"Well, we're back," Peyton said as he pulled the car over to the sidewalk closest to the "hideout" house. With that said, they all exited the car, and as soon as they would enter the house, Nero and Umiya were at the living room watching the television news.

"Oh, so you all made it back in one piece. Assuming from the fact that the police and even the investigative forces are already at the club area, I thought you were caught," Nero said, with the subtle message of "what the hell happened?"

"Look, the Shadow Essence developed a lot faster than we expected, and we had no choice but bring out the big guns on it as well as handle the assaulters at the place. Besides, it's not like the authorities are going to figure out what really happened," Kaika said with a nervous laugh, thinking that they screwed up the "stealth" part of the mission.

"Considering yourselves lucky then. If you didn't escape out of there quickly enough, your faces would had been caught on camera and then put with a "wanted" sign on it. The last thing we want is to have you hunted down, you still have a normal life to take care of here," Nero sighed.
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"Yeah, yeah I am," Takahisa said despite having his cheeks squeezed a bit.