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Charlotte knew that it would be hard for Khun to understand what she just said. She had thought about it. If she told him that she could read the future, even it might not be accurate as there were some changes that will be made because of her and the people who shouldn't have existed and rewrite everything, then wouldn't it be easier for her to talk to him?

"If you don't believe me, then I could predict one thing for you" Charlotte said.

"...........What is it?"

She pointed her fan that has been shut to the door, "Shibisu will come from there and called you 'bastard' for hiding everything from him. That alienated dad would not come alone."

"Huh?"

Whatever this young lass was talking about, Khun didn't quite get it. She said that she had this ability to read the future out of blue and then suddenly said that Shibisu the alienated dad would come and called him bastard? She talked without giving him the proper chance to ask.

"KHUN!!" the door was slammed open again. "CHARLOTTE!"

The person who slammed the door open was none other than Shibisu who huffed and huffed as if he had ran to this Video Room from a long distance. He looked at the two of them and then similar like what she said, he called the two of them bastards.

This made Khun turned around at Charlotte in disbelief and Charlotte just shrugged off, taking off her mask and untie her brown ponytail.

"Why don't you tell me that you are still alive?" Shibisu asked and walked towards them.

"Hey, hey, wait—"

"Don't even think about running away, earrings" Hatz said and pointed the gun to Khun from behind.

"Hatz."

"I already know everything" Hatz said.

Khun really wondered how did these two appeared in the same time and knew everything. While raising his hands, he said, "You changed your weapon. Do you even know how to pull the trigger?"

Hatz replied with the four words: "You are still a douche."

Instead of replying to him, Khun looked at Charlotte and then asked, "Do you really have that kind of ability?"

"Do you want me to predict more things for you?" Charlotte asked to him back.

"Go ahead" Khun answered.

"Hatz, let me ask you one thing" Charlotte said to the swordsman who was now using a gun on his hands. "Did Mr. Ro come and told you everything about FUG's and Workshop's scheme? That the Emily that everyone is using is a human being and the Workshop was learning on how to turn someone into weapon and a weapon become a living weapon?"

This made Hatz surprised as what she said was accurate to what he wanted to say to them.

"How did you know all of this?"

"The tail on the Archimedes" Charlotte turned around to look at Shibisu. "You do recognize that there is something off with it right?"

"Yes?"

"It's because on the tail of the Archimedes, they put the solution that will melt brother with the thorn" Charlotte answered.

"WHAT?!"

•••

Charlotte headed to the room where the other regulars were resting. But instead of resting, they regulars encountered with a bee with purple hair and four yellow wings. The honey bee was arguing with the others who wanted to get rid of him and told him to go away.

She slammed the door hard and gained all their attentions. When all their eyes on her, she said, "Go to the Video Room. This is an emergency."

•••

After being exposed, Khun thought that there was no need for him to disguise himself anymore and washed off his hair. He was sure that he would hold into his words and made FUG regret all of those. And while waiting for his friend, Shibisu was talking to him outside the washroom.

"Did you also notice why Hatz and Mr. Ro couldn't tell us what they found out?" Shibisu asked him. "Rankers from FUG are on the Archimedes, surveilling our communications and movements. Even if we had known, we couldn't have anything on that ship. In fact, we would have acted hastily and put ourselves in danger."

He lowered his head and continued, "I know why FUG didn't try to stop us from coming here. We were hostages....to keep Bam and Charlotte as hostages." He clenched his fists tightly before he loudly said, "SHOOT, I WON'T FORGIVE THOSE BASTARDS!! HOW DARE THEY RUIN OUR REUNION LIKE THIS?!"

Khun looked at the phone and received a notification. Seeing that notification, he looked surprised and then took the towel to dry his hair.

"It's not ruined yet, Shibisu. Parties always behind when games are over. No one knows who's gonna smiling in the end. Mr. Ro must have known that this rule and game are our only chance."

He opened the door and then continued, "And for us to win, the game has to start."

By the time he returned to his teammates, both old and new one, he watched the crocodile walking away. This time, the crocodile didn't care about what the others said and how will they stop him. No matter what happens, his goal was only one, to take back his black turtle and left that damned place. And this time, Khun didn't try to stop him either. He will come with him.

"Hatz, how long does it take for Archimedes to get to Bam's place?" Khun asked.

"Probably around two hours and it will pour solution once it has arrived" Hatz answered. "Mr. Ro will do whatever he can to slow it down, but we should leave the place with Bam before the solution is poured."

"Okay, let's get out of him then" he said and threw his tower away. "But it doesn't mean that we will give up on the tournament."

"We will summon Bam."

|Arena|

The semifinals had started.

Their plan was to use Emily to communicate with whoever sent them message. Surprisingly, Khun decided to believe on whoever sent them the message and it was even more surprising for them when Charlotte told them that the one who sent them the message was Hwaryun who pretended to be Yuto, the man with helmet from FUG's team.

"Do you really have the ability to read future?" Khun asked her.

"You still don't believe me?" Charlotte asked him back.

It wasn't that he didn't believe her. He had some questions to ask to her but due to the circumstances, he can't ask her. He had to wait for awhile, until they bring Bam back.

Khun had given each of them a role. Charlotte would be heading to the summoning center to summon Bam while the others would be hunting more points for them.

Again, Charlotte had made another change. In the Manhwa, Wangnan who was the spearhead will be running to the summoning center along with Quaetro and in the middle of the way, they would encounter enemies. Wangnan won't be able to win by himself and Quaetro said that he took liking on the chick or Wangnan and helped him. In another word, Wangnan had convinced Quaetro to help him when Quaetro was a cold-blooded person with something wrong in his head.

But now, she would be the one who did that. And she had no complaint as long as she could get her brother back. She held her fan tightly and when it started, she immediately used the Blue Oar to surf on the shinsu and directly went to the summoning center as fast as she can. Seeing how her speed increased in all sudden made Khun sure that Charlotte was giving everything in order to bring Bam back.

In the middle of her way, since she was riding the Blue Oar quite fast when she encountered enemies who ambushed her, she fell down from her Blue Oar.

"How lucky I am" their opponent said. He was red from head until toe and he was also holding a red weapon. "I encountered a lovely girl as my opponent."

Charlotte seriously had no time for this. Therefore, when her opponent approached her, she moved a bit to dodge his weapon and purposely made him trip. When her opponent showed his back on her, Charlotte didn't waste a second to use her fan to slice him repeatedly.

The man was already red outside and he was also red inside. Her white fan was now stained with his red blood. But she didn't give a damn about it as she wanted to finish things successfully.

The red man, having sliced again and again on his back with that fan, he didn't move for a moment and then he fell down. The crowds were cheering as Charlotte continued to ride the Blue Oar and headed to the summoning center.

Back then in the Test Floor, the first time she killed someone, her bright golden eyes lost their brightness and was replaced with fear and terror. Her skin immediately turned pale and she was trembling without stopping while sweating coldly. But now, she killed someone without even blinking or to show remorse. She done that without thinking too much as her mind was filled with the thoughts to save her brother as soon as possible.

|Summoning Center|

She walked inside the summoning center while huffing. On the other hand, Khun also huffed. It wasn't easy to keep up with Charlotte when she had made up her mind to reach the summoning center as soon as possible.

The summoning Center that she went into wasn't the summoning center to summon teammates, but a weapon. In another word, she went to the store to look for him. After all, he was the prize of this Workshop Battle right? He was also a weapon.

When she tried to look for Jue Viole Grace on the screen, she didn't see him. He wasn't there. Could it be that he hasn't arrived yet? Or she was being too fast?

Charlotte forgot that in order to make everything similar with the Manhwa, there was something that she should remember. The timing. All the coincidences and everything happened because of the timing. If she can't adapt with the timing and kept rushing things like this, then it was impossible for her to guide everything similar to the Manhwa. And just now, she heard the shouting and cheering from the crowd saying that they had defeated Jue Viole Grace.

Good, what should she do now?

The points were still not enough for them to summon Jue Viole Grace. She needed more points in order to bring him back. But at this time, where could she get points? Before, she felt happy when she knew that the price of Jue Viole Grace worth a lot and probably the most expensive regular there. But now, she wondered why they had to put so much points on him that she can't summon him now?

She groaned in frustration as Khun told her that they had to wait for the others to get more points before summoning Bam.

"Well, this isn't my fault for you are the one who rushed from the start until here with all your strength right?" Khun asked.

Suddenly, the screen that began to blur and showed a person from somewhere else. When Charlotte saw that person, she smiled in excitement.

"Brother!" Charlotte called his name. "So I didn't come too early at all!"

Truth to be told, Bam came to the store as fast as he can. Yuto or Hwaryun told him that right now, Charlotte was looking at him and hearing his sister's name, he came as fast as he can just to look at her. It was hard for the others to keep up with his speed.

"Brother, seeing that thing behind you, could that be the thorn?" Charlotte asked him.

"I guess so."

The said thorn that floated around on his back and has been following him was wrapped in bandages. He wondered whether this was indeed the thorn as it appeared to be weird and different to what he imagined.

"The thorn hasn't been fully activated" Charlotte said. "When you have activated it properly, then it would show you its real power."

Bam chuckled as he watched his dearest sister was smiling to him and filled with excitement. He replied, "Really?"

Charlotte nodded her head and hummed, "Yeah! Without a doubt! Wait until I summon you brother! I have a lot of things to tell you!"

Khun just sighed from his observer. He also wanted to talk to Bam. But this brat was too excited to talk with Bam that he felt a little bad disturbing their little reunion and decided to watch everything from aside.

Noah who has been following her couldn't help but to had a small smile on his lips. It has been awhile since he watched her being this excited and happy. But then, he sensed something wrong and then looked at her back where he found someone else coming to the store.

The person who was dressed in suit was a male with red cap and wore bandages around his eyes with yellow hair. Noah could felt that the man was filled with killing intent just by looking his eyes and immediately shouted, "WATCH OUT!"

Hearing his words, Charlotte immediately turned around.

"What do you think you are doing, little girl?" The man asked her and stabbed her.

"CHARLOTTE!"