City lights and Spider bites. | Daerin.

Chapter 36

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Haerin walked around the digital world, her eyes hurting from the greenness, and different formulas floating around.

Taehyung pursed his lips. "So—you were Spider-Kid? So that's why you were never home. Damn, cool." He smirked, but then got serious and slapped the underside of her head. "Stupid! All this time, you were hiding this from me?! And what parallel universes? And who was that guy?!"

Yeonjun stepped in. "Sir, calm down, everything is going to be alright. Haerin did a great job in saving the—the universe? Multiverse? Well, whatever. All that is left is to defeat Mango. Or whatever his name was."

Haerin laid down and stared at the place. The only thing that was the same was the room they got locked in. Surroundings and everything else were probably just like in the physical world, but still different. "This sucks so much. I can't believe we're stuck in a digital world. And I don't even know what to do! I don't have any powers to get out."

"What about the girls in that room? I'm sure at least one of them knows what to do?" Yeonjun tried to be optimistic.

The feline scratched her chin. "Even if they knew—I don't think they have enough skills to crack a code that will get us out of a digital world. Maybe all we can do is rot away here. Heh. So that's why my doppelgänger wanted to die." She mumbled and Yeonjun had some suspicions that the girl was slowly going crazy.

Then, the chief groaned. "I'm sure we can do something. Hey! Guys! If you can hear us! Please do something!" He screamed and Haerin simply shook her head, while Taehyung dazed off, still thinking how he got here and what he should do.

In the physical world, Minji kept on pushing some buttons, groaning to herself when nothing worked. Hyein was walking around like crazy, mumbling some things to calm herself down. Danielle was tapping on the trio's faces, hoping that any of them would jolt awake and end this. Hanni, however, was guarding Haerin's box, knowing how the girl didn't leave it anywhere without safety.

Minji growled and pushed herself away from those weird buttons, breathing through her nostrils to calm herself down. "This is so unfair! I have no idea what to do!"

"Aren't you a video game addict?! I'm sure you know the most about digitally charged technologies!," Hyein bit back and stared at her friend, who cowered from embarrassment.

"W—well, that's true!, But..." She glanced at the screen, everyone else looking at the trio that were going crazy from being trapped. "Ah! Haerin knows programming better than me. How am I supposed to make some formulas and codes to get them out of there?! That's just insane." She sighed and gave up.

Hanni pursed her lips and looked up at her girlfriend. "Minji. I think the only thing you can do is to turn their location into a video game."

Everyone turned to her with curious gazes, involving the black haired, who raised her brow, urging the girl to continue her sentence. "I mean, this is a digital version of our world. No matter what you do, it will remain online. So...since you're good at games and play them more than Haerin does, mind you, I'm sure you can remember at least a few things that you can do. It doesn't have to be a code, necessarily. Or maybe you know some formulas unconsciously."

Minji's mouth parted in adoration, Hyein nodding her head with the word 'proud' swimming on her features. "You're a genius, Hanni Pham!," She screamed and bent down to kiss the girl on her cheek, but she got pushed away.

"I wish we could talk to them." Danielle muttered and stared at her kitty, who had her eyes closed and was leaning on the chair, unconscious.