"This…" Nikolas stopped dead the moment his eyes landed on the five of them.
His gaze travelled slowly, almost painfully, from Luke to Elena, to Cissel, to Ricky, before finally locking onto John.
A long, shuddering sigh of relief escaped him, followed immediately by a hardening of his features. "You… All of you… Come with me this moment."
His tone was iron, leaving no room for negotiation or the typical teenage objections. Not that any of them intended to argue. The situation was far weirder than they had anticipated.
Even Cissel and Elena, who had joked during their final night in the Source Code World about being welcomed back like the walking dead, were visibly startled now that their imaginations had become reality.
"So… you are saying you were transported to a weird place where you had to fight for your lives against monsters and alien races, ending up being saved by the Anomaly God Paragon?!"
