The group returned to the restaurant in ruin where they last saw the adults. Everyone was still there but seemed more than annoyed to see the three friends again. The man who served as leader approached them with a bat in his hand, but this wasn't enough to impress the trio.

"Why are you back? I thought it was clear we didn't want you around."

Silva stepped forward, ready to answer.

"The kids told us you had the computer."

"And you believe them? Those demons never tell the truth."

"I believe them." Silva confidently spoke while crossing her arms "I think we could bring peace somehow, you'd just need to talk together."

"Bring peace? You're like those kids, thinking that everything can be solved."

"I've fixed way harder than this, if you can't negotiate with children, it's probably that you're not trying hard enough."

The man was about to argue back but a loud sound interrupted him. The three friends hurried outside to see what was happening, the leader of the adults followed them only to see a tank approaching. Once it got close enough, the little girl that the group saw earlier came out of the tank and looked at them with an annoyed expression on her face.

"You three? What are you doing here?"

Before they could answer, the man stepped forward and aimed at the girl with his firearm.

"Agniya! Go away or I'll shoot!"

"Not this time Dad, I decided to 'be an adult and talk' like the girl said."

"Be an adult and talk? Because you think we'll accept to talk with you!?"

The girl let out a sigh and looked at Silva with disappointment.

"I tried, better luck next time. Now it's time to ruin everything!"

The girl returned to the tank and aimed at the group. They barely had time to run away when the machine shot a splash of paint at them. Aside from the leader of the adults, everyone was surprised by the innocence of the attack. The man took his firearm and shot at the tank, and while this was mostly ineffective, Silva was surprised to see that they used actual weapons against children playing with paint.

"You could kill them with that!"

"That's the goal, we can't let those brats run amok in the city! I'll go get the other, just don't bother us or you're next."

The man returned inside the restaurant while the group faced the girl and tank. A bunch of children were waiting behind the machine, probably to prepare for an attack. Silva turned toward Neige, trying her best to clean the paint off herself.

"Neige, what color is the paint?"

"Is it really the moment? It's blue if you have to know."

"I hate blue, they ruined Emely's jacket!"

"It's fine, she'll clean it. But do they intend to kill the adults? It's not with paint that they'll do that."

Silva paused for a moment, thinking about something.

"Weak adults give up for the smallest of reasons, just being away from their comfy life must already be too much for them."

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While Silva was talking to her friends, another splash of paint arrived on them, clearly annoying the blind girl.

"Okay, now I'm mad."

"You don't sound threatening when you're mad." Noticed Sepide.

"I'll deal with those children, try to convince the adults."

"We'll take care of them."

Neige and Sepide trusted Silva to take care of the kids. She slowly walked toward them and faced the tank head-on until the girl came out of it.

"Why are you not scared? Adults run away usually..."

"I'm not an adult but it doesn't mean I'm immature."

"In... Mature? What is that?"

"It's when you're not taking things seriously. Those adults aren't mature either, in fact, you're all dumbasses here."

"I-I'm not a dumbass... What would you do if you were me, miss imalwaysright?"

"I would run away from my problems and act like a child only to regret it years later. I don't want you to make the same mistake as me."

The children along with the little girl all approached Silva with curiosity.

"What did you do? You talked back to your parents and now you feel bad?"

"No, I killed them. I never once tried to find another solution and took the easy way out. I know it's not easy to stand up to authority, especially when you have nowhere to go, but now you live away from them. Don't you want to be better adults than they were?"

"Why should we? They don't deserve it."

"I'm not asking you to do it for them, I want you to do it for you... I remember a few years ago, I really tried hard to be mature, unlike my parents. My friend saw that and told me I should be an adult when I need to, but should be a kid when I can."

"I... Don't understand..." The girl said, a bit confused.

"You'll understand with time, you have to be adults for yourselves now, and better than your parents were. You have each other now, you found a new family."

Silva and the kids turned around when they noticed everyone else coming. Neige was holding a bag with a bunch of firearms while the adults looked ashamed of themselves.

"I disarmed them, is everything alright for you?"

Silva was about to answer Neige's question but was surprised when she heard the little girl talking instead.

"Yes, we'll leave. Adults are no fun to mess with, you can have fun having adult stuff, we won't bother you."

"And you think we'll accept it!?" Yelled the leader of the adults "You went too far, you don't deserve to live!"

The man looked around and took Silva's firearm on her belt. He pressed the trigger on the little girl but went pale when nothing came out of the gun. Silva took back her weapon violently, scaring the man.

"Emely made it for me, you can't use it."

"We should leave now." Said the little girl after seeing the scene "What's your name red hair girl?"

"Me? I'm Silva."

"Silva... It sounds like our leader's. Thanks, Silva, we'll try this 'adult' thing. We'll make you proud."

The girl and her group left everyone, not even taking the tank with them. Once they were away, Neige turned toward his friend with concern.

"Adult thing? What did you teach them?"

"I swear it's not perverse! It's really about being an adult. I just told them what I wanted young me to hear..."

Neige smiled at Silva while Sepide looked at them a bit confused.

"It's weird when Silva is serious, she looks so different."

"Don't worry, I'll joke about Neige's size once we're back home."

"Can we not? And we still need to find something, remember?"

Silva flinched, almost forgetting their mission. Neige turned toward the adults and immediately started questioning them.

"We really need this computer, don't you have an idea of where it could be?"

"And you'll leave if you find it?" Asked the man annoyed.

"Yes, we just-"

Before Neige could finish his sentence, the man threw a hard drive at him with aggressivity.

"I don't know what you'd get out of this piece of junk, all the information is there."

"Wait, we just need to copy the data, we don't need all of it."

"It's not like electricity is available now, I don't even know how to fix this thing at a computer. Even if we could see what's inside, there's probably nothing inside."

"You're so cynical, no wonder those kids had no respect for you." Silva took Neige's hand and walked away from the adults. The last thing she wanted was to talk with them. She went toward Sepide but noticed that she seemed lost in her thoughts "Sepide? Is everything alright?"

Sepide looked at the paint gun she took off the ground and put it in her pocket before answering.

"Yes, I just wonder... We're changing things so much, it's the opposite of our original goal, and yet, it feels like the right thing to do."

"Don't think too hard Sepide, it will hurt your head."

"And you should think more, Silva." Neige let out a sigh while looking at the hard drive in his hand, hoping this was what they needed "But you're right, we shouldn't think about it yet, Silv is the bigger threat to the universe right now."

The friends nodded at each other and prepared themselves to leave. They had everything now, all they needed to do was wait for Silv to be dealt with and then they would finally deal with the anomaly once and for all. Even if it takes time, they were sure it was going to be alright.