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“Here. Try putting white.”
“White...?”
Eden heard Loir typing, and suddenly, one of the cubes that were about to go inside the wall, stopped mid-air and ran to the middle of the room, where it had just changed color, but it stayed white.
“Loir, it worked!” exclaimed Eden.
“Here, put black. This one, white.”
“What are we playing at?”
While he asked, two more cubes stopped flying and went to their spots. Eden breathed a bit better. It looked like Dante had found the solution...
“It’s a game of Go. It’s an old game, played on a nineteen by nineteen grid, containing three hundred sixty-one points for the players to put their white or black stones.”
“They put such a complicated thing for their people to pass through?” frowned Eden.
“The rules of Go are actually extremely simple. The game is much more complex than chess because of all the possible combinations, but as long as you know the basics, any idiot can play, and this code is already filled, I just need to look at the area you’re in to know what to put. Here, white, and this one too. This one, black.”
“Oh my gosh, he’s smart and rich, and he knows some super weird Asian chess game that’s about to save my Kitty’s eighth life. Oh, I can’t have two white ones after the other. Alright, one player after the other, I get it...”
Quickly, Eden saw the board filled in front of her. She saw the grid, and those cubes were probably meant to be those stones... Still, she couldn’t see her exit, and the corner in which the Core was attacking was growing rapidly.
“Guys... faster...” she said.
Dante was still continuously saying where to put what to Loir, and the hacker was typing fast to finish filling the code. Eden could see the grid rapidly filling itself. This probably wasn’t like chess, as she saw large areas filled with white, and some with black. She suddenly understood; once the game was over, one of those zones was probably going to be the exit. Eden grabbed one of the cubes and, following the logic of what she could understand as the basic rules Dante had mentioned, she threw it against the grid, in a suitable spot.
The grid reacted, and all the cubes stopped moving. Instead, the white area opened, and all the white cubes turned into a strange sort of void. Eden let out a sigh of relief and jumped inside.
She heard the Core behind her, and it prompted her to start running immediately in the tunnel she was in. The Core was going to chase her until the very end!
She accelerated. Why was that tunnel so long again! Eden was almost out of breath, but she could see the end of it. She could hear the Core, screeching behind her like a machine overspinning. It was trying to scare her, but Eden knew she ought to run, just keep running!
“Good job, Eden.”
That voice.
Eden almost stopped as she glanced over her shoulder. She only caught a very brief image. A smile, blonde hair, and an index finger against thin lips. Suddenly, a hand pushed her forward and Eden fell.
She fell on her knees in Loir’s new room.
“Welcome back to Pizzaland!”
“Pizzaland?” sighed Eden.
She was still on all fours, trying to recuperate. For her brain, everything that had just happened was perfectly real. Hence, she was still tired from all the running around, sore from the strenuous movements, and worse, still dizzy from everything that had just happened in a mere few minutes.
A large hand suddenly appeared in front of her; she knew whose it was without even checking for black nail polish. Eden tried to control her blushing and took it, helped up by Dante.
“Welcome back,” he said.
His low and deep voice made Eden blush even more as she tried to avoid his gaze. He helped her sit down in the closest chair while Loir was still on his keyboard.
“Good job, Kitty,” he chuckled. “We have a lot of pretty, shiny data to recover, but I got it all here–”
“Loir, I saw Master.”
His fingers froze above the keyboard as he turned his creepy, black eyes to her.
