Time skipped.

At Syd Barrett's house, London: England.

Luckily they got out of there in time even though they almost got caught by the police.

But with the help of Toshi Ishii and Mickey Mannix, they could get away from the airport without leaving a trace.

“ You feel better now?”

Sera holds Jody's leg, she's connecting the breaking bones back together and creating blood to fill up the lost one.

Syd Barrett stood behind Seraphina, looking over Jody.

He is already healed, Sally too. But their wounds were so little compared to Jody.

“ I can't believe they did that to you guys... Jesus...”

She picked up one of them and ate it.

“.... Yeah... If it wasn't that place, I wouldn't have noticed... I knew that place because I always go there when I file a complaint... You know...some passport things.”

Jody replied, however, her head is thinking about another thing.

It's about Syd Barrett who is now standing in front of her.

The enemy chose to bushwhack them, plus one of them had known Syd Barrett before even he didn't know about her. All the puzzles combined together, it is sure that Syd Barrett IS the ability user.

But he's hiding it from Jody.

He lied to her.

Jody's instinct told her that this man is the ability user for sure because he had that charisma that only the ability users will have... An aura that's the exact same as Jody and everyone else in the group.

She doubted this for so long. In fact, How come Roxxy Barrett, his sister, is the ability user while he, himself, isn't?

It doesn't make any sense.

Jody knows.

But that time she still thought positively. Maybe Syd was an unlucky fellow born with no ability. Right now, she glads it wasn't what her past self had thought.

(... He must have a reason to hide it from me. Why doesn't he use his original ability but use that swapping technique instead? )

“ Hey. Are you good? Is your head feel dizzy or some shit? ”

Jody got pulled out of her thoughts by Syd's question.

“ Good.”

Jody held herself up.

“ Damn. I feel a bit of shame for not doing anything back in the airport...”

Said Syd.

“ Or maybe you could have. But you chose not to.”

Replied Jody.

“ What?”

“ What?”

The girl turns to him in a straight face.

She walked to him and grabbed his shoulder.

While that...Seraphina's watching the situation confusedly while chewing donut in the background.

“ You know Syd... I respect you. But I've got a feeling...that you're hiding something from me... Something That you don't want me to know.”

Said Jody.

“......”

The boy stunned for a second.

“ the fuck.... What...the ... What are you talking about?”

Seeing that Syd still played a dead face, Jody quickly cut it off.

“Just kidding. It may be my imagination. I just feel unfair to be the only person who got beaten up. That's all.”

Jody releases her hands.

“ Oh... Yeah, I felt that. Guess I own you this time.”

Syd replied.

“ OH Wow... You ain't come up with excuses? Oh my god. This is unbelievable... Does something happen to you when you were drowning?

“ What the fuck. I just told you the truth. What's wrong with that? Jody, you're the one acting weird, you know that-”

“...Good...Good boy.”

Jody then puts her hand on Syd's head and starts patting him.

The boy quickly pushes her hand away.

“ Hey. Don't touch my head. Do you want to live as a paraplegic for your entire life? I dare you to touch it again.”

“ Don't mad.”

Said Jody before proceeding to use 2 of her fingers squeezing his cheek.

“ You fucking-”

“ Sorry. My bad.”

Said Jody, releasing her hand.

This may seem to be a normal conversation, But the message had already been sent to him. He must have known by now that Jody knows he had something he's trying to hide.

That's enough.

“ How about Sally? Where is she?”

Asked Jody.

“ She's alright. They'll come to pick her up soon. So we can move on.”

Syd answered, he then raises up the chair and walks away.

“ Syd, where you going?”

Jody asked.

“ I'll go make some shit... I'm starving.”

Jody then got down the couch and followed him saying:

“ I'll go with you, Syd... I feel like I'm about to faint again.”

“ Bet ya ass you are. You just went through some deep shit... You need to fill up your energy real quick though.”

Syd said.

“ Donut?”

Seraphina offered Jody a piece of sugar donut from the box.

But Jody declined.

“ That's fat. I don't like it.”

Her words are like a big sword stabbing through Sera's chest.

“ You can cook? Huh? You sure you ain't gonna make the kitchen explode?”

Syd asked Jody.

“You're overreacting.”

Jody replied.

Seeing her job here was done, Seraphina walked out of there to the living room with a box of donuts in her hand.

That's where Mickey, Toshi, and Sally on his lap was playing games on the Nintendo switch.

“ Bruh. Look at this shit.”

Mickey shows a picture on his phone to him.

“.... Kanye West announced he would be running for president BRUH WTF am I reading?”

“ Not gonna lie, I lowkey wanna vote for him. Damn, wish I was American.”

Said Mickey.

“ Obama 2?”

“ LMAOOO.”

“You should ask Jody about this. She's American.”

“ But she seems not to care about politics. Smh.”

Said Toshi.

While they're talking, Sally hands down the game console she then raises from Toshi's lap because Roxxy called her out.

After the little girl left, Mickey turns his face back, continued the conversation.

“ Man, If I was her, I wouldn't give a fuck either. For real, to this day, I still don't have any idea how the fuck they let Donald Trump run their country you feel me? It's like you let a psycho takes over your god damn house. If American still elects him as president, I bet World war 3 will start in our generation for sure.”

Mickey said, laying back the sofa.

Seraphina sat down over the chair next to them and turned on the TV.

She tried not to care about them but their voices keep coming.

“ Ain't that awesome? So that we can complete the trilogy?”

Said Toshi.

“ Ain't that awesome? So that Japan will get another bold ass nuked? ”

When Mickey said that Seraphina spits a donut and starts to chuckle.

“ Hey! What the? ya' laughing?! ”

Toshi turns to Sera and shouts to her.

“ Damn, bro. She's racist. She thinks it was funny. She laughs at your country's got nuked. Eww gross. Imma go complain this on twitter.”

Mickey said.

“ Twitter is basically white people getting offended on behalf of people of a different race who aren't even offended, to be honest.”

Too late now. Seraphina already got dragged into the conversation.

“ What the-?! No! That's irrelevant!”

Sera quickly argues back.

“ It was you! You're the one who pulled that up!”

She said.

“ Yeah... See, I'm the only Asian here... Okay... Funny you... Okay...”

Toshi wiped his tear. Turns around and hugs Mickey, sobbing.

Mickey touched his back, hugs him too.

“ She's still living in the '80s. She didn't see your race equal to her.”

At this moment, both Toshi and Mickey team up to play this poor British girl.

“ BULLShit! MANNIX! Shut your goddamn mouth! I love Mulan! I was cosplaying her once when I'm middle school! ”

Sera said.

Suddenly, Toshi stops sobbing and turns his face back to her with the 🤨 face.

“You don't look like Mulan. You look more like the people that took her land tho.”

“ LoL”

Mickey then laughs out so hard that he hurts his stomach.

Knowing she's been fooled, the extreme level of embarrassing and awkwardness reached the max in her.

“ YOU DIRTY PIG!!! ”

She threw a remote at him, and it was accurately hit right into Mickey's face.

Mickey grabbed it in time,

“ What the fuck. It was him, not me. Crazy bitch.”

He said.

“ You're the one who started all of this! You got what you fucking deserved!”

Sera shouted.

“ But If it is Hollywood... Maybe?”

Toshi pointed out.

“ Oi, oi, stop it my nigga, this crazy bitch is about to throw a fucking TV at me. Jesus Christ.”

Mickey said.

*** Big gasp ***

“ MANNIX?! WHAT did you just say?! ”

Her jaw dropped.

“ What?”

“ DID YOU JUST SAY THAT WORD?! ”

“ You mean ‘nigga’ ?”

**Even bigger gasp** 😧

**hand on her chest**

“ YOU. CANT. SAY THAT! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU?! OH MY GOD!”

At that time, Syd returns from the kitchen with a plate of pancakes in his hand and Sally Salmacis.

“ Woah. Woah, what's happening here? My nigga, chill.”

He said.

No one expected that.

😨

“.......”

Seraphina was completely frozen.

“ What's with her?”

Syd asked.

“ Nothing. She's just being some Libtards.”

“ The fuck is libtard?”

Asked Toshi.

“ It's Liberal but retarded. So Libtard. Bitch doesn't even know the differences between nigga and nig...uh, with -er.”

Mickey answered.

“ Those aren't different!”

“ Yes, they are.”

Syd argues Sera back, calmly.

“ So how does it any different from mocking Asian people by making eyes smaller or saying Chingchong to Chinese? Huh? You could understand it right? It's that same feeling they'll feel if you call them the N-word!”

Said the girl.

“ No worries.I'm Japanese. They can call me weeb back in the exchange.”

Toshi pointed out.

“ Wait... Don't they call you ChingChong?”

Asked Syd.

“ That's for Chinese. I'm Japanese. And you aren't even Chinese. So how the fuck can we get offended by that?”

Toshi replied.

“ Wait... You can't separate the differences between Chinese and Japanese?! ”

Asked Sera.

“ Yes but you know who else does? HIM.”

Syd points his finger towards Mickey.

“ This nigga ain't even know that Japan, China, and Korea use different languages.”

“ Because I really didn't know! Motherfucker.”

Mickey turns his face to Syd.

“ This motherfucker once asked Toshi to translate what Korean guy had said, thinking they use the same language like... Bruh. So dumb fuck.”

Mickey's face turns red when Syd exposed his past mistakes.

“ Shut yo bitch ass up. How the fuck would I know??? That's my first time visiting Asia.”

“ Anyway. The point is in the context. It's not racist If I didn't mean to use it for racism. It's for the “Bros” term, you understand???”

“ Stop it! I don't want to argue with you guys anymore! So racist! You don't have any special privileges to call other people like that! No matter who they are! ”

Sera returns back to the TV screen.

“ Keep sucking each other dicks and bullying me.”

She said.

“ Hey! I'm not gay.”

Said Mickey.

“ IT'S JUST AN IMPLY, ASS HOLE!”

Sera shouts back.

“ Yo, how about a billion dollars? Would you suck your homie dick for a billion dollars?”

Toshi asked Mickey.

“ Nah, man. No way on earth can make me do that gay shit.”

Mickey shook his head.

“ How about ya?”

Toshi turns to ask Syd Barrett.

At this point, Sera wants something to cover her ears as fuck, but her AirPods are still charging so she had no choice but to let their clear words running in the background.

“ Hey... I lowkey would do it.”

🤯

As Syd replied to him, Sera instantly twists her face and stares at him in terrifying.

Syd continued his explanation.

He was so serious that he dropped the pancake down the table.

“ Listen fools, It may seem like a gay action. But if you consider it carefully, what you do doesn't make you gay. It's the intention behind it. It's whether you like it or not you feel me? I could kiss a nigga.That won't make me gay. I could fuck him in the ass if I want to. That doesn't mean I'm gay. I could do it just to do it and I still be... straighter than a fucking pencil. If you give me this money then why not? I can use this money to buy bitches. Who cares if some bitches walking around talking like ‘Oh my gosh, this dude sucks a dick’ Man, fuck that bitches! You are powered by pussies. Those pussies ass niggas. You could buy yourself a billion bitches with that money later on.”

After he finished his epic statement, leaving the audience in complete silence, He bends down and proceeds to kiss Toshi on his head to prove his words.

*Kiss*

“ See, I'm still straight as fuck.”

He then turns to Mickey Mannix.

“.........”

“ Dawg, you know I'm straight right?”

Said Mickey.

“ So is spaghetti, until it gets wet.”

This is the peak of Seraphina Gilmour's emotions.

*** SCREAMS ***

She raises from the sofa and runs out of the room with her hands covering her face.

“ Man, Why does she think we're all racist prick?”

“ I'm not racist.”

Syd said,

“ Last week I donated 200 dollars straight from my bank account to the LGBT community...”

He claimed, Toshi then turns to him.

“ Daaaammn bro Really?”

“ Yeah. I hope they get a vaccine soon.”

“BRUH”

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Around a minute earlier.

Jody came out of the kitchen with a bowl of fruit in her hand, Syd was still in there making pancakes.

She walked to the other room where Roxxy Barrett was typing on her laptop with Sally sitting beside.

*Sits on the opposite side of Roxxy*

The girl glared up, as she found it was Jody, she gazed her eyes back down and continued typing.

“ Sally, want some melon? ”

Asked Jody.

“ Thank you, sister...”

After receiving Sally nods down and enjoys having a melon.

“ You're always on the screen. Don't you ever feel tired?”

Asked Jody.

“ A job is a job. Can't complain.”

“ You'll have an office syndrome.”

“.....”

Roxxy glared up again.

“ Want some orange? It's good for your eyes health.”

“....”

“Thanks.”

“.....”

Roxxy quietly accepted that.

“ Alright. Thanks, Sally. You can go back to play games now.”

Sally next to her nods down before she got off the table and walked away.

“.......”

When the little girl left... Jody opened the topic.

“ When I was facing the enemy at the airport... One of them knew him.”

“.....”

“ Him who?”

Asked Roxxy.

“ Syd.”

“.....”

She paused as she heard it.

Sure that Jody had already told her what had happened, what's the enemy's ability, how did it end up, but she didn't tell her this.

So it is a surprise.

It was obvious that Roxxy was astonished.

“ What? Really? Who is she?”

“ I don't know. She didn't tell me. I ended up blow her face off.”

Jody put a piece of apple in her mouth, chewing.

Then continued.

“ She knew him but he doesn't know her... She seems to be very SCARED of him. She even told me to stay away from him. So... I wonder if you have any idea what did she mean.”

Jody stopped chewing and stared into her eyes.

An intense stare.

“......”

“ Why don't you ask him directly?”

Roxxy questioned.

“ He looks like he's reticent about it. So I better not bother him furthermore.”

“......”

“ Is it just a bluff?”

“ Maybe?”

“ Do you really believe it? Do you really believe a word that comes from someone who would do anything to kill you?”

Roxxy asked again.

“ Probably.”

“......”

That ambiguous response from Jody made Roxxy's eyebrows twisted.

“ She probably threw bluffs at you just to find a chance to strike you back?”

“.....”

“ But as far as I observed. There are many more ways she'd be able to distract me.... Yet, the enemy acted as if she was carrying...a bomb.”

“.......”

An uncomfortable atmosphere rises.

Roxxy Barrett looked back into Jody's eyes with the same intense staring she got..

“.......”

“........”

“ But maybe I'm just overthinking. It probably was just a bluff. I genuinely apologize for my personal inquisitive.”

The tension drops down as Jody stops asking her. At the same time, a bowl is empty.

“ I'll get more. Do you want some ?”

Asked Jody.

“......”

“ Yes... Please.”.

When Jody walks out, Roxxy still staring at her until she takes a turn at the corner.

(........)

No one knows what Roxxy is thinking, but she seems to be pretty concerned and uncomfortable.

Not for long, Seraphina turns up instead, her face looks terribly shocking she came and sat down next to Roxxy at the same spot Jody had sat.

“.......”

“ What's with you?”

Roxxy closed her laptop and put it away.

“ THOSE BOYS!!!! THEY-THEY ARE-”

“ They're what? Are they being a dick again?”

“ YES!... And- and... Oh my GOD...”

Seraphina covered her red face, head down to the table.

“ You'll use to it.”

“ NO WAY. THERE'S NO WAY I'M BEING USED TO THAT THING.”

“ What happened?”

“ THEY...THEY .... God... THEY BULLIED ME! ”

“ Bully? What did you do?”

“ I just point out that they're racist! THEY FREQUENTLY USE THE N-word without a shame!!! WHY'S YOUR BROTHER LIKE THAT????”

“ they WHAT ”

Roxxy covered her forehead.

“ God... Not again...”

Roxxy quickly brought out her phone and google something and shown it to Sera.

“ Sera. Look.”

“......”

“ This is what he had sent me. You got that?”

Asked Roxxy.

“ NO. AND NEVER! ”

“ Syd explained to me this is what black people called their close friends. He claimed that it's not racist as long as he didn't use it randomly to any person.”

“ But still !!! There are more words to use instead of this! ”

Sera argued.

“ ... It's not the same. It ain't impact as much as this word... I don't understand them too.”

“ They even group up with each other and jump up on me... Roxxy! You must do something to stop your brother and his friends! Racism continues as long as this kind of person exists... And they..... They....”

Suddenly Roxxy saw Sera flushed...

“ They...even... Uh...”

“.......”

“ They even... Talk so dirty that it disgusts me! Hello! I was sitting there! They do not even care whether I'm a woman or not!”

“..... What kind of conversation makes you flushed?”

“ FLUSH?....W-WHO??... Me?!....NO! NO WAY! ”

She flushes even more,

“.... Then why did you walk away like that?”

“ ....Because....”

Sera struggled.

“ -Because... They....”

She didn't have enough courage to say it, Instead, she whispered to Roxxy's ear.

After she told her, Roxxy flushed too. A lot more than her.

“ Oh my god....”

(... Damn...How did I miss it???? )

She thought.

Both notice that each other reactions are exactly the same.

Sera was astonished, but Roxxy wasn't. She swiped her screen then shown something to Sera.

“ !!!!!!! ”

The British girl went completely numb after she saw a picture of Mickey Mannix sleeping on Toshi's shoulder.

“ What the-?! ”

Sera's eyes were frozen.

“ You like to see things like this, don't you?”

“......”

Sera gulped.

“ I... I do not hate it...but...”

“ Don't panic. You're just confusing. Let me introduce you to something... this is a culture from Japan. It's called BL. Do you know what it stands for?”

“........”

The British girl is very curious.

“ W...what is it?”

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After Jody left the table, She knew exactly that Roxxy was also reticent to discuss over her question, these siblings both tried to avoid talking about this.

One may look over it, but not with Jody. Her curiosity rises up even more.

(... One thing that I know...is the fact that I only know him just a surface level...)

She thought.

Then Jody walked back to the living room, the room where the boys are at.

As she stepped in, the serious conversation from the boys kicks in her ears with, of course, Syd Barrett was speaking.

“ Well, If some of you motherfuckers have brains y'all agree with me in this alright? The point is I REFUSE to take a SHIT in a public restroom... Like, there's no way in fuck I'll do that. I don't know how far THIS fucking country has developed, but they STILL...not put a fucking bidet spray in a motherfucking restroom. Niggas even colonized half of the world, but still wiping their ass with a dry paper. I don't understand what the fuck's going on with westerners' minds. How can they leave a restroom, refusing to clean their ass with water? ”

“.......”

“ Not true. We have bidet sprays sellin' at Walmart though.”

Said Jody.

“ Oh? You're gonna come up against my statement?”

“ Unfortunately, no. I just feel a bit offended when you said, westerners. That would mean to involve me, yes?”

“......”

“ In the end, it's people's choices whether what they prefer to use. You seemed to assume that all westerners are nasty, and I felt like I need to come up and defend my point.”

Jody then went standing next to him, with her hands on her hip.

“ The cultures on each side is different, at least you should have some respect.”

“ Don't act like you're my mum. And using paper to clean your ass is just like cleaning a dish without using water. And you're gonna say to me that I'm wrong?”

The boy said confidently.

“ Oh, I didn't say that you're wrong. I said not all westerners are like that.”

“.......”

“.......”

“.......”

“ So we're on the same side all along?”

“ Precisely, yes.”

“......”

“......”

“ And how you're going explain about westerner that uses wet tissue?”

Asked Jody.

“......”

It was Syd's loss.

The boy was fully frustated as shit, Jody then smirks.

“ Fuck you, Jody. Fucking whack ass Lizard.”

“ Lizard? Why is she Lizard?”

Asked Mickey.

Syd brought out his phone and opened a Lizads picture, compared to her.

“ .... Oh, I see...”