
Finally our steps stopped on one of the dead escalator stairs. Honestly, this place is very spacious and bright - lots of white fluorescent lights on high ceilings. Despite being underground, its splendor did not fade away just like that.
However, not with the space under the escalator; like it was shrouded in pitch-black darkness. He said it was the boundary between the Elite's dimensional space and the real world - the dimensional portal door - so I could understand.
"We're all going in" Lux said as team leader.
"Not for the team?" daniel asked slowly towards Lux, "if it turns out that the portal is one-way and we're stuck, it's over."
"No need, there's been a lot of Gear Department staff on duty outside." Slowly but surely, the golden eye glanced at Daniel in a stern glint. "This is also a two-way portal. Otherwise, how could they get out of cleaning the early part of the dimensional space of Pawn?"
Before the foot of the ladder went down the dark escalator, Lux was going slowly, "You're pretending to be stupid or you're starting to show your true nature, huh chief."
Genuine nature? Has Daniel's explosive attitude not been genuine? But every time like that .. I mean, not like Fate and Cecil who complied and didn't comment much. Or does this have something to do with her training with Lux? It is evident from Daniel who does not speak back, just clucked and put two hands in the pocket of his pants; according to where Lux went.
At this point, I realized .. indeed everyone has their own problems; raging with their own thoughts, just like me. I don't know why it made me remember doing missions in the Feidelm area.
Actually, behind that extrinsic nature, what was he hiding? From a big smile to his closed eyes, Daniel hides anxiety? Like Head Master Lucian who keeps wounds.
I snorted and followed where they were going, followed by Crist on the side. You could say we were in the back row.
However, how much down the stairs, it feels never reach the bottom .. wait, it feels like I have experienced something similar-ah, yes! In a dream world when with Mei and Rei! But their spiritual power arises from the demons that haunt the village-uh?
If recalled, isn't that exactly the dimension space the dragons created? Because unlike my world, it is thick with demons and so does the world of Fate-proven figure Metatron rests on its body-this world is just the dragons of kings. It could be, the dream demon was an intangible dragon that attacked the mind.
But, what's there?
"Haaah, it turns out pretty deep."
"Crist?"
"You think of something, Red?" I blinked a few times hearing Crist say.
He finished checking the documents in his left arm so that his blue eyes were fixed on me. "I told you we'll talk about it later, please don't burden your own mind."
"Ah, no-no. I didn't think about it. Just ... remembered something."
I was stunned by my own words. Actually, I always thought about a lot of things. I thought it was because it was shackled by a painful memory that made it hard to forget, or deliberately tortured themselves to keep remembering and lamenting wrongdoing. However, maybe the original is not so.
"Crist, I am .. I seem to worry about the little things."
Now he chuckled, using the map of black documents in his grasp to shut up. "Indeed."
"Heee, you know? B-but I just realized ...."
Ha-ah, Crist laughs more and more, it feels embarrassing! I lowered my head slightly but he replied, "Red, you're always frank with your own feelings."
Eh?
"If you're upset, you show it, and you're happy. And if you ...," he said hanging blue eyes staring somewhere. "So from that, I understand a little what you are feeling. You can't lie."
I don't want to lie, but ....
"Ahahaha, no, I should be thanking you."
I looked back at him confused because I really didn't understand.
"I told you? When I saw you, I felt called to help. I have a new purpose. Sometimes, you need a reason to continue to live even a trivial thing, such as wanting to continue to wake up the next day because trying to end the story. Well, I think I was born for this."
The young man faced me in a smile of shady knots, like a light. "And you also have to find your own reasons, Red."
A reason? I already have. I will continue to live because he has sacrificed his soul for me, so that I can live a normal life. Is that not enough?
"A reason that can be an anchor so that your life does not oscillate, you understand what I mean?" added Crist, making me drown in dead ends.
Anchor; swayed; somehow I became dizzy and wanted to shift the conversation to another topic. Moreover, have not met the base of the stairs. Will the space be very large?
"Crist, why are there so many Gear members on duty? Usually not this much."
"Pak Kaidan explained, because the mission is now directly related to the government" he replied.
"It should be the Consulting Department, right? The third most number of you. So, why?"
However, I saw Crist's expression turn sour as he swallowed something bitter. Blue eyes also swept around like weighing what to answer.
So I immediately added, "There's something to do with why our club was chosen for duty? It should be devoted to the Execution Department if it follows the procedure, not based on the club because this is not for general exams."
The young man saw me. After fixing the position of his glasses once, he chuckled and sighed. "High curiosity and an easy-to-think nature make you a critical thinker, unknowingly. Hahaha, well, the nature of your dragon is a little broken in my mind."
Wait, I'm innocent? From where ....
"Actually Vaughan is in the yellow position, there is a leak of student data."
Data leak? How could? EVE is a high level security, no one can access it except Lucian himself. I ended up watching Crist carefully because he said quite slowly, not wanting to sound anything else?
"Well, it's pretty weird, even EVE feels like nobody broke into the data bank. Although the leaked data is not much and is not so important, Vaughan does not consider this a small matter. They started securing some members, staff was no exception."
As I parroted, "Secure?"
"The entire Gear Department members are in yellow, that's why they're assigned so much outside. There's office surgery spelled out EVE and they're closely related. We members of the Consulting Department are quite overwhelmed, what's more Disciplinary. Vaughan began screening each member, including those on duty. Amazingly, all members of Club Dion are in a green position. There are other clubs that are green as well, but some of the students of Club Dion are students of the department chair, of course we are the preferred."
"What about the Execution Department? Special exit duties for us, right?"
"To be honest," replied Crist restrained. The blue eyes no longer looked at me, but began to focus forward. "Some members of the Execution Department are in a red position, which is why it's a little difficult to entrust you to duty. Well, of course until this is over."
So, now the answer questions are already. It turned out that Vaughan was paying attention to every member. Although the leak is small, it acts immediately and issues a standby----
"Revelation!"
My reflexes crouched down to hold my body. If not, it may have been shapeless. Because in one blink of an eye, the whole surrounding was soaked and we were standing on a speeding train.