173 Enemies Meeting (1/2)
Vivi was shocked at what the girls were showing her. She even slunk in close and started poking the markings as though doing so would allow her to better understand them. But even we she did everything she could think of to figure it out, she came up with no answers.
”How... Or, I mean, when did this happen?” Vivi asked.
Kennedy and Malene looked at eachother and sat down again, fixing their clothing.
”Mine was shortly after my inner energy expanded. I'm currently at the late stage of Condensation and it seems like it keeps growing more and more, even without me doing anything. It's like, getting your battery charged even when it's not plugged in,” Kennedy explained.
”Mine was about the same. It's weird though. When I do circulate my my energy and cultivate it, it grows, however it feels like a little bit of it is lost. In truth, the amount is so tiny that for everything that I am gaining, it doesn't even matter. I talked to Aqua about it and Aqua said that it's some sort of connection and that the little amount of energy that I am losing to going to whoever is on the other end,” Malene replied with.
Hearing this, Vivi started asking some questions and forming a timeline in her head. After she lined everything up, a very strange idea popped into her head, but she didn't share it. Instead, she started focusing on other thoughts.
Vivi had a lot of tucked away knowledge from ages long past that had yet to be awakened. As she grew stronger or encountered things that triggered a response, the information would then become available to her. Because of this, she was able to offer some advice to the girls.
”I would recommend you both close the connection in any way you can. At the same time, try to observe it and see if anything changes as you both get stronger,” Vivi advised.
”Speaking of that, I would really like to know how we proceed from here. Did you figure anything out yet?” Kennedy asked. She was the strongest in the team that she was building, but she needed to be able to have a path to follow and to outline for her recruits. So far, things were good as she tons of information about the first two realms thanks to Vivi and Laz. But soon, she would be looking to figure out how to continue and she needed to know how to go about that. Due to this, although she hadn't been constantly hounding Vivi about it, she still brought it up as often as she could. She knew that Vivi was trying her best, but the longer they went without an answer, the more worried she became. With the question asked, even Malene leaned closer to hear what was being said.
”Why is that?” Malene and Kennedy asked at the same time. Vivi took a bit to explain about what happened at the warehouse with Laz and almost dying. Although she wasn't there for it, after hearing about it from Laz, she got a sense of how dangerous it was. Hearing that the blue haired bitch showed up, she knew that she was still apying attention to him. Honestly, as far as Vivi was concerned, she wished that the girl would disppear forever, even though she was helping Laz, in a sense.
The hardest part for Vivi is that she felt like she should know something about this girl and where Laz was being dragged to in his dreams, but it seemed like there was some sort of lock on that information. Everything else was available, but that information was password protected and she didn't know the key.
Since there was nothing to be done about it, Vivi was going to keep extra cautious of anything having to do with her. Hence why she was keeping the communication and visits with Kennedy and Malene secret from Laz.
”That idiot. Can't he control himself even a little bit? What? Is he doing this just for the pussy or something?” Malene started freaking out and went off. Kennedy too shared her views, but thinking back to the young man and their encounter from a few years ago, she somehow felt that it wasn't so simple.
”It's not that. They weren't even in that kind of relationship,” Vivi explained.
”Then why would he go to that extreme? He could have died...” Malene, despite being angry, was more scared than anything.
”Because, his desire to protect those around him outweighed any common sense he had. If anything, I would say that he is feeling extremely lonely...” Vivi responded back, trying to put her thoughts into words.
Hearing this, both Kennedy and Malene couldn't help but become a little emotional. Even though they had left him for different reasons, the truth was that they had both left him. Knowing his history and what's been happening with him, it was clear that many people had left him in his short life. So how could they not understand that something like that would have a profound impact on a person.
”Then what do we...” Kennedy was about to ask what to do but Vivi cut her off.
”Don't worry about him for now. He hasn't lost sight of his goals, his need to get stronger or his reasoning. From now on though, I will make sure I stick close by him and not let him do anything this reckless in the future.”
”Alright then, enough about him. Let's go look at the ones I've recruited,” Kennedy said, getting up.
”Are you sure the company will be ok with this?” Malene asked, knowing just what kind of game Kennedy was playing.
”It's fine. They will work for the company afterall so this is nothing more that helping others to help yourself,” Kennedy replied with a smile and lead the two girls out of the office and down the hall to a seperate elevator.
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