Freedom... //Yakusoku No Neverland

71] True Intentions

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"Ever since I've been thrown into this hell, I kept wondering... Why did Minerva call us to a place like this? You thought about it too, didn't you? That maybe it's been a lie from the very start... That Minerva is one of them, and that letter was a trap to lure us here... Something like that?" Lucas said

Emma's face looked like she had full trust in the letters

"AHAHAHAHA, you never doubted him at all?" Lucas said "Finding that door made me worry even more... About his true intentions. But there was no way to get a pen here... I thought if never have another change to find out. And then, you two came. Here it is" Lucas said

We stood infront of a door with William Minerva's logo

{The answer for everything is behind this door}

~

{There's no keyhole... P.E.N...? So the pen is the key}

I opened the pen and the knob just suddenly turned, Emma and Lucas shared the same face

I gulped and opened the door hoping for the best

As we entered, we found many computers in there

"... Huh?"

{I don't get it... Temperature... Ventilation... Power... Plumbing...? The time... And a dummy sky projection? Can this entire hunting park be controlled here? Or is it just a monitoring room? But why? What does it mean?}

"Emma, Y/n... This room..." Lucas mumbled

"Lucas! Y/n! This way!!" Emma called and we followed her to what seems like a Golden Lake

"Look..." Emma pointed

"... A lake?"

"Is a lake... And it looks... Golden... I can't believe it..." Lucas muttered

"Yes... This must be it.." I said opening the pen "Our destination point on Minerva's map... THE GOLDY POND!"

'Welcome To Goldy Pond' we're the words written when I opened the pen

"Minerva wanted us to come to this lake, right? Not to the hunting park" Emma said

I suddenly spotted a floating cabin "Guys Look! That cabin..."

"What... It's floating?!" Lucas said

{How? It's not even possible... Must be an optical illusion. The depth and translucency of the water are such that they bend the light that way...}

"What's with this water...? Yes, this is weird... You can't touch it!" Lucas said, observing the water as he tried touching it

{The water is... Pulling back? Bouncing off then disappearing?}

"None of this makes sense..." Lucas said

"I don't understand either. This... This isn't really water, I think" I mumbled

"There must be something in that cabin" Emma said

"Yes, let's go check it out" Lucas agreed

I stepped into the water first as Emma and Lucas followed behind

"The water... Looks like it's not harmful" I said

"... I suppose" Lucas said

{Not even a single drop sticks}

We arrived the island, and... It was actually floating

Emma opened the door which was unlocked, we saw a room with an elevator at the middle and a mat on the ground and a table with a telephone on top

"This is an..." Emma paused

"It's an elevator. Seems to be an older model..." Lucas explained

{But why is there an elevator in a place like this...?}

"I think that..." Emma said "This elevator can take you to the human world... Maybe?"

Lucas looked at her "No... No way" He said nervously

"Yeah, of course! After all we went through on the way here... There's no way it would be that easy... And an old elevator, of all things!" Emma exclaimed, nervously laughing

There was silence after

"No, it's not as absurd as it sounds" I said calmly "The letter talked about going beyond mere safety... And if Minerva wanted us to come to this exact place, what's the elavator for? This may well be the means to cross the border"

{So we've found it? Is this elevator that stands before me... The way to the human world?!}

"We should try it out. It seems to be in order. First, the power..." Lucas said

"Here! There's a hole! And the mark of the owl...! It's Morse code for "Pen", again..." Emma said

"So you have to insert the pen here, right?" I said and inserted the pen in

Suddenly, after I placed in the pen, the whole place shook. "Pop" Sounded the machine and we saw it was On

"It's moving..." Lucas said

{If this is really a way to cross into the human world... If this elevator is really working and takes us to the other side... We can escape the demons. Right now. All of us. Lucas and that man... Violet and Oliver and all of their friends... Theo, and all the children that were brought here... All of them can escape this horror... And, after we bring Phil and the others, we too...! Oh God, please work! Please... Please!!}

Then the pen popped out

"Huh?!" Emma screamed "Suspended...?"

{Oh no... Why? What happened? It was working before... It moved!! We need it}

"RING" "RING"

"A telephone?"

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