Dumon gets his own tattoo in this chapter and that is the picture above for this chapter.

Dumon admires Nash from afar, writing in a diary how he feels and thinks about him. The emperors chat among themselves while Dumon is off daydreaming about there sweet king.

Nash notices Dumon daydreaming, "Care to join us?" He asks happily.

"I'm afraid I don't know what you guys are talking about." Dumon replies trying not to blush and closes his diary.

"It's fine, we can change the subject."

"Are you sure? I don't want to be a bother to anyone."

"It's fine done worry about it."

Dumon smiles and sits with everyone else.

"How have you been holding up lately?" Merag asks.

"Better then when I first came here." Dumon answers.

Gilag chimes in, "That's good to hear."

"You guys are like my second family."

"Oh I'm glad you think so." Merag hugs him happily.

Suddenly Dumon's lapis starts to glow but he doesn't notice it at first.

"Dumon, your lapis is glowing."

"Hmm?" Dumon looks down at his wrist, "I wonder who's trying to call me." He says answering his lapis.

"It's nice to hear from you Dumon." Don say as his voice comes through Dumon's lapis.

The others listen closely and curiously.

"Is there something you need Don?"

"No, but I wanted to inform you that there are two new additions to the emperors." Don says proudly.

"Oh?" Dumon answers with curiously.

The emperors look at Dumon, curiously now as to what Don meant.

"I'm guessing someone had a baby?"

"Yes, and it wasn't just you know who."

"When did Vector an Nash move out? For that matter who else moved out?

"They moved out a while ago and Mizar is the other one who flew from the nest, he moved in with Kite."

"I should of seen that one coming."

Don chuckles at this.

"Oh?" Nash pipes up.

"Looks like the emperors back home are disbanding in a way, Leading their own lives." He says, not sounding upset at all by this.

"You mean staring families?"

"Yes, it was bound to happen eventually."

"I'll let you explain things from here, if you need me you know how to reach me." Don says and ends the call.

"Ah I see." Nash says

"I'm actually happy for them. Now there's only four of us left, or rather three since I'm not there."

"I hope they have happy lives." Nash says then thinks to himself, 'And I hope you choose to stay.' But then immediately shakes that thought off feeling that it's selfish.

"As do I."

The truth is Dumon would love to stay but he feels that Nash only sees him as a friend and not as something more. Nash smiles brightly at Dumon while trying to push away his "selfish" feeling of wanting him to stay, his sister on the other hand can see that they both want each other and smirks.

"I'm sure a lot has happen back home, since I haven't been there in almost two years."

Do you wanna go back for a visit?

"Not really, at least not now."

"That's fine with me." Nash says secretly relieved.

"Since we have some free time I was going to work on a comic if that's okay."

"Why wouldn't it be okay?"

"I just thought that it might be distracting in someway."

"You can work on whatever you like."

Dumon gets a bit excited at this and take out his comic and some art supplies from his lapis. Nash chuckles at how excited Dumon is and watches him eagerly, Don waltzes into the living room with Vector in tow. He's clearly just woken up and is a bit surprised to see Dumon. He's been busy all this time and hadn't known that Dumon's now the dominated personality. Dumon is happily working on his comic, habit made his demon half Embers the villain.

'Interesting concept.' Nash thinks to himself.

Vector notices Dumon as well and starts a mental conversation with Don, 'He's the one who's been hiding.'

'I'm aware of that. How long as he been here?' Don asks Vector as he steals one of the couches.

'Almost the entire time you locked yourself in your room.' Vector says and cuddles up beside Don on the couch.

Don grins a bit, 'Can't expect me to pay attention all this time, I had work to do.'

Embers appears in a puff of black smoke, "Hey just thought I'd come and bug you for a bit before I go back to the Underworld."

"Fine just don't be annoying." Dumon says not even looking up from what he's doing.

Vector raises an eye brow, 'That's Embers.'

Don looks at Embers carefully, 'A demon?'

'It appears so."

"Hello again, Embers." Nash says

"Hey." Embers greets him happily and sits next to Dumon to look over his shoulder.

"It's been a while, hasn't it?" Nash asks.

"Indeed it has." Embers says looking to see what Dumon is drawing. "Hey why are you making me the villain?" He asks sounding like a whining child.

"Because it's my comic and I can do whatever I want with it." Dumon says with a small playful smile.

"Meanie." Embers says stilling sounding like a whining child and pouts.

Nash laughs at Dumon's response to Embers, 'He so much more different then before.' He thinks to himself.

To get a raise out of Dumon Embers speaks to him in Latin so only he can understand him, "Well have fun with your boyfriend~"

Dumon blushes in embarrassment at Embers comment, "Sh-Shut up!" He somewhat yells at him which only makes Embers laugh in response.

"Something wrong?" Nash asks.

"No it's nothing Nash." Dumon says and glares slightly at Embers.

Embers giggles at him with a smile, "Oh and by the way I have looked in on your split side. He sounds exactly like a Lesser but if that's true he's even more rear considering what we are."

"I'm sure you have a lot more digging to do now don't you Embers."

True, I'll be taking me leave. I'll let you know if I find anything more about our little friend.~" He says and disappears.

"You sure everything's okay?" Nash asks after Embers leaves.

"Yeah, he just knows how to push my buttons sometimes. No need to worry." Dumon gives him a reassuring smile.

"I'll always be here for you if it was something serious."

"Lucky for me Embers isn't that's much of a pest."

"Good." Nash says with a smile.

Eventually the day comes to a close, everyone eats and then bids each other good night. Only Dumon can't sleep, he's kept awake as he thinks about what has happened over the past few months. He also thinks about how being in Nash's gentle embrace feels so warm and comforting. Everyone sleeps peacefully through the night, eventually Dumon falls asleep but wakes up late the next morning. Nash goes to check on Dumon who's just waking up.

"Good morning." Nash greets Dumon with a warm smile.

"Good morning Nash." Dumon greets him back with a warm smile as well.

"How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine."

"That's good to hear." He leads Dumon to the dinning room.

Dumon follows and he tries not to let his thoughts get the better of him. Don's not very good at hiding his emotions anymore so he looks on edge for some reason, the other emperors come to the dinning room as well. Dumon takes his seat at the table, sitting next to Nash.

Vector comes and takes his seat beside Don and notices how worried Don seems to be, "Is something wrong Don?"

Don shakes his head slowly, "I feel... off."

Dumon glances over at Don, but he doesn't want to intrude on anything.

"Off?" Nash asks.

"Like... like something messing with the core." Don replies furrowing his brow

The others jerk in their seats in surprise, they weren't even aware that something was wrong. Dumon looks at them confused.

Nash sees Dumon's look of confusion and explains, "He's talking about the core of this world, Don can feel everything that happens here. And for something to be wrong with core means that it must be in grave danger.

Don growls, "And the worst part is that I can't even go to fix it."

Dumon is just as worried as the others now, "Has this ever happened before?"

Don shakes his head, "No never."

"Is there a way to get to the core?"

"Not unless I die."

"I'm not letting you die." Vector pipes up.

Don stops and thinks for a moment, "Unless..."

"Unless what?" Dumon asks curiously.

Don looks straight at Dumon, "You might have a chance of fixing this."

Dumon makes his diamond gray eyes turn to a bright and shining crimson red, "I'll do whatever I can to help."

"Then stay with me." Don say.

"Why him?" Nash asks a bit worried.

"His energy is different, he's less likely to be sucked in by the core." Don replies.

"I promise to come back Nash." Dumon gives him a small smile.

Nash nods worriedly.

"Lead the way Don." Dumon says.

"Eat first, it'll take a bit of energy."

Dumon nods and eats first holding Nash's hand under the table, Nash squeezes his hand comfortingly believing in him. After eating Dumon pulls Embers out of the Underworld throw their link, and explains the situation then takes on his appearance when they merge to increase power.

"Let's go." Don says getting up and leaving.

Dumon gets up and follows, letting go of Nash's hand as he leaves. Don leads him far off to a ravine that seems bottomless.

"I'm guessing this is the way to the core?"

"Yes, I can't go in without being sucked into the core and dying. Don't worry about the fall, it won't kill you."

Dumon nods and jumps into the ravine. The fall is log and seemingly endless, eventually the chaos comes up to greet him and cushion his fall.

"What now Don?" Dumon tries calling out to Don.

Don sits at the edge of the ravine and says "Find any discoloration, it shouldn't be to hard, but maybe that's just me."

Dumon does as he is told and looks around for any discoloration. He spots some black splotches where there should be purple on the core which is a large ball of energy.

"There are some black splotches down here." Dumon calls up to Don.

Don curses, "No wonder I feel like shit, try and bring back the balance."

"Alright I'll see what I can."

Don nods in understanding but he doesn't know how to fix this problem and that bothers him. Dumon examines the core to see what he can do to fix it. The darkness starts getting darker and more unstable making Don grunt in discomfort. Dumon does the fist thing that comes to mind which is trying to take out what is causing the black splotches. The core becoming unstable was caused by to much chaos, the excess has no where to go but into Dumon which causes his chest to burn and separates him from his demon half. The excess chaos is gone and the core returns to normal, Embers takes Dumon back to Don then disappears into the shadows to recover, having sustained a bit of damaged from being forcibly separated from him. Unfortunately Dumon is unconscious with his lapis glowing brightly trying to regulate the chaos in his body, his skin is pale and his breathing is shallow. Don picks him up and takes him back to the palace, Dumon is struggling to breathe making his breathes even shallower.

"We're done." Don says as he dumps Dumon into Nash's lap.

"What did you do?!" Nash cries out with worry.

"If you don't act fast he may cross the point of no return." Don says as he leaves, planning on thanking Dumon properly when he's better.

"Shit!!!" Nash cries and rushes Dumon to the infirmary.

Dumon is barely breathing and is limp in Nash's arms.

"Durbe help Dumon is sick!" Nash cries.

Durbe quickly comes to Dumon's side and starts treating him, Dumon responds right away with color coming back to his skin and his breathing coming back. Nash sighs in relief while Durbe gives Dumon some medicine to help stabilize him, after an hour or so Dumon starts to regain consciousness.

"Dumon?" Nash says holding his hand hoping that he's okay.

"Hey Nash." Dumon says weakly, still recovering and in a little bit of pain.

"Are you feeling alright."

"I'm in a little bit of pain but nothing I can't handle."

Nash kisses Dumon's hand relived to see that he's okay, "Thank goodness you're okay."

Dumon caress Nash's cheek, "I promised you that I would come back didn't I?" He smiles at him softly.

"But I didn't think you'd come back near death." Nash says looking very distressed at the thought of Dumon dying.

"Well you don't have to worry, I'm here and I just need a little time to rest." Dumon says, his eyes having long since fated back to their normal gray color.

Again Nash sighs in relief, "Thank goodness."

Dumon closes his eyes to go to sleep, suddenly a black sphere appears in the room. Embers is resting inside the sphere and being in close proximity to Dumon helps them both recover quicker. Nash is surprised at first by the sphere but relaxes when he feels Embers inside it. After some time Embers emerges from the sphere a bit groggy but looks to see how Dumon's doing who's still asleep at the moment. The glow of Dumon's lapis is fading which is a good sign that he's getting better.

"Hey glad to see you made it too." Nash says happy to see Embers.

"I'm just glad that Dumon's okay." Embers says then thinks to himself, 'He'll make a fine husband for Dumon, I can feel his strong will and desire to love and protect him from harm. He'll do just fine.'

"As am I." Nash say gently brushes the back of his hand against Dumon's cheek.

"He'll need to rest for another day or so until his lapis stops glowing, by then all of the excess chaos should be out."

"That's a relief."

"Call me if you need anything." Embers gives him a gold medallion with a dark violet jewel in the center.

"Thank you Embers." Nash says kindly and takes the medallion.

Embers disappears from site going back to the Underworld to rest and continue his research on Lessers. Nash keeps Dumon company still worried about him even though he is fine, Dumon turns to him and opens his eyes with a yawn.

"Hey." He calls softly

"Hey." Nash says and caresses Dumon's cheek softly."

Dumon leans into Nash's touch, "Have you been here the hold time?"

"I have, I couldn't leave you alone."

He could feel Nash's words tugging on his heartstrings to tell him how he really feels but he let the moment pass him by. "You didn't have to stay, I'm sure you have very important work to do. You're a good friend Nash and I'll never take that for granted." He takes his hand and gives it a gentle squeeze.

Nash smiles gently back, "All my work is desk work aside from the occasional meeting, it's fine."

"You have to tell him eventually or you'll never know how he really feels about you." Gothica finally pipes up after months of being silent.

'I'll do it later.' Dumon says mentally and then says to Nash, "Are you sure I'm not being an inconvenience to you?"

"Positive." Nash says confidently.

Dumon gives him a smile after hearing that and it doesn't take him long after that to recover. Nash keeps Dumon company the whole time and he enjoys Nash's company but looks for away to get out so he can get a tattoo that he saw online while scrolling on his phone when he was recovering. Nash is doing some paperwork while he's with Dumon, Dumon looks over to him as he works and debates on asking him to leave for an hour or two to get the tattoo.

Nash eventually gets up and stretches, "I have to go take care of something, I'll be back."

"Alright." Dumon says, this is the brake he's been waiting for.

Nash leaves the room, Dumon sneaks away when he leaves. No one but Don and Vector see him leave but they won't tattle on him. Dumon slips away to earth to get a blooming rose tattoo on the left side of his chest, and it only takes him an hour to get it done and colored. He slips back to his room before Nash even knows he was gone. Nash is still hard at work when Dumon returns so he takes this time to treat his new tattoo so it will stay bright and vibrant. Nash comes back to see Dumon working on one of his comics, he's is keeping his tattoo hidden with his shirt.

"Hey." Nash says to get Dumon's attention.

"Hi Nash." Dumon says and looks up from his comic.

Nash sits beside him and doesn't look at his comic in cause he's not ready to show it.

"How was work?"

"Boring, I had to deal with a kingdom who thought bandits were enough of a reason to start a war."

"That is a very absurd reason to start a war."

"You're the telling me. I had to convince him not to do it."

"It's good that you talked him out of it, fighting never solves the problem most of the time."

"It does here. We would just have been caught in the crossfire."

"Well everyone is safe thanks to your negotiating skills."

"That they are." Nash is flattered that Dumon thinks so highly of his negotiating skills.

"Do you ever have time to relax?"

Nash shrugs, "We get days off here and there."

"It's nice that you take the time out to see me."

"I'm always glad to spend time with you. By the way, are you up to visiting your family? I'm sure they miss you."

"Yeah, it's about time that I see them."

"I'll make a portal there then."

Dumon gets to his feet and gets his shoes on, Nash leads Dumon to the throne room. Dumon follows, gently taking Nash's hand. Nash squeezes his hand gently, his heart fluttering at the contact. Dumon is trying hard not to let a blush cross his face, just holding Nash's hand makes him want to blush. When they get to the throne room Nash lets go for now to put in the coordinates for Barain World

"What are the coordinates, Dumon?"

"Can I show you something?" Dumon asks, having a much simpler way to get to Barain World in mind.

Nash nods, "Of course."

Dumon uses his lapis to connect to any emperor that's still in the castle to get home and takes Nash's hand gently as the link pulls him through. A portal opens up in response to Dumon's energy and pulls them in.

Nash looks around in awe as he and Dumon appear in the living room, "You could do that?" Nash asks surprised.

"Yes." Dumon says with a smile.

"Amazing." Nash says in excitement.

"Well here we are." Dumon looks around the living room to see no one.

"Where is everyone?"

"I'm not sure but let's check upstairs." Dumon leads Nash upstairs.

Nash follows and soon voices can be heard from one of the upstairs rooms.

"Oh she's so cute!" A happy female voice says from one of the rooms.

"Hmm?" Nash tries to peek in one of the rooms.

In the room the other emperors are gathered around Don who's holding a baby in his arms. There are also two older children in the room but they look to be no more then five years old. A look of shock crosses Nash's face.

"Something wrong Nash?" Dumon whispers.

He makes the come here mention and Dumon does, Nash shows him what his see. A look of surprise crosses his face and he knocks on the door.

"Who is it?" Don's voice calls from the other side of the door.

"It's me." Dumon says calmly.

Don and the other emperors are surprised, "Come in." He calls.

Dumon opens the door, Don and the emperors greet him happily when they see him, and don't notice Nash at first.

"Hello." Nash says to get their attention and comes besides Dumon.

The emperors greet him and think that he and Dumon are together.

"Did you talk him into visiting?" Don asks with a small smile.

"I did."

"It's good to see you back finally." A female that looks just like Vector says happy.

"I have been meaning to come back."

Nash looks at the baby with curiosity, "Whose is she?"

"Would you believe me if I said she's mine?" Don says as he looks down at the sleeping infant.

Nash is a bit shocked at that "Yours?" He didn't know Don was capable of having kids.

"Let me guess, you're with Eliphas?" Dumon chimes in.

"Yes, and using the Spellcasters for a little trinket doesn't hurt either."

"Oh?"

"The Spellcasters are two individuals with magical abilities." Dumon's version of Nash says.

"I see, well congratulations on the baby."

"Thank you."

"What's her name?" Dumon asks.

"Numeronia."

"That's a pretty name."

"Thank you, I took that from my Number monster."

"Awww." Nash finds the baby very cute.

Baby Numeronia suddenly opens her eyes and sees Nash, she then reaches her tiny hand out to grab him babbling cutely.

"Hi there." Nash says taking Numeronia's little hand gently.

Numeronia smiles happily when Nash takes her tiny hand.

"She's very curious, me and Eliphas haven't seen her cry out of fear. But when she wants a bottle she'll let you know it."

"She's adorable, just keep her away from my sister. Merag won't want to give her back."

Everyone chuckles at this.

"She's free to come over and babysit if she wants. I'm sure she'll fine Luna and Aurora here just as adorable" Don says.

The two girl introduces themselves and stand by their parents. This is the first time that Dumon is meeting them, the children look at him with fascination but eventually they have to go home with their parents. Eliphas also come to take Numeronia off Don's hands so he can rest. Dumon is ready to head back to the World of Corruption with Nash when Eliphas comes to take Numeronia, they head back after biding everyone good bye.

"That was my "crazy" family." Dumon says with a smile.

"I'm happy to have met them."

"It's nice to have seen them again."

"Are you going to go back to live with them?"

"Do I have to?" Dumon gives him a cute pouting look.

Nash kind of blushes at the face Dumon gives him. "He looks so cute!" He thinks to himself then says, "Not unless you want to."

"Then I'd like to stay."

"You can stay as long as you want." Nash says and hugs Dumon.

Dumon cuddles into Nash's embrace, "You're a joy to be around."

"So are you, you're simply adorable."

Dumon wasn't expecting Nash to say something like that and blushes. Nash wasn't expecting to blurt that out and also blushes.

"S-sorry."

"It's fine..."

Nash clears his throat, "W-well I've gotta go." He says still blushing.

"I'll see you later then."

Nash goes to his office to work while Dumon goes to his room to change clothes hopping to find something that doesn't rub up against his tattoo so much. Nash starts on his work completely unaware that Dumon has gotten a tattoo. Dumon changes into black plans and a sliver button up shirt that doesn't rub up again his tattoo to much he then sneaks out of his room into Nash's room. Nash's room is across from his own and is clearly marked as the king's room, Dumon smiles and opens the door peeking into the room before going in. The room like it's owner is neat and orderly with only a few things out of place. There's a desk by one wall which is by a window and beside it is the bed.

"Wow." Dumon whispers at how nice the room looks and sneaks in closing the door behind.

Since Nash is preoccupied with work Dumon can do as he pleases, he looks around the room and find double doors that lead to a balcony. He goes there and unbuttons his shirt to let some air in and to easy the pain of the tattoo healing, uses his link to Embers to talk for awhile until Nash comes back from work. Finally Nash come back from work, Dumon stops talking to Embers and waits for Nash to fine him. Nash comes into his room not realizing yet that there's someone in his room, Dumon is facing away from the double doors just relaxing. He's looking down at the city when a small breeze comes through blows his shirt back a little bit, showing that it's unbuttoned. He's trying hard not to blush knowing that Nash is in the room now.

"Dumon?" Nash calls.

"Yes?" Dumon calls back innocently.

Nash isn't able to see Dumon's bare chest just yet since he had his back to him.

"What are you doing here?"

"I didn't want to bother you while you were working so I thought I would wait for you here."

"Well it's nice to have you here." Nash says.

Dumon slightly turns to Nash to show off a little bit, "The city is quite nice from up here."

"It is." Nash trying not to blush, seeing Dumon's partly exposed chest.

"Think we could convince Don to make a city in Barain World." He turns to him fully with a bright smile, the tattoo on his chest slightly showing.

Nash eyes are drawn to the tattoo, but he assumes he had it the whole time. After all, he's never seen him shirtless. "You could, by the way I like your tattoo."

"Thanks, I just got it."

"But you shouldn't be shirtless like that, especially not at night. The nights are pretty cold.".

"I'm not bothered by the cold, being part demon has some perks to it. Plus it kind of hurt to have something over my tattoo while it's still healing.

"Oh that's a relief."

"I actually like the cold air." Dumon says. "It eases the pain of my tattoo a bit."

Nash doesn't personally pay attention to someone's body unless he knows the other person likes him as to not make them feel uncomfortable. But Dumon doesn't show he's uncomfortable in anyway.

"So what brings you to the balcony?" He wraps an arm around Dumon's waist as a way to say I like you.

"The view, I'm not completely use to living in a city." He moves closer to Nash, showing that he's not at all bothered by Nash holding him.

Nash chuckles, "It is nice up here but Don has a better view though."

"The only time I would get to see a city like this is if I was up on a platform when I was fixing towers."

"That doesn't sound very relaxing."

"I actually liked it, some people call me a bit of a nerd since I like books and computers."

"Nothing wrong with that."

"I guess you could say that I'm a bit home sick, even though I like staying here and helping out when I can." Dumon says then thinks, 'But leaving you is like being alone all over again.'

Nash pulls him into a hug and he rests his head on Nash's shoulder hugging him back.

"I don't want to leave you." Dumon whispers.

Nash blushes a bit, "You can stay with me for as long as you want."

Dumon wants to tell Nash he loves him but something is holding him back so he just hugs Nash a little tighter, not wanting to let him go.

"Tired?" Nash asks softly.

"A little..."

Nash decides to let Dumon stay in his room to sleep, "You can sleep here if you want."

"A-are you sure?" Dumon asks sounds a bit surprised.

"Of course." Nash says softly.

Dumon walks over to Nash's bed, he has a look that say "I want to tell you something" but he's to afraid to open his mouth.

"I'll be here, don't worry."

Dumon smiles and lays down holding Nash's hand, slowing drifting off to sleep. Nash smiles and gently strokes Dumon's hair with the back of his hand, Dumon meanwhile talks with Gothica in his dreams to see how he can get Nash's attention so he can tell him that he loves him which Gothica comes up with a rather simple solution to Dumon's problem. While Dumon and Gothica are coming up with a plan Nash ends up falling asleep beside Dumon. A few hours pass by as the two sleep, soon the morning comes with a downpour of rain. Dumon wakes up with a yawn and looks out the window.

"Huh, I didn't know it could rain here."

Nash wakes up and stretches, he hears the rain and frowns. "Well there goes today's schedule."

Dumon looks over to him and slightly blushes realizing he just slept next to Nash. But then looks back to the rain outside starting to have a little doubt that Nash actually likes him. Nash only notices Dumon when he becomes a little more awake.

"G-good morning." He says with a blush.

Dumon pushes his doubt away then again realizes what has happened, he worry's about what people will think "Good morning." He says with a small smile.

"You okay?" Nash asking feeling how unease Dumon feels.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"You sure? You feel like you're uneasy."

"No I'm fine." He he says.

"You sure?" Nash ask hoping that he didn't do anything to upset Dumon.

"You have nothing to worry about." Dumon says sounding by accident somehow alluring.

"Well if you say so." Nash says, he takes Dumon's tone of voice as a sign that he's okay.

"I'll be in my room if you need me." Dumon says getting up.

He goes back to his own room and changes back into his regular clothes. Even though his shirt makes his tattoo hurt he just sucks it up and deals with it. He then goes out onto the balcony that's connected to his room, the acid rain burns his skin but doesn't actually leaves any marks. Diamond gray eyes turn to blood red as he looks out at the empty streets of the city.

Nash takes his breakfast to his office to get back to work, absentmindedly thinking about how he thinks Dumon feels. Dumon absentmindedly let's a blood red tear fall from his eyes.

"Nash doesn't like me... at least not in that way." He whispers to no one in particular.

Nash eventually finishes up for now and looks for Dumon. Embers pops out of the shadows feeling how upset Dumon is.

"Come now, I can tell you that isn't true."

"Oh what do you know?" Dumon says somewhat annoyed to see Embers.

"I know that Nash likes you more then he's showing, he's just not sure how to show his feelings."

'Now where could he be?' Nash asks himself as he searches for Dumon.

"Yeah I guess you're right." Dumon says.

Nash knocks on Dumon's door.

"I bet that's Nash right now." Embers says with a smirk.

"Coming." Dumon calls back, he's soaked from the acid room.

Nash waits for him to open the door, Dumon opens the door soaking wet from the rain with an embarrassed look on his face.

Nash immediately pick up the fact he's wet, "What were you doing out there!?" He asks concerned and wraps his hand in his cape dragging Dumon to the bathroom. "Wash that off right now before it eats away at you!"

Embers tries to hold in a laugh.

"I'll be fine Nash."

"Don't give me that "I'm a demon" excuse because even Don won't go out there in the rain!" Nash is genuinely concerned and knows that the waters effects are deadly for even beings like Don. He turns on the shower and shoves Dumon in quickly, only concerned with getting him safe.

Embers bursts out laughing.

"Shut up Embers!" Dumon yells at him from the bathroom.

Nash makes sure to rinse off all the rainwater, "This water could burn your skin off over time without you even noticing. I've seen childhood friends deteriorate over the years just because they were feeling rebellious one time. I don't want you to be one of them."

"We demons are quite resilient." Embers says giggling.

Nash looks at Embers, "Yeah, well Don Thousand is pretty much a demon overlord and even he was affected! Ask him if you don't believe me, he'll give you all the details. In fact, that was how one of his lives ended!"

Now it's Dumon's turn to laugh at Embers but he does it much more quietly.

"He's not actually a demon but whatever." Embers replies with his arms crossed.

Nash helps Dumon dry off, "What were you doing out there?"

"I got bored and decided to sit out there."

Embers smirks knowing that Dumon is lying.

"Well... promise me that you won't go out in the rain again."

"Okay." Dumon says sounds like a child when he says this.

"Thank you." Nash hugs him.

"I should probably change out of these wet clothes."

"Yeah you should, I'll leave you to do that."

"No need to leave." He makes his lapis glow and his clothes change to that of the school uniform he took at the end of Zexal saga.

"That's handy."

"You'd be surprised how much my lapis can hold."

"Durbe can do something like that, but only for small items."

"I could probably hold something as big as a microwave in my lapis if I really wanted to."

Nash chuckles at this while Dumon gives him a small smile.

"So..." Nash isn't sure what to say now.

Embers takes the opportunity to tell Dumon what he's found out, "Unfortunately I couldn't find that much information on a Lesser, only that they don't like causing trouble or getting into risky or questionable behavior. Oh they're also good in the medical field surprisingly."

"Well that's good to know I guess." Dumon says.

Embers eventually leaves to go do Ra knows what in the Underworld, leaving Dumon alone with Nash. As time passes on Dumon settles for admiring Nash from afar since he's to afraid to admit he likes him.

"We better figure out something for everyone to do before Vector and Don wreak havoc."

"Okay have fun." Dumon smiles at that.

"More like good luck, those two are trouble."

"I'm sure you can find something for everyone."

"It's only those two I'm worried about." He goes to make sure they stay out of trouble."

When Nash leaves Dumon let's out a sigh, he doesn't know how he'll ever get Nash's attention.