...Not me begging Anna to draw timeskip Y/N. Now here's a question- long hair or short hair? Even if only one person comments by tomorrow (when I write the next chapter) what they want I'll do majority lmao. 

*Ahem*. The end. Sorry for the long A/N- 

(Y'all I love short hair- but like- Y/N with long hair in a ponytail with small braids on the undersides- NO WAIT PONYTAIL Y/N WITH LONG HAIR BUT AN UNDERCUT- 

-NOT ME FALLING FOR Y/N INSTEAD OF Ray 😳😳  I SWEAR WHERE DOES SHE GET OFF BEING SO HOTTRJKHYRJU7KIUTYRSFSDDZV 

HAPPY READING DJDSDJCSJDC!!!)

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After a month and a half had passed since we'd come back from Goldy Pond, I was sitting in the secret room. I'd told everyone to leave waiting for a message from the supporters to me. They were hesitant at first, but decided to trust me and my 'hunches', so everyone grew to call them.

For the past few week's I'd still been working hard, but like Yuugo and everyone else asked, and Ray made sure of, if you can call it that, I'd been taking care of myself in the process.

I hadn't dropped working with the sword, but only because it helped strengthen my shoulders a ton- which I needed for the wound to heal properly. As sad as it was, there was no point to fighting with the sword, as there wasn't much I could do to the demons with that particular weapon. Besides that, I was still reading occasionally, but for physical training, I was no longer teaching knife-work- Hayato had gotten unfairly good at it in a short time, and was now the one teaching it to others-, but I was still partaking in combat training with Yuugo, and Ray, Poppy, Reina, and Emma, and most surprisingly, Niko and Hayato, had began partaking in similar physical exercises alongside Yuugo, who begrudgingly taught them as well.

I was sprawled across the floor of the secret room, humming to myself while I was getting a head start on memorizing all of the maps available to us, when the phone let out a shrill ring all of the sudden. Despite expecting it to come soon, I was still shocked, seeing how engrossed I was in my map-memorizing. "JESUS!!" I yelped, dropping the map book in my face. 

I groaned and stood up, rubbing the spot the book of maps hit my face before picking up the phone. Before the other person could react, I said; "I'm sorry, I cant meet with you right now. Next time I will be the one to contact you first." I grinned. "Be careful. Peter Ratri is the enemy. Minerva's younger brother and the head of the Ratri clan." I sat down on the floor, twirling the phone cord around my finger. "Stay where you are. I will definitely come see you...Right, 'supporter-san?'" 

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"We're only taking a few of us." I said, looking across the sea of children. "Myself, Emma, and Ray, that makes three..." I hummed to myself when Reina butt in.

"And me. I'm not going to sit back here again." She said. I shrugged], sympathizing with her idea.

"That's four..." I said, looking to Emma and Ray.

"I'd like Don and Gilda to come." Emma said, Ray and the ginger looking to their two younger siblings. Don and Gilda's eyes widened. 

"Oi oi oi. Are the little one's going to be okay with that?" Yuugo asked, scratching the back of his head. "There's going to be a lot of demons, of course, and you won't have any type of guide in this situation. We're talking unknown territory, here." 

I smiled. "It may be dangerous, and we may be stronger with you along, but when I received the message from the supporter, it became very clear that someone is looking for us- and this shelter, specifically. It would be dangerous for us to be spread thin. This place is the base of the cattle children. So it's important to keep the shelter hidden and keep everyone safe. Can I intrust that to you?" I asked him with a smirk. 

Yuugo paused. "...I suppose..." 

"And plus-!!" Emma added in. "We have Don and Gilda- our reliable younger siblings."

Ray nodded. "Right, you showed us how reliable they were during the 'prison break'." 

As expected, both Don and Gilda bursted into tears. Ray recoiled in surprise. "W-well, if you don't want to-"

"LIKE HELL I WOULDN'T WANT TO!" Don yelled, throwing his hands up in the air. 

"I'm so happy~" Gilda cried. "Because I thought I was just a caretaker... having to wait around was just so painful... I'm so happy I can stand alongside you."

"We're going to try our absolute hardest, right Gilda?!" The bean exclaimed.

Gilda smiled. "Yeah!" She said with a nod of her head.

"...sorry to be a wet blanket," Yuugo said, grabbing Zack, and Hayato- to my surprise, on the shoulders. "But if possible, you should bring these two along. They should be ok." I snorted. 'So he was going to force us to bring 2 extra no matter what-?!' "It's hard to keep watch with only 5 people. With these two, you can split it." I started to chortle. In the original, he said the exact same thing- save 4 for 5. Yuugo turned to me with a raised eyebrow in question. "Is there a problem with them?" He asked. 

I grinned. "No problem." I said with a shrug. "But... you're really worried about us aren't you~~" I teased. Yuugo's face twitched. I turned to the two children in his grasp."Would you be ok with that?" I asked Hayato and Zack.

Hayato looked to Reina who nodded her head in assurance. He turned to me and shrugged before nodding his head in agreement. "Of course!" Zack said with a grin. "Who else to bring the first aid for when you injure yourself being a reckless idiot on the first day!" 

I twitched. "Says you, *sshole!" I said, punching him roughly on the arm. 

"...He's not wrong, though..." Ray muttered, thinking I couldn't hear him. I turned to him with a death glare and he rolled his eyes.

"Why you-!!" I began but Ray suddenly grabbed the collar of my shirt and started dragging me to the door. 

"Then, we'll be grabbing our supplies first!" He waved, exiting the room with my sorry *ss dragged in tow, my heels dragging helplessly on the floor. I grumbled the whole way down, crossing my arms and making the trip as difficult as possible for Ray, who had to drag me the entire distance.

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Hayato relinquished the better throwing knives to my fabulous self, and I strapped the holder to my upper thigh, below my jacket and overtop my pants.. My jacket was decorated with patches made by Gillian- I helped her design them so they looked exactly like emojis. I even made Ray wear a skull one to accentuate his...emoness, who unwillingly accepted, and Emma wear an orange emoji patch...because...well...yeah.

We quickly finished our goodbyes, accompanied by Poppy complaining about not being able to come with us. And then we left the shelter for Cuvitidala.

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"I'm not sure who you are..." I said, speaking the truth. It had never been revealed who exactly the one who called the Shelter was. Most people assumed it was Norman- although many people rebutted the idea, insisting that Norman's shoulders weren't as broad as the callers, as well as his pants being black, which personally made no sense to me, because you can change your clothes... I'm getting on a tangent, moving on, others thought it was Smee, one of Minerva's Allies, I've seen a theory about it being Sonju, but my own personal belief was it was Vincent. Unprecedented as that theory of mine was, I'd decided to place my bets on whoever it was who called knowing who Norman was. 

"But if you are perchance related to Norman- Perhaps you call him William Minerva, or maybe even 'Boss'..." I smiled when I continued to hear silence from the other side. I seemed to have their attention. "Tell him that Y/N says hi, okay? And tell him I say... that it's ok to be weak..." I left the end hanging, when there was a sudden tap and morse code began on the other side of the receiver. I listened intently and decoded their response mentally.

'Message received.' The morse code spelled out. The line then clicked off and I sighed. Knowing Norman, the message wouldn't phase him at all, perhaps he'd even disregard it- that's if it even reaches him at all, but it was worth the try. 

(A/N: A short chapter! If you can count 1,300~ words as short... well, compared to the first chapters its about an average length, ig...

Have a nice day!!

(Wait, before you go,,, 

PLEASE- THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL IN THE MANGA R U KIDDING ME??!! I WANT TO'VE SEEN THIS ANIMATED I WOULD'VE BEEN DYING FOR HOURS- 

THE WAY RAY LOOKS SO COOL AND BAD*SS UNTIL HE SEES DON I- MANS REALLY WENT "😃 'SHIT' "

ALSO THIS IS GOING TO BE MY LONGEST COMMENT I SWEAR I WONT PULL SH*T LIKE THIS AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER AGAIN-

ANYWAYSSSSS BYEEEEEE ILYYY~~~~)