Hansha no SEKAI

confusion

"You've met him before, haven't you?" Tsukasa looks at Emu. She's met Akito before, how does she not know who he is? He thought to himself.
"Yeah, I think Emu has met him before." Mizuki answers.
"I don't remember meeting an Akito.." Emu tries to remember when she met Akito, but she can't seem to do so. Mizuki and Tsukasa share a look.
"Does she seriously not know who Akito is?" The blonde boy asks.
"Emu, do you remember seeing anybody at Kamiyama with orange hair and a dyed yellow streak?"
"Doesn't ring a bell.." Emu answers. It seems as if she's forgotten about him, as Mizuki and Tsukasa could have sworn that she's met him before. Mizuki sighs before continuing to drink their hot chocolate. They start to chat about different things before deciding to go to the mall, where Mizuki got some things for an outfit they were working on and Tsukasa got some things for Saki. Emu bought some matching keychains for WxS. She was still worried about Rui and Tsukasa, but she hoped this would make everyone feel better. She wanted to give everyone these next time they practiced.

Rui and Nene stayed at the Wonder Stage.
"It's fine, Rui-" Nene tried to say, but got cut off by Rui.
"No! It's not 'fine', Nene! You got told to kill yourself by Tsukasa! Do you even realize how messed up that is?"
"Rui, I don't think he would actually say those things. It's not like him!" Nene tried to calm Rui down, but he wouldn't listen.
"Listen, Rui, you need to hear Tsukasa out. None of this will get better if you don't. I'm gonna go now, see you at school." Nene sighs as she gets up. She walks home. It was strange since usually she walks home with Rui.

Tsuki walked around the SEKAI after talking to Miku for a bit. He was caught off guard by how different it is now compared to how it was before. It originally was really colorful and had a lot of things there, but day after day things started to go missing, and the bright colors started to fade slowly into grays and blues.
"What happened?" He sighed as he walked around. The boy noticed a worried Len, trying to stop an argument between two plushies. KAITO was also there. He walked over to the plushies and asked them what was going on. One of the plushies tried explaining but they were cut off by the other, leading to another argument.

After Mizuki, Emu, and Tsukasa got some things at the mall, Tsukasa decided to go home, so he waved goodbye to the others before leaving and walking home. He enjoyed hanging out with Emu and Mizuki. He even forgot about what happened during practice, which made him feel a bit better. When he stood outside his house, he noticed the purple cat. Again. Why is the cat still here? Oh well... Tsukasa thought to himself before kneeling down and petting the cat. He smiles as the cat purrs softly.

Ena paced around her bedroom. It was 1 AM and she was on a call with the rest of N25, but she hadn't seen her brother in the past few days and actually started to worry. She asked Mizuki, but they said that they didn't know. This worried Ena even more, and she decided to sit down and try to draw something for the music circle to get her mind off it, but all she ended up getting down was a bunch of scribbles. The brown haired girl sighed and erased all of the scribbles before she tried thinking of art to make for the new song they're working on.

The next day, Rui sits at his desk. He's still upset at what happened, and refuses to let it go. It didn't help that Rui and Tsukasa had the same class and sat near each other. The purple haired boy had come to the conclusion that Tsukasa wasn't sorry for what he did, and just lied to all of WxS. He does his schoolwork before looking out the window, starting to zone out. After a while, he ends up falling asleep. Tsukasa notices this but doesn't say anything in order to not bother him. He knows that Rui doesn't want to talk to him, so he leaves him alone.