Ekizen made his way towards he construction site and picked his way through some the construction material before he pulled out the bag that he had hidden there early that same morning. As he stood up Nonon grabbed his shoulder and when he looked back he saw that she was holding two medium sized boxes.

"What's all this about?" Ekizen asked her, nodding at the boxes.

"I don't remember you eating anything while we were at the Mankanshoku's place so I brought you some of Mrs. Mankanshoku's Mystery Croquettes." Nonon told him as she offered him one of the boxes.

Ekizen opened the box after he took it from her and smelled the croquettes.

"You must eat this a lot." Ekizen chuckled as he picked one up.

"Just shut up and eat it or I'll never save you any anymore." Nonon growled at him.

Ekizen smiled and slowly bit into the croquette he was currently holding.

"These are surprisingly go for being 'Mystery Croquettes'." Ekizen replied as he finished the one he had started eating.

"How do you know what they are?" Nonon asked him.

"The Primordial Life Fiber had been watching you." Ekizen told her.

"How'd they still lose then?" Nonon asked him.

"They got cocky and underestimated your race." Ekizen replied as he finished the croquettes and tossed the empty box behind himself.

"What are you, a bottomless trashcan?" Nonon asked him

"I might be." Ekizen retorted as he walked into one of the unfinished houses.

"Where are you going?" Nonon asked him.

"To sleep, because you know it's the night time and all." Ekizen replied.

"Well sooooorry, some of us have been mentally or physically most of today and honestly I'm not too tired." Nonon told him.

"I got an idea, since it the night time and neither of us have anything to do why don't I tell you about myself?" Ekizen asked her.

"Why do you think I would be interested in knowing about you?" Nonon asked him.

"Why else would you follow me out here?" Ekizen asked her as he laid out a few blankets and pillows on the floor of the unfinished house.

Nonon sighed and walked over to where Ekizen was and sat down on the pile of blankets.

"I'm just a girl that wanted to finally have a normal life." Nonon whispered as she hugged her legs.

"Ha! Normal is overrated anyways." Ekizen chuckled as he sat down beside her.

"Maybe to you, but other than being infused with Life Fibers your life must've been more normal than mine." Nonon told him.

Ekizen chuckled and shook his head softly as he looked at Nonon. "You couldn't be more wrong."

Ekizen gritted his teeth hard as the double hardened and barbed Life Fiber whip cut across his back and the Life Fibers within his body sprung to action and repaired the damage to his back that the whip had caused. He spat up a little bit of blood but forced himself back to his feet, chuckling softly to himself as he looked at the people watching him from the stands. His opponent was standing across from him, stretching easily as he watched Ekizen.

"Is that all those worthless Life Fibers of yours let you handle little boy?" The guy asked him.

Ekizen only brushed his long pure white bangs out his face and yanked a Life Fiber out his wrist to tie his hair back as his amber colored eyes scanned his surroundings slowly. He took in the copperish smell of the blood in the air and felt the painful miniscule grains of sand beneath his bare feet. Ekizen knew that he didn't actually stand a chance against the guy that stood in front of him, he had already lost a lot of blood and his vision had started to blur slightly. He stumbled forward and the guy just slammed his fist into Ekizen's back throwing him down to the ground, but as Ekizen neared the ground he pushed his hand into the sand and kicked the guy in the face. The guy grabbed Ekizen foot and chucked him into the nearby arena wall. Ekizen dropped to the ground and coughed up more blood as he struggled to his feet.

Ekizen shot forward disappearing completely as he repeated rammed his fist into the guy's stomach, chest, and face. He was hoping to any sort of damage to his opponent Ekizen was only swatted to the side again. The guy stomped on Ekizen's arm and even though it snapped his Life Fibers quickly worked to repair it. Before he could even retaliate the guy punched him hard in the face, shattering his nose before breaking a couple of his ribs. It continued without him being able to get a single punch in and hiss was tossed back into his cell-like room after the fight was over. Ekizen didn't have any energy to move as he just laid on the floor and groaned as his Life Fibers slowed down in repairing him so that they didn't kill him with blood loss in the process. He looked up slowly as there was the shadowy outline of a female outside his room window. He crawled to his window and looked up to see a girl with bright purple eyes and dirty blonde hair.

"Why you here Jarisa?" Ekizen asked her.

"You need someone to patch you up when your Life Fibers stop." Jarisa replied as she watched him. "Now let me in."

Nonon rose an eyebrow and glanced at Ekizen.

"Wait you have white hair and amber colored eyes?" Nonon asked him.

"Yeah, what do you see?" Ekizen asked her.

"Well you have black hair and brown eyes." Nonon told him.

"I guess my Life Fibers gave this look to blend into the crowd." Ekizen said as his hair grew out and turned white again and the amber color returned to his eyes. "How do I look?"

"I uh…shut up." Nonon growled at him. "You freaky looking boy."

Ekizen chuckled and gently kissed Nonon's forehead and laid so that his back was to her as she blushed slightly.

Ekizen shot up and looked around to find that he was surrounded by an impenetrable darkness even though he was able to see himself.

"Nonon, are you there?" Ekizen shouted.

"She's fine, Ki don't worry." A guy said.

Ekizen spun around and found himself face to face with a guy his height but with pure red eyes and black hair.

"Who the hell are you?" Ekizen asked him. "What the fuck did you do to Nonon?"

"I didn't do anything to your little girlfriend." The guy told him as he flicked Ekizen in the forehead.

"She isn't my girlfriend, and you didn't answer my question." Ekizen replied.

"My name is Samiel, or you may know me as Sound Rift." Sound Rift told him.