Chapter 4

***3.5 Years Before Reset. . .***

The four siblings gathered around the dining table, G sitted at the front seat. It was around evening, the non-existent sky dimming.

"Akuji that was mine!" Neo reached over, trying to grab a drumstick their brother had taken right out of their plate.

"Not anymore!" They took a bite out of the chicken, leaving a pouting girl to stare at them.

Rue looked at this and sighed, before giving theirs to Neo, making the girl's eyes light up once again, then proceeding to munch on the meat they were given. Arius just stared at their plate of greens, slowly picking them up and chewing. Rue just stared at their food, not taking a single bite, until Arius resorted to feeding them themself. G looked at the children, smiling.

"They grow so fast." They said to themself, taking a sip of tea. There was a knock on the door, before it opened, revealing R.

"It's time to go G." The man smiled, then stood up, adjusting themself.

"Children, your father will be gone for at most a day, be good alright?" The four nodded in union, before the scientist and their friend left the room to the lab.

The two stood in front of the table, two vials, one violet, the other cyan.

"So this is it." The man said, reaching out for the violet vial, the other being taken by R.

"We can finally learn the truth of that skeleton." They took the cap off the vial.

"Indeed. Wish you luck G." And with that the two downed the vials.

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***Encode, a "button", the abilty to revert time and space, to reverse objects to their old state. Enwrite, another "button", the ability to speed up time and space, return the reverted forms of an object. It is known as the partner of Encode, as it can inscribe what had been changed during the period of Encode, and make it permanent. With this ability, we can fix what had happened in the past, possibly.***

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G and R woke up in a plain field. The birds were singing, flowers were blooming... but the children were not existent. This was the past after all.

"We.. did it. We did it!" G was delighted, so was R.

"We need to find the portal, right now, and that skeleton." G ran off, R chasing after.

Sooner or later, they ended up in an alleyway.

"I sense something.. its around here." G peered around the corner, then covered their eyes from the blinding light.

"It seems we found it G." R stepped out, then took another step towards the white glitching thing.

"So it was true..." G reached out towards it, but was stopped by R.

"Are you sure you want to do this G." They stared straight into their eyes.

"If we don't this would be all for nothing. I ***must*** know." R stared for abit longer, before nodding.

"See you on the other side Doc." The man smiled at their friend, then stepped into the blinding light. . .

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***In another plane of existence. . .***

The vantablack skeleton smiled, sitting on top of a ruined building, staring at the white glitchy portal in the distance.

"Their here, DisReal." The floating phantom told their brother.

"Indeed they are... heh." They stood up.

"I never thought someone would try so hard, work so hard, just to come meet their death." The skeleton looked at their floating friend.

"Come on, we have guests to attend to." The skeleton crackled their knuckles, then walked right off the edge of the building, disappearing.