Sora was deeply concerned with the fact that Rui did not seem to care about Sakura. The only thing she could think about was that Sora won, no matter what happened with the loser or who the loser even was. Although he did feel happy seeing his sister that proud and happy for him, he was not able to put his concerns aside. He hoped that Rui could not see the concerns in his facial expressions as he did not know how to explain them to her.

Sakura and Blaze left soon after, leaving the two siblings alone with their Avatars again. Sora noticed that Wolf was sleeping, but he also noticed the worried look on Lumia's face. She must have felt it too: Rui's weird behavior when it comes to Nexus. It made him regret buying Nexus for her and for himself, if the consequences of losing all of your coins had not already given him that feeling.

[color=cornflowerblue]"Y-you are probably right. Although it does feel weird, you are probably right about this. I had to win and she still has the possibility to get that memory back."[/color] He did not believe a word of what he had just said, but he needed to agree with Rui in order to avoid a confrontation with his sister about Nexus. [color=cornflowerblue]"Yeah, Wolf is sleeping and not thinking about the battles for a moment would in fact feel nice. Let's enjoy the rest of the day indeed!"[/color] Sora took a deep breath, freed himself from Rui's grasp and put his arm around her shoulders, pulling her closer to himself.

The rest of the day, they simply enjoyed the zoo like all the rest of the people there. They were acting like nothing had happened and Sora felt as if he was getting closer and closer with Rui. All the while, he started feeling more and more relaxed about defeating Sakura, mostly because of the happy memory with Rui that he got back because of that battle. It was such a good memory and he could not believe that he forgot all about it. He had almost forgotten how much his sister once had meant for him and how much she still did mean for him.

In the evening, when the two of them came home from the zoo, he knew that their parents would yell at Sora for keeping Rui away from the books. If she agreed with him or not, that simply did not matter for them. In their eyes, Sora had kidnapped their daughter and Sora sabotaged Rui's school career. How could they not see that they put way too much pressure on one girl? He hated the amount of pressure they put on Rui more than he hated the way his parents treated him. If they could just let her relax without giving her a guilty feeling...

While his parents were yelling at him for the millionth time, he closed his eyes and put his hands in the pockets of his pants. He lowered his head and almost looked like he was sleeping standing up, which made his parents even more mad. He was not asleep though, he was trying to find a way to ignore the loud voices and the fact that he felt like he had no one that was there for him other than his sister and... well... her.

At one point, he opened his eyes and turned his head towards Rui. Suddenly, a bright smile appeared on his face as he winked at Rui. [color=cornflowerblue]"Don't worry about it."[/color] He said, reassuring her that it did not matter how they treated him. Reassuring her that she should not worry about Sora. After their parents were done yelling, he went upstairs and knocked on Rui's door. [color=cornflowerblue]"Thanks for a great day!"[/color] He said before going to his room, not even waiting for Rui to react.

The next day, Sora was up extremely early. Well, it was extremely early for him, but he did not mind at all. In fact, he seemed like he was on cloud nine, running through the house and getting himself ready. Then the doorbell rang and Natsuko was standing in front of the door. He hugged her for quite some time before welcoming her in the house. They took a seat on the couch in the living room and Natsuko immediately started to touch him all over his body. The touching was quite innocent and she did not touch him inappropriately, but just like... a lot. Wolf was quite worried about Natsuko's neediness, but Ema (Natsuko's Avatar) did all she could to distract Wolf from Sora and Sora himself seemed to like the attention Natsuko gave him.