Silva, Emely, and Remiel stood still in the elevator, waiting for it to reach the top. Silva couldn't stop thinking about what happened between Sepide and Remiel. It was as if Sepide suddenly hated the robot. After hesitating for a few seconds, Silva finally asked,

"Did something happen? Sepide looked mad at you."

"Do not fret, we established a friendly rivalry."

Remiel gave a smile to Silva and Emely to reassure them, but both were curious to know what happened with the leader.

The elevator reached the top, opening its door to a kind of office. Someone was sitting behind one of the desks, Emely immediately recognized the man and took her firearm in hand this time.

"Overseer! Free Neige right away!"

The man raised his hands in the hair, surprised to see them.

"What? How did you disable the security?"

"It doesn't matter, free him now!"

The man was about to take the remote from the table, but Silva shot his hand to prevent him from using it.

"Why did you do that? Are you crazy?"

Emely pointed her weapon at the man, terrifying him even further.

"Don't kill me! I-I'll free your friend and the others! I promise!"

The man walked toward another room, followed by the group. Once he made it there, he pressed a button. They weren't sure if it worked but quickly received a message from the leader.

*Can you hear me? Neige is okay now! We'll return to the ship at once, we'll explain everything there.*

Now that they were sure that Neige was safe, they were confronted with a choice. The man was standing there, pathetically putting his shaking hands in the air.

"Silva... What should we do? We could just go but... It doesn't feel right."

Silva thought about all the consequences of their actions. If they interfered, maybe the world could be prey to chaos. But if they didn't, they would let the inhabitants of this world prisoners of their fate. After making a decision, she walked toward the man with her firearm in hand, being as intimidating as she could be.

"You're going to stop being a tyrant, you'll stop controlling people just for what you think is right."

"Because you think you're different!?" Argued the man "You're doing the same thing as me! You're forcing everyone to follow your ideals!"

"It's true, but I do it because I believe it to be the right thing, not for personal gain. I don't want anyone to live a life they were forced to. Even if they end up hurt, their happiness will be real. I'll come back in a year, if nothing changes, there will be consequences."

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"I promise! Just don't kill me!"

Silva went back to Emely and Remiel. Emely took Silva in her arms as tightly as she could.

"Now we'll back to the ship and rest, you deserve it."

Silva nodded her head with a smile, and together, they left back to the ship.

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Everyone was safely back on the ship, taking a well-deserved break at the cafeteria. Once the silence arrived, the leader explained what happened.

"The anomaly tried to kidnap Neige again, she really won't give up. I managed to make her go away, but we'll need to be careful."

"I'll deal with her later." Said Neige "I think I have an idea to make her stop, I just need to study more about a few things first."

"Studying for a woman, how cute." Silva rubbed the top of Neige's head in a joking tone until he moved her arm away from him.

"If we can avoid confrontation, then I will. But this world... I had no idea it was like that beneath its peaceful appearance."

"Yeah, apparently we even helped this jackass a year ago."

"Because that's how this world was supposed to be." Explained the leader "But it's not important, are you alright Neige?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. It was a weird experience, it was like a voice in my head convinced me to just give up. I truly felt happy when I was in this kind of trance, but now that I'm out of it, I never want to feel that again."

"We'll make sure you don't end up in a bad situation again Neige. But next time, don't go alone. That's the reason I put this rule of three members at a time, you're exposing yourself to danger by going alone."

"To be honest, I thought it would be a peaceful world, not a world where a dictator tried to silence me."

"I'm sorry... I thought it would be a tranquil place." Apologized Silva "But what happened with you leader? Gwyn said you were in danger."

"Oh, right. I'm not sure it's worth mentioning. We just needed something from a world and it didn't go as planned."

"But I'm the one that saved her!" Sepide said with vigor as she stood up from her chair and raised her hand "Remiel wasn't able to!"

"That is right. Sepide was the one that retrieved the leader."

Sepide seemed annoyed by Remiel's humility and sat back with a grumpy face. Emely noticed it and confronted her about it.

"Are you mad against Remiel? Maybe I could fix it if she harmed you."

"No, she didn't, she's just a pretentious trash can that thinks she can do everything."

Silva chuckled in amusement at Sepide's words and leaned toward Remiel with excitation.

"She insulted you! What will you answer?"

"It is not an insult, only a friendly banter between friends."

Silva's excitation disappeared from her face as she turned back toward Emely.

"You should teach her how to defend herself, it's not funny if it's only one way."

"Can you imagine if they actually argued? We would be here all night." Emely looked at Remiel's joyous face, a bit worried for her.

"But then it would be like us at the time, isn't it cute?"

Emely smiled softly at Silva's words, reminiscing about the past.

"It's true, it's such pleasant memories..."

"Pleasant memories?" Asked Neige "She called you a 'bitch that should remove the lightbulb in her ass instead of creating useless stuff'."

"Yes... It was cute."

Neige stared at the blushing Emely and let out a desperate sigh.

"You're hopeless..." Ignoring the lovebirds, he turned toward the leader with a serious gaze "Please Polyetta, you have to tell us what happened."

"I can try... I'll explain what we did today while you were in that world. You were gone early in the morning, Sepide and Remiel were on the ship, and I needed to get something from another world. They were the only ones available so I took them with me."

"What did you need?" Neige asked with curiosity.

"It's a novel I've heard about, it's quite popular in many worlds. It's called the bible or something. Anyway, Sepide seemed bored and Remiel was wandering in the hallway. I thought it would be a nice and peaceful world but something strange happened. The watches weren't working properly and we were all separated."

"It's strange, it happened to us before too. We think that Silv has a way to mess with them."

"I don't think it was the case here but I'll explain later why I believe that. Silv wasn't even in this world, or at least not directly. So we grouped and decided to jump into the world 14161928."