Time passed while the three chatted at the table and it quickly became 8am. This was the usual time when they would all eat and talk about their training or their lives back home.
But unlike the past week, today only the three were at the table when the time to eat came. "Do you think everyone else also accidentally slept in late?" Van asked the other two at the table.
"Maybe we should check on them…" Elise said after hearing max, she knew it was very likely they were sleeping in but they didn't have all the time in the world here and according to her evaluation of the group, she didn't most of them would be able to handle it mentally if they lost someone so early on in the labyrinth.
"Good idea let's go wake them up if they're still asleep training May be painful but it's better than dying." Max said while standing up from his seat.
The other two nodded and stood up as well as they all headed upstairs to where the rooms were located.
They first stopped by Erika 's room figuring she would be the easiest to get up.
*knock knock*
"You up Erika it's time for breakfast before we start training." Van knocked and said seeing Max and Elise stepping aside not willing to deal with the tired and sore humans. It was well know interrupting a persons sleep was the best way to earn their ire and neither of them were as oddly liked by everyone in the group like max was. If anything he was the glue that brought most of these people together.
"I'm up, I didn't realized time passed by so fast.." Erika replied from behind the door as footsteps could be heard along with her voice.
Not long after responding she opened the door fully dressed but based off her poster it could be seen the fatigue from yesterdays workout had definitely taken its toll on her.
"1 down 3 to go." Max said while giving Van a thumbs up. Seeing this Van rolled his eyes and shook his head could the guy be anymore selfless.
"Alright now we just have to wake the others come on we can talk at the dining table." Van said while looking at Ericka.
Hearing this Erika just nodded completely forgetting she could have woken everyone up and got them all the message without having to go to their rooms And go through the process of being on almost half the groups "I wish you didn't exist list." Luckily for her everyone else also blanked the capabilities her abilities had.
Next they walked to Lucia's room because it was right next to Erika's. Again Van knocked and called out to her to see if she was up. "Hey Lucia, are you awake it's time for breakfast."
"Unhnnn I don't want to kiss you Max it's too soon let me get used to us just being together first." Lucia said while still cozily wrapped in her blankets and deeply asleep.
Hearing this the group awkwardly looked at Max in a questioning manner. "Look I don't know what she's talking about I think she might just be sleep talking knock louder." Max said embarrassed and defensively, he did reincarnate from living a full life just about but he wasn't prepared to be caught off guard by one of his female companions dreaming about him.
This time Van knocked much louder in hopes that a repeat of what just happened wouldn't happen again, he was about to yell and ask if she was awake along with the knocking but Lucia was startled awake and screamed.
"Ahhhh!!"
"Lucia calm down its just us at the door we're trying to wake everyone up so we can eat breakfast and get the day started." Van said hearing her scream trying to get her to calm down.
"O-oh Kay. Couldn't you have just called my WIN ball or something? An how long have you guys been there." Lucia asked in a voice that sounded slightly pained an groggy. She knew she was a sleep talked and with her intimate dream still close to her half sleep mind she couldn't help but ask.
"We've b…" Van started only to be cut off by Erika.
"We just got here they had a hard time waking me up so they knocked harder on your door to a pide that problem." Erika said attempting to save Max and Van from Lucia's ire and also save Lucia from her own shame.
"Oh… okay I'll be down to the dining table in 10 minutes." Lucia said thinking that it was odd van started saying something and Erika cut him off.
"What was that?" The voice of James sounded behind the group as he limped out into the hallway.
"Oh good glad you're up, it's time for us to eat breakfast come down when you're ready but don't take too long we have less than 3 weeks left to get ready." Van said to James knowing he was probably one of the most grounded and understanding group members in this situation out of the orphans.
Still hearing this James' face turned dark as if saying 'if it weren't for you 3 we would never be in this situation…'
"Fine." James said with his emotions worn on his sleeve as he turned around and marched back into his room to get ready.
"His anger must have made him forget his pain hehe." Elise said having a good read on most of the group members especially after hearing they had ended up in the labyrinth and after spending so much time with everyone.
Finally the group got to Todd's door where they heard the loudest snoring they'd ever heard as if behind the door lay a sleeping dragon.
Hearing this he knocked with the same fore he knocked on Lucia's door but to no avail the snoring simply got louder. He knocked harder and again the snoring became louder. This time he used his full force to knock but surprisingly this time the door flew a few feet and off the hinges making a large crashing noise.
When the door fell Todd jumped awake and feeling the soreness in his body as he woke he groaned in pain and fell limp while groaning.
"Uhh Todd it's time to get up and go to breakfast." Van said awkwardly while glancing from the fallen door to the collapsed human.