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What's taking them so long? What are they even doing?
My mind was spiraling.
Two full anime episodes plus a fifteen-minute commercial break had passed, and still no sign of them. Honestly, I was starting to get worried. But mostly, I was annoyed. They literally said, "Just a moment, wait here"—classic. Absolutely classic. A moment by whose standards? Human standards? Time deity standards? Or was this a 'moment' according to an NPC stuck in a wall glitch?
I glanced at the clock. Then the door. Then back at the clock. I repeated that sequence four times before finally collapsing onto the couch with a dramatic sigh. Once, twice, three times—each second dragged like an FPS drop during a climactic cutscene.
Logically, the outcome was obvious. If Selene stepped in, Arthur should've been toast—no sound effects needed. But apparently—
"They are a blight, Azalea."
Selene's voice exploded from afar, like some metaphysical loudspeaker designed solely to torture my eardrums.
