Tales From The Kronos

The two girls arrived in the cafeteria to see Neige and Sepide hanging out there. After they took something to eat, they sat at the table where their friends were. Silva was surprised they were still here, it felt like a full day passed since they split up.

"Don't tell me you spent all your time there since we last saw each other..."

"Silva! Did you go to help Emely? How did it go?" Sepide looked at her friend with a gaze full of excitement, Silva on the other end seemed to think deeply about everything that happened in the last few hours.

"I became a lawyer and I created life. Also, I make girls lesbians."

"That's the worst way to summarize what happened..." Emely said with exasperation in her voice, she felt like if Silva explained what happened in detail she'd be incredibly embarrassed and she didn't want to be here when it happened. She looked at her watch and tried to act surprised the best she could "Oh, I didn't see the time. I probably should go work."

"Emely saying that she needs to go work is weirder than I thought..." Neige mumbled to himself. Before the engineer left, he asked her another favor "By the way, my gun's dead. I guess the anomaly must have played too much with it, have you seen Shiro? I searched him all day."

"Shiro? I don't think I saw him. I can always take a look at your weapon, I know a bit about firearms."

"Alright, I'll come later if I don't find him."

Emely left the three friends, who all shared their surprise about Shiro's disappearance.

"That's strange, does it often disappear like that?"

"Not really," Neige answered to Sepide 's question "but the ship is big, wouldn't be surprised if we just missed each other."

"Probably in his room thinking about you while polishing his sword."

Silva smirked, visibly proud of her joke.

"Shiro has a sword?" Sepide asked innocently.

"A bigger one than Neige probably, hehe."

Neige let out a sigh, unsure whether he missed Silva when she was away or if he was glad to have a break from her.

"Can you explain what happened instead of saying weird stuff?"

"Oh right, it's a long story!"

Silva tried her best to explain everything. About the love trial, Remiel, and even Emely's confession. Sepide and Neige were both surprised to learn about everything that happened and even more that Emely confessed her feelings. Silva continued to talk about Remiel until she was suddenly stopped.

"Wait, she confessed to you?" Neige interrupted the story, visibly scared all of a sudden.

"Yeah, seems like someone can enjoy my body at last!"

"I... Don't think that's the reason. Anyway, what did you say? Don't tell me you broke her heart and made a stupid joke."

"I guess I made a stupid joke but I'm not a monster. Even with Emely, I can be nice and understanding."

"Definitely not a sentence I expected to hear in my lifetime, it would bring a tear to my eye if I could believe it." Neige said with a smile, still a bit worried about what Silva said to her.

"Do not fret, those days are behind us. Well, I still call her weird names, but it's fun."

"If you're both happy I'm glad for you!" Cheered Sepide "Are you together now?"

"Love doesn't work like that, I still need time to think. She's a great girl for sure and I wouldn't mind if I... Touched some... Parts of her body."

"Are you embarrassed?" Neige said in surprise "Did you kidnap the real Silva?"

"I'm talking about someone who has feelings for me, of course it's embarrassing. But I have to admit, I'm not really into girls, yet I still feel attracted to her, it's weird."

"You should take a moment to think about it, a lot happened to you. Either way, we accept you."

"I mean you accepted me when I harmed myself and caused all these problems, I'd be surprised if dating a girl was your limit."

Neige thought for a moment and had a sudden idea that he shared with Silva.

"You should probably talk about it with the leader, she's into girls too!"

"She's into something else than you and video games? I have a hard time believing it."

"I'll be honest, me too." Said Neige "But I think talking with someone that has more experience than you might be beneficial."

"There's also Shiro." Remarked Sepide "He's into guys too."

"Shiro is into guys?" Neige looked clueless, amusing his friend.

"How can you be so smart and so dumb at the same time? It's obvious that he's gay."

"How is it obvious, there aren't even guys left on the ship aside from me."

Sepide and Silva looked at each other, wondering if Neige was being dumb on purpose.

"It's not important, I think I'll talk about it with the leader or Shiro. For now, I just need sleep."

"Oh right, it's late." Noticed Sepide "It's hard to tell when it's late because the lights only turn off at night."

"Don't you have a watch?" Asked Silva "I feel like your sight makes you more blind than me sometimes."

"You should try being sighted one day, might be a good experience." Joked Neige while standing up from his chair "You should go sleep. I'll go see if Emely is free, I don't feel comfortable without a functioning firearm."

"Alright, have a great night. Don't feel too bad about the size of your sword."

Neige ignored Silva's words and headed toward Emely's lab, hoping she would still be awake.

When he entered the room, all he could think about was the smell of the oil everywhere in the lab. It was so disorganized inside, a lot of screws and tools were lying on the ground, left unattended.

"What happened here?"

The owner of the lab turned toward the origin of the voice and stopped working on what she was doing.

"Neige, you couldn't find Shiro?"

"I didn't search to be honest, it's pretty late. I just need my gun to work decently, I'll go see him later for further repair."

"No need, I'll fix it perfectly!"

Emely took Neige's gun and looked at it closely. The weapon looked like it was older than any of them, rust started accumulating and a lot of parts were on the verge of breaking.

"What did you do with it? Even if I tried I couldn't damage it so much!"

"I don't know, ask the anomaly."

Emely put the gun on her desk and started to disassemble it right in front of Neige.

"I thought you'd put it on your to-do list and ignore me for a month before doing it."

"So Shiro can brag that he fixed it? No thanks, I'll show him how good an engineer is!"

While she was working on his weapon, Neige looked around the room, finding weird things on the ground.

"Gloves that can carry everything?"

"Yeah, just put them and you can carry the heaviest things!"

"But... How can I do it if my arms don't support the weight?"

"Then go to the gym, not my fault you can't handle my invention."

Neige was quite confused about the utility of gloves that require training to be used. Sometimes, he wondered if she even did anything and wasn't just pretending to. He noticed a familiar book on her desk, the sketchbook that Silva took around with her.

"She forgot that here."

"Oh, she sat there, it must have fallen from her pocket."

Looking through the pages, Neige paid attention to the progress his friend made after all the time she spent drawing. There were a few drawings of him and Sepide which weren't accurate but still brought a smile to his face.

"She really improved, even if it's obvious that she's blind."

"She draws better than me though."

A few minutes of snooping around passed before Emely broke the silence.

"Hey, Neige."

Neige suddenly stopped, thinking that he did a mistake or touched something he shouldn't have.

"Yes?"

"Do you think that... Silva loves me, even just as a friend."

"I'll be honest, I have no idea what's going on between you two. But if she told you so then it's true. She's not the kind to lie."

"Yeah... I regret telling her my feelings. I feel like it made her feel bad and that she's lost because of me now."

"If she heard you she'd slap you and say something mean like... Dumbdumb."

"Dumbdumb?" Chuckled Emely "You're bad at insults."

"I think you two are too good with insults... But really, I think it impressed her. Even if she doesn't love you the same way, she'll always remember what you told her with nostalgia."

"I'm glad, I'm happy if it didn't make her feel bad."

"Not at all, she seemed happy actually. You know, I know a lot about Silva now. I know what she likes and how love worked in her home world."

"Really? Will you help me?"

"Yeah of course, as long as you make Silva happy. But if you hurt her, I break all your bones and make sure you can't walk again."

Emely did an awkward laugh, trying to ignore his last sentence.

"I'm going to do my best to make her happy, please don't hurt me, Mister Luck!"

"Come on, there's no reason I do anything to you... Wait, how do you know my last name?"

Emely ignored him and handed him his gun which was now in a perfect state, visibly impressing Neige.

"How did you do that? It looks all new."

"If you looked instead of snooping around you'd know. We should go to sleep now... I don't want to see the lights of the ship turn off..."

The two of them left the lab and went to their room, ready to end this long day.