Last chapter, the story went back to the trio where they immediately saw and heard Prósopsi's attack from miles away as they sailed Seric's best friend on the sea. After recovering for a bit, Karia heads back to her room, as she's been doing ever since they left Birzion in a troubled state. Seric tries to confront her once more, but Karia still seems to despise Seric as she ignores and literally shoves his help away.

Seric's P.O.V.

"Hehe, thanks for the website way back then Karia... I know how to cheer myself up now." I snicker to myself quietly as I lie on the sleeping bag that lies along the wall of my tight and small dark room, with the only thing that's slightly illuminating the area being my phone's screen that I'm staring at.

"That was great, I can't wait until I can do that again." I think to myself with a laugh.

"Anyways- I guess I've gotta clean up now." I snap out of my daze as I close out of "Www.XxDynastyxX", and reach for the clenex box that's right next to me as I lay my phone down for a second-

*CLINK CLANK CLINK CLANK*

But I immediately pull my arm back as I hear loud metal noises approaching the outside of my room, and turn off my phones screen at the same time so I'm not seen.

But I don't have the time to pull up my pants as the door is swung open-

"Hey pal, I saw a fancy luminous L.I.G.H.T. creeping from beneath your door so..." It turns out to be King Metallica, of course I can't see him though, and he can't see my completely exposed body either.

"..." I try to steady my breathing as I lie completely still, praying to the highest God that he won't turn on any light and will just guess that I'm sleeping.

"...I can see in the dark..." He whispers to me as neither of us move an inch...

"..." I let out a shaky smile as tears come out of my eyes, as I don't have the courage to say a word to him at this point...

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..." He still doesn't move.

"I don't like liars, pal... And P.S., if you wanted to eat more of the S.C.R.U.M.P.T.I.O.U.S. sausages that I made earlier, ya didn't have to sneak them into your room and play with em there! Goodnight!" King Metallica says with enthusiasm and far too loudly, as I can hear my door slam shut.

"What the fuck was that." I think to myself with a scrunched up face and a bit of a scarred laugh as I honestly have no clue what Metallica understood from what he just saw...

2 hours later 🌕🌕🌕

"Wow. That show was pretty great, and to think that I could watch the first few episodes for free! Mosio seems like a cool character, and that girl was pretty badass too..." I think to myself as I close off the website, having stayed awake for a while longer as I was far too petrified to sleep after that encounter with King Metallica...

"What time is it even?" I think to myself and look to the top right corner of the screen where it reads "4:05".

"...Shit... and Metallica's probably gonna try and wake me up early too... ugh..." I think to myself with a bit of regret- though I can't deny that getting some alone time was really nice.

I turn off my phone and am about to go to sleep, but I sigh as the fact that I haven't drank anything in hours is getting to me.

"Well at least I'll get to enjoy the night sky..." I mumble to myself as I get out of my cozy sleeping bag, and take a step to open my door, yawning as I continue to walk towards the exit to our living quarters.

I open the door to the outside where there's an instant breeze, but with my tired mind I fail to notice Karia along the side of the boat who's sitting on the pure white gunwale of it, chugging a brown glass bottle of beer at the same time as she stares at the full moon in the clear night sky.

"A-" I'm about to say until she slowly lowers the bottle and looks towards me.

"Hmph. How girly huh, getting piss drunk all alone like some *hick* alcoholic." Karia says to me... she actually speaks to me?!

"Um! I don't think it makes you any worse... and I just wanted to say... I'm sorry?" I say clearly in relief, but really I can't even think of a proper apology to say right now. After all, I don't even completely know if I did anything wrong in the first place.

"...So am I. To think that you're stuck with a person like me, with my shitty "strength" and all... fuck!" Karia curses as she stumbles to her feet and chucks the bottle into the calm sea.

"Hey, it's alright... you really are strong, so you can back up the pride, I think at least haha." I lie, but she needs a friend right now.

"Sure I may be *hick* fucking strong, but, where has that gotten me! Ever since that thing happened to me as a kid all I've done is put on a- a shitty mask of pride to make myself feel better, and *hick* where did that get me! I was always fucking pathetic until I got my cybernetics installed, and even after that I- I wasn't strong enough to avenge Sariel! And I tried to become better from that, and what the fuck do I do, kill and betray my other friends to save a damn monster!" Karia starts shout as she scoffs, stumbling towards our fridge and taking out another beer.

"Hey, take it easy... it's alright..." I say uneasily as I'm not nearly social and awake enough to know what to do here.

"Yeah... yeah you're right... it's *hick* fine... after all, this is all YOUR fault. It's HIS fault. Why the hell didn't you tell me what YOU did sooner?! Why the hell did that bastard make me do that to Sariel?!?! I'll- I'll kill both of you, I'll be a hero!!" Karia slurs her words as she starts to raise both of her hands and walk towards me.

"H-hey hey calm down! I haven't done anything!" I

"S-S-Spirit of Sariel..." She starts to say but stops as tears come out of her eyes and she starts to shake.

"Shit! Spirit of... of... why can't I *hick* even say it, damn it!!" Karia weeps as I snap out of my daze as I turn around and swing open the door to our living quarters, stumbling inside until I bump into a big hard object and fall over.

"...Just go to your room, pal. She'll calm down soon enough." King Metallica says to me as I'm crouching by his feet, and looking up I can just barely see that his face lit by the moonlight is completely monotone.

*THUMP!*

I squint my eyes and jolt when I can clearly hear Karia fall to the floor.

"...Sorry..." Is all I can say with guilt as I do what King Metallica asked me, being heading straight for my room and leaving this mess behind.

"I really am a monster, aren't I... even now, all I'm causing her is pain..." I think to myself as tears well up in my own eyes and I gently shut the door to my room shut as to not get involved with any of the two.

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"Come on pal, breakfest is going to reach A.B.S.O.L.U.T.E. Z.E.R.O. by the time you get your lazy self up!" I slowly wake up as I can hear King Metallica's voice whispering slash shouting to me, and looking up he's of course standing over me with some sort of... white makeshift apron on?

"Morning, yeah I'll be thereinaminute." I mumble as I lean forward in my sleepring bag and start to get up.

"Hmm? Couldn't catch what you just said but, I'm assuming that was a Y.E.S.!" King Metallica says in a happy tone.

"Yeah." Is all I respond to him as I start to get out from the warmth of my cozy blue blanket and head towards the door to my room as I follow behind Metallica.

After a few more seconds of walking, we get outside and I can instantly see that the sky is filled with light gray clouds, but at least it's not pitch black like when that "Prósopi" guy summoned that lightning bolt... shit that was terrifying.

"Hm? Where's Karia?" I ask, as though she doesn't say a word to me she normally at least comes out to eat King Metallica's meals with us.

"Ah, I thought I'd let her snooze in a bit longer after that tragic event which occured between you two last night. After bringing her to her room, she was still... disoriented to say the least. But the past is the past!" King Metallica says seeming a bit down, even if he's trying to hide it I can still see it rather clearly.

"Oh, ok. Thanks for stepping in by the way." I say as I ignore my guilt to try to make him feel better.

Sitting down at the pure white engraved table along the walls of my boat and looking towards the stove I can see that King Metallica's stirring some scrambled eggs in a frying pan, as well as cooking some other weird meat on the pan next to it.

"No Problemo! Annnnnnnnnd... done!" King Metallica exclaims as he swings open one of our ground level cupboards, trying to reach into it to grab a plate but him obviously being too tall to do so.

"Ha, I got it." I say with a laugh as I get up and walk towards him, taking out a plate and giving it to him- well more like he snatches it out of my hand.

"Hm! It seems like your short-disorder indeed does come in handy sometimes, YASHASHASHA!" He says passive aggressively I think as he quickly lifts both of the pans he's using with ease and literally spins his wrist to flip them and dump both of their contents onto the plate.

"Whoa- hah can you really spin any part of your body like that?" I ask as he spins his arm behind him that's holding the plate to hand it to me.

"Yep- well basically! I can't spin my fingers- tips at least I suppose." He says with a smile as he slams the stove with his fist to turn it off...

"... Anyways, you really are amazing. I wonder who made yo-" I say but immediately stop myself in case it comes off as offensive maybe? Better safe than sorry I guess.

"Well I've got to be! That's the only way I can protect my pals! And the only way I can O.B.L.I.T.E.R.A.T.E. anyone who dares to hurt them, or even worse, kill them. That would instead lead to E.V.I.S.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.!" King Metallica says in a serious tone.

"Whoa... uh... anyways, I wonder what my powers are as well. I mean obviously I've got my boat and knife as well as the invincibility stuff, but still I feel like there's more..." I say as I dig my fork into the eggs which are seemingly well made, but with some cracked eggshell inside of them. No biggie though, I'll just eat around them.

"Oh, that's right. On that intriguing note, I forgot to cut out some of the other meat!" I hear King Metallica say, but I ignore him and start playing with the grayish brown meat, as it's nothing I've seen before.

"Say ah!" I hear King Metallica say behind me, and before I can look back something gets stabbed deep into my back!

"AHHH- WHAT THE HELL!?!?!!" I shout out in pain as I stumble off of my pure white seat to get the blade out of me which thankfully works.

"Aha! I knew it! It seems like my admittedly old CPU isn't rusty after all!" King Metallica laughs as I rub my back to hopefully make the pain go away. Looking back at him with a furrowed brow I can see that he's holding a knife with half of its blade having disappeared for some reason, with some blood on the linear tip of it too- which proves that he really is insane!

"The hell was that for man, now my shirt's ruined too!" I complain as the pain on slash in my back fades away.

"If you can't tell, this was a full bladed knife before pal! Meaning, that you don't just vomit and drip out those D.E.A.D.L.Y. blue flames that melted through everything, the stuff is actually all inside of your chest!" King Metallica explains, and at first I only give him an annoyed scrunched up face in response.

"What? How would that make sense, the stuff would burn right through me wouldn't it? But actually... that would explain how I haven't needed to go to the bathroom ever since I met Karia... I would just melt everything I eat or drink!" I think to myself out loud excitedly as I snap my fingers.

"Ah, nice catch pal! But, wouldn't you need to get rid of that nasty-A.S.S. gas inside of you after burning the stuff up to a crisp?" King Metallica asks with enthusiasm.

"We should probably be a bit quieter for Karia haha, and yeah good point I guess. I haven't done any of that either... maybe the emissions are added to my flames?" I ask in a quieter but just as excited tone as I remember how Karia's "Tempest Fantasia" worked against Adesia, with it absorbing the oxygen in the flames around her to make a giant gust of wind.

"Hm perhaps... welp anywho we've got no time to waste, the Hopian Continent won't go to itself ya know! So go fill your maw with my equisite dish and let's head off already!"

"Yeah!" I respond happily, mainly due to having the comfort of getting a understanding of what I really am now.

A few hours later🚤🚤🚤

"Ugh... does this mean that I'm burning inside right now, and that I ate a knife after Metallica stabbed me? I thought figuring this stuff out would make me feel better but..." I think to myself, zoned out as I stare into the cubical living quarters in front of me while pulling back the lever that's right in front of me which I've been doing for hours now. But, at least I figured out that I can just use one of the lawn chairs to sit on that we bought from Birzion and do that at the same time.

I'm woken up though as a still depressed Karia opens the door to the living quarters for the second time today. She takes a few steps towards the side of the boat and leans over the edge of it to look ahead of the boat.

"Should only be a few minutes now. Tell Metallica when he comes out that we're at the Hopian Continent." Karia explains to me as she walks back into the cubical living quarters.

Of course I already had a strong feeling that we were here though, as the pillar Vega that we used as our sole navigation tool is looking even more massive than a few hours ago, and due to the seemingly ever expansive "shore" being in sight as well, which is quite the sight with it...

A/N: Finally, the trio have made it to their new destination, the Hopian Continent! Just what will the center of Hopian have in store for the trio, are the rumors about it really true?

Lol, my bad for the cliffhanger, wanted to take more time to explain the architecture of how the Hopian Continent looks-

Also, sorry but next week will be a break chapter, I have to make sure next chapter is well described lol. But, the break one will be a Halloween special of course! Finally I have a big enough cast to do one! Oh- also it'll be released on Thursday at the latest, I'll probably try and upload it a bit earlier than that but I'll see.

I hope you guys consider voting or commenting if you enjoyed, and see you next week!