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This loop would end like the previous one, in Sorrentos.
At least a horde of bloody mutants didn’t pursue Ryan this ti around, but the realization left him bitter. He knew that causality had a tendency to reassert itself, and though the courier would break that chain of destruction, he had spent weeks, if not months in New Ro. He had befriended dozens of locals, heroes, and villains. Watching the city on fire again filled him with anger.
The courier hadn’t felt so determined to save these people since his first Perfect Run in Monaco.
Only Shroud, Felix, and Sunshine had been allowed to follow him to the eting point: the exact sa building where Ryan reloaded after the last loop’s disastrous end. The group bypassed a defensive periter of hundreds of Vulcan-made turrets without any problem.
Only Atom Kitten and See-Through ca in full costu; Leo Hargraves panted as he walked in human form, while Ryan ca with a dashing suit granted by Mr. Wave.
“Have you forgotten how to walk?” Ryan asked Sunshine, who lacked endurance. “I’m sorry, but I only carry damsels in distress in my arms, or lost kittens.”
“How about Atomic Hound?” Felix asked. “How does that sound, as a new na?”
“It sounds like Atom Puppy to ,” Ryan replied. Felix let out a sigh, realizing that there would be no escape from mockery.
Hargraves smiled, though there was little joy in it. “The longer I use my power, the less I want to beco a man again,” he confessed. “Sotis I spend weeks without returning to normal, and often forget that I can.”
“Your power impacts your ntal health?” Felix asked, as they reached grey, reinforced doors. A cara observed them.
“In a way,” Sunshine admitted. “A part of wants to shed my humanity, and beco a radiant sun full-ti. I didn’t understand why, but eting the Alchemist quelled my doubts.”
“It’s not a bug,” Ryan said. “It’s a feature.”
Sunshine shared an extrely strong connection with his Elixir, perhaps as much as the courier himself. Both were closer to this ‘ascension’ than most. Ryan still didn’t fully understand what the process would imply, but transforming into a denizen of the colored realms was a part of the package.
Hargraves might end up becoming a true sun one day, leaving Earth to illuminate so dark corner of the universe. Ryan considered it a better alternative than him burning their planet’s atmosphere, or worse.
“Yes. That’s why I try to stay a human when my power isn’t needed. If you spend all your ti in the air, you stop relating to the people on the ground.” Sunshine narrowed his eyebrows, as a thought crossed his mind. “I wonder if Augustus is in the sa situation. Unlike , he cannot revert back to his human state.”
“If half the tales we learned about him are true, he was a nasty piece of work from the start,” Shroud replied.
“I know,” Hargraves said with a sigh. “But a part of hoped that human nature wouldn’t be capable of such cruelty without outside factors.”
Ryan rembered his first date with Livia, and how he had found Discount Zeus posing as a statue in his own kitchen. The courier had blad senility back then, but in hindsight Lightning Butt probably suffered from a similar syndro as his nesis. The power slumbering inside him wanted to beco a statue of indestructible, inviolable tal, and it beca harder to resist the urge with age.
The building’s doors swiftly opened, a golden retriever in human form imdiately latched onto Felix. The poor kitten let out a gasp as the vile creature squeezed him like a fruit, while Ryan’s judgntal gaze appraised her white ensemble. Six out of ten, maybe seven.
“You fool, you idiot, you moron!” Fortuna said so many flowery insults in such a short amount of ti, that Ryan’s mind automatically censored half of them. “You heartless little...”
“Hi, sis—” Felix didn’t finish his sentence, as Fortuna slapped him on the cheek with enough strength to crack his mask. “Hey!”
“You deserve worse!” she replied, before hugging him again with tears in her eyes. “You idiot… you almost died… if you had died, I...”
Atom Cat said nothing for a mont, before hugging his crying sister back. “I’m sorry I worried you,” he said, and he ant it.
Two other girls erged from the building, a teenage spitfire and an elegant lady. “Felix!” Little Narcinia imdiately joined the group hug, overjoyed to see her adoptive sibling again. “Thank God you’re alive!”
“I’m here, Narci,” Felix whispered. “I’m here.”
Though Leo observed Narcinia with a sad frown, Ryan didn’t pay much attention to her. He only had eyes for his own lady.
Livia walked out of the doors’ threshold, wearing the black coat and dark ensemble that she loved so much. The dress highlighted her pale skin and hair, and the red around her eyes.
She cried, Ryan realized. She cried for New Ro.
Neither said a word. They didn’t need to. The couple simply hugged her tightly, and let their hands do the talking.
anwhile, the Veran siblings had separated, and Fortuna finally noticed her boyfriend’s presence. “Mathias.”
“Fortuna,” he replied, removing his glass helt with his power. “I’m glad you’re—”
She kissed him on the mouth before he could finish. At first surprised, Shroud put his arms around his girlfriend and shyly embraced her back.
While Leo, Livia, and Ryan smiled at the sight, Fortuna’s siblings reacted with distress. “Ew,” Narcinia complained, while Felix looked weirded out.
“Don’t ‘ew’ my future husband!” Fortuna said upon breaking the kiss.
“Husband?” Mathias asked, horrified.
“You’re marrying ,” his girlfriend answered, as if it were obvious. “I had so doubts left about our relationship, but watching you help save my brother dispelled them. We are ant to be together, and this ti, I’m not letting you leave. Ever.”
“Wow, you’re skipping a lot of steps,” Mathias replied, though he didn’t protest as much as Ryan had expected.
“But you already have the ring!” Fortuna protested. “You only have to make your proposal!”
“I don’t have a…” The squeegee man magnet froze in place, examined his glass armor, and noticed a golden ring accidentally stuck in it around his waist. He let out a loud sigh. “So that’s how it is.”
“No way out, Invisiboy,” Ryan warned him.
Mathias rolled his eyes, before pushing his girlfriend back kindly. “Let’s do it properly, alright?” he asked her. “Take it slow, see if we can make it last a few years?”
“Oh, sure,” she replied with confidence. “I know it will work out.”
Ryan chuckled, before glancing at his own girlfriend. “You’re under house arrest, milady?”
“They are,” Livia said upon breaking the embrace. “But I am not friendless. Uncle Silvio sent the guards away for today.”
“Neptune?” Shroud asked, his girlfriend putting her arms around his left one. “Why would he let us have this eting?”
“Because I told him this was the only path to peace that I could see,” she replied with a sigh. “He is the only sensible head among my father’s close collaborators.”
“What happened in our absence?” the glass man asked.
Livia looked down on the ground, her hands reaching for Ryan’s. Her boyfriend held her fingers into his own, and she squeezed them.
“After you fled, Father reached the conclusion that you and Dynamis were allied, and so…” The Augusti princess looked in New Ro’s direction. Even kiloters away from the tropolis, one could still see smoke in the skies. “And so he decided to launch an offensive. I did everything I could to stop an escalation or delay it, but…”
“Augustus had made up his mind long ago,” Shroud guessed. His mother’s prophecy stated that Lightning Butt would go ballistic at one point, and causality would not be denied.
“Yes,” Livia said sadly. “My father always intended to strike at Dynamis. When the Bliss Factory fell and Felix attempted to take Narcinia away, the conflict beca inevitable. Hector recalled Fallout before granting him command over his corporate army, and now the war will engulf Europe.”
Ryan could almost taste the guilt in her voice. Since she had helped her boyfriend destroy the Bliss Factory, she blad herself for the war that resulted. “It’s not your fault, Livia,” the courier reassured. “You did all you could.”
“I didn’t,” she replied with remorse, while Felix observed her with a strange gaze. “I had years, Ryan. I had years to take more drastic asures to prevent this disaster. I thought… I thought that if outside circumstances changed, my father wouldn’t unleash such destruction. Because he treated with kindness, I excused his cruelty towards others.I looked the other way, and I was wrong. It’s him, Ryan. It’s all him, and he will never change.”
Narcinia noticed Sunshine gazing at her, making her anxious. “I’m Leo Hargraves,” the shiny paladin introduced himself, his voice kind and warm. “So people call Leo the Living Sun.”
“I know,” Narcinia said, a bit intimidated. “My parents hate you.”
While Shroud winced, Leo shook his head. “No, they didn’t,” he said, his voice heavy. “Your parents were my friends.”
He searched into his clothes and brought out an old picture, showing it to Narcinia. Ryan glanced at the photo, which represented a couple and their baby child. The man, built like a woodsman, had black hair and familiar blue eyes, but the woman… the brown in her hair, the freckles on her cheeks, the smiling face...
Though she had only inherited her father’s eyes, the resemblance between Narcinia and her mother was uncanny.
“This is your father Bruno Costa, and his wife Julie. So of the nicest people I ever t. And this baby…” Leo put a finger on the child. “This baby is you, Giulia.”
Narcinia took the photo without a word, while her siblings looked on. Felix could barely suppress his anger, while Fortuna clearly didn’t know what to say.
“You were born long before I t your parents, but I held you in my arms where you were only a few years old,” Leo continued. “Your parents… your parents were heroes. Your father was a Yellow who could cut through anything, and your mother was a Green with the power to alter life. Together, they were trying to make this scorched planet green again, until Augustus slew them and took you away.”
“No.” Narcinia refused to accept it. “No. It can’t be. My parents, my true parents, were raiders. They deserved to die.”
“He speaks the truth, Narcinia,” Livia said, looking at the photo with regrets and remorse, as if she had done the grim deed herself. “These are your true parents. Mars and Venus lied about everything.”
“It can’t be!” Narcinia protested, looking at her elder sister for support. “Fortuna, say sothing!”
“Narci, Livy is never wrong, and our parents… our parents tried to murder Felix, because Godfather Janus asked them to.” Lucky Girl tightened her hold on her boyfriend’s arm, while her brother looked away in silent rage. “If they can do that, they’re capable of anything.”
“Augustus murdered your parents,” Leo continued, the pain raw in his tone. “He… he killed them while I was away, and took you with him. Afterward, he had Bacchus shatter your mind, so you would forget your family, and give you to Mars and Venus when they struggled to conceive a third child.”
“Augustus also slew the fifty people who lived at your mother’s farm,” Shroud added with disgust. “He burnt the crops she had made with her power, plants that could have helped erase famine and clean up radioactive areas of the globe.”
“Why?” Livia asked, while Narcinia covered her mouth with one hand in horror.
“Because your father is not an emperor, but a deranged warlord. He offers no future, believes in nothing but strength. This.” Shroud pointed a finger at the smoke clouds in the skies. “This is his ideal world. Fire and ash.”
“I know,” Livia replied, her tone icy. “I know.”
Leo Hargraves locked eyes with the Augusti princess, and the empathetic sun understood what made her feel ill-at-ease.
“What happened to Juno was a mistake,” Leo Hargraves said. “I will not apologize for it, because nothing will ever excuse an innocent dying. The ends never justify the ans employed. On that front, you are right to despise .”
“I don’t have the strength in to forgive you for killing my mother, Mr. Hargraves, even accidentally,” Livia said with a long and heavy sigh. “But my father has to be stopped. What he has done today is monstrous, and cannot be justified… however a part of wants to. I will not make excuses for him. Not anymore. You are right, nothing can excuse slaying the innocents, and my father killed countless more than you ever will.”
“So you will help us take him down?” Shroud asked, causing Livia to nod firmly.
“You have my word that once your father has been stopped and his organization dismantled, I will submit to whatever trial you see fit for your mother’s death,” Hargraves promised to the Augusti princess.
“If we can stop him,” Shroud replied, before glancing at Ryan.
“Leave this to ,” the courier replied. “Jupiter won the first round, but Saturn is back in the ga.”
Livia didn’t answer, causing Narcinia to look up at Hargraves. “Tell more. About my…” The young girl coughed. “About my parents.”
“I will,” Sunshine promised. He had waited years for this.
Leo Hargraves started regaling Narcinia with tales about how he t her true parents, while Mathias took Fortuna aside, holding her hands. Ryan guessed that his translucent friend needed to co clean about how he saw their relationship.
Which left only Felix, who exchanged an awkward glance with his ex. “Livia?”
“Felix,” Livia replied, half-icy, half-embarrassed.
“I’m sorry I dumped you,” he declared bluntly, before thinking it over. “Well, no, not quite. Let reword that.”
Damn, he made Len look like a smooth-talker.
“I still think that quitting the Augusti was the right decision, and I stand by it,” Atom Cat continued. “But I could have done it less harshly. I knew you were under a lot of pressure to smooth things out with the organization, and when I saw New Ro burning… I realized that you were trying to prevent this disaster.”
“No, Felix.” Livia shook her head, her voice breaking. “You were right to leave this rotten empire. I know how you felt about . It’s… I understand why it could never work between us. Our parents pushed us into sothing we weren’t ready for.”
“But it wasn’t right to condemn you for being in an impossible situation. If you had left, Augustus would have lost all fetters. I can bla Jamie and Ki-jung for looking the other way, but I see that you were trying to stop your father from the inside.” Felix awkwardly scratched the back of his head. “All of this to say that… I hope we can stay friends, even after all of this.”
“We can,” Livia replied with a small smile. “But now is not the ti to discuss rebuilding burnt bridges.”
“No, no of course not.” Felix glanced at Ryan with embarrassnt. “Sorry, Quicksave, I realize this discussion must feel awkward, considering the two of you are dating now…”
“Heh, jealousy is for those who don’t trust their partners,” Ryan replied, making Livia blush briefly. “It’s alright, kitty.”
Felix sheepishly looked away, before straightening up. “Good luck.”
Atom Kitten hastily left the couple alone to join Leo and Narcinia, while Matt and Fortuna had a heart-to-heart talk a few feet away. Ryan was glad that Felix made an effort to reconnect with the people he left behind; the courier still thought that the kitten had a right to leave a toxic family environnt behind, but he had thrown the good aside along with the bad.
“You know,” Ryan whispered to his girlfriend, “when we t, I never thought you and Sunshine would end up on the sa side.”
“I don’t like him,” she replied while leading him inside the building. “But I trust you.”
He followed her through the corridors and into a private bedroom with painful yellow walls, and a painting facing the bed. Though unfinished, Ryan recognized his own torso, holding Livia in his arms bridal-style. His girlfriend must have started it a few days before the courier returned from Antarctica.
“I missed you, Ryan,” Livia said as she closed the door behind them. “It was hard without you.”
“I told you,” he replied warmly. “I will always co back.”
“How were your winter vacations?”
“Didn’t you receive my ssages, princess?”
“I did, but I want to hear it from your sweet, sweet lips.”
“The trip was pretty good,” he answered while stroking her hair. “I destroyed the Illuminati, the Reptilians, and raided Area 51.”
“You destroyed our governnt's secret masters without taking with you?” She pouted. “Though I guess you left us the CIA.”
“Would the Dynamis military-industrial complex count?” He moved his forehead against her own, until he could sll her warm breath. “You wanted to tell sothing when I ca back.”
She blushed, before averting his gaze. “It’s going to sound cliche.”
“Can’t you subvert my expectations?” Ryan asked, causing Livia to chuckle. “Nah, I’m kidding. There’s no such a thing as a bad cliché, just a bad execution. It’s all about saying it with the heart.”
Livia moved in front of him, put her arms around his neck, and locked eyes with her boyfriend. Ryan held by the waist, and studied her expression. Her cheeks turned bright pink and she bit her lower lip, trying to muster the courage to speak. Eventually, the Augusti princess took a long deep breath, and said four words.
“I love you, Ryan.”
And her boyfriend didn’t know how to answer.
“Oh my, you are actually speechless,” Livia said with a sheepish grin. “You didn’t expect it?”
“No, I didn’t,” Ryan admitted, his heart having skipped a beat. He… he hadn’t heard those words in a very long ti. “I expected the worst, like ‘I don’t like your car,’ or ‘I’m pregnant.’ We didn’t take any precautions on that front.”
“Ryan, I have been on the pill since our first date.”
“Wait, you knew we would end up playing Bill and Monica in the oval office?”
“I…” His princess looked so cute when she was embarrassed. “I didn’t know, but I… I kinda hoped that we would from the start.”
“And you never said ‘I love you’ to anyone else?”
“I said ‘I love you, Dad,’ ‘I love you, Mom,’ ‘I love you, Felix’... but never ‘I love you, Ryan.’” Livia’s cheeks sohow reddened further, and her expression turned into a sheepish smile. “I’m so sorry, it sounded a lot better in my hea—”
Her boyfriend kissed her on the mouth before she could finish. Ryan embraced her ferociously, making up for the weeks they spent apart, and she matched his own desire. When at long last their lips parted, the courier whispered words of his own into her ear.
“I love you too, princess.”
Ryan lost himself in her blue eyes. He loved the sight of her hair, so blonde-platinum that they might as well be silver; he loved the taste of her lips, her sweet voice, her kindness, and the adorable faces she made; he loved that she laughed at his jokes, making him feel less like a lone island of culture in a sea of ignorance.
“Perfect delivery,” Livia said, her fingers moving to his hair. “Maybe we should do a double-take?”
They did, and then made a third take just to be sure. Then he lifted her on the bed, to film the uncensored director’s cut.
“I know it hasn’t been long since we t, but…” Livia’s hands trailed against his shoulders. “I haven't felt that way for a boy in a very long ti.”
“I have loved too,” Ryan replied, holding her gently. “But this is the first ti I get the feeling it will last.”
“I want it to last,” she said, in-between kissing his neck. “I want us to go through the next loop and prevent that horrible tragedy. I want us to share an apartnt, and make breakfast together. I want to go skiing with you, and to the beach too. I want to be with you.”
“I missed you,” he answered. For a blissful mont, Ryan completely forgot about the Carnival, Bloodstream, Dynamis, Augustus, and everything else.
He could only think of her.
Like all good things, it was over too soon.
“We have to go,” Livia said, as she finished putting her black coat back on. “They will wonder what we’re doing.”
“We’ll tell them it was a private projection,” Ryan said with a shrug, before charmingly helping her comb her hair. “I think we’re ready for the grand opening.”
“You said you could bring six people with you now?” Livia chuckled. “One for each color? Should we call ourselves the Rainbow Warriors?”
“The Colorful Eight?” Ryan replied.
“You’re pretty bad at math, aren’t you?”
“It’s a cunning strategy. That way our foes will always wonder who is the missing mber. It will inspire fear. For all they know, our eighth Geno could be chron.”
When she had finished dressing up, Livia sat on his lap while he rested on the bed. “So?” His girlfriend asked. “Who will be on the winning team?”
“I’m open to suggestions. Maybe Narcinia? We’re missing a tagalong kid.”
“My plan was to make a mind-map of her now, but not to transfer her mind,” Livia said. “If Felix and I ask her to, she will submit to the mory upload in the next loop willingly.”
“Livia, we can’t leave a priest, drugs, and a preteen on an island without supervision,” Ryan joked. “It’s a recipe for an FBI raid and a True Cri video. And that’s not ntioning the people in the basent...”
“To save the Bliss test subjects, we will have to strike the factory early with Narcinia and Bacchus inside. I can inform Narcinia of that secret room, and she will give the victims dical assistance, but Bacchus will ground her in response. We will have to extract her from the island by force.”
Ryan considered it a plus. He had sworn to bury Bacchus beneath his facility, and intended to deliver.
“So, here is the tiline so far.” The courier tried to put everything in order. “I call Braindead as soon as I reload, so he arrives in New Ro as soon as possible. I give Ghoul the grave robber treatnt, finish my delivery—”
“Is that part necessary?” Livia asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Quicksave always delivers, no matter how many tries!” Ryan was proud of reforming the postal service, one explosion at a ti.
“Do you have a twenty-four hour delivery offer?” Livia asked with a sly smirk. “I could take you up on it.”
“I have one,” he said, putting his hand on her chin, “but only for the right person.”
She exploded into laughter, the most wonderful sound Ryan had heard so far in his long, long life. “Alright, Ryan,” his princess said with amusent. “So afterward we et at the bunker with anyone you could send back, and we deliver a one-sided trashing to Adam the Ogre.”
“I love it when you speak my language.”
“Since we attack the ta-Gang within re hours of your reload, we should be able to save every Rust Town denizen that they captured,” Livia added.
“I’m hesitating about the planning afterward though,” Ryan admitted. “Should we strike the Bliss Factory and then Dynamis?”
“I suggest taking one organization at once,” Livia said. “If neither the ta-Gang nor Felix make waves, my family will stay more or less dormant until the Olympian eting. So I propose that we take over the bunker, build that dashing armor of yours, cure the Psychos—”
“And break the Dynamis monopoly?”
Livia nodded. “If their Knockoffs’ true nature is exposed and the supply destroyed, the organization will collapse. We can ensure both Hector Manada and Fallout are removed from power, and leave Enrique in charge of reforming what remains. Alphonse Manada will fight to the bitter end though, and there is the question of your adoptive father.”
“In the end, Len will choose what we do with Bloodstream,” Ryan replied. “I want her father dead for the good of everyone else, but I owe her that much. A choice.”
Livia nodded. “There is also another reason to target Dynamis first. Their Gravity Gun.”
“Their anti-Zeus weapon?” Ryan suspected it used the sa technology as chron’s variant. “You said it wouldn’t work in your visions.”
“It won’t work with Dynamis, but you have a way of making my visions lie,” Livia replied. “With Dynamis out of the picture… we can focus on my family. We will need to act quickly, as Dynamis’ collapse will embolden Dad. We will have to strike before he can mobilize his organization to take over the city, and for that, we need to decapitate its leadership.”
They would have to take down the Olympians, and then top the rampage by bringing down Mob Zeus.
“Are you sure you want to be involved in the demolition?” Ryan asked. “You can leave this ss to .”
Livia silently looked at him, her eyes heavy with concern.
“What bothers you?” the courier asked.
“What if he kills you?” His girlfriend asked with concern. “What if my father kills you? Or Aunt Pluto, or Cancel? Or Adam and Fallout?”
“They won’t.” Though deep down, Ryan rembered that all his encounters with Augustus had ended with a thrashing so far. The courier had yet to defeat Fallout in a fight either.
“They can,” she replied, unconvinced. “And if you perish without sending my mind back, I may not trust my notes and submit to the mory transfer.”
Ryan tried not to think of that possibility. “If I die, and if I reload, I will co to you, and we will find a way.”
“How?”
“I don’t know,” her boyfriend admitted, “but I will find a way. There is no such a thing as a plan guaranteed to work, and I…”
“You what?” Livia asked with a frown.
“I watched you die before,” Ryan replied, rembering the ti Big Fat Adam blew up the Bliss Factory alongside Len and Livia. “I watched almost everyone outside die at least once. I can’t let that happen again. Even for the sake of mories.”
“That’s why I can’t let you fight my family alone, Ryan. The risk for us to lose everything is too great.” Livia gathered her breath, trying to process her feelings. “I can’t continue making excuses either. Not after watching this pointless bloodbath unfold. I… I love my father, and my aunt, but they are so few, and they will kill so many. I can’t close my eyes on this truth, even if it hurts.”
Instead of speaking a word, Ryan moved his arms around his girlfriend’s hips and hugged her. Livia rested her head against his shoulder, eyes closed.
“Thanks for being there, Ryan,” she said softly. “I… you can’t imagine how good it feels. To have soone there to support you, no matter how harsh the circumstances.”
“I return you the sentint,” he replied, kissing her on the cheek. “Thanks for helping make this right, partner.”
She looked at him, and smiled.
Ryan prayed he would see that face again, for many years to co.
“So,” Livia said. “Knowing this plan, who will you take with you?”
“You and Len, obviously,” Ryan replied. “Bianca, because it will make the ogre hunt easier. Atom Kitten, because he will do sothing stupid otherwise, and Shroud, because I need a new windshield.”
“This leaves one spot open,” Livia said. “I can bring Fortuna as reinforcents, even if her mind isn’t sent back in ti, so we need to pick the right ally.”
“Wardrobe,” Ryan said imdiately.
Livia looked a tiny bit jealous, to his amusent. “Seriously, Ryan.”
“The ”
“You’re sure?”
“Certain.” After all his achievents, Ryan’s Pandawan deserved a spot on the team. Besides, he could help strike the bunker early, unlike Leo Hargraves or even Mr. Wave. “Although...”
“Although?”
“I usually have ‘joyride runs’ before wrapping things up,” Ryan said. “To try all the things I won’t be able to do after my Perfect Run. Like, you know, prank your dad, send Luigi to space… we could do that together.”
Livia shook her head. “No, Ryan. It’s kind of you to propose that, but no.”
“You’re sure? It would have been amazing.”
“I know, Ryan, but you need to die with each reload. And even if we find a way to make the mory transfer painless, each new loop increases the chance that you perish early and that I… that we have to begin again.” She took his hands into her own. “I care more about us than having fun.”
So did he.
"Or..." Livia smirked. "Or you could save right after we send everyone's mories back in ti. That way, everyone will keep their mories, even if you die and reload forcefully."
Ryan frowned, and gave the idea so thought. "The problem is, if I save and I missed sothing-"
"You will save within ten seconds of the reload," Livia interrupted him with a chuckle. "What difference could ten seconds make?"
Good point. It wasn't sothing Ryan usually did, but well... he was open to new experiences, and it cost nothing to try.
It was ti to begin his Perfect Run.
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