Desperate Times calls for...

Meanwhile, while the previous three chapters were happening all at the same time...

'Well...this is painfully more boring than I had anticipated,' Zhen Liu complained to himself. 'Then again, that could just be my brain just trying to ignore my anxiety talking, I thought we kept Paralust in a cage for a reason!'

Due to the lack of a clock's presence in the Library control room, for some reason, Zhen Liu had no idea how long he had actually been left floating like this.

His only measure of time came in the form of watching his cousins, Olstenna and the idiot trio go through a kaijin-made gauntlet.