They all looked at Chrysa, who remained indifferent but was almost shocked by the way they stared at her, like she had just announced the end of the world.
"Where do you think will be more safe?" Axel asked.
Chrysa shrugged.
"I don’t know," she said. "That’s why you guys co in—we decide together."
They all exchanged puzzled looks, not knowing exactly where to pick.
Chrysa sighed and said:
"They’ve set a particular date. And don’t ask how I know. But from what I’ve researched, it seems that they are waiting for sothing that’ll activate the portal."
Axel stared at her more intently now, cogitating on many possibilities. If this was true, then his assumption of them activating the portal in the sky would be true.
But what were they waiting for?
Chrysa seed to be reading his thoughts.
"I have a system that can dig back history and all, and to do so, I have to put a piece of what needs back-digging. And so, I tore a piece of the monster’s skin and put it in the device, which showed their history."
She paused and looked at Voidbreaker, expecting him to complain, but no, he was seemingly imrsed in her words. He didn’t seem it necessary to interrupt.
"What I saw was, well, what Royal Cloak had already told us—of how they were once superheroes and blah, blah, blah. But then, I saw sothing."
She paused intentionally and stared right into their faces. Her mouth twitched into a slight smile. Her gaze passed over Axel, Spinal Edge, Voidbreaker, Henry, and then...
At the ceiling, like she was also talking to the artificial intelligence of the Realm Plunger.
Chrysa suddenly smiled and said:
"Don’t get wrong. I’m not so kind of all-knowing being who knows all things. The Realm Plunger’s system also played a big part in helping process my information."
Voidbreaker was peeved now, with her drifting away from the main thing she was saying and trying to stretch so kind of ’DAMN’ (to him) suspense.
"C’mon!" he said, this ti not hitting his hand on the table.
"Go on already. Done with the suspense. Weren’t you the one who said we didn’t have much ti?" Seeing that he might be rude, he had to add:
"Please."
Axel looked at Voidbreaker and then at Chrysa.
"For once, I’ll have to agree with him on this one. We’re short of ti."
Chrysa couldn’t hold back her laughter.
"Damn, I should start writing a novel. I’d be so good at suspense," she said.
Axel smiled, trying to at least show that he was amused, unlike the others who just stared at her, not taking in the joke.
"The thing they are waiting for is the crepuscular twilight."
That didn’t quite go in with Axel.
"Crepuscular twilight? Isn’t that literally the sa word?" Axel asked. "Or am I mistaken?"
"In a way, you’re right," she said. "But now, it ans quite different things even though they are the sa."
Walking over to the screen, she clicked it and just kept on clicking. The act seed obscure (not that it actually was) to the people who were staring at her.
Done with her click, click, so words appeared on the screen, and then she read it to her audience, acting like a teacher teaching her students.
"What’s the aning of crepuscular? Well, according to the artificial intelligence of the Realm Plunger, crepuscular refers to sothing related to or resembling twilight, which is the ti period around dawn or dusk when the sun is below the horizon and the sky is partially lit."
Chrysa then raised her hand, halting Axel, who had planned to say:
’I told ya!’
"And twilight? Well, according to the artificial intelligence of the Realm Plunger yet again, twilight is the ti period around dawn or dusk when the sun is below the horizon and the sky is partially lit, creating a soft, warm, and often mystical light."
Chrysa paused and then lowered her voice slightly, saying:
"Now, are twilight and crepuscular the sa?"
She clapped.
"Well, according to the artificial intelligence of the Realm Plunger, no, ’crepuscular’ and ’twilight’ are not exactly the sa thing.
’Twilight’ refers to the specific ti period around dawn or dusk when the sun is below the horizon and the sky is partially lit.
’Crepuscular’ is an adjective that describes sothing related to or resembling twilight.
In other words, twilight is the actual ti period, while crepuscular is a descriptive word that evokes the qualities of twilight."
Chrysa smiled now.
"I’m a genius, you know."
Axel looked at her, surprised by her sudden playful nature. She now acted in an eccentric manner, and Axel liked it. At least she was showing her true self. Well, they all were now—unlike before back at Superpolis, where they all acted like strangers and like they didn’t know each other.
"Damn!" Voidbreaker said with a smile, almost a laugh, actually. "You must have had a good childhood with tech teaching and stuff. I must say, I’m impressed."
Chrysa only smiled.
"I guess."
"I an, she’s good. Without her, you guys would probably be goners on this mission."
"Yes," Mirrorld finally decided to speak. "It’s like Royal Cloak sent us unprepared."
Chrysa countered that.
"He did send us prepared. We actually had a plan, rember? The only reason we are scraping it is because we were betrayed, and so we had to change and kinda start over."
Mirrorld remained silent again.
"So what’s the plan?" Axel asked.
"We split into two," Chrysa said. "I’m not dictating we do so, but I’m only saying so based on our current situation. We each head to different directions."
"Which are..." Spinal Edge asked.
"The West is seemingly deserted and the East not. We can’t go to the sky because, well, it’ll be pretty obvious. So, that leaves us to the North and South."
She inhaled and exhaled and then said calmly:
"We split into two groups as I’ve earlier said. I and Axel to the North because it’s cold and freezing, so with Axel’s superpowers, it wouldn’t be a problem. Also, I can switch the mode of my suit to make it warm—towards hot—making able to survive there. And as for you guys, the South is hot, so I think you can be able to survive. Now, our reason for splitting up is because the Monseryan monsters will apparently suspect sothing fishy if we go in large numbers."
She stopped and looked at their reactions.
Well, silence, and then—
Axel thought.
Why the two of us?
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