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Chapter 128: An Unlikely Truce

Chapter 128: An Unlikely Truce

Standing at the edge of the Sanctuary, YN awaited his part to play in the plan.

He was to remain separated from his fellow wayward traveling companion, for now, as a surprise element. Per YN's command, the Ryuzu copies addressed Garfiel who was already awake and doing his morning patrol. When he asked them if anything had occurred during the night, they replied with shook heads indicating "no." Still, he was further curious as to what Subaru had been up to the night before, but when he spoke to Ryuzu after going to see her that morning, she reported that the copies had seen him wander the woods for awhile, and had gone back to bed.

While not a lie exactly, it was distinctly an ommitence of the truth.

But now as part of this plan for escaping the Sanctuary, they needed to feed the golden-haired youth more dis-info.

He'll easily see that Patrasche is missing from the stables on his rounds of the Sanctuary, and we don't want him getting too suspicious if the Ryuzu copies feed him too much appeasing info. He knows Subaru had something on his mind the night before. If he just gets told he's still asleep or not doing anything funky, he might get spooked and run to the crystal to double check his Command Authority.

Needing to walk a thin line and tentatively control the information Garfiel had, YN had told the Ryuzu copies to tell them Subaru was looking like he was running away. With Ryuzu correctly telling Garfiel that Subaru was on Patrasche and he was heading to the exit of the Sanctuary, she did lie about YN's whereabouts.

Garf still thinks I'm asleep, which would be normal if I had slept.

For once, YN was thankful for his recent bad sleep habits, as it was convenient for this.

If Garfiel didn't also think YN was involved initially, he might not view it as such a desperate thing to immediately confront.

Still, the buzz of fatigue due to a sleepless night did make this all the more stressful for YN, especially since so much of this plan revolved around vague timings that needed to be just right.

With YN in position, by the time Subaru was to reach him, the Ryuzu copies should have given Garfiel just enough information for them to all end up meeting at around the same time.

The relationship between Subaru and Garf was already badly stained last night, so if Subaru is suddenly gone, it might make Garf erratic enough to follow us out of the Sanctuary in hostility. He needs to see we have the Command Authority. When he does, he'll be forced to run all the way back to the other side of the Sanctuary, which will give us all the time in the world to get away from him.

*Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump—*

As he mulled over the plan, the muffled trample of a ground dragon in the distance entered into YN's ears.

Here he comes.

Holding the reins of Patrasche, Subaru approached with a small cloud of dust behind him.

Patrasche: *Skqwa!*

Screeching as she came to a halt, the jet black ground dragon offered her face for YN to rub his hand on. Looking now to Subaru, he knew Garfiel wasn't far.

Subaru: So, where's our send off party?

Subaru of course meant Garfiel and the Ryuzu copies, and while the timing had to mean they were close, they'd not met as soon as YN had liked.

Just as the groundskeeper went to say something along the lines of "any second now!", the sound of a drum beating entered into YN's mind.

*Ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum—*