Neirad told Stark that they'd catch up later, he received a message telling him to come to the Arc locker, as Licca called it. He entered to find her waiting patiently for him as she softly spoke to his God Arc. "Everything is going to be alright. You and your partner just need to take it a bit easier." She said as if it could understand her. "I'm going to talk to him right now and tell him to take it easy, you both need some rest and that means fewer missions against deusphages." She turned around to see Neirad standing there with one hand on his forehead.
"I didn't know I was pushing so hard." He told her. "I'll make sure to take it easy from now on. I'll just do a few suppression missions with the defense unit."
Licca shook her head, "Not even those." She demanded. "For the next few days I'm going to have you put on Recon missions strictly. "Fodder Aragami at most." The steely look in her eye shut down any chance he had at protesting. "Good, now let's go celebrate the safe return of our idiot." She said referring to Stark.
It had been a while since the Den had a party that wasn't interrupted by an Aragami attack and they took full advantage of the blue moon window to celebrate. They listened to Alisa and Stark recount stories of their missions together.
Gina waved Licca and Neirad over to where her and Kanon were sitting. "Glad to see your brother in arms again?" Gina asked, Kanon offered them both a plate of cookies she had made.
Kanon is a young girl with pink hair and blue eyes. She wears a black sleeveless shirt under her green dress with 2 pockets, and black leggings with white boots with belts.
"I'm really happy to see him back safe." Neirad's jaw clenched though. "Not happy to hear about all the close calls he's had though. I have half a mind to punch him in the damn eye." He took one of the cookies from Kanon and thanked her for it.
Licca scowled, "Oh. I hope they took very good care of his Arc otherwise I'm going to lecture him for hours." She sighed.
Stark as in usual fashion began an arm wrestling match with Lindow, much to the dismay of Doctor Sakaki. "I suppose the cleaning crew is going to have a field day with this." He sighed walking back to his laboratory. "Neirad, do keep an eye on your friend please." He asked him.
"Will do professor." Neirad nodded and stood up, heading over to the others. "Get him Lindow!" He cheered with the others.
Stark looked at him with a feeling of betrayal. "I come back and you cheer for Lindow?" He shouted and then cursed himself for getting distracted and losing the arm wrestling match. "I fucking hate you." He growled before laughing.
Lindow leaned back in his seat his hands behind his head, "I'm still the best," he stated with a smugness that made Stark fume. "Is that steam I see coming out of your ears?" He smiled, "someone bring me a tea kettle!" He called out.
Alisa appeared a second after the request with a tea kettle full of water and placed it perfectly on top of Stark's head. "It suits you so well dear." She smiled