After the group had their sample of Neru's dish, they had left the house and headed straight at Haku's, having SeeU carrying the pot that Neru used recently.

While walking, Neru is trying not to be angry; Teto was at the left side of SeeU and Neru was accompanied by Haku behind.

"Yo, SeeU!,"  Haku called.

"What?," she replied.

"Why do you need to bring Neru's pot?"

"I need it in case I got hungry at mah recording man." SeeU stated.

"We do have some food and pizza at my house," Haku said to SeeU, grabbing a candy at her pant's pocket. "You know homie, if that what bothers you since before we left her house, then you should ask first to me. Maybe if you said that earlier, you ain't gonna hijack Neru's pot from her anymore."

"Yup, that's right!" Teto said.

SeeU lifted the pot lightly with two hands then looked at it happily.

"But Neru's chicken curry is all I need to make my recording great and beautiful! I know that through this dish of my one and only princess, this will give me the energy and inspiration to do it right! This is Neru's super curry especially made for me!" SeeU said proudly, ignoring the persons along the way that heard her.

Neru face-pamled in shame. "Don't do that again! I'm getting the unnecessary attentions here because of you!"

"Why princess?" SeeU said worriedly.

SeeU gave the pot to Teto and went beside Neru. Haku then accompanied Teto in front.

Haku shrugged, "Well, looks like the two needs more time to understand each other."

"Probably yes..." Teto mumbled to Haku, "But not in a public place.."

SeeU held Neru's hand and looked at the people around them.

"DON'T YOU DARE MAKE MAH PRINCESS CRY OR ELSE YOU WILL SEE THE MOON FACE TO FACE!" SeeU said clearly to everyone.

On SeeU's strong statement, the persons that was looking a while ago at them suddenly looked away, avoiding not to catch a problem with SeeU.

Teto and Haku just lowered their heads in embarrassment and walked dead-on straight. Neru just breaks down and hid herself at SeeU's cream jacket while walking.

SeeU gently stroked Neru's hair downward while guiding her at walking; hearing faint sobbing from Neru.

"Its alright my princess. I am always here for you no matter what. I'm your mighty knight. There is nothing to fear. You can hide there as long as you want." SeeU said.

〇 〇 〇

Meanwhile, inside the train heading to Vocesai, Gumi was silently seated at the last cabin of the train together with the rest of the commuters.

That day, there were only a few passengers and Gumi had a perfect view of the landscape from the window. She was seated at the right side of the train cabin, facing against the open sea; light was shining behind her.

While listening music through her headset, she was entertaining herself by looking out the window, looking onto things that showcases the true schemes of the current season - spring.

"Next stop would be Kiyoseki Station" the train operator said, followed by three beeps.

Gumi looked at the speaker overhead as the train was decelerating towards the next station. Afterwards, she lowered her head and returned again her sight at the scenery.

Still, the train was not moving and loading some passengers, Gumi saw four girls walking at the road nearby: one has dark pink hair with twin drill locks; the other was wearing a long sleeved dress with blue and black stripes matched with a purple fedora; another girl had a platinum hair and wearing a cream jacket that has a huge dollar sign design at the back; and the last one was hiding in the jacket of the platinum-haired girl.

Seeing the four making their way together down the road with each other makes Gumi remember her great days with Miku, those days that they were doing the same thing: walking happily together - as best friends.

Even though the train had started to move, she was still thinking of her past, still looking at the window blankly like warped back to her childhood memories.

"Miku...." Gumi whispered, "Why...."

〇 〇 〇

Gumi had reached her destination and walked out of the train carrying the thoughts that made her miss more her 'lost best friend'.

After going out of the train station, she proceeded to Miku Tower where her scheduled album recording will happen.

〇 〇 〇

Walking along the hallway, she can already heard the other members at the lounge, particularly that time were voices of Lily and Rin; somewhat arguing about Len's problem.

"..... can keep his things, probably his synth won't be lost there!" Lily said, Gumi was entering the lounge, hearing more from them. "Your brother is idiot sometimes - oh, I mean all the time!"

Her first look was given straight to Len who was seated near the corner, behind Meiko's chair, being his arms hugging his knees and a doomed aura looms above him.

The arguments had stopped the moment they saw Gumi; Rin ran at Gumi while Lily left the lounge with a smile at her face, passing over Gumi.

"Gumi! Gumi!" Rin said, holding her hands with light tugs at it. "Len is broke again! I tried but... banana pizza can't fix him!"

"What happened to him?"

"Somebody got his personal synth."

"The rainbow one I guess?"

"Yes, that one and Len was like that since yesterday - since you and Luka went here."

"Why does Len is too attached to that instrument. I think that he can buy a replacement for that." Gumi suggested, "There are many synth to choose from, down at the shop below."

"It is not just an instrument..." Len said, sobbing, "It was a gift for me from Luka!"

"I thought that you are worried about your high score at the shop?" Rin said.

"The score is not the point here anymore! I don't care whether I was beaten there. All that matters to me that time was to redeem back Luka's gift to me, to get back my big sister's gift to me!" Len explained.

Rin nodded her head slowly. "That makes more sense than last time."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I- was to lazy that time that I did not bother to carry the synth at the employees room. I thought that nobody would bother challenge the game so I just left it there and went at the employees room to play with Rin all afternoon." Len said, running towards Gumi and hugging her tight.

Gumi patted Len's head. "Don't worry dear, we will get back that synth for you."

"I, I- don't want sister Luka finds out that it was lost!" Len said to Gumi.

"Ahhh.. So you said to me that you're panicking because somebody had beaten your score so I can't tell to our big sister that her gift for you was lost, right?" Rin said confidently.

Len's tears had embedded Gumi's green dress. "Yes... Rin was right..."

"Don't worry Len, we will get that, stop crying now..." Gumi said.

"Please... please.... Help me.." Len said.

Gumi then looked at Rin. "Do you know who took the instrument?"

"We can ask the shop attendant about that, probably he knew who got it."

Gumi nodded in contentment. "Well then... We will go to the shop below okay?"

Rin and Len nodded.

"Let me just finish my recording at the studio.." Gumi said, wiping Len's tears on his cheeks.

Gumi kneeled down and kissed Len's forehead then she let him sat down at the couch together with Rin. She smiled short and proceeded at the wardrobe to prepare herself for the recording.

Upon entering the room, Gumi placed down her bag at the table, followed by her phone, then looked at the large mirror.

Afterwards, she went to the closet located at the right side of the room to pick up her clothes.

Expecting that it was open, she grabs the knob and pulled it but it did not budge.

"Locked?" she thought to herself, still her hands at the knob. "Well that's strange."

She looked around to find the keys for the closet and found it; the keys were clinged at the corner of the large mirror. The moment she saw the key's position, she became confused.

"Why does the closet keys were there?" she said to herself slowly, Hmmm..."

Gumi walked towards it and grabbed the keys then returned to the closet to open it.

The very first second that the lights emitted by the fluorescent bulbs had pierced the darkness of the wardrobe, Gumi was surprised.

She was caught off-guard of what she had found, Ouka Miko, their general manager, splayed unconscious inside the closet with Miku's laptop at her grasp. Her eyeglasses was slanted on her face and the upper half of her head was covered with clothes.

"Oh God, not again..." Gumi said, shocked, lifting Miko out of the closet and bringing her flat at the floor. "MIKO, MIKO.... Wake up..."

Rin heard Gumi at the room and came in, seeing their general manager with Gumi.

"What happened to her?" Rin asked, Gumi was tapping Miko's cheek.

"She was locked at the closet. I don't know how long but.. It seems to me it is long enough to make her unconscious." Gumi said, checking Miko's pulse.

Rin looked at the wide opened closet and found Miku's laptop. She made a suspicious look at it then she looked at Gumi.

"I think Miku is the one to blame about this.." Rin said, Gumi replied a worried look at her.

〇 〇 〇

"As far as I can see, Miko was indeed a very lucky person. If you guys didn't find her there even a single more minute, maybe she will die because of dehydration and lack of oxygen." Sonika said while fixing the bed sheet of Miko, who was resting in the nurse station at the first floor.

Rin went at the side of the bed and looked at Miko.

Sonika looked at Gumi. "This is what I had told you - already happened. She merely killed your manager."

Sonika placed her right hand at Gumi's right shoulder. "Please, I am asking you politely as your resident nurse, do something about her attitude. I know I am not in the proper place to ask but please- this is not okay, you have to fix her demeanor."

Gumi slowly lowered her head. "I know... but how..."