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"BILLY!!!! YOU GET BACK HERE!!!"
"WAIT! SPARE ME!!!"
Honestly, maybe it was a bad idea to use money without letting Nicole know. Billy learned a lesson and will never probably do it again.
"Forgetting about using Nicole's money, your new upgrade looks so cool!" Neckomata compliments Billy.
"Course it is! Its directly inspired from the Starlight Knights themselves!" Billy says, confidently.
"Say, were you doing anything fun while we were away? Were there any commissions you did with the proxies lately?" Nicole asks, curiouse.
Billy pauses for a moment. But replies. "Well, not a lot really happened. We did do something commissions with others, but nothing exiting really happened."
Anby raised an eyebrow at that.
The way Billy replied...
They did commission like before, but the more Anby observed Billy, closed off about mentioning the siblings, the more she sensed he was hiding something.
It wasn't new that he keeps secrets... however, this was... new... Something... different.
Later that day, when Billy was visiting the siblings, Anby talked to Nicole and Neckomata about what she noticed.
"So you noticed too..." Nicole says, seriously. She shakes her head. "Billy has his own secrets, but when it comes to telling lies, he's not good at it... But the fact he's doing everything he can to not speak of it..."
Something definitely happened, and it was serious enough for Billy to lock in and shut his mouth. VERY SERIOUS...
"Do we talk to Billy about it?" Neckomata asks?
Nicole shakes her head. "No. Seeing how determined to keep such a secret, I doubt Billy will spill the tea..." She ponders for a moment. "Perhaps we can ask someone from around here who might tell us."
"But who can we ask?" Neckomata asks.
They think for a moment.
"We can ask Belebog Industry first..." Anby suggests. "Perhaps they might know something."
"If they don't, maybe we can ask the Sons of Calydons after. Surely they might know something."
The three girls agreed. Whenever Billy is not with them, they would ask the two groups about Billy.
...
Wise finished cleaning up the boxes as he hears the bells of the doors he turns, surprise to see Billy.
"Billy?" He puts the box down. "You came to visit again?"
"Well..." Billy trails off. "Belle hasn't really left the house much right? She still... processing what happened?"
Wise nodded. "Yeah... " Wise pauses. "Billy? I heard Nicole and the rest are back... Did... did you tell them?"
Billy shakes his head. "Its not in my place to tell them. Besides, Cissia and I both agreed not to speak a word of it. Even though I took what happened pretty well, we're not sure how the rest would react and feel..."
The two talked for a while, before Billy left, asking Wise to say 'hi' to his sister for him.
The others already have their own issues and problems. Wise and Belle don't want to burden the others with what happened to Belle in the hollow.
Of course, Wise and Billy, both don't realize, is how their silence revealed that something had happened, and that everyone was determined to figure out what had happened and what secrets they kept.
To Be Continued...