"What is going on?!" Falk shouted.
"Horatio left the team," Kyle answered. "He left on his own volition."
"What are you talking about?! You were the one who wanted to talk to him all of a sudden! This has to be related to you!" Falk said.
"We had a talk, but I never told him to leave the team," Kyle answered with a sigh. "He saved my life. I'm not going to ask my savior to just leave."
"Then, why did he leave?" Falk asked with furrowed brows.
"If you meet him again, you can ask him," Kyle said. "It is not my place to unveil his secrets."
"Secrets?" Falk asked.
"Yep, secrets," Kyle answered. "Trust me when I say that I have thanked him in the most honest, valuable, and direct way possible."
'I mean, I put my life in his hands, let him leave, kept his identity secret, and even trusted him with the fate of the world, essentially,' Kyle thought. 'If that's not thanking him, I don't know what is.'
"You still manage to surprise me," Theodor said. "I thought I already saw the bottom of your stupidity, but I was mistaken."
"You might have just doomed the world."
Kyle didn't answer.
'I'm not going to punish someone just because of what they are. Horatio saved my ass, and he even taught me that I can be a leader. I'm not going to betray him.'
Michael kept himself out of the conversation since he didn't belong to the team.
Several seconds of silence passed.
"Fine," Falk said. "I guess it's only you and me now."
Kyle sighed. "Yeah, that sucks. We lost three members today."
The two of them looked at the scattered pieces of ice and Tracy's decapitated corpse.
Falk looked with pain at Tracy's corpse before looking away.
They had been working together for almost a year now.
During that year, the five of them had become good friends.
But now…
They had lost three of them.
Falk still remembered all the time he had talked with Tracy and Bormine.
Tracy had been so supportive in every matter. She was always ready to listen.
Bormine didn't talk as much, but he was very honest and trustworthy. If someone wanted advice, he was the right person to go to.
Kyle also looked at Tracy's corpse.
'Man, I really liked Tracy,' he thought. 'Still crazy that she's dead.'
'Gotta find new members, or should I disband the Dwarves?'
'Yeah, well. Whatcha gonna do? People die. Still sucks, though.'
"I'm sorry for what happened," Michael said.
"It's fine," Kyle answered. "You fought with us. Also, you were not the one who commissioned us. "
Michael sighed. "But I might be the one who's at fault for their deaths."
Falk furrowed his brows as he looked at Michael. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"Attacks like these don't usually happen," Michael answered.
Michael took a deep breath.
"That's because coaches also act as protection."
"If I hadn't left Exploding Aegis, he wouldn't have shown up," Michael said, motioning to the Late Knight's corpse.
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