With everyone giving him space, Dan stood alone in the middle of the snow-laden path. His dark coat swayed faintly as the mountain icy wind slipped past, carrying with it a slow drift of white flakes that clung briefly to his shoulders before melting away. He didn’t move, didn’t speak, just stood there as though waiting for something unseen to arrive.

  The silence around him was deep enough that Emma could hear the faint crunch of her own boots when she shifted her weight. Her unique white eyes stayed fixed on him, a calm curiosity of what he was about to do lingered in her mind.. After a moment, she turned slightly toward Liz, voice low.

  “Sorry, but… what is Dan about to do?” She tilted her head in his direction, so not enough to make it obvious.

  Liz followed her gesture, then gave a small, amused breath, half chuckle, half sigh. She leaned down slightly and crooked a finger, signaling Emma closer.

  When Emma leaned in, Liz spoke near her ear in a hushed tone, her words carried on the faint warmth of her breath. “He’s just unhappy when he uses this ability of his… because he can’t control the unbound destruction it brings. He doesn’t want anyone getting hurt because of him.” She straightened slightly, then added with a knowing glance, “Don’t let Dan know I told you this. He’ll just get paranoid and think I’m breaking his pride.”

  Emma’s lips curved in a small, almost mischievous smile as she gave the tiniest nod. “Got it,” she murmured.

  The two girls fell into a brief silence, the sound of the icy wind weaving between them. But Emma’s curiosity, as usual, was not easily satisfied.

  “Liz…” she began again, tilting her head, “if I may ask… what ability is it?”

  Liz hesitated. Her deep green eyes narrowed slightly, the way someone might when weighing whether a truth was worth speaking aloud. But the pause lasted only a moment before she let her shoulders relax. “It’s not that big a deal,” she said, finally meeting Emma’s gaze.

  “The ability Dan’s about to use has a connection to the Lime-state. And the Lime-state itself…” She let the words hang for a moment, as if the concept carried its own gravity. “ serves as a state beyond its state itself. Beyond the concept of speed and even the concept of beyond, alongside absolute.” Her tone softened into something almost too calm as though what she's explaining was something that seemed normal to people like them. “In this state, anyone who has the Lime-state… is speed, in a way that can’t be fully comprehended”

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  Emma’s eyes widened slightly, her expression locked between awe and puzzlement as Liz continued. “If he uses it at maximum… Dan can reach a state where he can be here… and at the same time not here. Where he can be everywhere simultaneously.”

  A soft breath escaped Emma’s lips. “Simultaneously… existing everywhere at the same time.” She repeated the words slowly, tasting them like a strange new taste.

  Liz gave a short nod. “And that’s what makes it omnipresence.” Her gaze drifted briefly toward the horizon, as though the thought pulled her somewhere else. “And this Eradicator…” she muttered almost to herself, “seems to have achieved that.”

  Emma’s attention sharpened at that. “If that serves as omnipresent,” she said carefully, “then I think I have a few questions about it.”

  Liz turned back to her, lips pulling into the faintest smirk, her tone shifting into something that carried the weight of a teacher addressing a younger student. “Go on.”

  And so Emma did, though deep inside, she couldn’t help the small, familiar grumble that came whenever her size and age reminded her she was still seen as the “little one.”

  Emma’s lips parted slightly before she finally spoke. Her voice carried the delicate tone of someone layering careful thought into words.

  “If the Lime-state can achieve what you described,” she began slowly, tilting her head a fraction toward Liz, “then why don’t you use it to get to Xin region? It would be much faster if Dan used it.”

  She drew a soft breath, her small hand brushing against her sleeve before she continued, her voice more curious now.

  “And secondly… why doesn’t Dan like using it? From what I’ve seen, it doesn’t seem very dangerous.”

  Hearing this, Liz exhaled faintly, her breath clouding against the air. She raised her hand and tucked back a strand of hair that had slipped from one of her twin buns. Her emerald eyes flicked toward Emma, measuring the question with a thoughtful weight.

  “For your first question,” she said evenly, her tone almost deliberate, “there are two answers. And one of them will be tied to the second question you asked.”

  Emma straightened subtly, her eyes sharpening, her skirt shifting against her knees as she leaned forward just slightly. Liz noticed the motion, a faint curve tugging at the corner of her lips, before she looked away toward the path of snow stretching into the horizon.

  “The first answer…” Liz hesitated, drawing a slow breath before finishing, “we could have used it. We wouldn’t even need to walk. We could simply exist at the entrance of Xin region.”

  Her voice softened at the last word, but then she let it stretch, pulling the air around them tighter.

  “But…”

  The drawn-out word lingered like frost before shattering.

  She moved one hand up, tightening the tie of her bun before lowering it again, letting her ash-gray furry coat shift against her shoulders. “It can’t be used everywhere. Some places,” she said with quiet gravity, “have omnipresence negation. If Dan tried to exist simultaneously in those areas, he’d be pulled out, forced into the nearest place where omnipresence isn’t negated. That’s why it isn’t as simple as it seems.”

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