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Kazuma

"Okay, let's start from the beginning, well not from the beginning but, you know what let me start over." I said to Sasha as she used a fork to eat her noodles.

"The truth is, that Aqua and I could have had a better life if we were less careful, but doing that would have made a lot of people turn to look our way."

I watch as she holds the fork with one hand and puts the edge of the bow to her mouth before drinking the broth.

"Waite then shouldn't we be having this conversation somewhere else, like your apartment?" she asks me.

'Why?" Aqua asks her, as a group of kids runs past us, and barely they avoid hitting our chairs as they try to avoid the crowd of people walking by.

"No reason." Sasha answers Aqua.

"So, I guess your done hiding?" she asks us and I can't help but turn to look at Aqua who has her face hidden by the bow.

"I'll get back to you on that, but if you don't want any problems it's better if we go our separate ways." I answer her.

I can see the conflict in her eyes, it's a combination of fear and loss I know that she doesn't have a lot of experience with the world considering her memories, but from what I've seen she should be able to live her life if she doesn't cause too many problems.

"Where will I go? I don't have anyone or anything." she answers me.

"Can I get what she's having?" I hear Gloria say to the restaurant owner, as she sits down next to Aqua.

"I thought that you were going to go look for" I stop talking as I see the Latino boy that's not that much younger than I am.

"Well look at you, you have a lot of nerve making your mom worry like that." I say to him, but the guy just frowns.

"I'll have the same." David says to the cook.

"So, now that we're all here how about we all go drinking." I say to everyone.

"Sure." "Yes!" Sasha and Aqua voiced their approval, while Gloria remained quiet.

"Kazuma.' she began.

"Not now, whatever it is, now's not the time." I place a finger on her lips before she can say anything else.

"Whatever problems you have will still be there by the end of the day, and we all need to unwind a little, so just relax and celebrate."

"If you need a reason, remember you just got him back." I look past Gloria and see David's angry face looking at me and I suddenly remember what I'm doing to his mom.

"That's right we're celebrating!" Aqua says before she slams her hands on the counter and stands up.

'People of Night city rejoice. I the Goddess Aqua have come to you!" she proudly announces but everyone either ignores her or does their best not to look at her.

I smirk as she sits down, both the pain from earlier and the embarrassment that she should be feeling are nowhere to be seen, yeah this is the Aqua that I know.

"Kazuma, I need you to come and meet someone with me, David he did something stupid, and I need your help." Gloria says to me as she takes advantage of I'm distracted by Aqua.

"That bad?" I ask her.

"No it's not that bad," David answers me and judging by his voice he's either angry because of how friendly I am with his mom or something else that I just don't know about.

"Alright, but if people start shooting, I will charge you this time." I say to Gloria as I order the first round of beers.

Even if we just got paid we don't have enough for a real party, so we have no choice but to drink as much as we can without spending everything we have.

"You owe me for carrying you here." David says to me as I wake up and as I look around I notice that I'm not in my apartment.

"Your door was locked so I couldn't get you in, mom told me that you helped her."

"...I'll pay you back for everything," David says to me, but I ignore him as I walk into the kitchen and pour myself a glass of water.

"Hey wake up we're in the wrong house." I say to Sasha who is passed out on the floor next to where I was sleeping not too long ago.

I don't bother trying to wake Aqua up because she's not going to wake up no matter what I do, so I have no choice but to princess carry her out of Gloria's apartment.

As we walk out, I notice that David hasn't taken his eyes off me.

"If you want to ay me back, don't make your mom worry so much, but I guess it's too late for that now." I said to him as I walk out of his apartment.

Dai watches as Kazuma and his team leave and he only starts to walk to his mom's room when he sees the door close behind them, he doesn't have to walk long but he stands at his mom's door and stares at her sleeping form.

He thought that she was dead and he would never see her again.

It's no mystery to anyone what happens to people's bodies once they go missing, it doesn't matter if a person is alive or dead, as long as their body parts are still useful.

He closes his eyes and feels a naught form in his stomach before he makes the call.

"Hello, Maine."

"This is a bad time kid." Maine answers him.

"No, I have good news and...well my mom is alive." he said to Maine.

"I guess, those calls were real"

"Waite, you were getting calls from my mom?"

"Yeah, but those are usually scams people get when someone dies."

"So does that mean you're going to give it back? or are you calling me to say that you're backing down now?" Main asks him.

"No" David answers him.

"Then I'll see you in a week."

"I already told you that you didn't have to pay me back because I owed your mom, so if you want out now is the time." Main says to him

"No, that's not the reason I called you." David says to him.

'Then this conversation's over." Main says to him before he cuts the call.

With nothing else to do David walks away from his mom's room not knowing that Gloria accidentally used one of her bracelet applications and heard everything.

She didn't make a sound, nor did she bother to move she just closed her eyes and hoped that she could somehow bring her son back from the edge that he was standing on.