Lahat ng Kabanata ng TIME TO FALL IN LOVE: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 130

…continuation"Jinyan! Look at me!" Panni roared.Jinyan’s head snapped forward. For a split second, his eyes cleared. "Panni... run... the child...""He’s still fighting it," Serey remarked, her voice tinged with a reluctant respect. "His love for you is the anchor. It’s quite remarkable, really. Most men break within the first hour. He’s been in the water for six.""Serey, listen to me," Panni said, her voice dropping to a desperate, focused whisper. "The Legion isn't just in the labs anymore. Jian has them. He’s in the city. If you erase Jinyan, you lose the only person who knows how the hive thinks. You'll be throwing away our only weapon.""We have the boy," Serey said, gesturing

…continuationThe Pulse of the Panni"Jinyan," Panni said, her voice suddenly quiet, dropping below the roar of the water and the sirens above. She stopped fighting. She let her arms hang at her sides. She looked at him with a profound, aching sadness. "Do you remember the first night in the mountains? Before we knew about the blood? Before we knew about the twins?"The Seventh Twin opened her mouth to speak, to counter the memory, but Jinyan cut her off."I remember," Jinyan said, his voice a low growl."You told me that if the world ever became too loud, I should just listen to your heart," Panni said. "But you didn't say it with words. You said it with a rhythm. The one you used to tap on the table when we were kids. The one only we knew."

…continuationThe Disciples forced Panni toward the gunship. As she climbed the ladder, she felt the eyes of the Trinitas snipers following Jinyan. She knew that the moment she was inside, they would fire."Vira!" Panni shouted, standing in the bay door. "If a single shot is fired at that man or that child, I will bite through my own tongue and bleed out before you can get a single scan. You’ll have a corpse and a scandal, nothing more."Vira looked at the snipers, then back at Panni. A slow, thin smile spread across her face. "You have your father’s flair for the dramatic, my dear. Very well. Let them run. The jungle is large, but our reach is longer. They won't get far without a name."The gunship’s door hisse

[The Frequency of the Fallen] The ballroom of the old French administrative building had become a theater of the macabre. Outside, the night air of Siem Reap was shattered by the rhythmic thud-crack of iron staves meeting Trinitas steel, but inside, the silence was a physical weight. The smell of ozone, spilled wine, and the metallic tang of the "Aconite Pulse" hung heavy in the air.Jinyan stood frozen at the threshold, his boots crunching on the fine rain of crystal shards from the shattered chandeliers. His rifle was heavy in his hands—a useless weight. Behind him, the Saffron monks—the Vajra—held their ground, their faces grim masks of ancient duty. But Jinyan’s world had narrowed to the woman strapped to the chair and the monster standing over her.

[The Requiem of the Blood] The city of Siem Reap had become a clockwork nightmare. Under the shadow of the cooling ruins of the French administrative building, the world had fallen into a rhythmic, terrifying grace. The "Global Legion" was no longer a theory or a laboratory secret; it was a physical vibration that had seized the very air of Cambodia. The streetlights did not flicker; they pulsed. The wind did not howl; it hummed.Panni stood in the center of the courtyard, her body locked in a state of suspended animation. The black veins on her wrists felt like icy wires tightened beneath her skin, pulling at her muscles with a will that was not her own. Beside her, Jinyan was a statue of agony. The black vein on his neck had branched toward his jaw, a dark ivy of corruption that forced his head to tilt at an unnatural, subservient angle.