Mia up to the treant, up past the face twisted in frozen agony and up towards the branches, frowning at the sight of frozen fruit. “Maybe I can still eat them?”

[Regardless, we are out of time.]

“Eh? What are you on about?” Mia rolled her eyes, she was that desperate to get her to listen to her?

[Please note, what I am about to do is for your own safety and wellbeing. It will be done as soon as possible.]

“…riiiight…Thought you couldn’t do anything without my perm…” She stopped, looking up past the tree line at some weird…distortion? The space in front of her looked all squiggly and blurry.

[Not in the case of emergency.]

[Activating authority: emergency has been acknowledged. Forced control enabled.]

“Wait wha-AAAA-?!” Mia found herself thrust threw the fabric of space, thrown into the all to familiar endless black void. “Ami what the heck?! How?! Why?!” she spun around, struggling to right herself till she was forced to a halt, bumping into something “ow…”

“Why hello there miss temper, you sure managed to piss someone off.”

“…?” She looked towards the voice, greeted by a bowing duck in a suit “Void?”

“In the flesh!” the duck chuckled, bopping her on the nose before floating off in front of her,

“Wait, how? How did she do that? Why? What?”

“I think it is pretty self-explanatory, “The duck nodded his head “She used her emergency authority, the same thing she had been abusing to get you to enable her.”

“So, she was just using me…again…”

“Nono, there has to be significant cause to use that, and thanks to a couple dumbasses she had it.” The duck shrugged.

“You…wait, cause? The church after me?”

“Watch.” The duck flew off to the side, revealing the same screen from last time. On it, was Mia, standing still while staring at the distortion.

[Saved to slot 3] [Allocating 70 stat points to Int-]

“GAAH!” Mia in the void flinched, clutching her head “what is she doing?!” She yelled, feeling the recoil from the sudden stat increase.

[Acceptable health loss. Insufficient MP] [Loading slot 2]

“Eh?” Mia watched as the scenery changed, back to during the monster fight “What is she doing there…”

“Just watch.”

[Allocating 70 points to int.]

“GAAAH! WHY?!”

The area around Ami froze in a small circle, causing the advancing fish monsters and leeches to halt or be frozen “Cannot waste any time.”

“Cre cre cre…”

Ami rose her hand, the outer layer of her circle rose up, edges coming together to form several points “Eradicating.”

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“Cre-“

The sharp points quickly extended, 30 points stretching rapidly, weaving through the air at breakneck speeds, piercing through their targets then twisting around in the air to find another target. Meanwhile the monsters they pierced froze solid, exploding into more needles that quickly searched and pierced their target.

“Cre…crehecre..”

Ami pointed her hand at the treant “Be thankful I am short on time.” She clenched her fist, the several thin needles converging on the treant, skewering it in place without freezing it.

“Wow…” Mia couldn’t help but be impressed, in just a few short seconds, everything was swiftly dealt with while leaving the area relatively unfrozen.

“Yeah, that’s [Time] for you…always the efficient one.” The duck nervously laughed.

“If that was the case then why did she kill the catkin…”

“Girl, you still mad at her for that?”

“Eh?” Mia shot up, backing away when the duck appeared directly in front of her face,

“I bet you don’t even remember their names, get over it, she didn’t even technically kill them.”

“You…i…” Mia looked between the duck and the screen, before planting her finger firmly on the duck’s bill “You’re the one that told me to disable her!”

The duck crossed his arms “I had my reasons.”

“So, you were lying?!”

“Half, maybe…probably….yes, no wait, no.” The duck went deep into thought for a moment, but then shrugged.

She squinted her eyes at them, before sighing “Can’t trust anyone…” She laughed, wallowing in self-pity.

[Saved to slot 2.]

The announcement brought their attention back to the screen, showing Ami staring up into the sky, the thin tubes of ice melting around her.

“What is she doing?”

“Waiting.”

“For?”

“An idiot.”

After a few minutes the distortion appeared in the sky “Takes so long to formulate that teleportation…” Ami sighed, the space grew blurrier “There we go.” Ami knelt, waiting…

[Saved to slot 2.]

The distortion opened with a crackle out, spitting out a tall Elvin woman with long black hair, wearing an elegant black dress with a showy attitude.

[Young child, your abuse of your ski-] “What are you doing? Cease!”

Ami launched herself at her, propelled by a pillar of ice towards the woman.

“Insolent chiiiiiilllldd yooowaaiit-“ The woman had raised her hand towards the rapidly approaching Ami, but the world around her slowed, and as the realization dawned on her it was to late, Ami had grabbed ahold of her leg.

“Don’t talk using MY system you cocky witch.”

“Wait, [Assist Mode]? Weren’t you…” The woman’s face paled, sweat forming on her face “Wait, we can ta-“

“No.”

[Saved to slot 2] [Loading slot 1]

“WE ARE GOING ON A TRIP!” The duck shouted, as the space in void rapidly started to speed up, dragging the screaming Mia and the cheering Void through it as time flew backwords.

“NNNOOOO_BABABAFB_-ba-fad-a-baAAabAAaaaa” The woman screamed, seemingly getting caught on *something* as she was dragged through the load, her body turning black.

From Mia’s point of view, *something* was now flying through the void with them, as if something had pierced through a layer of water, the woman started seeping into the void, her screaming gargled as the tar like void swallowed her from the world’s side and spat her out into the void.

Ami, now back inside Mia’s room and holding nothing, huffed “Now to wait a minute or two…”

Back in the void, now with one more occupant, the group had stopped moving. The woman on her knees, barfing up tar.

“Who is she…?” Mia asked, floating a distance away from her.

“The idiot.”

“Well, ok, but who?”

“Eh, ask Ami, heh, for noooow~” The duck trotted over to the woman, growing in size with every step “Heeeeeey~ I know this will fall on deaf ears but remember~ this place is what you make of it~”

The woman froze, gulping “No… not here…” The floor beneath her turned white, marble tiles floating to the surface of the void and arranging themselves into a tile floor “Not here… no…she was supposed to be disabled! Why… why am I here! No…help…”

The place shook, the duck now large enough to shake the void with every step it took “So, already falling into the trap, eh? You guys never learn… Whatever. So, totally not related to what’s about to happen but…” The duck stood above the woman, towering over her as pillars of white marble began to rise into the black sky. “A little birdy told me you were responsible for a certain downgrade to my seating arrangement… seriously, a teacup?”

“No, nononono! It wasn’t me, It wa-“ the woman spun around, her eyes going wide as she stared into the many eyes of the abyss, her voice caught in her throat.

“For the record… I don’t like tea.”

[Slot 2 loaded]

“Eh?” Mia found herself on a small frozen platform, the woman nowhere in sight “What was…” then the feeling caught up to her, falling to her knees she vomited into the water, her brain unable to process what had just happened.

[Crisis adverted, returned control to Mia, sorry about that.]

“…I deserve…an explanation…” With those last few words, Mia fainted. Lying down in a pile of soft snow.