Other Happenings

While Kyle was happily slurping on his instant noodles, various other scenes were happening in different parts of Country Tz, not to mention in Country Hd.

✿ City X ✿

Sayuri was facing her grandfather, who was also her Sensei, her face pale.

"You want me to do what?!" Sayuri exclaimed, unable to believe her ears.

"You heard me the first time, young lady," her grandfather answered sternly, his face appearing a little disappointed over her outburst.

"I ... this ... " she began, hesitating and slightly ashamed.

She kept telling herself that she needed to learn how to manage her emotions better but it was hard. Meditation hardly helped and she knew that it was one of her greatest weakness.

Still, she couldn't believe what she had heard was her last mission. Or, rather, her last chance. If she rejected it, she would basically be giving up her chance to enter the Clan.

To give up something that she had been working her whole life towards?

She couldn't do that.