Neige hurried to Gwyn's lab, where Ina and the doctor were waiting. Ina seemed terrified for some reason, while Gwyn looked more annoyed than anything. When she noticed him enter, Gwyn walked toward him, a serious expression on her face.

"Neige, I'm glad you're here."

"What happened?"

"I'm not sure, I figured you'd be the one that could help the most." Gwyn turned toward Ina, still shaking in fear "You can tell him what happened now."

"I wish I didn't have to repeat it... It was horrifying. Emely was helping me work on a knife that could heat, it would have been so practical to put butter on toast. We needed something in-"

"Wait, isn't she working on time travel? And it's not that bad, you just have to let the butter out for a few minutes and then it's fine."

"It's not important, it's something even worse than whatever the human mind could imagine..."

Neige was still caught up in the uselessness of the invention but managed to shake those thoughts and focus back on the matter at hand.

"It's okay, I'll manage. What is it?"

"So we needed something. Emely said it was in the basement, and that even if there wasn't any lights, nothing bad would happen. She was too scared to come because of her fear of the dark, but something way worse lay in the darkness. A voice... Calling you, Neige. It sounded so... Inhumane, distorted... It's like an old enemy coming back to kill you."

"A voice calling my name? I should go check then."

"I-I'll come with you!" Ina said, still afraid "I want to know what it is..."

"I'll come too then." Gwyn took her jacket and lit up a cigarette before going with Neige "Just in case something bad happens."

"I don't think it's anything that bad... Let's just go, I have things to do after."

The two women nodded, ready to leave for the basement of the ship.

The group arrived in front of the door to the basement. Neige only went there a few times, they used it to store things they probably would never need, and when Emely joined the ship, they didn't even take the time to update it with the new light system. They all silently agreed to forget this place, but Emely and Ina weren't on the ship yet when they decided to give up on the basement. The three friends opened the door and entered the huge dark room, their phones in hand, the small group walked around the dark basement in search of the strange voice. Ina significantly slowed down the group, looking nervously around while Neige and Gwyn progressed without much thought. They continued for a few minutes and were ready to conclude that nothing bad was happening, until a voice quickly made them change their minds.

"Neige... Neige..."

The voice sounded like an old woman, preying on them from somewhere in the room. The voice echoed, making it hard to pinpoint the source of the voice. Ina held Neige as if her life depended on him, completely terrified.

"That's it! That's the voice!"

"Neige... Neige..."

The group approached what they thought was the origin of the voice only to find the ventilation behind some crates. Ina still was terrified, but Neige chuckled as he examined the vent from closer.

"That's just the wind, the crates and the dust blocking it made this weird sound echo."

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"I-Is that so?"

Ina started to relax, it was true that now that Neige moved the crate, the voice was nowhere to be heard. With a sigh of relief, the woman profusely apologized to her friend.

"I'm so sorry, I really thought it was something bad..."

"It might still be something bad..." Gwyn said with concern, as she crouched and analyzed something on the ground "There's the shell of an egg here..."

Neige came next to the doctor, looking at the shell of the egg. It was empty now, but looked as big as him.

"I recognize this, I took it from another world! Silva wanted to make a giant omelet with it but we never did it."

"And... It was an egg of what?" Ina asked, unsure that she wanted to know the answer to her question.

"Spider I think. I really don't know why Silva wanted to eat it."

"A spider? So... There's a giant spider somewhere on the ship?"

"No, it's been years that it's been there. I doubt it would have survived for so long."

"I'm not so sure..." Gwyn said while looking around the basement "It looks like you kept a lot of food there."

"It's a spider, it's not going to feed off the few fruits we kept. It's probably dead or something."

"I hope you're right, let's talk with Emely about it, she probably could track it."

The three friends agreed and headed toward the exit. They were ready to leave but saw a weird slimy matter forming a faint trail toward the upper parts of the ship. Neige kneeled beside it and took a bit of it in his mouth before spitting it.

"It tastes like spiders but different."

"I'm not even going to ask how you know what a spider tastes like..."

Gwyn stepped forward, her firearm in hand. If they were going to deal with a giant spider, she was ready for it.

The group followed the trail for a moment until it stopped in the middle of a hallway. Before any of them could say anything, the same creepy voice called the name of the man.

"Neige... Neige..."

This time, the sound wasn't echoing around them, instead clearly right in front of them. Neige took his dagger in hand, slowly approaching the source of the voice while the two women stayed at a reasonable distance. Despite his fear, Neige managed to step forward, concerned about what could be this mysterious creature who hatched from that egg. Once he made sure there was nothing, Neige relaxed and turned toward his friend before suddenly being grappled by a creature that fell from the vent in the ceiling. Ina and Gwyn were in shock at the sight of a creature that looked like a woman fused with a spider. A human arm grabbed Neige by his chest while three spider's legs immobilized his arms, causing the six-eyed creature to be completely wrapped around him.

"Neige... There you are..."

Neige tried to struggle but could barely move. Ina aimed with her firearm but couldn't shoot, terrified to hit her friend by accident.

"This thing was on the ship all this time!?"

"I guess so." Answered Gwyn "We just never freed it by going to the basement."

"I know all lives matter but... I think I can make an exception for this one. Just kill it Gwyn!"

"I can't, it's too close to Neige..."

Neige tried to use his dagger but couldn't move enough to deal any damage to the creature clinging to his back. His heart rate was skyrocketing when he imagined all the horrible things that could happen to him.

"Leave me alone! What do you want!?"

"Neige... You saved me... I love you... Let's make children..."

"That's even worse than death!"

Neige suddenly remembered, she came from a world where spiders used human's body to reproduce and take over. Along with Silva and Kairo, they managed to get rid of the spider invasion, but they didn't expect to host the last survivor on the ship. Despite the dire situation, Neige quickly found relief when he heard Sepide and Remiel arriving behind him and quickly yelled at them.

"Hey, you need to kill this thing, quick! It's going to kill everyone if we don't do anything!"

Sepide and Remiel looked at each other with excitation, ignoring the threat for a moment.

"I bet five bucks I shoot it on the first try."

"I accept the bet. However, I shall try right after if you fail."

"Are you betting on my life!?"

Sepide took her firearm, unlike the two women who could only see Neige's front, she could easily see the whole creature's body. With a precise shot, Sepide hit the head of the monster which now lay dead on the ground. Neige tried his best to remove the slime and the rests of the creature off him, visibly disgusted by it.

"Damnit Silva, it's the last time I allow her to take eggs from another world..."

Remiel reluctantly gave a few coins to Sepide before approaching the corpse of the creature with curiosity.

"What is this?"

"An horror, that's what it is. They killed people and laid eggs in them to create this kind of monster..."

"I feel like she loved you though." Gwyn said while using a stick to poke at the creature "Maybe you could have made it a friend or something."

"No thanks... Why are the weirdest things attracted to me..."

Now that the threat of this mysterious creature was dealt with, everyone returned to their occupation. Ina, Sepide, and Remiel all learned the same lesson the members of the ship learned before, never open the door of the basement again.