6. DECISIONS

Fuga goes to a microphone to announce something to Salus.

"Salus, please take note. In Zalanti we only have 50 Impotus fish and 200 Meganereis. Think of a solution. 10 minutes will be the time when the Meganereis suck down. Good luck."

Fuga pressed the start button. Ten minutes start now.

Salus notices that the coral reefs are far from the fish. She thinks of catching the fish first before they get eaten. She asks Ancora to bring a net for her.

"Ancora! I need a net. Is it okay if you can hand me one?"

"I don't see any problems. Go back to the entrance."

Salus receives the net from Ancora. She tries to capture the fish.

Four minutes have passed. Out of the 50 fish, she captured 28 fish, two were eaten, and the rest are not yet found. She changes a strategy. She'll throw away a fish and kill any Meganereis that wants to eat the said fish.

She sets a fish free. Many large worm-like species are following her. Instead of eating and fighting over the fish, they tried to trace the movement of the fish. The Meganereis who noticed it found Salus. That's her strategy. She chose herself to be the bait.

Five minutes have passed. She eliminated 1/40 of the Meganereis species. She tried doing the same strategy for 2 minutes, but her last trial became worse. She's now surrounded by them. She thinks of using the gathered fish as bait, so she gave up all of the fish by throwing it on a free space. The Meganereis didn't want the fish anymore. They want her. She got hurt when 25 of them fought for her. Even with the commotion, she's still trapped.

She has nowhere to run now, so she decides to blast them off, however, her right arm gets eaten. She forms a fist on her left hand and says "U" to regenerate. Unfortunately, it didn't work. It's because the circle was jammed by them. She has no choice left.

Eight minutes and forty-five seconds has passed. She gets eaten.

After the test.

"Before she got eaten, only 4 fish were eaten by the Meganereis, and 20 of the Meganereis were exterminated by Salus." Fuga mentioned.

"Where does Salus go after she gets eaten? Does she get transported back here?" Ancora asked.

"There's a weird white door at the clothes room. The door leads to the reawakening room. That's where she'll end up after she reawakens. Sad to say, she'll be escaping the place by herself."

"Herself only? Why?"

"Because there is no way to enter through the room. There's no handle. You can't slide it. You can't even push it."

"So that door is the exit door of the reawakening room? If yes, then where is the entrance?"

"Simple. Get eaten by the Meganereis."

"Are you out of your mind? You're making me worry about Salus so much it intimidates me."

"What do you expect of me? Do you know my origin?"

"From what person in the real world do you even belong?"

"My origin? None other than the former scientist partner of Evadere's mother."

Fuga admitted that his origin has a relationship to Vis Esurio. Ancora gets more worried, and confused.

"I don't understand what's going on now. The Praeterei before wasn't this crazy. What are you trying to do?" Ancora asks.

"What do you mean? This is what the kingdom offers. And besides, this is just a part of Praeterei. You've just been in less crazy ones. I feel so sad for you. Stay calm."

Ancora tries to be silent and rearrange her thoughts in mind.