As Chamo releases his furry little grip from his straw, he bends over in his small chair, sighing.
"I miss Aniki!" A tear roll downs his eye.
"I bet they're having a lot of fun without me! As if they would, without their favorite comic relief..."
"...Uh, that's me, by the way."

He almost falls asleep when he notices a door open and is immediately filled with joy. It's a girls dorm room!
Excited, Chamo runs on the railing to make it to the door and closes it, not realizing the door had been propped open for quite some time.
"Where is it? WHERE?!" Chamo runs up and down the aisles of clothes, hoping to catch a glimpse of something... Pink, Blue, Red, it didn't matter! A glimpse of-
"PANTIES!" Chamo digs deep in the dirty clothes pile and retrieves his prize. He begins to sniffle it, and imagines a world where he was the only guy in the world, and all of the girls felt bad and decided to give him their panties for compensation.
"Hehehe." He lies in it, and miraculously falls asleep in it.
Some time later, Chamo felt a nudge at his foot.
"Leave me alone, will ya! I'm basking in the glory of-"

Clank!

"Huh..?" He sits up and couldnt believe his eyes. It was Chachamaru!
"My senses indicated a presence in my dormatory. Hello, Chamo." Chachamaru bowed.
"Weren't you supposed to go on that New Ala Alba trip?!"
"Ah. It seems Master wanted me to stay here, and 'protect the fort' in her words."
Before they left...

"Chachamaru! Come here." Evangeline pointed towards the robot, inching her to come to her.
"Yes, Master?"
"We're leaving soon, but I wanted to make sure of something. You see... I'm pretty sure Chamo will try to steal our panties, or at the very least sniff them. I want you to stay here and make sure that does not happen!"
Chachamaru, strangely, was reluctant to answer, but eventually agreed.

"Ah... Uhm, well, you see!" Chamo tried to reason his way out of a punishment.
"I see what?"
"You, uh, see... Uh, I just, really miss Evangeline and the gang this much! So much that I need something to remember them by, or at least a scent of them to reminisce!"
Chachamaru turned and looked at the panties, then turned back to Chamo with flaming eyes.
"However, as you can tell, those are my panties."
"Gack!" Chamo was stringed by the robot, regretting his choice immediately.

On the other side of campus, Konoka was sipping her tea and finishing writing the 10-page book report due in class the following Thursday that the substitute decided to assign in order to pass time.
"No way! I wrote it wrong again!" She erased and kept writing.
Their room looked no different than it did before they left. Papers stacked on Negi's desk, and Asuna's bed was still not made. She decided to keep it that way until they came back.
Finishing her report, she backs away from it and hisses, like a cat.
"Done! Done done done done done! Now get away from me!" She jumps onto her bed, pulling the covers over for a mid-day nap. She lies there, contemplating about her-
"I wonder how Matt and Setsuna are doing? I can't believe they decided to go on an 'important mission' without bringing me!" She turns over her covers and pouts.
"Why, I bet they aren't even on a mission! They're probably out doing lewd stuff in maybe the hotel down the street!" She keeps overthinking and eventually jumps off her bed, and quickly changes into her clothes.
"I'm going to go look for them! They're gonna be in soooo much trouble when I find them!~" She runs out of her dorm room, humming.

"ACHOO!"
"Bless you, Ma-
ah... AHHCHOO!"
"Ah, bless you!"

END

Woah!... Uhm... Hi there! This is awkward...

I know I've been away for a while! In fact, a very long while at that...

Well, although this chapter was short, consider this as my love letter towards you guys, as well as this series. It was a ton of fun writing again, which thankfully I was able to due in my spare free time.

College is just around the corner! (Yup, still in high school...) So I've been busy with things like graduating, college apps, and stuff.

On a personal note, I am loving UQ Holder! It's so interesting reading new characters and introducing them to Touta's (stolen) harem!

Other things I've been interested in recently are Final Fantasy, and K Project. K Project in particular, as it's second season is still airing and I highly suggest you watch it! I guarantee you won't hate it.

I can't promise I'll have another chapter out in the near future, but I absolutely promise to finish this story. I love what I've started, and I intend to finish it. Thank you so much to everyone whose stayed and are hopefully reading this note!

As a little preview (besides the "Next Time!"), there are only 2 chapters left in this series! Which hopefully will be longer than this chapter, haha.

Next Time!

Matt's Team, accompanied by the one and only Jack Rakan, face off against formidable allies in a battle to find Nogi...

The "Secret" Base!