239 Dark History

"Would you at least think about it first?" I insisted.

«No. That's complete nonsense.» Sensei replied as he shut down my theory for the second time.

Ugh...this idiot! 

"Do you have that much faith in a goddess you only met once? I thought you were a man of science - not a witless fanatic."

«And I thought you were smart enough not to base everything on some unfounded theory.»

"Oh really?" I was fuming.

How could he call it unfounded when we were living proof of the goddess's dubious intentions - and we both saw the moment the man's secondary core exploded!

How did he know that wouldn't happen to us?

«A symbiotic relationship between two cores isn't always destructive.» Sensei calmly replied. «Sometimes the secondary core is there to reinforce the first. In your case it's there to grant you access to the system…»