"I asked Toby and Kylie to join us. They just returned from a task realm too. Kaede and Akari are not available." 888 said as they both got into the elevator. "They'd meet us in the lobby."
He Yuan only nodded and remained quiet. 888 was most probably doing this because he felt the presence of company would keep He Yuan from randomly bringing up the issue.
The system would rather act like whatever happened did not happen but it was hard for He Yuan to do the same because his eyes were trained on 888's twitching fingers.
Immediately the elevator doors opened, He Yuan was met with the now familiar sight of thin souls walking to and fro, minding their business and trying to relax after -or probably before- a task.
"Ren!" When they walked into full view, the lady behind the desk squealed with an excited smile.
