"A virus that can cause this", Eris gestured to Erika after Hitoru finished his declaration, "to happen to all of us? That's pretty high in the conspiracy theory ladder. Yet... not something that I ever thought as completely impossible." Eris crossed her arms under her chest and turned her gaze to the pristine floor of the hospital room, now marred by droplets of blood coming from an over eager zealot of a brother.
"Nevertheless, considering all that I have come across on that
'game', including the incident from this morning..." Eris thought out loud, but soon silenced herself when she noticed what she was saying. There was hardly any need to foment even more paranoia between the three that were accompanying her, specially Cassandra... no, it was absolutely imperative that Eris found a way to avoid Cassandra getting dragged into all of this. Thus she thought of a plan.
"I'm going back to Deep Ground. I have a serious suspicion that Corpse Collector might be involved, but on the other hand I'm almost sure she can't be the one behind such attacks. A grunt will always be a grunt, in the end." As Eris said so, she moved to the chair sitting beside Erika's bed, wondering when was the last time she saw that girl.
"Probably too much to remember." And then turned to face everyone else, specially Cassandra and say, "Before even thinking of following me, you should know some facts. First, my avatar is Eclipse Princess, there's hardly any need to keep that secret after my identity has been compromised by whoever is the true force behind this scheme."
"While on that matter, I've been attacked this morning. I don't mean just inside the virtual world, but on my room, here on the real world. Masked man, apparently controlled by an external force tried to restrain me and inoculate me with an unknown substance... maybe even the cause of Erika's current state, since I hardly believe that only a death on the digital realm is enough for this to happen (a combined attack, however is another thing) after I met a fake Black King and got a very disturbing set of revelations from him." As Eris said so, she undid a few of the laces holding her dress together so that it was more comfortable to keep dressed on it for a long period of time. "The wraith behind Erika Mitsuki's form, I believe he and the fake Black King are the same. This is nothing but intuition, but it's one that I'm most sure of. And if I'm right about this all and about Corpse Collector's role, their objective is to do this for whoever is Moon Rider on the real world."
"Is there anything any of you have to say, otherwise I'm going to go back to Deep Ground. I must find the real Moon Rider and talk with her about these things." Eris said, resting her hands over her lap as she waited for their replies for just a bit.
* Will wait for CC's reaction before doing anything with Absinthe.
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