Later on that day The Anime Artists arrived at the fairgrounds and started exploring. Aika herself could believe that she was at a festival with real friends, after going through so much pain and loneliness for so long, the thought of friends is still so unreal to her. She hadn't felt this happy in such a long time, to her it was so unreal and new as she was used to being sad and depressed. However she could still feel the depression in her heart and head, still gnawing away at her mental well being.

'Ugh I hate that it's still there! I hope I'll be able to see the light soon and my depression won't keep on interfering with my life.' Aika thought to herself.

The Anime Artists wandered around the street for a while till they saw a familiar face in the distance. Sitting at a table outside of a pottery store was Hinata and next to him was a girl who they didn't recognize.

"Hey it's Hinata! Why don't we go talk to him?" Sakura asked cheerfully.

"Sure while he isn't much of a talker he is friendly so I'm alright with talking to him." Botan said.

"Yeah he was nice at my party and at the convention, a little strange but he's nice." Aika said.

"I agree the way he sits is kinda weird and while his tone is flat his words are nice." Haru said.

So with all of them agreeing they went up to the table where Hinata and the girl were sitting at. When they got to the table the girl noticed them immediately and she looked up from her notebook to say hi.

"Hey there, who are all of you?" Renho asked.

"I'm Sakura! This is my big bro Botan! My besties Aika and Haru!" Sakura exclaimed happily.

"Hehe, nice to meet you all, I'm Renho and that's Hinata." Renho explained.

"Oh we know him, our parents are friends with his parents and uncle." Botan explained.

"Really? Cool, that's good to know. My dad and Asahi are also friends so that's how I know him." Renho explained.

"Oh cool... hey um can we sit with you two?" Aika asked timidly, as she was still nervous around new people.

"Sure, what do you think Hinata?" Renho asked.

"I don't mind, go on and sit down guys." Hinata said with no emotion present in his voice.

He was still looking down at the marbles he had placed on the table and was still pushing them around with his fingers. The Anime Artists were all confused by this, but they all just sat down and did not question it.

"So Renho, where did you get your clothes? They look pretty expensive." Haru said.

"Oh this? My dad had them custom made for me, the Golden dragon has been a symbol in our family for generations so that's why they're on my clothes." Renho explained.

"Oh, cool! They look so pretty!" Sakura complemented.

"Hey thanks, my dad is a great guy, even if his work prevents me from having friends at times." Renho said.

"What? How come? What does he do that keeps you from having friends?" Botan asked.

When Renho heard that question she froze for a moment and didn't know what to say. She didn't want to tell the people she just met that her father was a Yakuza boss as she didnt want them to be scared of her. Everyone at her school knows who her father is and that causes them to avoid her as they are scared of her and her dad. She never blamed her dad or his work for this, but she wished that people would be less stupid at times.

"Well his work makes lots of money and that keeps me from being able to make friends. That's mostly because I don't know if they want to be my friend or if they want my money." Renho explained.

"Oh, that sucks, well hey I don't care about money. I feel like it's better to spend money you made yourself rather than what someone else made." Haru explained.

"Huh, good for you then, and thanks for saying that. However, if any of you ask me to pay for something expensive or even at all, then I'm out!" Renho stated.

"Don't worry! Our parents raised us right!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Yeah and my mom did the same thing... I feel like if Akane or any of the other cheerleaders heard that then they'd do that." Aika said sadly.

"Wha? Who is that?" Renho asked, confused.

"SOME BITCHES WHO HURT AIKIE HERE SO BADLY THAT SHE'S DEPRESSED AND SELF HARMING!" Sakura suddenly screamed angrily.

The sudden change in her tone scared everyone and made them all look up at her. Even Hinata, who's face remained emotionless, looked at her with shock and fear, but it was mild and was mostly still emotionless.

"Sorry about that, we just had a bit of an incident with them last night and I'm still angry about it." Sakura said, returning to her kind, sweet, and giggly personality.

Everyone just still looked at Sakura in shock, caught completely off guard by the sudden change in her tone. Renho made a mental note to never piss off Sakura as she felt like if she did then Sakura might blow her up with a tactical nuke.

"Hey, are any of you hungry?" Hinata asked, hoping to change the subject, however he didn't make it clear in his voice.

"Um yeah, I'm feeling up for some Ramen, there's a place where we can get some nearby. I'll go in and let your mom and uncle know about Hinata." Renho explained.

"Alright, be quick I don't want to be kept waiting." Hinata stated.

Renho nodded, got up from her seat and went into the shop to inform the adults. When she got in she saw the shop now had loads of customers in it, she couldn't see Mio anywhere but assumed she was still around. Renho had to push past some customers in order to get up to the register where Asahi was working. She went up to the register and made her presence known to Asahi by yanking on his shirt sleeve.

Asahi looked down when he felt something grab onto his shirt and started yanking it a little roughly. He saw Renho was now standing at the counter a bit crowded by all the customers in the shop buying his pottery.

"Oh hey Renho, what's up?" Asahi asked.

"I'm just letting you know that me, your nephew Hinata, and his friends are going to a ramen shop nearby." Renho explained.

"Alright! Be Careful and please come back! Your dad said he'd be coming by the shop to take you home in four hours and I want you to be here when that happens!" Asahi explained as he tended to the customers who were either complaining or paying for their items.

"Alright, don't worry, just call me an hour before he gets here, so I'll come by when he's here." Renho explained.

"Will do! Now go on and get some lunch if you're hungry!" Asahi exclaimed.

Renho nodded and pushed past the customers once again and left the shop to tell everyone that Asahi gave them the green light to go. When she got back outside Renho had to take a breath as the tiny shop was pretty crowded around this time of year. Then again she remembered what it's like around other holidays such as Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The rush was even worse with those holidays so she was grateful for this one as it wasn't as bad.

"Alright! Asahi said we can go!" Renho quickly explained as she was still a little out of breath.

"Yay! Let's go! I hope they have ramen that doesn't have eggs in them." Sakura said.

"Why's that?" Hinata asked.

"Oh I have a severe egg allergy, the doc even said that it'll get worse as I get older." Sakura explained.

"Ah, alright noted." Hinata said.

The Anime Artists and Hinata got up and headed to the Ramen shop for some lunch. Meanwhile in the woods near the festival streets Kowai and Akane were discussing their plans. Kowai felt psychotic joy as she talked about this with Akane as killing those in her way of her dreams always brought her pleasure and joy.

To her it was a feeling that could never be compared to anything else at all so she just kept on doing it. However she didn't want to be caught so she only went to those who'd never be searched by society. So it was mostly the homeless or people who wandered into the woods if she was feeling desperate to kill. No one knew that she was a murderer and now with the Artists game in action killing has become even more enjoyable to her.

"Alright now listen Akane, I know you want Aika gone for tattling on you correct?" Kowai asked.

"Yes! I warned that Bitch not to tell and she went on a head and told her whore of a mother! So I'm gonna take her out for this!" Akane stared angrily.

"Hehe! Oh I know! But if you're caught then you'd be in a lot of trouble. So I have a plan, you can make it look like Aika had committed suicide." Akane stated.

"Huh? How can I even do that?" Akane asked.

"Easy, I'll lure her into an isolated area, you put on some gloves, take a knife, and cut her throat! Then you put the knife in her hand to make it look as if she killed herself!" Kowai exclaimed.

"Oh, alright, let's go that way then." Akane said.

"Hehe yes! Now here, I bought this for you!" Kowai said, then gave Akane the knife and gloves.

Akane took the gloves and put them on, after that she took the knife and went to go find Aika and kill her. Kowai also went to find the Anime Artists as she planned to lure Aika in a place where Akane could kill her.

As Kowai walked she remembered her first victims which were her own family, her mother, father and older brother. She felt so much joy as she killed and torture her parents who always said her brother deserved more as he was a boy and older. Then she murdered and tortured her brother who helped her bullies make her life hell and the joy it brought her. She loved it when she killed them and then her bullies, she loved it so much that she had to keep on going with killing.

'Hehe this is going to be exciting! It's unfortunate that I'll have to kill Akane if she's caught. After all, if that happens I'll be busted so I can't risk it.' Akane thought to herself.

Later on The Anime Artists were at the ramen restaurant enjoying the different kinds of ramen they ordered. Sakura managed to find one that didn't have eggs in them so she didn't have to worry about her allergies.

"Hmm! This is so good! I've never had ramen like this!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Yeah it is, I love this chicken ramen. It's really good." Aika said.

"The beef ramen is good too, you should try it next time you come here." Renho explained. Aika nodded and believed she should give it a try next time.

"Hey guys! How are you all!" The group heard a familiar voice ask.

They looked and saw that Kowai had appeared in the restaurant with a big smile on her face.

"Hey Kowai, how are you doing?" Aika asked.

"I'm good, it's so nice to meet all of you! How are all of you doing?" Kowai asked.

"We're doing well, I got to make everyone a delicious breakfast this morning!" Sakura exclaimed happily.

"Yeah and it was amazing, you should've tasted it." Botan said.

"Aww I wish I could've as well, what about you Hinata how are you?" Kowai asked while leaning over Hinata's shoulder.

Hinata roughly pushed Kowai away and said "I'm fine, and don't do that, I like my space to not be invaded."

"Off! Rude!" Kowai exclaimed, trying to hold back the urge to slit Hinata's throat.

"I wasn't being rude, I was being blunt. After all, people dont understand if you're not blunt with them." Hinata explained then slipped up more noodles from his bowl.

"Don't you ever change the tone in your voice? After all, your tone is always so flat and emotionless, like you're not able to feel emotions." Renho explained, a little annoyed by how Hinata's tone never changed.

"Well I need to use the bathroom, but the one here is out of order so I need to use the one in the subway. However with all the strange events going on I'm kinda scared to go alone. Aika could you be a kind, dear friend and come with me?" Kowai asked sweetly.

Aika thought for a moment, and decided to go as she also needed to use the bathroom. "Alright I'll go, I need to go as well so lead the way." Aika said then got up from her seat.

"Yay! Thanks! Let's go." Kowai said, then grabbed Aika by the arm and took her to the subway bathroom.

Hinata was suspicious about Kowai's behavior, as he went to the bathroom when they arrived and saw the girls bathroom was just fine. The others didn't know as none of them had gone yet and the bathroom was in the back so it couldn't be seen where they were at.

'Hmm alright, looks like Kowai is making a move, I better follow them and see what her real intention is.' Hinata thought to himself.

He then got up from his seat and started following them in a way that it looked like he was just leaving the restaurant.

"Hey Hinata, where are you going?" Haru asked curious to where Hinata was going.

"I left something back at Asahis shop so I'm going back to get it." Hinata explained.

Haru wasn't too sure about it but decided to go with it and thought that he dropped something and didn't realize till now as he had done that a few times.

"You want someone to go with you? After all, the police did say folks should travel with others till they can figure out what's going on." Botan explained.

"No need, I'm much stronger than I look. I can take care of myself just fine without anyone with me." Hinata explained then left before any more questions could be asked.

He wanted to see if his theory about Kowai was correct as she always gave him an off vibe. He also noticed that Kowai had seemed to be restraining herself when he pushed her off his shoulder. This wasn't noticed by the others as they weren't as observant or as aware like he was with everything. So they couldn't tell that Kowai was restraining herself from doing something. So Hinata knew he had to see why she wanted just Aika to go with her to the subway bathroom, which was kinda isolated around this time of day during the festival.

Meanwhile Aika and Kowai had just arrived at the subway bathroom and they both went in. Kowai went in first and Aika went into the stall next to her. Kowai smiled evilly at this as everything was going according to her plan.

She then sent a text to Akane saying 'She's here with me. Come in and make it look like you're going to use the bathroom as well. Once she's out and washing her hands, act immediately!'

Akane texted back 'Alright! That Bitch will pay for telling on me and humiliating me!'

Aika meanwhile was almost done with what she was doing when she heard the bathroom door open and close again. She then heard someone walking into one of the stalls, then she heard a click of the stall doors lock.

'Hmm someone must've been passing by and decided to come in here.' Aika thought to herself.

She soon finished up and got out of the stall, she then went up to the one Kowai was in and slightly knocked on the door.

"Hey Kowai you're almost done there?" Aika asked.

"Almost! Just wash up and wait for me!" Kowai called out.

"Alright, but be quick! I normally don't want to be around people but with my friends I do want to be with them and around them." Aika said with some joy in her tone.

"Will do!" Kowai called out.

Aika smiled at this and went up to the sink and started washing her hands. As she was washing the other stall opened and Akane came out of it.

However Aika wasn't paying attention to this as she just thought it was a random stranger. As she was washing her hands she suddenly felt the presence of someone behind her. Then before she could react a cloth was wrapped around her mouth that muffled her voice and kept her from screaming. The cloth was tied tightly around her mouth so tight that she felt cloth burns formed on the sides of her mouth. She then felt the person grab onto her hair and throw her to the ground hard and painfully. The person then got on her and pinned her hands down with her knees and they grabbed onto Aika's face and made her look up at her. When Aika looked up and was horrified to see Akane was the one who attacked her.

"What? Shocked to see me? HA! Well this will be the last time! I told you I'd fucking destory you if you snitched on me! But you didn't listen to me and told anyway, then your idiotic yellow friend broke my beautiful face! Now I'm going to make both of you pay! I'm going to kill you and make it look like Suacide! I bet no one will even care! After all, who wants a bitch like you in the world!" Akane said with a murderous look on her face.

Aika's eyes widened in fear at this and she struggled to get Akane off of her. However it was useless as Akane was putting her whole body weight on her arms and chest so she couldn't move. Never in her whole life had Aika ever felt more useless and helpless, even when her father was making her life hell when he was alive.

Tears of fear started forming in Aika's eyes as Akane leaned over Aika with the knife in her hand. Aika felt the sharp blade touch Aika's throat and Aika started crying and her tears slid down her face. Akane then tried to cut Aika's neck however someone grabbed Akane's hand that held the knife and yanked it away.

Thankfully she only managed to cut a small cut on Aika's throat, it wasn't too deep and was only bleeding a little but it wasn't serious. Akane then glared angrily at the person who had grabbed her and saw that it was Hinata.

While his face remained emotionless the fury and anger in his eyes was clear as day. Then with all his might he slammed his other hand on Akane's arm that he was holding as hard as he could. Akane howled loudly in agony as she felt the bone in her arm break, Aika cringed at the sound as she didnt expect that coming.

Hinata then threw Akane off of Aika and onto the floor, he then walked up to her and before she could move he started as hard as he could on her leg. Akane once again screamed in agony as Hinata broke her leg as well. She then felt a hand grab her by the hair and Hinata made her look up at him eye to eye. Hinata's eyes still had the same fury in them while the rest of his face remained the same.

He then whispered to her his voice coated with the same fury his eyes showed "Take this as a lesson as to what happens to those who mess with my loved ones."

He then punched Akane so hard that she was knocked out cold. Now that Akane was unconscious Hinata looked over to Aika and saw she was desperately trying to remove the cloth off her mouth.

He went over to her and gently put his hand on her shoulder, Aika looked up at him and saw that his eyes showed concern and reassurance. Hinata kneeled down to Aika's level and gently untied the cloth from her mouth and once it was off Aika started hyperventilating.

This was because Aika was starting to have a panic attack and she began sobbing as she was narrowly murdered. Hinata saw this and understood that it was a panic attack, so he gently hugged her and whispered calming words to her. Aika began to gradually calm down from her panic attack and she didn't feel sick like she did last night.

Hinata looked back to Akane who was still out cold, and decided to call the police and a doctor. He felt like Aika could use one after just having a panic attack and he wanted to make sure she wasn't badly hurt. So he pulled out his black phone and called the emergency line. As he explained everything he held Aika in his arms like she was made of the worlds most fragile material.

While this was going on Kowai heard everything and was furious that the attempt failed. However it did mean she would have to kill Akane later to prevent the police from finding out about her so she at least smiled at that.