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Chapter 9
"Dude, wake up..." Crono's voice echoed in my mind, giving me a slight headache.
"W-Where am I?" I asked dumbly. I opened my eyes and could see that we were in a small cabin. Then I noticed the singing of birds and people outside. "Where are we?"
"Payon." Crono answered and handed me a wet towel. "Wipe all that sweat away before we go outside. You were having a nightmare or something." I took the towel and wiped my face. "Oh, and we had to take off your armor to treat your arm. It's sitting outside to dry...we took the liberty to clean the blood off it." With that, he walks out of the cabin. "I'll be back with food, alright? Stay put."
After a few moments, I put the towel back in the bowl of water and laid there for a while. The sun shone through the window and onto my body. It was really comforting, along with the warm breeze. The moment was interrupted by Crono coming in with a basket full of apples, bananas, grapes, baked sweet potato...even honey.
"People here are really generous." Crono said, setting the basket down by me and picking up an apple.
"Who brought us here?" I asked as I took a banana and pealed it. "The female knight?"
"Ohh, you mean Raisu?" Crono swallowed a piece of the apple and continued to explain. "Yea, after my Lord of Vermillion destroyed Osiris and his posse, she led us out of the maze and back to here."
"But she's a KNIGHT." I said, worried. "Knights...The Chivalry...Prontera. Remember?"
"Oh yea, that." Crono replied. "The Knights here are apparently really out of date. Probably because Payon is so...excluded from the outside world. The Knights here know nothing of us, Hikaru. No worries!" He gave me one of those happy-go-lucky smiles. "After a few days, we'll be on our way to Yggdrasil."
"You STILL want to go there?" I looked up from my food. "After all that has happened?"
"Hikaru, if we go, at least there is less chance of you killing a whole town while in berserk." Crono said in a serious tone. "If we stay, you'll turn berserk one day and just go on a killing spree. There is no logic in staying and waiting for that to happen."
"That's not what I meant..." I said quietly and Crono gave me a questionable look. "I was thinking of going on my own." The wizard broke out laughing.
"Pfft, you wish you could get rid of me THAT easy." He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and continued talking. "No, I'm defiantly going with you. I'll even stalk you if I have to." He stood up. "In fact, Raisu offered to come with."
"...You told her!"