Alisa heard a knock on her door and began to wonder who it could be since it was pretty late in the night, she opened the door and found Claire standing there waiting. Once she heard the door open Claire with a smile on her face before she spoke. "Hey, I hope I wasn't interrupting anything."

"No, I wasn't doing anything."

"Oh, okay. I just wanted to say thank you... for rescuing me. I appreciate it."

"I'm just glad you weren't hurt... or worse."

"Seriously, I'm glad you overcame your fear. If I died there, you have no idea how much she would hate if I left her."

"She cares about you, doesn't she?"

"Yeah," Claire said. "She's also really serious about the promises you make with her. Especially when it comes to me."

"You made a promise you wouldn't leave her?"

"Yeah, when we were kids. She made that promise with me when she started to trust me."

"Well then, don't do anything stupid to break your promise, got it?"

"I-... okay... I'll try not to do anything reckless." Claire said. "Oh, by the way, I forgot the other reason why I'm here. There's a mission the first unit has been assigned to do first thing in the morning. I already told everyone else."

"Thank you for letting me know."

"No problem. Well, goodnight. I'm off to bed." Claire said as she waved and made her way over to her room.

Once the helicopter touched down the first unit hopped off. Claire looked back at everyone before she watched the helicopter take off. They all headed off towards the mission area. "We're fighting a Yaksha. That's our only target. We don't have to fight the other small Aragami. This should be easy, but we should prepare for the unexpected, just in case." Claire said.

"You're right." Sakuya agreed. "It's never a good idea to underestimate your enemies."

"Sakuya and I will snipe it from a distance. Kota, you cover Soma and Alisa as they charge in. I'll occasionally come in to help when I run out of ammo. Got it?" Claire said.

"Got it!" Kota said.

Once they turned the corner they all noticed the Yaksha walking into one of the buildings. "Alright, everyone! You know what to do!" Claire said as she switched to her gun form and was the first to hit it. The Yaksha turned around and roared at the approaching God Eaters. The Yaksha prepared to fire its cannon, but Soma stopped it by slashing its cannon. The battle went on for five minutes everyone working together as best they could. Claire and Sakuya fired at it from a distance while Soma and Alisa attacked its legs. Claire aimed at its head and fired the bullet strong enough to break its bond. Claire tried to fire again but heard clicking from her God Arc so she quickly switched to her sword form but before you should go after the Aragami her eyes widened a bit in surprise as she noticed the Yaksha's arm cannon extended. The cannon aimed straight at the two snipers of the team while Claire and Sakuya dodged opposite directions. Claire was about to charge in when she suddenly noticed something in the corner of her eye. She glanced to the side and noticed four Orgetails in one of the buildings. "Orgetails?! I thought they were supposed to be..." Anger started to build up as she continued to stare at the small group of Orgetails. She looked back at her team and then back to the group of Aragami, she started to ignore the main target altogether as she charged after them.

Blood started to spurt out of the Yaksha as the battle went on, Kota smiled as they were very close to defeating the Aragami. He looked around to make sure everyone was okay, but he quickly noticed someone was missing. "Hey, Sakuya! Where's Claire?"

"What?" Sakuya looked around once Kota brought up that her teammate was missing. "She was here just a second ago!"

"Hey! Claire has engaged with the secondary target." Hibari said.

"Crap!" Kota said as Soma finished off the Yaksha. "We need to hurry! Claire might be in danger!"

After some searching, they were finally able to find Claire. They all found her in one of the broken-down buildings with four dead Aragami surrounding her and they watched as she repeatedly pulled out her God Arc and drove it back in until it dissolved.

"Damn it! Not again! This is the fourth time this happened!" Sakuya said.

"Huh?" Alisa didn't understand what they were talking about.

"Oh! That's right. This is the first time you saw her like this, hasn't it?"

"Y-Yeah."

"I don't know what it is, but she gets like this whenever she sees an Orgetail. She gets reckless and she's not as careful as she usually is. We tried asking her if she was alright, or why she acts like this. But she always says she's okay or she doesn't know."

"I didn't know that," Alisa said.

"Hey, do you know why she acts like that?" Sakuya asked. "The reason I'm asking is that I usually see her with you. So, do you know? And is it... okay... for you to tell us? I don't want to pry into other people's affairs."

"I do know, and I doubt she even knows why either," Alisa said. "It's because... of her parents."

"Her parents?"

"Yeah, her parents. Did she mention the thing that happened to us back when I was recovering from what happened?"

"Oh, yes, she did. What about it?"

"Well, I saw the memory of her parents... They were killed in front of her by the very thing that she killed this mission. It happened when she was a kid, an Aragami broke in and started to attack a bunch of citizens. Before it was taken down, Claire's parents were one of the victims of the incident."

"Oh... I think I know what incident you're talking about." Sakuya said.

"Really? Poor Claire." Kota said. "Are you going to tell her?"

"I don't know..."

"I think she deserves to know the truth," Sakuya said.

"Hey?" Everyone, except Soma, turned towards the voice. "Our pick is going to arrive soon," Claire said.

The helicopter ride back to the Far East was quiet and during the whole trip, Alisa watched Claire stare out the window while she held her left arm. Alisa noticed a red liquid drip down her forehead. Claire tried to subtly wipe it away before anyone noticed it unfortunately for her Alisa watched the whole thing.

Once the helicopter landed everyone went on with their business Claire tried to leave before anyone could ask any questions. Before she could make her escape Claire felt someone grab her shoulder and she looked back to see Alisa who looked slightly upset. "Come on." Was all Alisa said as she started to drag her.

"Um, to where?"

"The infirmary. We're going to treat your injuries."

"W-What? I'm fine, though. Nothing's wrong with me."

"Stop," Alisa said as she lets go of Claire's shoulder and turned to her. "I know something is wrong. When we were on the helicopter, I noticed you were holding your arm the whole time. You're still doing it." Alisa reached out grabbed Claire's arm and moved it out of the way, she didn't bother resisting and just let Alisa check up on her. "I knew it!" Alisa stared at the somewhat deep cut. "Why did you try to hide it?"

"I don't want people to worry about me. Especially, when I start to get like that." While Claire explained why she tried to hide her wounds, Alisa was checking for any more injuries. Alisa decided to check the last place she saw blood so she brushed some Claire's hair to the side and noticed a cut on the left side of her forehead.

"Geez... Come on, let's go."

"Okay."

Once they arrived in the infirmary it was mostly quiet while Alisa bandages her up. Claire reached for her slightly torn jacket and stared at it for a few seconds before she reached up to lightly touched the bandage on her forehead. Once Alisa finished wrapping up her arm, she walked away to put back the medical supplies. Everything was quiet for a while and Claire sighed a little. "Is she still upset with me?" Claire thought.

"I thought you promised someone you weren't going to do anything reckless."

"I know... I'm sorry." Claire said as she put on her coat. "I should have told you about that. It's been a problem since I became a God Eater. And I don't know why."

"Should I tell her? I don't know. I don't want her to become like me." Alisa thought.

"Is something wrong?"

"Huh? Oh, no. It's nothing." Alisa said. "Well, since you act like this. I guess I have no choice but to watch your back for now on."

"Uh, what?"

"If you're going to be acting like that in battle then I'll make sure you don't do anything stupid and reckless."

"Thank you... It is probably for the best if someone watched my back in case that happens again." Claire said as she stood up. "Well, I'm going to get some rest. I'll see you later. Thank you for taking care of my wounds."

Alisa watched as Claire left the room. "Maybe it is for the best that she doesn't know."