Without saying a word, Umiya got a glance of the photos that Eren had.

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"I'm not sure, now that I think about it," Takahisa said, but got even more suspicious as the sounds of the storm immediately stopped, and it was like it had quickly passed. Without much luck on finding out what that was, Slyph came back to them, giving off the impression that he didn't see anything that seemed off when the storm was still around.

Eren chuckled when he got to a picture of Armin when they were younger with a stack load of books in gis arms and and big goofy grin on his face.

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Armin shrugged. "Whatever it was is gone now..."

"A pretty interesting bunch of photos you have there," Umiya commented on his photos after a literal minute of silent observation.

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"So, nothing to worry about. Just a random storm making it's way through here," Slyph said from what he saw, seeing no problem from that storm. However, they could hear very loud gunshots from afar and a voice of a young girl near the location of said gunfire.

"Just a random storm?" Takahisa sweatdropped at the Spirit's claim, and started to worry a bit once he heard noises.

"I may had overlooked something," Slyph nervously replied and shrugged.

Eren looked at her. "Yeah.. I gues..."

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Armin smiled. "Well that's okay."

Rachel nudged Takahisa. "So how does the plant thing work?"

"I see..." Umiya mumbled.

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"Oh, er, it's a lot to explain, but I can use different kinds of healing capabilities from different kinds of plants," Takahisa said.

Eren kept flipping through the pictures.

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Rachel smiled. "Will you show me?" she asked.

Soon, someone could be heard knocking on the door. Seeing as both Kaika and Peyton were focused on their game, Umiya got up and went to answer the door.

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"Sure," Takahisa nodded and briefly made the seal for the First Fonist, and in the ground near them, a small pure white flower began to grow and bloom fully.

Eren looked up as he heard it and watched her go to the door.

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Rachel smiled happily. "Wow!" she giggled.

Umiya only opened the door a crack, and then had a puzzled look on her face. She glances over to Kaika and Peyton, who were still playing. "Er, if you mind to give a moment of your time, I suppose you would recognize these people," she said before opening the door fully to reveal that Blade Wolf had come the entire way here with an unconscious Raiden on his back.

"Huh? What are you doing here?" Kaika mumbled in surprise to see the two after her sudden black out back where that man was.

"Raiden was able to fend off the Desperado forces at that location, but has suffered several damages once it was over. We do not have a secure place to stay as a base of operations, but I was able to trace your trail back to this area," Blade Wolf said, being able to figure out this location after tracking Eren and Kaika through it's AR system. Though, these two did not have a secure place to hide at to recover.

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"Amazing right? I think this is a plant that's not really native here too," Takahisa said as he looked at the unique flower.

Eren stood and tucked the pictures back into his jacket. "What happened to him? I might be able to do something if I know how he got injured..."

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Rachel giggled and looked at him. "That's amazing..." she said.

"His auto-repair units within his right arm were severely damaged, which is why he is not conscious," Blade Wolf said as the robotic AI moved to the group closer so they would see that there was a deep gash in Raiden's right arm. Of course, almost the entirety of Raiden's body, from his lower jaw to his feet, that large portion of his body was completely cybernetic.

"Auto-repair units?...oh, you mean that stuff that absorbs the enemies' electrolytes and nanopaste?" Peyton said with a sudden realization, having all of this knowledge on advanced technology.

"Yes, that is what his auto-repair units use," Blade Wolf responded to confirm Peyton's realization.

"Alright, hold on, I got some stuff that could help in this," Peyton said before running upstairs and into his room.

"Wow, never really knew he was into that kind of stuff," Kaika said, not knowing that well that he knew these kinds of technologies.

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Takahisa was going to say something, but his senses managed to catch something off again, and strangely it had the same kind of sense as the storm that passed by minutes ago. Without saying anything, he quickly got up and started to go outside in the direction of what he sensed.

"And there he goes...I sense whatever he managed to sense, and it's quite off..." Slyph said as he managed to tell what Takahisa managed to sense.

Rachel got up and followed him. "What's wrong?" she asked, catching up to him.

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Eren watched Peyton go. "This is beyond me.."

"It's...It's..." takahisa said, but wasn't able to figure out what was that disturbing feeling. Though, once outside near the gate of the HQ, there was that same purple cat from earlier, the cat that was a disguise for the Witch Bernkastel. He froze as soon as the cat stared at him with it's emotionless eyes.

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"Same here," Kaika said in agreement with Eren. Blade Wolf was able to move Raiden to a couch in the living room.

Rachel gave him a sarcastic look. "It's just a cat..."

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Eren sighed and went over to the corner of the room. He sat down on the floor and began polishing his 3DMG blades quietly.

Before Takahisa could do anything like tell Rachel what this was, the cat disappeared from sight, but both would start to get really dizzy.

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While Peyton was treating Raiden with the new electrolytes and nanopaste he managed to make from the rough information of cyborgs and UGs, Kaika turned off the TV since they wouldn't play any more video games for the moment, but she took out her phone and was searching up something.

Rachel stumbled and fell to her knees, her vision blurry. "Woah... What?" she mumbled.

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Eren took his pocket knife and began tightening the screws on the Maneuver Gear handles.

At the last possible second before blacking out, Takahisa threw himself onto Rachel, and the sound of flesh being stabbed into could be heard, as well as several drips of blood were the aftermath of this.

Soon, they would find themselves in an empty void with the floor appearing like a chessboard.

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After looking at her phone for a bit, Kaika decided to take a look at Eren's Maneuver Gear. "Honestly, I never actually saw this in action," Kaika comments as she was really interested with it.

Rachel opened her eyes and looked up to see Takahisa. "What... What happened?" she asked, looking around.

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Eren smiled. "It's difficult to use, but I could show you sometime if you'd like..." he said, looking up at her.

Takahisa tried to talk, but coughed up a bit of blood as it was now clear that there was some kind of monstrously large blade impaled through him. They weren't alone either, as the same purple cat was near them and staring at them.

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"I wonder how difficult you mean. Learning to scale buildings was already enough physical work," Kaika chuckled at the thought.

Rachel wiped the blood from his mouth gently with her finger. "Takahisa..?" she looked at the blade and bit her lip.

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Eren smiled. "It took me two years to at least get a hang of it..."