Replicus insisted that he was fine after Pherdanta kept pestering him. Soon, the Unlimited had no choice but to cease her nagging, even though she could tell that something was bothering the Penetrator immensely.
As they kept walking through the streets of the Depraved Side, seeing deceptively dilapidated buildings, and overly luxurious ones – which made distinguishing between which ones held genuine products that wouldn't turn out to have been hoaxes days later – Replicus spoke.
"Do you feel you were cheated by not gaining your own Hidden Class?"
The question came so abruptly to Pherdanta, that she couldn't scrounge up an answer immediately.
It went without saying that she was indeed the one to be hurt the most by Riba's conscious folly.
All she gained for her hardwork – mainly the trials Replicus constructed for people within his Faction that he considered to be worthy of entering the Unlimited circle – her reward had ended up being an Advanced Class.
