She wasn't the only one surprised here, as Rigo and James himself were feeling the same as her. James didn't expect that would happen, and he had no possible explanation for that except for the interference of the scepter.

However,

Where was this scepter right now? It vanished as James appeared in its place. The other strange thing was the position of James' body. James was floating in space, a few inches above Dora like the scepter itself.

Something was holding James' body from falling or moving even a finger. James could only watch Dora without the ability to touch her.

"I- I don't really know what happened, I was trying to save you."

"It seems you also needed to be saved like me," Dora said with a chuckle as she felt this situation was odd and funny.

For a moment she forgot the crisis of her mother betrayal and what she suffered on her hands, but this didn't last for long as she was forced to remember everything again when James said without purposeful intention:

"Yes, we both now need saving. I'm afraid that Immortal and his accomplice will come back soon with your mother."

Her face twitches involuntarily as her soul falls into the abyss of shock and grief again. James realized what went wrong as he tried to say changing the subject:

"I met someone who will be far more dangerous than all of those three combined together."

Dora understood his intention, and she appreciated it but she couldn't just wipe out the pain like wiping out her tears.

"Who is this lucky winner of the crown of destruction and death?"

She sarcastically said while James replied with a chuckle:

"He is Charles, the real Charles."

"What? Have you met him? is he still alive?" Dora rushed to ask without pause. She was surprised that Charles was alive, she thought he was dead in the hands of her mother.

"Yes, he is alive and very well. In fact right now he is supposed to be finished bombing every corner of your cruiser and he is heading to one of the escaping pods here. I believe he will roast us alive once he leaves this cruiser."

James said these words simply like that, however the shocked Dora still had a working mind, and her mind began to link the scattered dots in James' words.

"Do you have access to the surveillance cameras here?"

James smiled as this girl was really something. Even amidst her breakdown state her mind was still working.

"Yes, I helped Rigo to gain access onto your system and he helped me a lot in saving you."

Dora's eyes widened as she realized that James had a way to connect to Rigo and thus to her little cruiser.

"Listen to me, there is a traitor inside the little cruiser. She is Anna. Tell Rigo to watch out for her."

Once she said these words, James heard the reply from Rigo on the other side. He sighed as he didn't know if he should feel proud of his man's efficiency or feel worried over Dora's feelings.

���What?! Have they already started moving to the other side?"

Dora asked at once when she felt James' hesitation. James didn't have anything else to say except the truth, so he spoke plainly about it.

"In fact they started from a while back and Rigo managed to kill both of them."

"Both? Was there another traitor beside Anna?" Dora asked with disbelief.

"In fact there are four, two is dead, Anna and Dizy. Two are still alive however Rigo has already sealed the door of the commanding deck. They couldn't enter there yet," James replied with more details about the current situation on the other side.

Rigo had already briefed him with all the details when Dora asked him just now. From the face of things, Dora's cruiser was full of traitors. That wasn't the best news for anyone to hear, but Dora had far worse events that made her feelings numb.

She received all this news with no shock, as she already was in one right now.

"It seems my ship is full of rats, but your man has done a brilliant job cleaning my ship," she sarcastically said.

"A job that's not finished yet, and our mission isn't yet over. You need to be ready to clean your own mess yourself."

James said that as he started to examine himself. He was held in his place with invisible ties, however when he focused more he managed to feel something.

And echo who reverberated inside himself, deep from his soul that was repeating itself over and over again.

"Eat me, and you will be free."

Eat me and you will gain power."

"Eat me and you will be invincible."

"Eat me and you will be saved."

"Eat me, and you will be free."

Eat me and you will gain power."

"Eat me and you will be invincible."

"Eat me and you will be saved."

The sound was the same, he recognized it at once from first glance.

"So it went inside me," he muttered.

"Excuse me, what?" Dora asked.

"It���s nothing. Sit tight and I will figure something out," James said.

"Like I have other places to go," Dora said with a sneer.

James looked at her in a new light, this girl faked toughness all the time. however when she was cracked like the outer shell of the nut, the inside was fragile and soft.

She was weak, weaker than any other girl he ever met, and yet she was strong, very strong. No one could keep himself sane after suffering some terrible shit like this.

He smiled as he felt he was knowing her for the first time.

"Why are you smiling at me?" she asked.

"It's nothing, give me some time and I will save you," he said.

"Like I said, you also need to be saved. Let Rigo come and free us both," she said with a chuckle that seemed not like one.

"That's the plan, he is on his way here. a few minutes and he will be in front of us."

James said these words as he closed his eyes and began to clear his mind. The first thing he did after that was to wonder to himself:

'What are you? What do you need? I already ate you.'

For his surprise, the sound became cleared and louder as it replied to his thoughts like it could hear them:

'You only ate half of me, eat the other half and you will be elevated.'