‘’You pack everything?’’ Clous asked Bernie as he exited his own room, holding a small, compact bag in his hand. ‘’Just about, yes.’’ Bernie lifted a large suitcase, slapping it twice with his hand with a smile. The two of them entered the main room, finding Rosa standing there with her own little bag, slightly larger than Clous’. ‘’What about master and the walking package of tree cells?’’ Rosa asked, watching them turn their eyes towards Hiona’s room, confirming her suspicions.

‘’Is this everything, master Hina?’’ Yohiro asked, smiling, holding a big grocery bag in his hands, waiting for Hiona who was shuffling around the room. ‘’Give me a second, dear!’’ she told him, waving her hand from inside a pile of useless-looking possessions, her voice muffled as her head was inside the giant pile. ‘’I-isn’t this enough, though? The bag is becoming heavy with all these...clothes, metal objects and whatever this diary is.’’ Yohiro tried to convince her, his hands shaking from the weight of the bag.

‘’Good one dear, but those are all essential to me, and all of you. Also, the bag weighs as much as a toaster; you’re being a little weak.’’ Hiona said in a direct voice as he pulled her head out, watching his about-to-cry expression, trying to hold the tears in. ‘’A-ah, i’m sorry! It was a joke, just a joke.’’ she said, crouching down in front of him, relieving him as he dropped the bag, causing it to land directly on top of his toes.

‘’You guys hear screaming?’’ Clous asked, hearing Yohiro’s high-pitched screams from inside Hiona’s room. ‘’I knew it; master’s molesting him…!’’ Rosa mumbled, beginning to shun the sound away, with Bernie staring at the door with worry.

As a few short minutes passed and all of them assembled in the main room, gathering in a circle as per Hiona’s command. ‘’So, we leave through Sebansio’s bar upstairs, then go to the train station downtown. The tickets are arranged and there should be no questions. Any questions?’’ Hiona explained to the four of them. ‘’Um, you’re all dressed in these black robes, so wouldn’t I stand out…?’’ Yohiro asked them, his nose perking with anticipation.

‘’Ah, ah, ah, you see, we’re criminals. Therefore, we need to something to protect our identities. You don’t as of right now, Yohiro; because you aren’t even officially a member yet!’’ Bernie pointed out. ‘’Besides, the robes are only visible to people who have had physical interaction with the material it’s made from, like us and you. It’ll just look like a child wandering the streets alone.’’ Rosa added, realising something was wrong with her sentence.

‘’Then, isn’t there a chance of meeting someone who has had contact with the material, now that I consider it?’’ Clous wondered to himself. ‘’Head out, team! And may we return to this very base rewarded for our deeds!’’ Hiona yelled, raising her hand up, followed by the rest of them, only Yohiro reacting slowly. ‘’She sounds like she believes we’re doing something good for society…’’ Clous whispered to Bernie, getting a nod. They headed for the door Hiona had entered through a few hours ago, beginning to walk through a wide hallway.

Their steps echoed loudly, especially Hiona’s due to her iron-like boots, as they walked through the hall. ‘’Hey, Mr. Bernie? Who are you doing this job for?’’ Yohiro asked him. ‘’For the most part, master’s the one who has the details, and we complete our assignments. It’s what we do, though i’d like more communication.’’ he explained to the still relatively clueless Yohiro. ‘’I feel uneasy about it, to be honest, but master hasn’t failed us yet in spite of her questionable personality, preferences in everything ever, sexual choice-- yes, actually almost everything.’’ Bernie finished his train of thought, smiling in slight doubt after having said it aloud.

They reached the hall’s end. Hiona put her hand inside her leggings, taking out a small note, bent over a few times, starting to humm to herself as she inputted a few numbers on a keypad attached to the door, causing it to open in an instant, shocking Yohiro. ‘’Saying this for the new, adorable, part of the crew, the stairs lead to a bar, a pretty loud one in fact, so don’t get intimidated, okay?’’ she warned him as she folded the paper a few times, putting it back inside her leggings.

The climbed up the quick flight of stairs, Hiona opening a door wide, giving Yohiro an eyeful of what resembled a scene that defines chaos: loud music playing, a man serving a drink to a crying man, seemingly in his middle age, men wrestling on top of a table, pushing its contents off and shaking it around violently. ‘’Yo, Sebansio, you filthy bastard!’’ Hiona shouted at the top of her lungs, sending the bar in a period of silence, leaving her to loudly walk over to the man who was standing behind the wooden bar quietly, smoking a cigarette, as he read a thick book.

‘’Hiona, bitch dearest, didn’t even leave me alone for five hours before coming back to annoy me, did you?’’ he asked, closing the book after leaving piece of paper inside to mark his progress. ‘’Pleasure’s mine, prick,’’ she responded briskly, ‘’We’re leaving now, you know your script, no?’’ she asked, taking the cigarette from his mouth without a second thought, causing him to avert his eyes. ‘’Yes;’I have no clue who they are!’ or something along those lines, dismissing context of course.’’ he smiled sarcastically. ‘’Sure, just add some fuel to it or it’ll seem forced…!’’ she stood up, throwing the lit up cigarette at him, watching him catch it perfectly with his pinkie finger and thumb.

‘’We also got a bit of a newcomer. I want him to have his own license by the time we’re back. Sound good to you?’’ Sebansio sighed, looking over at the three of them, his eyes suddenly stopping at Yohiro. ‘’That incarnation of sweetness’ name’s Yohiro. Write it down so you don’t forget.’’ she said, prompting him to nod, watching as the lot of them began walking off, with Hiona at the front. They left the bar gracefully, for the most part, excluding Clous and Yohiro. ‘’Oi there, bartender! Kinda off for your granddaughter to be complimenting someone, don’t you think…?’’ a man yelled on a table as the chaos immediately blew up again. ‘’Quiet, Henib, she might be in heat! Might have been able to burn me if i wasn’t careful.’’ he said back at the man. ‘’She’s in heat literally all the time though, isn’t she?!’’ Henib asked in confusion, getting a cigarette between the eyes before he could even react, shutting him up, ‘’Careful there, Henib, she ain’t no whore like your sister.’’

‘’Wow… So many people walking around!’’ Yohiro thought as he looked around, taking in the random conversations from the people around him that were getting tangled in one another, making it impossible for him to listen carefully, the sound of the wind blowing around him, making him feel at easy and the footsteps around him. ‘’If you’re overwhelmed, you gotta hold it in…!’’ Clous whispered to him. Yohiro shook his head, ‘’It’s not overwhelming, though, it’s feels...right, is all.’’ he said, letting the wind blow his hair as he inhaled and then exhaled, getting looks from the people around him, causing him to remember he looked like he was alone to the rest of them, immediately getting himself back in order.

They walked and walked, the four of them silently walking in front of Yohiro, making him feel uncomfortable. ‘’If I try to talk to them, will I be annoying them,’’ he asked himself internally, stopping suddenly before bumping into the four them, having stopped in front of him, standing in front of a large building.

Hiona waved slowly, giving them the signal to enter, causing them quickly enter the train station. Yohiro stopped, Hiona placing her hand on his shoulder after entering, confidently pointing at a man sitting on a bench with a newspaper in his hands. ‘’He has the tickets, master?’’ Hiona nodded happily, smiling under her hood as she watched Yohiro walk over to the man swiftly.

‘’Excuse me, mister,’’ he exclaimed, causing the man to lower the newspaper, looking down slightly and finding Yohiro watching him. ‘’Yes?’’ the man sharply responded in a grasp voice. Yohiro extended his arm, repeatedly retracting it and extending it, pointing at Hiona, Clous, Rosa and Bernie, ‘’Um, could you give us the, um, tickets?’’ The man let out a long, ‘’Hmm,’’ watching Hiona and the other nod together in agreement. ‘’D’she find another random piece o’ shit off the street, that rash girl,’’ he muttered, reluctantly giving the train tickets to Yohiro. He bowed, sprinting off, leaving the man reading his again, chuckling to himself, ‘’Sorry you ended up with whose failures, little boy,’’ he smiled happily.

‘’I got the tickets, master. Let’s go before people look at me,’’ he said, fully understanding his situation, getting a quick nod from Hiona, confirming his suspicion; that she wouldn’t be able to let out a words, picking up the pace towards the train attendant.

‘’Okay, no one’s around, you guys. Take off the robes,’’ she ordered to them all, the three of them removing them while out of everyone’s sight. ‘’Let’s go guys, quickly,’’ she rushed them fastly. ‘’Good job back there, kid, you didn’t waste time at all,’’ Clous complimented him, leaving him satisfied as they walked towards the attendant.