Summoned

A happy, reunion.

"Are you sure you know where you're going Shizuka?" I ask as I keep following an excessively happy school nurse.

"Of course~ The group is by the big ship with all the planes!~" She answers gingerly as she turns to glance at me with a wide smile...

Following her answer, I turned to look towards the aircraft carrier that was near the main airport field. Said carrier slowly moving across the sea ...

"You know the 'big ship' has been slowly moving towards the right side of the airport for some time now, right?" I asked as I pointed behind us with my hand, then traced a line towards the carrier that was now adjacent to us. Shizuka glanced at the ship, then at me.

"It, has?..." She asks as she turns to look at the ship again.

"Yes." I respond flatly.

"O, ooohh! Then that explains why I didn't find anybody when I returned the first time!" She exclaims in surprise.

"I was so worried that they might have left me behind..." She adds as she drops her shoulders.

(...Knowing her, I bet she didn't even realize what sort of jab that was at me, seeing as they 'did' leave me behind...)

"Umm, Is something wrong?" Shizuka asks with an innocent, questioning look as she tilts her head.

"I'm just wondering how you didn't get lost in your own house..." I responded.

"Ahh? Well, uhh, heheh..." Shizuka fidgets about before scratching her cheek...

(Wait, she has? Uhh, I shouldn't be surprised should I?...)

"So, this way then?" I point behind me, and Shizuka nods.

-10 minutes later-

You know, I never realized how big this airport really is. Up until now that I had to walk it that is...

"Ah! There they are!" And Shizuka speaks up as she points ahead, towards a group of people in the distance.

She then started running towards said group as she waved her arm in the air.

"Hey~ Heeeeyyy!" She shouted as she kept running, causing the group to turn to her.

A group that consisted of Souichiro, his wife, and his daughter. And...

"Naier!" A chubby guy with a rifle, who shouted right after as he spotted me. I raised my arm in response as I kept walking.

The chubby guy, aka Khota breaks off from the group and trots up to me.

"You're alive!" He exclaims as he stops right next to me, Asami following behind him.

"Yea, partly thanks to the fact we found more info on more extraction points posted on the elementary school." I responded as I patted his shoulder.

"Man I knew you'd survive! But it's good to actually see you again!" He adds with a wide smile.

With that, we turn to head towards the rest of the group. And as we closed in...

" Mister overlo!..."

"Bark!" Yet before Alice could finish her sentence, Zeke jumped off her hands, and latched on to my sleeve. Waving his tail so fast to the point that he was almost swaying around as he hanged...

"...Uhh, breaking disguise again minion?" I sigh as I lift my arm, turning it to look at the small pup. Which just growled as it shifted its eye to look at me.

And then felt a sudden impact right under my chest. Turning to look down, I found Alice with her face essentially plastered on my shirt...

(Uhh, that's new...)