"No thanks," she abruptly stops him, raising her hand. "Last time she asked the spirits to help us, it was a slaughter. It makes me wonder if she really did ask them to help us." It happened a few months ago but she can still vividly remember every single detail of that night. She wondered how she got herself alive out of that.

Xayah sighs and shakes her head.

"I don't know." There's a perpetual scowl on her face. "She says we don't have to like her but that we should work with her and together to solve this World Eater thing so everyone can move on. And yet..." little army of murderers... it fits. It's like Keeper is holding an invisible knife to their throats, ready to slice whenever she wants.

"Two years to solve the problem, otherwise she'll reset us since we weren't useful and the World Eaters would destroy everything."