She can hear her footsteps as she runs down the hallway past the homeless and enters her apartment, unfortunately, she finds it empty and it looks as if someone has torn the place apart while looking for something.

Her heart sinks as she remembers the Implant but before she starts to look for it she remembers to check her messages to see if she can find any clues as to where David might be.

She lets out a breath of relief the moment that she sees that the rent was paid and she slowly begins to put the clues together.

David must have searched their apartment for anything that he could sell and it was then that he found her secret account, he must have used it to pay the rent.

As he was looking around he must have found the spinal implant and taken it somewhere to sell it.

She tries to call the edge runner that she sold the sandevistan to again the fact that she was recently declared dead meant that even this was impossible.

Unlike her messages that she can access due to her apartment's net connection, she isn't able to use her contacts and information.

So with little choice, she begins to listen and watch everything that David has seen and heard since he was left alone.

She could feel her blood boil, more than once their landlord called her son demanding that they paid the rent and his school was repeatedly calling him to tell him to either pay for the damages or transfer to another school.

She has three options now, she can either go to David's school and try to find him there, but if he does have the sandevistan then he has few reasons to go to school now.

She could go to her job and try to convince them to rehire her, but knowing them she would have better luck finding a pool of clean water in the desert.

And finally, she could wait for David to come home.

Gloria has no choice but to wait for David and so she begins to clean the apartment.

For a moment she considers going to Kazumas and Aqua's apartment and thanking them for their help but she dismisses the thought as she doesn't want to risk her son coming home and not finding her.

So picks up the clothes- sweeps, and mops the floors but no matter how long she waits her son doesn't arrive.

Gloria opens her eyes as she hears the sound of the alarm and she realizes that she had fallen asleep, she looks around but her son is nowhere to be seen.

She quickly gets up and runs to his room hoping to find him but he's not in there either.

She wants to cry but she stops herself, she knows what she has to do, she has to go look for him, but first, she needs to talk to Kazuma and Aqua maybe they won't tell her that she has to pay them back.

She knocks on their front door and Aqua answers it with the bright smile that she usually has.

'Gloria you're back!" Aqua says to her before she hugs her Gloria can't help but return the young woman's hug.

"Aqua the doctor told me that you and Kazuma were the ones that took me to him, did you see my son?" she asks Aqua and she watches as the mile on her face vanishes.

"You were the only one we found." Kazuma answers her.

She turns towards Kazuma and sees that there's a woman that she has never seen before with him.

"I know that he came back home but he hasn't come back." she says to him before her emotions finally break through the walls and she breaks down crying.

She feels Aqua's warm hands around her as the woman hugs her while trying to comfort her.

"He must be looking for you." Kazuma says to her.

"Is there anyone that you can call?" he asks her.

"No one, I was marked as dead after Trauma Team marked me," she answers him between sobs.

"Okay we will help you look for him, but we also have to meet up with someone so we will do it while we go there and while we're doing our job," Kazuma says to her.

She feels a third hand on her shoulder and she looks up she finds Kazuma looking at her.

'Gloria, I know how this is going to sound but it's better if you stay home, it might take a few days but your son will have to come back." he says to her.

She knows that he's right, but the city is dangerous and every night that David stays in the streets is another night that he might end up dead.

"I know but I can't just sit by and know that he's out there looking for me putting himself in danger." she says to Kazuma who just nods at her words.

"Okay... let's go." Kazuma says to her as he helps her back up.

Gloria can't help but continue to cry but she regains her exposure as fast as she can before she steps aside and lets the three of them walk out of the apartment and lead her out of the building.

[timeline change.

David goes to school but before he can get inside the bullies stop him and beat him up, causing him to go back home and take the sandevistan.

Due to the pain of having the operation done without anesthetic, he passed out and doesn't meet his mom who returned home and found their apartment empty.

When he finally wakes up he finds that an entire day has passed and so he goes back to school intending to get revenge, not knowing that his mom has made contact with Kazuma and Aqua because she is desperate to find him.