Null and Ezze followed 'The Man', as eventually they found themselves in a large room filled with small walled out spaces, they look similar to the visiting rooms when visiting prisoner's.
"The two right Infront are your, left for you missy and right for you chicken." 'The Man' said leaving the two.
Null looked at the departing man than at Ezze at his side but she was gone.
Already speaking to her loved one in the isolated room so, he entered his and pressed a button, as a voice came through.
In the square shaped room he heard.
Ronald?!
"Hey, kid."
"Old man... I'm surprised.. why you here?" Null said surprised.
"Who did you think was going to visit you?" Ronald asked back.
"I thought you were, busy.... so i thought no voice would come through... really." Null answered.
They both kept quiet.
"Kid.." Ronald began but was interrupted.
"Why aren't you calling me boy...you call me a kid when you want to make an excuse or, something isn't right..." Null paused.
"We've been through this a lot, why make excuses?." Null asked listening to the voice of the only family he had.
He heard, Ronald sigh.
"Kid i consider you my only family, compared too..." But Ronald breathed in than out.
"Sorry, i just have, disappointed you many times, too many times, these excuses are my way to comfort myself, for leaving a kid in the outer-city alone... I didn't even raise you but you end up, so smart..." Ronald paused, as Null interrupted him.
"Old man why do you sound as if I'm gonna die?"
Ronald sighed.
"Because we, both might die."
Null narrowed his eyes.
"What do mean, we both might die, being a bit intense aren't you?" Null asked.
"Kid, i can't say much but, I'm going to the front lines it's going to be rough and, if i come back.."
"When, you come back" Null interrupted.
"When i come..." Ronald replied back, and sighed.
"I want to see you, in top condition, okay...?" Ronald asked.
"If, everything in here stays as it is, I'll be alright.." Null answered.
But, Ronald kept quiet...
"Old man, there's still something wrong isn't there?" Null questioned, tense.
"Boy, watch out for those with beast weapon's, and those in Grade 2 and 3, and when you feel indanger, when you come close to a person..."
"RUN"
And with that, the voice quieted.
The visit ending.
Null got out the visit room, and looked at the one next to him, but he didn't see Ezze.
"She left, with out me..." He shrugged his shoulders and thought about how problems keep on stacking on each other.
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Ezze walked slowly in the hallway people walked past her, laughing talking and others staying in corners in groups till she heard.
"Hey, red tips slow down a bit."
She turned her head to look at where the voice originated from.
Was she not walking slowly already, she thought pondering on why the girl in front of her called her out.
In an accent she spoke to Ezze.
"You're, the girl who lives with the two boys."
Was that how she was known, Ezze thought with a confused expression.
"I'm Nize Ainslie, Jermmie's younger cousin." Nize said, the girl who berated Jern. Her tight smile, hazel eyes and her twisted black hair.
Ezze, was about to type on her device.
"Oh, your mute right, why don't you just get, like an vocal implant?" Nize asked.
Ezze again was about to type on her device but Nize interrupted once again.
"But why would I have a conversation with a unfunctional human being, it will take too long." She said with a grin.
Ezze, narrowed her eyes looking at her with agitation on her face.
"Nice, your angry would you mind to have a duel?"
Ezze, smiled as she looked at her with wide eyes.
Nize, was taken back and, then recollected herself as she began walking.
She stopped and looked back.
"Follow, now red tips." Nize said.
And Ezze followed her, her own smile still apparent.
They arrive in a class identical to her own, Ezze suspected it was Nize's own class.
And Ezze looked at the toned buff boy in the middle of where 'The Man' would be in her class.
"Now, red tips, Joseph there wants to have a duel of gain, you get a basic tier crystal if you win..." Then she paused as she saw Ezze shake he head,
and raise her hand with three up right fingers.
Nize was confused, "You want 3 basic tier crystal's?" She asked.
Ezze shook her head then, she understood.
Nize snarled, "You want a intermediate tier crystal, obviously your dwarf of a friend implanted such ideas, i was being nice but okay, if you lose you join me and Joseph in our own little group."
Ezze was confused, why would she want me in her group.
Nize sighed.
"Let, me explain, us heir's have something called 'Cred' we gain cred by winning duel's and showing leadership skills, like having a strong group of people that gain and do things for me, that is called a faction." Nize paused, then pointed her finger towards Ezze.
"That's where you come in, red tips, i need more people than just Joseph there, so do you accept or not?" Nize asked.
Ezze nodded, she walked down to where Joseph was and walked across from him.
Her smile wide, eyes wide and pupils vertically slit.
Ezze was not in a good mood not at all, not even a little.
While in the visiting box, she heard news that she didn't like at all.
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"Hey, dear" a gruff voice coming through.
And Ezze typed and the occupant on the other side read it, it was about her impression on the military base and on her roommates, on how calm Lumina was and how blank faced, Null was and how he gets defensive out of nowhere.
"Your friend seems impulsive but, you seem to have a good relationship with him, but you describe him as weak so watch out for him okay." The other occupant told her.
"No worries." That was what the occupant read.
"Dear, i might not see you in a while, so take care and have a nice time with your friends, i love you my dear." The gruff voice said, ending the visit.
Ezze was, agitated and concerned, he didn't explain and that made her unsettled, he was only vague when he wanted to keep something from her.
And this caused Ezze to be in a bad mood, she was worried and annoyed so she jumped at the chance to let off some steamed and when Nize insulted her, she was not going to leaving till she beat them both duel or not.
The thing Ezze didn't know was that the one who visited her, her grandfather was sent to the front lines, same as Ronald and many others.
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