A silver blaze came between the Dekas and Jasmine. Whatever it was, or did, it made the Dekas fall down, and deactivated their suits. The confusion of the six's sudden motivation had confused Jasmine in such a way that not even she knew what just happened, dispite that that blaze had touched her. It took her a few moments to recognise the silver suit that stood with his back in front of her, holding up his sword.
"You really should learn to say less and talk faster!" the silver man said.
Ban was the first to open his eyes and see who just grounded them: "...You?"
"Wells!" Umeko was the first to show any kind of enthousiasme, "I was beginning to wonder when you're gonna show!"
"Umeko..." Doggy didn't sound pleased at this news, "Didn't I tell you he'd slow us down?"
"That's... exactly why I encouraged her to call him!" Sen intervened, "I'm sorry, Boss! I'll take full responcibility!"
Wells didn't care about what they had to say to each other. He turned himself to face Jasmine, as he undid his Dekasuit. Jasmine wasn't at all impressed, and raised her right hand in his direction. From the eyes of the other six, it wasn't clear what she was doing, or trying to do, but what is certain is that it made her change the expression that was on her face, from a smirk to a sort of fright. For a split second, one could swear that her outfit changed into her nightgown and back again.
"What was that?" Hoji asked, as if anyone could explain this to him.
"Was that another illusion?" Umeko asked.
"Nonsense!" Tetsu added.
"What is this?" Jasmine sounded frightened, "No! You can't...!"
"Yes... I can!" Wells replied to her, "I can assure you that whatever you sense in me, it's all real!"
Jasmine had sensed a powerfull emotion going through Wells. But she was surprised to find out what it was. It wasn't fright, nor anger, but love! How could he possibly feel love, for a monster like her? Everything was starting to come back to her. Who she was, as well as what she had just done. She couldn't keep herself from standing up like this, nor could she hold on to her red and black look, and kept shifting back into her nightgown.
"Not even that outfit is real!" Wells remarked.
"No..." Jasmine tried to keep stability, "NO... I don't want you to see me like this! Bill... I..."
"Marika, please!" Wells interrupted her, "There's nothing to be ashamed of!"
She looked up at him, as he moved closer to her.
"Look at all those buildings!" Sen said to the rest of his team, as he pointed out that the buildings that were distroyed by the kaijuuki kept shifting from being destroyed to not being destroyed.
"What is he doing?" Hoji wondered, as from his point of view neither Wells or Jasmine had said a word. Whatever conversation is taking place between the two is happening in their minds.
"All those times we had spend alone..." Wells kept telling Jasmine, "I sometimes thought you sere sending your thoughts to me! It was then that I knew for sure that those gloves were just a façade! You're a lot more powerfull than that! But this... this exceeds my wildest fantasies!"
"You... your wildest...?" Jasmine couldn't believe what she's hearing.
"Yes!" Wells couldn't be helped to think otherwise.
A tear came from her eye, as well as a smile that appeared on her face. Suddenly, she decided to stay in her nightgown, and fell down to her knees. Wells took of his jacket, and wrapped it around Jasmine.
"Even that outfit was an illusion?" Wells said out loud, and at the same time was trying to hide his enthousiasme, "A little disappointing actually."
Jasmine couldn't help to laugh out loud. Still, she laid her head on his shoulder, and cried.
The other six were baffled at the sight of this. Who'd have thought that Wells deep feelings for Jasmine could not only run deeper, especially after all this, but was also the only way to stop her.
"He did it..." Ban especially couldn't believe, "That westerner actually did it!?"
"He never seases to amaze me!" Doggy said.
While they were expressing their amazement, Wells and Jasmine still had something else on their minds.
"What's happened to me?" Jasmine asked, "How could this happen, Bill?"
"I don't know." Wells replied in all honesty, "When Umeko called me, she just told me... well she didn't tell me anything specific, I just came as fast as I could."
When Jasmine appeared to cry even more, Wells added: "Although, she did tell me that it somehow involves Thomas Harris over there!"
Wells looked at Hoji when he said that, and Jasmine followed his lead. All Hoji could do was look back, even more frightened than he was before Wells had put an end to this.
Note: The above statement was not meant as an insult to Thomas Harris. The reason I wanted Wells to call Hoji by that name, id because Hoji's last name (Tomasu) is a pun on Thomas Harris's first name. Additionnaly, Thomas Harris is the crime-novelist that wrote all the Hannibal Lecter related books