- Garam Zahard -

Endorsi was still asking Khun about his [Enna Core] skill and the more Endorsi asked about that, the more smug his smirk looked like.

"Are you jealous because you want to see my skill so badly?" Khun asked.

"I don't envy that kind of skill at all~ you can't do anything without fishermen anyway."

It wasn't entirely wrong. But there was something that Evan hid from the princess.

[Enna Core] could happen not only because he had upgraded Khun's lighthouses, but was also because there was Beta inside Khun's lighthouse.

Beta was an ignition weapon. In order to climb the tower, he disguised himself as the weapon and hid in the lighthouse. In another word, this [Enna Core] was a collaboration between Khun and Beta. Despite of having an amazing power, there was one critical weakness that this skill had which was if the lighthouses were attacked and damaged, it would be hard to use it again.

The group continued to walk and walk until they heard something. To their surprises, they encountered with a group of giant beetles.

'Crap, they came sooner than what I thought!' Altaira thought as he gulped at the giant beetles that looked tough.

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Entrance[hall] to the Floor of Death

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Sadly, they failed in deceiving the High Richie and they were told to give up their souls to enter the Floor of Death.

The Divine Sea Fishes then came to take their souls. The three of them decided to give their souls up to enter the Floor of Death, even when they knew the risk that they won't be able to leave the Floor of Death forever after they surrender their souls to those Divine Sea Fishes.

It wasn't a surprise for Charlotte when she saw lots of souls coming out from Bam's body. Unlike the others who were shocked, she knew that those souls were the vengeful souls, given by White's last clone.

But she was more surprised when she saw that she actually had two souls. A person could only have one soul so the extra soul must be.....

Charlotte.

Right, Charlotte didn't really die. It was just that she was taking over her body.

Charlotte couldn't give her soul. She could give hers, but not Charlotte.

"Charlotte.....just how do you have.....another one soul?" Bam asked her curiously.

Of course, he wasn't aware that his real younger sister was still living.

Charlotte was unsure of what she should answer. After all, this was about his younger sister. She couldn't just straight up and lie right? To think that her brother cherished the people around him...

"I......don't know.....as well....." she lied.

Bam wanted to ask more but he had to hold himself back first. After all, right now, the monk was questioning their identities. He refused to believe that the two of them were just ordinary regulars. What kind of ordinary regulars will have more than one soul inside them? Charlotte thought that this Richie hasn't seen White yet. Who knows, he might just cough blood if he sees White.

Believing that the two of them were threats, Richie summoned up his famous bamboo spears. Hockney said that those bamboo spears belonged to the final gatekeeper and there was one way to destroy it which was to destroy the hole in the middle of the core.

"[Shinsu Black- Hole Sphere] will do it" said Charlotte. "Let me do it, brother."

"Oh...okay....."

Charlotte used the [Shinsu Black- Hole Sphere] and aimed it to the bamboo spears. Just with one skill, one shot, the bamboo spears vanished. The [Shinsu Black- Hole Sphere] was absorbing the Shinsu around it.

'They didn't look that strong' Hockney thought. The twins looked rather ordinary in the terms of power at the first glance....until Charlotte used the strange and mysterious skill.

Richie planned to eliminate and to stop them from going inside the Floor of Death. He prepared more bamboo spears to continue the fight when he was stopped.

"You have been ordered to let them inside alive" said a creature with one big pink eye and two pink wings.

".....what?" Richie was confused. "Who said that......?"

"The hermit in the North City, " answered the creature.

That name made Richie recalled a person.

"Why would she.....suddenly take interests in outsiders.....?"

He couldn't figure the reason why. But he knew that no matter how much he found those livings threatening, he had to let them go inside the Floor of Death.

He returned their souls and let them in. Of course, after he warned them that their time staying in the Floor of Death was just one week, otherwise they'll be devoured by the dead. Charlotte couldn't understand what Richie meant and she thought that she won't be able to comprehend that for the rest of her life since that won't happen.

The four of them entered the place.

"Whoa...this is insanely a complicated passage.....what was the red water that we passed before?" Bam asked Hockney.

"It's the blood that spilled from the administrator when we entered here" Hockney answered. "That blood is high- concentration Shinsu, which is absolutely necessary for the people living on the Floor of Death. The Shinsu in the inner part of the Floor of Death that we are entering now has very low density. So they send the blood in like this to adjust the concentration."

Hockney said that they made use of the tiny vessels from the body of the dead administrator. Those tiny vessels made a hole which was the largest gateway that lead to the inner city. Hockney also said that there was a certain person from inside trying to take control of it.

The tiny vessels were connected with the outside so there was a way for the outsiders to enter this place but the passages were complicated and dangerous so no one had ever tried it.

Charlotte was having some time trying to understand everything when Mata dragged Hockney away for the second time. When Hockney and Mata weren't around, Bam tried to ask Charlotte about the extra soul that she had.

"Are you sure you don't know where it comes from?" Bam asked.

She closed her right palm and put in on her chest. Right now, she felt really guilty. But still, she shook her head.

"I see......"

'Bam really believes in me......' She frowned even deeper knowing that she was lying to a person who trusted her the most.

"Don't you think it's weird that the High- Richie suddenly let us in this place?" Bam asked Charlotte.

He knew that she felt uncomfortable therefore he purposely changed the topic, though he didn't understand why Charlotte felt uncomfortable.

Charlotte immediately grasped that chance, unaware that Bam did that on purpose.

"Well, I think it's because that there is someone tells him to" Charlotte answered.

"Someone?" Bam echoed.

"Yes. Brother, do you remember when Yura said that we need to find the princess of the deep sea to find the thorn?" Charlotte asked him back. "Well, we are lucky that we come to this place...since the princess of the deep sea girl is in this place!"

"Really?" Bam smiled.

Charlotte nodded her head and hummed happily.

"Surprised not surprised? Happy not happy?"

"Of course, I--"

"Congratulations! You've finally found some potential friends!"

He was cut off by Mata and Hockney.

"I....it's not like that!"

"....what has gotten with those two.....?" Bam asked and Charlotte just shrugged off.

Tap, tap, tap

"Anyway, this is great! They've been separated from their companions too! So for now, let's ask them to look for the picture with you!"

Tap, tap, tap

"I.....I don't know about that......"

Tap, tap, tap

To their surprises, there was a person who barged and came inside. That mysterious person jumped and then landed on the Blue Orb belonged to Mata.

'How fast' Charlotte was amazed by that person's speed.

"W....what the hell?! Who are you?!"

That person didn't answer Mata's question.

"Seeing you up close this, you're really cute" said that person who was a female. She sat on the Blue Orb casually. From up close, both Charlotte and Bam could see her blue hair and her silver eyes. "No wonder two Princesses of Zahards are following you around."

"Hey, where do you think you are sitting right now?!" Mata asked, feeling angry right now. "Get your butt off there right now!"

But before he could do anything, he was stopped by Hockney. Hockney's mysterious eyes told Mata that there was something with the woman who had just intruded in and she was the strongest woman Hockney has ever seen.

Ignoring the two men, the woman was more interested with the twins.

"You're a bit different from what I imagined. Although I figured out that the two of you wouldn't be as rough as Urek" said the woman, surprising Bam with the name "Urek".

Who else could that be? Of course the red- eyed Urek Mazino.

".....Urek.....? Do you know him....?" Bam asked.

"Well, of course....although I would rather not know a fool like him" the woman answered.

Knowing the story between the two of them, Charlotte tried not to chuckle or giggle.

"First, shall we go somewhere else and started talking?" The woman then put her fingers on the Blue Orb.

She changed their destination to the North City and after she done something to Manyleg that she called as Manytoes, after changing the destination, the creature walked on different direction.

Mata completely disagreed with this but knowing that the woman was stronger than him, if he didn't want to die right there and right now, he could only sulk and grumble while glaring at the woman, pitying his poor Manyleg for being used in this way.

Charlotte felt that things turned kind of awkward with the woman there. The woman has been looking at her rather suspiciously and Charlotte was sure that she hadn't done anything bad to this woman yet. This was their first meeting and she has been looking at her from up until down. Uncomfortable, she hid behind her brother while pretending to not notice anything.

"The two of you.....are you siblings?" The woman asked them.

Charlotte didn't know whether she should be relieved or not when the woman began to ask them question.

"Yeah" Bam answered. "To be more exact, we are twins. She is my younger sister."

"I see....."

Then, the woman asked nothing else.

It didn't take long before the two of them reach the North City. Once they reached the North City, the woman jumped from the Blue Orb and then jumped out from the creature.

"From here, we are going to ride another beast" she said to them. "Come down here."

"First you drag us over here without any kind of explanation, and now you just tell us to go down there!" Mata shouted from the creature. "Who do you think would listen to you?!"

The woman wasn't offended.

"Ah, then the two of you don't have to come down. I only have to see those siblings in the coat about something. The two of you can head back" said the woman. "But you, twins.....you have to come with me. There's something I absolutely must give you....and something to ask."

Bam turned his head and looked at Charlotte. Charlotte was also looking at her brother before she nodded her head.

"I think you guys can head back. We're going to follow her" said Bam to both Mata and Hockney.

"....what? A suspicious woman like her....?" Mata was surprised.

"Yeah....she may know something about what we're looking for. Unfortunately, we are going to have to part here" Bam said again.

Mata, "......"

Hockney, "......."

"We've already come all the way together!" said Mata again. "We can't just leave you! If you are going, then we'll go with you too!"

".....Mata...?" Hockney was a bit surprised.

"I just feel bad sending them off like this. Don't you?" Mata said while crossing his arms.

".....but I have to find my picture...."

"It will just be around for one day. You may be able to find something really important" Mata assured Hockney.

".......something really important......?"

"That's right. Something really important."