Taka was simply unable to be at peace. He was unable to accept this new- or rather, old reality he found himself in. "Someone tell me what the FUCK is happening. This must be part of an attack!" he yelled. Everyone in the room looked over at him with incredibly confused expressions, and Nishida asked, "...You good?" Taka yelled, "I know for a FACT that everything that happened in the past 13 years wasn't a mere dream! This must be the doing of an enemy!"

Kuze's grandma whispered, "Does he need any help?" Taka yelled out, "You're all probably in on it! You're alllll part of this attack! Stay the fuck away from me!" Everyone in the room backed away and Nishida exclaimed, "Dude, calm down! What's going on!? Why are you acting like this!?" Taka crazily said, "Watch! I'll PROVE this is all fake and an attack!"

He began to hum a melody, and around his finger, pizzas began to fly around. "LOOK! My ability, Salad Days has been activated! I was only able to gain it after grabbing that redbone, so those 13 years MUST have been real!" The three looked on at Taka, staring at him as if he had just stripped naked and started dancing. Taka yelled, "This whole thing must be an act! It must be fake- some sort of illusion! I'll prove it!"

Taka had begun to shoot his tiny pizzas at every object in the house, destroying every inch of the place. "Kuze! What on earth is your friend doing!?" yelled the startled grandmother. Kuze yelled out, "Taka! Stop! What the hell is your deal!?" Nishida simply decided to walk out. Take pointed his finger at Kuze and said, "You... you probably aren't even real either!" Taka shot at Kuze, causing him to fall to the floor.

He grasped his chest and yelled in pain, and Taka walked closer to him. He looked at Kuze's wound, and observed that there was no blood. In fact, the entire interior of Kuze's body was hollow! Taka said, "I... I knew it! It was all fake, all an act!" He shot at Kuze and his grandmother's faces, killing them. "Who is the one that activated this ability!? Reveal yourselves! You dare use my own memories as a way to attack me?!"

Taka stayed on guard as he waited for a response. He knew someone was watching him, waiting to attack. Suddenly, a door knob began to turn. A door which led to Kuze's room was opened, and the motorcyclist who Taka had met earlier was the one who walked out. "Why," he said, "It seems you've figured out my ability. Did you hear my name earlier? I'm Val Carretero. Pretty cool, right?"

Taka scowled, "I don't give a damn about your name. Tell me where the fuck I am, and where Yasuha is." Val responded, "Why, you're currently stuck inside your own mind. Your body is resting on the hard ground of the road, but your soul is inside a replica of a location created by your mind." "Huh?" responded Taka, "The fuck are you talking about? So this is all a mere illusion?"

"Drive to 1980 love!" exclaimed Val, "That's my ability! I can trap you inside of a nostalgic memory! However, don't attack me! I can't hurt you! I can only kill you if you've blindly accepted the memory you found yourself inside. However, it seems that you weren't able to accept it, and so you knew something was up. I was about to kill that Yasuha kid, who blindly accepted his memory and let his nostalgia make his soul vulnerable. He didn't question anything that happened to him, which left his soul open to attacks. Right as I was about to kill him, I noticed something strange happening in your mind, and so I came."

Taka ran up to Val and yelled, "You fucking dick. Not only were you trying to kill us- but you were trying to kill us by reminding us of our good times! Who the fuck event sent you?! Why are you attacking us!?" Val calmly responded, "OW- is your hand made of like- titanium, or something?! Fine, I'll tell you! It was Starman! That Starman guy paid me! He gave me a burger and had me test my ability on a random passerby! Then, he told me to go after anyone who looked like you guys! He offered me like a thousand bucks, which I simply couldn't refuse!"

"Wait, Starman!? He knows we're going after him!? How!?" yelled Taka, shaking Val's neck. "Damn, I dunno!" Taka let go of Val and pointed his finger at him, getting his ability ready. "Wake us up or I'll fuckin' kill you!" Val raised his arms and said, "Geez, I will!" He began to sing a melody, and the whole "house" began to rumble.

Yasuha was still hugging and embracing his dad, but suddenly, his dad began to slowly disintegrate. He turned to sand, and was blown away. "Huh!?" exclaimed Yasuha, "Where'd you go!? What's happening!?" The entire house had begun to tremble as if an earthquake had started to occur, and the whole place slowly faded away. "No, no!" yelled Yasuha, "I was happy! What's happening!?" Yasuha eventually woke up on the street where he had been knocked out, with Taka already standing up.

Yasuha got up, and Taka walked up to Val Carretero. "You. Your ability seems to be activated by the melody." Taka shot at Val's vocal cords, carefully making sure to only damage them and nothing else. Val fell to the floor, vomiting blood and grasping his neck. Taka said, "Now that you can't sing, I hope that your ability won't hurt anyone else."

TO BE CONTINUED

Name: Nelward Hopscotch

Fake Name: Val Carretero

Nelward Hopscotch is an animator who also enjoys riding his motorcycle. Val Carretero is a false alias he uses online and while in battle, since according to Nelward, "It just sounds way cooler. Imagine getting beat up by a dude named Nelward?" Nelward is an animator on a children's TV show about microwaved fish, but he also makes his own animations for fun which he uploads on his social media page. These consist of old and nostalgic styles, as Nelward has a thing for the past.

Ability Name: Drive to 1980 Love

Drive to 1980 Love is the ability of Nelward Hopscotch, and is activated by the melody. The ability puts someone into a recreation of an old and nostalgic memory, which Nelward can also infiltrate. If the person is blinded by their nostalgia and accepts the recreation without having any doubts, their soul becomes vulnerable, and that's when Nelward can attack and kill. This ability does not work on those who have no fond memories to be nostalgic over.