"It is an extremely magnificent sight. Sometimes, even though I've seen it quite often, the view seems surreal." Nova commented.
"So, did I miss anything important?" Naomi pondered.
"Not at all. And I completely forgot, I'm not sure if you got the info or not but your father's working at S-FIT again. It seemed he was working at the Tokyo hospital." Nova informed.
"Yeah, I was in the vents trying to get intel. Lately, I've been determined to get ahold of my file from Sumeragi. Last I heard the total number of Septimas on my file was twenty three." Naomi rambled.
"They're looking into the possibility of you having more Septimas." Nova notified.
"I saw last time at the base of the orbital elevator that the weather was pretty stormy. Can you see different types of weather patterns from space?" Naomi asked.
'I can see where the clouds and hurricanes are depending, but I can't see anything else. the lights from the cities cause me to become a little earth sick is the only way I can describe it." Nova added.
"Do they allow you to return to visit?" Naomi wondered.
"The only time I'm allowed to come back is for business reasons." Nova replied.
"How often do you come back?" Naomi questioned.
"A few times a month." Nova answered.
"Have you ever thought about quitting working for the Sumeragi?" Naomi pondered.
"I never have, and I'm always being kept busy. So I don't have time to think about anything other than the job I'm doing." Nova stated.
"I don't think anyone gets paid enough for doing this kind of work." Naomi mumbled.
"I'm impressed that you're still standing after obrtaining so many Septimas." Nova commented.
"They say I'm a Primal Dragon so I can hold a lot of Septimas. Last I heard they're still trying to see if there's a limit." Naomi reminisced.
"It's fascinating to see how far the Sumeragi's come since the Heian period." Nova muttered.
"There's times I wonder when they decided to get involved with the Adepts and Septimal stuff." Naomi added.
"There's been a panic that started amongst a lot of the Sumeragi soldiers recently. If I'm not mistaken, it started after you caused the soldier in the street to explode." Nova remembered.
"Well there goes my secret." Naomi laughed.
"You thought we'd believe it was an attack from Raptor?" Nova noticed.
"That and all of the other Septimas I have that another Adept has." Naomi admitted.
"Are you regretful of leaving the Sumeragi?" Nova asked.
"The decision still haunts me." Naomi lied.
If I was honest just now then I would've said that it was leaving QUILL that haunts me. Naomi thought.
suddenly, the limo came to a stop.
"Well, it looks like we're here. It'll take a while to get to the top." Nova stated.
Back at QUILL, everyone recieved a group text from Naomi saying that she was at the orbital elevator and that she'd message them when it was 'a good day to visit'.
"I think she felt bad for messing up the last two missions so she decided to try and prove that she could succeed." Gunvolt theorized.
"I feel sorry for her." Zeno commented.
"Asimov, aren't you going to do something about it?" Moniqa worried.
"There's nothing we can do other than wait. Copen may intervene on her behalf as well." Asimov added.
"It's like he's an entirely different person." Gunvolt noticed.
Meanwhile, the Lyoko group was reading the same text the QUILL members recieved from Naomi not too long a go. Yumi sent a 'good luck', Aelita sent a virtual hug sticker, Ulrich sent a GIF of a samurai slicing down a mannequin, Odd sent a sad emoji crying with its eyes shut and Jeremy set a message in binary that said 'be careful and stay safe up there'. Naomi happily looked at the messages. At the sanatorium, Mytyl, Lola and Copen were starting to get worried about Naomi.
Even Nori was beginning to have her suspicions.
"Something's not right here." Copen noticed.
"Maybe the thing that's not right is Naomi because she's not here." Lola guessed.
"Now that you meantion it I haven't seen her for a little while." Copen noted.
"Maybe she's at work." Lola supposed.
That's when Copen decided to grab Lola and go the the QUILL HQ building. When they reached the facility, the two decided to use the stairs. Upon storming the 8th floor where Naomi worked, Copen whipped out his gun and had it aimed forward.
"Oh no not this again." Zeno groaned.
"Where's Naomi? Answer me Adept! What did you do with her?" Copen interrogated.
"Hey man, I didn't do nothin' ta her man I swear! Look, if ya put the gun down we can talk! Just the two of us!" Zeno assured.
Copen nodded and put his gun back in its holster on his side. They sat at the table in the break room to negotiate. Copen sat at the side of the table closer to the doorway while Zeno sat in the chair closer to the back of the room. (Poor Zeno didn't know Copen sat near the exit in case Zeno tried to pull anything.)
"Do ya want somethin' ta drink 'fore we start? Milk, coffee, water?" Zeno offered.
"I'll take some, keep it black." Copen agreed.
After making the coffee, Zeno put the styrofoam cup on the table in front of Copen.
"is there anything you know about what happened to my sister?" Copen asked.
"Naomi was supposed to do a mission a couple of weeks ago but because of her vacation and somethin' that happened, she decided ta take the responsibility upon herself an' initiate the mission earlier than the postponed date." Zeno explained.