Sharlan finally made it to the rest of the group.

“Sharlan, you look a bit different. What happened?”

He’s deformed. With a brand new haircut.

“Ah, a…I figured it out.”

“What’d you figure out?”

“My String! Watch this!” he displayed his ability to the group.

“How did you do that?” asked Bel absolutely astonished at the sudden development.

He told them what happened - Quinci.

They +ed Quinci so he had to exposition - RRR’s true nature.

They were all like what! No way! Then there was one of those classic lame anime scenes where they reminisce all the good times they shared together.

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“I can’t believe she’d betray us!”

Suddenly more baddies. But not like the good type. These were men.

“Ahh! We gotta run!”

“No! Now we can hold them off!” Bel and Sharlan started fighting the enemy and quickly eliminated even more but then the group started retreating again as they were getting overpowered quickly.

“We should be able to lose them for a bit if we make it over the mountain!”

At the peak they managed to get some rest as it would have been an uphill battle for the enemy.

What do I do? Kept thinking Sharlan. Some of them are injured! They’ll surely ask me to heal them again. I can’t just tell them that they’re gonna die outright! There has to be some way to cure this cancer! Think Mar…Sharlan, think!

“Sharlan! Please heal ….”

“NO!”

“Huh?! What…did something happen?”

“There’s one thing I think that you should all know. Before I make any more mistakes than I have.” Then he told them about the true nature of the rock. The whole group shuddered and everyone quieted down as reality slowly dawned on them.

“Then…you kept healing yourself until your body started deforming?” asked Jolene, now also aware of her own very premature demise.

“If we don’t live through this, then we should at least show the people of the kingdom who the real enemies are.”

“What do you plan to do?” asked George

“Let’s put on a show for the people of this country. Both about the truth of magic and the truth about the king!”

The group seemed to agree with his idea and having just been told of their own time limit, this seemed like the best thing to do.

“We can’t let that bastard get away with this!”

“Yeah! Let’s burn his kingdom down!”

Then, the group started scheming their final battle.