"Everyone may think you are a good person, but this snowman knows the truth. Someday, your friends will realize your heart is as cold as my butt."
-Snowman
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Frisk reached out to touch Gaster. "Hey."
As soon as his hand touched him, Frisk was frozen in place, ant the color of his body gradually faded. What was happening to him?!
"Frisk!" Chara ran to him and grabbed his arm. She had to save him, before he disappeared forever. "I won't let you...!"
The colorless effect spread to Chara. Her green shirt turned gray, and then everything turned white...
When her vision returned, the room was empty. Gaster, Frisk, and Flowey were nowhere to be found.
Chara darted her head around the room. Where did they go?! "Frisk? Asriel? What happened?!"
There was no response.
Chara collapsed to her knees. How could Frisk be taken away from her so easily? What had Gaster done to him?! What had he done to Chara? She looked at her arms. The color was back, but what did it matter? Frisk and Flowey were gone.
She let out a sob. This was her fault! She should have stayed outside like Frisk told her to, but because of her recklessness, he had disappeared. In an instant, she had lost Frisk and Flowey, and she was powerless to fix it. She was a useless, stupid...
Quit whining. I'm sure they're fine.
H-how can you be so sure?
Frisk doesn't seem like the type to die so easily. I'm sure he's out there somewhere. Asriel, too. Just get out of here and look for them.
Yes... yes. She couldn't give in to despair. Frisk and Flowey were fine; she just had to find them. At any rate, she wasn't going to accomplish anything by crying in this room. Chara got up and turned back to the exit. She opened the door.
Why was she surprised when she found herself standing in a place that wasn't Waterfall?
Chara looked around. For some reason, she was in the center of New Home, the former capitol of monsterkind, now abandoned. It was so weird to see the once bustling city...
Wait, what?!
It wasn't empty. Chara saw several monsters roaming the streets. It wasn't quite as crowded as she remembered from her time underground, but how was this possible?! New Home was abandoned as soon as the barrier was broken! Why were there monsters here?
They spotted her immediately, and screams rang out.
"Oh my God! Human!"
"Run! Run for your lives!"
Panic spread throughout the entire city like wildfire. Monsters all around scrambled to get away from her. Chara had absolutely no idea what was going on. Where did these people come from, and why were they so afraid of her?
Chara tried to find someone to talk to, but every single person ran away. The streets around her had completely cleared out. The monsters were desperate to flee from her as quickly as possible.
I thought you said monsters left the Underground?
They did! This doesn't make sense! The barrier is broken; they have no reason to be here!
Maybe... the barrier wasn't broken here?
Chara slowly started to grasp what might have happened. She hadn't simply been teleported, had she? No, she was in a different timeline, where the monsters were still trapped underground, and terrified of humans. Since the war, monsters had always feared humanity, but this was on another level. Something terrible must have happened here.
A shrill alarm sounded across the city, accompanied by an imposing robotic voice.
"Warning! Human attack! All civilians evacuate immediately. Deploying security."
Security? Not good...
A robot flew in to engage Chara. At first, she thought it was Mettaton in his standard box configuration, but it was colored white instead of gray. It had two cannons attached on its sides, and it pointed them straight at Chara. She put her hands up. "Wait, I don't want to fight."
"Sorry..." the robot said, "but we can't have a repeat of last time, so..."
That voice... was it...?
"Napstablook?!"
They retracted their cannons. "Huh? How do you know my name?"
"Uh... don't worry about it."
"Oh... okay..."
This was good. Chara couldn't imagine Napstablook hurting her. They were good friends in her world, but when did they get a robot body?
"What happened here?" Chara asked. "What did the last human do to you?"
"It was very bad," Napstablook sadly replied. "It killed so many." They let out a robotic sniffle. "Even my cousins."
It killed their cousins?! "That's horrible! I'm so sorry!"
"Th-thank you..."
"Who was this human?!"
"No one knew its name," Napstablook answered. "All I know is that it was very mean, and it was so young, about a couple years younger than you, I think."
What? No, it couldn't be...
"Describe it," Chara demanded. "What did it look like?"
"Umm... its hair was a lot like yours, but... browner, I think? Its face was usually expressionless, and it wore a blue and magenta striped shirt."
Chara felt her blood drain from her face. The human Napstablook described was... just like Frisk. How? How could Frisk...?
Calm down, Felicia said. Remember, this is another timeline. This human may look like Frisk, but it's a different person.
But... how could any version of Frisk do such a thing?
Chara needed more information. She did her best to collect herself and looked back at Napstablook. 'How many?" she asked. "How many died?"
"Too many," they answered. "Asgore, Toriel, Undyne, Papyrus... We aren't sure about the exact number, but... at least a hundred people were turned to dust."
Her heart stopped. "A... a hundred? Over one hundred monsters, dead?"
"... yes."
How could anyone do this?! Even for a human, this was insane.
Napstablook changed the subject. "Umm, sorry, but I need to take you to Alphys. She wants to talk to you."
Alphys? Was Alphys their new ruler? "Who's Alphys?"
"Our new queen," Napstablook said. "While the human attacked, she evacuated as many people as she could. She saved our lives; we are eternally grateful."
Alphys leading the Underground, Chara never would've guessed, but it did explain Napstablook's new robot body. So many lives were lost, but even this world had a glimmer of hope.
Chara nodded. "Very well. Take me to your leader."
Really, Chara?
Yes, really!
"She's in her lab right now," Napstablook said. "Follow me, I guess. Sorry if you have better things to do. I don't want you to feel like you're being forced, even though you are."
"After you."
Napstablook led Chara through New Home, heading towards the Core. All monsters in the city stayed clear of her. They were terrified of her. She couldn't blame them. How could they possibly trust humanity after everything they've done to them? They had been banished underground, only to be killed by a human anyway.
The walk to Alphys's lab was uneventful. They went through the Core and reached the MTT Resort. While Mettaton may have been dead, the building was still operational, owned by Napstablook. All kinds of monsters gathered there and did their best to remain cheerful, but people still mourned for Mettaton.
"I could never be anything like Mettaton," Napstablook said while they walked. "I'm more of a management person. I don't go on stage, but I think I do a good job keeping the business running. It's like the snail farm, just with more people."
Chara could relate. She couldn't imagine herself doing what Mettaton did, either. Standing on a stage, smiling in front of everyone. Sure, she liked to share a pun or two with friends, but that wasn't the same as entertaining a massive crowd of people. Chara could never handle all that attention.
'If only Mettaton were here," Napstablook lamented. "He'd know exactly how to lift our spirits."
Hey, there's good one. "Heh, yeah. Mettaton had a supernatural talent. He really knows how to put on a specter-cle! I'm a big phan-tom!"
Napstablook didn't get it. "Huh?"
"You know, because he was a ghost."
"Oh..."
"Ah, you have no sense of humor," Chara teased.
"Oh, I'm real funny."
She laughed. "Oh, yeah? Prove it. Tell me a joke."
Napstablook tried to think of one. "Umm... why did the skeleton want a friend?"
"Because he was bonely! Come on, Blooky! Don't steal from Toriel!"
"... you knew Toriel?"
Damn it, slipped again. She needed to remember that this Napstablook was a stranger to her. "Uh, doesn't everybody?" she deflected. "Tell me another joke."
"Okay, uh... why did the human climb Mount Ebott?"
"Umm... I don't know. Why?"
"So it would fall and break its neck before killing all my friends."
... well, that was grim.
"... sorry, I didn't mean to take it out on you," Napstablook said. "I know you're not the one who killed my family."
Poor Blooky. "It's alright," she said. "You have a point, though. You would've been much better off if that human had just died."
"Yes..."
They didn't say much after that. They passed through the MTT Resort and took the elevator to Hotland. With the elevator working properly, there was only one short walk left to Alphys's lab. Just a minute later, they were standing in front of the large, rectangular building.
"Alphys is in here," Napstablook said.
"I know – Uh, I mean, really? This doesn't look like a place fitting for a queen."
Smooth, Chara.
Shut up.
"She used to be the Royal Scientist, before King Asgore died," Napstablook explained.
"Oh, I see. Shall we go inside?"
"Well, you don't really have a choice. I'll have to kill you if you don't."
Good to know. Chara knocked on the door, and it opened. Alphys stood inside, waiting for her. Despite being a queen now, she was dressed just like usual, in a lab coat and glasses. However, she was noticeably less nervous than before, or she was better at hiding it. Either way, she carried the commanding presence a queen should have. Alphys had come a long way since they first met.
Standing beside Alphys were two of the amalgamates, Endogeny and Reaper Bird. As soon as Chara stepped inside, Endogeny ran at her and barked with hostility.
"AGH!" Chara felt a sharp pain in her head, just like when Frisk first encountered the amalgamates. There was something about them that hurt her. It felt like nails were being driven into her skull. Oh, please make it stop! Please!
"Endogeny, that's enough!" Alphys called. "This human hasn't hurt anyone yet."
Endogeny whimpered, and they walked back to Alphys's side. Chara breathed a sigh of relief as the pain subsided.
"Sorry about that," Alphys apologized. "They're just nervous, knowing what the last human did."
Chara bowed before the Queen of Monsters. "Your majesty, my sincere condolences for the tragedy you have suffered."
Alphys eyed her with suspicion. "Well, you seem a lot different from the last human who came here, but how do I know you mean what you say? What if this is some kind of trick?"
"I swear it's not, your grace. Sadly, I have no proof other than my word, but I give it with all my heart."
"You're certainly more polite. You even seem well-versed in court manners. Anytime the other human bothered to speak, it was either a threat or an insult."
"Napstablook has informed me of this human's actions. What it did to your people was barbaric, a grotesque example of human depravity. I cannot fathom how anyone could do what it has done."
Alphys straightened her glasses and stared at Chara. "Hmm... you look familiar. Have I seen you somewhere before?"
Oh, no... Chara wasn't sure if being recognized was a good idea. Alphys knew what she had done to Asriel, and given that the monsters were on edge...
"That's impossible," Chara said. "This is my first time here."
"I know, but maybe I've seen you in a, uh, video? We get a lot of human media from the garbage dump. You'd be surprised how much of your trash ends up there."
"Perhaps that's it. I'm hardly famous, but who knows?"
An imaginary lightbulb flashed above Alphys's head. "Wait, I've got it! You look just like Chara, the first human who fell down here!"
"Oh, uh, that is quite the coincidence. Synchronicity, perhaps."
"Eh, I guess it doesn't really matter," Alphys said. "What I really want to know is, why are you here?"
Sans. The answer was Sans, but Chara couldn't tell her that... or could she? Alphys was the Royal Scientist, after all. Did she know about other timelines?
"Dr. Alphys, are you familiar with the existence of alternate universes?"
"Oh, of course," Alphys answered. "I've done lots of research on that subject, but what does that have to do with my question?"
To hell with it. "You may find this hard to believe, but I am not from this world. I come from one of those other timelines. You said I look like Chara. Well, that's because I am Chara, just not the same one your Asgore and Toriel knew."
Alphys's eyes widened in disbelief. "You... you are Chara?"
"From another timeline," she emphasized.
"U-uh, assuming I believe you, how is that possible? We were never able to figure out how to travel between timelines."
"I am not entirely certain myself. I did not come to this world intentionally. All I know is that I came into contact with a being scattered across time and space, and here I am. My only wish is to return home, back to my own timeline."
Alphys pondered this. "Hmm... I once tried to help Sans work on a machine related to this, but neither of us could fix it. I don't know why, but he seemed really upset about that. I felt bad that I couldn't help him."
A machine that Sans tried to fix? That sounded exactly like what Chara needed. "Where is this machine?"
"In Sans's basement. You think that's what brought you here?"
"Yes, I believe that's exactly why I'm here." She bowed again. "Thank you for the information. I shall find this machine, and I'll hopefully be on my way."
Chara turned to leave, but Alphys stopped her. "Wait! I can't let you go so easily! What if you're lying? What if you're planning to kill my people?"
"I already gave you my word," Chara replied. "I shall not harm a single monster."
Alphys's eyes were full of sorrow. "I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but the one I regret most of all? Not killing that human when I had the chance. If I let you leave, there's no telling what you could do."
Well, she wasn't wrong. If Chara wanted to, she could slaughter so many of the monsters here, and every kill would make her stronger. Alphys was wise to be cautious.
Why did the human attack, anyway? What was its motive? Was it a sadistic thrill seeker? Was it trying to cleanse the world of monsters? Or, perhaps it desired power and control?
"I know this may be difficult," Chara said, "but what do you know about that murderer? Why did it kill so many of you?"
"This was no ordinary human. It had incredible strength, so much that we believed it was a threat to the whole world."
A threat to the whole world? Chara didn't like where this was going.
"Uh, what do you mean?" Chara asked, despite knowing the answer. "I understand it killed a lot of monsters, but what could a single human do against all of humanity?"
"It'll be easier to show you," Alphys said. "Reaper Bird..."
The amalgamate nodded and went to Alphys's computer. They turned on the lab's big screen for Chara to see, displaying a recording of the human's attack.
"This may be... disturbing," Alphys warned.
Chara's worst fears were confirmed. It... it was Frisk, or it at least looked like him. He stood over a bridge in Waterfall. His face was devoid of emotion, just a cold, dead stare. His hands were holding the plastic knife he had found in the Ruins, and... they were covered in dust. Chara's stomach clenched. The remains of dead monsters, all over Frisk's hands. N-no, this... this couldn't be real. Frisk wouldn't do this.
He walked over the bridge, and someone called out to him from behind. It was Monster Kid. She approached Frisk, asking if it was true that he'd hurt so many people. Frisk didn't respond. He just stared off the edge of the bridge, with his back to the camera.
"Yo... why won't you answer me? A... a... and what's with that weird expression...?"
Suddenly, Frisk turned towards Monster Kid and approached her, threateningly.
Monster Kid was terrified. It looked like her heart was going to pound out of her chest, but she held her ground. Trembling in fear, she told Frisk that if he were going to hurt anyone else, he'd have to get through her, first. Frisk wasn't intimidated by the armless monster. He moved closer.
Frisk, this isn't you... Don't do it...
Frisk raised his dust-covered knife, ready to strike the innocent child. Chara reached out to the screen. "Frisk, no!"
He swung his knife at the child, only for someone else to jump in and take the blow. It was Undyne. With just one strike, she was gravely wounded. Monster Kid stared at her in horror.
"Undyne... You're... You're hurt..."
"Hurt? It's nothing," Undyne lied. "Next time, listen when I tell you to leave, okay?
"Undyne... I..."
"I'll take care of this! Get out of here!"
With a mixture of guilt and fear on her face, Monster Kid obeyed Undyne and ran away.
With Monster Kid safely escaped, Undyne closed her eyes and smiled. "Heh... 'It's nothing...' No... s-somehow, with just one hit... I'm already... Already..."
"Just one hit?!" Chara exclaimed. "How? She's Undyne! Even a human shouldn't be able to kill her so easily!"
Alphys was holding back tears. "No, she doesn't go down without a fight."
"Damn it," Undyne cursed. "Papyrus... Alphys... Asgore... Just like that, I... I've failed you."
She closed her eyes, and her body began to dissolve into dust. It looked like it was over, but then it... pulled itself back together, as if it refused to die.
"No," Undyne said. "My body... It feels like it's splitting apart. Like any instant... I'll scatter into a million pieces. But... deep, deep in my soul, there's a burning feeling I can't describe. A burning feeling that WON'T let me die.
"This isn't just about monsters anymore, is it? If you get past me, you'll... you'll destroy them all, won't you? Monsters... Humans... Everyone... Everyone's hopes. Everyone's dreams. Vanquished in an instant."
Everyone vanquished in an instant? Chara thought it couldn't get any worse, but she was wrong. It wasn't Frisk, was it? He wasn't strong enough to destroy humanity, not by himself. No, it was her, Chara.
Wait, how does she know that? Felicia wondered. As far as she's concerned, it's just an insane human. How does she know it's a demon?
That was the least of Chara's concerns at the moment.
"Right now," Undyne said, "everyone in the world... I can feel their hearts beating as one. And we all have ONE goal. To defeat YOU. Human. No, WHATEVER you are. For the sake of the whole world... I, Undyne, will strike you down!"
Undyne's form changed. Thick armor surrounded her, and her left eye glimmered with power. She was a heroine reformed by her own determination to save Earth. She charged at the demon, and they fought.
The battle was intense. Undyne fought with even more strength than ever before. Her spears surrounded the demon and raced towards it at dizzying speeds. However, the demon was just as fast. This may not have been its first time fighting her. It skillfully dodged past Undyne's spears and struck her with its knife. It wasn't enough to kill her instantly, but it was enough to hurt her.
Chara couldn't watch anymore, not when she knew what the outcome would be. "Th-that's enough..."
What? No, I want to see.
Please, I've seen enough...
This is exactly what we came for, is it not?
But...
We will watch this.
Before Alphys could stop the recording, Felicia took control of Chara's body. "Wait, no. I need to see this."
"A-are you sure?" Alphys asked. She sounded like she'd had enough herself.
"Yes, keep going."
Felicia watched the battle continue, forcing Chara to watch as well. Undyne fought bravely, but in the end, she was defeated. She sustained blow after blow until finally, Undyne's body started to collapse. "Damn it... So even THAT power... It wasn't enough...?"
Despite being mortally wounded, she laughed. "If you... If you think I'm gonna give up hope, you're wrong. Cause I've... Got my friends behind me. Alphys told me that she would watch me fight you... And if anything went wrong, she would... evacuate everyone. By now she's called Asgore and told him to absorb the six human SOULs." Her body started to melt. "And with that power... This world will live on...!"
Undyne's body scattered to dust. The demon stared at her remains emotionlessly, with neither joy in victory nor remorse for its sins. It wiped the dust off its knife, and it moved on to its next victim.
Alphys shed a tear for Undyne's death. It probably never got easier, knowing she was gone.
"So, that's it, then?" Felicia asked. "You called Asgore, had him absorb the souls and kill this murderer?"
Alphys frowned. "Not exactly. I did call Asgore, but he did not absorb the souls."
Felicia was shocked. "What? Why the hell not? You're right, that was no ordinary human, but it wasn't at full power yet. With the strength of six human souls, Asgore should have been able to crush it! No problem!"
"I don't really know why he didn't. Maybe he was afraid. If he absorbed the souls and killed the human, that would have given him his seventh soul, which would have meant war with humanity."
"So he just sat there and did nothing?! Because he was scared?! What a useless coward!"
Alphys was startled by her outburst. "H-hey, you can't be too hard on him. No sane monster would ever want to absorb a human soul."
"How does that justify letting a hundred monsters die?! He could have saved so many lives, but instead he just let that psychopath do whatever it wanted! That's unforgivable!"
"Chara, wasn't he like a father to you?"
Chara was a bit disappointed in Asgore herself, but she wasn't as angry as Felicia was. Like Alphys said, absorbing the souls would have meant war. Still, the fate of the whole world was at stake. Chara knew how he felt, but Asgore should have absorbed those souls.
"All the more reason to be angry with him," Felicia said.
Alphys was sad to hear that. "Well, if that's how you feel..."
"Then, what happened?" Felicia asked. "If Asgore didn't stop that murderer, then who did?"
"It, uh, it wasn't stopped."
"What?! You're telling me that creature is still out there?!"
"Y-yes, it left and went back to the surface."
Chara and Felicia both found that hard to believe. "Really?" Felicia asked. "It just left?"
"When it killed Mettaton, something peculiar happened. Again, it'll be easier to show you. I don't really understand it myself."
Reaper Bird clicked something on Alphys's computer, switching to a different recording. The demon was in the Core, confronted by Mettaton.
"My, my, so you've finally arrived," Mettaton said. "After our first meeting... I realized...something ghastly. You're not just a threat to monsters... but humanity, as well."
The demon silently approached while Mettaton continued his monologue. He declared that he couldn't be a star without an audience, and that there were people he wanted to protect. He told the demon that he was first created as a human eradication robot, and while his career had changed to that of an entertainer, his original functions had never been fully removed.
"He should be able to take care of this, right?" Felicia asked. "He's made of metal! That makes him practically invulnerable!"
Indeed, Mettaton's standard body was incredibly strong. Frisk couldn't have hurt him even if he wanted to. Even this demon should have had a hard time damaging it.
"Fine then!" Mettaton exclaimed. "Ready? It's showtime!"
Mettaton transformed into a form Chara had never seen before. It looked similar to his EX form, but with intimidating armor, and one of his hands was replaced with a deadly cannon. Surely, this body could do some...
Wait, if it were anything like his EX body, that meant he was vulnerable! What was he thinking? Did he forget what he was up against?
With a single whip of the empty gun, the demon effortlessly defeated Mettaton. The human eradication robot wasn't designed to fight such an enemy.
He groaned. "G... guess she should have worked more on the defenses... You may have defeated me... but... I know. I can tell from that strike, darling. You were holding back. Yes, Asgore will fall easily to you... but you won't harm humanity, will you? You aren't absolutely evil. If you were trying to be, then you messed up. And so late into the show, too. Ha... ha. At least now, I can rest easy. Knowing Alphys and the humans will live on...!"
With those final words, Mettaton exploded.
Felicia stared at the screen in disbelief. "What. The. Fuck?"
Chara seconded that statement
"What does he mean 'not absolutely evil?!'" Felicia yelled. "That thing was a deranged serial killer! And Mettaton says it wasn't evil because it didn't want to harm humanity?"
Chara wasn't sure what to make of this. If she was the demon, then she would have used her full power against the humans. Why the hell would she kill monsters, but spare humans? It didn't make sense.
"There's one more," Alphys said.
One last recording played. This time, the demon stood before Sans in the judgement hall. If what Flowey said was true, Sans was the only one left who could defeat the demon. Maybe it was futile, knowing that the demon could just reset every time it was defeated, but he had to at least try, right? He owed Papyrus that much.
"So you finally made it," Sans began.
Sans proceeded to give the demon the same speech about EXP and LOVE that he gave Frisk. He asked the demon if it had done the right thing, and he told it to take a moment and think about this. After a few seconds passed, Sans said that it didn't matter what the demon said, as long as it was honest with itself.
"Are you kidding me?!" Felicia exclaimed. "After everything it's done, I think it fucking matters what it said!"
"Though," Sans continued, "one thing about you always struck me as kind of odd. Now, I understand acting in self-defense. You were thrown into situations against your will. But... sometimes... you act like you know what's gonna happen, like you've already experienced it all before. This is an odd thing to say, but... if you have some sort of special power, isn't it your responsibility to do the right thing?"
"... yes," the demon answered.
"Ah, I see... then..."
Sans hollowed out his eyes. "Then why'd you kill my brother?"
With that, Sans was about to teleport away, but before he did, the demon put its foot down and shouted at Sans, its voice filled with venom. "I'll tell you why, Garbage Bone! I have done the right thing! After the war, the humans showed your kind mercy. They thought you would be harmless down here, but now you're just one soul away from humanity's destruction! They should have finished the job! And if someone would stop threatening to take humanity with them, I would do it myself!"
Chara felt sicker than when she ate the flowers. Now, she understood. The murders were on Frisk's hands, but... she had helped. She wanted power, and with that power, she would have...
"Who do you think you are?" Frisk ranted. "You have no right to judge me with your self-righteous bullshit. You know if Asgore gets his seventh soul, he'll use it to destroy humanity. It's not just self-defense; I have done everything I can to save billions. So what if the monsters have to die? The entire species is worthless compared to all of humanity!"
God, this Frisk sounded just like Malcom... and she helped him. She helped him. She... she...
Sans shrugged. "Well, I won't try to justify what Asgore has done. The Queen left him for a reason. However, there is something ironic about all this. You're afraid of monsters destroying humanity, when you were just a few kills away from destroying everything. Heh, in a weird way, I may actually have to thank that demon buddy of yours for keeping you under control. I guess deterrence really does work, even unintentionally."
Frisk clenched his fists. "Go to hell."
"Back at you."
Sans teleported away, allowing Frisk to move on and kill Asgore.
Felicia couldn't believe what she had seen. "It killed a hundred monsters, including his own brother, and Sans just let it leave?! That genocidal maniac deserves to die for what it's done! Why the hell did Sans let it escape?! What the fuck is wrong with him?!"
"W-well, you're not the only one upset by that," Alphys said. "When people found out, they weren't happy."
"I hope not! Sans and Asgore are both pathetic! If I were in their position, I wouldn't care how powerful the enemy is. I would choke the life from that murderer, or die trying! Sins such as these cannot go unpunished!"
"... this may sound strange," Alphys said, "but there's something odd about you. It's like at some point, you started acting like... a completely different person? At first, you carried yourself with elegance and grace, but now you're just acting really angry. I told you it would be disturbing, but this seems like something else."
Felicia realized she had messed up. "Uh, well..."
"You also seem to know this human's name. Frisk, was it? Sans mentioned Frisk had a 'demon buddy.' Do you know anything about that?"
"Umm..."
"AAAHHHHHH!"
Chara...?
Chara ran away.