Nemo stood silent, his grin soon dissipating and his arms falling down to his side as Raiya responded. After she left he left out a small sigh, not saying anything. Nemo walked over to the record player, which had been turned off not long after Raiya entered the room. He pulled out a new record from the shelf and took it out of it's sleeve. After replacing the current record he dropped the needle, playing [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8OlDPqYBLw]Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea.[/url]

Nemo stepped into the bathroom, his hair now completely dry, and ran his fingers through it it push it back, inspecting his appearance. 

[color=c0c0c0]"I'm not insane."[/color] He softly spoke to his reflection in the mirror to break the long silence. 

[color=c0c0c0]"I haven't gone mad."[/color] He added.

[color=c0c0c0]"I'm in control."[/color] Nemo repeated the mantra a couple of times, steadily growing louder in tone. Once he reached a borderline shout, he started to violently punch himself in the face with the top of his left fist. By the time Nemo was done, a steady stream of blood trickled down from his nose and mouth into the sink, spattering deep crimson red all over the white porcelain. He hung over the sink until the stream trickled out.  

Nemo raised his head back up, looking at himself in the mirror. A good third of his pale face was stained with blood now. He used his tongue to lick up a decent portion of the liquid, followed by a small guttural laugh. Nemo spawned a small blue crystal orb roughly the size of a gumball. It had a faint glow to it, and anybody using manalysis would be able to tell it was filled with a significant amount of mana. Nemo then opened his mouth and popped it in like a candy, swallowing it whole down his gullet. 

The action had quick results, through the mirror one could see the small cuts Nemo caused with his self-inflicted beating rapidly begin to heal. Finished with his mana supplement, Nemo started to wash the remaining blood off his face in the sink till there was no trace left of what he had done. 

After relieving his stress, Nemo crashed back down on the couch, listening to the remainder of the record.

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A couple minutes went by before Nemo exited the room, judging by his appearance it seemed to had diverted it to a wardrobe change. Nemo wore his usual black boots and accessories, a pair of bright pink velour sweatpants, a white tank top underneath a black button up bowling shirt. The shirt had a leopard print collar and piping around the edges, and worn with the top buttons undone. A black leather asymmetrical moto jacket worn unzipped. Unlike Raiya's the only motifs adorned on his piece was one circular white and black metal smiley face pin on his lapel, and a white X painted the back of the jacket, clearly a play on how most of the members of Raiya's crux gang had upside-down crossed painted on them. And finally, he wore his black and white polka-dot silk scarf around his neck and loosely tied together below his chest. 

Nemo strolled over to Raiya's room and knocked on the door three times before opening the door. He seemed unsure of what to say at first. [color=c0c0c0]"I do hope my [i]ensemble[/i] is up to par?"[/color] He noted, comically spinning around in a circle in the doorway.[color=c0c0c0] "You're right, these jackets are quite warm and cozy."[/color] Nemo added.