Chapter 181: The Will of a true Scientist! (I)
Kai stared at the clock as the time trickled away.
Tick-Tock! Tick-Tock!
And the last one. With this ticking sound, now, even if he could use D-Mail, he wouldn't be able to undo the events related to the curse.
This last ticking sound marked the end of the 5th day.
They had scarcely left the room in these last few days. Only Meg had gone and returned with news and plans about which Kai couldn't have cared less. Something seemed dead inside him. Something he knew mattered much, despite not having it now.
Five days he had spent thinking, tossing and turning, and rejecting theories after theories. Yet, Kai couldn't find what he lacked that would count as the Will of a Scientist. Didn't he have all the knowledge? Hadn't he experimented before? Questions after questions kept birthing inside him, agreeing with him positively, and yet, he couldn't play the ACT.
A formless, lifeless, and emotionless Skill was judging him.
And he could say nothing to argue for his case?!
"You look like a girl who lost her maidenhood to the wrong man just before her wedding night, my lord," Petyr quipped, sitting on a chair. "Surely it's not all that bad. Look at what you've gained from all this."
Kai saw Meg throwing a deep, nasty, and loathing stare at Petyr, but that she didn't retort meant she agreed with him. Even this did nothing to fill the emptiness of the pit in his stomach.
"Consider the knowledge about the Deep Ones," Petyr continued, smiling slyly. "You told us that the price of knowing about the Outer One was 10 billion Mission Credits, right? Then the price of knowing about Deep Ones could have been easily equal to that, if not higher. One can't just disregard this. In my opinion, even this knowledge is enough to compensate for the curse."