At the Ozu-residence, all was quiet. Too quiet maybe, for this anything but ordinary family. Each and everyone of them had something on their mind, as though there last victory wasn't something they should be celebrating.
"What should we do now?" Makito wondered, "I mean, we're supposed to keep our being magicians a secret, but now... I mean, after what Zedd did,..."
"The effects of what he gave Erico-tachi should be wearing off." Tsubasa assured him, "But... we don't know what he's told them, or anything about it's after-effects. It's possible they don't remember a thing, or only flashes."
"That's re-assuring." Makito sounded dry.
"With Zedd gone, you'd think they'd be celebrating, nyau?" Smokey whispered to Mandora-boy.
"Not even Houka is that cheerful. That can't be right." Mandora-boy replied.
"Which reminds me." Urara suddenly remembered, "Last time, Yamazaki-san seemed to know you're a magician, Kai-chan."
"I didn't tell her." Kai insisted.
"It's a rule to not tell anyone." Isamu reminded them, "But we can't help it if someone found out for themselves."
"In which case, if Zedd told her about you, he didn't tell her what she didn't already know." Hikaru sounded confident.
"But what about Sutokeru?" Houka decided to say something, "Doesn't anyone care about what's happening to him?"
"With how he keeps treating us?" Kai remarked, "Why should we?"
"Maybe not him." Tsubasa then started, "But Ginny won't leave his side, won't eat or sleep, she would die if something doesn't happen fast."
"In other words, to help her, we must help him?" Makito wondered.
"Pretty much." Tsubasa answered.
"The only problem, we still don't know what's wrong with him." Miyuki reminded them.
"I know that defeating Zedd would have him killed." Isamu remembered, "And although Zedd's gone, Sutokeru is still alive, but in a sort of coma."
"This is a unique case, even for magic's standards." Hikaru mentioned.
In an upstairs room, where the very people they were talking about. The one lying in bed, in a coma, called Sutokeru, whose mind, unbeknown to the others, is stuck inside the realm of Zedd's sphere. Next to the bed, is Ginny, who started to look different from last time she was seen. Her hair had started to look more whitish and her skin paler, but now that she's been seeing more light ever since, all the color started to return, including the color of the circles that appeared around her eyes. In the palm of her right hand, she had a pentagram burned into it's skin. Last time she saw him, before he helped her, he had shown that he too had that same thing burned in the palm of his hand. When those hands touched each other, it somehow disconnected her from the beast that housed inside of her. With her burned hand holding his, she hoped that something like that would help again, but nothing happened so far. She hoped that talking would somehow help.
"Matt..." she began, tears running from her eyes, "I... remember the first time we ever met? I... I wasn't quite myself at the time. I remember... somehow, when that Ze... thing, kept me, I started remembering things I've done. Including attacking you. I... I never... never dreamed that you could forgive for that and... I know, you said you did but... I tried to hold on to that thought and... then you showed me what you've done. I thought... I thought you just burned your hand and were afraid of showing me. But that was the only lie you ever told me, wasn't it? You... you were just afraid of telling me how you truly feel. You were just as afraid as I was. But now... neither one of us should be afraid anymore. Ever again. Right?"
She had no way of knowing whether he heard any of these things, or not. All she could do, was hope. What she didn't know, is that he still had the white sphere in his pocket, which he used in his last battle.