Chapter 44: Youth

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"Stop, there's no need," Talulah spoke, moving herself up from laying down to a sitting position.

Gojo turned to her wordlessly, raising an eyebrow. 'The other dragon lady's awake now, huh?'

The group looked at her with various expressions of shock, Ch'en and FrostNova in particular held the top spot for that.

Talulah continued, "I have the key with me."

"Oh? Are you gonna burn it?" W said, questioning the woman. Her words had a slight edge to them, considering all their lives were at stake.

"No," Talulah stated, closing her eyes while reaching for something, "catch."

W watched on in surprise as an object flew to her, Amiya perked up as the former caught the object.

"Huh? Oh wow, you actually gave it to me," W's antennas twitched at that before inputting it.

Ch'en and FrostNova each felt a wave of relief, seeing how their sister and friend respectively had returned... Though, it was still under scrutiny whether it was truly the 'same' person after all the events had happened.

The commands have been inputted, with a secret Ursine code being inputted by W who received it from Skullshatterer.

Amiya breathed a sigh of relief, the events of the incident had ended with the words spoken out by the command center.

"Hey, you guys might want to hold onto something!" W yelled out, all the while the Nomadic City started halting with its brakes.

The white haired Sarkaz moved to grab something after saying those words- but found herself being grabbed by a certain Limitless user.

"Hey-!" She immediately felt sweat developing on the back of her neck when she looked into his eyes, the sun casting a shadow over his face. "...You know, has anybody ever told you that you're a goddamn freak?"

"Oh? Aha~, plenty!" Gojo scratched the back of his head, as if taking it as a compliment. When the city came to a halt, the man stood completely still unbothered by the force along with W, as he was keeping a hold on her shoulder.

W deadpanned at him, wondering what the weird positive feeling she was feeling, 'yeah, there's something definitely wrong with his head.' The Sarkaz woman broke off his grip, or rather, he decided to let go of her after she exerted force in getting away from him.

'The hell? Then there's that negative aura again,' W found the man too hard to understand, most likely delving into whatever went on in his head would not be worth it in the long run.

"Well, I guess that's that," Gojo craned his neck, getting the kinks and soreness out of it, turning to Ch'en, FrostNova, and Talulah. 'They seem to be catching up, might as well not interrupt it.'

W had already snuck away from Gojo, keeping narrowed eyes towards him and moving to Amiya.

'Hm, might as well make my exit, I should get a bit of sleep to replenish my reserves,' the white haired man turned around after figuring out everything would be smooth sailing without him. Stretching his arms, he moved to exit the Control Tower via the stairs.

'That should be the rest of this funky incident, huh?' Gojo entered through the door that was supposed to be the entrance, thinking back to all the battles and events that had transpired.

'Meeting FrostNova, saving the Yeti Squadron, fighting FrostNova, fighting Patriot, and then fighting that snake guy, how eventful,' to be honest, the whole thing was enjoyable to Gojo Satoru.

'All the innocent deaths that came with it... Eh~, not so much,' his injuries were starting to dissipate completely, leaving small gash marks, which were most likely to turn into scars and vanish after.

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