"...I got this."
"Rhys, we—"
"Let the Recruit do what he wants."
Both Lina and Katarina were about to follow Rhys as he leaped from the 2nd floor, but Ayesha quickly held both of them back. Lina did not really contest much, as she just sighed and took a step back… before grabbing her phone and recording whatever it was that was about to happen.
As for Katarina, the only thing she could really do was stare — truly hoping nothing bad happened to Rhys.
As for the sole focus of their eyes, Rhys was now standing along with the other Explorers who were waiting for the monsters to rain up from the Hole. He was initially going to dive down but opted not to do so as he would have a better audience here in the mall.
What he wanted was to gain influence, and people seeing him through their screens was not enough for that — he needed a live audience, and the Explorer Mall was giving him just that.
"Why don't you just vault the Hole!?"
