I am so sorry for the late update, but I've been so busy lately so it couldn't be helped!

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"I don't feel any different or see anything different either..." Kichiro murmured after his hand was finally free from the death grip Hakua had locked him into. He was a fairly weak guy already, but Hakua just made him realize he was much weaker than he had though he was to be.

"That old coot is was probably just duping us into doing useless crap like hand shaking," the female groaned. "I still can't trust that sketchy guy so I suppose I'll just sit here and wait for those creepy symbol things to go away." She didn't care that the shop keepers in Molco were now glaring daggers at the two for just taking refuge in their store for no reason. Seeing that they've over stayed their welcome, Kichiro sighed and dragged her out the store for the next place they could stay in momentarily.

"Sorry, we'll see ourselves out now," he called out before the two disappeared.

Struggling to pull her hood away from his grasp, the irritated female hissed at him, practically breathing fire if she was capable of doing so. "What are you doing?! Let go! You're going to rip the ear off my hood!" She didn't want to damage her clothes as she continued to struggle against him-- carefully one might add. "I said I am not going anywhere and you can't make me!"

Little did she know, the noise were just traveling around their surroundings, leaving them alone just as they have done with the kids they spoke with before. It felt very relieving to Kichiro seeing that they didn't have to see a shark appearing out of the floor again and mess with their mentality, but it also made him rather more anxious than before now that he knew he was dead. A timer on his hand, a strange text message that was to be call a mission, a skull print pin that he has never seen before appearing out of nowhere, it felt like he was dreaming.

But it wasn't a dream.

The blood on his hand Hakua had drawn from him due to her pin was solid proof to him. It stung a little and the blood did surface onto his skin from the small prick on his hand. It moved, felt, looked, and even smelled like blood. There was no doubt about it that it was his own blood coming out of his hand naturally.

"Huh. Those things aren't attacking us anymore..." Hakua stated after she calmed down.

"Yeah, I've noticed that too. That man was certainly not trying to trick us like you kept assuming the entire way here. It's real..." Disappointment filled the young man's voice as he scanned his surroundings from where they stood. He felt worried for some reason and he could finally confirm for once in his life that it wasn't a nice feeling-- he wanted it to go away.

"We're still in Shibuya, alright. I'm bleeding from your pin, there's still a numb stinging sensation in my palm, it still smells like blood-- I can't help but accept it that this is really our current reality."

Lime eyes glanced over at the male before she sighed and pulled her hood over her head comfortably. "Is it really OUR reality? Maybe I'm dreaming about everything right now and you don't actually exist." Stubbornness wasn't getting them anywhere, but as long as she was still breathing, she refused to believe the ludicrous event.

"Just stick with each other just to make sure... I don't want to end up being 'erased' like that text on our phones stated in big ass letters," the exasperated boy groaned. "I want to live. You don't? Great, but stick around me so I can live."

Clearly, the more time they spent together, the more tired he grew having to stick around with the thick-skull female. He was clearly losing his mind having to deal with her-- a person who didn't want to do anything or believe anything just because she didn't want to approve of it even if she was clearly in danger like he was.

"I feel like I'm going to die..." Kichiro suddenly groaned in realization just who he is stuck with currently.

Little did he know, Hakua had already started walked off on her own to explore this strange new Shibuya without him. By the time he realized that she had left, he only just groaned some more and wandered around a good distant away from her, close enough so he could see her and get her any time there was trouble nearby.

"Quit following me."

"No, I already told you I want to make sure that I stay alive," Kichiro replied as he brushed away a lock of his black hair out of his space blue eyes. "Normally, I don't feel anxious about anything at all, but right now I feel like everything is wrong, so I'm definitely not leaving you for your safety and my own."

"You are so ridiculously stubborn...! Fine suit yourself. It's not like I can stop you anyways."

"Who are you calling stubborn...???"

As the two continued to roam around freely looking for the 104 Building District as their mission has stated to head over to, they weren't aware of the pair of eyes that had glued onto them the moment they ran into each other.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sorry for the short and possibly boring chapter! I've just been so busy lately and my mind is just all over the place. I'll try to make it more interesting and properly correct things when stuff on my end dies down.

~LilyBlizz