Paige Summers dazedly followed the group. After an inspection and paying a certain number of Crystal Cores, they entered Glimmerlake Base as outside Hunters.
Marcus Monroe and his team, however, weren't surprised. From the very beginning, they hadn't fully believed Leanne Walsh. Even though the various strange phenomena at Dawnbringer Base had confirmed the possibility of a Beast Tide, they had only taken the timeline Leanne Walsh provided as a rough guide.
Paige Summers was different.
Combining her original body's memories with Leanne Walsh's actions, she had almost subconsciously assumed that the base had already been hit by the Beast Tide by the time they arrived.
But as she walked down the street—disorderly and lined with crude buildings, yet bustling with people—Paige Summers suddenly broke into a smile that was hard to tell if it was born of joy or worry.
'I really am a fool!'
'The plot has already changed so much, so what's so strange about one more deviation?'
