[Alissa's POV]..So, do you know that there are plants that lay traps to catch the insects despite beingimmovable? It's not just about the plants being immobile or the insects being agile, it'sabout planning the right way and doing the right way.In essence, you can say that I function the same way. My plans are near immobile butfunction perfectly. I have a way to tackle almost all and every situation, no matter howhard it is…'Though… what is this?' I thought with a wry expression as I saw my rival in love,Caroline Escarte, helping me out as if I were her best friend.'It's not a trick… She is doing it with the freedom of her own ability, she is helping mewith a good heart,' I could more or less see through people who are simpleton anddespite being a high end manager genius, this girl was pretty simple to read."Hey!" I spoke a little loud enough to make her stop cleaning the place and look at me."Can you tell me how exactly the relation was between us in your past regression?" Iasked with a bit of curiosity as I observed her.She was stumped a little before she began to ponder a bit more than she spoke,"Itwasn't good in the beginning, as we were dealing with things more professionally.Actually, we both slept with Michael on our first meeting," she said as she turned shy,making me look at her blankly…'Hard to believe honestly,' I thought as I just waited for her to continue."After that, Michael… didn't wake up for… forever, I guess?" She hesitated as I focusedon those words. "What do you mean by not waking up forever?" I asked"Hmmm… it's a little confusing, but Michael was trapped in a bubble right after thefirst night. He was locked up there sleeping in a baby position and no matter what wetried, we couldn't break through the bubble… it was harder than anything we haveseen,"Caroline spoke, recounting each and everything they did."To be honest, you and I, and also Myla and a few others, were confused about what todo. It certainly did not look like he was in pain. More like he was just peacefullysleeping,"she added.I pondered over it a little,"It could have been a protective mechanism by that systemof his? He did use the word 'Hibernate for 6 months' when explaining his story."She nodded as she agreed with me,"this is what we concluded last time as well, andcontinued doing whatever we did as we waited for him to wake up again…"She paused in between as she looked at me before asking,"Should I continue or shouldI tell you about our friendship that happened in between?"I looked at her blankly for a few seconds before I realized the first question I asked herbefore, and pondering a little, I said,"Tell me about our friendship. The way you lookedat me yesterday and the way you look at me now is quite creepy, to be honest. I wouldlike to know what exactly triggered our friendship to the extent where you are takingcare of me as if I were your elder sister."She chuckled a little as she nodded before explaining,"Well. After the first night, wewere worried about Michael, obviously, but in the meantime, we also tried to fulfillour duties as part of the people there. Since my ability to see things at a rapid rateallowed me to go for a high end combat and your ability to sense dangers allowed youto have us a plan, we started going on a duo teams more often. It was strategicallygood and for some reason, our coordination was naturally good."I could understand why the coordination was good. Most probably me being able toread her movements… and the reason I took her with me is probably because ofMichael. Hmmm.. I seemed to have developed a pity for her during that time,especially when I shared my first time with both Michael and Her."After that, even though you were a hard nut to crack, I was still able to initiateconversation between you and me many times. There were also times where we bothhad to go all out and give each other the best support, many times risking our lives onit, which I think was one of the driving factors for our friendship. In the end, I don'texactly remember, but I started trusting you blindly as an elder sister,"she spoke witha bright smile as she looked at me.'Too bright,' I thought as I closed my eyes before sighing deeply. Well, that answeredthe first question. I guess it does make sense to partner up on a war front."Sad that you were kidnapped 2 months later,"she sighed as she turned around tofurther clean the floor."Wait! Wait! Wait! What do you mean by kidnapped?!!" I asked with a stupefiedexpression as I looked at her and she stood there still before a sudden realization hither,"Ah! Michael left the part about you!"Intrigued by her behavior, I further pressed her more than I spoke,"Hey! Tell me! Whatdo you mean by kidnapped?"This is no joke! I should be prepared 100% for whoever was trying to kidnap me. Wasit my sister? Or father, perhaps? Who was it?"The Plants,"she turned to me and looked at me with a knowing expression. Thoughthat only made me more confused,"Plants?"She nodded. She pondered a little before speaking,"I don't fully understand it either,but supposedly like everyone had Zombie Powers; you developed a certain power thatallowed you to carry traits of both Zombies and Plants. It was awesome, to be honest.""Tell me how I was kidnapped,"the mere thought of someone or something kidnappingme was creeping me out. For some reason, I wanted to know everything about thatincident."Well. Like our usual drill, we were fighting Zombies, but unlike normal days, thezombies were quite stronger than the others and were also quite numerous. It washard but not impossible, so we were managing it somehow. But as the fightprogressed, we somehow ended up reaching a point where we too were cornered,"shekept speaking as she paused in between. Her eyes closed, she tried to think as deeplyas possible."Then a certain light. I believed it was your ability? Anyway, that light just showedbrightly, like the brightest green out there, and started killing all the zombies left andright. As for you, you were knocked unconscious by the same light as it killed all theZombies. Didn't take even 10 seconds before all the Zombies were dead.After that, sadly, the light started creating more and more plants around us as ithealed me, while creating vegetation, as a fairy-like plant lady made up of pure woodand leaves, formed out of the green light. That lady took you up in your arms as shemoved towards a certain tree that engulfed you both as a whole, leaving the emptytrees behind."She gave a really sad look as she narrated this part before turning at me,"I tried my best to save you, but… I was too exhausted to fight."Regret filled her eyes as she continued to wipe the floor again. I stood up with a slightsmile on my face, moved towards her in slightly hurried steps and hugged her as tightas possible. Finding me close to her, she smiled as a couple of tears fell from her eyes.She was about to break as I patted her head,"It's all right. It wasn't your mistake. If I saved you, then it was my own decision andbased on the story, I probably wasn't dead, was I?" I consoled her with a sweet voiceand even though I could feel the tears on my chest, I kept quiet as I kept patting her.'Didn't expect things to go this way,' I thought as I kept patting her. Maybe I shouldhave waited to ask this story a bit later… or maybe not? I wonder what Michael wasthinking when he heard of this story… Was he coming to save me? He probably was."It was hard, Alissa. I… am sorry,"she spoke with the best of her ability as she tried tocontrol her tears and I continued to pat her. I whispered words like 'it's okay' and 'itwould have been fine' but honestly, I totally understand what it means to losesomeone you care about so much."After you went, I was silent for a few months before another news was dropped on usby Myla,"she continued as she hugged me for a while."The military planned to drop an atom bomb in the area where we were… Alissa..Sister.. You are hurting me… " she spoke as I let her go. Perhaps it was the mention ofthe Military doing military shit again, I got angry beyond words right now. I keptmyself quiet for sometime before she calmed down too."It was devastating for many reasons. We couldn't move Micheal. You were gone. Theplace we built so hard was about to blow into smithereens and that was too withinthe next week. The fact that if Myla hadn't informed us about it, we would have diedwithout even knowing what hit us made us suffocate a little worse than we werealready doing," she spoke as she looked at me with pure hatred for the Military."Tell me everything that happened,"I asked as my eyes turned real serious as well.

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