Having exhausted all other options, Nerys prepared herself for a rather over-athletic feat. Bracing herself, she leaned up against the side rails of the staircase and rode up them with as much speed as she could muster.

"You're gonna fall, you know." Energy sighed dejectedly.

"Shaddup, Oi'munna need ya' help 'ere!" She shouted, jumping off the rail once she felt it was about to break.

Perfectly timed, she leapt off at the exact moment the rails gave in and fell down into the pit of death below. From this distance, even despite her efforts, she wouldn't have reached the second floor.

"What do you mean help?!" He screamed, "I don't have a body, genius!"

"An' ye' dun' need wun!"

Tossing the tote over herself, it allowed her just enough of an extension to her distance to cling onto the handrail above. The tote bag was now upside down, so Energy quickly fell out. Thankfully, Nerys was there to catch him.

"Oop! Gotcha, man. Dun' piss ye' britches."

"Phew..." He breathed a sigh of relief, "To think that ugly bag would actually come in handy."

"Oi' kno', roight?" She giggled, lifting them up and onto the second story, "Lassie really outdid 'erself, as ogly as 'er cloths be."

Having temporarily changed their target of dissing to Migu, the bad blood between them only dissipated more as they made their way down the hallway. They were finally out of the main foyer, but the traps were not over yet. They still had to actually make it to the weapons shed and take the stuff out. Something Vastoria and the others easily accomplished prior to this thanks to her wings.

"We should have just taken Sheep with us..." Energy grunted, "What was my descendant thinking, sending him away?"

"She wos' probly worri'd 'bout the Gods n' allat." Nerys reasoned, "Ye' said before that Elegy shudn' meet wid 'em?"

"Oh right, I never got to tell you what all happened on our side." He recalled, "A lot of revelations about the Gods, but for now they've temporarily been turned into regular humans. Physically, they are even more powerless and dainty than we are."

"Seems loike ye' shud've told us dat soonah..." She said, Eyes wide open.

"Yeah well, you all insisted on us getting the weapons first, so." He shot back, "Sheep's carrying Vastoria's body, as well as the two of them inside his winged embrace. Since they're humans, they fell unconscious from the high speeds of his flight, and we're using that time to warn you guys."

"Warn us... Ye' said dat before." She inquired, "Bout wot?"

"The Gods don't wanna tell us the plan to save Vastoria." He explained, "They're drip feeding at best, and we have issues with that way of doing things."

Of course, not every partnership is expected to be transparent, but neither is it expected to work fully opaque either. All the Gods had to do was explain the method from start to finish and ask if these three wished to go through with such a plan, but instead they directly admitted that doing so would "ensure they won't do it".

"It's trickery at best and surefire death at worst." He scowled just thinking about it, "Their next step is to get in contact with Elegy. We don't know what he's required for, but we don't want to find out. Once we've warned everyone to hide away as best as they can, we'll return to the Gods and try to lure them astray until we think of something to do."

"Then just 'ave us leave tha' districc." She suggested.

"No, we need to respect that rule." He declined.

"Whoi shud' we?"

"Because they'll kill us if we don't."

No matter how unfair it seems, they are bound by the verbal agreement they made with the Gods to not leave the district anymore. Of course, trusting your enemies isn't encouraged, but a contract is a contract regardless of whom it's made with. It'll make things more difficult, but so long as they uphold their end of the deal, everyone will remain safe from the Gods' schemes. At the very least, it's a chip less the Gods would be able to use against them at a later time...

"Hmm..." He got lost in his thoughts for a moment.

"Wot's tha' mattah, man?"

"There's something else I'm forgetting, but I can't quite put my finger on it." He muttered, "If I recall correctly, it's pretty important."

"Well den' try 'n remembah." She helped him out, "We last tolk'd 'bout tha' Gods, they be humans nau, ye' warned me 'bout Elegy..."

"No no, retracing our steps won't work... Actually!" He recalled, "That's it, now I remember!"

Bonk. A nailed bat swung down from the ceiling on a rope, hitting Nerys square in the face. Thankfully, her body was now all White, so she didn't sustain any injuries. She wasn't too thrilled about that, however.

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"I wanted to tell you to duck soon..." He winced.

"Thank ye' fer' tha' warnin', man..." She checked for blood out of habit, "Phew, we got locky, so's'not that bad, bot ye' need ta' be more focus'd."

"Right, sorry." He agreed, muttering softly, "Duck again, by the way. That isn't the only one."

"Yoikes!"

In the nick of time, or perhaps a tad late, but she managed to dodge the second swing of the nailed bat. After that came an entire onslaught of deadly traps, each worse than the last. Of course, they would have been long dead if they had any gold on them, but it seems falling through Heaven 2.0 had its perks after all. Before long, they had reached the fabled weapons locker.

"Dun' tell me tha' doorr's boobi'd?" She turned to smirk at him, "Oi'm serious, dun' tell me that."

"It's not-" He said as she swung the door open, a large crossbow bolt hitting her straight in the chest and sending her flying back into the wall behind them, "...but the actual room is another thing."

"Thassit." She settled, "Ye' goin' out da' windoe fer' shore nau."

"That's fair."

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Now that they were inside the locker room, half of their mission was complete. All they had to do was take as many items as they could and leave the house to reconvene with the others. Easier said than done though, because the amount they could carry was very miniscule in comparison with what was presented before them.

"Booty!" Nerys' Eyes glimmered with stars in them, "Treasure! Werth its weit' in gold!"

"And yet you still vehemently deny being a pirate..." He sighed.

"Sea. Ferrah."

"Whatever the case may be, I don't think we'll be able to carry as much as we had expected." Energy continued, "Even if we use the tote effectively, all of these weapons are just way too large for you alone to carry."

"Hau moch we need?" She counted with her fingers, "Laddie, lassie, matey, boye... Thass foive."

"You're that bad at math?"

"Huh?" She scowled at him, "Oi' be tha' fifth, moron."

"Oh, right." He felt embarrassed over the blunder, "But we should still grab two weapons for everyone."

"Two be a crowd, man."

"It's always easier to switch to your secondary." He remarked.

"Whoi'd ye' need a secondary if tha' primary's got infinite use?"

"I... don't know."

He was completely making a fool of himself in front of her. Despite all these weapons being part of his arsenal, he was left at a loss as to what to do. That's of course when the idea struck him.

"Hey, let's just go to the bedroom real quick and snag a bedsheet." He explained, "Use it to tie everything up and it'll be easier to transport."

"Izzit fahr?"

"Just two rooms down the hall." He reasoned, "B-But there's really not that many traps, I promise-"

"Nah, Oi' gotta betta' oidea." She shook her head, haphazardly grabbing as many blades as she could carry, "Man, ye' rememba' Oi' told ya' ye'll be floyin' out da' windoe soon?"

"Where's this going...?" He gulped as she booked it out of the weapons locker.

Instead of going down the dangerous hallway any further, she instead used Energy's squishy yet indestructible brain to break away the glass of the window across the door. Peering over and below, she saw the huge drop they'd have to endure, and Energy was not having it.

"Nuh uh! Are you crazy!?" He yelled at her, "You're not gonna free up much space by tossing me out!"

"Immuna' dewit."

"Do it later?!" He yelped as she chucked him full force, "Baaaaahhh~!"

She wasn't done with her plan, however. The next step was to empty out the contents of the tote out of the window as well. A bunch of swords, throwing knives, machetes, nailed bats, batons and the like all fell the entire 10+ meters until they landed on the cloudy surface below, right on top of Energy mind you.

"Nau!" She dusted her hands off before returning to the weapons locker, "Next batch!"

And so, she kept going back and forth, stocking up on as many items as she could carry before hoisting them out of the window for the others to pick up. It took her 7 round trips, but she eventually emptied out the entire locker room, leaving not even an arrow feather behind. Once that was done, she prepared herself before making a swan dive right out of the window as well.

"Aye! This be a doive'!" She yelled, her grin going from ear to ear, "Woo-!"

A perfect landing, with no splashback whatsoever. Truly a work of art, or at least it would be if it was on water. Alas, metallic sharp objects don't equate to such a liquid, so she ended up busting her body up badly as she hit the pile of weapons she extracted.

"Thankferly Oi'm not golden..." She said in a daze, "Hrmph! Ye' in der', man?"

"Mph...!" Energy shouted desperately from beneath the pile, "...e out!"

"Oi' gotcha, Oi' gotcha..." She put her hand inside, wiggling it about for a bit before yanking him out, "Er' ya' go, bee'nt Oi' a smartie?"

"You be a wild idiot, that's what you be!" He clapped back lividly, "I swear, that was enough to make me start beef with you all over again, you crazed seafarer!"

"Fer' da' last toime, it's poirrate!" She bit her tongue, "Oh wait, Oi' gottem mix'd op..."

Their incessant shouting attracted the others to come to them, their pleasant smiles showing on their faces as they saw the fruits of these two's labor.

"Nerys, Energy!" Migu ran up to them, "You got this much stuff all by yourselves!?"

"Ehe~, jus' a bitta' loight werk." Nerys blushed smugly.

"Incredible..." Hats stood there, mouth agape as he curiously picked up a mace.

"I call dibs on the crossbow!" Sab immediately shouted.

"You even know how to use that thing?" Elegy rolled his Eyes, only taking a whetstone to sharpen his serrated blade, "It's nothing like a gun, you know."

"Same diff." He pouted.

"Maybe, up until you actually have to reload for another shot..." Elegy sighed before turning to these two, "Energy, Nerys, you guys did an incredible job. I see I was worried for nothing about you two taking so long in there."

"I told you they were kissing." Sab tacked on.

"Ew, how does kissing a brain even work...?" Hats grimaced.

As they picked out their weapons and equipment with great joy, Energy and Nerys could only look on in disbelief and bewilderment. Just what kind of nonsense did they think these two were getting up to? If only they knew just what was keeping them from getting this over with sooner...

"Ignore them." Migu approached the stunned duo, with Nerys handing over the tote with Energy inside back, "Oh, thanks. But really, this is too much stuff even for all of us to carry. You two make way too good of a team!"

"Ah." They both uttered.

If only she knew...