As soon as he got home, Rin called Dana but even after a few rings, no one answered.
Rin felt devastated. Dana was the one who was always calling or texting him first but now, she didn't even answer his call.
Rin paced to and fro in the living room, pondering hard what happened, what caused it, and how can he fixed it.
The conclusion that he got was that Dana got upset when he left her in the library and he needed to get back to her and treat Dana something and apologize.
Rin's thoughts only stopped when it was interrupted by a growl from his stomach. He looked at the time and almost curse, "Oh sh-! It's already 7:34 pm. What? I've pacing here for two hours already?", when he realized it, he hurriedly prepared his food so that he would not fight with an empty stomach, not that it was necessary but he enjoyed both cooking and food. There's always time for food, he thought…
Afterward, when he was done eating, he washed the dishes first and bathed right after. Rin looked at the mirror and once again, his confidence increased. All his muscles were restricted and it kept improving.
However, he was in another predicament: What clothes would he wear? He noticed before that it was probably that his master was responsible for his clothes not getting rip even after all his movement. Item enhancement, is that a thing? And it would be probably the best if he could cover his face as much as possible.
Rin decided to wear a hoodie and a facemask if he could find one and luckily, he has many hoodies and he found a facemask in the kitchen's cabinet. He didn't know how it gets there but who cares?
Since the facemask he found was white, he went for a white hoodie, it has a koala head printed on it and koala ears on the hood. It was cute but Rin was the one who wore it so the cuteness disappeared.
For the pants with the most durability, he guessed it would be jeans. However, he only found skinny ones. Although it looked good on him, it was hard to move so he just wore a black jogging pants which is pretty nice. For his footwear, well, anything is fine since he thought that he will fight barefoot.
He looked at the time on his phone: it was exactly 8:40 pm. At that moment, his head felt like it snapped in a matter of split seconds and then a new memory emerged.
In that new memory, a road flashed through him with many turns of left and right until a busy street greeted him. He went through and went into a small alley, leading towards tall buildings and there he saw familiar building from the inside.
Rin opened his eyes and whispered, "Colden Cage Arena.", he smirked, "Did I improve? I'm getting excited!", he threw a baseless punch while laughing.
Rin left the house and followed the direction in his memories. He walked his normal pace and at exactly 9:00 pm, he reached the front of the building.
He was on the street filled with crowds and noise but when he entered the building, the noise suddenly disappeared as if it was non-existent. The lady at the counter looked at him with expectancy, and pointed her hand at the elevator to her left and said, "We are expecting you, Mr. Gotha. Please go to the Level room, the elevator will automatically lead you there with this card.", a card appeared in her hand but no out of nowhere, Rin just didn't saw it earlier.
He got closer and the lady handed him the card and pointed the elevator again as she nod.
"Thank you.", Rin nodded and went inside the elevator as soon as it opened when he got in front of it automatically right after. After getting inside, he remembered what Elihim did back then and swiped the card between the buttons.
The elevator didn't immediately follow when he heard someone said, "Stop!"
In front of the lady was a old fat guy who dressed like an aristocrat followed by rough bodyguards.
The old fat guy observed Rin and assumed the status between them, "Wait for me, boy! I am an official of the Colden Institute!", the old fat guy arrogantly yelled at Rin like he was some random guy.
The old fat guy got in Rin's nerves but he still waited for the guy since it wouldn't hurt to do so but he was wrong. The fat guy kept blabbing on how great the Colden Institute is and how the other four factions are just muscle heads, "The Highbound is too wicked to join the tournament! Why won't they understand that!? Such weaklings with a brain of a speck! Tsk!", the fat guy clicked his tongue while he took the card from the lady harshly.
The lady didn't bother as if she was accustomed to this and pointed to the elevator, "Mister Tong, that way please."
The rich old fat guy, Mr. Tong raised his eyebrow. He smacked the counter in front of the lady and shouted, "How many time did you see me here already?! Huh!? You think I'm too stupid to forgot such trivial things like those in the Eye?! I'm an official at the great Colden Institute"
The lady apologized politely even though she was not in the wrong.
Mr. Tong nodded and ignored the lady. Because of that Rin could only looked at Mr. Tong with cold eyes.
Mr. Tong and his two bodyguards went into the elevator with Rin but it was still spacious. He stood beside Rin and observed him again from head to toe and then snorted, "Is this place for kids now?"
Rin obviously heard that and rolled his eyes and saw that Mr. Tong was a short person.
Rin swiped his card again and the elevator processed it, "Is this place for old fat greasy short arrogant guys now?", he said it without holding it back like how Mr. Tong said it.
The composed lady was shocked, she suddenly turned to the elevator as the door closed.