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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5

After a few minutes of walking, they arrived in front of a huge building in an intersection. The building was a twelve-story hotel that has a dark brown outer wall as well as a brown double door at its front door. They then entered the building, and as soon as they entered the building, they can see that there are multiple reception tables, a few seats surrounding a tree on the right side, as well as a drinking place on the left side. The walls was that of various colors ranging from natural green for the seats near the trees, a blue, pink, and purple combination for the drinking place, as well as dark brown for the general walls, seats, as well as for reception tables.

"Everyone, you can wait here. I'll go to the reception table to get our room," Fulario said as he volunteered himself.

"Be careful old man," Wyatt said as he taps Fulario's shoulder. Fulario smiled at Wyatt as he then begins to walk towards the reception table as the others sat down on the seats around the tree.

Suddenly, a voice can be heard from behind them, across where they sit, the voice said, "Hey, are you guys from the Dos Office?"

All three of them, upon hearing this became alerted as Mirin gets a tighter grip on her sword while Axel and Wyatt are holding the grip of their swords, preparing to unsheath them.

"Who are you?" Mirin asked in a wary voice as she readies her sword.

"I am the one that requested you guys to come here. Tomorrow noon, at 11:30 am. Go to the Food Fest located a few hundred meters away from this place. We're waiting there. Find the Black Octopus food stand," the voice then disappears making the trio look behind them to see that no one is sitting there.

"Damn, who was that?" Axel asked as he releases the grip on his sword and looked at the other two seated beside him.

"Well, at least we know that they're capable of doing some sort of mental communication without being anywhere near us," Mirin exclaimed as she leans back, trying to relax from the sudden encounter.

"We should rest quickly. We have a long day ahead of us tomorrow," Axel said as he looks back to see that Fulario is walking back towards them, "Ah, speak of the devil. Seems like we get a room." he continued before standing up with the other two in unison.

"It seems like we'll be sleeping in room 18. Shall we head upstairs now?" Fulario said as he looks at the other three who seems to be a little bit distressed, "What's the matter? Is there something wrong with the number of the room?" he continued.

"Nah, it's not that. It's just that we got a mental communication saying that we need to meet them tomorrow at 11:30 am. So we were a bit stressed but not too much," Axel replied as he takes a glance over at Mirin and Wyatt.

"Ah, I see. Then let us get to bed as soon as possible. This way, everyone!" Fulario then leads the group towards a couple of elevators and calls for an elevator. When the elevator door opens, the inside is empty and so, they went in and started going upwards.

"So, Fulario. Since you know what room we'll be staying in, did you also know what floor it is?" Wyatt asked as he looks at Fulario with a face full of worry.

"Hoho, don't worry. We're going to the third floor, of course. I may look like an old man, but my memory capabilities are still strong, as you can see," Fulario replied as he looks back at Wyatt with a smile.

A bell-ringing was heard and then the elevator door opened. There, they can see a long hallway filled with a row of doors on the left side of the hallway, and at the end of it, is another door with the writing "emergency staircase" on it.

They started to walk forwards as they pay close attention to the room's numbers. Starting from the elevator they see a door with the number 17. They then continue to walk forward as they then reach room number 18. As soon as they opened the door, they were immediately greeted with 4 separate beds. Two on each side of the room. Right past the two beds on the right side is a door that leads to a wide bathroom. While right past the beds on the left side of the room there is another door that leads to a toilet.

The group then started to put down their equipment next to their bed. Mirin being on the left side bed nearest to the entrance, Axel being on the left side bed near the toilet door, Wyatt on the right side bed near the bathroom, and Fulario on the right side bed nearest to the entrance.

Fulario then begins to open his backpack which has a few pieces of cloths as he asked to the others, "Who wants to take a bath first?"

Mirin replied as she said, "I'll take a bath first, does anyone else want to go first?" she then looks towards Axel and Wyatt as both of them shakes their head to decline.

Fulario then takes out Mirin's cloth which is a dark red pajama set. Mirin took the cloth as she walks inside the bathroom.

Meanwhile, Wyatt immediately goes to bed and tucks himself inside the bed's blanket. Fulario looking at this shakes his head as he sees that Axel is sitting with his hands together, his face is that of concern and worry. Fulario, upon noticing this, sits beside Axel as he asked, "What's the matter, young Axel? Are you still worried about Sophie?"

"...It's just that, I've never allowed her to be with someone that I don't personally know. I know that Tara is Mirin's acquaintance but still... I can't stop worrying about Sophie," Axel replied in a calm but worried tone.

"Young Axel, I know that you're worried but I can only ask of you to believe in Mirin and Tara," Fulario replied as he sighed and walks to his bed, and tuck himself in.

At this moment, Axel thought about Sophie for a while. After a few minutes of thinking, he decided to go to sleep. At this time, Mirin had walked out of the bathroom in her pajamas.

She looks as if she's the combination of cute but fierce, like a lion cub who's only recently learned how to roar. Axel tucks himself in his bed as well as he closes his eyes and went to sleep.

Mirin, having walked out of the bathroom is feeling fresh and so, she's still rubbing on her hair as she tried to dry them off before eventually going to her bed and sleeping as well.