Chapter 288 - The Ark Of New Heading (1/2)

Wasn't he human as well? Soon, deep down, he felt something stir within. Anger? Something like that, but not quite.

”I don't know who you are, or what you are. But whoever did this sick joke to a dead child should rot in hell! yelled Ysabeau, in sheer anger.

”So, you are telling me, I used to be alive? And that I've got a family? Are my siblings all a lie, or were they my previous siblings as well?” asked the boy, as he teared up.

The thought of him having a family seemed so alien to him, yet it was what his heart yearned for. He felt calm when working with his siblings, though they couldn't communicate with each other. It was just the bond between the four, it was enough to keep him calm. Even if it might be fabricated.

That's why he thought he was alive.

Ysabeau looked at him with pitiful eyes, but the mission was still in progress. That was her priority now. She buried her emotions, as such to be professional during work. Gil's spell starting to wear off, so she's got a few more questions before he breaks out of the trance.

”You mentioned coming out of a pod. Where is that pod located at?” asked Ysabeau, trying her best not to sound too desperate.

”It's in an underground lab. The buŧŧerfly girl guards the main entrance to the labs. We send the girls via there. I don't know the main way of getting there. After I pass through some sort of doorway, there's nothing left when I turn back to look.”

”Any landmarks? Like what did the buildings look like around the area you stood on?”

”Buildings? It's a blank landscape with nothing but grasslands. There were some white flowers around but no buildings.”

Darn, perhaps he isn't part of this, after all, thought Ysabeau.

Don't rule him out yet, he mentioned the buŧŧerfly girl. And he said that his mission is to collect the girls, so he must be part of the problem. Besides, his sister directed her attack onto me instead of grabbing the girls from upstairs. We are a threat to their mission.

Mavislin must be getting close to her location if the Valkyrie could use her sense of sound again. Ysabeau took a deep breath before switching up her communication skill to the Valkyrie.

Yes, but he might be related to another threat, not the one that we are dealing with. His base of operations is nowhere near here, replied Ysabeau to Mavislin's reasoning.