AT THE SAME TIME
XAVIER'S POINT OF VIEW:
The room felt impossibly still, like the breath before a storm. Every eye was locked on the dim glow emanating from the center, where the system's voice cut through the silence with chilling clarity.
"Task complete: memory fragment access achieved. Reward: partial key materialized."System said.
The words felt almost unreal, like a cruel joke. We'd worked so hard, faced so many dangers, and now… a broken key? Floating there, fractured yet pulsing with an eerie energy, the half-broken key hovered like a silent challenge. I stared at it, heart pounding. It was beautiful but incomplete, and its faint hum seemed to mock us like the game was daring us to take the next step, knowing full well how steep the climb would be. Kaori's face twisted in worry, her hands trembling as she gripped Ikaru's arm tightly.
