Chapter 1-2: Ladies and Gentlewoman.

The two barged in to see each and everyone giving a different look towards Natsumi. Miya, on the other hand, threw a jacket and a knee-length skirt towards Axial.

She made hand gestures, showing her to wear them. She quickly held the coat over her body, and zipped it up – covering chest. She wrapped the skirt around her hips, and was just basically doing what her sister was signalling her to do. When they were done, all attention was turned to Natsumi.

A really awkward silence followed through, it was the moment that everyone just… gazed at each other.

But out of all of them, 3 people still had no idea just what the hell happened.

"So, how's your boy?" Miya asked while walking nearer towards her. She felt a bit guilty about making her sister's boyfriend bleed out of his nose, but its common when she walks around as a dancer… besides, everyone in Comodo was already used to seeing dancers, so why would she bother to cover herself anyway.

Natsumi blushed before looking at the crusader, who reacted by shrugging. Upon hearing Miya's voice, he was reminded of her body which turned him red.

She turned back and answered, seemingly unaware that no one actually knows the baby is really a male, "Fine," Right after that, gasps and mumbles followed through.

"So, you are carrying a little baby boy in your stomach right now?" Sam asked, to clarify his confusion – which confused the outdated trio.

Natsumi nodded anyway.

"You're pregnant?" Miya mentioned with shock. Instantly, Axial squeezed through everyone until she was right beside her sister, or more like a mother-to-be. She leaned forward, with puppy eyes, while asking curiously "Natsumi onee-san, you are really having an aka-chan?" aka-chan means a baby.

Again, she nodded.

"Sugoi!" she squeaked before Zero came in and began to pull her out, smiling reluctantly as he did so. Sugoi means Awesome! Cool! And the like.

"Zero-kun, what're you doing" she whined while letting Zero pull her. She never wanted to cause him trouble, so she didn't go against his pulling.

He whispered faintly into her ear, "Come. Let's go get some of that Comodo ice cream that you like, okay?"

"Yay" she said out happily before she went out of the house. Miya's eyes were looking at them. Zero turned around, before he held up his hands and stretched out 10 of his fingers. Miya nodded before he followed Axial out of the house.

"So, how far along are you?" Sam said before he looked at her stomach, which seemed flat although she was carrying a child in her abdomen.

"Already 2 months," she replied nervously.

"Hmm…" Sam paused. His fingers began to scratch his chin before he narrowed his eyes at her. "So, that's how long you've kept this from all of us?"

Natsumi didn't respond. She supposed so, since none of them knew about it.

"My, my… How you've grown, Natsumi dear," Rachael said kindly before she left the room to do something.

The scarlet haired alchemist sat back on the couch, beside Kazuya. When she did so, Ayla crept beside her and whispered her a question. "How did it feel?"

And she successfully confused her elder sister.

"Come on, you know Obviously you did it, right?" she said with a sly grin.

A blush quickly formed itself on her cheeks. Her eyes quickly looked away, and Sam slapped his face into his palms.

It was something that the Cresentfall family weren't too proud of. To have 4 daughters, but only to have one of them married. Miya had not even the slightest intention – she had the mindset that all men are just retarded perverts who want a piece of her body, while Melissa just preferred her single status. Of course, that was what she thought, since her eyes were set on a priest that she works with… a lot, too.

"Okay, Ayla, can you help me with these?" she requested as she passed red-coloured cloths to the green-haired alchemist.

"What are these?" she questioned her curiously.

"You'll know soon enough, now come on," she said before she barely opened the door with her fingers and gave way to her sister. The door then slammed shut, leaving a couple – one who became a red hot chilli, the other just a paralyzed tree – with good ol' wise Sam and the aged dancer.

Sam signalled her to come closer. When she did so, he asked, "This true love?"

A sign of shock wiped over her previous embarrassment.

"Or is that unwanted pregnancy?"

"Dad!"

"Sorry, just curious," he said while his eyes rolled.

"Father, you know very well you shouldn't ask these kind of questions," Miya said out loud before she sat beside the flushed crusader, who seemed to have fainted a long time ago. "Natsumi, I think I killed your poor boy…" she said reluctantly before Natsumi rushed to his side. Oh, so she finally noticed how Kazuya was doing. Yes, the poor crusader…

At the same time, however, echoed a voice from outside. "All these are blood?"

"Zero-kun," Axial said before she licked her Cocoa-coated special Sporeberry flavoured ice-cream that could only be found in Comodo. "Why did you pull me out of the house?"

"Your sister is pregnant,"

"I know. Isn't that cool?"

"You'll know when you're pregnant,"

"Yeah, I can't wait to be pregnant!" she said enthusiastically with a smile, before she took another lick from her ice-cream.

Zero sat back on the sandy beach, staring over the dark ocean. Oh, how he missed sunlight…

He then took out his lute and refined his posture. His fingers laid on the strings, before he began to breeze through them in a preset pattern like the wind going through a forest. He was playing a slow, calm tune that sounded so familiar and yet was so different in a way that no one could figure out what he was playing… even Axial, included.

"Do you know this song, Axi?"

She merely shook her head before she gulped down her remaining ice-cream.

The navy-haired bard smiled at her before he reverted his concentration back onto his lute.

"Sugoi ne, Zero-kun. You can play so many types of songs," she complimented him. Zero barely chuckled. Sugoi ne basically means Amazing, cool and the like.

"Being able to play all these gives me the attention that I don't want, Axi," he explained. "My wish is to be somewhere that I can be alone – somewhere that I can play this until my full extend without anyone bugging me… without someone hating me,"

She cocked her head sideways when she looked at him. "I know where you can do that," she told him after a short pause.

He stopped playing his lute, and looked at her with surprise. "You do?"

"Hai. The place is very hard to reach though,"

"I don't care how hard it is. Just one time I'd like to play freely, just once…"

Before they knew it, the whole area was much darker than before. Guess it was "night time" for the city of night.

"Uh, so I'm going to be sleeping… here?" Kazuya said dully while pointing at the very couch he fainted in.

"Sorry, Kaz, but we don't have much space…" Natsumi replied reluctantly. She was smiling – but even the worn out crusader could tell she was actually trying to smile.

"Do I get company, though?" he said, this time with a sly smirk on his face.

"Oooh, so that's what you're thinking about?" she said in a sarcastic tone before she approached the stairs. "Unfortunately, not tonight. But, don't worry, I think we need a break from all those nights," she said before she giggled her way up the stairs, leaving a smiling – seemingly relieved – crusader.

He laid down on the couch, with his head on the arm rest. He stared blankly at the ceiling… his mind began to drift into his own world.

That was, of course, until someone suddenly popped out from the sofa nearby with a loud "Boo!"

It really freaked him out.

"What the hell?" he gasped as he tried to calm himself. The female giggled.

"I thought no company tonight?" he said before he wiped the sweat off his face.

"Of course," she replied before coming out of the shadows. No, it wasn't Natsumi.

"Huh?" The crusader rubbed his eyes. Oh, great. He forgot she had a twin sister.

"I think we need a break from all those nights," she repeated what Natusmi said. Kazuya merely blinked his eyes, which caused her to burst into laughter.

"I told her that she'll enjoy it," she informed the dumbfounded crusader with pride that was uncalled for.

Footsteps began to walk itself down the stairs, which made Ayla uneasy.

"You know very well what I want you to do," the voice said grimly. So that was why Ayla felt that way.

But, it didn't matter. She had what she needed. She immediately hopped her way up the stairs without much noise.

"Are you sure you're okay here?"

The crusader nodded before he quickly directed his eyes away. Miya sighed right after she noticed him doing so.

She went out of the house, through the entrance. Ah, yes… the poor crusader can finally sleep for once. He laid down, and began floating into his own ocean of thoughts… Luckily for him, this time without disturbance.

"Mm… Zero-kun…" mumbled a sleeping Axial who cuddled closer towards the bard's chest.

Looking down on her while stroking her silver-blue hair, he gently smiled before moving her head carefully onto the ground, using something soft as a pillow.

He stood up and moved away silently, keeping the dancer in view.

From the other side, Miya could be seen waiting for him. He took in a deep breath before he approached her.

"So… what do you need to know so badly that we have to meet so secretly?" she said while she crossed her arms.

"I want to get away from this… place,"

"Why?"

He didn't answer.

"What about her?"

Zero turned around took a glance of Axial before turning back to the white haired dancer. "Lord Odin will have to light her path then,"

Miya sighed yet again. How many times does she need to sigh in a day? She looked at him with eyes that seem to depict confusion. "What do you plan to do when you're… away?"

"To be alone is the rarest courage…" and Miya cocked her head sideways. What? She had no idea what he was talking about.

"A long, long time ago. That was what my mom used to tell me," he then forced a smile on his face.

But that smile has never fooled the experienced dancer. She knew him too well – after his parents left the world abruptly during the monster spree that made short work of them. Yes, she just knew him too well… literally, too well.

She looked up at the sky. It was a full moon, and they say the weirdest things happen under a full moon. She never believed it – but times like these really make her wonder if it is actually true, hell even partially true.

"But, Miya…" he interrupted before turning around, facing the sleeping Axial. "She told me she knows a place that I can be alone in… do you think she's speaking of the same place?"

"She was adopted. She shouldn't know about it,"

"Are you sure?"

"…"

Miya stood beside the bard. "Can't you stay a bit longer?"

Zero shook his head. "There's no choice,"

The dancer then sat down on the field of grass nearby. The bard followed her, but squatted instead.

She took in a deep breath and whispered into his ear about something. Various reactions took place, but he remained calm anyway.

A cool breeze blew past the whole of Comodo. A dancer was seen running up the narrow pathway, back to the hut she belongs to.

Just as she was getting up the pathway, the moonlight shone over her silver-blue hair, greatly reflecting its illumination around the place. She opened the door quickly, but crept in quietly instead.

And so it was finally the end of her long day. The last day she's ever going to see Zero.