Deception: A Tactician's Card

Short: Before Claiming the Spoils

"There's no use clinging for life when there is death you can embrace."

A rune card appeared in front of me, and as I snapped to activate it, he just dropped dead as I said the rune card's name.

"[Faint Heart]."

Well. That sure escalated quickly and ended abruptly too.

Should I wait here? I guess I should. They'll be back here soon enough.

•••

"What? You left Yukti there?"

"It's not that we wanted to do that in the first place, Snow. He did it to stall time. Moreover, he's someone who could set the best way of survival. Didn't you remember? He's the one who helped us all."

I lowered my head and sighed.

"You're right. He's the one who saved me after all."

"Now that's the spirit. Anyway, we need to go there now and give him some backup."

"Right."

"On it."

As we motivated ourselves and we're ought to leave, I glanced at the lady with the same features as my sister Cory's. She called herself Eight, she named herself after the number in the thousands place of my sister's canister.

I have lots of questions to ask her but I'll put them aside for now. Our priority is to secure the cloning machine and make sure that no one could ever touch it again and use it for evil deeds. Sure, I'm worried about Yukti's safety, but the anxiety I felt was dissipated by Agony.

"Let's go now. Are you guys ready? We might face tough enemies along the way."

"Don't worry sister", I said as I wore the clothing Yukti usually used with temperature regulation feature. " We could do it. I have undergone training to improve myself. I can now do better."

"Training? Did you receive one? From whom?"

I directed my gaze at Liz, who tilted her head and crossed her brows in both confusion and curiosity.

"I think you knew who he was."

"Oh. It's that guy huh? He sure does the caliber to teach anyone. Very well! We don't have time lollygagging, so let's go already and finish this. I want to start our discussion about my clan."

Liz finally made her decision, and that is to stop the upcoming coup that will be done by her own family. She might be rude oftentimes, but in the end, she's concerned about her family's schemes.