"You finally got rid of him did you?" Nori guessed.
"I, left him, in the, dust. He, he's b-back t-there, th-th-thirty feet back." Naomi elaborated.
Sure enough, after looking forward, Nori saw a red dot coming in fast. Naomi turned and leaned her left shoulder against the door with her signature devious smile and waved. When he finally landed, Copen gave Naomi the meanest look she ever saw.
"I should've gotten rid of you when I had the chance." Copen remarked as he went inside.
Naomi got angry and really really ticked.
"Well it's not my fault you're such a slowpoke." Naomi joked.
She went inside as well and was extra eager to tease Copen. He, however was not in the mood to be teased.
"So, what are you working on right now? Something to let you finally win against GV?" Naomi mocked.
"If you must know, which you don't, I am making a foolproof plan to get rid of every single nuisance in my life. but as unfortunate as it is, I can't kick you out." Copen added.
"Then what was the point of kidnapping Joule to get me to come back!? To kill me!? You'd break Mytyl's heart and possibly her sanity if you did that!" Naomi hollered.
"Yeah, I don't think I want to work with you this week Copen." Lola stated.
"And you can't get rid of Lola because I'd get rid of you." Naomi added.
Copen raised an eyebrow in question.
"What does Lola have to do with any of this?" Copen wondered.
"You're the one who said she's a handful." Naomi reminded.
"I don't recall ever saying that." Copen claimed.
"You told that to Mytyl!" Naomi informed.
"Weren't you out on a mission when that happened?" Copen remembered.
"That doesn't change the fact she has the ability to record a conversation on demand or do hacking." Naomi elucidated.
"What? Why would you do that? Let me guess, you don't trust me with Lola or to keep an eye on Mytyl?" Copen guessed.
"I just find it weird, you know? Every time you're with her, she gets kidnapped from right under your nose." Naomi remarked.
"What about Joule? Because I could easily say the same about you then." Copen commented.
"If you didn't go and kidnap her then I wouldn't have needed to worry about that! And it's not like I can stay awake all hours of the day!" Naomi complained.
Neither of the older siblings knew that their youngest sibling and her robot companion were listening in from behind them near the left corner of the entrance room. Mytyl and Lola were standing with open ears behind the wall connected to the left entrance door since Copen and Naomi were talking in the corner nearest the left door close to a potted palmtail fern. Looking out of the corner of her vision, Naomi saw Mytyl's hair. And she didn't even have to try hearing the whir of Lola's processor.
"I can't believe Lola's processor makes that much noise. No wonder she can't sneak up on enemies or pry in on a conversation. And Mytyl's so easily identifiable she could never blend in!" Naomi added.
"Aw man." Mytyl sighed.
"Busted." Lola pouted.
They revealed themselves and came out of hiding.
"This is why we can't have any privacy." Naomi huffed with her eyes shut, right hand over her eyes and left index finger pointing at the ever eavesdropping girls.
"Why aren't you eating?" Copen queried.
Mytyl looked down and fumbled with her index fingers, poking the tips of those fingers against each other.
"I,- I was waiting for you two so we could eat as a family! Pretty neat huh?" Mytyl smiled.
"Yeah, a dysfunctional family." Naomi cackled.
Copen glared at Naomi and proceeded to jab his menace of an older sister in her left side with his right elbow.
"Either you need new friends or a therapist. My best bet is a therapist." Copen retorted.
"I think you should take short trip off a long cliff until the fall but I don't say anything." Naomi snarled.
"Your life is full of more holes than a blanket eaten by moths." Copen debated.
"At least I don't look like Pinocchio from lying so much!" Naomi rebuked as Copen unconsciously touched his nose.
"At least my existence hasn't led to seemingly endless accidents and bloodshed." Copen growled.
"It has actually! Because the accidents always stem from something you've done and you're always the one who keeps starting fights around here!" Naomi yelled.
"Your existence is an accident." Copen protested.
"Maybe I should erase my mistakes." Naomi whispered as she aimed her gun at Copen and took off the safety.
"Whoa girl, hold it! Hold everything!" Lola commanded as she floated in front of the gun, literally staring down the barrel.
Since Mytyl was shorter than Naomi, the top of her head was directly below Copen's ears in height. Though with his headgear on you couldn't tell he had any ears. That was Naomi's assumption since she always said he never heard what she said and was actively trying to tune her out.
"All of your kind should've been destroyed from the start." Copen threatened.
"Then you'd need a time machine and go back four decades." Naomi notified.
"Hasn't that been around since the Heian period?" Copen asked.
"The Sumeragi's the one that's been around since then. The Azure Striker Septima was the one that popped up four decades ago." Naomi informed.
"You're doing that thing again." Copen commented.
"Is one of my eyelids twitching?" Naomi worried.
"You're adding extra unnecessary information in order to make yourself appear smarter." Copen elucidated.
"Me? Condescending? I'd never dare." Naomi scoffed.