"Finally... done." Henry looked at the loot they had gathered and was filled with satisfaction.
Amelia, on the other hand, frowned. "How can we transport so much in a jeep?"
They at least need 5 large pick trucks to move everything.
At her question, the team fell silent, while Ivy bit her lips. She had a solution, however, she didn’t know how to pitch it without exposing herself...
’No.’ Ivy’s eyes lit up at the sudden thought. She can!
"Can we talk in private?" Ivy repeated her question to Silas.
Henry, Amelia, and Chloe: ( • ᴖ • ｡)( •᷄ᴗ•́) (づ •. •)? Again? Why?
Silas coughed, ignoring the curious stares thrown in his way, and nodded.
They created a certain distance between them and the three people who were staring at them, as if they knew lip reading (which they didn’t) and could hear what Ivy and Silas were talking.
Ivy took a deep breath and said,
"I... I have a superpower. Superpower to store anything. I can’t tell you the origin. I can show it to you and assure you that I will return them as long as you ask me to."
Silas blinked. It took him a whole minute before he came to his senses and nodded,
"Alright. Then please showcase it to me."
Ivy nodded. She was pleased with the fact that Silas didn’t ask her anything.
Silas refrained from his growing curiosity. It would be a lie if said that he wasn’t curious; however, he didn’t want Ivy to be scared of him.
If he forces her now, she will not tell him any of her secrets. He wanted to know her secrets, even if it was only on a surface level.
He felt as if Ivy was finally becoming close to him.
Maybe.. one day she will be comfortable enough to tell him everything in her heart and the origin of her secret.
’Just a bit more... she has finally started to open up to me... I want to trust her and make her mine...’
Before leaving, he asked,
"Are you okay with others knowing about its existence?"
Ivy shook her head. Though she trusted all of them. However... she was selfish. She had lived in an apocalyptic world and knew the cruelty of the world.
Jealousy was an ugly emotion. Ugly enough to ruin even the most perfect relationship.
Silas respected Ivy’s decision and asked Amelia, Henry, and Chloe to return to the car. Once they followed Silas’s words.
Ivy waved her hand and thought of storing all the animals in the Temporal Storage Space.
[Would you like to store ~6000 kg of animal meat in the space?]
’What?’ Ivy was stunned by the number. 6000kg of animal meat?
Won’t each of them get 1200kg of meat? That was enough to feed her for 3 to 4 years! And if she ate frugally, she had 8 years of meat in her hand!
"Yes." Ivy thought in her heart.
[To preserve the food of 6000 kg of animal meat, 0.1 kb per 100 years. Do you accept it?]
’Wow! Just 0.1 kb!’ Ivy was truly thrilled.
She had 20kb, but now, even after storing so much, she has only spent 0.1 kb!
The moment she answered, all the animals disappeared from the ground and landed in her Temporal Storage.
Silas blinked. One moment, the animals were right in front of him. But the other moment... they vanished... as if they didn’t exist in the first place.
He repeatedly blinked before he realized that superpower did exist. And apparently, Ivy had one.
Regaining his composure was a bit hard for Silas; however, eventually he snapped out of his daze and nodded at Ivy,
"Thank you for your help. I would like to ask if you can store the animals hunted by Team B, too?"
Ivy immediately nodded.
Helping Silas’s team? She was always ready!
In her previous life, after Silas’s death, his team members took her in, since the Ravencroft family had kicked her out.
She had also lost her vision and became a liability to them, so they didn’t care if she lived or died.
At that time, Silas’s subordinates were the ones who had taken her in. They protected her, provided her shelter, and even died while giving her the chance to live.
After her parents and Silas, if someone treated her the best, then... it was Silas’s team and her own best friends.
Soon, they reached Team B. However, Silas had asked the members of Team B to leave and even had asked Amelia, Henry, and Chloe to leave.
After Ivy stored the animals hunted by Team B, which was nearly 5420 kg of animal meat, Ivy turned toward Silas,
"Can you wait in the car? I want to do something in the mountains."
(Author: Don’t say you want to do some R18 stuffs~)