Their walk to the hotel was a hasty one since they were racing each other for the first place that secured their turn on the shower, they both ran with all of their might but Caroline was the victor

'Even though I run twice a week Caroline still is superior to me in stamina, I have to make sure I catch up to her if I want make it in this dangerous world' Luck thought as he sat on his bed

Caroline had already gotten into the shower and was showering at the time

"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE GREAT CAROLINE!" She yelled from inside the bathroom

"YOU WERE THE ONE THAT CHALLENGED ME IN THE FIRST PLACE DUMB ASS!" Luck yelled back with a pinch of salt in his voice

Caroline then continued he shower silently but as she was showering she remembered something

"LUCK WE FORGOT ABOUT THE GOODS IN THE MANA ZONE!"

Luck wasn't very concerned about the items that they didn't get in the mana zone since he doesn't have a single clue about what a mana zone item is like, even though he has seen one

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU! WHEN YOU FINISH THEN WE CAN TALK!" Luck lied to relax for a little

He then took his pillow and covered his head with it, and by not hearing or seeing anything Luck was able to relax a little

'How did my life end up like that? In the past I didn't think about anything or anyone but here I am worried about the safety of my friends and mine too, and it's not only that, but I also have to worry about my finances or my taxes, honestly, I miss the time when the only thing I was worried about was if I could beat Hope in a fight, those were the best times of my life and turns out that those moments are the ones I think about to make myself happier but I have to move on, Caroline is Caroline and not Hope, Hope is gone and will remain gone forever and nothing can change that'

Luck thought in this chamber of silence he created, but his thought was distracted by a sudden weight

Caroline jumped on top of Luck disturbing him

"Ouch, you bitch! That hurts" Luck said as he took the pillow off his head

The first thing he saw was Caroline with wet hair right in front of his face

"What were you doing?" Caroline asked as she giggled

"I was thinking unlike you! What were you thinking? I could have gotten seriously hurt!" Luck replied angrily

"Come on now I know that you are not mad at me" She said as she rested her head on Luck's chest

Luck was a bit embarrassed that Caroline was laying on top of him but he didn't react he simply let her be since he was too tired to throw her off him

"So what are the preparations for the missions?" Luck's question caught Caroline off guard

"Kamira said that we will launch an attack when it passes near the island but I don't know when, but she said that all of us will get trained to fight and when the time is nearing they will send us a planned script on how to act in this mission, that's how it is with most of the missions we have done so I don't think something will change" Caroline replied as she rolled off Luck into her side of the bed

"Then that means I'm way too hasty!" Luck said as he got up

"I will take a shower, if you don't mind please order food from the hotel, more preferably trash food so we can watch movies!" Luck said before going in the bathroom

Caroline nodded and went to take food and sodas, while Luck was showering he noticed something, his hair was getting longer, to the point that the hair will fall on his eyes, after quickly finishing his shower he went to the mirror and dried his hair

'Will I look good with a tie?'

He wondered as he tied his hair with a hairband he created, Luck wasn't a very good critic so he came outside the bathroom and asked Caroline, who was setting everything up for the movies, she was closing curtains and setting up the food and the couches and also closing the lights

"Hey, Caroline do I look good?"

Caroline turned at him and laughed

Luck felt incredibly disappointed since deep inside he liked that look, when he tried to untie his hair Caroline stopped him

"You look good I was simply caught off guard, don't ruin your new look!" Caroline said as she grabbed Luck's arms

"Please promise me that you are not telling me this just to make me feel better" Luck said with a sad expression

"Come on now you saw yourself! You look much better now that your face is clearly shown"

Luck seemed a bit happier when he heard that

"Anyways who cares? We have movies to watch!" Caroline said as she dragged Luck to the couch that now was turned into a huge comfy bed with a lot of blankets and pillows

"Pick a side" Caroline said as she presented him with this enormous bed

"Well I will take the right so you take the left" Luck said as he lied on the bed

Caroline joined him shortly after and the movie sequence quickly began, since they were in America they started with a well-known movie Captain America!

"Hey he doesn't have super powers but he is supposed to be in the same group as "The Hulk" and "Thor"? Turns out this guy is a good one!" Luck said

"Well he isn't just a normal guy and he does have something like a super power so I guess what you are saying cancels out, sort of... Anyway let's move on to the next one!" Caroline said as she quickly picked up the TV remote

"Now let's do something fun! You will put a movie that you want to see and then I will do the same, How does that sound?"

"Sounds okay! So for my movie, I will pick "Mememento" I hear it has a very interesting plot so how about we give it a try?"

Luck said as he selected the movie from the menu on the TV, they then silently watched the movie, turns out Luck's gut feeling was right because this movie had them on the edge of their seat all the time and when the end came they felt empty

"So did Leon kill his own wife? What the hell was going on?" Caroline asked confused as she watched the credits roll-off

"I think Leon had this memory problem before his wife died but to be honest I was quite confused too so how about we move to the next movie before my brains fries?" Luck said as he rubbed the back of his head

It was Caroline's turn to pick a movie so to set up the mood for something she wanted to do later she picked the movie "MY name" it was an animation-romance film that caught the eye of Caroline and wanted to check out, after putting the movie on Luck was hooked because of its amazing animation, he couldn't stop complimenting the animation of the film, Caroline took advantage of Luck's state of shook to slowly get closer and closer to him, but her plan failed miserly

"Why are you coming this close? Stick to your corner as I do, you are not entitled to have more space than me!" Luck told her

Caroline then went to her corner and after some time the movie ended

"Oh man that was amazing, I wish that the movie was a bit longer but at least it had a great end" Luck said as he slowly got up, he then stretched with passion

"Watching this many movies made my body go sore, want to go for a final walk before Gnomon comes to pick us up? We barely have an hour left" Luck asked Caroline

She thought that this walk would be a great opportunity to finally confess her feelings for him, Caroline had to hide her feelings for a long time now and she finally reached her breaking point, she couldn't hide those emotions anymore so before going back to Biol

Caroline was D E T E R M I N E D to confess by the end of the day

"Okay! But first, let's clean this room, it will be rude if we left the room in such a mess" Caroline said as she began to gather all of the pizza and pop-corn boxes

'Since when did Caroline start caring about tidying?' Luck thought as he helped put the couches in the place they were before

After bringing the room to a reasonable state Luck and Caroline left the prepaid hotel once and for all, they then walked around the city of New York, the sun was down and the city's lights were once again shining like the first time they came here, Caroline dragged Luck to multiple stores she saw, the first shop she took him was a crane machine shop, this place had many claw machines, Luck quickly exited the shop since he didn't want to waste money on something he knew was scum, Caroline had no other option but to follow him, they then went to a photo booth and took a lot of goofy photos together

"Look at that one! It made me have cat ears!" Caroline said as she looked at the edited photos the photo booth took

"And in this one, it swapped our faces, you look very weird with my face but I on the other hand look like a model" Luck said as he stared at the photo

"Yeah, you wish!" Caroline said to mock him

The rest of the walk was relatively quiet since the only thing they did was find the skyscraper that they first arrived at, once they found it they silently got inside of it and got to the roof by using the stairs, the skyscraper had a lot of apartments and workplaces so it was normal for them to be inside of it, after climbing a large number of stairs they got to the roof of the building, it was quite windy up there

"So here we are once again, on the same roof we first arrived at and saw the lights of the city, it hasn't been a day but I still feel very nostalgic, isn't that weird to say?" Luck said as he opened his arm like a bird

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"Luck there is something I want to tell you..." Caroline said as she mustered up all of her courage

"The view here is amazing isn't it?" Luck asked Caroline ignoring what she said

"Luck will you hear me out?" Caroline asked him but he ignored her once again

"I wonder if people can see us from here"

"LUCK!" Caroline yelled

Luck then turned at Caroline as he was standing at the edge of the building

"I'm not the type to do things like that but I have f-feelings for you, and after spending this much time with you I can't stop myself from t-thinking about you, what I'm trying to say is that I love you Luck!" Caroline said as she was stumbling on her words, she was also very red from embarrassment

"I knew that this moment will arrive but I didn't know how to handle it, turns out I can't avoid it so to make this fast, I'm sorry Caroline but I only see you as a friend and I think you should do the same, as for me the only person I ever loved is the same I destroyed" Luck said as the wind gently blew his beautiful black hair

Caroline was speechless but she felt an even bigger feeling of confusion, when she saw her sister hitting up on other men she always succeeded but it was different for her

"Did you know all along?" Caroline said with a weak voice and her head faced at the ground

"I figured it out after we left this one meeting, you started acting differently, and when we came here and saw our rooms I was 100% sure that you had a crush on me since Kamira would never do something like this, you must have set up the whole trip right?" Luck asked but it was useless since he already knew the answer himself

Caroline refused to reply

"I know how you must feel but I don't want our relationship to change, you were such a good friend, and it will be a shame if our friendship changed just because of romance don't you think? You may think I'm lying but I have been in your shoes in the past and I know it feels like shit but that the right thing to do and in the end you will see that I was right" Luck continued

"Just tell me one thing! Is the person you loved Hope?" She asked as tears ran down her eyes, seeing her like that made his body tighten up

"Isn't that obvious?" Luck answered

Caroline then flew away alone, she flew at an incredibly fast speed, and slowly after Gnomon arrived using his flying ability, he was surprised to only see Luck

"Where is the other brat?" Gnomon asked him

"She is fine, she said that she will return on her own so please take me home" Luck said with a sad expression

It was the first time he turned someone down like that, he felt somehow sad but he knew it was the right thing to do, Gnomon then used his specialized mana zone and took Luck outside his house, Luck immediately went to his room and slept in his bed even though the sun was still up

Their walk to the hotel was a hasty one since they were racing each other for the first place that secured their turn on the shower, they both ran with all of their might but Caroline was the victor

'Even though I run twice a week Caroline still is superior to me in stamina, I have to make sure I catch up to her if I want make it in this dangerous world' Luck thought as he sat on his bed

Caroline had already gotten into the shower and was showering at the time

"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE GREAT CAROLINE!" She yelled from inside the bathroom

"YOU WERE THE ONE THAT CHALLENGED ME IN THE FIRST PLACE DUMB ASS!" Luck yelled back with a pinch of salt in his voice

Caroline then continued he shower silently but as she was showering she remembered something

"LUCK WE FORGOT ABOUT THE GOODS IN THE MANA ZONE!"

Luck wasn't very concerned about the items that they didn't get in the mana zone since he doesn't have a single clue about what a mana zone item is like, even though he has seen one

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU! WHEN YOU FINISH THEN WE CAN TALK!" Luck lied to relax for a little

He then took his pillow and covered his head with it, and by not hearing or seeing anything Luck was able to relax a little

'How did my life end up like that? In the past I didn't think about anything or anyone but here I am worried about the safety of my friends and mine too, and it's not only that, but I also have to worry about my finances or my taxes, honestly, I miss the time when the only thing I was worried about was if I could beat Hope in a fight, those were the best times of my life and turns out that those moments are the ones I think about to make myself happier but I have to move on, Caroline is Caroline and not Hope, Hope is gone and will remain gone forever and nothing can change that'

Luck thought in this chamber of silence he created, but his thought was distracted by a sudden weight

Caroline jumped on top of Luck disturbing him

"Ouch, you bitch! That hurts" Luck said as he took the pillow off his head

The first thing he saw was Caroline with wet hair right in front of his face

"What were you doing?" Caroline asked as she giggled

"I was thinking unlike you! What were you thinking? I could have gotten seriously hurt!" Luck replied angrily

"Come on now I know that you are not mad at me" She said as she rested her head on Luck's chest

Luck was a bit embarrassed that Caroline was laying on top of him but he didn't react he simply let her be since he was too tired to throw her off him

"So what are the preparations for the missions?" Luck's question caught Caroline off guard

"Kamira said that we will launch an attack when it passes near the island but I don't know when, but she said that all of us will get trained to fight and when the time is nearing they will send us a planned script on how to act in this mission, that's how it is with most of the missions we have done so I don't think something will change" Caroline replied as she rolled off Luck into her side of the bed

"Then that means I'm way too hasty!" Luck said as he got up

"I will take a shower, if you don't mind please order food from the hotel, more preferably trash food so we can watch movies!" Luck said before going in the bathroom

Caroline nodded and went to take food and sodas, while Luck was showering he noticed something, his hair was getting longer, to the point that the hair will fall on his eyes, after quickly finishing his shower he went to the mirror and dried his hair

'Will I look good with a tie?'

He wondered as he tied his hair with a hairband he created, Luck wasn't a very good critic so he came outside the bathroom and asked Caroline, who was setting everything up for the movies, she was closing curtains and setting up the food and the couches and also closing the lights

"Hey, Caroline do I look good?"

Caroline turned at him and laughed

Luck felt incredibly disappointed since deep inside he liked that look, when he tried to untie his hair Caroline stopped him

"You look good I was simply caught off guard, don't ruin your new look!" Caroline said as she grabbed Luck's arms

"Please promise me that you are not telling me this just to make me feel better" Luck said with a sad expression

"Come on now you saw yourself! You look much better now that your face is clearly shown"

Luck seemed a bit happier when he heard that

"Anyways who cares? We have movies to watch!" Caroline said as she dragged Luck to the couch that now was turned into a huge comfy bed with a lot of blankets and pillows

"Pick a side" Caroline said as she presented him with this enormous bed

"Well I will take the right so you take the left" Luck said as he lied on the bed

Caroline joined him shortly after and the movie sequence quickly began, since they were in America they started with a well-known movie Captain America!

"Hey he doesn't have super powers but he is supposed to be in the same group as "The Hulk" and "Thor"? Turns out this guy is a good one!" Luck said

"Well he isn't just a normal guy and he does have something like a super power so I guess what you are saying cancels out, sort of... Anyway let's move on to the next one!" Caroline said as she quickly picked up the TV remote

"Now let's do something fun! You will put a movie that you want to see and then I will do the same, How does that sound?"

"Sounds okay! So for my movie, I will pick "Mememento" I hear it has a very interesting plot so how about we give it a try?"

Luck said as he selected the movie from the menu on the TV, they then silently watched the movie, turns out Luck's gut feeling was right because this movie had them on the edge of their seat all the time and when the end came they felt empty

"So did Leon kill his own wife? What the hell was going on?" Caroline asked confused as she watched the credits roll-off

"I think Leon had this memory problem before his wife died but to be honest I was quite confused too so how about we move to the next movie before my brains fries?" Luck said as he rubbed the back of his head

It was Caroline's turn to pick a movie so to set up the mood for something she wanted to do later she picked the movie "MY name" it was an animation-romance film that caught the eye of Caroline and wanted to check out, after putting the movie on Luck was hooked because of its amazing animation, he couldn't stop complimenting the animation of the film, Caroline took advantage of Luck's state of shook to slowly get closer and closer to him, but her plan failed miserly

"Why are you coming this close? Stick to your corner as I do, you are not entitled to have more space than me!" Luck told her

Caroline then went to her corner and after some time the movie ended

"Oh man that was amazing, I wish that the movie was a bit longer but at least it had a great end" Luck said as he slowly got up, he then stretched with passion

"Watching this many movies made my body go sore, want to go for a final walk before Gnomon comes to pick us up? We barely have an hour left" Luck asked Caroline

She thought that this walk would be a great opportunity to finally confess her feelings for him, Caroline had to hide her feelings for a long time now and she finally reached her breaking point, she couldn't hide those emotions anymore so before going back to Biol

Caroline was D E T E R M I N E D to confess by the end of the day

"Okay! But first, let's clean this room, it will be rude if we left the room in such a mess" Caroline said as she began to gather all of the pizza and pop-corn boxes

'Since when did Caroline start caring about tidying?' Luck thought as he helped put the couches in the place they were before

After bringing the room to a reasonable state Luck and Caroline left the prepaid hotel once and for all, they then walked around the city of New York, the sun was down and the city's lights were once again shining like the first time they came here, Caroline dragged Luck to multiple stores she saw, the first shop she took him was a crane machine shop, this place had many claw machines, Luck quickly exited the shop since he didn't want to waste money on something he knew was scum, Caroline had no other option but to follow him, they then went to a photo booth and took a lot of goofy photos together

"Look at that one! It made me have cat ears!" Caroline said as she looked at the edited photos the photo booth took

"And in this one, it swapped our faces, you look very weird with my face but I on the other hand look like a model" Luck said as he stared at the photo

"Yeah, you wish!" Caroline said to mock him

The rest of the walk was relatively quiet since the only thing they did was find the skyscraper that they first arrived at, once they found it they silently got inside of it and got to the roof by using the stairs, the skyscraper had a lot of apartments and workplaces so it was normal for them to be inside of it, after climbing a large number of stairs they got to the roof of the building, it was quite windy up there

"So here we are once again, on the same roof we first arrived at and saw the lights of the city, it hasn't been a day but I still feel very nostalgic, isn't that weird to say?" Luck said as he opened his arm like a bird

"Luck there is something I want to tell you..." Caroline said as she mustered up all of her courage

"The view here is amazing isn't it?" Luck asked Caroline ignoring what she said

"Luck will you hear me out?" Caroline asked him but he ignored her once again

"I wonder if people can see us from here"

"LUCK!" Caroline yelled

Luck then turned at Caroline as he was standing at the edge of the building

"I'm not the type to do things like that but I have f-feelings for you, and after spending this much time with you I can't stop myself from t-thinking about you, what I'm trying to say is that I love you Luck!" Caroline said as she was stumbling on her words, she was also very red from embarrassment

"I knew that this moment will arrive but I didn't know how to handle it, turns out I can't avoid it so to make this fast, I'm sorry Caroline but I only see you as a friend and I think you should do the same, as for me the only person I ever loved is the same I destroyed" Luck said as the wind gently blew his beautiful black hair

Caroline was speechless but she felt an even bigger feeling of confusion, when she saw her sister hitting up on other men she always succeeded but it was different for her

"Did you know all along?" Caroline said with a weak voice and her head faced at the ground

"I figured it out after we left this one meeting, you started acting differently, and when we came here and saw our rooms I was 100% sure that you had a crush on me since Kamira would never do something like this, you must have set up the whole trip right?" Luck asked but it was useless since he already knew the answer himself

Caroline refused to reply

"I know how you must feel but I don't want our relationship to change, you were such a good friend, and it will be a shame if our friendship changed just because of romance don't you think? You may think I'm lying but I have been in your shoes in the past and I know it feels like shit but that the right thing to do and in the end you will see that I was right" Luck continued

"Just tell me one thing! Is the person you loved Hope?" She asked as tears ran down her eyes, seeing her like that made his body tighten up

"Isn't that obvious?" Luck answered

Caroline then flew away alone, she flew at an incredibly fast speed, and slowly after Gnomon arrived using his flying ability, he was surprised to only see Luck

"Where is the other brat?" Gnomon asked him

"She is fine, she said that she will return on her own so please take me home" Luck said with a sad expression

It was the first time he turned someone down like that, he felt somehow sad but he knew it was the right thing to do, Gnomon then used his specialized mana zone and took Luck outside his house, Luck immediately went to his room and slept in his bed even though the sun was still up