Morty had that he had never possessed, yet which he envied immensely...

Why can he?

But I can't?

Why!

Thinking back to last night, when he wanted to be intimate with her but was pushed away by Beth, the way she looked at a strange man pierced his heart even more.

Even though he had been rejected, Morty was still at home, so at least there would be some father-son time between the two of them.

You were bullied at school.