Rick and Morty: My Grandfather is Rick?

"So when you want to make amends and come back to me and Beth, you should know how much you have to give up..."

"Are you willing?"

Unlike the last time when Morty and the others were around, this time Diane truly spoke her mind, presenting him with the most difficult choice he had ever made in his life.

You can't have it all – whether you choose an adventurous life or a return to family. If you were truly omnipotent, you should have prevented what happened back then.

But the fact that you didn't avoid it shows that you can't be omnipotent, so you can't have both.

That being the case.

Adults should act like adults.

What choice will you make?

"I...I...I want to..." Grandpa stammered, glancing at Diane and then at Beth, who was laughing and building sandcastles on the distant beach.

Everything he had been searching for for so many years was finally laid out before him. Should he... should he choose his wife and daughter now... instead of Morty?

Yes! He's just a tool to me, why would I care about him?

At that moment, Diane, who had been extremely solemn, suddenly burst out laughing: "Pfft, hahaha! Alright, alright, have you forgotten how I felt about your adventure?"

It's time to truly return to your grand adventure!

"The choices I'm presenting aren't meant to force you to choose anything; they're a farewell, because it seems another Rick has already arranged things for you."

"What do you mean?" Grandpa's heart skipped a beat, and his unease instantly amplified a thousandfold.

"Just yesterday, a Rick who looks exactly like you appeared in front of me. We chatted for a while, and he very politely invited me to leave this universe and go to a more distant world."

“Looks like I can experience the fun of traveling through the universe too,” Diane said, raising her eyebrows with a smile and playfully ruffling her grandfather’s hair.

But Grandpa couldn't laugh anymore.

Because the only person capable of getting Diane away is that damned C137!!!

You can't find your own wife, so you're going to send my wife off to some remote corner of the world?

You just wait! This isn't over! We're all in this together, even if it means we all die!

“Rick, Rick asked me to pass on a message to you.” Diane, who knew her grandfather too well, sensed her husband’s rising anger and decisively relayed C137’s message: “Don’t you want to continue investigating the killer? As long as Diane is around, you’ll never move to the next stage.”

"Fuck! Fuck!"

Chapter 352 Upon returning, I discovered...

Saying goodbye is always filled with feelings of reluctance.

Upon learning that Diane was about to be sent to the outside world by the Limited Central Curve according to schedule, Grandpa inexplicably thought of Morty a few months ago.

These are some words I once said to myself.

"Grandpa, did you go to university? I bet someone as smart as you probably didn't, but for people in my world, whether you go to university or graduate, it teaches you one thing from beginning to end: people will eventually separate for various reasons."

"Everything you care about will eventually disappear. So, a stubborn old man like you, always shouting that you don't care about anything, but always thinking about Grandma Diana, what will happen when you get to see her again?"

"Everything she represents is precisely what you hate most, what makes you feel like you're facing a slow murder."

At this moment, Grandpa felt that Morty's understanding of him was extremely profound, and it could even be said that the other party saw through this matter very clearly!

A twisted, smelly old man...

Thinking of this, Grandpa turned his head to look at Diane on another recliner. At this moment, half of her face was illuminated by the dim red sunset, while the other half was in darkness.

This strikingly different lighting makes the slightly upturned right lip, bathed in the setting sun, evoke a heart-fluttering feeling, as if one is gazing tenderly at a lover.

However, the face on the left, hidden in shadow behind the light, gives one a sense of unease.

"The appointed time has arrived; I should leave with Beth."

Sure enough, under these circumstances, Diane uttered the sentence that Grandpa had guessed, but dared not think about in detail.

When the time comes to leave, to part ways, people always have to leave...

Grandpa just didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

If he hadn't just finished his drink, he wouldn't have stopped by to see Diane and Beth, and he would never have known that they would be leaving him again.

"Rick, if you ever get tired of wandering outside, come back..."

"it is good!"

Grandpa responded heavily, then watched helplessly as Diane and Beth, who had just been in front of him, vanished completely before his eyes, like bubbles bursting in the wind.

"Jesus! Couldn't C137 have used some less awful special effects?"

"He's just here to disgust me!"

People disappearing before your eyes like bubbles sounds beautiful, but in a realistic style, it's like a part of the body suddenly exploding.

Beautiful? Beautiful my foot!

If this had happened to Diane, her grandfather would have wanted to stuff a wad of cash into C137's hand and send him to an art class to learn how to create special effects.

Even if you could disappear at the speed of light, you don't have to be this annoying!

Grandpa, who didn't plan to see that jerk C137 again anytime soon, took out his phone with a screensaver of his family of three, glanced at the time, and realized that he had been there for a full four or five hours.

It seemed that Morty's side might have already completed the dungeon twice. He calmly took out his teleportation gun, composed himself, and then...

The portal opened.

Go through the portal.

The house was found to be in a mess.

Grandpa was dumbfounded...

I've only been away from home for a few hours, so why has the situation here turned into... a chaotic free-for-all?

And what's the deal with Sangmei lying on the sofa...?

Her face was replaced by black mist...

It looks like a giant chimney...

Because Grandpa could only see into the living room from the garage through the hole in the wall, he only noticed the wall he had specially modified after he nearly took an energy blast...

It was actually breached!

You should know that once this wall of ours is in lockdown mode, it can withstand the bombardment of an antimatter annihilation cannon, and even without lockdown mode, it can withstand several nuclear bombs!

The result was... that it got breached...

What on earth is going on?

Just as Grandpa was about to step forward and ask what had happened while he was away, a portal opened beside him.

Grandpa squinted and looked over.

They emerged from that end, Morty, Sammy.

Before he could ask a question, the other self pulled out an antimatter annihilation cannon and aimed it at the spot where he was about to dodge.

"That's right! Don't be so surprised! I am you, me from the future timeline. Everything you can think of, I can think of. And things you haven't thought of yet, I've thought of too!"

"Alright, you old idiot, before I make my move, let me let you die knowing why!"

"Under what circumstances would your future self wish you could jump out and kill your present self?"

The question posed by his future grandfather made his heart tighten. He knew what the question meant, but... it shouldn't be like this!

When will I be so stupid that my future self cries in despair, to the point that he wants to kill my present self?

This is impossible!

When would I be so stupid that my future self would want to kill my present self?

"You don't believe me? You think I'm some Rick in disguise, right?"

"Good! You were just meeting with Diane, and the reason she left was because the second phase of the plan was about to begin, and you couldn't bring yourself to do it. So C137 very considerately solved the problem for you."

Do you want me to continue?

Hearing his counterpart on the other end reveal details that only he and C137 knew, he realized that...

Grandpa, who didn't believe C137's ability to keep secrets was that bad, suddenly widened his eyes and exclaimed, "Diane, what are you doing here?"

Upon hearing this, the future grandfather indeed fell for the trap and looked behind him, but the future Morty...

Ha! That trick of yours won't work on me!

I wasn't expecting it to work for you anyway...

Take this!!

Grandpa clenched his right fist and stretched it forward. When Future Morty instinctively went to defend himself, he threw nothing at the air and decisively activated the locked defense system inside the house.

As the name suggests, once activated, the entire system is locked down and will almost never stop unless it is forcibly destroyed or its energy is depleted.

The heavy metal alloy plate rose vertically from the ground.

In each corner of the ceiling, a dark crack appeared along three lines, from which countless small black steel balls popped out.

Before they hit the ground, the seam in the very center of each small steel ball cracked open, revealing a repulsive mass of green, gel-like substance.

"Oh no! Fuck! Run! It's a gel monster!!!" When the future grandpa saw these peanut-sized gels, he immediately wanted to run away.

But before he could turn around and escape back to the other side of the portal, the gel-like objects that landed stuck to the temples of Grandpa Future, Morty, and Sangmei at the speed of light, just like living creatures.

A fine, green, spiderweb-like network enters the capillaries through the pores and puts most of the brain's functions on pause.

Meanwhile, Grandpa had already escaped outside.

Standing across the street, Grandpa looked through the window into the house. He wiped the sweat from his brow and saw another portal open beside him.

The sight of himself and Morty emerging from inside caused Grandpa's mouth to contort into a W shape.

"Just how many timelines are there...?"

"Wait! What on earth happened???"

"Who the hell created this time-related event while I was away?!"