Sue takes Sakura to school then goes to work; Lee stays home with Kenji.

  After breakfast, Kenji goes to his home office; as he starts his computer, Lee takes him a cup of coffee.

  “Thank you, Lee;” says Kenji, taking the coffee. Then he notices that Lee is not leaving. “What’s the matter?”

  “I was wondering if I can go play in the woods again like I did yesterday after I did the homework;” Lee says, pointing at the office window indicating the woods past the backyard. “But I would like to go a bit deeper.”

  “That is fine, Lee, just be careful;” says Kenji.

  “I will, but do you still have your old phone?” asks Lee, and Kenji just looks at him, so Lee continues. “That way, if you want me to come back, you can just call me. Also, if I get lost, I can use the navigation to come back home.”

  Kenji starts to think for a bit, then smiles. “That is a very good idea; check in that drawer.” He says, and Lee checks the drawer; getting the phone, he realises that it has no battery.

  Lee gives the phone to Kenji, who puts it on charge; the phone powers up straight away. Then Kenji shakes his head. “Sorry, Lee, this phone has no SIM card; it won’t work to make calls.”

  “Don’t they sell the cards down at the shop?” asks Lee, and Kenji nods, so Lee asks with a smiling plea, “Can I go get one?”

  Kenji chuckles and nods, then gives Lee some money; Lee turns around to exit the office, but before he can, Kenji warns him, “Make sure you go slow with the bike!”

  Lee turns around, confused. “I wasn’t going to take the bike. I’m still grounded.”

  Kenji looks at Lee, not knowing what to say at first. “But I can see that you know you were going fast, so if you want, you can take the bike.”

  Lee smiles, but then shakes his head still smiling. “No point; that way the phone can charge more and I have to wait less time before going to the woods.” Then before Kenji can react, Lee heads to the shop.

  After purchasing the SIM card, he goes back and gives it to his dad, then goes into the shed in the back garden; in the shed, he finds some cord but it is not strong enough and there is nothing stronger, so Lee recaps his dreams and braids the cord to make it stronger; after making the bow, he has lunch with Kenji, then takes the phone and goes into the woods.

  A week goes by and Lee goes every day into the woods after school, now equipped with a bow shaft and an old sleeping bag converted into a quiver with arrows; some of them are made with stones and others with animal bones Lee found lying around.

  “What do you do every day in the woods?” asks Sue Friday night during dinner.

  Lee looks up at Sue, then with a smile, he says, “I hunt; well, this week I’ve been practising.”

  Kenji shakes his head with a chuckle, taking Lee’s truth for child's play. “In that case, don’t forget to bring home any prey you catch.”

  “Okay!” says Lee, taking Kenji’s words to heart. “Is there anything I am not allowed to hunt?”

  Kenji once again is about to joke, but hearing the sincerity in the question, he thinks of what creatures make the woods home. “No, not in these woods.”

  “But be careful when you are out there;” says Sue. “There are some animals that are very dangerous and attack anyone that they see; animals like the Great Dire Wolf; they don’t like when humans go near their caves, or if they are hunting, they are very dangerous.”

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  “Okay, Mum and Dad, I will be careful!” says Lee with a nod of his head.

  Later that night after dinner, he goes into his room and looks up the wolf his mother mentioned; he finds a webpage named "Old Extinct Animals from Earth".

  Lee opens the web page and it takes him a minute to realise that he has been reading the page in English, but he continues, noticing that he is understanding everything. On the webpage, he finds animals that have been extinct on Mother Earth, but identical beasts have been found on Earth Two.

  Lee looks at the difference between animals and beasts; they look exactly alike, with the exception of the size; beasts are usually bigger than their animal counterparts and normally have extra appendages, or they look like extinct animals, like the dire wolf; this was extinct on Earth after the Ice Age, but once humans travelled to Earth Two, they re-encountered a wolf like the dire wolf, only to discover that it was a pup and the adult came after, standing as tall as an adult while on its four legs. So even comparing it to the extinct dire wolf, this beast is two to three times bigger, therefore being named Great Dire Wolf.

  On the next day after breakfast, Lee is about to head out, but it’s raining, even though they are at the end of the month of Sol.

  That is another thing that got Lee online doing some research, when he found out about the month of Sol.

  It turns out that upon the creation of the new calendar, or as mostly known as the ‘Galactic Calendar’, it was introduced and used simultaneously with the Gregorian calendar in the year two thousand, five hundred and sixty-nine, so as to prepare people for the usage of it; so people had two calendars at the same time. The new year of two thousand, five hundred and sixty-nine was also the new year zero of the galactic calendar; on the following year, only the galactic calendar was used, with thirteen months, twenty-eight days per month, with the exception of December with twenty-nine, and June also on the leap years.

  The months remain in the same position, with the exception of Sol as the seventh month between June and July.

  Lee is looking out his bedroom window with his arms crossed on the window sill and his chin laying on top of his arms.

  “Lee?” Lee turns around to find Kenji at his bedroom door. “Where is my old phone?”

  Lee points to his bedside table. “It’s there; I put it on charge last night and haven’t taken it out.”

  Kenji grabs the phone and sits at the edge of the bed. “Lee, come here;” he says, tapping the side of the bed beside himself. Lee goes and sits beside his dad; then after a sigh, Kenji continues, “Your mum and I have been talking, and I’m going to clean this phone and give it to you;” he says, holding the phone between himself and Lee. “But we can’t make a contract with the network right now; it is too expensive.”

  “Okay, thank you;” says Lee with a smile.

  Kenji turns his head to look at Lee. “You don’t mind that you will have a phone with no contract?”

  Lee looks at his dad in puzzlement. “No, was I supposed to? Having a phone with no contract is better than having no phone.”

  “So you don’t mind that you won’t have internet on it to play the games, watch videos or listen to music?” says Sue, entering the bedroom.

  Lee shrugs. “If I use the phone, I’ll be at home or with one of you, so I will have the Wi-Fi.”

  Sue looks at her husband. “He does have a point.” She then looks back at Lee. “What if you want to watch something when you go into the woods, like you have been this week?”

  Lee gets off the bed and goes to his drawer, then goes back to Sue and Kenji. “The network has this pack; it’s only ten yen.” He shows the pamphlet that he brought home when he bought the SIM card. “Is it too expensive? It’s every month, and it will give me twenty gigabytes of data. There are not many minutes or messages, but I will only contact the two of you.”

  Kenji takes the pamphlet and shakes his head. “That is not ten yen, Lee;” Kenji then points at the symbols. “This symbol is for Japanese G-credits; this is for yen; the pack you showed is twenty-five yen;” Kenji says, showing the correct side of the pamphlet.

  Sue then looks at Kenji and they exchange looks, talking to each other without words. At one point, Sue smiles with a nod and Kenji sighs, then says, looking at Lee, “We can do that pack for your phone, but if you misbehave or start not to do your homework, there will be no pack and no phone.” Lee nods with a smile.