I stared at Beth, who was taking deep breaths while holding tightly the cross/mace of One Bro, and wearing the E.G.O suit of the same abnormality.

"Beth, just go in and keep your wits... also, trying to understand everything that come in these folders may be a bit of a waste." Because they love being redundant with these folders... I straight up ignored them since it was basically a copy of the rule book I read a while ago.

Yesod apparently believes that no one reads it... not that I blame him for that thought, I hardly think anyone completely reads that thing... except Angela.

Beth took a deep breath again, "I know...according to both Yesod and Ryn, I should be able to work him..." I gave her a quick pat on the back and a smile.

"You handled a WAW well enough, this should be easier than that." Although what I read for that abnormality didn't fill me with confidence, it seemed to straight up kill people with high temperance... no wonder Ryn told me more than once not to try anything with it.

"If your dumbass gets the INGENIOUS thought of entering that chamber, you are an idiot and deserve what happens to you."

Yeah... I see why Amelia didn't like her, "So go in and show that thing what you are made of... wait no, that would probably get him angry. Give him a compliment, that should work." Beth nodded twice and decided to take another deep breath before going in.

I stared at the closing door and I breathed out, hope nothing goes wrong there...

"I see the employee of the week is worried." I heard the... admittedly plain voice of Ryn behind me, that didn't make me turn away my eyes from the door, though.

"I see your time in Information Team made you a master of noticing the obvious." I heard the snort behind me, I also noticed that this girl isn't the kind that likes sweet talk... kinda like Dakota but with fancier words.

The steps got closer until they stopped right next to me, "She'll be fine, the first work with that big guy is safe as it can be." Yeah... still worried.

Ryn wasn't trying to reassure me, either. I read on the Woodsman and I know what she said is to be true, yet that doesn't mean my feelings gave much of a shit about what I knew as fact.

Facts don't care about feelings, and funnily enough, feelings don't care about facts.

"I'm just doing what was asked of me." I replied, feeling that I should keep the conversation going even if we didn't have a lot to talk about.

Ryn hummed, "You aren't what I expected." Well, I would be lying if I said I wasn't curious about what you were expecting of me.

"Did you expect some kind of over-emotional cannon of a person?" I asked, and could literally feel the instant nod from the very blunt girl right next to me.

She breathed out, probably trying to drown out the small laugh she almost let out, "Kinda, what I heard from you made you look like a drama queen, then again listening to the gossip and taking it as fact isn't exactly smart." No wonder, she never looked like she took her own words seriously.

"Still, try to not make much of a fuzz here, I'd hate to deal with another Sephirah going crazy." She walked away, probably receiving an order to work an abnormality, while I kept staring at the door of the Woodsman.

Another crazy Sephirah...

"It... seems to be a problem that happens. There was a warning made specifically for it too... Angela wasn't completely sure what it was either."

I'd like to think we won't... but I'm not so sure about that, Ryn.

And so I waited for Beth to come out, and it felt like an eternity was passing, but when I saw the yellow lights flash through the door, I allowed myself to breathe out in pure relief.

"See? I told you it would be easy." I replied to Beth while moving towards her. She seemed relieved too, guess whoever was on the other side must have been bad for her health.

...

I managed to take a quick peek at the metal giant on the other side of the Containment room, utterly still until I made eye contact with it, which made him move almost instantly, and I panicked quickly after that.

My approach towards Beth turned into a dash. I grabbed her arm and yanked her back, pushing her completely out of the chamber, "Trigger wha-!?" She sounded confused, but I had already pulled out the black magnum from under my coat.

I pulled the trigger twice, opening almost fist sized holes in his head, but that didn't stop the giant for what looked like speed walking.

"Well, he doesn't like me..." I heard he reacted badly to people with high temperance... but only when they entered the chamber.

I read the ranking goes up to 5 here, what the fuck, do I have Temperance 7?

"Why is it reacting like this...?" Beth muttered to herself just as confused as I was, and to be fair this wasn't in the folders.

But at the moment it doesn't matter, "Right now it doesn't matter, we can think about it later when the big guy stops trying to kill us." I muttered to her.

"Warm-Hearted Woodsman has breached containment, Trigger, what did you do?"

Fuck you too, Yesod.

"Exist I guess." I responded in a snappy manner, something that my superior most likely didn't like, and guess what? I don't care.

"This is not a laughing matter"

"And I didn't make a joke." I responded back, throwing Beth to the left while I jumped to the right, and I was about to run towards the main room to get more space... just to see some Clerks entering said room to escape the abnormality.

Well fuck me.

I turned around and threw a great amount of butterflies with a mental command to its face, hoping to blind him. I ran forward and slid right between the legs of the metal giant that was flailing angrily. Once behind him, I pulled out the white magnum too.

Getting up and aiming both guns, I glanced once at Beth, "Yeah, he hates me." Referring to both Yesod and the Woodsman.

Then I opened fire.