The crew was heading to Florem in the third parallel world. They already awakened the wind crystal (not without difficulty, of course) and were planning on awakening the water crystal next.
"Ugh! Do we HAVE to fight Rusalka? He's the hardest of them ALL!" Edea whines loudly as they ate at the Drunken Pig.
"Of course we do!" Airy whines in reply, "How else will we awaken the water crystal!?"
"We will, Airy." Agnes told the cryst-fairy. "We are just going to stop at Florem for rest and supplies."
"Agnes is right." Tiz says. Agnes blushes slightly at this remark, but Tiz doesn't notice. However, Edea does, and she nudges Agnes slightly, who in return kicked her in the shin.
"We'll need more X-potions, Phoenix Downs, Turbo Eth… Edea, are you alright?" asked Tiz, seeing that Edea had stopped eating and was rubbing her leg, her eyes near to tears.
"Fine." was all she could say. Edea was now having an intense staring contest with Agnes, who was staring in return.
Ringabel was silent during the entire time, just drinking his coffee while flipping through his notebook. Then, suddenly, he grimaces, grips his head, and lets out a soft hiss. Edea and Agnes are too busy glaring at each other to notice, but Tiz does.
"You okay, Ringabel?" Tiz asks.
Ringabel looks up, and shakes his head. "I'm fine, I'm just...tired. I going to take a nap." With that, he leaves.
Tiz looks at the two girls, and upon seeing them STILL glaring at each other, Tiz decides to go talk to Ringabel. He then gets up, and follows him. The two girls instantly stop glaring and watch Tiz go.
"We should eavesdrop." Edea says to Agnes in a low voice and a wicked smile.
"Unacceptable!" cries Agnes, but then lowers her voice, "We should not do that!"
"Of course we should!" Edea replies. They glare at each other again, but Agnes gave in.
"Fine, I guess. I am also quite curious as to what is going to happen."
"Yay!" Edea cries in joy.
They follow the hallway that leads to the boy's bedroom and press their ears to the door.
"I know you're not asleep, Ringabel." Tiz says, "What's up?"
The girls hear Ringabel get up and reply "It's my memories. More and more come back every day. It gives me headaches and nightmares."
"Maybe you should talk about it." Tiz suggests.
"Maybe...just maybe. In Florem. Without the girls. Boy's night out." Ringabel says simply.
"But…" Tiz says questionly, "why?"
"Because I would trust them, if they didn't eavesdrop on us all the time. Like now." Ringabel replies, and faster than the girls could react, the door opens and reveals an angry Ringabel and a surprised Tiz.
"What is…...?" Tiz stutters, as he tries to comprehend what was happening. Agnes turned a scarlet red, but Edea, surprisingly, turned even redder than Agnes, if that was possible.
"Sorry." Edea squeaked, and as if it were rehearsed, Edea and Agnes both got up and ran down the hallway. Ringabel sighed and closed the door.
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