"When did you say those portals appeared in your world?"
Alex asked with a frown.
He was sure that Clare said that the gates/ portals appeared decades ago in her world.
This time it was Clare's turn to frown, and not only her, but everyone else frowned as well.
They noticed that they had all missed a very important point in Clare's words.
Clare herself for the first time in all those years noticed this point....
"Decades...."
Clare muttered, and her words caused everyone's frown to deepen once again.
Clare, herself was frowning at her own words.
"It was 25 years to be exact, the time these gates appeared...."
Clare muttered again as she looked at Alex, who seemed to be deep within his thoughts.
The time difference was something she noticed for the first time.
When Clare arrived in this world, she tried looking for any news about people from her world, but from what she found out, no one ever survived out of the gate.
Gate breaks happened, but they were taken care of, and not like S-rank and below bosses were a problem for her.
So, when she found out that she was safe here, she buried the memories of her world deep within her mind, never to recall them again.
But now that she thought about it......
'The first gate in this world appeared 5 years ago....'
It was basic information about this world and she knew about it, so she grew confused.
"Ah..."
But then Alex's eyes brightened with realization.
'So, it's like that....'
Alex realized what was happening, and he didn't have to think much, he just had to look into the memories that he plundered from the recent bosses.
"You get it?"
Alice asked with a serious expression.
This matter was really important, especially when it was related to the gates and there was a chance that it might lead them to the origin of gates or the base functioning of gates.
"Yeah, I did come up with a theory, and it's most probably what is happening."
To her, everything she heard right now was new, but she understood everything, and now she was thinking deeply about all she heard.
Alice and Ann were not much different, although they knew for a fact that there were other worlds out there, they didn't know anything else about them.
But unlike Luna, they had a general idea, so it was not hard for them to swallow the new knowledge.
Clare, on the other hand, was still in her thoughts, thinking about the time difference thing, after all, she had never thought deeply about it, but now that she did, she realized that she had missed those crucial points before.
'I failed as an assassin....'
She clenched her fists.
Just because of some pressure of the situation and worry about her sister, she forgot to notice these points till now, and this made her feel that she failed as an assassin.
'An assassin always has his senses working at maximum powers, and an assassin never misses anything.'
It was the teaching her mother gave her when she was just a child and she was learning the way of assassins, and today she realized that she had failed at the most basic task of an assassin.
The silence was maintained as everyone was busy with their thoughts but it didn't last for long as Alex spoke.
"Now that I think about it, you said that you had a request that you wanted to make...."
Alex's words made everyone turn toward Clare, who broke out of her introspective thoughts and looked at Alex.
"So, tell me, what do you want?"
Alex questioned Clare, and Clare started thinking of the best way she could make her request.
The others also focused on the conversation, they could think all they wanted later.
There were some questions they still had, some questions they wanted to know the answer to, but they also knew one thing, Clare was not actually obliged to answer them.
But if she made her request, then they could ask more questions, but that was also not something they were sure about.
In the end, everything depended on what Alex wanted.
If Alex wanted to know more, then he would ask a question, if he didn't then, no one will.
Alice and Ann were curious, and surely, they wanted to know more, but if Alex stopped asking questions, that meant he knew about everything else, and if that was the case, then was there a need for them to question Clare about it?
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So, all the questions they had, got pushed to the corner of their minds.
Clare, who was being stared at by everyone, finally made her request.
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