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"If you already know Beyond can't reach the Dark Continent while I'm alive, that reason doesn't stand."
Netero did not lift his eyelids. He cut the last answer off at the root.
"Fine. Fine. You were going to catch it anyway."
Ronin spread his hands, poured himself a cup, and killed it in one swallow. He did not have the Chairman's patience for tea.
"I want the Dark Continent because there may still be Kurta out there. And because I want a chance to break through."
Not output. The eyes.
The Mangekyō was not the end of the line. Eternal eyes. The Rinnegan. He wanted both. Inside Mobius Lake he could not see an opening—at least not one that led to the Rinnegan. He wanted to look outside.
Netero nodded.
"That's more like it."
"Then will you tell me how to get there?"
"When we went, it was simple. A wreck of a boat. We rowed out."
Ronin did not buy it.
"You know the Dark Continent exists. You should know about the Gatekeeper."
Ronin shook his head.
"Not much. I don't even know what the gate it watches is."
Netero's face said he had expected that.
"A crowd gets its attention. A handful, it mostly looks the other way. You don't need it to open anything."
Ronin listened.
"Mobius Lake is protected." The ease had gone out of Netero's voice. "In the old world, humans lived on the land we now call the Dark Continent. Something happened. They left. They came into this lake.
"The lake sits behind a natural barrier. A belt that behaves like a Möbius strip. Anything that enters that ground cannot find Mobius Lake, and it cannot find its way back to the Dark Continent.
"There is one way through. You walk into the Dark Gate the Gatekeeper watches. It is a long-range transfer. Cross the threshold and you come out past the Möbius Belt, on the Dark Continent shore."
"Energy," Ronin said.
He could not picture the Belt as geography. A maze, from the sound of it. In and out both trapped in the same loop. That loop was why the lake had stayed quiet.
A gate that size would need fuel.
"Yes." Netero almost looked pleased. "That is what the Gatekeeper is standing on. Move people in numbers and the gate has to open. Move them in twos and threes and you do not need the trouble.
"Clear the trial the Gatekeeper sets and you use its private channel. That channel is the Gatekeeper's. To come home the same way, you bring back what it asked for from the Dark Continent. If you do not intend to come home, you can ignore the task."
Ronin had the shape of it.
The Gatekeeper was a repairman on a transfer door. Repairmen kept a service route. The route still cost something. The trial was the cost.
"The way you tell it, the place almost wants small groups."
"Smart," Netero said. "Every time it opens the gate, it is gambling. If the people it sends bring back what it needs, it profits. If they die or run and come back empty, it takes a loss.
"It has taken too many losses. It got angry. It dropped the Five Calamities into Mobius Lake as punishment.
"There is no fix for those five. Humanity is still here because the luck held. None of them have broken at scale inside the lake."
Ronin sat with that.
"Does the Gatekeeper go often? Can it deal with the five?"
Extinction did not look like a winning ledger for the thing that ran the door.
"It goes," Netero said. "What keeps the Dark Gate stable lives on the Dark Continent. Whether it can solve the five, I wouldn't swear to. They do not touch it."
"So the job is find the Gatekeeper, get a ship, and cross."
"That's the job." Netero nodded. "I can give you a route. Whether you arrive is your problem."
"One more thing," Ronin said. "If everything has to come through the Dark Gate to reach Mobius Lake, does that mean nothing from the Dark Continent gets in unless the Gatekeeper wants it?"
Netero shook his head.
"No. It only watches the Dark Gate on this side. The gates on the Dark Continent are not its problem, and there is more than one. If something opens a door by accident and walks into the lake, the Gatekeeper may notice. What happens after that belongs to V5's special office, the Hazardous Species Control Bureau, and the Hunter Association. You've heard of the Bureau."
Ronin had.
The Chimera Ant threat grades had come off their desk.