Chapter 26: C3 The Cure
|| Previously... ||
Deciding that she had enough of their annoying closeness with each other, she decided to finally interfere and address the purpose of her call.
"Byakuya-san, I am now sure about the petrification cure's formula... it works."
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Hearing her words, Byakuya quietened down and asked her solemnly, "The specifics?"
"As hypothesized, nital is the cure to petrification. For some unknown reason, it reverts back petrified people back to their previous state. As for how exactly it works, I have no information yet." Julienne said.
Byakuya listened to her words silently and nodded after hearing her findings. He then thought about something and asked, "Do you have any way to acquire them in bulk? Or maybe make them?"
Julienne just shook her head, "Due to the situation these past week, many facilities, establishments, stores and factories have been destroyed either due to random planes crashing or unmaintained factories malfunctioning and many more accidents that may happen without human attention."
"As for making nital, I don't know how to make it and the internet is down..."
"You're right..." Byakuya remained silent before he turned his head and shouted out, "OI! DOES ANYONE OF YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE NITAL?!"
On the other side, Byakuya looked out the hut as he shouted. Hearing no one reply to him, just as he planned to shout again.
"OI!! DOES ANY—!"
"I HEAR YOU OLD COG! ITS SO EARLY IN THE MORNING WHY THE HELL ARE YOU YAPPING?!"
Byakuya chuckled as he looked at the guy coming inside the hut, "It's important, Shamil. Julienne asked if we know how to make nital."
Shamil scratched his head while sighing when he heard that Julienne called. He thought this old man relapsed but it seemed like it's important.
"Did you just curse me in your head, Shamil?"
"I know how to make nital, but can't you just find some in industrial stores there? And where would you use it?" Shamil ignored the old man and looked at Julienne who was on the other side.
"It's... the cure for the petrification."
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|| A while later... New York ||
Closing the call, Julienne sighed and slumped on the chair. She then felt someone hug her from behind.
"Don't be too skeptical, Julienne. There's so many places in the whole city where we can scavenge some nital. There's no way all of them are burnt down."
Hearing Nathalia's reassuring voice, Julienne leaned in her arms and let her hug her.
"But... to save others we would need much, so much more."
Nathalia looked at her in mock surprise as she asked her with a smirk, "Since when did you start caring about others? How come I didn't know?"
"Hehehe, years have passed and I experienced many things... can't I change?" Julienne chuckled as she closed her eyes and rested in Nathalia's embrace.
For a while, they just stayed there in each other's embrace... the only solace in this apocalyptic end of the world.
As time slowly passed, it was Nathalia who broke the silence and asked, "Can I see my friends?"
"Well, it's just about time you see them."
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Before long, the duo arrive at the basement parking lot. This is where Julienne placed all the loot she got the whenever she goes out to look for supplies. Though it would've been fortunate if they got nital among her loot, she found none at all.
The two of them continued walking forward and passed the cars and other vehicles. Along the way, Nathalia saw boxes neatly organized and some mall carts haphazardly placed on the corner.
'She haven't changed at all. She's still as lazy,' Nathalia thought as a smile crept up on her face.
Not long later, they finally arrived at the end of the parking lot where statues were placed carefully spaced apart from each other. All of them have varying uniquely different postures that are so lifelike... which is not that far off from the truth.
"Why is there too many statues here? Do you know them?" Looking at the stone statues, she can easily count all of them to be about less than a dozen of people. She thought at first that only her friends were here.
Julienne smiled bitterly as she nodded, "Yeah... They cared for me when I have no memories about my past. It's only natural to try and save my friends."
Nathalia nodded and walked past the other statues. Then, she stopped in front of two statues. It was a statue of a man huddled closely as if protecting the girl below him.
"You rascal... why didn't you show this courageous part of yours back then. It would've raked in girls for you," Nathalia chuckled looking at her friend but tears inaverdently flowed down her eyes unconsciously.
Noticing her tears, Julienne patted her shoulder and motioned to wipe her tears off her face as she said, "Don't worry, Nat. We'll save them."
She then nodded and wiped her tears herself, "Yeah, just wait you two. We'll get you out of there soon."
"Let's go Nathalia! Let's go find the cure now and while at it, scavenge some supplies."
Julienne then ran to pile of grocery carts with Nathalia following behind her. As soon as they got there, Julienne took some ropes, hooks, and some chocolates and food with familiarity. Then she pushed her cart to the SUV and loaded the things. It didn't fill the trunk and just took about 1/10 of the space so they can still put the supplies they get.
Julienne then hopped on in the car and signaled for Nathalia to come in, "Come in!"
After Nathalia got inside the car, Julienne revved and started the engine before going on their way. The car drove and came out of the underground parking lot not long after. The gate wasn't close because they opened it earlier, after coming out of the parking lot Julienne closed the gate first before going on their way.
While Julienne was driving, Nathalia asked her, "Where are we going?"
"Hehehe~ We're going to IKEA, Nat! There's one about twenty blocks away." Julienne said with a smirk.
"How long?"
"Heh, that place is big but it won't take us more than three days."
Nathalia closed her eyes planning to take a short nap and said, "Hope we don't take too long... others are waiting."
"Haha! Don't worry, Nat. We won't take too long in there. Not like there's some monsters in there."
Julienne laughed as she drove the car and Nathalia ignored her as she took her short nap. But unbeknownst to them, Julienne's joking reply, will come true...
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A/N: HELLO GUYS!!! I am back from my two weeks hiatus! Hehe... Anyways do you like this chapter? Since I'm back, I will return to my usual one chapter per week schedule.
Also exams were crap... I only got 14 on mathematics but aced all the others. Who the fuck told me to be lazy in math... Like I know how but it's too long and time consuming I'm not a genius bruv. And that's how my exams went, how about ya?
That's all for now folks and see ya next time! Avidyazen!
PS: I'm not that smart and if you noticed something don't bother, there's no secrets or something. I wrote them manually... and I'll put them there starting now. They don't mean anything please ignore them.
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