About 10:10AM, Alex's door bell started to ring. Alex who was playing video games in his room while resting on his bed, glanced at his bedroom door. He got up "Guessing that's Kinto.", he thought to himself. As Alex went to open the door, he saw Kinto and Mori standing at the end of the door "Wow, you guys got here early.", Kinto stretched abit "I was on my way here, then I saw Mori already climbing the stairs to your apartment.". Mori asked "Is now a wrong time?",Alex replied while waveing his hand "Nah, it's cool. I was just about to call you guys for a talk.", he turned to Kinto "Didn't you tell the rest to come over?", he asked. Kinto had a nervous smile on his face as he tilted to his eyes to another direction "Oh, about that. You see, I forgot.", Mori and Alex gave him a disappointed look "Huh?", Kinto just took a sigh "Look, can we just come in already?", Mori muttered "Your laziness baffles me so badly, I start to wonder how you're even still alive.", Kinto turned to him with slight annoyance "I can hear you." Few moments later, Kinto and Mori were at Alex's living room, Alex asked with crossed arms and legs "So, what of the rest?", Mori responded with crossed arms "I just texted Deo. He said he would drop by in five minutes.", Kinto started to text on his phone, he responded to Alex "I'm texting Sōn and Baraka right now. Sōn only responded with an emoji, and Baraka is most likely still asleep." Alex said while being slightly baffled "Well, Baraka has always loved his sleep.", Kinto replied "I know, right?". Mori turned to Alex "So, how's Raquel?", Alex replied "Raquel's surprisingly fine, it's like everything to her felt like a dream.", he placed his hand on his head while looking slightly confused "Now that I think of it, everything feels wierd, like as if the battles we had against those dragon kins were like a couple months ago or something. Hold on.... What month are we in?....". The room became quiet for a few moments, dots started to appear above Alex and Mori's head. Suddenly, they both became gloomy with shocked looks on their faces "Now way.....! ITS BEEN THREE MONTHS!!", they exclaimed in unison with shock. Alex and Mori started to freak out, only that Mori was more composed by his shock. "YOU CANT BE SERIOUS?! IT'S BEEN TWO TO THREE MONTHS SINCE THEN?!" Alex exclaimed with shock while looking at his phone. Mori also exclaimed while looking at his palms like he had just realised something "I knew it! It's making sense now..... It's almost as if.....", Kinto cuts him off with a funny look of disinterest on his face, his arm slightly raised "Um i don't think you need to complete that sentence, Mori.". A few moments later, Kinto asked "So are you guys just realising this?", Mori replied "I knew something felt off when I woke up this morning, but I didn't know what.", Alex replied "I mean, one moment I was fighting for my life, the other moment I woke up in bed.". Kinto took a sigh "Figured. This might sound stupid, but it feels like the world kind of restarted.", Alex and Mori had baffled looks on their faces "You don't say....". The door bell rang, Alex got up too open the door "Who is it?", he asked. He opened the door and realised that Kazuki and Deo were the ones behind the door. Deo greeted "Yo, Alex.", Alex was abit stunned seeing them, it was almost like he was relieved. Kazuki looked at him with his usual facial expression and arms in his pockets "Well? You going to let us in?" Few moments go buy, Kazuki had his arms folded while leaning on the wall, Deo leaned on Alex's couch, Kinto and Mori were sitted, and Alex was also sitted on the couch with Deo leaning behind him. The room was quiet, it was like as if they were waiting on each other. Mori muttered "Hey, isn't someone missing?", Kinto muttered in response "Yeah, someone's missing. A red haired flaming idiot.", Deo nodded his head with a mild smile "Mhm. You are right, a red haired crazy torch is something we're missing... but I can't remember his name.". Kazuki with his usual serious facial expression while leaning on the wall, closed his eyes and nodded his head "Yeah. Alex, you got an idea who it is?", Alex with a confused look on his face nodded "Nope, no idea. Aside from Baraka who is clearly asleep, we're missing someone else. But i dont seem to remember.". Suddenly, the door bell rang, Alex thought to himself "Hm. I wonder who that could be....", the door opened and Sōn with a bumed out expression on his face was seen as the door opened "Oi!", he exclaimed with slight annoyance. Alex while pretending to be surprised, exclaimed "Oh? Well what do you know. Our favourite red haired, crazy ass, pyromaniac best friend has arrived. What's up Sōn?", Son pointed at Alex "Hey, who you calling crazy? You white haired psycho bastard demon.", Alex replied with slight annoyance in his voice as he pointed a sword at Sōn "Oi! Remove the word *Bastard* out of my name". About 10:49AM, the boys were all gathered in Alex's living room, Alex took a sigh and asked "So? How were all your battles?". Mori on hearing that question scoffed "You talk like as if it was some kind of pleasant interview or an exam.", Kinto replied Mori "Don't be like that. He's just trying to reconnect with all of us and make sure we're okay." Mori clicked his tounge "Tch! Whatever. My fight started rather though at first. But at some point, I figured things out. But to be honest, I think figuring things out in that battle was the worst mistake I've ever made.", Deo tilted his head with a funny smile "You sure?", he teased Mori. Mori sneered at him with slight annoyance "Seriously, what is wrong with you?", he took a deep sighs and continued "Either way, I pulled through, I ended up activating some kind of new power.", he looked at his palm "It almost felt like some kind of extension of my body "Kind of wierd if you ask me." Kinto turned his head around with a wierd smile "Typical.". Mori looked at him with slight annoyance "Don't push it Kinto.", Kinto replied "Yeah, Yeah!"
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