Third person POV
After a few days of doing family matters with Lilibeth and her family and some bonding time with them around Minalin, Hoshi and his group decided to pack up and go to their next destination in their trip in the Philippines: Baguio City. This was in Luzon's central mountain region, known as the Cordillera Administrative Region. That city can be reached by roads and buses, though the roads can be risky during rainy days due to landslides that cause death to those who trek to Baguio City. Luckily, the weather was good and had little chance of raining. So, all of them boarded a provincial, air-conditioned bus towards that city, which will take approximately 5 hours if traffic is clear and fast.
So, the bus left Minalin's bus terminal and went north towards Baguio City through expressways and highways. As his group were looking forward to arriving at their destination, Hoshi, who had a window seat and was sitting next to Reo, was positive and confident about a new, possible batch of adventures there. However, Kuro was unsure due to Sha and wanted to manifest through Hoshi's body, but Hoshi didn't want to. Because of that and all of the times Kuro manifested in his body, Hoshi decided to seal him with something. After much thinking, he decided to go for a pair of cheap glasses to do so. But Kuro, who had read his thoughts, wasn't happy about it. "Don't you ever dare, Hoshi-kun…"