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"Agreed."

It came out more like a hiss than words, and Anser felt the anger she was trying to keep at bay begin to boil under the surface. What she had said to that captain with the bowl haircut, the fact that she was trying to stop him from ******** up anyone else -- it rang scarily true at that moment, scarily true as she found herself looking at the face of someone who had been ******** up, so recently--

"Chaos has hurt so many I know," she gathered her arms closer to her body, bouncing on her toes as a way to expel some of the nervous and angry energy she felt returning as the adrenaline of running faded. "You. My brother. Countless others. Taking memories and lives away from people is cruel and unusual and they're a scourge on the face of this goddamn universe."

Anser wanted to wipe them all out.

She understood there may be some worth saving. She wasn't sure if that was her responsibility.

"Chaos needs to be gone. It needed to go yesterday."

Anser tried her best not to dwell on the past, but it was hard when the events of her past endlessly influenced her present. It was why her brother had disappeared. It was why he ran away from home - and eventually ended up with Basiluzzo. It was why Cybele had vanished. It was why she lost her memories. Anser assumed it was why she was awakened so young. Anser assumed it was why she never really felt like she got to have that time of innocence she was expected to have as a child.

But Cybele was right.

They could at least make sure they weren't around tomorrow.

"I'd like that. Maybe we can start patrolling regularly again." That was something Anser wanted. She wanted that partnership back. She also wanted to make sure no one tried to take Cybele again.

And if she was around her at all times...

Well, better able to protect her.

She pulled her phone out of her subspace pocket and showed it to Cybele, showed her where her number still was on her phone, too. "We should be able to text. Text me any time you need me. Or want to patrol. I'll be around."

Anser bounced on her feet again, trying her hardest not to think about the fact that the woman she was looking at was not quite the Cybele she knew. That Cybele was destroyed by the Negaverse, just like everything else that they had destroyed -

"Promise."