They were getting to the crucial part—what soup were you drinking?!
Klein roared inwardly, then watched Noah pick up the bowl of mala tang broth and take a sip...
Gulp—
What was so good about broth that had rice noodles cooked in it like mala tang? Weren't you supposed to eat the ingredients inside? Just looking at that color, he could tell it tasted awful!
"Have a sip~"
"Mm—"
As his Adam's apple bobbed, Klein's gaze cleared.
"Good, right?"
"Good!"
However, Klein clearly wasn't distracted by delicious food for long. He soon came to his senses and continued asking about going home.
"Oh, this isn't something you can rush. What good does it do to ask so urgently?"
Adam picked up another chopstickful of rice noodles and slurped them clean, freeing up the space before him for a steaming basket of soup dumplings.
"Fulfilling the first condition and unlocking the lock only solves the external conditions. You need to meet the requirements yourself too."
"...I need to advance? Become Sequence Zero?"
"That's right~"
Noah slurped up some broth from a soup dumpling, then dipped the dumpling in vinegar and tossed it into his mouth. Even while chewing with his mouth closed, he spoke without the slightest hindrance.
"Time is a one-way street. The price of traveling directly against it is devastating. In the past, that one-way street was also covered by a barrier. Even now that the barrier is gone, if you want to return to an earlier point, you first need the ability to leave that one-way street yourself before you can take a detour back."
"The right time—the Primordial Creator's consciousness being absorbed. The right place—a Divine Kingdom containing the authority of Fooling to aid you. The right people—Sequence Zero's status and power. None of the three can