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"Woah, look at this island!"

Hifumi cheered happily as he has arrived in the Hyang Seram Island with Trilaksana Organization members for another branch, together with Kaname who was disinterested with everything until Hokuri ended up dragging his three beloved huge ass serpents into the island. Like, seriously? Alda was coming with Lastier as Kayla and Aliyah stepped out from the airport. "Oh my God, Hokuri!" Luca snapped, watching Brahmana slithering around the island so does Shivada and Vishnuda who followed their leader around the city of Hyang Seram--which made Hokuri satisfied by his 'pets' he adopted recently. Oh man, this is going to be a long day for them.

Hokuri snickered as he watched them roaming around in their habitat while the people keep whispering about the three creatures. "Don't worry, they are under our control--they won't harm you guys," he informed, the people and the tourists were relieved while some of them recording them and saw the three serpents went back again. "So, there will be a meeting with Nirvana Organization?" Kaname asked, Lastier nodded as he and the group of Secret Police of State Secret Service (including Ricky, Reza, Sarina and Rara) were patrolling around the island under their superior's order. "Yes, we had a meetup with the Superintendent of Nirvana Organization, because they have arrived as well."

Luca watched Brahmana being petted by them affectionately as they enjoyed it too much, to the extent of nudging their head into the kid's hands. Shivada was being less voracious but still eating the dead Phantom Beasts that their employees has provided--lastly Vishnuda was holding a huge ball towards the domestic and foreign tourists (even the locals) were playing with them and the kids who caught their attentionn. "Alright, be careful if you want to get on top of these serpents. Do you need help? Okay, make sure to not pinch their scales, is that clear? Good."

It seems like they had fun, before they went to meet them.

Back to them--

Radjasa immediately recognized the first to the third Indonesian members of ADVENT Organization, the first is Karina Wangsadinata--his long-lost relative. The second is Senjaya Haryadi or Senja who happens to be a scary and intimidating man, lastly is Kinana who was adopted younger sister of Sanju. Kyouka gulped as she stepped down from the roof, while Rayna remained cautious for an emergency evacuation. "I wonder how you know about us," Senja commented, narrowing his eyes.

"No, we just heard about--"

Kyouka and Rayna covered Radjasa's mouth from spilling out shit, as the two of them refused to cross any lines or argument between OUTLAW and these ADVENT mercenaries. "Didn't know you're here in the city... Kinana, nice to see you," Rayna greeted her, making Kyouka and Radjasa confused--they know each other? Senja extend his arm to protect Kinana from the gazes of Radjasa and Kyouka, before Karina folded her arms at them. "Well well well... looks like we meet some familiar faces, lower your hand Sen," she ordered, causing Senja to relent. Radjasa clasped his hands happily, glad to see Karina is now around and see her again.

"Karina!" Radjasa exclaimed, throwing a hug on his distant cousin but Karina dodged it with ease. "What? Surprised, huh? Hello, Radjasa... long time no see," she greeted him, Senja watched as Karina approached Radjasa closer and lifted his hand towards him protectively. "Come on, it's a reunion after all. Let's go have a drink in this luxurious hotel and enjoy a simple sightseeing. You know me, I want to hear about things as soon as possible," Radjasa offered with a carefree smile, uncaring if Senja might slice him to pieces at the slightest, most petty insult. Karina nodded as they have a delightful reunion, they went into a cafe as the group engaged into a discussion.

Senja was currently watching them from the bridge nearby, hearing their conversation from his position--before his earpiece received an incoming call and it came from his leader, Sanju. "What is it, Sanjaya?" he asked, folding his arms as he listened what's going to happen. "Don't forget to patrol around the marketplace, make sure everything's secure there," his leader reminded. "I know," Senja replied, the young man gritted his teeth in annoyance and turned off the transmission device. "Tch, these Tiryags..."

He muttered quietly, trying not to act aggressive towards them because he knew Sanju will not like it if he found out about him being rude. "So, you're working on a business like me? That's great!" Radjasa said happily to her, seeing Karina sighed while Kyouka was listening with Rayna and Kinana was looking at Senja who was eyeing on them. "Yeah, I'm running a boutique business in fashion industry--I'll call it Asmaradana Boutique," she answered, unfolding her arms. "Senja is one of the businesspeople like us, he's focused in Chinese-Indonesian arts and heritage business like selling traditional clothes and cuisines--also he sells production items and equipment too. Han Sen Qian is his Chinese name, but his Indonesian name is Senjaya Haryadi."

Kinana nodded, before she introduced herself. "I'm Kinana Adinata, I'm Sanjaya's adoptive little sister--I'm also running a business in jewelries and accessory like selling gemstones, necklaces and so on," she clasped her hands with a smile, she really looks adorable like Rayna though. Radjasa nodded in understanding, no wonder he never expect that secret organization like this existed before.

"Can you tell us about your organization? How's the hierarchy?"

Karina narrowed her eyes towards Kyouka's question, while Kinana averted her gaze towards Radjasa and Rayna. "There's... confidential information we couldn't divulge," she replied simply, unamused to answer them yet not hostile--he would usually have a big scolding due to the dangerous danger he encountered yesterday. "I can't tell you anything much about our hierarchy, either. Meaning, confidential," she added, with a menacing smile.

"Then, let's go back to what we're talking before," Radjasa grinned, trying to light up the mood on the table. "Can you lead us some of your franchises around this island city? I'm curious, hehe!"

A silence were formed, before Kinana happily took a tour around the city with Rayna. She starts talking about her activities and how she was adopted by Sanju and his father Radithya, how the organization works as secret. Radjasa was surprised to see the Chinese-Indonesians are here too--either a tourist or owner of the restaurants and everything, he also saw some Indonesian, Chinese and English characters written on every building in the town along with beautiful garden sceneries. Karina led him towards the luxurious Asmaradana Boutique near Kinana's store, while Kyouka decided to look around the city with her not-so-cold-person friend.

Radjasa also heard how Senja talk in Chinese towards the Chinese-Malaysian tourists and how warm his expression was, contrary to his face, he couldn't see how Senja easily approach people like him--because of his scary expressions and menacing aura. Looking through the store's glass window, he noticed that many beautiful clothes and its design are based on traditional and mythological Javanese culture. He didn't notice that Senja was standing near him with sharp cold stare piercing right through him, while Radjasa quickly realize his situation--and let out a forced nervous laugh.

"Are you stalking me or somethin'?"

Senja narrowed his eyes at his question, before he unfolded his arms. "No, you know what I'm saying earlier?" he asked, referring to his conversation with the tourist visitors. Radjasa blinked his eyes, before he grinned at him. "Haiyah! I can speak Cantonese too, hehe. After all, my family are originally from Surabaya! They already live in Jakarta though," the young man replied, Senja sighed. For some reason, Senja knows that Radjasa won't back down from something even from such a stupid thing he didn't bother about it. "Oh, who's Senjaya Haryadi that you're talking about earlier?"

His unexpected answer got him, as Senja just stared at him in bafflement before he glanced away. "Do you need help? I heard you're having a hard time speaking in Cantonese," Radjasa asked, making him sighed. "Yes... I still can't speak properly," he answered, shoving his hands into his pockets. "I don't need help with my Chinese though."

Karina was guiding Kyouka around her shop that filled with many products and cloths, there's also an opening towards the factory where all the textiles, traditional clothes and clothes that was assembled into the shop were started being process into the finishing product. "Feel free to take a look at the merchandise, the prices are moderate enough for each items," she said, Kyouka nodded while Kinana and Rayna are having fun looking at the items they bought earlier--for them to remember this place more and spend their time here. "When did you learn Chinese?"

Radjasa asked the Chinese-Indonesian, Senja narrowed his eyes as he glared at him. "When I was in kindergarten... I already studying Chinese language and history when I was in first grade," he answered, Radjasa nodded in understanding and replied. "I see. Can you read some of the Chinese books that they have in this market? I mean, old and modern style," he said, nodding to the certain stalls that sold calligraphy and beautiful scenery artwork there. "Yeah, sure."

Senja would only roll his eyes in annoyance, Radjasa dragged him towards the stalls and picking the Chinese scrolls out to glance upon the writings he took to another stall. Fortunately, he could read them easily as he recognized his ancient and modern writings, while Radjasa looked amazed as his eyes watched on those scrolls in fascination. "It says: When you encounter a ghost or demons, then do not fear them, for they are equal to yours and me."

Radjasa frowned a little, before he glanced towards Senja. "Hmm, interesting. I study Chinese when I was in elementary school, then I learned some Cantonese when I was in Hong Kong," he said, almost dreamily while Senja glanced at him. He never thought that this loudmouthed, energetic guy who's standing right next to him loves art and calligraphy as well. "Thanks for accompanying me in this market, because you're a good company!"

Senja flinched, he saw Karina walk out with Kyouka while Kinana and Rayna just got back earlier. "Oh, you're back. Where's Radjasa? Shouldn't you guys monitoring him from now on, until this shit is done?" Karina asked, folding her arms as Radjasa appeared between Senja and Karina. "Haha! I'm right here, I spent my time talking with Senja--" he greeted them happily, Radjasa threw a friendly pat on Senja's shoulder. "We can have great time in this island, with my friends--"

Radjasa shrieked when the latter put his palm over his face, pushing him away. "Fuck off, you Tiryag," he muttered, before he signaled Karina and Kinana to follow him back. "Oh come on! Aren't you going to have a family dinner, at least!? It's our first time to see each other again, what is the big deal?" he whined at Karina, causing her to sigh. "Fine, perhaps tomorrow..."

"So, your leader...?"

Kyouka asked, until she saw one of the members narrowed his eyes. "Sanjaya? Please don't touch the subject. He's busy with work and all, but he sometimes take it too lightly in certain cases," Senja added, his glare was deadly that sending shivers down to their spine and made them flinched. "I know Sen, what Sanjaya might say if he knows that I hung out with our enemies might be a concern to him," Karina sighed, drinking her tea and Senja let out a low growl. "Is that so? Well... the guy known as Kayana isn't with you guys?" Rayna asked, until one of their underlings appeared with a troubled look on his face--approaching their table with a pleasant smile. "Miss Karina, someone asked me to deliver a letter to you," the young man stated.

The woman thanked him, receiving an envelope from his hand and ripping the top of it. She slid out the photo and widen her eyes, scrunching the paper as she recognized who that is. 'This is...!'

"Go tell him, to stay away from us. If not, I won't hold back the next time we meet," Senja replied to her, warning them clearly and the owner of the cafe had to take a detour to avoid them. "Goddamnit, we're so sorry but we gotta go--something urgent is going on," Karina stated, she left the cafe with Kinana and Senja as the three of them were leaving Radjasa and his friends there. Radjasa tilted his head with question written on his expression, he sensed something wrong in her action earlier--thinking of a dangerous idea or threat to them and ignoring their silent protest.

But, he knew Kohaku will go feral if Radjasa give that thought.

The next morning...

The next morning...

Kohaku was hungry as fuck, he wanted to try the restaurant that one of the ADVENT members owned. They managed to get a booklet that features their restaurants around the city, then he realized their delicious cuisines and special food that he could try and hope for his team to come here and shared the delicious delicacies with them too. "Let's see..." he muttered, standing with Byakuya, Kiryu and Sherry while they were in the culinary district. "What do you guys think? The two restaurants that are built in Sumapurna District are 'Omakase Yoiyami Dining' and 'SAKURA BIYORI Stand'. For their branches around Suryapurna District, its 'Kumori Bakery' and 'Kumori Restaurant'. What should we try first?" he questioned, deciding the choices of cuisine they could choose from the places.

"How about try 'SAKURA BIYORI Stand'? I'm in the mood for matcha," Byakuya suggested, hoping to make his little sister Kyouka try the one back in Secret Garden. "Sure, after breakfast," Kohaku agreed, but his attention was shifted after a boy bumped into his knees and apologized immediately as he look up to see Radjasa here with a grin. "Fuiyoh! Good to see you guys here again! Kyouka and Rayna are with me, waiting over there," the locksmith said with a smile, clasping his hands. "Damn, almost fucking scared us-nya!" Kiryu shrieked, and he found out that the restaurant is near the harbor.

Kyouka yawned, before she folded her arms. Seriously, she was so hungry that she wanted to eat breakfast--but due to Radjasa's suggestion, she wanted to find a restaurant together with them. "Alright guys, which restaurant that you guys gonna eat? As soon as possible," Kyouka asked them, her stomach was protesting. "Okay okay, let's go to Kumori Restaurant... here we go," Sherry persuaded them, they decided to follow the signs. "Kumori Restaurant... an authentic Japanese restaurant owned by Hanamizu Group and Raiden's father--Ryoma Amagiri."

They entered the restaurant that has ambience of the classic Japanese restaurant, with several traditional wooden architecture in white with dark violet-blue with hints of yellow on the bordering decorations. 'Whoa, how'd we end up eating at the fancy place?' Kyouka thought, feeling ashamed to be in such a luxurious establishment like this. The six of them took a table and sit, Radjasa was admiring the view and excited to order the food. "Wait, there's Fugu fish too?" Kohaku commented, smiling nervously while reading the menu in their phones. "It's look and feels like Japan!" Kiryu happily chirped as Radjasa ordered the food, the price is also surprisingly fair and affordable for them.

There's so many people are gathering in here, there's a chef along his small cooking station having his performance for the customers. He seems like an energetic yet friendly young man, when he spun and tossed the ingredients to his pan and plating them on the plates for serving, the chef was singing along to a Japanese music while encouraging his audience to sing as well. "Excuse me, is the owner available?" Kohaku asked one of the employees, who giggled from his approach and nodded. "Raiden? He just entered the restaurant earlier... hey Raiden, he's here for you!" the staff replied to him, then Kohaku turned to see who was Raiden searching for.

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Raiden turn around after keeping an eye on the employees and customers to ensure everything was okay. "Alright alright, you caught me," he replied with a smirk, approaching the OUTLAW group. "Do you have suggestion for us to try? As a kind gesture of course," Kohaku suggested, the latter rubbed his chin as he was coming up with the marketing move to attract them. Raiden felt something wasn't right about it, his instinct never wrong in business moves.

"I suggest some Tamagoyaki, Chazuke and Japanese fried rice because it went viral and gets tons of order," Raiden suggested with a pleasant smile, with his clapped hands. "It has been best-seller and costs really affordable! Good for you, customers!" he beamed, attracting more guests that enter the premises. The group began to nod, ordering some drinks as well because of Raiden's recommendations to try while their breakfast will be prepared. "Alright, we'll take it."

There were photos of Raiden's family in the restaurant, causing Byakuya to ponder for a moment. 'That's weird...' he thought, now he might know who Raiden was by the way he introduced himself earlier. "Any questions? Need me, I'll go to the kitchen. Later guys, I have more customers to order the foods," Raiden said to them, before he got back to work and went to the kitchen along with the foods they had ordered earlier. As he leave, they finally got what they ordered earlier and tried the dishes out--turning out everything was too damn delicious, filling with rich aromas in each dish they tried.

Kyouka was squirming happily as she ate the soup, enjoying the warm seafood steam egg--chazuke dish which has rice inside the bowl of hot seafood soup, while Kohaku was trying the grilled sliced fish over fried rice with some sauce over it. Sherry wiped Rayna's lips from dropping the egg into the rice, as the two of them were devouring their breakfast quietly. "Nya... amazing, I never seen you two eating so loudly like this," Kiryu said, chewing his okonomiyaki. Radjasa laughed as he enjoy his fried rice, while the two of them agreed in total enjoyment.

"You got money?" Kyouka asked, smirking as she felt like being tease by the young lady. "Come on, stop with your teasing," she said with a laugh, waving her hand in response. "We're rich, but when it comes to paying the bill--we'll leave Radjasa do the paying, so he doesn't bother about the costs and it's fair," she added. When they talked, Radjasa was happy because being with these friends just feel so great. But, for Kohaku... these friends of his are devils to him because they love to mess with him.

After the breakfast, they do rock-paper-scissors and the loser must pay the bill--and turned out, it was Kiryu as he pouted in disappointment. He went to the counter to pay the bill, taking out his black platinum card that got unlimited balance inside. So, Kohaku and the rest of OUTLAW and Radjasa get to head out after they got their portion and enjoyed the rest of their time in Hyang Seram. "Let's try that matcha in SAKURA BIYORI stand?" Rayna said, excited and surprised.

Before they reached their destination, Kohaku suddenly passed out in the middle of the road. "Kohaku! Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine... I haven't sleep for a while."

Sherry slapped him out cold on his back, sighing. "You're insomniac. I know, you often stayed up all night until dawn, and spent your time outside late night after a long day at office," she said to him, the young man grinned as he knew it was nothing happened. "It's fine, because you keep haunting the fuck out of me," Kohaku responded, as Sherry wanted to make sure he gets proper rest. "Anyone want to carry him? I already carried him last week," Byakuya asked, earning them a protest from the assassin. "I want to carry him, but maybe Kyouka would--" Radjasa said, looking over his friend's partner.

"No way, it's hard to carry his ass around from place to place. I got enough of that, he's quite heavy for me," Kyouka shook her head, she realized that his body is much lighter and it was unexpectedly hard to keep up with him. 'Should I hire him in a gym or something-nya?' Kiryu thought, before Rayna poked Kohaku's leg. "Nii-sama, how about if someone push his butt using the swing? Is that okay?" Kyouka suggested to Byakuya, he can tell that she's hoping not to be the one in charge of carrying her boss--his younger brother around and seeing Kyouka get more annoyed. "That would work, perhaps."

"Hey, I can hear you guys... and please don't discuss the swing theory when someone is half-conscious," Kohaku stated, groaning to let them do it. While Kohaku was resting his eyes and thinking of any strategies, Byakuya carried him on his back AGAIN. They continued to talk, as they went to the restaurant. It was then when they made a turn, Kohaku widened his eyes as he recognized the name of a company on the sign of the building.

Meanwhile, Sanju was sitting in the balcony of a Roman-style building and drinking a coffee with a little girl--which turned out to be Kinana. "So, what did you do when the four of them are occupied with the tasks?" Sanju asked her, watching the people passing by before Kinana took another sip on her cocoa. "Nothing much, just finding new stories to tell the clients," she answered, before Senja walked around the corridors while finishing his calls from their men while keeping an eye on them.

Sanju nodded, before he smiled gently at her. The two of them glanced towards each other, nodding silently. "That's good, still... you're such a crybaby for not knowing I had always kept my promises," Sanju said to her, chuckling lightly. "Yeah, but my purpose to live is proving those damn rumors and misconceptions," she replied, before leaning against the couch. Akito was monitoring the island inside the monitor room, checking the reports and files he gotten from their spies--also inspecting the current movement around the island. "Anything interesting, Akito?" Senja asked him, his hands are holding the cups of tea and mugs of coffee.

Akito yawned, before he fold his arms. "Ehh... nothing interesting happens, you can never trust the rumors," he said, yawning as he closed the tab with a report about the Secret Garden. "How about Kohaku and his troops? They should be investigating our hideouts now," Kanae asked, rubbing her eyes from her nap. "I don't think so, they're just having a vacation here... after all, that's what they did these days," Senja responded, feeling uninterested at the two possibilities his friend and Kohaku's group could fight and they won't miss it in a huge chance like this. "Althair is having a meeting with Damien after this, so we can't disturb him," Akito said, before he opened a chatroom with his co-workers in Silver Slumbering Dragon and ADVENT. "Also, his allies were also recovering from their heat stroke because this weather is so fucking awful."

Right, it's humid summer.

Sanju glanced at them as he and Kinana approached them, while Karina was watching the monitors as well--Raiden just came back as he stretched his arms. "What did I miss?" he asked, before Akito snorted. "Almost, everything. They should know that we have eyes and ears everywhere," he commented, drinking his green tea. Karina nodded, before she rested against the couch. The seven of them have been working non-stop since last night and needed a vacation as well, along with the appearance of OUTLAW assassins that made the ADVENT mercenaries sleepless. "Have you prepared the locations for Kohaku and his little group?" Senja suddenly asked his leader, before nodding.

"Prepared. I have let the guards patrol around the sites, which leaves out one of ours--I'd doubt if they would suspect it's a trap... you know Damien and his allies in Secret Garden, he's their Administrator. Not sure if Nirvana Organization and Trilaksana Organization are here too, but let's not focus on them yet... unless," Sanju shrugged, glancing at the cameras outside. The entire city of Hyang Seram was peaceful, and seemed so lively without many crime activities (except nighttime)--leading to rise of economy, and protecting the innocent, the people's safety is what Kohaku and the others trying their best to preserve. "Or not," he continued.

Soon, they had a meeting after this

***

Althair was sitting on the chair in the meeting room of Sanju's hotel, waiting for Damien as he was holding his phone to check some messages he received. He has a crimson colored hair that styled in the similar overgrown mullet reaching almost his neck, porcelain complexion and orange eyes-he wears a single silver earring on the right earlobe with the teardrop ruby diamond. Wearing a black turtleneck sweater under his dark gray coat that reaches above his knees and a pair of black pants with a black belt slung around his waist. He also wears his purple-colored bracelet wrap around his wrist, Althair adjusted his spectacles and looked up to see Damien walked into the meeting room--while Sanju opened the door for him.

"It's good to see you, Damien," Althair stated, seeing Kohaku went into the room and somewhat surprised to see Sanju again. "Mr. Damien Fernandez Christiadjie, right? Nice to meet you--I'm Sanjaya Adinata."

Sanju introduced himself, shaking hands with Damien--Kohaku sat on the chair and they just went to the business topic. He felt a bit awkward because he sat beside Sanju, not only he's twenty-one just like him BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO START HIS CONVERSATION JUST NOW! 'Is he okay...? He's not mad, I guess,' Kohaku thought, before someone sat beside him. It's Raiden, Akito and Kanae were sitting beside Sanju with Senja, Karina and Kinana, then... Kohaku's own allies also here. There were Byakuya, Kiryu, Sherry, Kyouka, Radjasa and Rayna are joining the meeting with them.

He realized that each members of ADVENT and OUTLAW had to participate in the meeting altogether! Damien's allies also absent, even Althair's allies were absent as well which is a coincidence.

"Alright, today's meeting is about the plans we are going to fulfill before the party was started..."

Kohaku glanced at Sanju beside him as he pondered on what to ask him, when it came to their conversation. He then thought of an idea to converse with him, since Kohaku still wanted to make sure that Sanju doesn't find him some kind of freak--with his secret life of being an assassin and sometimes helping the community in a discreet way. "Psst, Sanjaya..." he whispered, getting his attention from the young man beside him. "Do you want to get coffee? I'll treat you."

Sanju was surprised that the assassin tried his best to pay his treatment, the captain smirked. "Just a simple answer is fine."

And, he nodded. "Yeah, why not?"

Damien noticed that his members managed to blend into the crowd, Kohaku and Sanju are already in good terms just by first conversation--not really knowing that they already encounter each other from the beginning. Raiden was so fucking nervous to interact with Byakuya who's coolheaded and stoic--he also a swordsman like him, seriously Kohaku was talking to ADVENT's leader just now; what will he do next? Senja and Radjasa was conversing just fine, which means he totally didn't mind about his presence.

On the other hand, he's just relieved for Sherry and Kyouka who can sit without making a big fuss over here, Rayna was... talking with Kinana like friends since they know each other--they also met each other in the past. Karina and Kyouka were getting along just fine from their topic about fashion and such, Akito keep fussing with Kiryu by teasing him for being a cat-like person and showing off with his three cats' pictures--so it was Raiden's turn to make conversation with Byakuya as both of them sat on the table; next to each other. He can feel the intense glare given from the man of his age before him, even though the Japanese swordsman remained intimidating as it was--he doesn't look like he really disliked him. His eyes stared at the drink menu and ordering a black coffee, then looked at Raiden. "You're Raiden, right?"

Byakuya asked, Raiden nodded to answer the question. "Hai, Shinobu-san."

"Call me Byakuya," he said, allowing him to address him by his first name--although he's still a stranger.

Raiden blinked curiously, he wondered what makes Byakuya excellent as a swordsman and able to get this far. Though, the latter gulped and asked him something since his curiosity is begging to be heard and making this difficult as fuck--Byakuya had to do something or in this case, his sword as their talk partner. "Do you like dragon? I have one, my pet dragon," he said to him with a grin, showing Byakuya his medium-sized red-black scaled female dragon--Kurikara. Byakuya was wide-eyed at Raiden's pet, a petite red-black dragon with the long horns extending from her head, large purple eyes with slit-like pupil and a tail has longer length with a fin as one of her wings with claws on it.

Byakuya lend him a hand so the dragon-hearing of her name and landing on her owner's hand. "She's beautiful," he commented, petting the dragon as Raiden grinned. "She's quite a character, she's gentle and peaceful. A precious jewel in the world."

He nodded, which is a bit surprised to see his menacing and cold aura seem to get affected by Raiden's cheerful demeanor. "She absolutely loved fruits though, particularly apples and peaches."

That's when Kurikara seemed to take a liking at Byakuya--with the little dragon suddenly letting out a small roar because she's hungry, demanding a treat from him; how ironic that a coolheaded man like Byakuya couldn't escape from a spoiled dragon's demand...

"Got a lot from the people, since I have a bunch of them," the purplish-black haired owner of the dragon stated, he handed the apple for Kurikara to munch and she began to ate them. Byakuya was curious about her tail, so he randomly grabbed the tail that made Raiden snapped at him. "WAIT DON'T HOLD THAT--"

It was too late, he did it.

Inside the meeting room, the thunderous blast of electric force has electrocuted EVERYONE in the damn place--there was a black smoke that came out and everyone were sitting back on their chairs, but it was hard to describe the state they were in currently. All of them were electrified comically, uninjured and unharmed by the thunder--but shocked from the loud thunderous sound and strike that earn them a huge mess inside, while Damien and Althair were shaken with a confused state because they didn't really understand what the FUCK JUST HAPPENED there. They all... blackened their own vision, to the point of speechless by that boom and Kurikara was rubbing her tail from being rubbed.

And fainted on the spot.

When they're awakened by the hotel's employees, they immediately scolded both Byakuya and Raiden--Kurikara is being comforted by Kinana so the female dragon calmed down. "Goddamnit, you two!"

Few hours later...

After Byakuya and Raiden got a huge bumps on their heads comically for their carelessness that caused trouble, they healed their wounds before anyone could find out--except by Althair. Because once you're faced with this powerful and smart entity, he'd recognize that they got into some deep shits earlier and trying to heal their wounds for covering the evidence up!

"Here it is, the Hyang Seram Grand Arena."

Althair said to Damien, guiding him around the large reconstructed colosseum-like arena with high tiled platforms and pillars at the bottom with a stage as the center of the said building--few spectators were going to the building to watch the showdown in the battle of brains. It's going to have some kind of battle of each fighters going to present something interesting to showcase and prepare their skills to participate, the audience were cheering about the event as the party have to start two more hours before the sunrise.

The reconstruction itself was done by ADVENT's men that supported the rebuilding the entire island for any purposes the clan needed or wants, having an ancient combat history and folklores inspired from martial arts films to combine into one. There's also hologram screen that was built around the structure of the colosseum, sometimes the screens appear when there's a news about famous people and government are getting involved--but will be used mainly for the upcoming battle in the championship.

"It's also serve to host any sports games, competitions, cultural performance, traditional and modern theaters and event like parties, exhibitions and conventions. This island is basically a multi-purpose facility!"

Damien was shocked to see the hologram screens, showing each advertisements are mixed with entertainment. Everyone was around the city, as a matter of fact the civilians seemed busy for the upcoming event--also the party was set today. Kohaku was astonished as well, before he heard a cough from Sanju--it wasn't an ordinary cough; it looks like he's very ill yet he kept his composed attitude. "Hey, uhh... are you okay?" he asked, Sanju glanced at him when Akito rubbed his back--with Senja holding a handkerchief for him--the rest of ADVENT members and also OUTLAW also worried of him. "Sorry... I'm not feeling very well lately..."

Sanju explained, clearing his throat as he tried to gain his breathing and Senja ordered Raiden to grab some water for him--he got some from the vendor nearby. Kanae was holding his shoulder to keep him still as she felt how hot his body and his forehead, it was like... Sanju caught a cold or some kind of disease. "I don't usually become sick like this before we stayed this island, first I got dengue fever and now a fucking heat stroke..." he muttered, taking deep breaths as the wind breeze brushed through him and keeping him cooled down. "Sorry... I shouldn't have said--"

"No, I understand if you're always like this... if it weren't this event, then what else? It's normal for us, so take your time off for a little while, is that okay?" Kohaku said calmly to him, patting Sanju's shoulder with reassurance and for the safety measures of his leader's life. "Well... just need to have a rest," he replied as Kohaku let him go from his hold. Raiden caressed his back as he and Akito helped the Indonesian to return to their sanctuary, the temperature has been very sunny and quite hot according to the people in Hyang Seram, Indonesia. It wasn't a surprise since Kohaku has lived in Jakarta, all thanks to Kanae's experience in California.

"Does he really caught a disease?"

"He always does and recovered quickly, his immune is actually strong but... this island kind of drained his body," Kanae stated, answering the representative of Secret Garden. Althair nodded, turning around at them as he sighed. "My teammates in Silver Slumbering Dragon got very sick recently, it's not a fatal disease since it's a common sickness but... we're trying our best to improve that field," he explained and Akito raised his eyebrow.

"He'll recover anyway, so everything's fine," Karina replied, before she, Senja, and Kinana moved aside as Sanju went home together with the ADVENT members--however when Kohaku took a glance at him and the rest of his teammates... he's still curious about him. Like, what's so special about Sanju that he keeps coming back to his mind whenever he gets thinking about the Indonesian mercenary leader? Now that Althair and Damien discussed about their business partnership--they began to look around the colosseum as both of them got invited to the VIP tickets from the people who has the access to enter the spectator's area.

When it was nighttime, the people were taking pictures of the area around the grand arena and walked around the beach--admiring their clothes and accessories from the local stores; mostly the tourists from other countries who came to this event or come here to work here. Kohaku waved at them, before he and his friends decided to look around the island and having a detour around the sites.

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