"Hey, I've been thinkin'." I asked Olya, "It's gotten awfully boring in the lair lately."

"Maybe for you, doc and I are having a blast with all the food, drinks and ladies you could ever want." He glanced back at me, "Seriously, you really ought to learn how to take into account the lady's feelings. I'm sure you'd be having just as much, if not way more fun if you did."

"What? Nah, not that." I brushed it off as I continued my spiel, "I was actually thinkin' we go for a change of scenery."

"You're cooking up something foul, bud." He sighed, "Spill it, what've you got on your mind this time?"

"Right, so I was thinkin' - Why don't we add in like, a portal that takes you to wherever you wish to go to? That way we wouldn't even have to worry about waitin' for that damned captain to come for us."

"That... might work." He thought about the logistics of the portal, "But then, how would you get back?"

"Oh, good question." I thought about it before snapping my fingers, "Ah, just make a device that takes you back here at the press of a button. A failsafe is always a good idea!"

"Now you're talking!" He dapped me up, "Let's do just that, then."

And so, we walked out of the infirmary where Shaid was being kept, passed by the pleasure room, the drink room, the study and the buffet room before we reached the deepest room of the lair where we safely kept the Book of Fortune under wraps. Watching Olya absolutely plow through all the mechanisms and puzzles he had created to keep anyone from opening the safe apart from us was always a sight to behold, and I wouldn't call it an understatement when I say he just doesn't look like Olya when he doesn't have that Book in his hands. That's just how much he's made it his own.

"Alright, where do we put it?" He asked all of a sudden, "Should we make it open to the public and put it in one of the vacant rooms like we did with the others, or do we put it in a secret room like this one?"

"I see no harm in lettin' our new friends use it as well." I thought of the doctor and the succubus ladies, "If they're real people, then surely they have someone in the World they wanna visit. Honestly, I feel kinda bad now that I know we might've literally kidnapped them from their posts."

"Right, I feel ya', bud." He nodded before smirking, "But I feel those ladies way more, y'dig!? Honestly, they seem pretty satisfied here, and neither party is complaining, so who cares!"

"Yeah, word." I gave him an understanding fist bump.

"Then, let's write it like this..." Olya spoke out what he wrote aloud, "The protagonists suddenly find a room with a portal in it that takes them wherever they want to go. Next to it they find a device with a single Blue button on it that takes them back to the lair safely. There!"

"Alright! So, where should we go first?" I smiled at him as I asked.

"The Moon." Doc suddenly snuck up behind us, scaring the both of us half to death in the process.

"Yaaaaaah!" We both screamed like little girls, "What the hell! How long have you been here!?"

"Since you thought up the idea to make the portal." He shrugged, "The infirmary and the pleasure room are one wall apart, y'know? I immediately knew I had to follow you once I heard it."

Geez, that's scary. And not just the fact he followed us, but also that neither Olya nor I even noticed him! Is the doc a spy or something? Cause there's just no way he's this stealthy! Gah, he should be minding his own business shagging those damned succubi, not following us around...!

"In any case, why the Moon of all places?" Olya seemed intrigued.

"Well, no one's been there to my knowledge." He elaborated, "The Moon is one rather mysterious round son of a bitch. No matter where you go or how fast you run, it always seems to follow you. How, why? Where does it go when it disappears into the horizon line? I'd like to find this out personally, so if you would allow me to go there, I would be very thankful."

"Just cut the crap and be honest with us, doc." I chuckled, "You just wanna be known as the first person to have set foot on the damned thing. It's clear from your tone you have nothing but ulterior motives behind this wish."

"Maybe so, but I wouldn't say it's completely selfish on my part." He defended his case, "Many tales across the World claim the Moon is actually made out of cheese. But this cheese, it's moon cheese, you see? They say one bite of it can extend your life span by a hundred years, even."

"That's hullabaloo if ever I've heard it." Olya brushed him away, "Just go back to your damned lady friends and quit with the tall tales, doc. We got somewhere to go ourselves."

"That being?" The doctor defiantly crossed his arms at us.

"Yeah, what exactly do you have in mind?" I too tilted my head at him.

"You dope. Have you already forgotten?" He nudged me a bit, "There's a certain group of quiks that would surely like it if we checked up on them, get it?"

"You wanna go to Abyssus Solis!?" I jumped a bit in surprise.

"Eugh, why would anyone wanna go to that filthy wasteland?" The doctor winced, "Please tell me you're joking, sir. Everyone knows there are a ton of dangerous tribes in there that'd absolutely eat you alive."

"They can certainly try, though I think they'll all grow full before they even make it half way through him." I joked before Olya elbowed me in the chest.

"In any case, the people there are some of the kindest ones we've met, and we have a lot of friends that are in those exact tribes you speak of." Olya explained calmly to the doctor, "If you want, you can come with."

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"No thanks, I'll just stick with going to the Moon." He remained fixated on that instead.

Well, guess the only way to convince him would be to make him see the beauty of Havana with his own two Eyes, but that's for another time. If he wants to go to a sky ball apparently made of cheese, then who are we to stop him?

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"Hey boys~!" The girls popped into the portal room once they noticed us going in before them, "Whatcha' up to?"

"Makin' a new room." I nonchalantly replied, "Wanna see it in action?"

"Sure, we got nothing better to do." One girl replied.

"Oh hey, have you seen Diamond?" Another girl inquired.

Diamond? Who the hell is she talking about? Ohh, maybe that's one of the girls' names. Weird, I never even thought to ask for their names, so I guess I wouldn't know. Still, there does seem to be one girl missing from the pack. Usually since there's so many of them I wouldn't exactly notice it, but seeing as this Diamond girl had an extremely unique appearance from the others, it's not exactly that difficult. Her complexion was quite dark, and her White hair that she tied in a ponytail made for quite the sight. In other words, she bore a striking resemblance to Cassandra, so it's a given that I've mostly been favoring her this entire time. Olya seems to have also picked up on that and regularly refuses her advances out of respect for me, which I can only call a true bro move on his part.

"Well, we don't know..." Olya pulled out a gadget he created with the Book yesterday, "But we can easily find out with this! This device perfectly shows where someone is at the current moment, so if I just ask for her by name, it should pop up immediately on the screen!"

As he did just that, the lovely girl had showed up on the screen just as expected. What wasn't expected, though, was that she was currently somewhere on some tropical island, it seems? And not only that, but she doesn't seem to be enjoying herself all that much.

"Olya, where the hell is she?" I began to worry a bit.

"Not the faintest clue." He shrugged back, "Lemme just check the Book to see what happened and how she got here, cause this is a mystery for me as well... Ah."

"What is it?" We all asked.

"Says here in the Book that she went to the bathroom while we were over in the Book room and wandered into the portal room on her own. Apparently, she knew the concept of a portal, but didn't know where exactly it'd take her, so she just said something to the effect of "I've been around the World, so it'd be cool if it'd take me somewhere where I haven't been". Then bam, she wound up on this deserted island all by herself."

"Crap, she didn't bring the device to bring her back...!" I picked it up from the floor, "Olya, I'm goin' in to bring her back."

"How, you big oaf?" He asked, "We don't know where she is in the World, so how can you possibly expect to nail the exact deserted island that she's on?"

"Uuu..." I slumped forward as the other girls comforted me.

"Who cares about that?" The doctor heartlessly brushed her situation off completely, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It's her fault for just waltzing into an unfamiliar room and jumping into a random mysterious portal. But hey, her loss is our progress, because we now know how it works!"

"That's a horribly pragmatic way of putting it." Olya winced, "You sure this lair isn't ruining your humanity, doc?"

"Who cares about humanity?" The doctor brushed him off, "Now come on, take me to the Moon!"

"You can do it yourself, dumbass. Just jump in the portal." I then recalled the device I was holding in my hands, "Oh, and don't forget this. If anything dangerous comes up, just press it immediately."

"Thank you." He then turned his back away from us before counting down, "Then, I will be jumping in three, two, one...!"

Without even a moment of hesitation, the precarious doctor ran with all his might before hopping through the portal the Book had created. We wasted no time immediately huddling over Olya's shoulder as he put in the doctor's name so we could see how he was faring up there.

"Oh, he's actually touching it!" Olya and the girls admired his success.

"Ah, doesn't his face look kind of Purple?" I pointed on the screen mere moments before his head completely blew up.

"Ahh!" The girls shouted.

"Yuck!" Olya looked away.

"Damn." I then realized, "Since he didn't press the button in time, we don't even get the device back. Now we can't go anywhere unless we wanna stay there."

"Stupid doctor..." Olya turned the device off, a tad peeved as he said, "But why'd he die in such a gruesome way?"

"Was it a beast?" One of the girls whimpered.

"A Moon beast!" The others feared as well.

"Who knows. Olya, read what happened to him in the Book." I asked as he flipped through the pages.

"Right. Ahem, the protagonists then witnessed the lair doctor succumb to the immense difference in pressure caused by being on the Moon's surface without proper space equipment, which led to the total implosion of his body due to the blood cells in it bursting."

"What's that mean?" I inquired.

"How should I know." He gave me a blank stare before shrugging, "Do I look like a doctor to you?"