Here's chapter 94.

On this new day, Haida and Retsuko were on their way to work, being accompanied as always by their friends Ookami and Fenneko. When they went to leave Hana at their house, they saw why Haida the day before wanted to take longer to return home. From the expression that Retsuko had regarding Haida, it seemed that he kept everything from her about it and for that reason she might have been upset with him. Even now that they thought about it, they hadn't spoken to each other all the way. Retsuko was with her calm face, Haida on the other hand had a look that mixed the emotions of shame and regret. But he didn't dare say anything, and the way they were both acting caused a certain tension that made Ookami and Fenneko feel uncomfortable as well. Even for some reason the people close to them on the train felt that same feeling.

On the red panda and hyena side, things had been a bit bad. After they got back from karaoke, dinner was practically awkward because of the amount of people gathered at home, but they would have to save face, because they didn't want to make anyone feel unwelcome. And apart from not wanting to worry Koka, they had to keep up appearances of how Retsuko felt towards Haida for having hidden this from her. It's more when everyone went to sleep. Retsuko had been unreceptive to physical contact with Haida at that time, even as he tried to hug her, she pulled away from him, thus he gave up. It was for that reason that he decided better to let his wife have a little time alone, and he went to sleep on the living room couch. Throughout the night he was a bit uncomfortable trying to sleep there, so much so that it reminded him of the time he had to sleep in an internet cafe years ago.

When dawn came, Haida woke up first. And he went to the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee. He didn't know how long he had slept, for it took him a long time to conceive the dream. But at least it was enough not to feel tired in the morning. While he drank his coffee, little by little the rest of his relatives arrived to prepare breakfast. When Retsuko arrived he tried to say good morning to her, but his words didn't come out of his mouth, all the adults noticed this, but they tried to look like they didn't. Well, everyone except Juzo, who wasn't even interested in that. The last to arrive for breakfast was Koka, who had no idea of the situation his parents were going through, but the less he knew, the better, since they didn't want him to worry about things like this. It was already enough with what was happening outside the home, to worry him with family problems at that time.

Once they were in the building, and while Retsuko and Fenneko changed their clothes, Haida and Ookami waited for them outside. Haida still looked pathetic with the expression he had on his face at that moment. Ookami was aware of how Haida sometimes tended to get into trouble similar to this for keeping secrets like this. The red maned wolf knew some of the stupid things his friend did in the past, but he also found out about others from things his wife told him. Not that he liked to criticize his friend, but as many had said in the past, Haida was a idiot on several occasions. And he knew he wasn't the only one who had that thought about him. Since Retsuko, Fenneko and Gori stated that in the past as far as he found out. On Washimi's side, he didn't know if she really thought that about Haida at some point, since she was quieter, didn't show her emotions and didn't say her opinion about others out loud very often, so it would be hard to know if she thought the same as the others.

When the respective wives of both finally left the dressing room with their uniforms, the 4 went to their workplace. They were the first to arrive at the place that day. In earlier days, their new co-workers were the first to arrive, and if it wasn't them, it would be Anai or Kabae. At least they could sit back and relax a bit while the others arrived. Ookami and Fenneko sat down for a while to talk in the area where Ookami usually works. Haida and Retsuko were in the area where they both worked, as Haida had always sat right in front of Retsuko ever since they started working there, and also since Haida came back to the company a few years ago. He knew that this was the opportunity to talk to Retsuko to finally apologize for that secret that he kept from her for three days. He knew that Retsuko wasn't completely mad at him anymore, but if she could see that she was still frustrated about it, he had to find the right words to apologize.

"Retsuko. Listen, I know I was an idiot not to tell you about our relatives staying at home, and I know when I found out I should have told you. And I have no valid excuse for keeping that from you and trying to extend the amount of time for you to find out. But I will do anything to try to fix things" said the hyena, speaking in a low voice.

"Haida, you don't have to worry, I'm not mad at you anymore. When I woke up in the morning I was already feeling better from last night. I didn't say anything before, because we couldn't have a second alone to talk about this until now" said the red panda.

"So. Is it okay between us?"

"More or less. We will have to see how living together with the rest of our relatives will be and there is also a part in which you have to be completely honest with me regardless of whether you know that I'm not going to like that at first ".

"Alright. No lies from now on."

While they were having that conversation, Ookami and Fenneko were watching them from afar.

"Looks like they just settled their little conflict. Don't you think? asked the red maned wolf.

"I think so, although meeting them at some point one of the two is going to cause something" replied the fennec fox.

Just then their co-workers began to arrive, so Fenneko went to sit at her workstation, next to Retsuko. And thus begin the workday of that day.

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At that time, at the detective agency, the agents had divided up in order to locate Eggman's new base as quickly as possible. They had dispersed to every continent on the planet. Searching in every corner. They were lucky that most of the agents hadn't had missions in recent times, since they would be available for this. The boss was in constant communication with each and every one to find out how the information was going so far. That morning had been quite a busy one for Agent Winters and the others who were servicing the vehicles before the field agents left. Fortunately there were as many mechanics as well to be able to carry out the job as quickly as possible.

Even in Tokyo, the agents Honey, Hugo and Morris were looking for signs in the city that could give clues as to whether during the attack on Saturday they had left anything that could help to know Eggman's new location or where his next attack could be. It was for this reason that Tokyo Summer Land had been closed during the day while the investigations were being carried out. They checked the area in which the mobians fought Eggman's robots three days ago. So far they had managed to find one of the bombs that for some reason didn't detonate when the robots dropped it. It had fallen on the branch of one of the trees, and since it had been there, nobody had found out that it was there in all these days, luckily it was not activated, because it would have caused panic in the place.

In one of the hotels, Jack was. Since he had been given the order to do nothing until absolutely necessary, he was a bit bored at the moment. But he couldn't disobey an order, he had never done it and it would never cross his mind to do so. He had his communicator open to listen to the reports from the other agents. Nick and Judy, who saw him quite focused on that, decided to accompany him to also be aware of how the search for the main enemy of the mobians was going. Even at one point they will be able to hear the voices of all mobians through the communicator, both adults and children on the search. It seems that they decided to unite to be of more help. Although he couldn't tell if the mobians were in the city or on another part of the planet.

While listening to what the other agents were saying, they were shocked to hear about the bomb not going off the day they were in Tokyo Summer Land. Because neither they nor the mobians had found out about them. Everyone thought that they had still been destroyed that day. Not even the others present in that place had noticed it and there were several people there. At least they could be found before it was too late. When they brought it to the agency they could find out how such bombs could go off, but without doing physical harm to anyone. But apart from that discovery, there was nothing else they could have located in that place or in any nearby area. Not in the whole city. The mobians themselves had warned that Eggman was planning something big if he hadn't been seen in several days.

The fox and the two rabbits were already worrying that with everyone looking for Eggman, it's not that they were scared, since they had been through serious things in the past, but they were afraid that something bad could happen to one of them, to Finnick , the children, Nick's mother or Judy's parents. They didn't want to imagine what Eggman would do if he caught them all. From what Sonic and the others told them, Eggman could be very sadistic when he wanted to. With that they could imagine what horrible things they could do to them for being linked in a certain way with the mobians. Though they knew that regardless of whether or not he had met the mobians, Eggman would catch them regardless even if they hadn't found the chaos emeralds. Since he would have used them as bait to catch the mobians.

While these three were worrying about this issue. In the living room they could hear Nicole and Jerry playing with Finnick. It could be seen that the twins were having fun playing with their "uncle" and that they didn't have any worries about what was happening out there. If only that sense of security that the children were feeling at that moment were to be permanent, none of the adults would be afraid of what could happen to them in the following hours, days, or even weeks. In those moments, a dark idea began to pass through their minds. What if Eggman did a surprise attack, he captured the children and subjected them to horrific torture? No, they couldn't let that happen to them, although if the surprise attack happened, they should come up with a plan to keep the children hidden in case it did.

So far the chapter. I hope you liked it.