Author's note: I feel bad about it's getting shorter and shorter... So I decided to combine two chapters into one. This story updates sunday or monday in GMT +9 time zone!

Outside, there were bones. The bones, of which the girl has seen in her dream. And they broke her down. Any little screams came out of her throat. She has been broken down. Everything was quite the same. Her boots, clothes, ribbon, everything was the same. And all were covered with blood. She has been dead. A skeleton was looking down her dead body.

The time went back. Frisk made it go back. She repeated all she did, without questions. She could remember everything she had experienced. She wondered only one thing. "What the hell killed me? What was that?" But she and Frisk knew what she had to do to go through that skeleton. It took a long time to decide. Leave, or stay. Usually, she used to choose to stay. She thought 'Attempting causes horrible consequence.' So she decided to keep this condition. Whether it is bad or not, patiently she endured.

That time she chose leaving. That time, it was her patience that made her keep going enduring her fear for unsafe, unstable future. Not a gloomy, uncertain present. She opened the door, again. The night had already come. Snows had fallen down. The bones popped up again. Her soul fell down on it. She jumped with all her might. She was filled with patience. More than ever. She gripped her knife tightly. That was nailed on the snow. The bones came to her. She started running. Fast and calmly, she dodged the attack from the bones. She saw the cyan light coming from skeleton's eye.

Cyan bones shut her. White bones were coming toward her. She ran to the cyan bones. She had to cover an endless wound, but she didn't. The skeleton got shocked. She was gripping the knife, while she was coming to him. He ran away and gone. She tied her shoelace. She had to be stealthy, at that time. She sighed and crumpled her face. She sat on a box, which is near her. She started crying. It was too cold and scared. She wanted to stab him. And in the underground, it would be hard to survive. She regretted her decision.

But she couldn't cry. It wasn't her role: Calling mom and dad and crying like a baby. snow was becoming a blizzard. She had to stand up.

"Are you alright?"

She brushed away the tears. Her patience had made her strong before, it was the same that time.

"I'm alright. Let's move."

She stood up.

"I'm alright..."

Nobody knew, who was the one she was talking to.

There was no one because it was dark at night. In the place only had the light, a quiet voice echoed.

"You try... to stay patient."

She searched the box. In the box were a cowboy hat and a gun. She wore the hat. and tried to use the gun. She failed. It was empty. She poorly opened a cylinder. But there was nothing but a casing.

'Shit.'

She put the gun in her backpack. Cold covered her.

The girl who kept walking saw a defenseless guard post. Thankfully, no one was there. She can take a break there; She didn't. She had to get a place, somewhere she can be safe before it was getting bright. But She couldn't be sure that that kind of places even existed. The cold was threatening her. And she saw more stable guard post. It seemed like the soldier had already fallen asleep. She walked out. That time, the soldier was awoken.

"Did something move? or... Was it just a dream?"

She stopped. It would be the same whatever she does. She gripped the knife tightly.

"Umm... there's nothing."

She couldn't stop her leg. It was trembling. She constrained her fear, tried to keep walking.

When she saw the ice, she could avoid them. When she saw a trash, she could ignore that. There was no exception. She only cared for one thing: the light. But she couldn't ignore the time. Whatever the puzzles were, she skipped them. Instead, she had to stomp the thorns. Her feet started bleeding. She used a bandage. it was hurt, the backpack was weighing down her. She took them. there were puzzles all over, her feet covered endless wound.

The girl was too tired, but all of a sudden she saw the light.

"You keep your patience..."

Patience. the thing made her move, the power she can take it, no matter how hard it is. She kept going, just kept going.

She encountered a big dog. A member of the Royal Guard. She was filled with fear. She tried to keep calm. She had to make them go away. She pulled out a can, open it, threw it away as far as she could. It cut her hands. She ran away.

She got to a town. small and peaceful. She stopped running. She felt her knees were getting weak. She couldn't stand straight. She fell. She stood up and got to the light at her last strength.

"At least, you must be safe here. It fills your patience."

The girl took off her backpack. Frisk gave her advice.

"You can put on your backpack in the box. So, when you find another box, you can take it from that box."

"Cool."

She went to an inn. Her look was so miserable enough to get owner's sympathy.

"Oh, my! How did you be like that?"

The girl didn't answer. Instead, she asked.

"Can I sleep here tonight?"

"Of course, You even don't have to pay! Sleep tight and Good dreams."

Right after she entered the room, she immediately fell asleep.

She woke up in the next noon. She went to the bathroom, showered, and thought about the knife and gun.

'Were there owners' of the knife and the gun? If there were, who were they? What happened to them? Why did they leave the knife and the guns behind? Are they alive?'

'... Maybe, Can I find another human?'

She really wanted to run into another human, who can keep her company. Another survivor. She went down to the counter.

"Have you ever seen any human being?"

"I've never seen any humans down here. I've just heard an old story about them. Do you wanna listen to the story?"

It was a kind of hope to her.

"A long time ago, a human who had a gun visited our town. He saw us and said he had no intention to attack us. He took out the bullets from the gun and threw them away. But he had still one bullet left in his gun."

"Ah, to be honest..."

"I bet he did something awful with that."

She said "yes." She didn't want to get doubt.

She left the inn. She thought their prejudice toward humans is out of line.

'No, It's wouldn't be true... Poor man...'

She asked Frisk.

"Why do they hate all human beings?"

"... I don't know ANYTHING about that. Don't ask."

She nodded, and decided to look around the town. She wanted to get more information not to be thought as a human, who they hate so much.

The town seemed peaceful, but she couldn't forget what the owner of the inn said. For the human, underground had been dangerous and hard for humans to survive. The monsters were prejudiced against a man who decided not to attack. She hated that fact. She felt sorry for him, felt sorry for another human.

And it would be easy for her to hate all of the monsters unless there were no problems living in the underground. She was so confused.

'What's good? What's bad? What's right? What's wrong?'

She also thought about the skeleton.

'Why the fucking skeleton attacked me? Because I'm a human? Did he do the same thing to other humans?'

She walked into a fog.

"OH MY! THAT'S A... THAT'S A HUMAN?"

She heard a voice. She gripped her knife tightly.

"EHEM! HUMAN, YOU CAN'T GO THROUGH THIS AREA..."

She was relieved.

'If he excited, it'll easy to go through him.'

"I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL CAPTURE YOU!"

"AND YOU WILL TRANSFER TO THE CAPITAL!"

'Wow, perfect. He is believing his power too much.'

"NOW COME... ONLY IF YOU DARE!"

"The skeleton blocks the way."

Frisk explained.

"HUMAN, CAN YOU HOLD ON WITH MY 'BLUE ATTACK'!?"

Her soul became blue. It fell down.

"YOU ARE BLUE NOW. THAT'S MY ATTACK!"

She didn't even know the soul she feels gravity is blue.

She tried to figure out how to flee from him. And she got the idea. The idea was to jump to the skeleton and slip between his legs. She made that.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HUMAN!? I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL CAPTURE YOU!"

...And she already disappeared into the fog. She filled with patience.