WHOOSH!
The world around Rui shifted in the blink of an eye.
One moment, he was in the Mellow.
The very next?
He found himself standing before the shores of a beach.
The softest of smiles cracked at the edge of his mouth as he spotted Kane standing at some distance before him.
Yet, Kane faced someone else.
He had bronze skin, donning an attire that resembled that of a fusion of between that of an adventurer and medical attire. An umpteen number of instruments, artifacts, and tools adorned it from top to bottom, no doubt able to be of aid in nearly every circumstance conceivable.
The Divine Doctor himself.
Not in a memory, not in a prophecy, but in the flesh.
His eyes devoid of any compassion, shifted away from Kane, turning to Rui slowly.
Curiosity flickered within their hollow depths as he beheld Rui.
"Interesting."
Kane frowned, turning to follow his gaze.
"Rui!" His eyes lit up with joy. "You're finally here!"
An invisible smile cracked at the edge of Rui's mouth. "You're alive."
"Bring it in, man." He lunged at Rui, pulling him in a bear hug. "After the first few days, I thought we'd never meet."
crawled across Rui's skin at
days.
The atmosphere grew taut.
void within Rui's stirred as he stared at
sharpened to slits. "I entered
a double-take, cocking his head
had already dawned
his dark, sharp eyes slowly turning to him, meeting the man's clinical gaze. "Could you tell me how long you've been here? I wish
Doctor's
of interest flickered in
hundred
"Figured…" Rui muttered severely.
narrowing his eyes.
them. "…Time moves one hundred and forty-four times faster here
shock. "What?! Are
your stated timespans in this world compared to how
how would you know how long I've been
Divine Doctor's tone cut through, seeking
within Rui's eyes
meeting the clinical curiosity that lay within the Divine
in the memory of a deer that spotted your abrupt disappearance when I searched for you in them," Rui truthfully
why would you be searching for me in the
we came to the Mellow to find you, of course,"
did you come to
gaze bore into
you to heal my father
interest disappeared from
He murmured, bored. "Trivial. Has the medical community not figured that one out yet?
a wave of
Those words.
grandmother had shown him. It appeared that now that Rui
help me?" Rui stared at the
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