I sighed wearily while staring at the elevator to the Manager's office. The day ended without many problems... although Punishing Bird went out of his chamber twice, and I had to take him back to his chamber since the little bird likes to nest on top of my head.

Now at this point I would have gone to meet my friends, but I received one message from the Manager.

"We have to talk"

And I know for a fact that 'We' is more than the two of us. I really wasn't up for this whole debacle, much less after I formed... I want to call it a friendship with the Knight of Despair, who has... well, turned really amicable.

Towards me, at least. Ryn tried to work her again, but she only got a neutral result, which is weird since that girl has worked the knight for quite a while and knew how to get the work done. She told me that the knight was always waiting for something.

Turns out that something is me. When I entered the room, I was informed that her mood just became overall better, she even smiled... well it was a microscopic smile, but that's way better than everything else she did, since every emotion in the past that she showed always carried some form of depression but that little smile when I'm around was just sincere.

And that's... another thing on my plate, actual tangible change of behavior in an Abnormality... was possible.

Well, it seems that it can only happen if you can relate to what they feel. I guess since our mentalities are so alike I was actually capable of pulling this off, but that's just guesses at this point, which means I need more data, which means I have to do that again.

Things can't ever be easy...

"Trigger!" I heard the voice of Malkuth behind me, I knew the talk was going to include more than two people... I hate being right.

That doesn't mean I had to be rude... to Malkuth and Angela, "Malkuth, I would say I'm happy to see you, but I'm kinda... tense, yeah tense." Malkuth walked past me and pressed the button of the elevator.

Well, she works quickly...

"I think everyone is a bit tense... can you show it to me? I saw the video feed, but seeing it closely should be interesting." I could tell she was eager, and I rolled my eyes with a small smile on my face.

Extending my left arm, I let the butterflies move and bring Solemn Penitence to me. Once in my grasp, I held it close to Malkuth... without aiming at her of course, "Is this really that impressive?" I really needed some kind of... example here as to why this is a big deal.

The elevator arrived and Malkuth entered first, signaling at me to join her, which I of course did. The moment the door closed, and the elevator moved, Malkuth talked again, "Of course it is, we all thought Kali was the epitome when it came to the mastery of EGO. We, as you have shown... were clearly wrong." I rose a brow at that unfamiliar name, and Malkuth must have noticed, since she decided to elaborate further.

"Kali was our... bodyguard before we ended up in this situation, she is now in the same situation as every Sephirah. She goes by Geburah and has quite the temper. She doesn't seem to know what she is angry about, so she lets it out on the abnormalities." I scoffed, suddenly catching the attention of Malkuth.

She looked at me with surprise in her single eye, "Does that really make you angry?" I sighed and scratched the back of my head, I really didn't know the situation of Geburah but...

"Well, I just... don't see the point to lash out at the world, but I really don't know her situation that well, so I just reacted." I replied, even if I... didn't particularly like those that blame everyone else for their problems, I TRY not to judge their character completely based on that alone.

Malkuth made a humming noise, "I don't know what has her so angry, I died before the old lab fell... putting that aside, how did you achieve this?" She signaled at my weapon still in my hand, I'm guessing the Manager wants to see it, so I decided to keep it out of my coffin.

"To be honest...? I don't know, it has something to do with emotions and... well, working with the desires of the E.G.O." I said, not missing the flickering in the light of Malkuth's eye.

Malkuth looked at me for a good 15 seconds without saying anything, "What do you mean 'working with the desires of the E.G.O'?" Ah... shit.

All agents are told to IGNORE and SUPPRESS all foreign feelings done by both the E.G.O and Abnormalities, I glanced once at Malkuth and sighed, "I know it was dumb... but it really wasn't that bad." I replied... while feeling the flat stare of the Sephirah on me.

"Trigger, the reason we have told every Employee to NOT do that, is because they twist into... pseudo Abnormalities or minor aberrations if they are exposed long enough to those thoughts and feelings." I blinked and gave her a long stare. Well, I may have just been lucky or just built different.

That aside, "So... if they are consumed by the thoughts and feelings of the E.G.O, you can become a minor version of whatever you are using?" I asked, Aberrations are basically the weaker cousins of Abnormalities.

But this both told me, that using the E.G.O weapon of One Bro to keep BongBong for dwelling too much into our training was a REALLY good idea... and that Symbiosis with E.G.O may just be possible...

"I don't like that look in your eyes." Deadpanned Malkuth, and I had decided to not look her in the eye at that moment.

"I'm just taking my time understanding your warning." My reply may have been a little too... empty.

Malkuth PROBABLY would have shaken her head in exasperation... if she- I'm stopping my train of thought there, "Just... be careful, try to not reveal that you have thrown that particular rule through a window, I don't want Yesod to have more reasons to dislike you." I didn't think he could dislike me more.

"I wasn't about to reveal that part anyway." I just got too comfortable around Malkuth, and I do trust her too.

When the door of the elevator opened, I saw Angela waiting for us, literally right besides the door to the Manager's office. Her eyes completely open and her sole focus was me.

So maybe this is going to be worse than I originally expected... Malkuth stop looking at Angela with the same intensity, it's not helping!