As had been sleeping for a while, the group were able to find somewhere for the Slifer to sleep in. When he is placed under a tree to rest, Rosa decides to sit beside Jaden and relax herself against the tree.
Seeing Jaden quickly wakes up in a shock, he seems to recall his duel with Jim and Axel and ends up realizing he had sent them to the stars.
"Calm down Jaden, they might be gone but Jesse isn't. You need to focus on finding and saving Jesse."
Aster tells him, but it doesn't seem like Jaden wanted to- feeling like he shouldn't be friends with anyone after what he had done to all his other friends; they were all sent to the stars. Having an ache again in his body, Jaden passes out.
As Aster picks Jaden's deck up and sees Super Polymerization, he is confused as to why it was there since he knew it wasn't there last time. As Zane comments that he would've loved to have a duel with the Supreme King. Somewhat- that kind of comment had worried Rosa and wasn't sure why he would want to do such a thing. It seemed so strange.
"Rosa, stay here with Jaden."
Aster says as he and Zane leave towards where the loud frightened scream was coming from. Returning moments later to find out that it was just Dr. Crowler and Echo.
Echo was a submarine captain who worked for the Gecko Company and also a childhood friend of Adrian's.
Although tall as she was, she had her hair rather short and styled up and pointly while keeping her feminine look with red lipstick and a short skirt.
As night falls, Aster goes up to Echo and hands her the locket she dropped that had Adrian.
"Are you here to save him?"
Aster asks, however as she was gripping her locket close to her, she decides to tell him the truth.
"No, Adrian is destined for greatness. He's the one who will rule this dimension without anyone having to hold him back."
Why would she think that? Why would Echo want Adrian to stay here instead of to return back to their own dimension? Aster was unsure about this but would eventually figure out why.
Surrounding them is a deep fog and suddenly everyone is transported to a cave where they meet Adrian. As Jaden who wakes up and feels sluggish and asks Adrian if he had seen Jesse, however he responded that he hadn't.
"In order for me to become the King of this dimension, I need enough duel energy, I need you here Echo."
Adrian says to her, knowing her feelings for him, knowing that she would do anything for him, despite the fact that he was just going to use that to his own advantage.
Aster was able to see it, and so was Rosa. She didn't understand why anyone would like someone who would just use them, take advantage of their feelings. The brunette could understand why Echo would want to do it, she had feelings for him- she must've seen something in Adrian to have such strong feelings for him.
Like she did with Aster, but at least Aster didn't know about them- even if he did, Rosa knew she would never take advantage of them and use them. He wasn't so mean like that, he was caring and also someone who was a valuable friend.
One thing Rosa didn't understand was when Aster stood up, why would he want to save Echo? That was her choice to sacrifice herself to him. Suddenly, she could feel tears run down her eyes. 'Why am I crying?'
"Echo!"
She hears Aster call out over and over again, telling her not to go to him, telling her that he's only using her.
'Why does my heart ache...?'
Rosa thought, her head lowered down and trying to not let anyone know how hurt she was feeling and wasn't even sure why.
However, she didn't know- that someone could tell she was upset and crying silently. How he wanted to comfort her, but what could he do? When he knew she loved Aster, and didn't want her to waste her time with someone like Aster Phoenix.
