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99. Interference (2)

  "BURN THEM! NOW!!!"

  There were so many scientists, researchers, and professors in this room. They all have picked up a flamethrower each, and now they have fired their flamethrowers all at the same time towards the elevator.

  *FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM*

  They shoot their flamethrowers for about 3 minutes, and they have exhausted their ammunition entirely.

  *PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

  The elevator was turned into charcoal black and crumpled and fell apart into pieces from the intense heat.

  "A-Are they gone?"

  One of the researchers moves closer to the remains of the elevator.

  "Looks like we're clear!"

  "WOHOOOOO!! WE DEFEATED THOSE FAMOUS UNDERGROUND FIGURES WITH NO FAITH POWER WHATSOEVER!!!'

  "LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

  "Erhem, erhem!!" the head branch of the facility coughs to gain their attention.

  "Everyone, put your hands down." commands the head branch.

  *!!!*

  Everyone in the room turned around and saw that Light and Lily had already taken the head branch as a hostage in the back.

  "Geez, if they got killed just like that, they wouldn't be famous at all in the underworld, wouldn't they?"

  "Just so you all know, it was a really obvious trap. We just went with it because we have that much upper hand against any of you!"

  "(Truthfully, I just wanna snuggle with Lily. . .)" said Light to himself, but he kept himself in composure.

  "Yeah, listen to what my man said!"

  "(Actually, I was happy when he invited me to snuggle with him. . .)" said Lily in her head, but she kept her facial expression neutral to not show Light her real thoughts.

  All of the scientists, researchers, and professors were hit with a realization of the futility of their plans and actions.

  "If you all behave properly, we won't hurt anybody, as we haven't killed a single person since we arrived!" says Light.

  "Now, everyone! Lie down on the floor in a prone position, please!" commands Lily.

  Everyone in the room obeys Lily's request without making any fuss or struggle, as they have ultimately accepted their defeat.

  Light looks towards Lily. He didn't say a word; he just gave a thumbs down to Lily. Lily strangely understood Light's gesture. She moves again at a speed faster than light. She moves around the entire room as she knocks out each and every scientist, researcher, and professor in the room who was lying down in a prone position with a gentle smack. Then she returns to her spot in the blink of an eye. The entire sequence happens in just one second.

  "Done!" Lily smiles towards Light.

  "Good job, Lily!" Light smiles back at her.

  "Now, then, you are the head branch, correct?"

  "There's no use making up excuses. I am indeed the head branch of this specific facility."

  "What are you doing here exactly? I see no children being experimented on in this facility."

  "Children? What are you on about?"

  "Huh?"

  Light and Lily were confused by the head branch's response.

  "Isn't this facility affiliated with the one that does child experiments? To develop child soldiers?"

  "W-What are you talking about?"

  ". . .Are you lying to me?" Light deepens his tone as a way to threaten the head branch.

  "N-No!! Of course not! I know exactly who you two were! Why would I lie to you two? You two can easily find out the truth anyway using your Faith power, even if I were to lie! I can be put into what will feel like an everlasting torture using the Queen of Time's power! Why would I wanna risk myself going through that hell?"

  "Then what on earth are you experimenting here?"

  "We're testing a bunch of chemicals on plants, death rows, patients, and animals to find a cure for various diseases that don't have any cure yet!"

  ". . . .What?"

  "Light-kun. . .This might sound strange. But I don't think this guy is lying, nor was the guy we got this info from. They both told us the truth. They have no reason to risk their life by lying to me."

  ". . . .Then my next assumption would be, this facility does have some form of affiliation with the one from your past; however, in terms of projects, this one handles different matters entirely."

  "I can easily guess that this is for the sake of making up a cover for what their original purpose and goal were. This entire facility is a front just for the sake of legitimacy."

  ". . . .You! Do you have any map that can pinpoint every single facility that is affiliated with this one in the entire world?"

  "Entire world? No, I don't. But I do have a few branches that I know of. I can share this information, but please don't destroy their equipment the way you destroyed this one's!"

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  ". . .sigh. . .Lily, you can go on and restore everything that we destroyed here!!"

  "Ah, alright, Light-kun!"

  Lily crouches and touches the floor. The entire facility was glowing in bright light blue for a few seconds.

  "Done!"

  "Okay, thank you, Lily!"

  "What did you do, Queen of Time?"

  "I restored everything to the way it was. It seems like there's a slight misunderstanding."

  "So, where is this map?"

  "Let me take it out of my shelves."

  The head branch walks away from Light and Lily. He takes something out of one of the many shelves in the room. The head branch walks towards Light and hands over a very small flash disk drive.

  "This is it."

  "Alright, I thank you for this! And also, I humbly apologize for this mess, Mr. Head branch!!"

  Light bows his head towards the head of the branch professor. Seeing what he did, Lily follows after him and bows her head as well towards the professor.

  "I apologized too!!"

  "I-It's okay! If I may know, what exactly are you two after? What are those children you're talking about?"

  ". . .I don't think you should know about this."

  Lily moves closer towards Light and whispers.

  "Light-kun, I'll revert their bodies to the time before we arrive, that way, their memories will also be gone!!"

  "Ah, alright! I didn't even know you could do that! Thank you, Lily!"

  "Don't mention it!"

  "Mr. Head branch, we're done here! We'll be taking our leave."

  "Ah, Nightmare-san! If I may, can I ask you some questions?"

  "What is it? If it's about anything personal, I won't say anything."

  "No, no, I am very curious about your Faith power. The Queen of Time's Faith power may be incredible and insufferably valuable, but at the same time, it's kinda self-explanatory. But you, Nightmare-san! We have no idea what your Faith power even is!"

  ". . . ."

  "Would you mind telling me? Or even better, I'll keep this a secret from everyone else!"

  Lily looks towards Light in concern. Her facial expressions are clear to Light that he should decline his wish. But Light looks towards Lily with a face that says, "Don't worry!".

  ". . .My Faith power is Solid Blackhole. I am a transformation type. So basically, I can transform myself into a blackhole in a solid state, which in itself is a completely hypothetical and illogical matter. While transformed, I can do anything a blackhole can do."

  "BLACKHOLE?!"

  *!!*

  Light and Lily were a bit startled by the professor's reaction.

  "Uh, what's wrong with a black hole?" asks Light.

  "Oh, you don't know about the rumor?"

  "What are you talking about?"

  ". . .There's this rumor that whenever someone awakens a Faith power that has any correlation to a black hole, they are immediately targeted to be eliminated. And the people who usually went after them were someone from the ranks of the Ten Commandments of God!"

  *!!!*

  "Lily, did the facility ever command you to assassinate someone with that Faith power?"

  ". . . .As far as I remember, the only Believer I ever met with black hole Faith power is you, Light-kun. And to top it off, you are a transformation type. It was a real struggle to determine what your Faith power was during our fight that night."

  "But, as the head branch, I've heard some hushes here and there. I can confirm that this story is at least true."

  "How can you say that?" asks Light.

  "Because in one of the branches of the facilities, I heard someone has awakened a black hole Faith power. This info came from a guy who has a colleague on his research team. The friend of this guy accidentally found out and saw the person with the black hole power murdered right in front of his eyes. And then that friend disappeared without any trace whatsoever the next day. The info guy was informed that his friend was immediately allocated elsewhere as per his own wish, but that just smells a lot like a massive cover-up. The info guy spread this rumor on the internet, and it spread like wildfire at first, but then the next week, the info guy also disappeared without a trace, and then any information regarding this topic was also wiped off the face of the internet."

  *!!!*

  "Even the internet? How much power does the Ten Commandments of God exactly have in the world right now?"

  "More than we could ever imagine."

  ". . . ." Lily thinks to herself.

  "Do you know anything of the reason why they were killed?"

  "I heard it's because they do not want to risk that Faith power going out of control and swallowing the entire planet. One mishap and it could spell the end of human civilization."

  ". . .How many of those have died?"

  "I don't know the exact number, but at least more than 40 people. . ."

  ". . .That's. . ."

  "Ah, now that we've talked about that, let's talk about your Faith power Nightmare-san!! Even as old as I am, I am still just as much filled with curiosity as I was back when I was younger!"

  ". . .Alright alright, so first. . ."

  *WHAM*

  Lily suddenly moves behind the head branch, and she smacks his head on the back gently. The head branch passed out instantly.

  "Is that alright, Light-kun?"

  "Correct, thank you, Lily!"

  ". . . ."

  "Light-kun, what if---!!!!"

  As Lily was about to say something, she was interrupted by Light, who put his right pointing finger on her lip.

  "I know exactly what you are going to say! My answer is a big NO!"

  "B-But, Light-kun--!!"

  "You want to infiltrate the HQ of the Ten Commandments of God, right? So that you can gain some insight on them, and then you can share any info with us, Judges, to help us in case we're butting heads against them. Isn't that exactly what you were thinking?!"

  ". . . ."

  Lily nods as she is surprised that her boyfriend spelled out exactly her thoughts, word by word.

  "You are so helplessly kind-hearted. You wanna be of use to us in many ways, you try to. I get the sentiment, but Lily. . ."

  Light suddenly hugs Lily.

  "FUEEEEHH!?!?"

  "There's absolutely no way I'm going to let the most important person in my life go right into the center of people whose Faith power, personality, and goals we know nothing about!"

  "FEEH? FAH FUH FEH?!!"

  Light tightens his hug on Lily.

  "FUEH?! FAFUFAU FEEEEEHH?"

  "I'm not risking anything that will result in losing you!"

  ". . . .Light-kun. . ."

  Lily hugs Light back.

  "I'm sorry, Light-kun. I didn't consider your feelings. I apologize."

  Light lets go of his hug. He holds both of Lily's shoulders.

  "Apology accepted!" Light smiles at Lily.

  Lily smiles back at Light.

  After a few seconds of staring into each other's eyes, they finally snap out of it.

  "O-Okay! We should leave this place!"

  "A-Alright, we should!"

  "Don't forget to revert everyone's memories to before we arrived here!"

  "Of course!"

  "Ah, what about CCTV footage?"

  "I already took care of that when I fixed the entire facility. I reverted its time to before we arrived, there should be no footage of us anymore in their hard drives!"

  "Okay, good! Let's leave then!"

  "Right behind you!"

  .

  .

  .

  Sky of Jakarta, 20.00. . .

  Light is flying above the sky, carrying Lily on his back. They are already near home right now.

  "In the end, that facility was a bust! I'm sorry, Lily!" says Light as he lowers his head in disappointment.

  "Forget it, Light-kun! It's the thought that counts! Plus, there's always tomorrow!"

  "Yeah, thank you, Lily! At least we actually got some leads for the next few facilities. And I also can't believe the fact that we got some juicy info about the blackhole Faith power situation. I never thought of that before."

  "Yeah, and that makes me wonder, how did you get away from their radar? If they even have any, I meant."

  "Hmm, the only answer I can give is that the One True God is protecting me, hehehehe!"

  "Ah, of course He is! Hahahahaha!"

  "Ah, there's our home! Eh? There's someone on the front door?"

  "Huh? Who is it at this hour?"

  Light and Lily try to focus their sights on the guest at the front door as Light flies closer and lower towards his house.

  "RUNELT?!" said Light and Lily at the same time.

  Light lands near Runelt, and Lily hops off his back.

  "Runelt! What are you doing here?"

  "Do you need something, Runelt-san?"

  Runelt was sitting on his knees facing the house. He turns his head around towards Light and Lily.

  *!!!*

  "Light. . . Lily-san. . ."

  Runelt is crying. His tears are flowing nonstop down his face.

  "W-What happened?"

  *!!!!!*

  Light and Lily saw that Rena was lying unconscious in front of Runelt, right in front of the door. Her condition was horrible right from the get-go go with her missing her entire left arm and the hole in her stomach.

  "Please, help my sister!" said Runelt as he begged Light and Lily with tears running down his face.

  This is the first time Lily and even Light, who's known him longer, have ever looked at Runelt with such a vulnerable facial expression.

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