It's been a few weeks after Nash's first encounter with Dumon and he hasn't seen him since. Nash doesn't pressure Dumon into coming out but he would like to see him again. Gothica does try to make a move on Nash in the hopes not only to win him over but to get Dumon jealous enough to come out. Finally Nash asks to see Dumon before Gothica can try to win him over.

"Do you know when Dumon will come out again?"

"That I-" Gothica is interrupted by Dumon from within.

"Let me out, please." Dumon says sounding like he's about to cry.

"Actually he would like to come out now, one moment."

Gothica closes his eyes to switch places with Dumon. Dumon opens his eyes to see Nash in front of him.

"Hi... you wanted to see me?" He says, though he doesn't sound happy at all.

"Hey, I'm glad to see you again." Nash says happily.

"You're really happy to see me?" Dumon asks, he seems more withdrawn now then when Nash first met him.

Nash nods, "I am, I've missed you. I'm sure the others would like to meet you."

"I'd rather stay with you, if that's okay."

Dumon gives him a small smile since Nash isn't going to push him to meet the others.

"What would you like to do?" Dumon ask hesitantly.

"Do you want to spend the day playing music again?" Nash asks happily.

"That sounds nice." Dumon says softly.

Back in Barain World Nash and Don who have been trying to pick up Dumon's lapis signal have finally found it.

"Are we sure that's Dumon?" Nash asks Don, unsure if it's really him.

"It has to be, who else could it be?" Don replies back.

"Wonderful." Nash says as he takes Dumon to the music room.

Dumon follows him silently, Nash and Don try calling Dumon. Making his lapis glow but Dumon doesn't answer them. Nash notices Dumon's lapis glowing.

"Yours can do that?"

"Yeah..." Dumon answers not wanting to tell him that someone is trying to call him.

"Why is that?"

"Why is what?"

"Why is it glowing."

Dumon doesn't answer him and puts his hand over his lapis to block the call. Back in Barain World Nash and Don get worried and try to get into contact with Embers to find Dumon to make sure he's alright. It doesn't matter to Nash if Dumon doesn't answer and lets it go. He opens the doors to the piano room.

"Here we are."

Dumon goes into the room quietly and looks around. The room is the same as last time, with the grand piano sitting in the middle of a room with lovely acoustics.

"Is there anything you would like me to play?" He asks softly.

"You may play whatever you like."

Dumon takes a moment to think of what he wants to play as he goes to sit in front of the piano. Then he begins to play the song Alluring Secret Black Vow. Nash smiles encouragingly at Dumon and listens to him play. Dumon seems to relax a bit as he plays. Nash closes his eyes and just listens to him play.

'He's such a soft soul, it makes me want to help him all the more. He even likes that I'm caring and kind when most would see that as a flaw here.' He thinks to himself.

Dumon finishes the song then glances at Nash, not sure if it would be right to do something else.

Nash smiles at him, "I loved it. How did you learn how to play?"

"I don't really remember when I stayed playing."

"That long, huh? It really shows. You have a lot of skill."

"Well I can do more then just play the piano." Dumon says and gives Nash a small smile.

Nash says excitedly, "What else can you do?"

"Well in high school I was in culinary and I can also draw."

Nash stares at him in awe, "You're truly amazing, you know?"

"I am?" Dumon says with a lack of confidence.

"Of course you are, you're skilled in many things."

Back in Barain World Don and Nash are able to summon Embers from the underworld, and practically beg him to go find Dumon to make sure he's okay.

"It has been awhile since I've seen him now that I'm thinking about it." Embers says as if he's thinking.

"I've made a few comics if you would like to take a look at them." Dumon says.

"I'd love to." Nash says excitedly.

Dumon makes some of his comics come out of his lapis and hands them to Nash. Nash reads the comics curiously, unfortunately they're not in a language he can read so he just looks at the pictures. Since Nash can't read the words he settles for looking at the pictures, Dumon has used himself and the other emperors as the characters for the stories.

"You're comics are interesting, it's a shame I can't read them."

Dumon is a bit surprised by that, "What language do you use to writer here? I might be able to translate it for you."

"We just call it the Barian Language. It's universal in this world." Nash says and brings out a paper and pen, he writes his own name in strange runes.

"That should be simple enough to translate." Dumon says once he's gotten a good look at the language in written form.

"Really? I didn't think any other world spoke it." Nash says surprised.

"The world I come from doesn't but I am a Barain." Dumon says and translates his comics so Nash can read them with just the flick of his wrist.

Nash reads the comics again and smiles, "You really are amazing."

Dumon blushes a little bit but doesn't says anything. When Nash finishes reading the comics he give them back, Dumon puts the comics back in his lapis so they don't get lost or damaged. Nash plays something light hearted on the piano and Dumon listens, he would like to rest his head against Nash's shoulder but feels that would be inappropriate. Nash puts an arm around him gently making Dumon blush which he tries to hide. Nash doesn't notice the blush and Dumon eventually relaxes into him, laying his head on Nash's shoulder. Nash smiles at seeing him relax but Dumon has this hopeless lifeless look in his eyes when he thinks Nash isn't paying attention.

Nash notices the look and asks if Dumon's alright, Dumon puts up a face looking as if he's okay and tells Nash that's he's fine.

"You don't have to pretend you know."

Dumon drops the act with a sigh, "Sorry..."

"It's okay, you did nothing wrong. I want to help you in any way that I can."

Dumon doesn't want to get his hopes up but he looks like he's about to cry. "Thank you, Nash."

"See, you're not alone." Gothica says from within.

"You're welcome." Nash says softly hugging Dumon gently.

Dumon cuddles into him starting to relax more and feel safe.

"Feeling better?"

"Yeah." He says softly with a real small smile.

Nash smiles back at him, "It's good to see you feeling better."

Every since Nash told Dumon he would help him feel better, he's been seeing more of him. While the other emperors only see Gothica since he doesn't have the confidence yet to introduce himself to them. But Nash has talked him into meeting his sister Merag. Gothica goes to Nash's room to have Dumon meet Merag. Nash sends a message to his sister to come to his room saying that he has a surprise for her.

Merag goes to her brother's room, "What's the surprise Nash?" She acts excitedly.

Dumon comes into the room from the balcony, "Hi..." He says shyly.

Merag looks at him with a smile, "So you're Dumon huh? Nash has told me a little bit about you."

"I'm the one that Gothica was hiding." Dumon says back still looking as shy as ever.

"We'll it's nice to finally meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too."

"Come sit with me." She says happily and sits on her brother's bed.

Dumon comes and sits beside her, Merag looks at him curiously.

"You're a lot different from Gothica."

"I used him to hide, I'm not sure how different we are from each other."

"I hope we can be friends."

"I don't see why we can't be."

"That's good to hear." She says happily.

Dumon glances over at Nash with more of a smile, showing that he's improving in some way. Nash smiles back at him encouragingly.

"Is it okay if I meet the others?" Dumon asks feeling more confident thanks to Nash.

"Of course. I would stay away from Mizael for now though. At least until you two get used to each other." Nash says.

Dumon nods in understanding.

"Let's go to the living room." Nash says leaving the room expecting Dumon and Merag to follow him which they do.

"We have a surprised guest." Nash says happily as he comes into the living room.

"Oh who is it?" Alit says excitedly.

"Um hi." Dumon greets the other emperors shyly.

"Hey! I'm guessing you're Dumon?" Alit greets him happy.

"Yes that's me."

"It's is nice to meet you." Alit says and gets up to shake Dumon's hand.

"It's nice to meet you too." Dumon says and shakes Alit's hands back.

"My name's Alit."

"So I'm guessing you guys go by what I would know as the Japanese names?"

"Our what?" Durbe asks in confusion.

"Your names are the Japanese versions of the names me and my emperors have. Expect for Nash and Vector, there names don't change."

"I see, what does that mean though?"

Dumon tries to explain the Zexal timeline as best as he can to Durbe without being confusing. The others still look at him confused, Dumon apologizes for he doesn't mean to confuse them.

"Well I suppose you know our names then." Durbe says.

"Yes." Dumon replies a bit embarrassed.

This doesn't sit too well with Mizael. So he shoots Dumon an icy glare, secretly tapping his finger on Gilag's arm. Gilag gets the message and gets up casually.

"Do you need help with the dragons?" He asks.

"Yes, actually. I have to pick up a rather heavy order." Mizeal replies and the two leave.

This doesn't bother Dumon since Nash said to stay away from him. Meanwhile Embers is taking his sweet old time trying find his mortal half. The others chat with Dumon mostly to get to know him, Dumon doesn't mind talking with the others but he rather be with Nash. Eventually the other emperors have to get back to work and Dumon bids them good bye.

"It was nice meeting you again." Alit says happily as he gets back to work.

"Same to you." Dumon replies.

"So how did you like everyone?" Nash asks.

"They're nice but has Mizael always that cold towards people?"

"He's just easily spooked is all. You mentioning that you already knew our names probably didn't sit well with him. He's always been overly cautious though, so it's nothing new. He'll know if he's being irrational."

"I didn't mean to spook him."

"It's not your fault. You couldn't have known. Like I said, this is normal."

"Don't you have work to get back to?"

"I finished all my work for today."

Dumon isn't sure what to do now expect to just stay by Nash's side. "Is there anything you would like me to do?"

"Aside from being yourself, nothing."

To pass the time Dumon tells Nash what homes was like for him before Gothica took over and left. Nash being the nice guy that he is listens to Dumon as he talks.

"Just out of curiosity, do people have last names here?"

"Not really."

"At home if someone doesn't have a last name like myself they can pick a last name."

"That's nice."

"Not much happens at home, it's usually the same thing day in and day out basically."

"That sounds about the same here."

"There are more people here then just in this city?"

"Of course, there are whole kingdoms."

"That's certainly different from home."

"I see."

"I don't know if any of the other emperors have actually moved out. I know Vector and Nash were planning to eventually."

"They were?"

"Yeah, probably to start a family of their own."

Nash looks back at Dumon with surprise.

"What?"

"How?"

"How what?"

"How are they planning on starting a family?"

"They're going to start one with each other."

"Yeah but how?"

"All Vector needs to do is put on a specially made bracelet to become a female. Like here some people can use magic and get magic enchanted items.

Again Nash looks at him with surprise, Dumon nervously laughs.

"Well I certainly wasn't expecting that, especially considering Vector is my step brother here."

"Step brother?!" Dumon says surprised

Nash nods, "My father... adopted him from particularly corrupted parents. Not that it made anything better."

"Vector was always a stubborn person."

"He was very stubborn, not without good reason though. He was hurt and upset about what my father did and took it out on me. Luckily he's cooled down."

"At least you both are on good terms now."

"Semi-good terms."

The time goes by quick while they're talking so dinner rolls around. Everyone gathers in the dining room only to find someone sitting in Nash's seat reading a book with a pentagram on it. The others are immediately on edge because no one noticed him get in.

"Um who are you?" Nash asks.

Dumon comes up beside Nash.

"Oh look who I found, the run away emperor.~" The mystery person says while putting his book down to look at Dumon.

Nash stands in front of Dumon to protect him, "Who are you?"

"This is Embers, my demon half."

Nash looks to Dumon a bit surprised.

Dumon leaves Nash's side, not scared of the stranger at all. "What brings you here Embers?"

"You. You gave Don and Nash quite a scare, and you didn't even answer your lapis when they called. They even dragged me out of the Underworld to come and find you." Embers says in an amused tone.

Dumon crosses his arms and turns away from Embers, "You can tell them I'm fine and that I'll be home when I'm ready."

"I was just here to make sure my moral compass was okay. And you really should do something about him, But then again he oddly feels like a Lesser. They're starting to become just a rear as us now a days I hear." Embers gets up to leave.

"He wouldn't have come up if you didn't leave almost four years ago." Dumon says sounding a bit ticked at Embers but then becomes a bit curious, "What's a Lesser, I've never heard of them before?"

"See I knew I should have dragged you to the Underworld more often. A Lesser is a being that is similar to human but has ties to demon abilities, I guess you can call them the bridge between human and demon."

"Well I guess I'll have to look into that later then."

"Have fun with that Dumon.~" Embers says playfully."

"In any cause you got what you came for." Nash says cutting in not really trusting Embers.

"I suppose I did." Embers says and takes his leave, disappearing in a puff of black smoke along with his book.

Dumon apologizes for Embers just popping up.

"It's fine. He's just lucky he didn't pop in on Silica." Nash says reassuring Dumon.

After the incident with Embers, Dumon doesn't come out for a few weeks. Not even for Nash, Embers spills all the secrets that Dumon has kept hidden from Don and the other emperors. But they're not upset at him, they're only upset with themselves for not noticing and trying to help him. But they're a bit curious if the other personality can become separate without hurting Dumon in the process, since it seems more interested in helping Dumon then wanting to hurt him. But in the meantime they take some time to write letters to him which Embers delivers for them. Nash is currently working on a new contract that he's been working on for a while when Embers appears in a puff of smoke with seven envelopes in hand.

"Can you please give these to Dumon? They're letters from Don and the other emperors back home." Embers says.

Nash looks at the envelopes curiously but nods, "Sure."

"Before I go, can you tell me something?"

"What is it?"

"Is the alternate personality forcibly taking control, or is Dumon able to switch with it freely?"

"He's able to switch freely. It's Dumon's choice when he comes and goes."

Embers nods and takes his leave. Dumon is out on the balcony that's connected to his room feeling like he's hit rock bottom, he sneaks a razor blade out from his lapis. Nash goes to find Dumon to give him the letters while Gothica is trying to talk Dumon out of hurting himself. But he doesn't seem to listening to him.

"Dumon?" Nash questions as he sees him on the balcony."

Dumon doesn't hear him but he seem unsure of something.

"Dumon, what are you doing?"

The blade is resting in Dumon's left wrist.

"Please doesn't do this. What will Nash think if he saw that you're hurting yourself?" Gothica says from within.

"I... don't know." Dumon says responding to Gothica, finally starting to listen to what he's saying.

"Dumon?" Nash says trying to reach him.

This time Dumon hears Nash's call but is afraid to look at him.

"Dumon, are you alright?" Nash asks worried for him.

"I... don't know." Dumon replies to him.

Nash takes Dumon's hand and gently takes the razor blade away from him. Dumon doesn't fight him and just stands there, seeming to be frozen in place. Nash pulls him into a hug, Dumon let's his emotions go and cries into him silently. Nash doesn't say a word and rubs his back gently.

"I'm sorry, I just feel so empty inside." Dumon says through his sobs.

"It's okay." Nash says trying to comfort him.

Eventually Dumon does calm down, but he keeps himself hidden in Nash's embrace.

"You're okay, I promise you'll get through this. You're not alone."

"Please, don't leave..." Dumon says softly.

"I won't, I promise."

Dumon relaxes more and his breathing becomes softer, he's a bit worried to look up at Nash but does it. His eyes hold a longing for love and comfort. Nash smiles comfortingly at him, Dumon gently hugs him not wanting to let him go.

"You're safe with me." Nash whispers into his ear.

Dumon is a bit tried because of the crying but doesn't want to leave Nash's side, "Thank you, I can't ask for anything more then your help." He whispers back.

"You're welcome, I'll help you in any way that I can." He leads Dumon over to the bed in his room.

Dumon sits down on the bed, leaning against Nash with Gothica gently coxing him to sleep from within. Nash holds Dumon as he sleep, while Dumon has a subconscious talk with Gothica. They two talk for what seems like hours even though it hasn't been very long since Dumon feel asleep in Nash's arms. Dumon and Gothica both agree that Dumon will be out most of the time and would only switch with Gothica if he's extremely stressed.

Nash watches Dumon carefully, Dumon breathing is slow and even. The two personalities still continued to talk and Dumon told Gothica about Embers and some of the abilities he was able to access if he tries hard enough to get to them. He also tells him that Embers thinks he's a Lesser but he's not completely sure what that means, this gets Gothica curious and he tells Dumon to look into it later after he finds a way to deal with his depression in a more appropriate way. Eventually Nash takes a small rest beside Dumon, after about two hours Dumon comes back to the consciousness world and looks around for Nash. Dumon sees him beside him asleep still, this causes his face to become as red as a tomato.

"Dumon?" Nash says as he opens his eyes.

"Y-yes?" Dumon stutters still blushing.

"You okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine." He says a little to quickly.

"You sure?"

Of course the blush is still on on his face didn't help, "Yes I'm fine."

Nash smiles and hugs him tightly, all Dumon can do is cuddle into him and enjoy that feeling of security that he was missing. Nash smiles at how Dumon responds to his hug. Over time Dumon becomes more open to Nash mostly but he does open up to the other emperors just not as much. He helps Nash however he can without getting in the way or being a pain, in his spare time he looks over the letters sent by Don and the other emperors and responds to them.

Having Embers play as the messenger between them. He and the other emperors expect for Mizael get closer to Dumon very quickly and he considers them his second family, though he has never racked up the courage to tell Nash how he really feels about him. Well, not yet anyway. Nash at the moment is out with the other emperors on a mission, while Dumon stays behind at the palace waiting for them to come home. Nash and the others finally return home after a few days.

"I'm home." Nash calls

Dumon comes to greet him, "How did everything go?" He asks.

"Everything went well, we managed to stop a conflict."

"Everything was quite while you were gone, the same as usual." Dumon says and gives Nash a real smile.

"That's good." Nash's says happily and hugs Dumon comfortingly.

Dumon blushes and hugs him back, Nash goes to the living room to be with the others. Dumon follows him to the living room quietly. Nash and Dumon sit with the other emperors as they unwind after the mission, Dumon tries to make light conversation with the others and they happily chat with him.