Puron Psych

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"The children must have taken the props for today's lesson and scattered them in the water when they were playing. I'm sorry about your foot." The woman finished wrapping a bandage around Harper's cut, before placing the rest of the first aid items in a small weaved box and setting them aside.

The inside of the hut was bigger than it appeared on the outside. It was decorated with children's paintings or symbols of Paradisian written language on the walls. There were small tables and cushioned floor mats placed around the room, most likely for the children to sit at.

Where the woman was standing was a large open window that showed a beautiful view of the ocean and mainland across the sea.

"Those crystals..." Hyde began. It seemed everywhere they went, this island and the people on it were becoming more and more suspicious.

First with Akamau and her knowledge of understanding how to tamper his condition. Whatever medicine she gave him did the trick, and he didn't understand why.

But this mysterious woman was claiming that the children of this island were playing around with organic Puron. That was something he'd never heard of. Puron was always known as something fatal, and something that he, before he got sick and Yanpu could touch.

"They're Puron, aren't they?"

"Oh, yes, indeed they are."

Harper's curious expression dropped. Hyde sensed her fear and asked more questions. "It's quite dangerous to leave it unattended around kids... don't you think?"

The woman tilted her head, very startled by his statement. "Ah, yes, I do think Puron in its organic form can be quite harmful, but the props used today have been thoroughly cleansed."

"Don't Bullshite me." Hyde drew his weapon and stalked toward her.

"Hyde! Wait!" Harper pulled herself to stand.

"I won't." Hyde felt that something was very off. There were no children when they entered the building. He hadn't heard a peep the moment they stepped through the doors.

Perhaps this was a trap? And what was with the view of the mainland? Was someone watching them?

"I don't know what kind of game you're playing here," Hyde twirled his sword in his hands skillfully. The blade swished up and down, flipped multiple times in Hyde's fingers before the sharp edge finally hovered against the woman's neck. "Did you kill them?"

"H-Huh?" The woman backed into the wall, perplexed by Hyde's assertion and assumption.

"Where are the others?"

"They were outside playing!"

"I didn't see em." Hyde spat. "That makes you a liar. The kind I don't tolerate."

"Hyde! Stop!" Harper placed a hand against his torso and nudged him away from the woman. "I'm so sorry! We aren't from here. He's very skeptical about this place. We aren't familiar with your way of doing things."

"I... could tell." The woman eyed Hyde strangely. "You seem like you haven't seen these before," slowly avoiding Hyde, she stepped over to a shelf and pulled a large red crystal with purple tips off of it. "I find it odd."

Hyde studied the crystal longer. It's never been documented that Puron could be cleansed. He's never seen them with a mixed shade of fuschia, and neither had Harper.

"If what you're saying is true, then those crystals won't do me any harm, right?" Harper felt relieved. Hyde's condition was only somewhat bearable because of Bomb's theory.