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DESTINATION: Reptileround Police Department (RPD).

Copperus was in beside the taxi driver, sending a message to Norah, his friend at RPD:

Norah, I'm going to RPD with my new partners on ZPD. Please wait on cafeteria near RPD till I come. I need your help.

His finger pushed "send" button, putting his smartphone on his pocket. He saw Nick was looking on the window, ignoring Judy's talk about her parents. He knew Nick was trying to hide his sadness last night.

Copperus still remembered, the moment, when he woke up and wanted to go to his bedroom which Nick and Judy were slept together. Being near to the door, he heard the sound of crying.

It was Nick.

Copperus didn't know what happened. He wanted to leave, letting Nick cried as he wanted to, but he had no heart to let it be.

Should I come in?

Copperus shook his head, going back to his bedroom. Suddenly, he felt his brain got dizzy, so he lost body balance, and rolled over along the stairs.

Nick heard the sound of pain of Copperus. He went out from bedroom, seeing Copperus tried to wake up.

"What are you doing?" Nick asked as he went to downstairs.

"Uggh . . . . I lost . . . my balance." Copperus gave up to wake up, waiting for Nick's help.

Nick gave a hand to wake Copperus up.

"Are you okay?"

"Fine. Just lack of oxygen, maybe."

"Why do you wake up so early?"

"Well, I want to have my pillow. Apparently, I can't sleep well with my pillow."

"You mean your polar-bear-pillow?"

"H-how do you know? You have guessed two things that even I don't mention it tonight and the first time we met."

"It has written your name on the pillow. Judy is using it."

"Oh, yeah, right. I forgot that my mom wrote down my name on my pillow." Copperus yawned. "I'd rather go back to sleep."

"Is this time you don't lose your balance?"

"No. Oh, yeah. One thing before I went to sleep: why are you crying?"

Nick was shocked as he heard Copperus' question.

Oops, I asked it inadvertently.

Copperus felt sorry for what he had asked. "I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to ask that. Just let it go. I will go back to sleep."

Nick was just silent since he didn't know for sure that he should answer it or not.

"Ju-just come back to sleep when you're going to fine, okay?"

"Stop!"

Copperus had just stepped on the first stair before Nick stopped him with his voice.

". . . it was because of the song."

"The song? You mean, that Heroic Polonaise?"

"I felt something unlike what you have said about the song. It was . . . torturing me, like my past. It was really sad."

Suddenly, Copperus remembered his past as far as he looked at Nick's sad face.

"Are you . . . a fox that was bullied on the scout on some-night—(approximately) 24 years ago?"

There was a punch for Nick's brain. He looked Copperus eyes. "How do you know?"

"Lemme show you something."

Going to Copperus bedroom, Copperus took a mini muzzle gag that he took on the street 24 years ago. It was really full of rusty on the metal and dirty on every single point.

"This is the muzzle gag that I took after you had runaway."

"I remembered that I was saw a creepy silhouette. I wouldn't like if that creepy guy got me like my bullier, so I ran away."

"Is the shape looked like dragon?"

"I dunno for sure."

"Well, that was me."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I was just doing some crazy night patrol when I was kid, hoping I had some amazing moments to catch a criminalize, like a hero. But somehow, I met a little fox (you) that cried in the corner. When I tried to come to cheer you up, you seemed really scared, then ran away."

Nick felt sorry for what he had done.

"That night, I learnt that maybe I was a bad hero. Or, maybe I was just a creepy guy like you said before. A hero shouldn't have a bad look—that was what I thought."

"Forgive me. Maybe I shouldn't runaway."

"It's okay—it was past of us. Nothing can't be changed on past. What can we do now is just go to the right way to make a better future."

"Anyway, why do you keep that thing?"

"This? Well, it's like a motivation for me to be a real hero. I won't let that moment or like so be happened again. That's the reason why I work as cop till now."

Nick smiled as Copperus smiled, too. It made a good momentum for Nick o tell his past to his partner. Even, he felt a bit relax after having told his undesirable memory to Judy.

Copperus yawned, feeling too tired. "Well, I guess I have to go to sleep."

"Yeah. Go back to sleep without your polar-bear-pillow."

"Ha! I still have my mom's pillow."

-OoO-

Nick looked at Copperus who sent a sign that he should be happy to make his sadness gone.

He replied it with a smile, starting to make a joke with Judy.[]