I know. I have done quite some omakes but I'm just having a bit of time on my hands and I got a few things that I got in mind. But we'll see where things go from here on.

As for what happened on the next chapter. I'm just going to leave things be for now. I'm done poking hornets nests. It's not getting me anywhere and it's just getting me hurt.

I'll just leave one thing. If you only want to flame me, for what reason ever, I'm just gonna block you. That's all.

Mattheus was now sitting on the room. It had been crazy with January passing by. It had now been a while since things really insane. He just had to look outside and see how much things had changed.

"Penny for your thoughts?" He turned to Ichika who had taken the seat next to him. The girls just looked outside.

"Winds are changing."

"Wasn't that a song from some group?" Mattheus' raised an eyebrow on the question. "Yep. Winds of change. Done by the Scorpion in 1991. About damn. Forty years ago." The watch on his said that.

Kizuna joined them and they couldn't help but grin at the display outside. The Infinite Ataraxia Academy hadn't taken such bad hits but the same couldn't be said about the city.

Soldiers were passing by outside as they were protecting the place. They could hear the winds of changing.

"So that means a lot in the regards now." The hallways outside hadn't been the same. Girls were now passing by guys.

It was hard to call those guys men as they had been eighteen or nineteen. But the fact they got assault rifles strapped to them and wore outfits that were close to soldiers, made it clear that they were really different.

Yet, that didn't make a change as those girls talked with those guys. They could talk about their lives, their interest.

The oldest men grinned and looked back to the snow filled sky.

"You think we're going to have an attack?" Ichika asked and he felt a touch of Houki on his hand. She shook her head.

"I hope we don't. Things went really bad last time."

"Indeed." Hayuru said. "We got lucky."

"I thought I made my own luck." The group laughed on the remark. And they relaxed.

"To think that we needed the world to close in that we could so close."

"Like brothers." Kizuna said and Ichika couldn't help but agree.

"Let's go outside for some fresh air. The biggest crisis is over for now." Joel made the idea. It was late in the evening and they all had been tired. Their bodies and mind being forced to the end as they all felt tired.

Taking their warm clothes on and packing themselves in, they left the place.

When a pair of soldiers stopped them, they turned to Mattheus. After a few words, they left with Mattheus looking at the group.

"We can go outside but they like us back in before night. And we aren't allowed to leave the school. Not that I can phantom that any of us want that now."

They walked outside and they couldn't believe how much the place had changed. Not even in a year, Kizuna, Aine, Hayuru, Ichika, Houki, Charlotte, Yurishia, Cecilia, Mattheus, Rin and Joel thought this would change.

Instead of open gardens, their were tanks with guys talking and smoking. They got nods from those guys and they came at a big bonfire where a couple of guys that came from Russia were playing on the music.

It had soldiers and student gathered there. Talking and listening to each other or just making things clear.

When a few guys had a guitar left open, wordlessly, Mattheus walked to them. With a few glances, they made clear he could sit. When the Hunter did, he took the acoustic guitar.

It didn't take long before he began to play a song on the guitar. The group just looked at him as he played the song with those guys. There were whistles blown between them and the guys sang with him.

"What is going on?" Rin asked as Mattheus played the song.

"Guess we aren't the only ones who had heard from it. The Scorpions, the guys who brought out the song, made a Russian version of the song. And to make it really fitting, Mattheus plays a guitar and one of those guys got a balalaika."

Joel answered and he joined the group. Siting in the snow, they just looked outside.

"The world needed something like this. And we did came together like brothers." They just looked at the fire. And they could see Mattheus playing the song with those guys.

Their lives had been thrown in a loophole, it had changed in ways they hadn't even seen coming and now, with no one here being sure if they would live next week. Yet, for some reason, they were happier than every before.

On the roof, principal Reiri came out with Chifuyu looking at the fire from the roof.

"What a change."

"I knew it would come down to something, Reiri but this is extreme. Last year, they would hate each other guts."

"You think?" They turned to Kerlongsj who had his heavy sweater on.

"Shouldn't you be in Belgium?" Chifuyu asked.

"Yes but I had to be here. Reiri. Those kids down there. It's like with 1914. Those kids have zero reason to hate each other. Cause they know. The guys there. They are the same."

"1914?"

"Christmas Truces."

"I see. So how do you think about it, Kerlongsj Orlejov?"

"The world realized there is worse out there. And they're gonna need me and my cause. And frankly, we are going to need you all to pull through. And when we are done with this, I hope the children of tomorrow gotta dream away in the wind of change."

Yep. I have just being listening to the song for a while now. Sorry about this but after last chapter on Afraid to Shoot Strangers, I kinda need an outlet.

With school coming to a close, I might have a bit more time on my hand. But I'll tell you all that I'll have a holiday in the last week of May. And my schedule fills itself so things might get hectic.

But when aren't they?

I got a few more weekends till I can close things down. I'll hear from you guys later.

Saluut.