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Reika yawned as she flopped on her bed. Although she wanted to do some research on Haruki's cousin, she was really tired from the long day. But then, her curiosity got the better of her.

"Just an hour." She muttered. "Then I can sleep."

She took off her necklace which had a yellow and green circle with a blue lightning bolt at the centre, there was also a bubble print behind the circle and pressed her thumb on the lightning bolt to let it scan her fingerprint.

"Voice Recognition." A barely audible automate voice came from the necklace as it glowed red.

"Sena Reika." Reika said softly.

"Voice recognition accepted."

Reika turned off the lights and locked her door as a screen and keyboard hologram appeared from her necklace. All students from the Fantasy Academy were required to have the necklace with the academy's symbol and their element printed on it. It had a communicator and CPU built into it.

She tapped a few things onto the keyboard and she was online. 'Good, now, just who in the world could be Izumo Haruki's cousin?'

As she scrolled down the list of the names of the students both past and present, she could not help but notice that there was one student who seem to resemble Haruki a little.

'No way! It can't be her!' Reika thought as she stared at the name of the student. Maddie Lockheart.

Arata woke up the next day at the insistent vibration of his alarm watch. He groggily pressed a button on the side of the watch to stop the vibrations. '5:30 am, too early.'

However, he still got up because he knew that if he did not keep up with his practice, his teacher would surely pull him out and put him back into his old training classes.

A small smirk crept up his lips. 'Reika, are you awake?'

'I am now.' A grumble reply came. 'Isn't it a bit too early?'

'Remember, we have to keep up with our lessons, or...'

'I'm awake!'

Arata chuckled softly as he imagined Reika's reaction to his threat. He quietly got dress as not to wake up Hikaru and left. When Arata stepped out of the dorms, Reika was already waiting for him with a scowl on her face.

"You just had to remind me about it." Reika grumbled as she jogged along the path to the park.

Arata shrugged as he kept up with her. "You were getting lazy for the past few weeks, so, I would say that this would be necessary for you."

Reika muttered something incoherent and pulled ahead of her brother. Arata only rolled his eyes but smiled at the girl who was his sister in anything but blood. Ever since their foster parents died, Arata did his best to protect her in every way.

"Arata, all I can say is that you're going down!" Reika jumped and kicked at him several times, all which he blocked. He dodged another kick and did a low sweep, knocking Reika off her feet. But at the last minute, she stood on her hands and twisted her body to give Arata a good hard kick in the chest and got back up.

"Looks like you're still game." Arata grinned, despite the bruise growing on his chest.

Reika smirked in return. "Not bad for someone who is lazy, huh?"

Arata slowly nodded. "Yeah, but not good enough!" He rushed at her and did a roundhouse kick at her side and brought his other leg up to kick her head, which she jerked backwards to avoid his feet.

"Seriously, when was the last time you washed your shoes?" Reika joked as she grabbed Arata's arm and flipped him over her shoulder...only for him to land on his feet and flip her instead, catching her off guard.

"Looks like I win again." Arata smirked as he hauled Reika up.

"No fair. You caught me off guard." Reika pouted.

Arata rolled his eyes and smiled. "Life is not fair. You said that, remember?"

Reika opened her mouth to retort, but closed it. It has been a long time since Arata smiled like that, not since Maddie died.

During War Time that afternoon, Reika and her platoon were not assigned to any missions, so they decided to head to the viewing room.

"Man, it's so boring with no missions." Suzune complained.

"I'm fine with it. It gives us a chance to observe how things go instead on the field." Reika nudged her.

"Demo it's still boring." Suzune whined, earning a sigh from Inui.

"Oh yeah, where is Takeru anyway?" Reika asked when she noticed that their mechanic was not with them.

"He's probably at the lab or late." Inui told her.

"So," Suzune came to a halt. "Which viewing room should we go to?"

"Kaidou-sensei told us earlier to go to watch Jenock." Inui spoke up.

Reika's ears twitched slightly at that. 'Jenock, huh?'

"Then, we should go to that one, right?" Suzune pointed at one of the doors. Inui only nodded and they went inside. It was very crowded inside that they barely managed to find seats.

"I wonder what the occasion is. Normally no one comes to watch Jenock unless there is something going to happen." Suzune remarked.

"It looks like Rossius is planning something on Jenock by the looks of it." Reika said as her eyes swept through the room, noting that majority of the students there were from Rossius.

"It seems that Jenock doesn't have any idea what we have in store for them." One of Rossius' student whispered to his companion as three DC Offensers flew beside the train to guard it.

"Yeah, by the time they come to their senses, they would be LOST and their cargo will be ours." His companion whispered back.

Despite the fact that they were far from Reika, she could hear every word of it thanks to her enhanced hearing. She smirked at what she heard. If they were going to underestimate Arata, they will be in for a big surprise.

"Oi, look at that!" Suzune pointed at the screen.

Arata's DC Offenser was grabbed by a Gunther who swung its sword down, only for Arata's unit to punch it away. His DC Offenser then grabbed the arm holding his and flipped the LBX overhead, which caused it to land with a crash, making it break over.

Reika winced a bit when the Gunther crashed. "If it was a real person that he flipped, then that would hurt real badly."

Inui and Suzune gave her a strange look but continue to focus on the fight. In the end, Rossius retreated and Jenock continued on their mission.

"Oi, maji?" The same student from just now gasped. "He took down Marco's Gunther with no effort and Marco is one of our best players."

"Let's go, there is nothing good to watch now." His companion nudged him and they left. Reika wished that she had a camera for their faces were so comical.

"Wow, that move was so cool." Suzune squealed.

"Reika, when you said that the move would hurt a person real badly, were you kidding?" Inui asked her sceptically.

Reika shook her head. "Nope, and I got bruises from this morning to prove it."

"Then I would not like to get on your brother's wrong side." Inui shrudded.