"YOU!" Isha roared back, one of her gigantic claws hanging above Ryuk’s face, turning the air around him into frigid ice.
"YOU SAID YOU NEEDED THE SLEEP. YOU SAID IT WAS AN ENERGY-CONSERVING MODE."
"BUT CLEARLY, THAT WAS A LIE!"
"YOU WERE THE ONE WHO LIED!" she said, amidst a mushroom of intense icy frost.
"Ahhhh,"
Ryuk released air from his lungs, watching it turn into frost particles the second it left his lips.
"I’m sorry," he whispered, noticing the plummeting temperature slow down for a while.
"I’m sorry for telling you what is not the truth," he said, but Isha’s cold eyes revealed doubts as she looked at him.
His head hung low, not looking at her. His hair covered his face, making his expression unnoticeable, but his fists gave him away.
His right fist was clenched tight, and purple veins writhed over his arm, thrumming with impossible power.
"Now," he said, turning away to sit back at his desk.
"Change back to your human form. You’re wrecking the lab."
A silent growl escaped her lips, but she didn’t push further.
She could feel it — he was highly unstable for some reason, barely keeping himself together.
Guilt, or something else.
She didn’t know.
In an instant, her ginormous form puffed into a mini-storm of ice clouds, then she stepped out once more in her humanoid form, wearing a gown of silvery white.
She moved away from him, towards the glass covered in frost.
Her fingers brushed them away, and she looked to the other side to find a familiar person on the bed in the room, her sides rising and falling rhythmically, an obvious sign of sleep.
"You also didn’t get rid of her..." she said, looking at Iris sleeping peacefully on the couch.
He had told them he would get rid of her, and it truly seemed he had, but clearly that was far from the truth.
"You were the one who begged me to let us keep her in the first place. And somehow now, you’re an advocate for her to be gotten rid of..." Ryuk muttered under his breath with a scoff, and Isha’s face creased in displeasure.
"I wanted her to be kept until she was a danger. She made me choose between her safety and that of us all, and I chose what was important," she defended, giving one last look at the living space before moving around the lab.
Her wandering naturally brought her to the place where Ryuk had kept the triangular prisms, her eyes flashing with light at the sight.
At the same time, Ryuk spoke out.
"What were you planning on doing with those beasts? You asked me to bring them along," he said.
The triangular prisms had been taken by Ryuk when he saved Isha from the organization that had locked her in.
She had been experimented on, kept in a tube, and once she got out, she requested Ryuk to bring out these beasts, too.
He had done so, placing them in the prisms and storing them in his Shop.
According to her, they were Anomalous Extinct-level beasts, preserved to be experimented on later.
Ryuk had checked on their states just a while ago, and there were a total of 15 beasts, each of them in a slumbering, half-alive, half-dead state.
"If you needing to sleep to conserve energy was a lie,"
"Then what were you doing all this time?"
"What is here, and where is here?" she asked him.
The room opposite them, the lab they were in, and the water she could sense were bubbling all around the structure itself.
It was clear they weren’t in the spacecraft anymore.
"I created a clone," Ryuk said, causing Isha to pause in her steps.
"My main body was what was in the spacecraft, and my clone was here, in another place."
"I couldn’t divide my consciousness into two, so I had to constantly transfer between both."
"Me needing to sleep constantly meant being awake... in my other clone," he explained curtly, and she asked,
"Why did you create a clone in the first place?"
"Also, this world and its energy. This isn’t Endearth."
"Where is this? Why did you choose to come to this world?"
To that question, Ryuk asked,
"Do you remember Morgaine?"
The question made her turn to him, her brows wrinkling.
"The annoying girl? Yes, I do. And I remember both of you falling apart," she added.
"We got back together, and I followed her to her original world after the Fallen Angels left Endearth and returned to their world, Ammamora."
"So right now, we’re in Ammamora."
"Hahahahaha,"
Following his words, Isha suddenly burst out laughing, wheezing with her stomach clutched, although Ryuk didn’t exactly find out what part of what he said was so funny.
He watched calmly as she finally finished her laughter, exhaling a long breath before asking,
"So, you created a clone to... start a new life with your beloved love, and you didn’t tell any of us, because you wanted to keep it away from your main life?" she asked, summing everything up with unsettling speed.
Ryuk remained silent. For some reason, he felt Isha’s words carried more mockery than curiosity.
"So..." she said, as he watched her look around the lab, before she flashed him a taunting smile.
"Where is this beloved love of yours, Ryuk?"
"The one your new life revolves around?" she asked, and before he could respond, she continued,
"Oh, I’m sorry. She’s nowhere to be found... again?"
"Could it be that things... fell apart... again?"
CREEEAAAAK
The sound of bones creaking rang out, its source none other than Ryuk’s right fist folding together.
"Isha..."
"Oh, things didn’t work out as you planned with her, did they?"
"How come I’m not so surprised?" she said, clicking her tongue in disinterest.
"Isha...you’re pushing too far," Ryuk forced out through gritted teeth, but then,
VROOOOOOOOOOOM!
The air flapped with speed, and he saw a blur.
In the next moment, she was over him, both her hands pushing his shoulders down, pinning him to the seat.