Once Jasmine had told her two friends what she wanted to tell them, Umeko was the first to speak: "You're what? When did that happen?"
"How did that happen?" Sen asked, being the more realist of the two.
Umeko smacked him on the back of his head: "Idiot! How can you not know?"
"I mean..." Sen tried to explain, a little in agony.
"I know what you mean." Jasmine interrupted him, "To be honest, with Bill, it's not that difficult."
"What do you mean, he hardly thinks?" Umeko remarked.
"Ban would love to hear that." Sen added, "With all those times he tried to discredit Wells."
"Not to mention Hoji." Umeko reminded him.
"Yes, him too." Sen corrected himself.
All three of them couldn't help themselves but to think back of those times. When they first met Wells, he didn't show his face to them, as he immediately transformed into Dekasilver. In that form, he defeated a monster, which brought a lot of pain to the Dekarangers. Once defeated, even Ban was in a cheerful mood, until Dekasilver was asked to show his face. That's when Ban changed his mood.
"A... a wes... a westerner?" Ban couldn't believe his eyes.
"That's correct." the westerner confirmed, "I'm really American."
Umeko, being her usual overexcited self, cheered: "Wow! A real westerner in our team! I never expected to see th..."
"He won't be in our team!" Hoji said flatly.
Ban's remarks were usually racist in nature, for reasons he never mentioned.
When asked why he didn't like Wells, he flat out replied: "He's a westerner!"
And that was how he decided to keep calling him ever since: "You know what, you westerner?"
"I wonder if it would help if I start telling him to call me by my name." Wells once sighed in reply to that.
There even was a time when Ban thought to have caught him red-handed.
"Surrender!" Ban shouted.
Wells appeared oblivious about what's brought him to burst in like this: "What gives you the right to..."
"Too late for smooth talk now!" Hoji, who had joined in at the time, warned him.
And Hoji's were more of the type you'd expect from a perfectionist.
"I still don't trust him." Hoji stated at one point.
Or even had a bad opinion about how Wells handled a hostage situation: "Well? He has to put down the gun to save us! Why isn't he?"
Back in the present day, Jasmine too remembered all that: "You're right, they would love to hear that."
"Hear what?" a voice sounded, of which only Jasmine needed not turn her head to know who it belonged to, but she did just to see him.
"Bill!" she lit up as she saw him, got out of her seat just to hold on to him. Wells, of course did not hesitate to hug her back.
"So what was so important that you nearly missed us?" Sen asked.
"Just a little breakthrough in a case I'm working on." Wells replied.
"Something about that mole?" Umeko asked.
As Jasmine and Wells slowly let go of each other, Wells replied: "If it is, it is classified."
"Oh come on!" Umeko was about to have a tantrum.
"Fine, if you don't want to tell us..." Sen replied, trying to calm down Umeko.
"So..." Wells started as he was sitting down, "Who would love to hear what?"
That question, for some reason, made all three of them lock up in silence. But Umeko knew just the thing to say: "Many... people... they would... love to hear I'm leaving Earth Branch."
"You are?" Wells, Jasmine and Sen replied in unison, at which Wells looked at the other two, suspicious.
"I mean..." Sen tried to correct himself, "There will be?"
"Well... yeah." Umeko tried to explain herself.
