"Toshiko if you can't find a solution... I will be forced to use this last resort..."
"What are you talking about? Of course I'm going to find it."
[The Bridge of Unpair -Pyramid of Disillusionment-
~Type: Flame
Rule: Find out how the bridge works and cross it without dying.
~ Time: 10:00min ]
CHAPTER 60
"First, I don't know if you've noticed, but there's something that jumps out in this notification..."
"What's that?" I replied.
"The Bridge of Unpair... I'm not a rocket scientist, but that name doesn't ring a bell."
"That's true, neither do I" said Naoki.
"But Unpair makes me think of odd. To cross this bridge, do you have to be an odd number?"
Naoki started to count us.
"There are only three of us, so it should work!"
Just as he had finished his sentence, a mysterious thing appeared next to us.
"What is it?" Toshiko exclaims.
It was too easy...
Ahead stood a number of people.
"They are humans!"
"I understand, they've added a difficulty for us now that we've figured out how to cross this bridge"
"Not quite looked right"
I hit one of the men standing in front of us.
"Yume what are you doing?!"
"You see..."
"That's strange, he doesn't react"
"They are humans without souls"
A robotic voice suddenly sounded.
"Help us, we have to get to the other side of the river through that bridge."
"He spoke!"
This half-child, half-adult voice surprised Naoki.
I quickly counted how many of them there were.
"Five plus us eight. That's an even number."
"So we won't be able to cross"
"And we have 7 minutes left"
"What are we going to do? Yume?"
I hadn't heard about her pyramids in the IDE. Could it be the prophetess who did this?
"I have no idea..."
"Didn't you say you had an ultimatum?"
I didn't answer for a few seconds.
"Go ahead."
"What?"
"Go ahead without me."
"What are you talking about Yume? If we're going to go, we're going together!"
"We just had to leave one of those five people here" Naoki offered.
"Yes, we can do that, nobody will notice us..."
"But there's nothing to say that anything would happen to us..."
Toshiko was annoyed by the situation.
"I don't want to lose you Yume!" She said to me on the verge of tears.
"You passed the test with flying colours."
"What? Are you kidding us?"
"No, I just wanted to know if I was important to you"
Toshiko then turned her back to me.
"You can really go now!"
"What about you?"
"Don't worry, I'll find a solution..."
"But..."
"If he says so, it means he'll make it come to Toshiko."
I have the impression that Naoki is a bit jealous...
[The Bridge of Unpair -Pyramid of Disillusionment-
~Type: Flame
7 people have just crossed the bridge, it's not usable anymore
~ Time: 5:17min ]
To be continued...