| Kasane Konstruction|

With Ritsu's help, the girls were almost done in acquiring the materials needed for the event. As Akiko was putting down the last plank at the back of the truck, they heard Tei from inside the metal gate whining about Kaito, arguing with someone else.

"Ee... My Kaito-kun! Bring him down! I don't want to be separated by him. This is my chance to love him!"

"Enough of this, please." Haku said while she was carrying Kaito on her shoulder, walking out of the shop from the metal gate. "If you want to be with Kaito, you can visit him at his store."

Haku then placed Kaito at the back of the truck along with the poles and other wood supplies, still unconscious and with a messy hair and face.

Tei attempted to steal him back but Ted halted her.

"You can't be with Kaito for a while I guess." he said, holding Tei's arms. "They're planning an event so don't steal Kaito from them, for now."

"Okay. But I will make a way to see you again my Kaito-kun." Tei sadly mumbled, returning back inside the shop.

Gumi approached Haku and when she noticed something on her face: dried tears on her cheeks.

"Are you alright Miss Haku?" Gumi asked, Haku was seated inside the backseat of the truck near the window.

"Yeah." she replied.

"May I know what happened to you? Did you cry?"

"Haku just got caught dirt on her eyes back there." Ted immediately explained to Gumi, approaching the two. "My workers are to blame about it. My apologies. They don't clean the shop regularly that's why it happened. I'm sorry about—"

"You don't have to apologize Sir Ted." Akiko quickly said, looking at him. "Having a large shop at this magnificent city is truly hard to keep up all the activities. Maybe, a spare time to clean the entire shop is a chance."

"There is no need to apologize about it Sir Ted. Your employees indeed should clean sometimes." Haku added as she was going in the front seat of the truck. "Just a quick rinse into this and the dirt in my eyes will be removed."

"Well then Haku," he said, looking to her. "I hope you can have a rest after this."

After Akiko went in the truck and gone to return at Kaito's store. Ted was watching them departing and when the truck was nowhere in sight, he went inside the store.

|Cul's Apartments|

Cul was at the balcony of her house, observing the delivered items. The materials ordered for the renovations were already unloaded and the last thing the landlady was waiting to be handed to her was the receipt. Ruko approached Cul, giving the paper and a ballpen.

"Please sign here." Ruko requested, pointing the box where to put her signature.

Cul briefly looked at the receipt, picked the pen by her right hand and signed it.

Afterwards, she returned the ball pen and the receipt to him. Ruko then carefully ripped the pink paper behind the white paper that was originally signed by the landlady.

"Thank you!" Ruko said, giving the duplicate copy of the receipt.

"Same." Cul replied, Ruko was walking away from her, heading for his truck.

As the delivery truck left the area, she kept the receipt at her left pocket without even making a second glance at it. She was about to let go of her hand at the receipt when a thought suddenly ran on Cul's mind.

Once again, she pulled out the paper and made a quick look. After a moment, she kept the receipt and looked at the materials laid on the open space in front of her apartments with content.

Going inside her house, she walked to her room, opened a quartzite box placed adjacent to her safe and picked up her keys. She made a one last look at the dining area and heads out the house, securing the door. Wearing her red and dark colored coat, she rode on her big bike and left her apartments.

• • •

Cul arrived the Supershack to see Haku, but she haven't found anyone there. Seeing the store closed and not seeing Haku anywhere near, all she can do that time was sigh in disappointment and make her persistence work. Hoping she could wait for Haku, she parked her bike in front of the shop and leaned her back at the wall to wait.

An hour had passed, looking at the sunset that shines from her vantage, she have waited long enough from her standpoint. She looked at her glossed ruby wristwatch, hoping she could burn more time to wait for Haku.

"Hmm, I guess Haku is gone far off today. I'll see her later." Cul said, riding her bike.

She started the engine, waited a moment to make the motor hot, made a short burnout then zoomed into the roads.

Three hours after Cul left at the Supershack, Ritsu's truck arrived and it was parked near the backdoor. They started to unload the lumbers, the stands, tents and the other accessories and placing them in the back storage of the shop.

Lastly, they lifted the unconscious Kaito and brought him up in a room at the second floor of the shop, where he could rest.

When all was cleared, Ritsu and the three girls went down the stairs, heading out.

"If you will ever need a truck again, just contact me okay?" Ritsu reminded to them.

"We will, Ritsu." Gumi happily replied.

"Well, have a safe trip, Ritsu!" Haku said.

"Goodbye! And thank you very much for the help." Akiko warmly replied, Ritsu waived goodbye then drove his way home.

Gumi then turned her sight to Haku and asked her, "Are you leaving now Haku?"

"Yeah." Haku replied, "I need to talk to my landlady. Maybe she's waiting for me the whole time around. I don't want to make her disappointed."

"Okay then. Miss Haku, be careful on the road!"

Haku made a small smile. "I will Gumi. Don't worry, I will keep that in mind!"

Haku waived goodbye and then began to walk away as the two girls went inside to attend at the current condition of Kaito.

The smile on Haku's face was wiped out immediately after leaving the shop. Her grief towards a lost friend had started to crawl at her soul, looking at the pavement with an empty stare, walking slowly down the road. She let her sorrow spilt for a moment while nobody's around, while nobody was gonna halt her mourning to Oliver's loss.

"Just wait, Oliver. I will seek revenge on your death." Haku softly-spoken, clenching her hands.

|Sanguine Dragon Bar, 7:18 PM|

Cul arrived at the bar earlier than usual. She went down on her bike and aimed her sight at the solid wooden front door. From the glass panel of the door, she learned Meiko was not in the bar station, not even a sign that the owner was around.

"Well, that's strange. I know Meiko is supposed to be at her bar station at this time of the day." Cul thought of herself, walking in the bar.

She approached the bar station and sat down. Knowing that she will probably be served a little later, she picked up her phone from her coat's pocket and checked at her messages.

At Cul's surprise, she heard a voice emerging from the back of the bar.

"Oh Cul, Cul, Cul. Sorry to keep you waiting." Meiko bursted vividly to her while walking in from the side of her bar station.

"Where have you been my friend? You know it's bad to make your patrons waiting for their drinks!" She replied, smiling while returning the phone at her pocket.

Meiko smiled back at Cul's response and grabbed a bottle of vodka from the shelf at the right. She opened it and poured half to her glass. "Say, what do you want to drink tonight?"

Cul grinned then placed her right arm at the table. "I want to drink something different tonight. I would like a saké."

"Great choice, my friend!"

Meiko turned back from Cul and attempted to reach for the bottle at the rack overhead of her. Meiko ran out of patience, she was struggling to pick up the bottle.

"Ugh,  forget about that s***, I'll pick a bottle at the cold room!" she said, frustrated, walking out to grab a bottle.

Seeing the owner leave the bar station for a moment, Cul became curious about her when she sensed that Meiko was acting strange, and even dodged her question. She thought, maybe it was only an effect of having a restless job, both stressful and dangerous. The behavior probably had a viable reason, yet she was more became confused when she saw Meiko's back with a dusty fig leaf sticking out of her red crop top, stuck between her skin and her red crop top.

"If I didn't trick Meiko to turn at her back, maybe I would be convinced on another lie. What a pitiful life I had!" she thought to herself, followed by a short laugh, looking at Meiko's vodka glass. "Such a very 'tricky world' to live in all honesty."