Hiro lies on his bed with a closed eye, an eye that is going to open soon.

Did Hiro dream up the entire experience and mistakes it for reality? Did he know that it was a red herring, since he saw the girl with red horns?

Besides her, there were other signs it must had been fake. There's no way he could've confused the blue fluid in the Franxxs with the Klaxosaur's blood, he known that the substances were different. There's no way a Franxx would ever resembled a monster or even functioned with only one rider. There was nothing that stated that Franxxs had multiple forms.

Perhaps, Hiro secretly antagonized the Franxxs the whole time, his imagination just went when they're involved.

Before Hiro begins to open his eye to reality, he thinks about what will happen in the real world.

He hopes he can do what is done in his dreams.

He feels heat from a body that wraps its arms around him. This might be the sign of a new beginning.

Hiro opens his eye.

Face to face, he sees a girl with long pink hair and red horns. She is smiling at him.

"Woken up, Darling?" She released her familiar voice.

Hiro didn't dreamed up anything, it actually happened!

16 lies on the floor, his pillow covers up his face and his body is turned away from Hiro's bed. The kid's hatred is still burning high.

If Hiro was aware of boobs, he would had known that the two soft pillows on his chest weren't pillows.

The girl is on Hiro's bed and she is hugging him. Her hug is comforting for Hiro, but she is still a girl and Hiro is unfamiliar to their kind of distinct skin and body. He fears the unknown.

Hiro ask a girl a favor, "Can you please get out of my bed?"

The girl rolls out of Hiro's bed and lands on 16's bed, which isn't used by 16 himself for obvious reasons (considering that the girl barely does anything to get on there). Despite the new distance between her and Hiro, she is still smiling at the boy, but she looks a bit more naughty.

Hiro finally notices that the girl is wearing white headband that makes her horns appear fake, and a long-sleeved jacket.

It was the same jacket that was placed on her body from yesterday, meaning she still didn't had her fancy clothes. Meaning, she wore nothing underneath her jacket.

He is quite amused. A hill rises up from Hiro's blanket.

The horned girl looks at Hiro's achievement. She smiles a little wider and she places her finger on her teeth. Her finger scratches at her teeth and her eyes have a perverted desire.

The bedroom door opens, Ichigo walks into the room. She looks at 16's bed, she has gotten angry that 16 still doesn't follow her orders and there is another disobeyer on 16's bed.

The girl in the cap yells at the disobedient girl, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE! You're supposed to be in the attic!"

The tall girl on the bed ignores the small teenager, she continues to stare at Hiro. Hiro doesn't even care about the noise, he is too fascinated on the horned girl. 16 is dreaming about the day Ichigo allows him to sleep in the attic.

The small girl is angry, but she wonders what the horned girl is staring at. Ichigo looks at the road's destination, she becomes the second member of Hiro's audience.

For a moment, Ichigo stares at blanket mountain. However, she snaps out of the brainwashing.

Ichigo growls. "No! This shouldn't be allowed! Boys and girls are supposed to live in separate beds, Iota.

If you don't follow this, I will kick you out of here. Understand?"

The girl on the bed is frustrated. "Fine."

The horned girl stands on the bed and jumps on it. She nods to Hiro and grabs his attention. Before she jumps to the ground, she lifts up her jacket then quickly pulls it.

Ichigo is disgusted by the lack of decency, she tugs her cap and covers her eyes . Hiro breathes hard and heavy, he wonders what is wrong with himself.

The girl, in only one piece clothing , leaves out of the room with a smug on her face.

She had shown some competition against the competitor.

—-

Downstairs, there is a dining table. The horned girl sits on the seat that's reserved for 16, which will be great news for him because Hiro's reserved seat is next to it.

The horned girl's white jacket is stained in honey.

All of her food is eaten and nearly all of the honey is drained out, yet she stays on her seat.

She is waiting for someone.

The squad members come to this room, all of them are filled with disappointment. Unlike the girl, the squad members are following their schedule (except for Hiro).

Zorome and Miku are depressed when they find that only a couple of ounces of honey in a tiny adorable glass. Zorome is bitter when Miku yells at him for grabbing it, but he ultimately gives it up.

Goro witnessed that scene. He would've killed for that glass of honey but he knew it would've disturbed the peace.

Ikuno is more of a fan of having strawberries in her pancakes. However, she finds that the strawberries are gone. She tries to apply other fruits to her pancakes but they're also gone

Futoshi doesn't seem surprised by the disappearance of the fruits. It's unusual because he's normally is the first guy to place them on his plate. Also, he's normally first guy to get furious in this kind of situation.

Kokoro looks at her plate with the same boring smile on her lips and eats the piece of tasteless card as if nothing has happened.

Mitsuru just grabs a plate and finds food to shove onto it. After he has done that, he hardly looks or touches his food, he just reads a book and acts like nothing odd has happened this mourning.

Ichigo takes off her cap and scratches her head, while she stares at the completely plain waffles on her plate. She looks at the horned girl with frustration.

16 doesn't care, he just wants to follow the protocol and eat his plain food, he has to finish it before Hiro arrives. Unfortunately for him, Hiro has arrived.

Now, the one-eyed boy can witness the impressive scenery of a table full of plain and tasteless food. He hears some patting on wooden material. He looks at the sound's origins and finds a pinked-haired girl patting at his seat.

He decides to take his seat even though eating nothing is a better option at this point.

He walks to his seat, almost everyone at the dining table stares at him and the tall girl, the scene is too odd. The way the girl behaves is just strange in general, but seeing Hiro acting this way is also strange, he actually seems to be less depressed to be here.

Before Hiro takes his seat, the tall girl gently holds his hand as he lowers down his body, comforting him. She releases her grip when Hiro lands on his chair.

Now, Hiro looks at his empty plate. Before he is about to pick it up, the horned girl takes out food from her jacket pockets and puts them on Hiro's plate. The plate is now a place for fruit, ham, and bread, all the them are covered in honey.

The squad has been shocked, they haven't suspected that bread is supposed to be served this mourning.

Futoshi takes out his hand from his pocket, he nervously bites into his piece of bread. But no one notices it, their attention is on the girl and the food that has appeared on Hiro's plate.

Hiro looks at the food, but he doesn't have an appetite (as usual). He just weakly stabs on the ham with the fork.

Hiro's audience stares at him, wondering if he will actually eat that disgusting ham.

He stabs it and stabs it again, but he can't will himself to eat or will himself with some pride. The food itself doesn't bother him, the selfishness of eating it doesn't bother him, but the fact he gets to eat it does bother him. Why does he deserve it?

The horned girl grabs the sticky ham, everyone expects her to eat it, but she shows her ham-filled hand to Hiro. "Come on, Darling, say 'aah'!"

Mitsuru looks away from with a disturbed face, with eyes of paranoia. He finally witnesses the scene.

Zorome finds the whole thing hilariously childish, but the other squad members generally don't even grasp at any ideas. They are confused.

Hiro blinks a bit and looks side to side, before he opens his mouth. "Ahhhhhhh."

The girl gently places the ham onto his mouth. After landing on there, he manages to swallow it whole.

She closes her eyes and smiles to the one-eyed boy.

Hiro actually swallowed that honey-covered abomination.

In the view of the disturbed. Miku holds her mouth with one hand, feeling the urge to puke. She throws the tiny glass of honey to Zorome.

Only because the glass is approaching his face, Zorome catches it. As Zorome looks at the disgusting object in his hands, he tongue pops out and his scowl forms hard and solid. Goro takes the glass out of the boy's hands.

Hiro and the pink-haired girl are the only ones that are enjoying this breakfast, not including two teenage boys, one tall, one a bit round in shape. It's a mystery as to why the round one is in a good mood.

After Hiro finishes his longest breakfast (with a helping hand) and most of the audience has disappeared, the horned girl makes a bratty demand, "Darling, you have to go outside with me!"

"Huh?"

"I have spent my time and energy to help you digest your food. I'm not going to leave without an exchange from you."

"You do know I have already told you my name is Hiro."

"I know, Darling. People called me Iota when I said 'I am 02.'"

Did Hiro run into another person that hates names?

"Ok… 02. You just want to go outside with me? For what?"

"Something ridiculous, like feeding food to a toddler."

"You want to feed baby birds with me?"

02 wasn't referring to any birds.

02 grabs Hiro's arm, "Enough talking, Darling. It's time to go!"

Ichigo tries to stop 02's show. "No, Iota. It's against policy to walk around outside in outfits like that. Until you wash that outfit, you can't leave this place!"

Shocking Hiro and Ichigo, 02 unbutton her sticky jacket and takes it off her body. "It's been a chore to wear that thing."

02 grabs some napkins from the table to wipe away the remaining honey that is on her body, which is a lot.

Ichigo holds her teeth tightly and her eyebrows tries to clash with the other. "No. You can just walk around like that, it's against policy.

An exhausted 16 pops in and reveals the outlandish. "It's policy to only walk around in our non-private or reserved grounds when our outfits approaches the standards for those areas, but there's no policy to actually wear an outfit."

"No, there is no way that it can be true." Ichigo can't believe that such a ridiculous loophole like that has ever existed, not just because the horned girl has a better body than her.

Hiro calls to 02. "So, 02…what should we do today?"

02 turns to Ichigo with a grin of mockery.

"But 16 is just making stuff up, he just wants you to leave 'his peaceful territory." Ichigo argues.

"But Me and 16 were the only ones that recently checked the rules again just for the exam. I believe that we just taken that exam just a few hours ago."

Hiro never realized how much time had passed when he was knocked out.

16 points to the area behind him, it's his way of saying 'leave'.

The naked 02 grabs Hiro's arm and happily drags the boy to the front door.

16 picks up 02's jacket, he points to upstairs, where the washing machine is at. "Your role, your responsibility, code 015."

Code 015, Ichigo, sighs.

—-

Hiro is standing in front of the front door, which is left unopened. He is struggling to even put his hand on the door's handle.

02 lays her body on the door Hiro is supposed to open. She giggles when Hiro pulls his hand away from the door handle

After 02 noticed how Hiro had been much more sluggish when after she taken off the jacket and left herself bare, she made him a simple challenge, to open a door. She said she wanted Hiro to not be an inactive partner and this was a test he must pass. The mad man actually participated in the demon's trail.

Fought now, Hiro has to be in front of a naked 02. He's not allowed to close his eye. And he can't look away from her.

After so many failed attempts at touching the door handle, this time his slowly progresses and slowly reaches to the handle. This time, Hiro actually touches it.

02 looks at Hiro's brave hand and claps at it. "You know, if I can go out like this, you don't need the clothes on you."

Hiro hesitates to let go of the door. He gives 02 a painful expression that rises his eyes and tightens his lips to form an upside down smile.

"Aside from the eyepatch, of course!" She says.

Hiro tries to ignore what she says, he turns the door handle. "Game's over, 02."

02 steps away for the door. "Awwww. Next time, I wouldn't make it this easy"

Hiro is terrified.

Hiro opens the door quickly to release all of the urge and stress that challenge has built up. Instead, fear rudely comes to him.

Outside, there is a neatly dressed tall figure that blocks away the delightful morning sun just by standing in front of it. The well-posed figure castes an enormous shadow over Hiro and 02. The enforcer is here.