If he wanted to brute force it, then he would need a day or two for himself. With the looming Gate 10, however, he couldn't afford to do that. Marta and William needed to get stronger. They needed him.
'I don't need a computer to do Caesar ciphers or Vigenère ciphers. It's simple. But this is different. There's Arabic lettering included and Sumerian—'
"You're distracted," Sun-young stated, snapping him from his thoughts. "Is something wrong?"
He blasted her with a hundred-watt smile. "Oh, it's nothing."
His smile almost convinced her not to follow up. In fact, in the past, she wouldn't have.
"Is it?"
So what changed? She was asking. She was showing her worry.
Kazi didn't want to lie to her, especially considering that there was no reason to. "It's complicated," he admitted. "Do you know what cipher coding is?"
A slow shake. "No."
Okay, that complicated things. "Do you really want to know?"
"Is it math related?"
