Welcome to Phase 4 of Still Alive!
I'm really surprised to see some of you readers out there enjoying this story. Again, it means a lot.
As thanks...again...I decided to release Phase 4 earlier than planned. Yeah. Again. So anyway, I hope that you'll enjoy this one!
I do not own RWBY nor BlazBlue.
Do I seriously have to repeat this in every single Phase!?
I-I was just joking.
Enjoy!
-IIXII-
The walk to the dining hall would've been easy for Kval, if not for the stares presented to him by the other students. In fact, this was all just plain ridiculous! The people here were treating him as if he was some sort of rare animal, and he'd be insane if he were to enjoy being treated that way.
"Were the people here always this annoying?" Weiss grumbled under her breath. She seemed displeased because of obvious reasons, and judging by the look on Blake's face, she felt the same way as well. No surprises there.
Kval, on the other hand, wasn't really taking it too well. The vessel kept his eyes locked onto the ground as he tried his best to ignore the stares. Good thing he only needed to endure it for a little while longer.
Yang shrugged. "They'll stop staring eventually."
Kval put up a smile. "I hope so..."
Ruby can't say that she didn't feel bad for Kval. She knew quite well how it felt like to be in the center of attention, after all.
After a short while of walking, Team RWBY, along with their recently added member, finally reached their destination.
Kval sighed in relief upon seeing the sight of the dining hall's entrance. "I'm honestly glad that's over, but you girls should go and find us a table. I need to head to the restroom first," he said.
"Y-You sure? You might get stared at again," Ruby said worriedly, only to be confused when the young vessel started chuckling.
"I'll be fine. Now go on," Kval assured. He reached out and patted Ruby on the head which, unintentionally, made her blush.
"I'm not a kid!" she yelled.
Kval quickly pulled his hand away and smiled a sheepish smile. "S-Sorry. Go and find a place for us to sit, okay?" he said. Moments later he found himself following a bunch of signs that would lead him to the nearest restroom.
Ruby kept her eyes glued onto the vessel's back, before a small sigh escaped her lips. "Come on guys, let's go and find ourselves a table."
Upon entering the dining hall, the members of Team RWBY were immediately greeted with Nora's loud voice.
"Hey guys! Over here!" she yelled, prompting Ren, who was seated right next to her, to shake his head sideways at his childhood friend's antics. Jaune and Pyrrha, who were seated at the same table, gave Team RWBY their smiles and beckoned them over.
After taking their food, Team RWBY proceeded to make their way to where Team JNPR were seated at.
Placing her tray onto the table and taking her seat, Ruby turned to face Jaune and gave him a smug look. No words left her lips, but the look on her face remained in place.
"Uh...Ruby? Is there something that you would like to tell me?" Jaune asked, not entirely sure what the look on her face meant. "What? Is there something on my face?"
"I've just received a new member on my team," Ruby proudly stated, causing Ren to choke on his tea.
Jaune stopped eating his food and eyed Ruby with a suspicious look. "Are you serious?"
Pyrrha did the same, while Nora was busy patting Ren on the back to help him stop his coughing, which wasn't really helping that much.
The rest of Team RWBY merely rolled their eyes at this.
Weiss pinched the bridge of her nose and shook her head. "Ruby is bragging about our new teammate. Typical."
Jaune immediately choked on his lunch upon hearing those particular words which had been uttered by the heiress. He quickly turned to said heiress and exclaimed, "Wait! Seriously!?"
Yang gave Jaune a wide grin and nodded. "You bet!"
"Well, where is she then?" Jaune asked, somewhat eagerly if one may say. Though, no one can blame him for being curious about Team RWBY's new member.
"Our new member has the opposite gender actually," Blake corrected the blond knight, but she made sure to keep her eyes locked onto the current page of her book while doing so.
"Lucky bastard," Jaune muttered under his breath, only to receive a smile from Pyrrha seconds later. Without warning, chills came running down his spine.
"What was that, Jaune?" Pyrrha asked with a small tilt of her head.
Despite it looking normal, everyone who were seated at the table, minus Nora, can easily tell that there was a well-hidden message somewhere behind that smile of hers. Whatever it was, no one would know.
But it was quite obvious really.
"I-It's nothing, Pyrrha. A-Anyway, what's he like?" Jaune added rather quickly.
Upon receiving the question, Team RWBY, including Blake, who had taken the time to lower her book, began to ponder on their friend's question.
After a few seconds, however, Blake was surprisingly the first one who was able to come up with an answer.
"Well, he's really mysterious," she said.
"Not to mention weird," Yang added.
"He's also a bit shy," Weiss added as well. "Also, it's a little hard to talk to him. He can be a bit slow at times."
"He's really kind too!" Ruby exclaimed with a bright smile, devouring her plate of chocolate chip cookies moments later.
"Wow...he sounds like a weird guy," Jaune said, in which they all nodded in agreement.
"Who's a weird guy?"
Jaune turned his head around when the new voice reached his ears, and the first person who entered his line of sight after doing so was some guy with green hair.
"W-Wait...green hair, those clothes..." Jaune's eyes widened in realisation. He whipped his head to Team RWBY. Well, Ruby in particular. "Wasn't he the guy who fell out of that light?" he whispered.
Kval tilted his head to one side in utter confusion, as he was oblivious as to what they were discussing.
"That's him. He's also the new member who we were talking about," Yang informed Jaune somewhat casually, and later decided to take a large bite out of her sandwich not long after that.
"I...I see." Jaune stared at his food.
"Have a seat, Kazuma. You don't want to stand there all day now, do you?" Weiss sounded while she was doing her nails, not tearing her eyes away from her work.
"O-Oh right, my apologies." Kval nodded and took a seat next to the heiress, smiling sheepishly as he did so.
Seeing that everyone was present, Ruby cleared her throat in order to get their attention, in which she succeeded. "Alright then. Kazuma, I would like you to meet Team JNPR. They're our friends here at Beacon, and I believe that you'll get along with them just fine."
Each and every one of the members of Team JNPR eyed the vessel, which unintentionally made him feel uncomfortable. Heck, it was like meeting Team RWBY for the first time all over again.
"Um...h-hi. My name is Kazuma Kval, but you can all just call me Kazuma." Kval gave them a small wave, albeit hesitantly.
"Nice to meet you dude. The name's Jaune Arc," the blond pointed at himself with his thumb, as a proud look took over his features. "Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue, ladies loves it."
Weiss rolled her eyes upon hearing this.
Kval stared at Jaune with what others would call a blank expression, and finally voiced out his thoughts by saying, "They do?"
Jaune folded his arms and looked away in an instant. "T-They will!"
Kval couldn't help the urge to smile upon witnessing Jaune's reaction, but his eyes were then suddenly covered up by a pair of hands which belonged to someone who he was unfamiliar with.
"Guess who?" a feminine voice sounded in a cheerful manner.
To be perfectly honest, Kval had no actual idea who this person was.
"Um...u-uh..." he stammered.
"Nora!" Ren scolded his childhood friend.
The energetic girl slowly uncovered Kval's eyes with a pout. "You're no fun," she mumbled.
"I'm sorry about that. I'm Lie Ren by the way, but you can just call me Ren." Ren gave Kval a small nod and flashed him a small smile.
"And I'm Nora!" the orange-haired girl exclaimed as she stood right next to Kval.
"She's Nora Valkyrie, my...childhood friend. Don't mind her," Ren said.
"I-I see. It's really nice to meet you two." Kval let out a nervous laugh. "I hope that we can get along in the coming future."
Pyrrha eyed Kval for a brief moment, and later decided that introducing herself to him wouldn't hurt. "Hello. My name is Pyrrha Nikos. But you can just call me Pyrrha." She smiled in a kind and polite manner. "It's a pleasure."
"N-Nice to meet you too, Pyrrha." Kval smiled nervously, which made the red-haired girl giggle.
"You're pretty shy, aren't you?" teased Pyrrha.
"Eh?" Kval turned to her, only for him to whip his head to the side in embarrassment later on. Not knowing what he should do, the young vessel quickly decided to take one of the boiled eggs from his bowl and nibble on it.
"Whoa!"
The voice of Jaune Arc caught his attention.
"Dude, that's a lot of boiled eggs you got there."
Everyone else seemed to take note of it as well, and the looks which each of them made with their faces explained everything. They were shocked.
Inside Kval's bowl was filled with nothing but boiled eggs. A whole lot of them. Hell, it looked like a nest.
Ever so slowly, everyone at the table turned to Kval, astounded.
"They're my favorite," Kval said, his voice barely audible. He focused his attention on the boiled egg in his hand and started nibbling on it once more.
"No need to be ashamed of, Kazuma. I eat pancakes all the time!" Nora gave the artificial human a thumbs up, along with a wide grin.
All Kval could do was nod, albeit nervously. "I-I see..."
"They're my favorite," the orange-haired girl whispered with a serious look, only for it to be replaced with a smile soon after.
Ren looked to his childhood friend and partner, and said, "Nora, sit down will you?" He then sighed, and later took a small sip of his tea. "You're making him feel uncomfortable."
"Got it Ren!" exclaimed Nora.
As Nora took her seat next to Ren, Kval decided to observe the two childhood friends with one of his eyebrows raised. Something was definitely going on between them, but after realising that it was none of his business, he simply brushed it off and took a bite out of his egg, enjoying the taste later on.
"Anyway...uh...Kazuma, where are you from?" Jaune asked, prompting Kval to stop his chewing.
Kval swallowed his food and replied, "I...I don't know really."
That was literally the best answer he could give them at the moment.
"Okay..." the blond knight said, scratching the back of his head awkwardly soon after. The others who were seated at the table gave weird looks to one another, as they were unsure if what he said was actually true.
"I hope you wouldn't mind me asking this, Kazuma, but how come you're not wearing Beacon's uniform?" Ren asked. He took a long sip of his tea, awaiting Kval's answer.
"Headmaster Ozpin told me that I could wear this instead." Kval gestured to his current clothes, and was startled to see Ren choking on his tea by accident. Again, for reasons unknown. "A-Are you okay?"
"T-That's clearly not fair..." Ren managed to say.
"You really need to stop drinking your tea when you're in a middle of a conversation," scolded Nora, who was now patting him on the back for support.
"Um...Kazuma, about your...hair," Pyrrha said, observing him carefully.
"Yeah?" Kval said once he was done eating his fifth boiled egg.
Pyrrha cleared her throat, then spoke.
"I hope that you won't mind me asking, but...how can you tell where you're going with your hair hanging over your eyes like that?"
Everyone at the table eyed the vessel suspiciously, and said vessel began to fidget in his seat every few seconds.
"L-Let's just say...that I'm used to it," Kval answered. He picked up another boiled egg from his bowl, and began to observe it as a fond smile found its way up to his face. He liked to observe the eggs before eating them, after all.
"Um...and about your eyes," Pyrrha started, only to gasp in surprise when Kval suddenly squeezed the boiled egg in his palm.
And after that one simple act, the entire table was filled with silence.
Luckily, it only lasted for a few seconds.
"Uh...Kazuma, are you feeling okay?" Ruby asked with a hint of worry in her voice. "Because you uh...don't look okay, and..."
"I'm fine," Kval assured the young girl with a smile. He then slowly rose up from his seat, and picked up his bowl, which was now nearly empty. "I'm going to get more boiled eggs, so I'll be back." And with that he left the table.
"What was that all about?" Jaune sounded, "He didn't look fine to me."
"He...doesn't really like to talk about his eyes that much." Yang kept her eyes glued onto Kval's back as he walked off, and later focused them on her little sister. "Ruby, how about we call the deal off? I don't feel comfortable with how things are..."
"Yeah, he can show us later...I guess." Ruby planted her head on the table, pouting ever so slightly. "And I was really looking forward to it too."
Pyrrha tilted her head slightly. "What are you two talking about?"
Blake closed her book. "Kazuma told us that he'd show us his eyes if we brought him here." She set her book down onto the table and took a small bite out of her tuna sandwich.
"Well, it was also Yang's fault in the first place," Weiss added. She glared at the blonde in question, which prompted said blonde to avert her eyes away from the heiress.
"I said I was sorry! How long are you gonna keep this up?" Yang said, but deep down she knew that Weiss was right.
"What happened!? What happened!?" Nora rose up from her seat in an instant, eyeing Team RWBY with her turquoise eyes. "I need to know!"
"Nora, sit down will you?" Ren said, earning himself a pout from the Valkyrie girl as she sat back down.
"But seriously, what happened!?" Nora asked yet again.
Ruby sighed. "Yang tried pushing her luck and...well, let's just say it didn't go too well."
Team JNPR sent the red reaper quizzical looks, and Ruby sighed deeper this time.
"She tried forcing him into showing us his eyes...but you guys should've seen how scared Yang was when he started looking all angry." Ruby giggled, and Yang wasted no time in looking away in utter embarrassment.
"I wasn't scared! I was just being careful..." Yang mumbled.
"He looked scared, in my opinion," Weiss joined in, "Kazuma probably has his reasons. I don't want to make him uncomfortable."
Blake smirked. "Well, you did yell at him earlier today."
"Hey! I apologised, did I not?" Weiss folded her arms and sent the cat faunus an icy glare. "Seriously, he's pretty slow at times."
"But he's still nice!" Ruby chimed in with a bright smile.
"Hm...true. He is also pretty meek, to be honest," Blake agreed. "I bet he likes to read books like I do."
"And I bet he doesn't read smuts like you do." Yang chuckled with a roll of her eyes.
"They are not smut. They're works of art," Blake hissed. "How many times do I have to tell you that?"
"But guys, don't you think he's mysterious?" Jaune whispered. "I mean, he came out of nowhere! Don't you guys think that we should keep an eye on him or something?"
"No need Jaune."
"Huh?" Jaune turned to the source of the voice, in this case, Ruby.
"He's a nice person, so I trust him." Ruby brought a cookie to her mouth and nibbled on it, her eyes focusing elsewhere. "I can tell."
Yang grinned. "Well of course he's nice! The guy has been pampering you all day long!" she exclaimed, which made the little reaper blush madly.
"H-He treats me like a kid! It's no fair!" Ruby took a large bite out of her cookie in embarrassment, and despite having her mouth full, she said, "Even after knowing that I'm the team leader, he still treats me like a ten year old!"
"Come to think of it, I wonder what type of weapon he uses?" Pyrrha thought out loud.
Ruby immediately went silent, wide-eyed.
"From the way he looks, I would say a collapsible staff," Jaune said with a genuine smile.
"I bet it's a gun!" Nora exclaimed, which made Ren wince at her high level of volume.
"Could be a sword that has a gun attached to it. A type of weapon like that will certainly look good on him," Ren added before taking a small sip of his tea.
"Huh. What do you think, Ruby?" Yang turned to Ruby, curious.
The girl in question remained silent with her entire frame shaking due to pure excitement, only to yell out "I can't wait to ask him!" a while later.
Yang shook her head. "Figures."
"He probably has a crossbow! Or maybe a katana! Or better yet, a combination of a flamethrower and a scythe! Or maybe-"
Weiss cleared her throat. "Aren't we forgetting the part where he came out of nowhere?" she pointed out. "It is very unlikely of him to have a weapon, seeing how he is now. That being said, is he even capable in terms of combat?"
Ruby opened her mouth to argue, but no words came out. She whined and planted her head on the table, as the look of utter dejection took over her face. "And I was really excited about it too..."
"He doesn't look like he could punch that well, let alone take one," Yang stated. She rested her elbows on the table and cupped her chin in her hands, deep in thought. "Hm..."
"Maybe...he's good with kicks?" Pyrrha suggested.
"Could be, but I'm not all that sure myself," Blake shrugged in response to Pyrrha, only for her to return to her book later on. Her black bow twitched, however, when a familiar voice reached her ears.
"P-Please stop!"
Everyone at the table turned their attention towards the source of the voice, and what met their eyes was the unpleasant sight of Team CRDL bullying Velvet.
The rabbit faunus could do nothing as the leader of the team, Cardin Winchester, pulled at one of her rabbit ears. "O-Ow!" she yelped.
"What a freak! Go dig yourself a hole!" Cardin sneered.
Each and every one of the individuals at the table had unpleasant looks on their faces, but Blake was by far the most irritated. She gritted her teeth in anger and balled her hands into fists. Just by looking at Team CRDL made her feel sick, but all she could do now was watch, and hope for the best.
Even after that certain incident which involved Jaune saving Cardin's ass from an Ursa, the tall asshole hadn't changed his ways one bit. But oddly enough, he always made sure to avoid himself from bumping into the blond knight for obvious reasons.
"I will seriously break their legs if they won't stop," Nora growled angrily, cracking her knuckles soon after.
Ren immediately placed a hand on Nora's shoulder. "Bad idea, Nora. Doing it here in public will make things a lot more worst."
"Um...guys, you might want to see this," Jaune said, as he watched a certain green-haired vessel making his way towards Team CRDL.
"W-Whoa! That guy got a death wish or something?" Yang thought out loud.
"W-What?" was the only thing Blake was able to come up with at the sight of Kval, wide-eyed.
Then, like a switch being flipped, the students around started whispering to one another.
"Shit...that weird kid sure has a death wish."
"This is gonna get ugly. I hope he won't end up getting his bones broken."
"Well, it's his choice. So why bother stopping him?"
"Should I go and call Professor Goodwitch before this gets any worse?"
"Ain't that the guy who came out of that light?"
"This guy clearly doesn't know who he's dealing with."
"Poor kid got guts, but I'm sure Cardin will kick his ass in no time."
Right now, all they could do was watch.
And hope for the best.
-IIXII-
"I can't believe all that's left were these..." Kval moved his gaze down to the bowl in his hands, and inside it was a handful of boiled eggs, but he doubted that they were enough to satisfy his hunger. Call him a glutton, but he really enjoyed eating boiled eggs. Hell, Terumi would probably go ape-shit crazy if he were in his shoes right now.
A small sigh escaped his lips, and the stares presented to him by the students around made him feel all the more worse. "Seriously, why are they still staring at me?" mumbled Kval. "I'd prefer more on getting hit by Nine's fire spells rather than this..."
He lowered his head and kept walking to where his friends' table was at, not wanting to meet the eyes of the other students.
But just as he did, something happened.
"It hurts! Please!" a feminine voice cried out in pain.
Kval lifted up his head in an instant, wide-eyed.
And what he saw made a frown appear on his face.
Some guys were bullying a girl with rabbit ears. From what he could gather, there were four of them in total. The tallest one, who seemed to be taking sick joy in pulling at one of the poor girl's ears, was clearly the leader, if his size was anything to go by.
"I should probably go and stop them," Kval decided.
And with that, the young vessel made his way to the unpleasant scene. He wouldn't want to cause a scene or anything, so he hoped that the guys would take kindly to his actions. It was his first day after all, and he'd do anything to avoid himself from getting into trouble.
However, no matter how he disliked the idea, Kval would be forced to act if it was necessary.
He just hoped that it wouldn't come to that.
The whispers around started reaching his ears, but Kval didn't care. The students weren't doing anything useful, so why bother giving them his attention?
After a short while of walking, Kval found himself standing behind the leader of the bullies.
Apparently they haven't noticed him yet, so he cleared his throat to change that.
-IIXII-
Cardin turned his head around, and the first thing which entered his line of sight was Kval. The first thing he felt was confusion, before annoyance took its place. He released his grip around the ear of his victim, and nearly growled, "What do you want?"
The rabbit faunus wasted no time in mending her ear when it was finally released. She then later found her eyes wandering over to the newcomer out of curiosity, and was quite surprised to see that the person was someone who she was unfamiliar with.
"I don't think you should do that to her. It's not nice," Kval said with a nervous smile.
"What did you say?" Cardin crossed his arms. "You got a problem with me, buddy?"
The young vessel simply chose to remain silent.
That's when something clicked in Cardin's mind.
"Wait...aren't you the guy who fell out of that light?" he asked.
"Y-Yes, I'm him," Kval answered. He was confused when Cardin started laughing.
"Looks like we got ourselves another freak!"
Upon hearing that one particular word, Kval's right eye twitched ever so slightly.
"I don't really like...being called a freak."
Cardin glared at Kval. "Don't you dare talk back to me, you freak. Unless you want to end up in the infirmary. And what's with your hair?" He tried to grab a fistful of the vessel's hair, only to receive a weak punch to the face from said vessel before he was even able to do so.
It wasn't much, but it was still painful.
That being said, the students who were watching the whole thing were stunned beyond measure. No one had ever done that to Cardin before, let alone in public, so seeing Kval do such a thing like it was nobody's business was the last thing they expected to see.
"You...stupid freak! Get him!" Cardin roared in pure rage.
Kval sighed. "Well...no more punching for me."
Sky, one of the three, attempted to punch Kval in the face, but the vessel sidestepped the attack with ease and pushed him forcefully to the cold floor. Next came Dove. He tried to kick Kval in the gut, but rather than evade the attack, he grabbed his leg with a hand and pushed it to the side, causing him to lose his balance and later fall to the floor.
And he did all this while carrying a bowl of boiled eggs.
Russel glared daggers at Kval. "You damn freak!" He charged forward, only to find himself stopping later on as the look of pure terror took over his features. Heck, some could even see his legs trembling. The reason to his sudden changes in behavior was unknown, however.
Kval remained silent in his current spot, and later tilted his head to one side, as if giving Russel a silent message.
"W-What?" was the only word which left Russel's lips, before he decided to run out of the dining hall's exit out of pure terror, if the paleness of his face and the look in his eyes was anything to go by.
Then, like a switch being flipped, the air grew silent.
Judging by the looks on everyone's faces, it was quite clear that they were confused, but no one could blame them for feeling that way. Hell, what they'd just witnessed would leave anyone feeling that way.
All Kval did was look at his direction, but that alone was enough to make Russel flee for his life as if he saw a ghost. And to top it all off, he evaded Dove and Sky's attacks while carrying his lunch.
This was his first day in Beacon, and already he started achieving things which no other student had ever thought of achieving. Thinking about it now, he deserved a medal.
"W-What...just happened?" a student nearby whispered to one of his friends, but his question was unfortunately left unanswered.
Dove and Sky stared at the entrance of the dining hall where Russel just ran off to, and later exchanged worried glances towards one another. The two then pushed themselves off the floor and turned to Kval, cautious.
Ignoring the two bullies, Kval casually made his way over to the girl with rabbit ears. He offered her a kind smile, and asked, "Are you okay?"
The shy girl nodded a bit timidly and returned the vessel's smile with her own. "I'm fine. T-Thank you for helping me," she said.
"Listen here you freak!"
Kval turned himself around in order to face Cardin, and nearly scoffed at the sight of him cracking his knuckles. If he thought that simple act was enough to make him look all intimidating, then he's better off being a clown.
"I don't know what you did back there, but I'm going to make you pay," Cardin growled. He brought his fist back and charged his way towards Kval with reckless abandon.
Too bad the asshole suddenly stopped himself.
"What the...h-hell?"
Cardin's face was filled with terror and fear, a lot similar to how Russel looked like mere moments ago. And before anyone was able to comment about his sudden changes in behavior, he ran off.
Dove and Sky looked to each other and nodded. With that, they chased after Cardin, ultimately leaving the dining hall later on.
When the two remaining bullies left, the place grew silent once more.
If only for a few seconds.
The girl with rabbit ears peeked her head over Kval's right shoulder, and asked, "What...did you do?"
Kval remained silent. Two seconds later, however, he quickly turned around as a sheepish smile took its place across his face. "Uh...w-well, I didn't really do anything. Haha..." He scratched the back of his neck, but was slightly caught off-guard when a pair of arms came in and wrapped themselves around him. "E-Eh...?" He looked down, and only then did he realise that he was being hugged by the girl with rabbit ears.
"A-Again, thank you for helping me," she said.
"A-Ah..." Kval couldn't help the urge to blush at the current situation he was in, and it was no helping that the girl was pressing her body against his own. Sweet seithr, was she even aware of what she was doing? "I-It's nothing. My name is Kazuma Kval, by the way. It's a real pleasure to meet you."
"O-Oh!" The girl immediately pulled herself away from Kval. She took a few steps back, ignoring the fact that her cheeks had turned rosy at some point, and spoke. "Right. I haven't told you my name yet." A small smile found its way up to her face. "It's Velvet. Velvet Scarlatina. It's nice to meet you too."
Before Kval could say anything else in return, a pair of hands landed on his shoulders, startling him. He swiftly turned around, and was relieved to see that it was just Ruby.
However, the serious look which was displayed across her face told him that something was afoot.
"We need to talk. Now."
-IIXII-
Well, that's the end of Phase 4...and it's like 4000 plus words! By the gods!
I know that some of you were expecting Kval to have a one-sided battle against Team CRDL, but I had to push that idea aside. Come on, first day in Beacon and he's already picking fights? No can do, lovely readers.
And what did Kval do?
Well, the answer to that is simple, but I'll save that for Phase 5.
I seriously thought that I wouldn't get this far, but you guys helped me a lot...so thanks. I just hope Phase 4 was okay. I'm paranoid as ever.
Anyway, I'll see you guys later in Phase 5.
Over and out!