The crowd was getting closer and closer
But we remained rooted to the spot in the middle of the scenery, our gaze averted.
Kim young stood up, the cube in his possession.
It didn't vibrate, it didn't move, nothing more than a simple black pebble.
She glared at me angrily.
- Why isn't it working?
She squeezed it, then stepped towards me and grabbed me by the collar; I saw a face I had never seen on her before:
No contempt, no calculation.
Just… fear
"It's a fake, right? Are you trying to double-cross me?" she whispered.
Was the question really for me?
Or for this entity.
Or for whoever had sent him.
– What makes you think it's a fake? How do you know he doesn't work? You don't know him, do you?
I tear away his grip around my collar and grab him by the shoulders
– who are you really?
She didn't have any more time to answer me.
The ground trembled.
The dust met us.
The Libyans engulfed us, pushing us aside and separating our confrontation.
The ground became covered with dust for a few centimeters around us.
Then, nothing more, just distant voices.
Kang-Dae screamed, his eyes wide with panic.
- Ki-Moon… Kim Young. What is this thing?
A-09 descended in a single, supple, almost feline jump.
He observed, as one observes the unknown.
- They disappeared? I'm a little sad for him if he's dead.
00 : 25 minutes.
- we don't care and what were the lovers doing when everyone else was running, two down is life is the game, Ray Lee sighed without compassion.
A-09 gave a dry, almost admiring smile.
- For your own team, you're rather heartless
He placed a hand on my shoulder.
- for a domesticated wolf.
Ray Lee clenched her fists again, tense.
- You're looking for trouble.
He stepped towards him and pushed him with one hand.
- For someone who was spared, you talk way too much for my liking
A-09 burst out laughing
And I shook my head, pulling back my arms raised.
A breath slipped into space.
[WELCOME TO THE SYSTEM]
You're cheating on me.
Kim Young heard it too, not the sentence, but the vibration.
She took a step back and began swinging her arms in the air as if she had lost her sight and was looking for a landmark.
I was observing the space dotted with screens.
- It looks like a control room.
This time, it was like a stone thrown into a calm lake.
Kim Young is getting tired.
She approached, and grabbed me completely.
– Hey Ki-moon? Is that you?
Silence
I continued to observe:
How can this be useful to me?
I took out the cube.
The real one
- …they shone with an intense blue.
Kim Young is said to be:
Are you ignoring me?
She was hitting my arm, her eyes wide, her head raised.
Who is this? Lolita?
I had no answer.
But the cube, on the other hand, had one.
It floated towards the screen
Symbols began to appear, keys.
Slowly .
00 : 05 minutes
Then she started to walk the runway.
Images, other games.
And the list
190
190 countries above us
Climb in order to escape.
Kim Young recoiled violently.
Stop it! Stop it right now! ANSWER ME!
"I'm not doing anything," I said.
And it was true.
The cube seemed to be following orders of its own.
I placed a hand on the back of my neck, exasperated:
- What is all this fuss about? I don't understand the game at all, I don't even know what I'm doing here, some…
I burst out laughing:
- THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
00 :00 : 30
The space dissipated, becoming increasingly translucent.
Opposite, the crowd was approaching.
The players were looking at us strangely, as if we had just come back from the impossible.
And behind them, our "team".
And around them, the scenery was finally beginning to disappear, but... it was giving way to another kind of theatre.
Kim Young pushed me to the side.
- stay as far away from me as possible.
She brought her face close to mine.
- Me too.
I am your enemy now.
I felt a shiver run through me.
Kang-Dae rushed towards us, his eyes worried and sweating:
- You're doing well! Ki-Moon! Kim young
"SHUT UP!" she roared.
She stared at me.
- I don't want a fake one.
She showed the cube and threw it on the ground.
The plates were forming.
The landscape was being reshaped.
A-09 breathed:
- It's going to be a massacre.
I looked up at Kim Young.
- What do you know about it?
She stared at me.
- What are you talking about?
- of the cube.
- What is it?
- Kim—
- KI-MOON!
She screamed, and walked away.
They all stepped back from his path.
Even A-09.
A swirling wind.
The parts are being installed.
And a phrase was etched in the air, right in front of us:
[WHAT IF WE PLAY "PERCHED CAT "]
00 : 00 : 00
[MY DEAR CHILDREN]