Aoba was the first to get himself together but Kida was faster and answered to the girls

"Good morning ladies, we hope you had a good sleep and that the night wasn't too chilly, we're really sorry for the poor excuse of a breakfeast we have to present you today but we hope you'll enjoy it nevertheless"

The girls smiled and Saki leaned down toward her boyfriend to give him a kiss on the cheek, followed by "Thank you Kida", quickly followed by Anri's soft "Thank you"

Mikado blushed and looked away, taking two of the apples laying on his bag and presented the first one to Anri

"Here, it's the biggest"

Next to her, Saki smiled, "You're so cute Ryuugamine-kun"

Blushing again he gave the second apple to his best friend's girlfriend who thanked him too.

The other boys took the leftovers apples, Kida, waited for Mikado to bite in his own first. He felt guilty to be so sucpicious of his best friend but he couldn't help it and he swore he would never let anyone do any harm to Saki again.

Aoba on the other hand was entirely trustful of the boss of the Dollars, while he knew he would give anything to defend himself or his friends against any aggressor, he also knew that for now he still felt safe.

The young boy smirked, his sempai should pay more attention to his surroundings, despite everything he still was too trustful of his friends.

While eating they all studied the map, their mysterious kidnappers obviously didn't bother to mark down the watering places, they would have to use their brain and narrow down the places where it was most likely they would find something.

It wasn't easy for any of them, they all had been residents of Ikebukuro for far too long to ever have had to study a map of such a savage area.

Saki and Aoba were the ones who finally proposed for a place which seemed to be a valley, they agreed that such a place would be more likely to carry a river or a lake.

No one objected and they all got ready to move toward this place, Aoba leading the way, MIkado and Anri in the middle and the last couple following, Kida definitely not wanting to leave his back turned to Aoba, it was far too dangerous, he didn't really know him for long but he held the conviction that he was scheming something.

Aside from Kida's jokes and Mikado's constant questions to Anri about how she felt and if she wasn't too tired. She always smiled softly and answered "No, it's ok, thank you Ryuugamine-kun"

Every time Mikado's heart jumped of joy, beating a little faster.

Until Aoba saw something.