𝐷𝐼𝑆𝑇𝑂𝑅𝑇𝐸𝐷

chapter two

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⤷𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐓 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓

Months have gone by quicker than they anticipated and it's already autumn.

[Name] had been patrolling alone and intentionally left whenever Stanley wasn't around as to not have him tag along with her like a lost puppy following it's owner.

And luck doesn't seemed to be on her side, with Xeno saying that they might arrive today meant that the h/c nette need to have someone accompany her and it just so happen to be the person she currently holding a grudge, Stanley Snyder. 

''Why does it have to be you?'' She whispered to herself as they walked through the forest. 

The blonde heard what she said and he isn't one to pass up an opportunity to replied in a sarcastic manner, ''You really hate me that much?'' 

''Trust me, hate isn't the correct term to describe what I'm feeling right now..... I despise you.'' 

Stanley gasp in fake surprise upon hearing those words. To think that she have the audacity to say that in the presence of the person she's talking shit about and she didn't even stuttered.

"I didn't even do anything."

"You don't have to."

"I also didn't threatened Luna.... yet." Stanley grimaced at his poor attempt on getting back on [Name]'s good graces.

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"We're gonna scour the land till our feet hurt real baaad... To find that corn!" Chrome said inside the lab.

"It'll be ifficult-day. The U.S. is absurdly vast." Gen said worriedly.

"We were always taking a gamble on finding any corn at all." Senku said while staring at the map. "But one spot near here could be the corn belt we're looking for. Since we arrived on the west coast, it had to be Northern California, enter San Francisco Bay and follow the sacramento river to where it used to be sacramento....."

"Slow down please, we don't all have encyclopedic knowledge of american geography." Gen said as he didn't understood one single thing that Senku had just explained.

"You mean we gotta follow this river to find corn? Why didn't ya say so?!" Chrome yelled.

"You're always ready to dive in and adapt, dear Chrome. The ideal search team leader...."

"It's nearly the time of the year where the corn will wither. I wonder if we make it on time." Ukyo said out loud.

"Yeah. That's the issue. But the earth experience called precession. Kinda like how a toy top starts titling as it spins. And the planet's rotational axis has tilted a little over three thousand and seven hundred years... It affected the Earth's climate in a way that will help us since the season is changing nine days later now."

"Oohhh."

"And extended deadline! Nice!"

"The downside is that climate change is gonna affect the ecosystem in weird ways. Let's just hope that no beasts decides to attack us."

"Actually, we would welcome a beast attack." Tsukasa said bluntly.

"Yeah." Kohaku said in agreement.