68 Looping Dreams that won't end

"Thank god! There is more than one store!" Hector sighed in relief as he sit on the chair behind him, exhausted. "More like a restaurant, but yeah. I wouldn't want to enter that store ever again…" Theresa said, still have bits of annoyed and pissed mixed in her emotions. "Rest easy! We won't enter it again!" Hector beamed, cheering her up. "Mhm. I guess so." She grumbled, puffing her cheeks. "Smile Theresa, smile! You know I don't like it when gloomy auras is near! Cheer up!" Hector grinned, leaning a bit forward on the table.

"I'll cheer up later…" Theresa said, looking away. "Alright!" Hector said and get back to his seat, as the waiter comes to them, with their orders. "Ah! It's here!" Hector cheered, clapping both his hands. The waiter then put down their orders, fruit salad with many varies of fruit inside, with yogurt in it, as expected, Theresa's order, a bowl of stir fried noodles, that's slightly brown colored and mixed with suitable seasonings for Hector who wanted to try variety of foods, and lastly stacked cooked beef for Arkus.

They've eaten in peace, until someone approaches them, unhappy faces plastered on their face. "Hector, Theresa. Did you remember you're objectives?" They asked, Hector spit the water he's drinking when he heard the voice, while Theresa stopped eating and look at the sources of voices, to see Zeolite with his death glares, as Celine stood behind him, just following him around.

"Ah! Zeolite! Why are you here?" Hector asked, after wiping his lips and looks at him nervously. "Why the heck are you eating, meanwhile us, were waiting for your frickin' return." Zeolite said picking him up by the collars, "U-Uh y-you see! We were kind of…how am I supposed to explain this?" Hector said and steals some glances at Theresa, who replies with a shrug. "Oh yeah! You see that store over there? We were kinda kicked out from there." He said, trying to find the most not obvious excuse.

Zeolite look at him, still in doubt, until finally take a look at the store Hector's pointing at, before letting him go. "Alright. You two, order bunch of foods here, don't worry about the freshness, I'll take care of that. While me and Celine will check there, who knows there's something good inside." Zeolite said, telling them what they need to do and tells them what he and Celine's gonna do. "You sure you want to enter? I mean, I wouldn't recommended it…" Hector said, remembering what happened to him and Theresa.

"What should I fear at? If it's not Miss Chiharu's personalities then I'm good." Zeolite said, looking at him from his shoulder, "What? You're scared by Missy's personalities?" Hector asked, tilting his head, "Doesn't matter. Just do what I tell you. See ya." Zeolite said and walked away from them, heading to the store with Celine following behind him.

"Miss Akane! Can you help me with something?" Master Fang called, stopping Akane's two partner from playing cards, "Oh Master! Our boss is outside! But if you wanted to tell her something, just tell us the things!" Senjou said, offering him to drops the information on them. Master Fang then shakes his head, "Ah, no need! I can do that myself. Is she near at the guild? Or at the city?" He asked, wanted to talk with Akane face to face.

"If you say so! She's on top of the guild…Oops, I think I just spoiled something." Senjou laughed, realizing her mistakes, "The top? That girl…Is she smoking again?" Master Fang sighed, worried for her health. "Well, you have you go up and check her yourself." Senjou shrugs, while continue to play cards with Senov. "Yes! Full House!" Senjou cheered, standing proud, while Senov is at disbelief in his lose, until Senjou said the trigger words, "Aww, are you sad because I win, sugar boy?" Senov immediately glared at her when she say the word he hates. "Shut your f*cking mouth! I'm gonna beat you this time, drunk woman!" He shouted, challenging her to another rounds.

Meanwhile with Master Fang, he already leave the two, since he don't want to destroy such moment that is happening between them. After a while of walking upstairs to the top of the guild, he can see Akane's head from the entrances.

Akane calmly brought the cigarette away from her lips, blowing out the smokes, until Master Fang's voice surprised her. "Miss Akane. Can we talk about a few things?" He asked, standing behind her, "Ah! Master! What'cha doin' here?" Akane said, turning around at him while stepping on the cigarette, hint of panicking in her voice.

"How many times do I have to tell you about smoking?" Master Fang asked, with a "sweet" smile plastered on his face. "I know about that! It just sorta kind of habit, you know?" Akane said, making an excuses about her smoking habit. "At least, try to shortened the amount, Miss Akane, and you haven't smoked last week, what's with the sudden smoking this week?" Master Fang said, questioning her sudden behavior in smoking.

"I tried to!...Wait, you noticed my smoking schedule, wow, that's kind of creepy, just joking. There's just something that always ended up stressing me…" Akane said, telling him a bit the reasons of her smoking. "Really? May I ask what's bothering you all these time?" Master Fang asked, wanted to help her with her problems. "Heh, it's kinda complicated. But, I'll give you the most simple explanations." Akane said and patted the seat beside her, telling him to sit there.

"Welcome!" The owner from before greeted excitedly, allowing Zeolite and Celine to comes inside. "What may you need?" She asked, as Zeolite looks around the store, finding some useful things. "What'd you have?" He asked, looking down at her. "Oh my! What a handsome young man!" The owner said, getting off the topics Zeolite asking at.

"Don't avoid the questions, old hag. Tell me, what did you have here, or I will just get outta here." Zeolite said, annoyed by her. "W-Well! Y-You can go take a look a-around!" The owner stuttered, feels intimidated by his cold attitudes. "I was asking about what'd you have here, not can I take a look around here. What kind of owner are you?" Zeolite said, began to roasted her soul. "Z-Zeolite. You don't have to do that…" Celine said, worried about the poor owner.

The owner was about to say something, until Zeolite cut her. "Let's just leave. There's nothing much here." He said turning around from her and walk towards the door, with Celine following him, who keeps stealing glances at the owner, she's worried about her, but she can't do much.

"I just keep having a dream…a nightmare to be exact. And it's the exact same dream I got in a week. Is that even possible? That just weird!" Akane complained, feeling like the nightmare is haunting her. "Did you remembered what the nightmare's about?" Master Fang asked, trying to figure it out. "No, I don't. Ironically, the nightmare almost happened every times I sleep and take a slight nap in this week. But I can't seems to remember it properly." Akane sighed and put her hands around her head, "Not even slight thing you remembered?" He asked, slightly interrogating her. "Blood and our guild logo." Akane said, telling him what he remembers most when the nightmare's done.

He was surprised when she mentioned their guild logo. "Does…You make contacts with someone else other than the guild members this week?" He asked, wanting to dig more inside the things their facing with. "Contact with someone? I'm not sure. I haven't went on a mission this week. But I do come contact with Elite 10 members last week." Akane shrugs, doesn't really have the grasp in the situations.

"Elite 10? When you was rejecting to continue activities with them?" Master Fang asked, looking at her. "How'd ya know about me rejecting them?" Akane asked, she remembered didn't tell a soul other than her partners. "The news obviously. You were on hot topics last week." Master Fang said, and sweatdrops at her lacks of awareness.

"Did I?" She asked, clearly clueless. "Yes. And that's the reasons reporters come bragging inside the guild to searched for you. But you was asleep that time, and we had to calm these reporters down along with telling them to go out from the guild." Master Fang sighed, remembering how tired he is when putting up with the reporters that keeps asking multiples questions.

"Shame on them. I disliked attentions." Akane said and leans her back on the ground, using her arms as a pillow. "But you keep doing things that brought peoples attentions." Master Fang sighed, remembering how much bills comes to him every weeks, due to Akane wrecking chaos. "can't people just ignores it?" Akane asked, annoyed. "How can they ignores something that actually destroyed half of their city…" Master Fang sweatdrops at her questions.