||Instruments Shop. 02:30:56 PM ▇

Len and Rin were at the Employees Lounge, as always, indulging in the employees' perks and games stationed at the room for the employees. They were pinballs and various arcade games placed against the royal purple walls, vending machines of sweets and beverages, ping pong table that was sitting in the far right of the room and console games that the twins were after.

The shop attendant had entered the room to have some rest after his morning shift. Inside the room, he found himself in a middle of a roaring sound blast, gunshots and metal clinking sounds coming from the speakers, from the game the twins were playing.

"Rin.... Get the Leviathan! We need to take it down that metal bird!"

"I know, I know. They're hard to hit in this horrible foggy terrain."

"Watch your back RIN! There is an enemy trailing in the bush!

" Okay... okay... Mister smartpants... Just shoot those birds down!" Rin stressed, scouting the field.

"Ravens, more reinforcements are approaching the facility. Be prepared."

"Oh great now we have more problems!" Len exclaimed, wiggling the remote controller, trying to shoot down the aircrafts, gunshots and explosions was all around.

Rin have tried to set mine bombs while Len was taking care of the flying enemies. Soon the shop attendant was at their back watching the gameplay of the two.

"Enemy reinforcements are inbound. Please escort the convoys at all cost!"

"Oh shoot!" He said in annoyance, somewhat starting to get irritated at the enemies. "Here they come..."

Rin grits her teeth and became more concentrated as the battle heats up in the game. She made her character move at the side of the moving trucks, protecting the convoy along the way.

"Protect the convoy Ravens!"

"Len, what the heck are you doing there?" said she, looking after the enemies in the thick fog at the road edges. "Don't let those idiots shoot the puny trucks!"

Len decides to ignore Rin and ventured further, leaving the main objective : protect the trucks against enemies.

The attendant smiled a bit. "Looks like you're gonna fail this one, Rin."

"We can't lose this one," she gravely replied at him, still busy parrying the particle vulcan beam fired at Rin's character, "because were almost playing the entire morning just to pass this mission. I won't let Len screw this up!"

Soon, Rin was overwhelmed by the hostilities and all the trucks were destroyed by the enemies. Len's character, on the other hand, was chopped into scraps of metal when he gone close to the 'boss' that was hiding in the thick sandstorm. Len put down the controller and started to stand up, walking towards the vending machine while Rin was having a bad day because of him.

"You ruined it again!" Rin angrily expressed, going after him at the machine.

"Why are you angry about that?" he asked, pressing some numbers at the keypad, touching his yellow hair. "Rin, I can finish that mission alone in just a snap. So don't worry if we lose that one. Besides, I'm better than you at competitions and games like those!"

While Len was grabbing the chocolate candy from the chute, Rin stomped her feet and made a glare at him. "You can say that all you want on my face but I'm still better at you at sports and school."

Len's ears perked up. "Hey! I'm not that bad!" then continued mumbling. "I've just got a D-"

Rin taunted him more but Len was ignoring her and just sat at the couch to chill. The helpless Rin resorted in helping the attendant rearrange the console she used with Len earlier.

"So are you done for today now Rin?" the attendant said, summing up the cables and controllers.

She lifts the console and placed it in the box. "Yeah. We're done for now. Len ruined it all." she sighed then picked up the empty snack bags at the carpet. "He ruined everything, even my record outside." she's talking about the score on the stage at the shop, looking down wearily. "I guess I'm just gonna burn my dedication on something else - maybe painting or gardening?"

The attendant just fliched a bit when he remembered what news he brought from the shop to them. The attendant smiled to Rin, hoping he could made a sunshine out of Rin's disappointing day.

"Bring Len with you out to the stage. You will find something that will brighten up your day - even just for a bit."

Rin mumbled her response and grabbed Len's collar from the back, dragging him off the couch.

"Hey. Hey. HEY! What is this for?" Len asked in anxiety, resisting to her.

"We need to see the stage outside. Right now!" replied she, still tugging him lightly to make him stand. "He wants to show us something there!"

"Alright, alright. If you insist." Len said, standing up from the couch and moving next to Rin near the door. He continued speaking in a very confident manner. "Let's see in the stage outside... my sparkling unbeatable score posted beautifully at the screen there okay!"

||Instruments Shop Stage. 03:10:41 PM ▇

"Would you look at that face! Such beauty!" she said sarcastically to Len with a vivid smile on her face. Len, at that time his mouth was wide open, can't believe on what he was seeing on the monitor.

"This can't be. This can't be!" Len exclaimed, shaking his head in disgrace.

Rin laughed at him. "Well I guess that would be your punishment in messing our gameplay lately. In your face Len. In. Your. Face!"

Len frowned at what's happening to him. First, lost the high score on the singing challenge; he will have a hard time to beat the current score and lastly he lost at the game.

Rin decided to go back at the lounge with Len so she pushed him off the stage and out of the shop. While Rin pushes him, she saw something hanging in the music stand, a mini French bread keychain. Rin picked it up, pinned it at her belt and proceeded in making Len accept the reality that he lost bigtime that day: in game and in singing.