Cera's pov

I opened my eyes, blinking them a few times to adjust to the lights. Where am I?, was the first question that came up in my mind. I tried getting up, but my body is too sore to move but I do know what this place is, and this is the last place I wanted to be at right now. I have to get back to Kakeru and the other, I need to... "Welcome back dear Cera", that disgusting voice, I sighed closing my eyes again and taking a few deep breathes and opening them again, "yup, clearly not a dream", I said in a matter of fact voice, rolling my eyes. That man chuckled kneeling down to my level, "all this time and still you never fail to amuse me, but this cat and mouse game is getting old Cera", he said picking me up by the collar to my upper throwing me in another corner of his now, cleaned and neatly arranged lab. he came near me and locked the cage apparently I am in at the moment. "oh but you do love it and just wondering if you could be so dumb to try and keep me here, in a cage, as if it ever worked Mr. I'll rule the world", I said in a mocking tone sitting back up, slightly leaning on the wall behind me. "just for the time being sweetie", he said moving things around, apparently working, "but don't worry I've got a better place for you and you won't be able to run away from there", he added smiling at me, "first of eww, second of eww and when the hell are you gonna stop calling me with these cringy names", I said looking utterly disgusted, shifting in a more comfortable position closing my eyes trying to sleep, "I thought young ladies like you likes to be addressed with such nicknames", he said giving me the same tone. "whatever", I said before drifting into a deep slumber, I need to restore my energy as soon as possible.

So how long have it been? yeah a week, a whole of seven days since I'm here . I've spent most of the time thinking about Kakeru and the others. The man told me the people who came from the other world returned back to their world after the incident on the X-tower, said something about some sealed door or something but I wasn't paying attention to another one of his ramblings.

Here's another day of me staring into nothingness just thinking. Everyone is home.... except me... again... I hate this... I wanna go home too... I wanna sleep in my comfy bed... and I wanna go to school again... and eat mom's home cooked meals... and spend time with Kyoichi and Taiga... and Kakeru I really do miss him a lot, I wonder sometimes how much he would have grown up? Is he still the same shy little kid or is he different now? I still remember the time when is use to get all red trying to talk to someone new, or even his classmates, he was too flushed to talk to Makoto too when I took him with me once.

But now I'm stuck here with this weirdly disgusting man doing god knows what, not like I want to know either and not like if I ask him his answer would be any different from "I'm gonna rule the world", it always the same so no point in asking. The most weird thing about him is his cloak, like hell it covers him whole, like even the whole of that face. I don't even wanna know how he looks like but does he never get tired of it? and the fact he let me see everything he's doing in this lab is weird too, like isn't it supposed to be like a secret? I asked him once what if I revel it to someone what he's doing or how he is doing it, like I do understand what he's trying to do and some what the things he'd been doing. he would simply reply with, "you won't live to tell the tale". you wish haha

Another week passed, I guess so, I've lost track of time a long ago, now I don't even bother looking at the small clock he have on one of the tables. I've tried to escape a fair few times already but I don't really have the energy and idea of where to go. so I'm just here waiting to see what this man is up to now.

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Just a filler chapter... Boring ik... Sorry for keeping you all waiting and coming back with boring chapters... I'm trying to get back to write something good.. it'd actually been too long. I just disappeared randomly I'm sorry for that too. I've been struggling with things and dropped the idea of writing completely untill I saw a notification today about a comment on this book. It took me  so much effort to gather courage to come back again and yeah ig that's enough of explaining...

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