Chapter 227 - 218: Game Plan (1/2)

The wall indented itself as Toppo grabbed Nao's neck, thrusting him against it. Yet he became stunned hearing Nao say that. Seeing this Nao decided to speak out to him once more.

”Plus I'm not some rampaging monster okay? We've a lot to talk about, Toppo. Would you mind setting me down?”

”...That's right. It's obvious as day you're not currently on a rampage, yet I let my anger take the best of me. I deeply apologize for that. But regardless, we need some explanation. All I remember is seeing darkness as we fought in that hellhole..”,Toppo said with confusion in his eyes.

Hearing that, Nao nodded. Toppo released his grip, allowing Nao fall gently back down onto the the ground.

Ribrianne also decided to get off from the combined couch at this time. As Toppo backed away from Nao, Ribrianne approached him. She clung onto the side of his uniform, also donning a worried look. Nao took this time to pat himself down as Ribrianne spoke out to him.

”We really aren't dead are we? Is that really you Nao? You look way different from you know, when you turned crazy...”

”I'm definitely me if that's what you're asking about, that won't change. You two just woke up so your memories may be a bit fuzzy. Let me start things from the beginning. It may take a bit of time, but you two go nowhere to go right?”

”Nowhere to go? We'd be dead by now if we weren't grabbed into that damn portal from who knows where it came from!”

”That's right! Where are we exactly? I'm getting such a familiarity, similar to that of Lady Miya...”, Toppo said as his confusion soon turned into doubt.

”Lady Miya? Now that you mention it...I do feel a familiar warmth in this place...”, Ribrianne said as she began to wander off.

Hearing this caused Nao to chuckle. He then spoke out to the two.

”Heh, I guess we'll start from there then. Why don't you two fly on outside and see where you are with your own eyes?”

”Outside...?”, Toppo asked as his eyes began to wander.

Toppo disregarded Ribrianne and entered a mad dash going straight toward the two large doors which lead outside. Thankfully he entered flight as after he pushed the two large doors opened, the rays of the two suns of Planet Elosyia struck against his eyes, causing his senses to be temporarily blinded.

Seeing Herself left behind, Ribrianne also yelled out to him before she entered a dash herself.

”H-Hey! Wait for me, Toppo!”

After she yelled that out she ended up bumping into Toppo who soon had a stunned look on his face. She saw this and also started to look around, only to gasp in astonishment.

”No way...sea of trees as far as the eye can see, resplendent rivers crisscrossing throughout them, and that massive oak tree beneath us...This is just like the description of the safe haven Lady Miya mentioned to us, Toppo! Where are we!?”

”I'm not sure, but one thing is for certain. We're no longer in that damned place.”, Toppo said as he regained his senses.

The two soon heard Nao walk up to them. Turning around, they saw him smile and saw his mouth open.

”Welcome, Toppo, Ribrianne, to Planet Elosyia!”

After Nao announced that to the two with a warm smile, the two remained stunned as they turned around once again to look at the beautiful green planet beneath them.

After a few moments passed, both Ribrianne and Toppo became a bit emotional finally realizing where they were. It didn't take them long and the two returned to Nao's side. Nao in return accompanied the two, and brought them to one of the couches in the main reception room which weren't destroyed.

He didn't want to hide anything from them, especially after learning what Fu did to Jiren. He needed to create a game plan of sorts to tackle the trial by fire, but he was waiting for the girls to return to the Palace.

In the meantime, time soon began to pass once again while Nao took it from the top, explaining what happened to them. Nao felt really apologetic since the main cause of this was him but in an alternate timeline but surprisingly, after that initial round of anger Toppo had, they took it relatively well.

The two knew thrashing at him would be pointless, especially after they learned they fell into a different timeline than of their own. Toppo and Ribrianne were part of advanced civilizations who regularly had contact with their gods and god of destruction, so learning that they time traveled wasn't a huge shock to them. What shocked them was they actually did.

It's a bit hard to explain, but actually experiencing time travel instead of just knowing the theory behind it, was the surprise factor. They also came about to know of Fu's machinations, who was the cause of this whole mess. Nao also described that Fu was linked to Jiren and Jiren was only a mindless monster like Nao became.

The moment Toppo heard that, his anger as a Pride Trooper exploded forth, but he refrained from punching anything. This was an extremely sensitive topic to him of all people. Not only was Nao was sent into a rampage by Hearts' terror, Fu had the gall to manipulate the leader of the Pride Troopers. Even though they were in a different timeline, something had to be done.

However their conversation was interrupted by the sound of feet shuffling from the throne room. Miya, Elsa and Sayuri had finished contacting the girls. They saw their guests were now awake which surprised the three.

Yet they couldn't even do anything before Ribrianne broke out into tears, rushing into Miya's embrace. It felt strange for Miya but she too knew what happened and even saw her own death countless of times when she tried to pull Nao out from that darkness so long ago.

”Lady Miya!”

Hearing Ribrianne cry out her name, she returned her embrace and started to soothe her.