Tridon jogged down his street until he got back to his house huffing and puffing slightly, which was odd to him. He wiped his forehead with a towel and noticed Sayori sitting outside her house. He wrapped the towel around his neck and walked over to her.

"Hey Sayori." Tridon greeted, "Why the long face?" Tridon sat next to her and wrapped his arm around her, "What's got you sad?"

"It's the fact that you don't have your powers. Yeah I'm happy about it, but we can't go on adventures anymore. I was really hoping we could have fun for Spring Break this week."

"Who said we couldn't have fun?" Tridon tightened his grip around Sayori and laughed, "We always find a way to have fun. You know that. We wouldn't be best friends if we didn't."

"I guess." Sayori looked up at Tridon and blushed a little, "Calm down Sayori. You guys are best friends. A relationship wouldn't work. Being best friends is better. I think..."

"Hey," Tridon started, "you wanna go out today?"

"H-Huh?"

"First day of Spring Break usually calls for us having fun. So why don't we go have some fun? I heard about that trampoline park opened up recently. Why don't we go tear it up there? I'd like to actually see if you still retain your training from the past month."

"We stopped training a week ago."

"Still. A week can mean a lot more than you think."

"Okay."

"I'll go get freshened up and I'll meet you back out here."

"A-Alright." Sayori watched Tridon walk off back to his house and she ran back inside. She covered her face to hide her blush and rolled around on the floor, "A date!" She shouted.


An hour later, Tridon knocked on her door and waited for a short second. Sayori quickly opened the door and revealed herself to Tridon who was rather confused.

"Sayori..." Tridon looked Sayori up and down. She wore a pink blouse with a loose white skirt that fell just above her knees. She also wore a knitted red open sweater. She wore flatfoot shoes and leggings, "you do know we're going to a trampoline park, right?"

"Uh..."

"An attire like that would only prove to be problematic. Especially while jumping with a skirt on. Definitely one that loose."

"I-I..."

"Maybe you can quick change while I wait in your living room."

"Y-Yeah. Sure."

Tridon waited in Sayori's living room while looking around. He saw several pictures of them in her house. He was confused yet happy to see this many pictures. She didn't have this many pictures before. It was then his eyes laid on the scrapbook he made for her on their friendship anniversary last year.

He grabbed it and looked through it. He flipped through and paused when he stopped on the last few pages. They were of recent pictures. From last semester and over the last month in the hideout. Tridon sat down with the scrapbook and flipped through the most recent pictures taken just a few weeks ago.

He hadn't even known that Sayori was taking pictures during their stay in Tiffany's hideout. There were moments during their training she caught, some of the fun moments in the hideout, and even some of the more brutal moments. Brutal as in their training.

However, he noticed that a lot of the pictures turned into pictures consisting of only him. No context on any of the pictures. Just him.

Sayori started to walk downstairs and he slid the book under the couch cushions so that she couldn't see him flipping through it.

"Alright, I'm ready." Sayori said while sporting short-shorts and tank top underneath a hoodie. She held a duffel bag that held the clothes she had on before, "I have my other clothes in here after we jump."

"A-Alright." Tridon stood up and nodded, "Let's get to jumping."


The drive to the trampoline park was silent and awkward. Neither could understand why. Tridon loves his best friend. He knows that, but he's starting to feel something else.

As for Sayori, she doesn't know how she should feel about her best friend. She loves him yes, but would an intimate relationship ruin the one that they have now.

Sayori looked at Tridon and thought about how it would be as his girlfriend. Would things change? Could they still goof off like they usually do? They would be more intimate. Holding each other. Kissing. Cuddling. Kissing. Going out. Kissing!

Sayori shook her head slightly and sighed. She looked at Tridon who had his eyes glued to the road.

She smiled and said to herself, "Maybe a life like that wouldn't be so bad..."


Once they arrived at the park, they were greeted by Jen who had just arrived. She waved to them and they walked up to her.

"What are you doing here Jen?"

"Well, with Robert finally gone, I can finally take those vacation days I've earned from the Captain."

"How's Tiff by the way?" Tridon asked.

"She's preparing for retirement after this whole Robert fiasco. Plus, she's technically on reserve since you aren't an enigma anymore. So she's just filing those retirement papers. She's hoping to be retired once all of you graduate."

"That would be a quite the day to celebrate, huh?"

"Yup, but now I'm just here to jump around."

"Care to join us?" Tridon casually asked making Sayori frown at him.

"Sure thing. It was going to be rather boring going here by myself anyway."

"Sweet. Let's go."

Sayori thought to herself how Tridon presented himself to others, specifically girls, "He was always open to hang out with people. He wanted to make friends, but that was difficult because of his status as an enigma. He couldn't hide it. He was hoping to find that one person who could bear with his enigma status. That one person was at first me. I was the one person who bared the burden of his enigma status. That of course changed when he joined the club. I'm grateful for that, but do I feel shoved to the side because of this?"

"Hey Sayori," Tridon called out while she was staring off into space, "wanna see who can get out of the foam pit the fastest? My money's on me of course."

"U-Uh, sure."

Tridon and Sayori stood at the ledge that overlooked the foam pit. Jen stood at the base of it with her phone in hand.

"Alright. Fastest time wins." Jen called out, "Ready? Go!"

Tridon tackled Sayori into the pit and laughed while shuffling around in the foam pit. Sayori watched Tridon struggle and couldn't help but laugh at him. She tried to get out too, but she struggled just as much.

They eventually lunged out of the pit to where Jen stared at them in confusion. They stared as she shrugged her shoulders.

"You both win?"

"That's lame." The two of them looked at each other and laughed.

"We can still be the same." Sayori said to herself, "I can't believe I thought that we would be any different if our relationship were to change. Right now, his choice doesn't matter. Our friendship does. I just have to wait for his answer. An answer that'll surely set his future into motion."


A/N: Hope you enjoyed the filler here. I wanna say that I'm skipping over the Spring Break I originally planned. The reason for this is simple. I know you all want to see Tridon make his choice. I've beaten around the bush way too long. So for now, I will do a handful of chapters before the big boi finale. I'm predicting the finale will be over 10k words. But I wanna ask this. Would you guys like the 8 Year Epilogue to be its own chapter or would you rather it be with the Finale chapter? I feel like it'd be weird to upload the "Finale" then release an Epilogue to set up the sequel. So how would you all like that?

Anyway, we have a small group of chapters left that'll be rather serious. Drama serious. Not action movie serious. Hope you lot enjoy the anticipation towards Tridon's choice!