Chapter 112: An Accumulation of Time Wasps

 Angel Expedite arrived at the precise time segment of the marketplace in the exact same place where Princess Cinderella was assaulted by an unknown attacker. He found himself here to investigate further an abnormal accumulation of time wasps, which is a natural anomaly that develops from the different use of, and exploitation made by, the time machines.

The fundamentals of time wasps come in many identified forms, and is truly exhibited in far different, and dangeous, ways. The impetus from the residue of substantial reconstitution of organic matter from the utility of space and time ultimately disperse to gravitate with each other, tend to accumulate in invisible dimensional spaces, and then it seethes through the involuntary volition of the void in the natural world.

This abnormality needs further disciplinary study, but generally speaking, the most adverse effect that has been identified to be affecting the natural processes of things was the ultimate challenge to the impetus necessary to make a decision from free will, as well as its contradiction with the order of things that naturally answer to the call of nature itself.

These effects that have been noted based on experiential evidence was still inconclusive, but the observed accumulation of the time wasps were considered to be too perilous to be ignored. The many instances in which it was reported to the Story Board had been the main motivation of the passage of the Time Wasps Act by the Conference of Saints and All-Saints.

So now, Angel Expedite was here to neutralize a certain time wasp that has been identified to be recurring inside this particular spatial dimension, and he was armed by his Conductor's Baton in case it suddenly materializes in his presence. He found the marketplace to be busy and bustling in the morning rush, as if there was nothing invisible lurking within its sacred spaces, and its impetus searching for the next organic victim.

He carefully studied the scene and thoughtfully calculated his next move. It seems an ordinary day in this particular story, undisturbed and full of life, until he heard someone shouting words coming in the middle of an ugly altercation.

"Criminal! Criminal! This man is trying to kill me!"

A group of people, including some vendors, then congregated from where the commotion was happening. Angel Expedite senses that the time wasp was nearby, and it was his best suspicion that the "thing" he was looking for was actually inside the person who was shouting uncontrollably.

"They will kill the great Columbia! End the visible threat! Death to Princess Cinderella! By all means, death! Eaters of the most vicious kind! Kill, kill, kill!"

Nobody understood what the man was shouting about. He seems delusional of the worst manner, his senses fully detached from reality.

Just as the Palace Guards were about to arrest the shouting man for disturbing the peace, Angel Expedite pointed his Conductor's Baton to the man and pronounced the song inaudibly.

Fidem!

The song flew like a loose bullet and it was a direct hit.

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