In the middle of the night, Fri and Qylaa were washing dishes while Ariys and Ellie were in the room doing something.
In Ariys room, Ariys was lying on the bed while Ellie grabbed something from her bag.
"Can you really do something about the tracker?" Ariys asked, she still doubted Ellie.
"Actually, I don't have much confidence in myself either, but I'll try my best" Ellie replied while holding a device that scanned Ariys' body to pinpoint the exact location of the tracker.
"Don't worry, Ellie is among the best techno masters among adventurers. Surely she can do something about that tracker," Kyle suddenly appeared beside Ellie.
"What are you doing here? No boys allowed to enter this room" Ellie scolded Kyle and ordered Fri to take him out of the room.
Fri quickly came into the room, grabbed Kyle, and threw him out of the window. He then gave Ellie a thumbs-up to show he had done the work. Ariys seemed surprised and sad.
"My window" Ariys sighs as she could only see her window being broken from the bed.
Ellie calmed her, then Fri left the room. Ellie locked the door and returned to the bed. She and Ariys continued what they had been doing earlier.
After 45 minutes, Ellie had found the location, and Ariys thanked her. All of a sudden, a loud voice could be heard from downstairs. They quickly went downstairs and saw Fri, Kyle, and Qylaa fighting in the living room. The furniture in the room had been broken apart and the room was in chaos like the room had been struck by storm. Ariys fell and sat down. Ellie step up and shouted to them to stop. They all stopped immediately and sat in front of Ellie. Ariys was still sitting down, not showing her face. Ellie try to calm her but surprisingly she is not crying as they all thoughts instead she is smiling and laugh by herself.
"So this is how it feels to live with someone else" she said as she has never stayed with someone else beside Qylaa.
They all seem to be happy as Ariys is smiled but Ellie doesn't let them get away without being punished. They all were punished to clean up all the ruckus their made but for Qylaa she just need to tell how this happen. Qylaa explained how it happened.
At first, they all seem okay and wash dishes together. Out of the blue, Fri wanted to apologize to Qylaa for treating Ariys badly that evening. Qylaa didn't forgive Fri.
"Why would I forgive you?" Qylaa being egoist.
"Oh, I don't like this kind of attitude" Fri realized that Qylaa was being egoist.
"So what? Let's fight to clear things up" Qylaa heat things up.
The fight then moved from the kitchen to the living room. Ellie took back her words and punished Qylaa too. She then goes to Kyle.She asked Kyle.
"Hey, do you want to explain how you are involved in that fight" Ellie said while placing her hand to Kyle's shoulder. Kyle was creeped out.
"I thought they were having sparring so I joined them to make things more fun" Kyle answered. Ellie added his punishment to repair the window too.
Ariys is still in the stairs looking at them with a smile on her face. She is feeling too happy to see her house is full of people. Then she goes to help Qylaa while Ellie is helping Kyle and Fri was left alone to do his punishment. They cleaned up until morning.
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The next day, Ariys and Qylaa are skipping school, they are so tired from doing the cleaning last night. On the other hand, the adventurers didn't seem tired at all. Ellie and Kyle went out to get some item to build untracker, a device that will be used to handle tracker inside Ariys body. Meanwhile, Fri had been ordered by Ellie to guard the house and provide the food.
The sun was at its zenith, Ariys and Qylaa were laying in the living room.
"It's so boring, what should we do?" Qylaa sighed, as they hadn't done anything from morning to afternoon besides eating, showering, and playing games.
"Sleep" Ariys replied as she is now sleepy.
"I don't want to sleep, it's more boring than do nothing"
Ariys was silent.
"Hey, don't ignore me" Qylaa turns her body to see her.
She saw that Ariys had fallen asleep, leaving her alone. Not accepted to being alone, she goes to Fri room to invite him.
"Fri, let's play a game together" she said while knocking on his door.
Fri was silent. She even check if Fri is on the room, she turn the door knob. The room wasn't locked. Feeling curious, she pushed the door open and was stunned to see Fri's body while he was doing workout on his room. Fri seems so surprised that he quickly grab his shirt and cover his body.
"Who gives you permission to open the door?" Fri asked.
"No, I don't open the door. The door is opened by themselves but hey, how can you have so many scars on your body?" she came closer to Fri.
"So you have seen them" Fri said, showing his scars. He has many scars, including burn scars, keloid scars, hypertrophic scars, and surgical scars all over his body.
Qylaa seemed to pity him. Fri told her that he didn't know where he got the scars from as he remembered that he always have this scars all along after he wake up in the middle of forest and tell her not to tell anyone else about this. The atmosphere between them grew quiet, and Qylaa tried to cheer him up.
"Can I punch you?"
"What kind of question is that?" he reply, he grinning.
She was clueless about how to cheer someone up, but still it's worked on him. Fri give her permission to punch him in the stomach. He tell Qylaa that's funny way you can say to cheer up someone else while smiling. She was surprised as she had never been understood by other people other than her family it's her first time see someone else can understand her actions and words. However, instead of punch she do a back kick to him.
"That's for being harsh at Ariys yesterday" she said before running.
Fri didn't fall to the ground after being kicked, but he chooses not to chase her. Actually the one who is in pain right now is Qylaa because Fri blocked her kick by holding plate weight without her realize it. After all, he knew she would do that from the beginning.
In the living room, Ariys had woken up and saw Qylaa bandaging her leg. She ask what happen, Qylaa tell her that she just now fell down from stairs, at the same time she curse Fri for making her leg hurt in her head. Ariys came to help her bandage it.
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Somewhere in the basement Normal City, two men were walking in the dark alleyway.
"It's scary father, what were we doing here? I want to go home" Soto was afraid.
"No we are not going home until we find Crow" Humberto being firmly to his son.
Soto surprised as he doesn't want to see the man who punch his face. However, his father calm him as he has set a plan to make Crow received his request.
They were walking at there for an hour but they couldn't see any sign of life. Soto try to convince his father to leave the basement but Humberto insist on keep going ahead until he finds Crow. The lights on the alleyway being turn off, Soto is walking closely to Humberto. The only light source they have is their phone that is about to die. A loud roaring sound of monster could be heard by them. Soto and Humberto started to run, but the monster is too fast for them. Soto got capture by that monster. His father try to scare the monster using the phone light, but it's no use because his phone die first before he could torch the monster. Before Soto get eaten Crow came and ordered the monster to stop and let him go. The monster follow Crow orders and then go away from there. Crow went to Humberto and put his foot on Humberto head.
"So what business does Matthew family head and son want at here?" Crow asked Humberto
"Please get revenge for my son" he begged.
Crow laughed while insult him for being such pathetic dad. Humberto just accepted the insult, he too know that he is so pathetic but still he want to take revenge for his son. He offered Crow a large sum of money if he accepted. At first Crow still rejected it but as soon as the money offered became 1000 golden crow he accepted it and ask he to give deposit 200 golden crow first. Then the deal was made between them, Humberto has pay deposit to crow. Humberto and Soto being order by Crow to follow him to go to his gang hideout.
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Ellie and Kyle has return home in the evening, Fri head bulge after Ellie see Qylaa leg were bandage. Qylaa wanted to back Fri up, but she was too afraid of Ellie's lion mode. Ariys came to talk with Ellie leave Fri alone at living room while she and Ariys went to kitchen and Kyle continue to repair the window. Qylaa came to Fri, she want to apologize for can't backup Fri from Ellie.
"Sorry, actually I want to backup you from being scolded but she is too scare when she start scolding"
"Nah, it's okay after all it's my fault for hurt your leg"
"No, It's not your fault, I'm the one who suggested hitting you first, so I'm the one who deserves to be scolded right now" Qylaa feeling guilty towards him.
"Sorry, but the truth is you are not kicking me, you kick a plate weight that I hide behind my body" Fri said and then left her. She still confused after he said that.
She take a seconds to understand before she chase him and ordered him not to run away. Kyle see them, he thought they were playing tag so he decide to join them. The noise from their playing was so loud that it made Ariys smile when she heard it, she still glad that her house felt lived in for two days streak.
"It's so nice to have you all here"Ariys says to Ellie.
"If you want, you can call me as your big sister starting today"
Ariys slapped her cheeks, unable to believe what Ellie had just said. Then she tried to call her 'sis,' although hesitantly. Ellie then hugged her to show that she accepted her as her little sister. The others had finished playing, and Qylaa got a new wound because she fell down the stairs for real this. Ellie scolded them for not being careful while playing around. As Ariys watched them, she thought that Ellie was not scared at all, after all the things Ellie has done it's actually she act like a lovely mom for them. Ariys really felt inspired by her because she really act like her mom would do if she still alive. Ariys' eyes became teary without her realizing it. All of them became worried and ask her what's wrong except Fri. All of them are looking at him while insult him for not being gentleman at all. So he came to calm Ariys down. He kneel down in front her.
"You know if you want to cry, just cry don't hold it. After all, this is what you have always wanted, right?"
Ariys didn't hold back anymore; she cried tears of happiness. Qylaa seemed surprised, as she, as Ariys' best friend, had never seen Ariys cry out loud like that. After she was done crying, she felt more relieved as she had opened a new chapter in her life. They all smiled together as Ariys' smile became brighter, except for Fri. That night, they all went to sleep early since the next day was graduation day, and they were all going to the ceremony.