Prepared to die [1/2]

"That's..."

Amari made a face as he held his tongue. Whatever the answer was, he seemed to hesitate to say it. 

Mia sighed deeply before speaking on behalf of her lover.

"Choco, stop trying to protect your siblings. It doesn't help, and we might end up insulting Limitless instead. Look, you all should know the main reason why the assault teams are struggling, right?"

Wordlessly, I nodded.

It felt so good to finally understand shit for a change. Since this was going to be my new life, every bit of info I learned would only make me wiser. Humbling myself to ask Phillip was a great choice. Now I didn't have to look like an idiot in front of everyone.

A nugget of wisdom I got from Noelle was to be as stupid as you need to be while it was the first time. The actual quote was something along the lines of "If you don't ask, you'll never learn, it's much better to be stupid once than to be stupid forever".