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Chapter 14: A Grave Visit
"Mega Man, who are you?" Detective Copper grumbles to himself. He's at his office in Echo Ridge's Satella Police Headquarters looking through some files relating to the Blue Bomber.
The reason why he's looking through the files relating to Mega Man is because he's curious of what kind of person he is. Judging from the files of people that the police interrogated, they all claimed that Mega Man is a good guy since he saves them. However, unknown to the general public, there have been cases of the police finding unconscious people and they all said that they don't remember what happen prior of being found: to them, their memories have been wipe clean by a blue blur. Copper couldn't help but think that Mega Man is involved with those unconscious, however, with the lack of evidence to support that claimed, the higher-ups of the police force decided to keep that a secret.
He also remembers about the Cygnus Incident, where he met another person like Mega Man harming others and the Blue Bomber saves them. He did interrogated Tom Dubius about how he obtained that power, but all he said that he got that power from an alien ghost. Copper has a hard time to believe that story, but now he's not so sure. This got him pondering if Mega Man has his powers from that same alien ghost. He just can't rule out the possibilities.
Alan enters the office since he's working under Copper and his desk is next to Copper's desk. He notices Copper looking through the files as he comments, "I see that you're working hard. What is it, Conan? Have a case that makes you stumped?"
"Morning to you too, Alan," Copper responds in a stoic manner.
"Sheesh… can't take a joke. So which case files that you're looking into?"
"The files that I'm looking into relate to Mega Man. I'm still a little skeptical about this guy."
Alan chuckles trying to make Copper to loosen up since his face is a little bit scary. "Guess that couldn't be helped though," he said, "since the AMAKEN Incident, the force is shock to hear that a human can become an EM Wave being because of an alien. It's hard to believe such story, but then again, there's Mega Man as our example of that story could be true."
Copper closes the files as he rubs between his eyes due to stress of reading them. "I should take a break from looking these files, right now I should focus on the most important things. Alan, I heard from the higher-ups that the reason why you're transfer here was because of a failed case back in Harmony Town. Is that true?"
Alan sighs as he replies, "Yeah, that's true. It's because I lost a perp during a chase, but that's life for you." The two continue talking to each other until they heard a distress call that gets them back to work.
"Hello, this is the Echo Ridge High School's office. How can I help you?" a man's voice asks
"Hi! My name is Ayane Light, Yusei's sister. I'm calling the office to tell you that my little brother, Yusei, is feeling under the weather and he won't be coming to school today. Can you please tell his teachers that he would be absent?"
"Sure, Ms. Light, but can I ask the reason why he's sick?"
"Just the stomach flu, that's all. I'm going to take him to the clinic right now."
"Okay then, I'll be sure to let his teachers know. Bye, Ms. Light and have a good day." A click and the dial tone of a phone can be heard through the ears of the girl who calls the school's office.
The girl sighs as if she felt relief that the one who answered the phone didn't realize something's off. "I can't believe they bought that," said the owner of that voice.
"Good job, Nicole! The voice synthesizing program works!" Yusei congrats the girl named Nicole.
Yusei and Nicole are sitting at a bus stop near Yusei's home. They're waiting for a bus to come, but in the meantime, Yusei asks Nicole to call the school in Ayane's voice, telling them that he won't be coming to school today. But for what reason to make up that excuse to skip school?
"But are you sure you want to go to their graves?" Nicole asks in concern of Yusei's wellbeing.
"I haven't been to their graves for over seven years! If I don't go to my parents' grave soon, I would probably regret it. Besides, I think I'm ready to see their graves."
Nicole sighs in disbelief, but she is glad to hear Yusei's honest feelings. "Hey, Junior… What do you think about Yusei visiting his parents' graves?"
"Stop calling me, Junior!" Omega-Xis yell in Yusei's Transer. "Anyway, I don't understand why humans talk to a bunch of small monuments so they can talk to their dead loved ones."
Nicole chuckles as she replies, "It's some part of human belief that by talking to these monuments, their loved ones can hear their voices and calmed their spirits. There are a few reasons why the living wants to talk to the dead, but I'm not an expert on these sorts of things, even though I am a program that has full access to the Internet without the use of a Transer."
Then Omega-Xis spoke, "If that were the case, then why haven't you visited their graves before?"
"I'm not sure," he answers, "I know sis can't visit their graves because she wants to get her degree quickly. But for me, I just refused to go and I don't know why. Maybe I'm subconsciously afraid to go see their graves as they're reminders of their deaths." Yusei ponders in thought, a bus stop in front of him. Nicole snaps him out of his thoughts as she drags him inside the vehicle.
Echo Ridge's graveyard has a great view of the city, despite that a large number of gravestones stretch out the large land. Yusei and Nicole walk pass some number of gravestones until they reach the ones that has Yusei's parents' names on them. The teenage boy and the Matter Wave girl sadly look at the gravestones. There's this awkward silence as Yusei is hesitating to say anything.
"Um… Hey there, mom and dad," he said with his face flush in embarrassment. "This is awkward… I know that Ayane and I haven't visit your graves for such a long time, but our excuses was that we were living with our uncle during this long period. In case you're wondering why I'm here alone is because big sis is busy with work. So to replace her, I have Nicole here. Say 'hi,' Nicole."
Nicole politely bows to the two gravestones as she said, "Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Light. Don't worry about your son and daughter, I'll be sure to keep an eye on them."
"I'm sure you're wondering who is this girl and why is her name Nicole. Well, that's because this is the same Nicole you gave me, dad. She's that handheld device that you left for my seventh birthday, which I'm very thankful for. I've updated her with the Matter Waves to give her a body! Now she can interacts the real world! Thanks to her, I have accomplished something that you haven't!"
Yusei points at the graveyards with a prideful smile on his face. Then his face turns red as he lower his pointing finger. His prideful smile starts to disappear.
He embarrassedly scratches his head and exclaims, "Why am I boasting to a bunch of gravestones? This is starting to feel awkward!"
Seeing the way in which Yusei is acting, Nicole giggles out of amusement. "You need to calm down, Yusei. You're embarrassing yourself in front of your parents' graves. If you're parents are alive and see you right now, they would say that you should be proud of what you did."
"Yeah," Yusei smiles in response, "you're right. Mom and dad would definitely say that if they were here."
Then Nicole chimes, "Should you tell them about your exploits as Mega Man?"
Nicole was informed about Yusei's hero persona and his activities that he had been doing. She was angry and worried about Yusei's wellbeing, thus leads to her scolding Omega-Xis for dragging him in the fight against the FMians that he made by stealing the Andromeda Key. Yusei did calm her down and she now helps him and Omega-Xis against the FMians.
Yusei starts telling the gravestones about the things that have been going on since his arrival to Echo Ridge City. He told them about his fight against the FMians and how much he got hurt from them. He reassures the gravestones that he does get better because of his friend's medicine. During this conversation, both Yusei and Nicole didn't notice that someone is watching them in a hidden area behind them. That said person is that mysterious woman who helps Yusei back at AMAKEN and she just watches them.
"Yusei, it's almost the time to go," Nicole spoke and that get his attention.
The teenage boy understands it as he politely bows to the gravestones. "I have to go, mom and dad. Even though I'm skipping school today, I have some things to do and that is grocery shopping. There's a limited time sale going on today so I have to go. I promise that I'll come and visit. Bye!" He waves at the gravestones as he and Nicole leave the area.
As they walk out of the graveyard, they stop when they heard the sound sirens echoing off in the distant. They wonder what's going on as Yusei decided that they should check it. Nicole disappears in the handheld, which Yusei calls it the Mini Terminal, that is hanging on her belt and Yusei caught it and strap the Mini Terminal on his belt. Yusei EM Wave Changes into Mega Man and uses the Wave Road to go to where the sound is coming from.
Meanwhile at cafeteria in Echo Ridge High School, Tama is eating her lunch alone. That is until Luna, Bud, Zack, Geo, and Sonia show up and sit next to her. She is surprise to see them here, though there's something odd among Luna's group. She realizes that Yusei isn't with them. This is odd to her since she last saw Yusei out of his house this morning, so where is he?
Tama spoke, "This is rare. Where's Yusei?"
Geo answers, "That idiot got sick! I can't believe him! He may sometimes act irresponsible, but I know he's not that irresponsible!"
That puzzles Tama because she did saw Yusei this morning and he looks fine from her perspective. She quickly figures that Yusei is skipping school for some reason. She wants to say this to Luna and her friends, but figures they would eventually find out when they decided to go visit his house to check on him. And the strange thing is, they actually did decide to go visit him after school.
Luna stated that by saying, "We should go to Yusei's house and see how is he doing. I believe he'll be happy to see us. Am I right, Geo?"
"I think so too, but I believe not everyone here can visit him." When Geo says that, everyone turns to Sonia. They know that her famous idol work would not give her the time to visit their friend.
Sonia notices the stares as she smiles at them. "I'll come. Today's work has been cancelled due to system failures, so I'm free to visit him."
Geo snaps his fingers with a happy smile on his face. "Awesome! That will surprise even more! He will never expect Sonia to come visit!"
Tama watches the conversation as they talk to each other of what they should get for Yusei. She mentally prays for Yusei's safety from his friends' wrath when they find out the truth.
At a construction site somewhere in uptown Echo Ridge, the machines are going haywire. The Satella Police Officers have gotten the construction workers out of the site as they fight against the reason why the machines went haywire, which is the EM Wave Viruses. Alan and Copper are in the scene as they help out. One of the officers informs them that a large number of viruses are attacking the construction beams while a few small numbers of viruses are controlling the machines.
Copper orders five officers to transmit the Anti-Virus Program in the machine to delete those viruses, while everyone takes care of the viruses attacking the construction beams. Everyone agrees as they get to work.
Then a woman screams, "Michael! Michael! Where are you? Has anyone see my son?"
Hearing that scream has made Copper to be a bit worried. While Alan is shooting at the viruses that his sensors detect on the construction beams, he notices a little boy calling out for his mother. Alan informs Copper about the child and the Detective gives him the orders to get the boy out of the construction site. When he does, the ropes that are holding other construction beams have been cut. The ropes drop the beams over the boy's head, but something is appearing right next to the boy in high speed. That thing is fast enough to grab the boy out of that danger and everyone who saw that only think they saw a blue light grabbing the boy. But that blue light turns out to be Yusei in his Mega Man form flying in the air.
Yusei flies towards the woman who was screaming for her son's name as he asks, "Is this your son, miss?"
"Yes! That is my son! Thank you, Mega Man!"
Yusei hands her the boy as he said, "You're welcome. I'm going to take care of the viruses. Bye!" Yusei flies to the construction site as Omega-Xis change their Wave Frequency to get into the Wave World.
Inside the Wave World, Yusei sees two Giant Axe viruses and ten Knight viruses attacking the beams of the construction site to make it fall down. The Knight viruses stop what they're doing and try to attack him; however, Yusei smirks.
"Nicole! Now!"
Yusei stops his flight as he hovers in the air and Nicole appears in front of him with her right arm raised. A purple pulse wave comes out of her hand as the Knight viruses got caught into the wave's range. The wave hits the Knights and they stop moving with their red eyes turned into purple eyes.
Nicole smiles as she said, "Okay, boys…! Turn around and attack those big axe guys for me!"
The Knights nod their heads as they turn around and attack the Giant Axe viruses. The Giant Axe viruses are bewildered by their allies' sudden attack as they try to defend for themselves. However, due to the Knights being a bit smaller than the gigantic axe-wielding viruses, their numbers is overwhelming them.
"Good job, Nicole!" Yusei gives a thumb up to Nicole who is hovering next to him.
Nicole has a different appearance. She now wears a purple version of Yusei's Mega Man form, but with a yellow visor and the soles of her feet are keeping her in the air. Hearing Yusei praising her has made her happy.
Then suddenly the Knights are pushing Giant Axes into a straight line, keeping them at bay. It seems Nicole is ordering the Knights to do that.
"They're in position! Yusei, finish them off!"
Yusei nods his head as he pulls out a Battle Card. "Let's see how powerful this Battle Card that I bought is. Battle Card! Break Saber!" He inserts the Battle Card into his Transer and his arm transforms into a long purple laser sword in a spiral that makes it look like a lance.
Yusei flies up and did a loop to dive straight at the lined up viruses with the Break Saber aiming straight at them. The speed at he's going has form a cone from the tip of the blade to his upper body. He pierces through the bodies of the Giant Axe viruses and that causes an explosion that took out the Knights as well.
"Well," Omega-Xis spoke, "that was quick and easy. To think that Nicole's ability of controlling those viruses is pretty useful."
"Though she only controls from low to mid-level viruses," said Yusei, "and not big ones like those Giant Axes. I'm not really sure if the odds will be in our favor against the FMians."
"Um, guys…" Nicole flies over to Yusei as she points her finger at the Satella Police. "Should we get out of here?"
Yusei nods his head. "I guess so. I believe they have taken care of the viruses that were controlling the machines." He notices that the machines have stop moving, which made him feel relief.
The two of them fly off into the sky, which made them off the Satella Police's radar. One of the officers goes up to Detective Copper and gives him his report. His report stated that there are no more viruses and they lost detection of Mega Man's EM Waves. However, the report didn't mention about Nicole's EM Waves; it could mean that they just brush her off as a virus or didn't detect her at all.
Alan, who is overhearing the conversation between the two, decides to make a joke. He jokingly says, "If Mega Man keeps this up, we'll be out of the job."
"This is no time for jokes, Alan." Detective Copper isn't pleased with his jokes as he looks up at the blue sky. "Mega Man…"
Alan knows what is he thinking about since they have a conversation earlier. He leaves Copper alone with his thoughts to check on the citizens near the area.
An hour later, Yusei and Nicole in their human forms are carrying four grocery bags, which they both are carrying two of the four bags. The two of them are walking back to home. During this time period, the two of them are in a conversation.
"I'm glad that we made it in time to get the groceries before they ran out," said Yusei. "Also, you did good out there, Nicole!"
"I thank you for praising me, Yusei. It's much more satisfying than teasing Junior here."
Then Omega-Xis yells from Yusei's Transer, "Stop calling me that! Or I will delete you with my two bare claws!"
"Uh, don't you mean your 'puppy claws,' Junior," she jokingly comments that made Omega-Xis seethes in rage.
"Okay! That's enough, you two!" Yusei decides to stop them before it escalates to one of them killing each other. "I wish you guys would just get along since we're facing the FMians. And also Nicole, why do you keep teasing Mega by calling him, Junior?"
"I call him that because this guy is the one who drags you into a fight that would most likely kill you!"
Yusei can tell that she's holding back some emotions despite being an AI program. This worries him as he asks, "Nicole, are you feeling regret by any chance?"
Nicole didn't say anything in response to that question. She looks away in hopes that he stops probing for answers.
However, her reaction has made Yusei think that he got it right. "Nicole, I understand how you feel. Remember I give you a robot body before and do you remember what happened afterwards?"
Nicole makes a grim face as she mutters, "I do…"
"That day has also left me with regrets! I… no, we understand our problems! So please don't blame yourself for that event to happen! And besides, I would probably get myself in danger even without Mega's help!"
Nicole pouts despite the fact that she knows Yusei is trying to cheer her up. "How could that last line would make me feel any better?" she made a rude remark.
Yusei chuckles to hear her response. "Now would you be nice to Mega and just be friends with him."
"I'm not making promises, but I'll try… I guess…"
Omega-Xis snorts, "Why I would be friends with this program?"
"We need some allies," said Nicole as she ignores Omega-Xis's words. "Even though our only allies are Proto Man and that mysterious lady you told me about, but I'm more worried about how many FMians are on this planet."
"I agree," Yusei replies, "but let's try our best, okay?"
When they saw Yusei's house, Nicole is the only one to notice the five people waiting in front of it. She gasps when she realizes who those people are. "Hey, isn't that your classmates?" Nicole knows who are Yusei's classmates because he brings her in her handheld form to school before.
Yusei saw the people she's talking about. He saw Geo, Luna, Bud, Zack, and Sonia standing and sitting in front of his house. Though Sonia looks suspicious with her pink hoodie, black sunglasses, and mouth mask. Yusei has this sudden urge to call the police on Sonia because of her suspicious appearance, but resists it as he and Nicole approach them.
He waves at them and shouted, "What are you guys doing in front of my house?"
"Yusei!" everyone gasps when they saw him and they rush towards him.
"Yusei, you're all right?" Luna asks in confusion.
The said boy raises an eyebrow. "What do you mean by that? Of course I'm all—oh… wait a minute…"
Nicole is giggling out of amusement. "I can't believe that you've forgotten about your lie that you just made."
"Shut up, Nicole!"
Luna looks at Yusei with anger as she yells, "Don't tell me that you skip school?" Her yell has gotten Zack and Bud to be afraid.
Nicole steps in between Luna and Yusei as she calmly asks, "Luna, would you please calm down? He has a good reason why he skips school today."
"Can't we continue this conversation inside my house? My arms are getting tired from holding these grocery bags for so long." That is true since his arms are about to give way to drop the bags he's holding.
Sonia quickly grabs hold of the bags before he drops them. "I'll hold onto these bags for you."
Yusei is happy to hear that as he hands her the grocery bags. "Thanks for the help." He quickly unlocks the door and everyone enters the house.
During the time when Yusei is putting away the groceries with Geo and Sonia helping him, Nicole explains to them why Yusei skips school. Everyone is shock to hear about his reason, but this made him or her, except Geo, to be sad. This is the first time they heard about Yusei's parents being dead and they have no idea what to say to him.
Sonia, who has no longer wearing her disguise, looks at Yusei with sadness in her eyes. "Yusei… that incident you mention… it was your parents' death?" she asks. When he looks at her, she gasps, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to pry!"
Yusei chuckles as he replies, "That's okay. I have my reasons why I didn't tell any of this to you, but I believe that it's better to let it out in the open so we get to know each other." His words have made Sonia happy.
"And Yusei pulls out the 'nice guy' card," Geo happily comments that made that said boy to lightly punch him on his shoulder. "Ow! You don't have to hit me. By the way, why did you choose today to visit their graves? You could have gone on the weekends."
"That does sound like common sense," said Yusei after he's done putting in the last item inside the fridge, "but for some reason I have to go, otherwise I may end up regretting it."
"Sounds like someone has hypnotize you in your sleep or something," Geo jokingly comments.
Then Zack said, "By the way Yusei… who is this girl here?" All eyes turn to Nicole.
"Zack is right. Yusei, what a sly dog you are?" Geo wraps his arm over his friend's shoulder, but it leaves off the impression that he's waiting to put him in a headlock.
Nicole is waiting for Yusei to answer, but then she notices Sonia's face and decides to tease her a bit. She said, "My name is Nicole and I'm Yusei's girlfriend. It's very nice to meet all of you."
A moment fills the room as if time have stop. All eyes just stare at Nicole who is just pleased with her words. No one is saying anything in response to her words until a few clicks has made them break out of their silence.
"What…?" everyone screams loud enough to cause a ringing in Yusei's ears.
Sonia aggressively grabs Yusei by the collar, which releases him from Geo's grip. She looks hysterical, which surprises everyone in the house. "Yusei! I thought you say that you don't date your female friends! Don't tell me that you lie to me?"
This shocks everyone to see an idol to be acting like this, though Nicole is silently laughing to herself out of enjoyment. Yusei is also laughing as he said, "Another side of you that I get to see…! I have to say that you're aggressive side is both cute and nice."
Hearing that from Yusei has gotten her to realize her actions. She lets go of him and looks down at the ground out of embarrassment. She felt like there's steam coming out of her head.
Geo sighs as he mutters, "Does this idiot realize what he had just said?"
"Also Nicole, that's not a very nice thing to say since we're cousins," said Yusei as he tries to reassure everyone that he doesn't have a girlfriend. He also comes up with that lie because he anticipates it as he wants to keep Nicole's existence a secret until the creator allows the Matter Waves to be use by the general public. "Nicole is my cousin who has started living with my sister and I sometime ago. When we started living with my uncle, she stuck with me like glue as a shy little girl she is. I remember that her biggest fear is—"
Nicole quickly runs over to him and covers his mouth to shut him up about something. "Don't you dare say that to your friends," she threatens him. With a single nod, she lets go of his mouth, though Yusei is just smiling as if he got his revenge.
Sonia felt relief of hearing their conversation as she mutters, "I see… their cousins… that's good."
"You guys are so noisy." Ayane, Yusei's sister, appears coming down the stairs with a book in her hand. "Who would've guess we got this many people in our house?"
"Sis!" Yusei gasps. "What are you doing here?"
Ayane took a small sniffle as she answers, "I caught a slight fever and my boss order me to go back home to rest."
She also notices Yusei's classmates as she introduce herself. Luna and the others did the same thing, while Sonia just waves at her.
"Oh my!" Ayane gasps. "Sonia, is that you? I haven't seen you since your collaboration event with Nao!"
Yusei remembers that Ayane did tell him about that event. However, he doesn't know about the problem that Gen has told her. Then he notices the book in Ayane's hands as he recognizes it's light blue design. It's the photo album that he made to catalog the events before his parents' deaths. He had made a second photo album that catalogs the events prior to his move and now he's starting to make a third one.
"I take it that you've been looking back on the past there, sis."
"Huh? Oh yeah… I was walking down memory lane from this photo album that you made. I really love it, Yusei!"
"Photo album?" Geo turns to his friend. "Talk about old school, huh."
Luna asks Ayane for her to have a look at the photo album. At first Ayane is a bit reluctant to do it, but she gives her the photo album. She, Bud, Zack, and Sonia gather together to see its contents. They find it enjoyable to see pictures of the younger version of Yusei and Ayane; some even have them with their parents. But there's one picture in particular that shocks them the most.
That picture is Ayane's idol debut with her winning a singing competition. Their eyes couldn't believe it since they know who that idol is, but the label underneath the picture says, "Ayane's First Win as an Idol." They want to know if that idol and Ayane are indeed the same person.
Luna asks, "Ayane, by any chance are you the famous idol, Shooting Star Heart?"
"I'm amazed that there are people who still remember my old idol alias," she said with a chuckle.
Then Sonia quickly grabs both of Ayane's hands with her eyes sparkling. She shouted, "Can I have your autograph? I'm a huge fan!" Seeing the way she's acting has bewildered her.
Yusei is chuckling from watching this development. "Another side of her that I get to see again. I'm so lucky today!"
Nicole looks at him with disbelief. "You're enjoying this, aren't you?"
Sonia realizes her actions as she quickly retracts her hands away from Ayane's with an embarrass look on her face. She apologizes to her as she explains that she was a huge fan of Ayane during her idol days. Ayane is also her inspiration to sing and become an idol herself. This surprises everyone because this is the first time they heard about Sonia's reason for being an idol; however, Ayane knows the other reason why she's an idol.
Ayane smiles as she replies, "I'm grateful that I'm your inspiration, but my idol days are done so I can't give you my autograph." This saddens Sonia because she really wants her autograph.
Bud moves over to Geo as he asks, "Do you know that she was an idol before?"
Geo nods his head. "The reason why I didn't tell you about this is because I promise Yusei that I won't give him the attention if he ever comes back. If people found out that he's the little brother of the former famous idol, Shooting Star Heart, things would be difficult for him."
Seeing the sadden Sonia has made Ayane to find a way to make her happy. It dawn on her as she happily said, "I can form a Brother-Band with you, if that's okay?"
Sonia is both shock and surprise to hear that coming from her idol. "Y-yes! I'm happy to form a Brother-Band with you!"
"Now, now. There's no need to be nervous now. We're both people, right?"
Sonia understands as the two of them form a Brother-Band via by their Transers. Yusei, who is watching this development, felt some sort of regret because he didn't form a Brother-Band with Sonia just like his sister. He decided not to let this development get to him and just act like his normal self as usual.
"Achoo!" Ayane sneezes, but she covers her mouth with her arm. She sniffles and said, "I'm sorry, but I have to go back to my room to rest. Please continue whatever you guys are doing." She walks up the stairs, but she left a few words to Yusei. "I want to talk to you alone as soon as your friends are gone. It's something about you skipping school today."
Yusei couldn't help but agree with her request since he doesn't want to upset her. "By the way, what are you guys here for?" he asks.
Bud answers, "We came to visit you since we thought you were sick, but you're not. This made our visit pointless."
Luna complains, "Which I can't believe you!" She inflated cheeks with displeasure as Zack and Bud tries to calm her down.
Nicole notices that Sonia isn't paying attention to the situation around her. She watches her to be enamored with her Brother-Band with Ayane. She wants to know how Ayane inspire her to become an idol, so she asks her.
Sonia answers, "It's her songs that inspires me. I happen to hear one of her live songs by chance and her song was so powerful, it made me want to sing along with her. In fact, Shooting Star Heart's songs have inspired me to create a song for my mom's birthday!"
"Really?" Zack gasps. "I didn't know that and I'm the guy who gathers a lot of information."
Yusei refrains from making a rude comment about Zack's ability of gathering information as he finds it a bit too easy for him. "Well, I'm glad to hear that. I bet you're one of those people who were upset by her sudden retirement."
Sonia chuckles as she said, "I was, but her speech made me want to be like her. I want to achieve her dream that she gives up on."
"Which you did since you're a world famous idol," Geo spoke.
"Speaking about her idol job…" Luna pulls out a ticket and gives it to Yusei. "Are you free this weekend?"
"What is this? Is this a ticket to a Sonia concert?"
Luna nods her head with a proud smile on her face. "That's right! We're going to Sonia's concert to support and cheer for her!"
"Aw… Is there a ticket for me as well?" Nicole asks in her sad face.
"I'm sorry, but I only have that one ticket for Yusei."
Hearing that one from Luna has made her sadder, but she knows that she can see the concert in her handheld form. She hopes that Yusei does bring her handheld form to see the concert.
Sonia has been listening in the conversation as she looks at Yusei. "Are you coming to my concert?"
Yusei shrugs as he answers, "Of course I am! Even though I have made some plans for the weekends, I will set those plans next week for your concert! After all, I am your friend!"
Sonia is happy to hear that from him as she thanks him for coming to her concert. However, unbeknownst to the two teenagers, they would eventually be facing each other in a fight of emotions. Would this fight be proven to be the hardest thing for them? Or would this fight be proven with a different result?