Naomi put her phone away and sat at her work desk. during lunch, Naomi went with Zeno, Xiao and Gunvolt to a new ramen shop. Naomi ordered cheese ramen, Zeno and Xiao ordered their Naruto style ramen (since Xiao had been reading the manga and Zeno had been playing the games.) and Gunvolt got the beef ramen.

"Is the candy shop nearby? I wanted ta get Mytyl some konpeito." Naomi spoke.

"I was hoping to get Joule some too. It's across the street." Gunvolt stated.

"Speakin' a candy, how's your pals in France?" Zeno wondered.

"Great actually, Yumi's mom gave me a pair of chopsticks." Naomi smiled

"I'd love ta see em one day." Zeno added.

"Xiao, how's your comics been?" Naomi queried.

"I've been organizing them based on the alphabetical order of the series name then by the issue number. All I have to do now is decide whether or not I want to get the protective sleeves." Xiao responded.

"Speakin' a protective sleeves, I still can't believe the bandages you were hidin' were from that Glaive operation." Zeno commented.

"Uh, did I miss something? You had to have an operation to use your weapon as a Glaive?" Xiao pondered.

"Yeah, I think I still got the bandages. Leme see, they go from my wrist ta my elbow on my left arm." Naomi confirmed.

After showing Xiao, he didn't even notice he froze and had his chopsticks halfway to his mouth.

"Uh, ya good man? Waitin' for the ramen ta cool? This layer a cheese is makin' it take longer." Naomi pondered as she poked at the seasoned pieces of chicken floating with vegetables in the noodles and chicken broth hidden by the dense layer of cheese.

"That's a lot of bandages, what type of procedure was it?" Xiao wondered.

"One of my veins has a stent in it that was used ta control my sword when it was a Glaive. I hope it doesn't get found out that it's not a Glaive anymore. if so I'm certain the person that did the operation or made the sword adjustments is gonna be ticked." Naomi answered.

"After work you're staying with Quinn for the night so maybe you can think of something then." Gunvolt advised.

"I hope the stent doesn't magically turn my sword back inta a Glaive. I was pretty darn scared it'd be controlled by the Sumeargi." Naomi laughed.

"Did you have a Glaive when you worked with them?" Zeno asked.

Naomi shook her head.

"Honestly, I don't remember if I had one while I was working there. I probably would've had a bunch if that was the case." Naomi supposed as she took a bite of her noodles.

"This has to be the coolest thing ever, watching them make the noodles in house while you eat." Zeno commented.

"Nori tried ta get me to watch one of the chefs do those tricks where they flambe the veggies when I was little but I cried. Cookies were great for shutting up eight year old me." Naomi noted.

Zeno snickered as he tried to drink his tea, resulting in him choking. Naomi cackled as Gunvolt and Xiao began to discuss work.

I'd prolly have twenty Glaives right 'bout now. Naomi guessed.

"Did you ever figure out your nickname?" Gunvolt asked.

"I was nicknamed the Septimal Striker. The Striker part was, obviously, since I have the Azure Striker. The Septimal part is thanks to all the Septimas I have. they always said I was the most hostile and dangerous test subject they had in any of their facilities ever." Naomi reminisced.

"What was it like working for them?" Xiao pondered.

"Same as it was for Joule, GV, Lumen an' the boss, heck. the experimentation was horrendous. It was shocking, literally. I'm so grateful I didn't have a Glaive working for them. If I did they still would probably have control over me because of it. Imagine if they could force the Armed Phenomenon on a Glaive weilder." Naomi shivered.

"I was gonna say that there's no way you could defeat all those bad guys at once unless you had the abilities of all the heroes." Zeno remared.

"So, come to think of it, how many Septimas do you have now?" Xiao pondered.

"Twenty one, it's been found out I have the Septima Stratos has too. Except I can use flies to attack people. Any fly in a mile radius. Well, flying insects. Anything with eight legs is an arachnid, four is a quadraped, six is insects and two is bipedal." Naomi elucidated.

"Thanks for the candy, how's eating that been?" Zeno asked.

"Hard, there's a ton of it my pal left me wi- hol' up. You are officially the second guy from Italy I know that has a blotch of their hair dyed a different color in the center of their hair." Naomi stated as she pointed at the middle of her hair for emphasis.

"Really? Ya don't come across many a those. Which one of us looks better in your opinion?" Zeno added.

Naomi pointed to Zeno as she drank her iced jasmine tea.

"I'll have ta schedule a game day. either at our place or at his dorm." Naomi recommended.

"How would tonight work?" Zeno pondered.

"I'll call him and see what he thinks since they've been pretty busy from what I've heard." Naomi replied.

"I can't believe we got here at twelve o'clock and earlier when we last checked the time it was twelve fifteen. But I just checked the time again and it's twelve thirty five." Xiao stated as he looked at his right wrist watch.

'It's hard ta tell which ya collect more Xiao, comics or watches." Naomi laughed.

"What's not funny is we only got five minutes ta eat." Zeno retorted as he began to chow down on his noodles.