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Today's the day, the day Ena helps me on this journey. I was standing at the front door of Mizuki's apartment. "Ok Nene, you can do this." I sighed and then knocked on the door.
"Hey, Nene. Glad you came." Ena greeted me at the door, "Come in, I'm just gonna talk to you. Mizuki will be here if you don't mind." She grabbed my hand and closed the door.
"About this entire thing..." I looked at the floor, to be honest I was scared. I've never went on a journey like this. A journey where I didn't know if I was coming back home in one piece or not. "I'm scared Ena, I don't wanna die. I wanna come back home to my family....I wanna" I felt tears swelling up.
"I felt the same way, but we're both alive. Aren't we?" Ena grabbed my hand and looked at me, "I have to admit Kusanagi, you're strong. Mentally and physically." She smiled at me. That gave me some hope to go on this journey.
"Ahaha! Nene, I didn't realize that you would be here so soon! I thought you were coming over later." I saw Mizuki walking out of a room, "You guys hungry?" They walked over to the kitchen counter and looked out the window, "Y'know Nene, I wish you luck." Akiyama looked over at me and smiled, "Just keep thinking about the person that's really special and important to you. That's what helped Ena." They looked over to Shinonome and smiled.
"Exactly! So who's the person you treasure the most? The person you want to spend the rest of your life with?" Ena asked me, actually I didn't know how to respond to this.
"I don't know, I've always treasured my friends. I've always wanted them to be safe." I thought about Emu and Rui, "Wait....you mean romantically!?" My eyes became wide and blush spread across my face.
"Yeah, why do you not see anyone like that?" Mizuki walked over, "Not even Emu?" They raised an eyebrow at me and I blushed, "Knew it."
"N-no! It's nothing like that! Me and Emu are just friends so I don't know what you're on!" Gosh I hated lying, "I promise!"
"Nene, are you scared Tsukasa is gonna find you two?" Ena looked at me with genuine concern, "Did he say something?" I didn't know what to say, I was too scared to even speak about that day.
I took a deep breath, venting couldn't hurt. After all I was bottling all of this up ever since the Destruction of SEKAI. "Two years after all of this started, Tsukasa heard that Saki got into a small argument with her lovers. Ichika, Honami, and Shiho." I looked at them seriously, "After that he took Honami into the basement, which at the time was newly built. Tsukasa told us not to go into the basement, of course I was curious and went down there to investigate." I sighed, "After he found out about me. Tsukasa said that I had to numb myself in order to survive at the cabin." I looked at Ena and Mizuki, they seemed interested about my story.
"Nene...when you decide to investigate further. Be careful. After Tsukasa left, he threatened he was gonna burn the cabin down. I don't know or wanna know if you're going to be too late." Mizuki smiled at me, a smiled that showed that they were concerned about me. I haven't seen that in a while.
"Kusanagi!"
I turned around and I saw An, "What do you want Shiraishi? I'm doing something, something important." I walked over to her and sighed, "If you want to know what it is I'm not gonna tell you."
"I was just wondering why you're over at Mizuki's? You guys dating or?" She laughed a bit, gosh I hated it when An acted that way with me.
"Forget this ever happened." I scoffed then walked to my car.
As I was driving to Rui's apartment I thought of something, what if this journey is over? What if Tsukasa stopped his shitty madness? I then realized that couldn't be, people don't change in a month. If he did then that would be a miracle, as long as I have Ena's guidance then I'll be fine. Right?