『 Broken Promises 』The Promised Neverland Ray x OC

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"Weren't you listening? An alarm probably goes off once the trackers are broken." Ray rolled his eyes.

Phoebe elbowed Ray lightly as a sign to be nice.

"So mom would find out instantly?" Emma stressed once again.

"If a notification function really exists." Ray finished.

"But knowing that mom purposefully clued us in on the existence of the devices, we can't ignore the risk." Norman stated.

Phoebe was playing with a leaf on the ground, deep in thought.

"Bee."

She snapped out of her gaze and looked towards the three of them.

"Are you listening?" Ray glared.

"Sorry. I didn't get much sleep last night." She sighed, saying the last part quietly.

"We need you on earth, not in the clouds. But anyways, to put it bluntly...they're hinderents." Ray shrugged.

"Ray!" Emma yelled and threw the ball she was holding in Rays direction.

He caught it and continued, "You know it's the truth. Some of them aren't good at physical activity. Not to mention the babies who can hardly walk." He had a bland face.

"I actually have an idea for how to deal with that." Emma calmly said.

Ray tossed the ball back to Emma.

"Which is?" Norman asked.

"By playing tag. Norman is it and everybody else runs." Emma sat down next to Phoebe on the blue ball she had.

"We pretend it's play when we're actually training." Norman finished, sitting next to Emma.

"Mom won't find out!" Ray exclaimed, and sat down with everybody.

"Great thinking Emma." Phoebe finally joined the conversation.

"Thanks. Me and Bee will teach them how to push their bodies to the limit. As for sharpening their minds-" Emma nodded.

"Leave it to us."

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Phoebe and Emma walked towards everybody, Emma was holding Phil and another boys hand while Phoebe was holding Harper and Yvettes hand.

"You guys all did good today." Phoebe whispered and smiled.

"Thanks Bee!" The two girls both responded sweetly.

"Outside playing tag looks like fun. It's important that I get to know all of you better. So let me join in. This match we'll have a twenty minute time limit. I'll be it this round. Now then...run and hide~" Krone smiled and sang the last part.

Shivers went down Phoebes spine.

She let go of Harper and Yvettes hand and she felt someone put a hand on her shoulder, she froze.