Kire was more scared than he had ever been; both Joy and Nidenel had talked about how much of a threat Sara was and now she had tracked him down and he was sure she was there to kill him.

  He and Iro stepped out of the vehicle, but to their surprise Joy and Sara got in at the same time.

  “Get in.” Joy ordered from the backseat.

  They slowly sat down back in the car and Kire saw Sara through the rear-view mirror staring at him without blinking.

  Joy ordered Iro to keep driving, he then asked Kire when he planned on attacking the GA.

  Kire glanced at the rear-view mirror again and saw Sara looking at Iro now. “In a few days.” He answered. He hadn’t actually planned an attack on anyone as he only said it in the heat of the moment.

  “Alright, I’m coming with you.” Joy stated shocking both Kire and Iro.

  Kire couldn’t see the person Vince and Michael had described in Joy, instead of being meek, he was assertive and menacing. Kire was even doubting whether this was the same person he talked with through texts. He got the picture that Joy was being controlled, but if he was Joy sure was an excellent actor, but then the harshest reality hit, was he actually supposed to attack the GA?

  He was confident in his own abilities, but also knew his own limitations. Back when he was breaking Iro out of prison he fought Vb one on one and although defeating him never was his goal he wasn’t holding back at all.

  “Why did you train Michael?” Joy asked, interrupting Kire’s thoughts.

  “Huh?”

  Joy repeated himself.

  “I was begged to and he could’ve been an insider in the GA.” Kire answered.

  “He is in the GA now.” Joy said.

  “Great, maybe he will give me some inside knowledge when I go there in a few days.” Kire said sarcastically.

  Joy didn’t understand Kire’s sarcasm, he stayed quiet for the rest of the ride as he was thinking of his plan to escape from Sara during the battle and considered the chance that maybe Kire could convince Michael and the rest of GA to fight Sara while he himself escaped.

  The ride lasted almost 7 hours until they finally arrived, during the drive Kire was able to send a message to 55 where he asked her, Kate, Brown and Bobby to get out of the house as they were bringing Sara and Joy there.

  As Sara was getting out of the car she asked Iro why they didn’t just run here as it would’ve been much faster. He said he simply liked driving and since they weren’t in a hurry why bother wasting energy.

  Sara accepted the response, she was the first to go in the house where she walked through every room and checked to see what or who was in there, but found nobody. The house looked abandoned, but recently used so it perfectly gave the image that Kire and Iro were just staying there for the moment. But Sara wasn’t so easily fooled she knew something was up with the house as why would they even stay so far away from Sydney if they were going to be here for so little time.

  She really wanted to ask them that, but she was also trying to keep on the image that she wasn’t controlling Joy so she had to refrain.

  Joy asked Kire where he could sleep, and Kire showed him to one of the bedrooms. He immediately laid down and closed his eyes, Sara walked in the room after Joy and then closed it. Meanwhile Kire walked into the living room and tried his hardest to eavesdrop on Sara from there, but he couldn’t hear anything for three hours. That’s when he got too tired and fell asleep.

  In actuality Sara was talking very loudly. Right right after closing the door she molded the walls so they absorbed almost all noise in the room, she then said to Joy that they were going back to Sydney, but Joy refused, he said he wanted to meet Michael one last time and then he would do whatever she said. Sara was frustrated, but complied. She then sat on a chair and watched Joy sleep all night.

  Kire barely remembered when he had fallen asleep and he wasn’t even aware that he had until Nidenel reminded him that they in a dream. They were once again in a forest, but this time also by a lake. Kire noticed that Nidenel was somehow different so he asked if he was able to talk with Joy and was surprised by Nidenel’s reaction.

  For the first time Nidenel seemed somewhat concerned. “I don’t trust him.”

  “What?” Kire chuckled. He was a bit skeptical. “What happened?”

  “He is more than just a saint.” Nidenel fretted. “I tried to get into his head, but there was something in there.”

  “What?” Kire

  “I don’t know.” Nidenel stuttered. “It was way beyond any comprehension.”

  “What does that even mean?” Kire asked.

  “It’s incomprehensible. I can’t explain something, I can't even understand myself!” Nidenel yelled. “If you really want to, try imagining…”

  “Okay, Okay I get it.” Kire interrupted Nidenel to save himself from another horrible analogy. “So did you even talk with him?”

  “Yes. He’s scared of her because she will kill him somewhere in the future.” Nidenel

  “Does he know why?” Kire

  “The cadvos want to use his saint power to kill me.” Nidenel

  “How?” Kire “What’s his power then?

  “I think he gains Energy by killing people.”

  “Really?” Kire

  “That’s what it looked like. He did it almost immediately after our talk.” Nidenel

  “That’s incredible.” Kire said. “Maybe he and I together could free you.”

  “I don’t think you need to anymore, their plan sounds like I’ll be freed eventually when they try to kill me.” Nidenel

  “Wait, are you giving up?” Kire

  “No. I literally just said that I'll be freed eventually.” Nidenel

  “But they’re gonna kill you right?” Kire

  “I’m Immortal, that’s the reason I was sealed, because I can’t be killed.” Nidenel

  Kire was shocked to hear Nidenel. His life had no other meaning until eventually being the one to set Nidenel free of his millenia long imprisonment, but now Nidenel who was the one to give him this meaning originally was the one to give up entirely. It made him disappointed.

  “Look, I’m much less scared of what they can do to me than I am of what Joy himself could do.” Nidenel assured.

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  “Do you think he would just let them kill him if he could do something to you?” Kire asked.

  “Definitely not.”

  “So then you wont get freed.” Kire “Are you scared?”

  “Of course I’m scared, you would be too if you witnessed what I did.”

  “I don’t believe you.”

  “That’s fine.”

  “What am I supposed to do then?” Kire asked. “I can’t just stop with my life's work.”

  Nidenel didn’t answer Kire, he turned to look at the lake in front of them. Kire wasn't willing to give up. “I’ll work with Joy to free you even if you don’t want that.” He then slapped himself awake right as Nidenel was about to yell at him not to.

  As Kire woke up he expected it to still be night, but it was sunny outside. He was still in the living room and when he checked the clock he realized that it was 9 am. He decided to look around the house to see whether anyone else was awake and eventually ventured outside to where Iro was sitting drinking coffee in the sun.

  “How are you?” Kire asked as he sat down with Iro.

  “Could be better.” Iro answered. “Was the couch comfortable?”

  “Not really, but He was just so quiet so I fell asleep.” Kire squinted both his eyes as he said that to indicate to Iro that the sentence had a hidden meaning, which Iro quickly understood.

  Both Kire and Iro were sure that Sara was eavesdropping on them, considering how easy it would be. Kire wanted Sara to know that he was eavesdropping on them, but didn’t want to make it too obvious so that’s why he was subtle when he said it. The true hidden meaning was to hint towards them being suspicious of Joy instead of Sara to indicate they weren’t aware of their dynamic.

  The mind games seemed to work as Sara who was still sitting on the chair looking at Joy heard them talk outside and got the exact message Kire wanted her to get. She tried to make something out of everything else they said, but it wasn’t anything that she thought was noteworthy.

  Around ten minutes later Joy finally woke up, he didn’t pay any attention to Sara and walked right out of the room. He saw Kire and Iro sitting outside, but before going to talk with them he walked into the kitchen and checked the fridge for anything to eat, there wasn’t much so he made himself a few sandwiches and then walked outside.

  “I want to hear what your plan is.” Joy said as he sat down with them.

  “There is no plan, we’re just going in and killing everyone.” Kire said.

  “So why the wait?” Joy asked.

  “I want to do it on new years eve.” Kire was happy that Joy asked that as he thought it was a clever answer he came up with while on the car drive.

  Joy didn’t ask any further questions, but instead ate the sandwiches quietly. After finishing them he simply got up and started walking around the house.

  Kire and Iro watched through the large window as Joy was walking around, he was bringing books into the living room and finally sat down and started reading. He was there uninterrupted for hours until he fell asleep, while he was reading Kire and Iro had gone into different rooms to meditate.

  Sara sat in the corner once again just staring at Joy sleep, but she was completely clueless of what Joy was actually doing. Even the entirety of the previous night Joy was using the dream world as a place to think.

  Right now he was going through the whole scenario where he hopefully would be able to escape, but even in a world which he completely controlled he just couldn’t see himself simply running away from Sara.

  As he got more frustrated at his own powerlessness he released his anger onto Sara in the actual room he was sleeping in right now. Sara didn’t even know that anything was happening to her because nothing really was. It was simply Joy’s imagination, but he was optimistic, him being able to stand right next to Sara without her even knowing it gave him a wild idea. He thought that maybe it could be possible for the two versions to switch places. Could it even be possible to affect the real world from inside his dreams, if it was wouldn’t Nidenel also be doing it?

  He really wanted to talk with him again, that’s why he took the nap in the first place, maybe Nidenel only talked during the day, but so far it was just him alone. Maybe he could talk with Kire directly through the dreams just like Nidenel did.

  Joy closed his eyes and the surroundings disappeared, he floated around in the nothingness for a while thinking how Nidenel was able to enter other people’s dreams.

  His initial idea was to somehow invade someone's mind using Energy, but could Nidenel even do that? The seal is supposed to prevent any Energy from leaving the core of the planet.

  Joy came to a conclusion that it couldn’t have anything to do with Energy, but then what else could it be. He woke himself up and realized that Sara wasn’t in the corner of the room anymore, while Joy slept she had moved into the kitchen.

  Joy didn’t even get up; he immediately fell asleep again and visualized the room again. Now Sara was sitting in the kitchen, but when Joy got closer he noticed nothing was moving, everything was just a still picture, and more importantly when he tried to walk out of the house he realized that everything that was a further away was just like a projection on a paper as they had no depth.

  Joy tried to correct it by re-imagining his surroundings, but nothing changed. Initially it confused him, but he shortly after understood why it was happening.

  Objects that were too far were just left for the mind to imagine how it looked and it resulted in the lack of details like depth. Whenever Joy recreated his surroundings he just created whatever he had last seen, that’s why nothing was moving. He realized this and took a different approach, instead of recreating from memory he tried to use the present.

  His eyes weren’t the only thing that light was colliding with, his entire body was as well. He woke himself up once more and stayed laid down on the couch. He tried very hard to feel the light, but because it doesn’t have weight it took him over an hour of trying. To reach that point he went through multiple stages of feeling more and more delicate things, but it all started with isolating his sense of touch.

  Finally when he felt the light he realized that it wasn’t just bouncing around, but a slight amount of light would always pass through. He didn’t even need to open his eyes as even while just laying on the couch he could see everything around him, even through the walls and the ground.

  He got super excited and immediately went back to his dream and sure enough the technique was working perfectly when he saw everything move in real time.

  He decided to leave the exploration of the technique for the next night, because he felt that taking too long of a nap would raise suspicions.

  He tried spending the rest of the day reading books, but he was so excited about the next night that the several hours before he went to bed felt like an eternity to him.

  But when the evening finally arrived Joy was happier than ever, he tucked himself into bed and immediately fell asleep.

  Back in the dream he looked around and to his surprise, he saw people in one of the houses on the street, out of curiosity he went there to see who it was and was surprised to even recognize one of them.

  When Kire visited him and Michael, 55 was with him and Joy could very clearly remember her face. That wasn’t the only surprising thing in that house there was also a man tied down in the basement.

  He wanted to talk with Kire since he would probably know what was going on, but didn’t really know how, Kire would probably have to be asleep so decided to wait till he went to bed. It took almost 2 hours, but when he did, Joy saw a speck of light fly towards Kire from the center of the earth. He could only see it for a split second, but believed it had to be Nidenel. Joy was able to replicate that scene in his head and the surroundings quickly changed to a still image of what they were around 10 seconds ago. Joy went up to the speck of light and noticed that aside from the light it was emitting the actual object was microscopically small.

  He couldn’t really know just from the appearance what it was, but considering how fast it was going Joy assumed it had to just be light, or more precisely a photon. That was his assumption, but why was it so bright?

  Presumably it was a singular photon, but it was actually distinguishable, that’s what confused Joy the most. It had to have some special property to be like that, but it couldn’t be Energy if it came from Nidenel.

  Joy thought that the only viable property it could have was mass, but without energy it seemed like an impossible feat to achieve, but was way off. He had pretty much already done the hard part with the replicate world, all he had to do now was to use a tiny bit of Energy to attack a piece of himself smaller than an atom to a photon that was passing through him. It wasn’t the first thing he tried, but he still got it pretty quickly.

  He would’ve immediately tried it out on Kire, but if he did Sara would most definitely see it. The only direction in which Sara wouldn’t be able to see it was downwards. He shot one down, but then realized that even though there was no Energy attached to it, he could control it like there was.

  Joy redirected the one he shot down right back up and into Kire’s head. Without him even doing anything his surroundings changed into a hellscape.

  Everything around was burning and he saw something large in the distance, but before he could even get closer to see what it was everything disappeared and the hellscape turned into nothing. All he now saw was Kire floating in there with his eyes closed, Joy got closer and saw that Kire was sleeping so he woke him up.

  Their surroundings changed again, but this time the two of them were on top of a mountain. Joy tried to change the scenery, but nothing happened. He then asked Kire where they were, but Kire’s answer made no sense, he said something about finally reaching the peak.

  Joy looked at him confused for a while and then reminded him it wasn't real, which seemed to fix it. Now Kire was staring at Joy, but he was in awe, he even chuckled a bit.

  “Nidenel is afraid of you.” Kire stated.