Youjo's group contains 20 people. No more and no less. Most of them are girls that are attracted to Youjo's personality traits so to speak. Her rebellious and flare-like personality can be alluring to some while to others it can create sparks of difference.

Right now, they are undergoing through an elevator of 20 meters in width and 50 meters in height. Far more than necessary space for their small group to take place in. The steel-covered four walls that the elevator holds in its composure present a stark cold temperature to anyone that is curious enough to place their frails hands on them yet more importantly, this particular elevator has only one button function which is a button that goes only down. In other words, the moment Youjo decided to press that button, she knew there couldn't be a way up through this elevator.

Weak illumination lit up above yet Youjo's bright-light eyes determined something from that type of illumination.

"That's weird, isn't it?" Youjo openly asked that question to the air; invoking the attention of every member to her "What is?" A girl asked her to which Youjo raised her finger toward the illumination site above "That. That type of light is incredibly manufactured and it's emitting blue-like colors mixed with elements of other colors. In other words, this might sound weird to say but that light can't possibly be solar." She concluded.

Many didn't understand how the girl named Youjo could dictate the difference between natural light and artificial light but the process itself isn't difficult. Natural light is the offspring of sunlight which comes from its radiation thus emitting the naturally driven colors and heat of the sun. Yet this light did not emit such natural light---the familiar-like radiation was not present. An extraterrestrial blue aura breathed from its spine. A glowing halogen gas drove the light to strive from its different natural state over time.

Yet this also indicated one other thing that Youjo would not mention at the time because she didn't want to further distress her companions as they were already on the verge of stabilization.

She looked at her phone and realized immediately that the time was slower than usual because, in her mind, Youjo had been counting the time in human terms. A clocking-second counting machine resided in Youjo's brain and according to it, at least fifty minutes had already gone by. In contrast to that, her phone's hours and minutes remained the exact same. As a matter of fact, she went even further and checked how the seconds were progressing and she found out that a second is the equivalent of 30 seconds.

To put it into perspective, she felt like she was locked into a prison of time. She knew not whether or not she could rely on the timing in her brain or the fact that her phone was giving off a different time.

These worries, however, started to mildly vanish as the elevator started to decrease in its speed and began to slow down while ultimately arriving at its location.

"Did we finally arrive?" One of the girls asked Youjo "Seems like it, but..." Youjo wasn't exactly sure whether or not it could be qualified as an arrival given the fact that what she was looking at, lacked the usual qualification for such.

The elevator stopped its track and its door opened sideways; however, what they were gazing at was the infinite ocean in the midst of a clear cerulean sky unknown to blowing winds. In other words, there wasn't a way for them to continue. As the others began to grow worried, Youjo decided to step up a little and see whether or not something would trigger if she did so.

"...." She placed her step on the right side of the door, her foot beginning to soak in water somewhat yet with nothing occurring "What the hell is this...?!" Youjo grasped sea creatures at the bottom of the water gazing at her; creating horror in her mind "Youjo, what do we do?!" A warrant call finally was startled "I don't know! I've never seen anything like this! We can't go up so maybe we can continue to go down?!" Youjo proposed for someone to press the only button to see whether or not it would go down.

However, this wasn't successful as the button didn't even butch. Not only that but it was completely unresponsive in the sense of moving into the structure, unlike a normal button.

"Nothing happens! No matter how much I press it, there's no response, Youjo!" A girl alerted Youjo while freaking out respectively "Damn it... There's gotta be something that we can use... There's no way this would simply be allowed..."

Youjo thought to herself as the others applied pressure on her to come up with a solution.

"Think, Youjo... Think... If that damn nerd Rokuro was here, what would he come up with...?!" She thought and after a few seconds, she arrived at a crucial conclusion.

She snapped her right index finger alongside her right thumb, which resonated a deep sound within the elevator.

"That's it!" Youjo exclaimed out loud thus earning positive responses from her group as she did what she had in mind "Oh my God! You actually did it, what the hell?!" A hug came behind Youjo as the success flew by.

Many others showered her with attention as Youjo did a very simple thing. She reminded herself of the one thing that made all of this possible. In the first place, to access the temple where the ten sections lie within, they had to go through ten different places on the island in other to insert the passwords. Yet the one thing that Youjo was sure that she had that would give her the benefit here would be the component that she got initially from Percy Phoenix.

Whether or not it functioned here, was something that she didn't know for sure until she decided to activate the component---the switch detonator.

However, unlike a bomb detonator, for example, this detonator gave birth to something instead of destroying it. From the depths of the ocean, a gigantic structure containing a path that stretched to infinity from their perspective began to unfold. Firstly, it started with a bridge that contained ten meters in length with a forward direction; just razing the tip of the ocean: its width of five meters. Furthermore, the glacial colored bricks covered the bridge entirely; even the sideways---even though there were no supporting brackets to prevent a fall. These brackets still drenched in the ocean's water were somewhat slippery.

"Be careful not to fall---for some reason, this emerged from the ocean so it's bound to get slippery!" Right as Youjo said that, they all started to grasp each other's hands and some even went as far as grabbing each other's arms in other to prevent some sort of fall "Needless to say, but try not to look down as we go forward..." Youjo concluded her warning.

Coldly, Youjo distanced herself from the rest as she place herself in the front; leading the rest. Forward on, the bridge would begin to show differences in structure, repetitively. As soon as the first bracket would finish and the ten meters in length would conclude, they would then have to climb a stairway case of five rows. Beyond that, a linear path containing twenty meters in length and five meters in width remained. From that point on, the path's end would no longer be linear as it would go toward the right creating a grand difference of thirty meters from the bridge to the ocean below. Naturally, by turning to the right, they would have to climb a stairway case of ten rows with a linear path to the right amounting to forty meters in length and five meters in width.

They were starting to notice the pattern.

"It kinda gets longer the more we go, doesn't it?" One of them noted "Yeah, the stairways also seem to double in rows as well... But more importantly..." They started to look towards Youjo as she pointed with her index finger to a very faraway place "That right there. That's gotta be it. Let's hurry, we don't have much time..." She said as her footwork began to rapidly increase.

In the end, after changing their course about nine times; the pattern applying every time, they reached a faraway lighthouse with an entrance containing extremely rough boulders stacked on each other from each side. It encompassed firstly a valley with a thin path of around four to five meters in width before ultimately being able to grace the mighty entrance. Naturally, as the lighthouse was reached the entrance of it was completely erased; thus there was a huge gap between the lighthouse; which is cryptically floating, and the place where they now stand.

"That's fucking ridiculous... Are you shitting me..." Youjo, with a creeped-out expression, was mentioning that towards the floating lighthouse, which was beyond ridiculous for human standards.

Some of them were beyond creeped out to the point of just wanting to go back, but as they looked behind, they started to realize that the bridges that connected all the way to the elevator had vanished.

"There's no going back, Youjo..." One of them made sure that Youjo got that message as Youjo pressed the switch which summoned the stairway case that would connect to the lighthouse "Holy hell, where do these platforms even come from...?" These mysterious appearances of missing structures were only serving as stress to them "From the ocean, somehow... If I had to guess..." Youjo took a guess as she climbed the stairway of thirty rows with an upper diagonal length of fifty meters alongside twenty meters in width "This switch is able to summon the missing parts but most likely at the cost of something if I had to guess... For example, back when I pressed the switch and we got into the bridge, the elevator started to go down to the ocean..." Youjo concluded.

As Youjo and the rest got closer to the lighthouse itself, she noticed that the floating lighthouse had something else now. Underneath it, now lay a dormant subterranean structure that would connect to the bottom bracket. Regardless of that, she limited herself to keeping these thoughts to herself.

The more they climbed, the more the structure behind fell down to the ocean. Now completely in front of the door of the lighthouse, they noticed the gigantic abysmally difference between them and the ocean below. Needless to say, some of them were terrified to death as they witnessed the sea creatures below---containing variants such as: wild blue whales amassing sizes of easily sixty meters in length; hellish octopuses with abnormal quantities of tentacles of absurd lengths; goblin sharks skirmishing the water's surface hunting each other down violently practicing the art of cannibalism; the fabled Megalodon; competing in its natural environment---going as far as killing whales for its stomach alongside Helicoprions and even an extinct whale going by the name of "Livyatan Melvillei"; infamous for killing whales as well.

"This can't be real...!!!!" One of them placed their palms on their face while peeing herself out of fear "I want to go homeeee...!!!" Further more began to cry out "Stop it! Crying and despairing aren't going to do anything! Let's get inside the lighthouse, it's open now!" Youjo told the rest despite being scared herself with traces of horror on her face "Our goal is to put the component in its place and since the path that was laid out to us is through this, nothing else matters! Come on!!" She managed to lift the spirits of the rest of the girls as they all smiled a bit in spite of the horrors below as they entered the lighthouse.

Naturally, a stark contrast in light was noticed as the sun no longer illuminated the entirety of the surface and also because the lighthouse was covered in a structure where the windows were alternating in between as they climbed to the top. However, they first noticed a grand pedestal with a circle type of surface towards the center of the room and two doors---one to the left while the other to the right----with at least two meters in length and four meters in size. Furthermore, they each had a gigantic eye in the middle. Beyond the pedestal was what they considered to be their way forward.

A type of lift floating beyond a borderline was what they could ultimately grasp. Where an elevator would be, the floating lift is in. It remains at the center despite there being no way to access it normally---no ladder---nothing. There are two other ways around it; two circular paths that supposedly complete a circle, but they are both blocked because they are underneath destructed borders. In other words, they have about four choices now.

"Check the doors, to see whether or not they work..." Youjo ordered some girls to do that "As for this..." She tried to touch the pedestal but the moment she did so, a small password entry device erupted from the floor with a flashing quickness.

This caught Youjo a bit off guard but all she had to do was to remember the correct password to insert. She first recalled the order of her section and what number it was.

"The first password is "Ten", the second "Words", the third "Will", the fourth "Light", the fifth "The" and the sixth is..." Youjo decided to type the password successfully and as she did, the password entry device went back to the ground, however, nothing happened "Huh?! What do you mean by that...?!" Youjo was freaked out at the fact that nothing had happened but for a few reasons.

The girls in charge of opening the doors were not successful, even with the correct password being inserted into the central pedestal. In addition to that, there was no signal of an entrance being lifted towards the lift which was mysteriously spinning and floating at the very center. Lastly, Youjo decided that the only reasonable thing to do was do the one thing that she was sure would work. With her switch, she pressed in despair, hoping for something.

Which worked.

"The lift... It's coming to us..." One of them noted, but that description was slightly inaccurate as what was actually happening was that the lift was coming towards the border where anyone could successfully climb into the lift instead of making an impossible jump towards it.

Not only that, but a small computer emerged from the ground on the right side of the lift's area. Naturally, they all went toward that computer and they examined it, despite the overall simple nature of its structure and functions.

It was a computer that allowed anyone to dictate the number of people that would ride the lift. However, there was a slightly tricky gimmick to it, which Youjo immediately grew skeptical toward.

"No damn way... This... This is too fishy, damn it! Do they think we are dumb or something?!" She expressed her rage by pressing her fist downwards on the computer's surface despite the rigidness of it "Am I reading that correctly...?! It says..." One of them could barely finish their sentence "Choose the necessary... sacrifices...?!" The other completed their sentence.

They were shocked and horrified at the suggestion of the computer, but Youjo tried to calm them down.

"Calm down... Wait a second, I think we missed something... Look..." Youjo went to the screen and in between the arrow that increases the numbers and the one that doesn't, she went to the one that decreases, and then, as she pressed it, she noticed that the lift went back to the center "It went back..." One of them sighed in relief "But... Without it... Where are we supposed to place the lift?!" Another panicked and reasoned "Hold on just a second... I have an idea. So, if I increase the number to one..." Youjo pressed the arrow to increase to one "sacrifice" and thus, the lift went back to the border "Only one of us has to go." They all looked at Youjo mercilessly implying one thing in particular.

Youjo gulped, nervously. She didn't want to do it, but... deep down she feared that they would all somehow force her to.

"...I'll go... And see what lies beyond..." She meekly said that while looking at the ground; some wanted to support her but at the same time they were too scared to go against such a positive offer so they opted to let Youjo go.

However...

"Huh...?" Youjo muttered out loud by accident "What's going on... Why isn't the lift advancing at least toward the center...?" She further added while looking at the nervous group of girls.

A brief silence hit the atmosphere in which none wanted to say a word for some reason. Youjo chose to break that silence despite the anxiety she was feeling.

"I think that... Maybe I'm not enough... So----we need to---" Another girl completed her sentence "Add another one...?" She finished, leaving an awkward atmosphere as none of them wanted to go "No way... I'm not doing it...!! This is crazy!" The first complaint rose to the first as a girl started to distance herself from the entire platform "NO!" She further expressed her denial towards it "Bu---" Youjo tried to say something "ARE YOU NUTS?! HAVE YOU SEEN THE CREATURES IN THAT OCEAN?! PLUS, THE DAMN LIGHTHOUSE WAS FLOATING! THAT'S BATSHIT NONSENSE!!" She laughed in despair; further creating a sense of despair within the group.

They grew terrified even more.

"...We can't go back though..." Youjo said while looking at the ground "Huh...? What does that mean...? Hey, you're not saying that this is better than..." The previous girl was looking at Youjo in disbelief and despair "...Yes. I am saying that..." Youjo nevertheless delivered the truth "...You're insane...!! YOU'RE INSANE! WHY THE FUCK DID I THINK YOU WERE ONTO SOMETHING?! I SHOULD'VE NEVER GONE TO THIS ISLAND!! HAHAHAHA!!!" She laughed even more, to the point of going on her knees while crying on the floor "...Anyone else would like to say something too?" Youjo asked the rest, in a terrified tone "...Youjo... I--"

Midst that, out of nowhere, an opening sound was created within the atmosphere.

"Fifteen minutes until self-destruction. Protocol activation--- accelerated. If the necessary sacrifices do not enter the lift in the next minute, the protocol will accelerate a minute further." A robotic cold voice gave that warning from the lift, therefore, anyone could listen to it.

Youjo in particular was far more distressed by this as she figured that the lack of unity in her group was the major problem here instead of this warning.

"Everyone...! If we don't do something, we are all going to die!! If this place self-destructs then we can't go back, because there isn't anything remaining! No bridges, no elevator! Please, hurry up!!" Youjo fought back with reason this time and while some were reluctant at first, they noticed that it was safer to bet on where the lift would take them instead of being victims of the self-destruction.

At the end of things, the ones that wanted to ride the lift had to press the arrow button to increase the number of "sacrifices" in order for the lift to do anything. Ten terrified girls, Youjo included, were on board of the lift while ten others couldn't muster the strength to volunteer.

"Please hurry up and put the damn switch in its place, Youjo..." One of the remaining girls who wouldn't board the lift applied pressure onto Youjo "....." Youjo didn't respond as the lift finally went to the center.

As it reached the center, the lift spoke once again.

"Protocol de-activated. The necessary quota for sacrifices---confirmed. Have a nice trip, customer." The robotic voice confirmed back.

With those words out of the way, the lift, instead of going up, went down, which alerted them all immediately.

"Huh...?! It's going down?!" They never ultimately had any saying in this matter yet they thought for sure that they were going up "Who cares... We are all going to die, aren't we? I mean, we have been branded as "sacrifices" and so---" Something immediately caught the attention of all of them, despite the absurd speed that the lift was taking them below as they further descended to a place unknown to light.

One by one, bodies started to drop from above to the bottomless destination below.

"HUH?! ISN'T THAT?!----" The girls started to notice that those bodies were far too familiar "OH MY GOD---THEY ARE DEAD!!" One of them noticed that the particular girl that was freaking out earlier had her throat cut and her eyes completely disfigured in the process "OH MY FUCKING GOD-----" Youjo freaked out as she created distance as a body, in particular, dropped onto the lift's surface---completely dead with blood dripping from its throat "Bleeghh---" Youjo threw up while many other girls began to witness a rain of blood as the lift made its stop.

"Welcome to Subterra; floor 1. We hope that it's to your liking, customer." The robotic voice spoke despite what had just happened.

Between throwing up and straight-up crying while maintaining as much physical distance as possible from each other, all the girls were beyond terrified as they witnessed the dead body on the lift's floor motionless and completely dead.

"Oh God... One... One of them must've..." One of the girls in shock decided to speak "...But why would they...?!" She tried to finish her sentence "Wait, what are you saying? Are you saying that one of them decided to...?!" Youjo immediately dispelled that, or at least she tried to "Wait... If we look at the wound here, you can tell that it was a knife's cut..." Youjo added "So?! SO?!" But they began to further complaint and so, Youjo had to shout in order to gain their attention far more clearly---plus, she was somewhat tired of their attitude "I'M SAYING THAT IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ONE OF THEM BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE KNIVES WITH THEM!" Youjo boldly declared.

Yet Youjo knew deep down that she wasn't sure of that. Because that wasn't necessarily true. However, to Youjo's fortune, one of the girls helped her reasoning.

"Actually... I counted nine bodies falling down and with this one included it can only mean that..." Another girl finished her sentence "It wasn't any of them... But wait, that's...?!" She noticed something incredibly weird from her reasoning and what exactly it suggested.

Youjo got up and decided to move forward despite what had been suggested just now, while some of them followed her while some others were terrified and stayed there for a bit murmuring to themselves.

"There's someone in here that's..." This one threw up further on the lift while crying and spilling snot from her nose "There's a killer... I'm going to die...!!" While this decided to cry simply "Stay there if you'd like but... I don't think that there is any other killer." Youjo bravely suggested a theory "Wait, what are you saying...?! WE'VE JUST BEEN THROUGH THIS, YOUJO?!" One of the girls with Youjo began to freak out but this did not stop Youjo from reasoning further "I was wrong most likely! Maybe one of them had a knife and started to kill each other and the killer was brought down along and died in the fall...!!" Youjo thought that this approach would be the best going forward "How else would anyone explain what had happened...? The other doors were closed and no one else came with us, which means that there isn't anyone else..." Youjo reasoned.

Though flawed, her reasoning was enough to somewhat stabilize the atmosphere. Her reasoning suggested that there wasn't this secondary figure that they were imagining because, realistically speaking, no one else but the other ten members---one of them at least---could've started that. The remaining ten present thought about the girl that was screaming at first and that she was the one that did it.

Now on the floor called "Subterra", they were met with a central pedestal once again, and Youjo, just like the last time, inserted the password correctly. This caused something to open, unlike last time.

In this particular floor where the light is vagrant and brim, though not to the point where nothing can be seen----there is a circle surrounding the area of the lift which is protected by an iron cradle yet the seemingly bottomless below continues. Forward to that, there are three doors. One in front of the central pedestal with an eye in the middle of the door. The door itself contains a height of five meters with a seven meters width. It contrasts somewhat with the entire floor's height which is twenty-five meters. As for the other two doors; one to the left and one to the right, each containing an eye as well.

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The occurrence that happened was the following: in the left and right doors, a computer, exactly the same one as the last time, emerged.

"Okay... Let's try five for five...?" Youjo proposed "...Sounds good..." An agreement came forth "...Yeah..." More agreed and so, they both selected five "sacrifices" for each; which by doing so, the doors opened.

Youjo and four other girls took a step forward into a somewhat darker room. It encompassed the same height as the door, and it had a small ladder containing five small rows that would lead to an upper surface in which there was a small pedestal containing what looked to be an entry password type of device.

"Youjo... We're going to be alright, aren't we...?" One of the girls that Youjo wasn't completely familiar with asked her as Youjo went to the password entry device "...Don't worry, we've run a check, remember?" Youjo reminded her of a few minutes ago when they investigated each other to see if they had any knives with each other or any lethal objects to use; which was not the case "Yeah... I guess I'm overreacting... Sorry..." The girl lamented but Youjo didn't think she was overreacting "It's fine, we're gonna make it together, I promise..." She promised as she inserted the password, causing a sound to roar in the direction of the lift where they came from.

With haste, they all got out of the room, went back, and saw that there was a computer on the border of the lift. All that was left was for the remaining five to come back as well.

"Where are they?" One of them asked "...Let's check it out..." Youjo said.

Youjo was somewhat freaked out at the fact that they haven't been back yet. Furthermore at the fact that there was no sound from them at all. Because Youjo thought that in the worst scenario if the same thing as last time happened that they would at least scream or something. However, what they encountered in that room was no short of a surprise.

"That... What?" Youjo was the first one to question the nature of what had happened as she, alongside the other four girls, entered the room that had the exact same structure as the previous one "Where did they go...?!" The room itself was completely empty without any soul in sight "Hold on a minute, I'll go check again!" One of the girls went back and checked the other room but she did not return "Camelia...?" One of the girls spoke the girl's name that had just gone to the other room, but no response came forward "This---What is happening?!" Youjo limited herself to typing the correct password which caused a clear sound to emerge from the lift.

An awkward silence hit the atmosphere as they realized that all their beliefs were most likely wrong. This was only further cemented once they left the room and went back to the other room to see where the girl that had gone ahead and searched for another girl had gone to. In it, they found nothing.

"You're kidding me... No way, right...?" One of the four girls despaired as she saw six dead bodies in that exact room "This has to be a nightmare... It's just a nightmare, hahaha...!!!" Cries began once again as nothing was sure anymore.

Youjo was out of words as she hopelessly looked at the dead bodies. She was sure that she was in a situation where she could only survive if she was somehow lucky, so instead of grieving like the rest of the other four, Youjo went to the lift's area.

Without much resistance, the others also went, but very defeated, fearing their lives. In a circle, before entering the lift, the five of them stood.

"Since I'm probably going to die, I just want to say something." One of the girls, who had not given her name, managed to gain the attention of the rest, Youjo included, as she scrapped the strands of her damaged long black hair "My name is Irene and I wish someone had fucked me before I die. I can't believe I'm going to die without feeling the touch of another man." The sheer honesty and despair intertwined caused Youjo and the others to realize how dire the situation really was.

Youjo hesitated in putting the numbers necessary for the lift despite the lift's robotic warning.

Another girl spoke subsequently to Irene.

"...My name is Claudia, by the way... I'm really confident I'm going to die too, I don't know why, but..." Irene, a girl around the age, of 16, gulped and spoke her one regret while crying "I've never been accepted by my family because I'm a lesbian, and... that hurts me because... I'm going to die... without my family knowing how much I loved them because---because----" She could barely speak without gulping consequently "I--I--I---fought with them---all the time---and t-t-t-they won't HAVE ANY GOOD MEMORIES OF ME WHEN THEY NOTICE I'M GONE AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Irene screamed her lungs out and broke down on her knees.

Youjo cried out as she could no longer hold back, while the remaining also did the same. On their knees, they mashed their foreheads on the cold cruel floor as they gave in to the probability that there was in fact someone out there to kill them---or at least something that was killing the rest.

"I'm Aelissa....." Aelissa, despite having tears constantly streaming down, spoke quite fluently "....I'm a believer of Allah...and...." She hesitated to speak but gained the strength to do so momentarily "...My family would kill me for this but... I wish... to change religions because.... I....... think that Christianity is a beautiful thing but.... nobody would ever approve of this ideology, especially my family---I think they would behead me..." Aelissa further spoke while crying more intensely now "...And I don't want that, but I... don't want to die because if I die now then I don't know where I'm going because I'm indecisive about my religion...!!!" Aelissa concluded as she bashed her head down in despair, causing the remaining girls to ponder about what comes after.

Youjo's turn came up. Now that the other three had spoken her true regrets, Youjo came to terms with herself.

"I'm Youjo...!! And my regret is that... well, knowing I'm going to die is..." She took a deep breath "I don't want to dieeeeeeeeeeee...!!!!" She unleashed a soft mellow cry enough to gain the tears of the other girls present "I'm not old enough to have big regrets...!!! I'm sixteen!!! Why do I have to die?! WHY?! HEY, I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME!!!" She spoke to the nothingness within the floor, hoping for some answers "IF YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ME, THEN COME HERE AND JUST DO IT! I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU!" Youjo spoke her inner thoughts out loud, hoping for someone to respond.

However, Youjo quickly lost hope in that once no response came forward.

"Alright, my turn." Daniel sat down in the circle.

Youjo, Claudia, Irene, and Aelissa, didn't notice him at first and so there was no initial reaction from them.

"My name is Daniel Lead." His empty hollow voice contrasted the energetic sadness from the four of them and slowly but surely, upon seeing the sheer amount of blood in his black t-shirt, did they notice that Daniel was the one that had killed the rest yet what really gave away was the medium-sized knife that he was holding with his right hand containing sparkles of blood dripping from its sharp edge "This is the one regret I have: I wish I could've known why my girlfriend killed herself." Daniel looked at the four girls respectively.

Now completely aware of Daniel, they each wanted to react, but Daniel first spoke before they could in regard to that.

"A single scream and whoever screams, dies." He said calmly.

Youjo managed to contain herself but only by tapping her mouth forcefully just so she couldn't unleash a scream. Irene couldn't control herself very well as she deliberately cried more, especially because she was not hoping for the real killer to show up "Oh God-----" Irene tapped her mouth immediately after saying that "Jesus Ch----" Claudia controlled herself midway through the same way as Youjo "AH---" Aelissa screamed but managed to control herself just in time before Daniel could change his mind.

"That's better, I like it that way." Daniel smiled at the four of them, innocently "This was not how it was supposed to go, but as I heard all of those regrets, I came to the conclusion that maybe at least one of you could make it." A glitter of hope was born "Irene. Claudia. Aelissa. Youjo." He spoke their names and looked at them respectively one at a time without any emotion "I've listed my regret publicly to all of you. It's a big thing to me and as such, you four are going to help me uncover the secret here. Therefore, we are going to play a little game. I like to call this game: "Sink or Swim". So, what do you say?" Daniel looked at them, as they grew terrified of Daniel.

No responses came forward as they started to avoid eye contact with him.

"Hey." Daniel spoke towards Youjo with his knife pointing at her right eye "Talk." He demanded Youjo to speak "....What... is the game about...?" Youjo tried extremely hard to compose herself towards the psychopath in front of her, which smiled right at her, also completely going as far as withdrawing the knife from her "I'm glad you asked!! It's a suicide game." This greatly alerted them to a disturbing degree as Daniel went as far as taking out two syringes from his belly belt, which contained additional firearms; immediately gaining an upper fear among them "Don't worry... These syringes are the only ones that matter, forget the rest. And, and these, of course..." Daniel took out two green-liquid flasks from the black bandage around his right leg's ankle.

Furthermore, Daniel used the syringes to extract the green liquid out of flasks, thus each syringe was full of the liquid. He put down the two syringes and spoke to the four of them collectively.

"I said that one of you could still make it and I wasn't joking about that." Daniel clarified "So here is how it goes. The one that is alive at the end of this will live." They began to become perplexed at Daniel's words "You won't kill each other, but instead, you will all combine your efforts to make someone kill themselves. Get it?" They finally realized the masterful purpose behind the syringes on the floor ".....Why...?" Aelissa asked Daniel with tears on her face while peeing herself "Because I want to find out what she went through before she killed herself. Empathize with me for a second here. I didn't see how it went down, so I have no way of understanding what went through her mind. Her thoughts; her despair, her anguish, her regrets, and more importantly... Why she did it." Daniel fluently spoke to Aelissa and the rest.

Less afraid now but still uncertain about the situation, Youjo spoke back to Daniel in a somewhat spiteful tone.

"So we are your lab rats for your experiment...?! That's...... fucked up, you know?!" Youjo spoke her mind despite the very fact that Daniel could kill her "Who cares? Anyway, get on with it. I'll be the arbiter here. Here are some ground rules that you girls will follow. Rule 1: Every thirty seconds, there has to be some visible effort from one of you to make someone here kill themselves. Of course, this can't include me, but only one of you. By visible effort, I mean, phrases that encourage suicide to the other party. Rule 2: If after thirty seconds, no effort is made, one of you will die." Their eyes shrunk in fear "Rule 3: Whoever wants to commit suicide must explicitly explain why and if their reasoning is acceptable, they will receive a syringe with which they must inject themselves. Rule 4: Whoever tries to harm another individual with the syringe or me, for that matter, will die." Daniel concluded.

Upon absorbing that information, they all looked at each other while Daniel remained still, playing with his knife.

"One---two---" Daniel began to count seconds without any mercy whatsoever.

Youjo decided to ask something to Daniel.

"This won't work....!!" This caught Daniel's attention "Seven ---eight---" Despite that, he kept counting "Your girlfriend killed herself out of her will, this is against our fucking will, therefore, not the same!!" Daniel stopped counting for a bit as he absorbed that information "----Nine----ten---" Yet Daniel opted to ignore her and simply continued to count.

She became frustrated at the fact that she couldn't reason with Daniel, but Daniel's count did not stop.

"Nineteen---twenty---twenty-one----" Daniel's count was progressing as he looked at every single one of them with hollow dark eyes "Hey, Irene..." Claudia spoke in Irene's direction, gaining her authentic anxiety as Daniel's count still went on "...What...?" Very stressed out, Irene could see in Claudia's eyes and in her extremely wicked smile as she spoke "...If your life's biggest regret is dying a virgin then..." Claudia gulped "...You should actually be the one who has to die, no?!" She lashed a scream out toward Irene causing Irene to react badly to this, however, Daniel's count stopped.

Irene got up along with Claudia and clashed in an emotional argument.

"Claudia, what the fuck is wrong with you?! How could you say that?! You're actually going to play this shit?!" Irene slapped Claudia across her face which made Daniel smile a bit "How fucking dare you slap me, bitch?!" Claudia grabbed Irene's hair and pushed it, causing Irene to scream in agony "AAAGGHHH!!" Youjo and Aelissa were stunned at what was happening "LET GO OF ME, BITCH!! YOU'RE FUCKING LESBIAN BUT I BET THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE YOU'RE UGLY AS FUCK AND NO MAN WOULD EVER FUCK YOU!!" Irene managed to grab Claudia's right wrist and twisted it so Claudia would let go "THE FUCK DID YOU SAY BITCH?! I'M PRETTIER THAN YOU!! LOOK AT YOUR ACNE, IT'S REPULSIVE!! WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TOOK A SHOWER, YOU FUCKING SMELL, BITCH!!" Claudia fought back as well.

As for Youjo and Aelissa, they were pondering what to do and whether or not, they should actually do something.

That was, until, Daniel got tired of their inactivity and pointed his knife toward Youjo and Aelissa as if to say "Partake or else".

By this point, it was clear that, even though they knew Daniel's game was immoral and wrong, they had to bet on his word and that, even if one of them wanted to save the others, the others would just take the opportunity.

Thus, Youjo decided to whisper something in Aelissa's ear.

"----What----But that's..." Aelissa was mildly disturbed by what Youjo had just suggested "Please forgive me, lord..." Aelissa performed a cross-forgiving signal on herself as she got up with Youjo---Daniel still on the ground.

Youjo first started, though slightly hesitant and anxious.

"...Hey, Daniel, would you fuck Irene?" Youjo started with that approach, and Irene began to immediately focus her attention on Daniel, despite the ridiculous nature of the question "No." Daniel gave the shortest yet quickest answer to that matter causing Irene to visibly cry at the sight of being sexually rejected by a present male "...Why not?" Aelissa further instigated "She's not Yulia, my previous girlfriend, so I don't feel attracted to her." Daniel gave the honest answer but Irene was disturbed by their approach "H-HEY, YOU TWO, WHAT THE FUCK?!" But this did not stop Youjo "Please, specify, objectively, from a sexual standpoint, why Irene isn't visibly acceptable by males in general from your perspective." Youjo demanded.

By exploring this "loophole" a strategy was born out of Youjo's mind, as it was an exception to the rules that Daniel had stated.

"H-Hey, don't.... Please, God... Don't you fucking dare...!! L-L-L-Look, I'll do anything you want...!!" Irene began to crawl on all fours like a kitten toward Daniel "Really? Alright, kill yourself then." Daniel coldly stated that "A-Aside from that...!!" Irene tried her absolute best and went as far as getting onto Daniel's lap, suggesting the obvious "You're under the impression you qualify despite what I just told you a while ago. I guess I'll tell you then." Daniel began to speak the truth from his perspective "To be sexually attractive enough for a male to want to conduct sexual activities with you, you need to at least have a charming smile, alongside stark white teeth. Your front teeth are barely white, not to mention, they are beginning to decay in quality." Irene started to shed tears as she got away from Daniel.

This, however, didn't stop Daniel.

"No one would fuck you because you display the desperate attitude of someone that wants to just be embraced for the sake of being embraced. It's a huge turn-off." Daniel continued "Shut up---SHUT UP---" Irene began to squeal in denial "As for your body, I do think you have chances, and by chances, I mean with fat creeps who don't want to die virgins, because you truly have no alluring assets. Your ass is flat, your boobs intertwine too much with your body fat and-------" Daniel was interrupted immediately "OKAY, STOP, I GET IT, SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!! GOD!!" Irene breaks down and Daniel stops talking as he believes he has fulfilled enough information for the contribution.

Irene started to cry and scratch her face cheeks with gigantic nails, causing her to bleed a little.

"You're all shit beings, you do realize that, right...?!" Irene talked to Daniel, Youjo, Aelissa, and Claudia, but they didn't reply to this and instead acknowledged this in their own ways "Hahaha... This has to be a joke. Fuck it, why not? If there is a hell, then I'm sure I'm gonna lose my virginity there so, alright!!" Aelissa, who is religious about that subject, threw up "BLEGH!!" Irene went toward Daniel and extended her hand to which Daniel extended the syringe "First, sit, and explain why." Daniel demanded.

Irene sat down and explained to Daniel her reasoning while injecting herself with the venom.

"My life has no meaning and my ex-boyfriend cheated on me---never taking my virginity but taking another's. Forget it, you wouldn't get it---no one would." Irene said, with sadness, as the venom made her skin turn purple in less than ten seconds; causing her to choke as she died with tears on her face.

As Irene died, Daniel retrieved the syringe from her neck, while Youjo, Claudia, and Aelissa showed visible distress and horror as they realized that they were now responsible for someone's death. Irene's suicide, though manufactured, was not the ultimate product of someone else. Irene, herself, delivered the final blow.

Of course, there were complaints about this, and so, the first one to step up toward Daniel was Aelissa.

"Please let me kill myself." Aelissa sat down in front of Daniel, while crying uncontrollably "State your reasoning, Aelissa." Daniel held the syringe but did not give it to her as he wanted to hear her reasoning first "I've influenced another life to terminate out of fear of my own---I don't deserve to be loved by God and I deserve hell, for I have sinned. That is all..." Her voice emitted sincere regret and honest grief from the staggering pain consuming her as the ragged breath kicked in "Fair." Daniel handed the syringe to her "I'll see you soon." She said to Daniel as her entire body veins began to burst as soon as the venom was inserted "...." Daniel took out the syringe, got up, and then looked towards the other two.

He thought deeply about this and whether or not this was what he wanted. In the end, after thorough consideration, Daniel took out one of his mini-guns and put a hole in Claudia's brain.

"OH MY GOD------" Youjo, shocked and surprised, couldn't hold herself back in this regard and peed herself straight up while falling on the floor with her two knees; her red stockings were completely soaked now.

Daniel retrieved his mini-gun and then looked toward Youjo who had never felt so much fear as now.

"Let's take a walk." He said as he used both computers to access the necessary requirements for the lift to take them down "W-Wait... I'm spared, right...?!" Youjo asked, with a grim twisted smile to which Daniel simply smiled "Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....!!!!" Youjo despaired and couldn't control her laughter.

They both took the lift and began to further descent down into the lower levels of the lighthouse. The light was starting to fade yet there was sufficient light for them to walk into.

"I mean, just kill me, I'm not going to kill myself, I fucking hate you." Youjo began to be clearly uncaring about her own life as she knew that she was in fact going to die.

Daniel had already made that itself pretty clear. Youjo simply didn't knew what was on Daniel's mind and why he was holding back onto the thought of killing her.

"Why won't he just kill me? I am going to die by his hands, there's no way I'm letting this psychopath convince me that killing myself is the answer. I won't be manipulated..." Youjo thought to herself as they rode the lift onto abysmal ends.

By now, they had undergone the four remaining sections of the part beneath the lighthouse; Subterra, Penumbra, Abyssus, and Nihil. Through Nihil, Youjo began to witness that the light was no longer fading but instead, gaining more power, which is contradictory. Now that she looked at the very top, it looked completely invisible, only covered with shrouded darkness.

Daniel decided to speak now that they were about to reach their destination.

"Huh... What was his name again..." Daniel was having a hard time remembering some sort of name as Youjo caught a moment of weakness by Daniel.

He scratched the top of his spiky black hair, mainly his left upper horn-like hair strand.

"Oh yeah, I remember now. He was a funny one. A bit extra to my taste though." Daniel spoke to Youjo.

The word "extra" immediately gave Youjo the idea of who he was talking about. She instantly saw what Daniel was referring to, but in her mind, she found that impossible because there was no way that Daniel could've been at so many places at once.

To further add insult, Daniel began to speak to Youjo, but with lips alone, spelling out the individual's name.

"..........." Youjo's eyes widened in rage and she started to cry with an overwhelming fury clouding her face "Oh, so you do know him." Daniel concluded with a wicked grin "BASTARD!!! HE WAS INNOCENT, OKAY?! I DESERVE TO DIE, SO HURRY UP AND PUT A BULLET INTO MY HEAD!! I CONTRIBUTED TO SOMEONE'S DEATH, SO HURRY UP!!" Youjo burst out with rage and attempted to get Daniel to kill her.

Being too obvious of an answer still, Daniel gave her the truth in another way.

"You will kill yourself, Youjo." Daniel declared "You retarded psychopath, I really won't. I'm not even afraid of you anymore. Once the initial horror is gone there's really nothing left. Plus, I know for a fucking fact that I will die. Do you want to know why I'm so certain? Come on, I bet you do. Say it." She urged Daniel to say it "Now, why would that be?" Daniel didn't mind to humor her a bit "Because you've killed so much in your life that my life is just a number to you. Putting a bullet in my head or slicing my throat is the equivalent of breathing air for you, FUCKING SICKO!! HAHAHA!!" Like a mad woman, she laughed while drowning in her tears "Well... You make a point. Now, let's continue, shall we?" The lift had finally reached its destination.

Engulfed in complete artificial light, there was only a path forward; a tunnel of completely hardened transparent glass emitting blue radiation led a path that had a bright light as its end goal. As Daniel and Youjo walked forward into what seemed to be an endless path of light that stretched to the infinity, Daniel spoke, as Youjo was dumbfounded at the sheer ridiculousness of the environment that she was in.

"Our leader is something else, damn... I'm still a very new member and I'm glad I was able to join the cause." Youjo, unable to understand, simply listened to Daniel's ramblings as she accepted that if he was telling her what is supposed to be classified information, she is beyond dead "Our school is actually the property of the leader! I was shocked when I heard this, but it turns out that there's a lot more to that school than I thought. Our project, to which I only know so little---and by little I mean like, comparing an ocean droplet to the Pacific ocean, type of little." Daniel explained as they started to enter a new section.

Unlike the tunnel, this platform functioned on automatic doors that would recognize only the ones who were forward. If the system knew who you are by default, it would let you in, if not, you wouldn't get in. There were two doors, one to the left and to the right, but Daniel guided Youjo to the front door where they continued.

"By the way---what you said earlier. How it wouldn't work. Care to elaborate?" Daniel forced Youjo to speak to which she showed no hesitation "Your suicide strategy was dumb because if your goal was to figure out what your girlfriend felt when she committed suicide then... You should've specifically targeted girls with boyfriends and then forced them to kill themselves. Too bad for you, fucking psycho, I'm beyond positive that you failed in your selection because they all seemed single as hell. Otherwise, they wouldn't have agreed to it." Youjo gladly elaborated as she put immense rage in her words but this only made Daniel ponder her reasoning and accept it in a way.

He placed his right hand on his chin and closed his eyes while putting on a beautiful serene expression---which creeped Youjo out, as she was under the impression that such a remorseless individual should not be allowed under the human physical boundaries---to be able to uphold such an expression.

"I see. No, you're right. See, you have a point, Youjo." Daniel went out of his way to show some gratitude "Don't fucking thank me, what the fuck... I'm gonna actually puke, oh God..." Youjo had to put her hand on her mouth as they kept on walking "All this time, I didn't realize that the selection mattered. So, the individual must be someone that is a girl and has a boyfriend. Not only that, but she must love him deeply." As Youjo saw Daniel deeply ponder his strategy, she was further creeped out and lost all hope.

Ultimately, after walking for a bit, they arrived at a certain room. This room of a width of twenty meters and a height of fifteen meters---the room being square shaped. On the right side, a variety of computers of highly advanced technology lay within. Meanwhile, on the left side, there were multiple rows containing substances evenly spread within each section contained under specified rows. The contents of what they do and what they are for, are unknown.

As Youjo became stunned at this and what exactly her existence meant, she was a bit preoccupied once Daniel started to strip his shirt.

"Oh. Really? Yeah, if you're gonna rape me, you better bet I'll kill m---" Daniel interrupted her "Relax, I won't." Daniel placed his shirt, with his upper body now completely exposed, onto the pedestal in the very center of the room "......" Youjo observed, curious yet altered at what Daniel's true objective really is.

The t-shirt that was sucked by the pedestal was immediately put to use as multiple results began to show up on the computer screens to the right.

"Extraction---complete. Results---analyzed." A robotic voice alerted Daniel as he began to type a few words onto the computer.

"Hey..." Youjo, in disbelief, no longer shackled by her constant paranoia, was now consumed by a never-ending thirst towards what Daniel was showing "Why are they showing up?! WHY?!" Youjo demanded to know why very familiar names were showing up on the screen, more importantly, a specific name "ROKORO'S NAME IS THERE, WHY?! ANSWER ME!!" No longer knowing where she stands, Youjo lost her composure, and in sequence, Daniel took hold of her mouth cheeks with minimal force, just so she wouldn't interrupt his upcoming speech.

He placed Youjo right in the middle of the pedestal in a sexually suggestive position and then spoke, despite the overpowering grip on her face.

"I bet you got a load of questions, so here is the truth. That pedestal just collected all the blood in my t-shirt and alongside it, the DNA of those whose blood was in it. And as you can see..." Daniel focused her face on the computers and the names, alongside their pictures "Their entire blood samples are all available to me. What exactly does this mean, you might ask?" Daniel closed in on Youjo, completely coming face to face with her "I've only grasped the very tip of the iceberg here, but as you might have noticed... this island is absurdly advanced compared to any other place you have ever visited before, or even heard of. This is the type of shit that's all over sci-fi movies. However, there is a concept that makes it all seem like a joke." Daniel smiled.

From the top of his head, Daniel attempted to explain the best he could, in spite of what little knowledge he had on the matter.

"Anti-Death Equation---ever heard of it?" Daniel released the grip from Youjo's mouth as he glared at her with cold dark blue eyes "...N-No..." She didn't deny it "That's right. Death + Life + Wish + Mind-Body Dualism + Ego + Id + Soul ÷ Emotion ÷ Self-Condemnation ÷ Free Will ÷ Hyper-Sanity x Fear x Failure x Grief x Loss x Apathy Y= N N =X N= Death X = Life Love= Comfort Life = Lie Self = Alma." Daniel spoke those words without a single stop in his train of vocal motion; leaving Youjo with the utmost confusion.

Daniel then proceeded to walk in circles with Youjo in the middle.

"You don't get it. But, I'm the same. The actual equation is supposedly a property of Saturn. Though, what does this mean exactly? And well, what does any of this have to do with you, I bet you're asking." Daniel got to the point and in order to advance to his upcoming point, he took out a specific flask out of the row of flasks from the left side of the room.

That tiny flask contained a glowing orange liquid with an incredibly shining gradient.

"What... is that...?!" Youjo, now somewhat scared, asked Daniel, as she feared his plan "Be not afraid. I won't hurt you. After all, I have a brilliant proposal for you." Daniel sat on the border of the computers "No... Stop it... I know what you're going to say, don't...!!!!" In denial, Youjo begged Daniel not to say it, but Daniel simply grinned "It's not exactly revival, but it requires equivalence. It's possible to create atoms and subatomic particles in their respective body with great ease here. Furthermore, some of the machines here are able to associate the Id with just a sample of DNA. How? I have no idea. But, it is possible. However, I need specific atoms to recreate such atoms. See, they have to be from the same field... In other words..." Daniel pointed the syringe's end toward Youjo like a pointing finger "You." He concluded.

She knew exactly what Daniel was getting at and she in addition knew that Daniel somehow knew about her feelings toward Rokoro. It left Youjo frustrated how much she was dancing on Daniel's palm all along, but even so, she took into deep consideration what this could imply and so...

She took the bait.

"Be more specific about this..."

Upon hearing that, Daniel took an incredibly more serious approach toward the matter at hand.

"The Anti-Death equation, as explained, is actually the combination of all the elements I previously said. But more importantly, the necessary elements that you can provide are: Death + Life. Of course, you can also provide the other components but what I'm saying is that it's not necessary. However, I lied just now." Youjo became perplexed "Huh?!" Daniel decided to illuminate the matter more clearly "It's not a flawed product by any means but when it comes to killing you off, you need to have a sole desire in your soul. For example, if your wish deep down is "I just want Rokoro back" then he will be brought back, however, that's about it." Youjo got up and got mad as well "Explain, stop being vague! What do you mean "that's about it"?!" She demanded Daniel to explain the answer "Sit." Daniel ordered Youjo to sit back.

Which she did, then Daniel brought forth a technological panel with a simple hand gesture. That panel represented the entire Anti-Death Equation.

"The primary components that are known as Death and Life refer to two phases. First, blood from the live body needs to be extracted. Then, the dead body's blood has to be extracted as well. However, the third component is "Wish", which means that as long as there is a wish within your "Soul", which is also a component for the equation." He explained "I get it now... I need to have a precise wish in order for it to become true?" She asked "It's... easier said than done. A wish is not enough, it has to be an iron-clad wish. The type of wish you'd die with. What your "Id" and "Ego" will be able to transition into your "Soul". Get it?" Daniel made sure she got it, though he wouldn't mind expressing himself more "...Yeah, I got it..." Youjo closed her eyes and said something in addition to Daniel "That explains why you haven't killed me. Because, if you apply someone's blood to the equation, then it won't "totally" bring someone back." Youjo spoke her mind.

And then, Youjo realized something. And the moment she did, she looked at Daniel's serious eyes and for that reason alone, she did not dare to speak her mind.

"....." Youjo felt slightly shackled "Wish for it. Imagine this: you're going to die, but your consciousness will not. What embodies your consciousness will become the transition." Daniel laid out the basics.

All that was left was for Youjo to finalize the plan, which Daniel would now explain.

"Kill yourself knowing that you will be a substance that is part of the equation." Daniel coldly said as he went to take possession of a venom flask from within the rows on the left "...What are you going to do if I don't obey...?" Curious, she decided to taste the waters "There are others who can undergo the same treatment. You will die either by your hand or by mine." Daniel administered the truth without hiding it from Youjo "I see. Give me the syringe then, I'll kill myself." Youjo accepted the task.

Daniel then proceeded to give her the syringe.

Youjo pretended to wish for what Daniel had suggested before injecting herself with the venom.

"Hey." She spoke in Daniel's direction "I knew it. I knew it all along. You're not going to use it on Rokuro..." The syringe ran deep as her skin turned green, her forehead's veins exposed "Your intention is so fucking obvious... Fuck you, you get what you deserve.........!!" With spite, Youjo passed away and just about anyone would realize that she did not obey Daniel's suggestion.

However, Daniel did not react to this and instead went right to the computers. In one of them, Daniel pressed a green button that invoked a capsule from the underground. That capsule would serve its purpose the moment Daniel took hold of Youjo's body and placed it there---as the capsule itself is fit for human bodies only. Naturally, it encompasses a horizontal length of three meters.

Once the body was placed inside, Daniel automatically closed the capsule as he pressed a few buttons which initiated the process of firstly absorbing all of the blood from Youjo's body. Now completely dry of her blood, Youjo's skin was the only thing covering her body as it decayed.

Daniel went back to the computers and inserted the equation formula under new data; once done applied it to the capsule. Over a few minutes later, the body would completely decompose and turn into various liquids which would all be separated into different cables connected to the left side of the room in which the Anti-Death equation's elements would reside.

"........." Daniel took short notice of just how much each element was filled and though they were all filled, minimally, some were---lacking---to say the least.

Combining every element's substance, despite how minimal, Daniel, with a cup, mixed them all together, thus forming what he would call an "Anti-Death Equation". Then, with that liquid, he put it in a small flask.

He shook it and reviewed it.

"It's too little and lacks an overall balance between the elements so..." He stuffed the flask onto his central belt as he put his t-shirt back on "Still, it's a good thing that she actually injected herself with the syringe. It wasn't necessarily venom, I just added venom to it. The actual substance, well, it's something that she would never know..." He left the central room after taking possession of the switch from the capsule---what was previously the remainder of Youjo's body.

He looked at the bright ceiling above, full of light yet with a small dark hole at its end. Forward now, Daniel moved toward the seventh section where a new challenge lies within.

"But man, I'm lucky she actually believed that. The "Wish" element was a complete lie. No way something so illogical could be included in the equation. Still..." Daniel thought deeply about this "I need to gather more female substances like her; ones with the deep resonance of such elements. If I were to find one that would flourish with the elements then..." Daniel smiled as he entered the tunnel with the lift in sight "Then I guess you wouldn't have to wait long."