Lucatiel knew he was having a lucid dream when his Ring was no longer on his finger, instead it was on a young man's finger, who was staring down the final wave boss. There were others with him, each wielding the respective legendary weapons. All of their faces were shadowed over except for the young man wearing the ring.
He was young, a little younger than Lucatiel, but his eyes held the rage of someone who'd lived and lost everything he cared about a thousand times over. His Ring however glowed a brilliant blue, and it's aura was almost… heavenly.
The wave boss itself was everything but. It looked like a giant crocodile, red eyes, scaly skin and thousand's of razor sharp teeth. And so filled with malice Lucatiel could feel it even though he wasn't really there… it was far larger than any monster Lucatiel had seen thus far, dwarfed only by the mysterious creature that failed to come through the portal.
"We're probably going to die here… aren't we?" The shield hero asked, he was shaking from fear. His voice was young, judging by his voice alone he may have been the youngest one there.
"If we combine our strength! We'll surely make it out alive. We've finally started to work together, we won't die now." The spear hero seemed to be confident in his ability… too confident.
The sword hero stood stoically, he was just staring as the monster rampaged everything in sight, consuming the world as it opened and closed it's mouth, literally trying to eat the ocean.
"If it hasn't consumed the Cal mira islands yet then we need to stop it before it does at all costs, this has to be the final wave. The prophecy told of the world eater. And as you can see, it's doing just that." The bow hero said sardonically.
"Good thing we tricked it into the ocean, it will take it decades to consume It all."
World eater? Prophecy? Lucatiel thought… what are they talking about? He tried to move forward but found that his legs were stuck in place.. so not only was he Lucid dreaming, he was paralyzed…
wait… what if he wasn't Lucid dreaming? Why would he dream of the past heroes? This… this must be a vision of the past or something.
"Easy for you to say, you guys care about this world… I've been treated like shit by all the humans here since I was summoned!" The shield hero declared. "And the demi-humans just want me to impregnate them to create royalty!"
"Shut up. All of you. If you're too scared Shiuchi then just run. Hell all of you can, I'm far stronger than any of you." The ring hero finally spoke up, his voice was deeper than expected.
"You say that but you just showed up here a month ago claiming to be a hero from another world, we still don't know if your lying. We don't even know your name." The sword hero presumably glared at the Ring hero. Lucatiel still couldn't see the other heroes faces.
"Like I've told you before, if you won't tell me your name I won't tell you mine. That's why Shiuchi knows it but not you lot."
"I just find it hard to believe a measly Ring could be stronger than my sword." The sword hero regarded the Ring hero with deep suspicion, while also not acknowledging the hypocrisy in his glares.
"And that arrogance is why you will die today." The ring hero snorted and smiled sadly. "You wouldn't have survived the fourth wave if it wasn't for the Shiuchi's cursed series."
"How dare you!"
"Tch. Screw you."
"I'll prove you wrong on that."
"Why do I even bother…" the Ring hero muttered. "Listen carefully you lost causes, I'm not cruel enough to lead you to your death, if you want to run then do it. Like I said I'm far stronger than any of you. I've chased the world eater through countless worlds to kill him."
"Yet you've failed every time." The spear hero chuckled. "You're really blowing smoke out your ass you can admit it, stop trying to be cool."
"I've only failed because I tried to rely on the heroes of the other worlds. But like you… most of the others never took it seriously. Thought this was some game, I've gained knowledge everlasting. Lost everything I cared about too many times to count. Today, the world eater dies. My Ring of Righteousness will see to that."
"And let you hog all the glory? No way Jose. We'll kill the world eater and go back and be great." The sword hero stalked turned and began to sprint down the beach, his strongest weapon equipped as the bow and spear hero's followed suit. The world eater was facing away from them, he was a few miles away from the coastline, thrashing and chewing the water.
The Ring hero watched them do it, disdain plain on his face. But there was worry in them too, Lucatiel wondered if he was worried about the other heroes. The shield hero… the only one who's been named so far collapsed to his knees. Lucatiel didn't need to see his face, he could feel the despair leaking off him like poison.
"On your feet Shiuchi, you aren't dead yet." The ring hero held his hand out, and Lucatiel was actually a little surprised to see kindness in his eyes.
Shiuchi stared at the offered hand for a second before a bitter chuckle escaped him. "Yet. You mean. I'm not dead yet… are you really as strong as you say Yuri?"
Lucatiel's eyes widened. So the Ring hero-Yuri- told the shield hero Shiuchi his name! They must have been friends.
"I am." Yuri's confirmation was entirely sure. It wasn't arrogance like the spear hero, it was just a simple fact. Yuri was just that powerful. Lucatiel remembered what the King had said, that people compared the past Ring hero's strength to a god.
"Th-then I could run? I could hide? I really only kept fighting because I wanted to go home… that and… well the other heroes really aren't bad people at heart, just idiots."
"I already said you could do that, I wouldn't dare judge the only competent hero in this world… for you are the sole reason that it's still alive, however I fear that this foe is too great for you to defeat alone. so go ahead and run Shiuchi. Run, and wait until I destroy this monster." Yuri began to walk down the beach as well, trailing after the other three heroes, who were sending waves of skills at the beast, the world eater ignoring them completely.
The vision began to shift, Lucatiel didn't get to see the battle. But for some reason he was shown the last moments of each hero's life.
The spear hero was snapped up by the crocodile, and you could hear his agonized screams and pleads for mercy from something that would never bother as he was eaten alive. The spear flying out of the world eaters mouth, the only thing it seemed unable to consume as it faded away.
The bow hero was snatched up and launched into the air, his screams of fear echoed around the world as he hit the water from thousands of feet up, breaking every bone in his body, dying as he floated off further into the ocean, his bow faded away before he was even out of sight.
The sword hero suffered from an inability to swim his legs mangled and clearly broken, he was dragged out further into the deep water and simply dropped into it, Yuri probably couldn't hear it. But Lucatiel heard the sword hero desperately trying to swim to no avail, gasping and gargling sea water, being dragged under by the waves as his struggling slowed to a stop. His sword fading away before he was even dead.
The shield hero had entered the fray against his better judgment, dying from sacrificing his own life to use an extraordinarily powerful skill from his 'cursed series' in a desperate attempt to kill the world eater. It had done massive damage, but not even a skill that powerful could take it down. His shield took a while to fade away.
The whole time Yuri had been attacking virtually every part of the body possible to maximize damage. For all his power, the world eater was still by far the strongest creature he ever had to face. He was growing more nervous as the heroes died. A brief semblance of hope when Shiuchi had managed to hurt it, only to despair when Yuri realized he was dead, that translated into elation when he finally cracked it's skin, leaving a bloody gash that would serve as the gateway to victory.
The next image was the Ring hero, Yuri standing alone against the beast, his Ring shining brightly. "Unfortunately, the other heroes died before I could find your weak-point like usual. But now that I found it you won't get away again! Your life is in my hands world eater, no longer will you consume worlds for your malicious god!"
The next image was right after the end of the battle, Yuri was on the beach drenched and gasping for air, the world eater was nothing but a corpse floating in the ocean, beside him on the beach were the corpses of the other heroes except for the spear, who had nothing to retrieve.
"You may have been incompetent heroes, but you deserve a proper burial… I'm sorry spear hero… for there's no body of yours to retain." Yuri said to the sky.
Yuri's ears suddenly pricked, and he looked at his ring intensely as if it were talking to him, eventually he gave a short nod. "I… I agree, I will stay in this world. Killing the world eater should have stopped the waves for good, there probably isn't anything left for me on earth."
Wait, he really is talking to the ring! Lucatiel realized. That means the Ring is alive!
"I've been searching for revenge for so long… it kind of feels anticlimactic. What am I supposed to do with my life now? Especially without the other heroes of this world… after my original world was destroyed I never sought the fame and stature of being a hero." Yuri consulted the ring, Lucatiel was surprised at the gentleness on his face, so unlike the rage that was there earlier. He wasn't sure if that was because of his revenge being completed or him and the Ring had a much deeper connection.
"I won't be living as a hermit but thanks for the suggestion." Yuri said dryly. "But I have the rest of my life ahead of me to figure that out… but for now I should bury Shiuchi and the other heroes."
Suddenly, the visions ended giving way to a blackened space, a horizon of nothing. Lucatiel was floating among it looking around to find more abyss. Suddenly, a flash of brilliant light. And standing before him, was a twenty something year old man with shoulder length black hair and green eyes.
"So… you've managed to achieve enlightenment this early. That's quite impressive. Hello Lucatiel, I trust you know who I am after what I've shown you."
Lucatiel was slack-jawed, and it took him a moment to form a response. "You-your Yuri, my predecessor! How-how is this happening?"
Yuri was clearly attempting to speak in a way in which Lucatiel could comprehend. He walked forward and just… smiled at the silver-haired teen. "I've been with you since the beginning, I'm sorry you had to go through the pain of dying."
Lucatiel swallowed the lump in his throat at the memories. "Cool, apology accepted. How are you here? The records of this world state that you went insane and opened a portal and stole the ring back to your own world."
"That's… true but also not."
"What do you mean?"
Yuri sighed and scratched his head, before sitting down on the… abyss. I followed suit. "I… didn't go insane, but the ring spirit did. Traversing worlds not meant for you comes with consequences that even a god isn't immune to."
"So, the ring really is alive." Lucatiel didn't know how to feel about his long-shot guess being right.
"No… she's not." Yuri looked away, and Lucatiel could swear he saw unshed tears in his eyes. "The ring spirit died that day we went back to our world, I wasn't trying to get back to earth. That was her… fuck… it's hard to explain, but the part that matters is that she's gone and… I'm the Ring spirit now. I bound my soul to the ring"
Lucatiel nodded. "You're not explaining this well at all Yuri. In the visions you showed me you told the previous ring spirit that with the world eaters death the waves should have been over, you killed a creature that eats worlds for gods sake. How did you switch?:
"You know what? The past doesn't matter, what matters is that you learn how to use me properly before you get yourself killed." Yuri vehemently changed the subject. Lucatiel didn't understand why he was suddenly angry. "And before you tell me how you've been doing fine fuck off with that. You almost died."
"Well screw you too…" Lucatiel muttered. The tone in Yuri's voice pissed him off, but he acknowledged that he wouldn't be getting anymore answers today.
"So question one: Why are you wasting MP on basic monsters instead of using your basic attacks?" Yuri question.
"What basic attacks? The most basic skill I have is Chaos lightning, it's not my fault that-"
"Seriously!? How are you still alive? Just like the bow, spear and sword hero you have regular attacks that cost nothing to use. Stand up." Yuri dragged Lucatiel to his feet and took a few steps back.
"Watch kid." Suddenly, the ring vanished from Lucatiel's finger and appeared on Yuri's finger, and a monster appeared out of the abyss, a skeleton. Yuri rushed forward, magic suddenly encasing his hand as he hit the punched the skeleton in the face destroying it instantly.
"What skill did you just use to do that?" Lucatiel asked, he'd been trying to figure out a way to be more aggressive in battle but the Ring essentially demanded that he be a stay in the back kind of guy.
"No skills, just basic attacks, something you should understand just by playing a game, ever heard of final fantasy? Physically choose a basic attack and do it, the Ring has more versatility than you think, you can use basic ranged attacks, or basic melee attacks. All of them are based on magic."
Suddenly, another Skeleton appeared and the Ring was back on Lucatiel's finger. "You can do this Lucatiel, I wouldn't have chosen you if I thought you couldn't. The way this world operates is fucked up, expecting you to learn by yourself. So I'll pick up the slack."
"This all feels very sudden." Lucatiel said. Yuri shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm rushing a bit, we both know the waves are getting stronger, Ultimate item creation pulled your ass out of the fire for the last wave with this generations sword hero. But you can't rely on magic that powerful so early, you're lucky you didn't die from it. I thought making you able to gain experience with other heroes would help, but it has been negligible"
"That was you huh? For some reason I'm not surprised by that. Think you can allow me to use other weapons?" Lucatiel asked. "That would really help me."
"I could, but it'd be pointless and it'd dilute your mastery of the Ring."
The skeleton rushed forward swinging it's sword blindly, Lucatiel sidestepped out of the way and jumped back. Pivoting on it's feet, the skeleton thrust his blade into Lucatiel's chest. It would have killed him had it been real, instead the attack just phased through him. He watched with bemusement as the skeleton kept trying to hit him to no avail.
"You have to actually attack to win you know." Yuri said dryly.
"It's not that easy, I never really played video games back in my world." Lucatiel said suddenly, he raised his fist and hit the skeleton in the face. It rocked back on it's heels before continuing it's flailing.
"Fail. Try again."
Lucatiel tried to imagine it like a vacuum, sucking up magical power and storing it into his fist, he smiled as his hand began to tingle. "Haaaah!" magic formed in Lucatiel's hands, and he struck the skeleton in the face again. blowing it's head clean off the bones, it's body collapsing in a heap but fading away.
"Your form sucks, but you did it on your second try. Not bad kid." Yuri smiled. "Now we're gonna talk about that cursed-"
Yuri suddenly stopped talking and became laser focused. He cocked his head to the side as if listening to something. His face became angry, that old rage Lucatiel saw in his eyes returning.
"You have company, humans I believe." His scowl became absolutely venomous. "Their church bounty hunters, and there are a lot of them. Bastards."
"Why can you hear them and not me?" Lucatiel asked. A prick of nervousness laced it's way into his chest.
"Because you're actual body is asleep while I'm always awake on your finger. I can hear everything happening on the outside world and even see it. I can't read your thought's though... You need to go back, you have to wake up and fight them off."
"Okay, okay got it!" Lucatiel closed his eyes and willed himself to wake up, but to his horror nothing was happening.
"What are you doing Lucatiel? Wake up!" Yuri shouted.
"I-I cant! I can't wake up WHY CAN'T I WAKE UP!?" Lucatiel was beginning to panic. "Did they put a spell on me?"
"No they're still preparing to jump you." Yuri said quickly. "Somethings wrong, I-I don't know what's going on."
There was nothing more terrifying than someone who claimed to have everlasting knowledge not know what's going on. Lucatiel was freaking out.
"Lucatiel! Lucatiel you need to calm do-" Yuri put a hand on Lucatiel's shoulder, and suddenly, light exploded off both of them so bright it hurt.
Abrubtly they both lost consciousness, the veil of darkness giving way to oblivion.
Line break.
"Why are we preparing so much?" A church hunter cleaned his sword. He was whispering to his commander for this mission. "There's fifteen of us and one of him, let's get him and go."
"He wields a cardinal weapon, we can't underestimate the demon. Shut up and keep preparing." She whispered back harshly, there was a scar on her face from eyebrow to lip that slightly marred her pretty features. She glared at the hero with so much hatred that it was like she was personally slighted by him.
She was. Being dropped off a bridge and left to drown as her companion was murdered up above does that. The ring hero was a murderer, and she despised how he casually got away with it. He was in league with the shield demon and protected him from the framing attempts.
Good thing the country of Melromarc was oh so full of bigotry. Lucatiel had disappeared before the celebrations, with the protector gone it was child's play to manipulate the celebrations and the three true heroes to their side once again, using the negative feelings they held at his abandonment. Especially the spear hero. Who challenged the shield to combat. The Sword hero resisted the idea at first, but it only took two weeks to manipulate the boys mind.
Suddenly, the Ring hero woke up with a strangled gasp, nearly startling the squadron into movement, The commander held fast. Holding her troops back without making a sound. A nightmare clearly, the ring demon had experienced to utter such pathetic noises. It would hardly change their plans.
"L-Lucatiel are you okay?" Lucatiel suddenly asked the air, looking around. His eyes slowly widening. "What the… what the hell?"
Now the commander was confused, Lucatiel was calling for himself? That didn't make any sense to her, she passed it off as one hell of a nightmare.
"Wait, if… if I'm really here… Shit!" Lucatiel suddenly thrust his hand forward and blasted a wave of magic towards the woods.
The commander barely got out of the way, three of her men weren't so lucky. They were bisected from the sheer force of the power, nearly vomiting as their innards spilled out. Horrified mutters echoed through the woods.
"He- he knows! Get him get him now!" she screamed ducking for cover as her remaining soldiers charged screaming. She didn't bring any mages because of Lucatiel's well known ludicrously high magic defenses.
"Lucatiel can you hear me in the Ring!? Gah, get back ASSHOLES." Another blast of magic, dying screams. The commander chanced a look, shivering at the carnage. The ring demon had already halved her forces, there was a spider in place of Lucatiel's normal ring, webs were cascading through the trees, so thick that they were entangling her hunters in them.
"I'm… I'm outside of the ring, holy shit I'm out of the ring. I took Lucatiel's body and now he isn't responding… fuck fuck FUCK." The ring demon was irrational, panicking and rambling like a madman.
"How is this possible? How did this happen!?" The commander watched one of her soldiers tackle him to the ground, a glimmer of hope as she watched him bind the Ring demon.
She came out of the woods, stepping over a corpse as she smirked at the suddenly silent boy. Her surviving men extracting themselves from the webs. She squatted and pulled his face to look at her, hiding a shiver at the dead fish look in his eyes.
"Hello, Ring hero." She said derisively, her smirk turning into a grin that could rival a Cheshire. "Do you remember me?"
He spit in her face, and it took all her will not to slit his throat there right then and there. And to add insult to injury: "I don't even know who you are."
Her grin fell into a scowl so deep it made her scar transfix itself. "You little piece of shit…" she took a deep breath, trying to calm herself. "Well, I suppose a murderer wouldn't remember someone he tried to kill. Especially since you've clearly gone mad calling out for yourself."
"You church bastards could never comprehend the higher purpose of the heroes, always trying to put them under your thumb with manipulation, lies and threats, even outright attempting to kill them if they grew a brain and defied you. I should have wiped you out years ago." Lucatiel snarled again, his eyes held rage that they shouldn't have, years and years of hatred bottled up into a person that had only been in their world for a couple of months.
The commanders face went blank now, this wasn't fun anymore. She thought she'd feel some closure seeing his face, seeing him grovel. But he wasn't groveling at all. He was acting like he was in control of the entire situation.
"What is your name?" He suddenly asked her. Surprising her, why would he care about that in this situation? Didn't he understand that she was in control?
Whatever, might as well indulge him. "Luna. My name is Luna."
"Luna… alright then Luna." Suddenly, Lucatiel's eyes turned savage. "Luna, I'll carve your name out of history."
The ropes burned away, and before she could react the person holding Lucatiel down was missing a head, blood splashing in ounces on the person who killed him. His armor stained red. Magic coursing through his fingers as he whispered a chant. A dark aura wreathing Lucatiel's body. A pulsating black ring.
"He-He's casting magic, Stop him!" She shouted, too late. Far too late.
"End this drama, with their demise. Eternal Requiem." black chains snapped out of the sudden abyss beneath their feet, wrapping around their whole bodies in an iron chain mail of death. Then to her horror, it started dragging them down into that abyss.
Luna screamed, cried out, begged for mercy. Begged for him to stop this. Lucatiel did not, he watched impassively as one by one, the darkness swallowed them. She was the last.
"Lucatiel! Please Ring hero-sama don't! I don't wanna die!" tears were blurring her vision, so desperate to live that she called his name.
The last words she heard in her life were cold. "I am not Lucatiel." then the darkness swallowed her.
The ring hero swallowed thickly, his hands were shaking. But not from remorse. It was the experience notifications. The fact that he just went up five levels from fifteen humans.
He was level 60 now. Even in this world, far and away from his original killing humans gave far more experience than most monsters, stealing the XP they gained in their life as well as the XP they gained from killing them in general.
Miserable, how miserable this feeling was. But he couldn't dwell on it, what's done is done. What he had to do know was move forward.
He touched his ring again and called out: "Lucatiel, can you hear me?"
Slowly, he began to lose hope at the silence. Then suddenly, a groan as if in pain. "Yu-Yuri?…. Where are you?"
Yuri grimaced, he was relieved. Though he wished this wasn't necessary. "I'm… I'm outside of the ring. In your body…. Somehow we switched places."
A few beats of silence. Then a scream. "WHAAAAAAAAT!? HOW ARE YOU IN MY BODY!?"
"I… I don't know. This has never happened before." Yuri admitted.
"Don't you have ANY INSIGHT ON HOW THIS COULD HAVE COME ABOUT!?"
"I've… I've traveled so many worlds and gained so much knowledge and power, but I never saw an inkling of anything like this before. You have to believe me not even I thought it was possible."
"So you just have my body now, great. Thanks. This has to be the plot of the invasion of the body-snatchers. Or some sick parody…" Lucatiel's voice quieted. Yuri was trying to think of something, anything that could help this situation.
It was Lucatiel who provided the first suggestion: "Do you think this is because you never technically died?"
"Maybe…" Yuri considered the possibility. "I really don't know. Perhaps if I go to sleep you can reclaim your body?"
"That would be great but it feels to easy, we can try it anyway. Go on go to sleep!"
"But I don't feel tired though, you-I-…. just woke up." Yuri finished lamely. "We'll have to try when I get tired."
Yuri surveyed his surroundings, he was clearly in the deep wood. Near mountains, obviously. But… where? Melromarc? Shieldfreeden or siltvelt? It was hard to remember everything when he was inside the ring, sometimes it was fragmented.
"I was on the outskirts of the eastern Melromarc border, about fifteen miles east of Mirso village. I was asked to hunt down a dragon threatening the village, the guild-master settled in Melromarc asked me too." Lucatiel seemed to guess what he was thinking.
"Good thing you didn't try to kill him. That dragons name is Gaelion, and he's incredibly powerful… and also peaceful. Mirso village must have selfish reasons for wanting him dead. Maybe the church is there." Yuri began to walk in the direction Lucatiel instructed.
"Well I can't exactly abandon the task… but I guess your going there anyway to do so. You do remember you're in my body right?"
"Yeah thanks for reminding me." Yuri muttered dryly. "Regardless, If they gave this task to you the church'll probably give it to another one of the heroes if they so happen to pass by. I will not let Gaelion die if I can stop it."
"You might have a bit of trouble doing that, Motoyasu and Itsuki are pretty stubborn."
"They're the spear and bow heroes right? Typical. The previous ones were the same way. What about the Shield and Sword? Are they proper heroes?"
"I thought you would know all of this already."
"It's difficult to explain but sometimes I'm unable to see or hear anything inside the ring sometimes. Whether that's an aspect of being near the other legendary weapons or not I don't know. I'm assuming their spirits don't want to speak with me. As such I don't know anything about them. Very rarely can I break through and gain insight around the other weapons."
"How do you know so much supposedly but also know so very little." Yuri could hear how skeptical Lucatiel sounded.
Yuri felt his eye twitch, Lucatiel wasn't wrong but he didn't have to say it. "I know a lot about other worlds… worlds that are dead now, I once traveled to a world that had their own version of a Ring Hero…. That world is gone now. I lived here long enough to grow to hate the three heroes church, I lived long enough to see the waves again when I thought they were gone, I lived long enough to hate the fact that in the end killing the world eater brought me little satisfaction, and no resolution to the threat that's been destroying worlds for a very, very long time."
It was a long silence then, for an hour or so Yuri just walked the road leading to Mirso. The moonlight pouring over the horizon. It was nice, he never thought he'd feel the wind on his face again, the rich smell of the world.
Lucatiel began to speak again eventually: "Naofumi was screwed over by Melromarc, he's the shield hero, he was originally a happy funny guy. He didn't seem to take being called here too seriously until he was nearly framed of raping the princess. Now he's jaded… hate filled. There's still good in him but he doesn't trust easily and has a foul mouth."
"I hate to say I'm not surprised, the shield hero has always been hated by this country. You can blame their religion for that one."
"You really hate the church don't you."
"Yeah, I really do… when I first came to this world they tried to have me killed, I hadn't even been there for a day or so. They'll deny it but they hate any hero that isn't the spear, bow or sword."
"The Sword hero just a kid… he's sixteen. Ren's a good kid, reminds me of my brother in some ways, and unlike Motoyasu and Itsuki he has half a brain but he still struggles with a lot of negatives." Yuri could hear a faint fondness for the sword hero in Lucatiel's voice.
"My sword hero was like that too." Yuri almost smiled at the memory. "I wasn't around long enough to get to know him too well, but he was prideful and refused to accept responsibility for his failures, he had just started turning himself around before he died… he was much older than yours though, twenty-five I think."
After that, Yuri walked in companionable silence for the rest of the trip. His memories a comfort on the grueling journey. The sun was high in the sky when he finally made it to the village. Immediately he went to the guild-station to abandon the quest.
"You 'ere about the dragon?" The guild-master showed no recognition of the Ring hero if his dead inside eyes had anything to say about it. "Well your a' bit too late, the Sword hero is already heading that way to slay 'im."
"If you hurry you can catch up! Ren will likely listen if you talk to him." Lucatiel said.
Yuri cursed and departed quickly. He had to get to the sword hero quickly.
Before he made a stupid mistake.
A/N: Well that's the end of that one. See you in the next.