At the rental gnome, as he busy counting the coins, he noticed there's extra coins. "Wait wait hold up. 29, 30, 31, 32...thirty...THREE?!" Then he looked at Ming's calm face, Jug and Ying screaming as Hennah drives the car.

  "So, this is what Valirion is, huh." Gnome said with confusion.

  Meanwhile, Hennah turning the steering while driving the car so aggressive. "HENNAH, SLOW DOWN!!!" Ying shouted.

  "I think I'm gonna puke," Jug said and he puke outside of the car window. Ming on the front on the other hand, being relax on seeing the scenery outside.

  "MING DIDN'T COMPLAIN, IDIOTS!!"

  Soon, Ming slowly opens the window, then she burst out a whole thing in her stomach.

  "Ah shit, now that's a complain to me now," Jug said. Ming soon sits properly and wipe her mouth calmly and continue looking at the wastelands.

  "WHERE'S TALA AGAIN!?" Hennah asked.

  "According to the map--"

  "LIZARD!!" Jug cuts off Ying's words as he point out the walking lizard.

  Hennah soon avoids them, then the car stumble a huge stone, taking their flight.

  “FUCK ME!!” — Jug

  “AAAHHH!” — Ying

  “HELL YEAH!!” — Hennah

  Ming... still unmoved, eyes behind her blindfold, as if the world hadn't left the ground.

  At the Daen Tavern, Myke sat still wearing his Phantom Weave, sipping a glass of Merl beer—a blend of malt extract and apple juice. He drank it slowly, trying to forget the past he had with Mya.

  He gradually removed his left glove, revealing his burned hand. A ring—melted, fused into his skin—wrapped around one finger. It could never be removed.

  The voice still lingered in his ears, soft as a breeze passing by.

  “Myke… Yarh…”

  In the past, there was a team. Rose. They were young—too young, maybe—but fierce.

  “Mya Solna?”

  “Yes?” Mya turned toward Myke.

  “Come with me,” he said, recruiting a new Vanguard.

  He introduced her to the members: Mingwara Jifu, AyLex Yarh, Gholsha T. Holfen, and Hennah C. Holfen. They welcomed her warmly. From that day forward, Mya became a part of them.

  She trained hard, kept up with the pace, and won every streak alongside the others. Hennah and Gholsha's chaotic sibling energy kept her laughing. Ming mentored her with quiet strength. And she spent the most time with Myke… and AyLex.

  Eventually, they rose to 5th rank. A celebration erupted among the Arenas.

  That night, Myke knelt on one knee.

  “Mya Solna… would you be the blossom in my heart… forever?” he said.

  Her eyes filled with tears. She nodded and embraced him tightly.

  “WOOHOO! I’M GONNA BE AN AUNT, YOO!!” Hennah shouted.

  “Hennah, they’re not even married yet,” Gholsha chuckled.

  “Oh, they will be soon enough,” Hennah smirked.

  For a moment, everything felt perfect.

  Then came the fracture.

  Outside the tavern, AyLex confronted Myke.

  “No! I wanna make my own team, bro! I have the right to!”

  “Come on… look how far we’ve come. Doesn’t this feel like enough?”

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  “No. I want to be a leader like you.”

  And with that, AyLex left Rose.

  Days later, Gholsha followed—recruited into Crimson Crown by Jana C. Holfen.

  The silence that followed left Myke hollow. He sat on the edge of his bed, staring blankly.

  Mya walked into the room and saw his expression. Without a word, she sat beside him and gently touched her forehead to his, their noses brushing.

  “We’ll find new teammates,” she said softly.

  Myke leaned onto her shoulder. She stroked his head with quiet tenderness.

  Outside the great wall of Daen, the desert wind howled—carrying sand and silence. Then suddenly, a distant chant echoed:

  “YAGNA SELTA!”

  A portal ripped open from the horizon.

  And then—CRASH!

  A car flew through and slammed straight into the outer gate wall.

  Inside, the Valirion team groaned in a tangle of limbs and dust.

  “…What a ride,” Ying mumbled. “Haha… uh…?”

  Jug was unconscious. Ming remained asleep, head tilted peacefully.

  “Jug, hey. We’re here,” Ying whispered, shaking him.

  “Huh? Wha—”

  “THAT’LL BE 49 COINS! PAY UP, SOFT HANDS!” Hennah roared from the driver’s seat.

  “…Are we there yet?” Ming asked, slowly waking up.

  “Nope,” Hennah replied casually.

  Ming blinked and nodded off again.

  Outside, the gatekeepers stood frozen.

  “What the hell was that?” one asked.

  A taller figure approached—the Prime Keeper himself.

  “What’s going on?”

  “No solid idea, sir,” the gatekeeper said. “I think there’s a… pink-haired girl waving at us.”

  They all looked. Sure enough, Hennah waved cheerfully from the wrecked vehicle.

  One of the guards waved back.

  “DO I GET A FINE AFTER THIS?!” Hennah yelled out.

  A few moments later, as Myke gazed longer, Hennah strikes in. "Hello little bitches and gooners~"

  Myke didn't even look at her, and he facepalmed and sigh. "Wassap, sad boy? Drinking beer? That's not good for your health," Hennah said. "TWO SHEIN SODA PLEASE!?"

  Soon Ming enters while strecthing her arms to the air as she just awakened and yawn. Ying on the other hand look at the tavern surrounding. "This feels nice,"

  And Jug rushes in and head to the toilet. "Blegh," Jug vomited.

  "Hey, Myke. Too long?" Ming said.

  "Yeah, minutes I guess."

  "I see," Ming nodded while scratching her neck.

  As Myke saw Ying, his mind lingers again with memories.

  As Myke wandering the market of Jesh for recruiting, he sense a large man, like a living tower, got capture by a police for misunderstood for his acts. Myke curious what's going on. So he walks towards them. "I didn't do anything wrong! Please let me go, officer!" the man shout.

  A whole crowd fear for his height and how menace he is. Soon, Myke hold the officer's shoulder to stop. "Hey, what's wrong with him," he asked.

  "He's been arrested for molesting a child in the middle of the market," the police said. Myke shuts his mouth.

  "NO I WASN'T. SHE'S MY NIECE!! LET ME GO!!"

  "How she looked like?" Myke asked.

  "SHE'S STILL A KID!! SHE'S TOO YOUNG TO STAND ALONE WITHOUT HER PARENTS!!" he said, and soon as he resist, both police pinned him down and shut him up with one knee.

  "HER NAME IS SASHA ORLATH!!"

  Soon, Myke went goes in the huge crowded people, searching the name Sasha Orlath. He called her name out loud but it's too noisy to be heard.

  As soon he thought he gave up, the child cries. Nearby the sewer. He went there and kneel down. "It's okay, little flower. What's your name?"

  Moments before the man enters the police truck, Myke scream. "HE'S NOT GUILTY!!! I FOUND HIS NIECE!! SASHA ORLATH!!"

  Then the police stunned as they heard the girls name. "SASHA!! MY LITTLE TEDDY BEAR!" the man then breaks the chains as he force it and finally hug his beloved niece.

  "Where did you go, Uncle Jug?!" Sasha cried.

  "I was about to head to the fishing vacation. I totally forgot about you, Sasha," he lied as he comfort his niece.

  The civilians goes quiet. They misunderstood about the huge man call Jug can be a gentle giant as they thought he'll be otherwise.

  Soon, as Myke realized, Jug can break the handcuffs effortlessly. So he goes to him. "What's your name, Jug?"

  "Jug...Jugginal Orlath," he said.

  Myke smile calmly. "Come with me,"

  A few moments later, as Myke returns to the tavern with Jug, he noticed Ming lowering her head. "I SHOULD HAVE STOP HIM...I SHOULD AND SHOULD!!!" Hennah shout loudly as she cries.

  "I'm sorry, Myke. Mya...got kidnapped by AyLex," Ming said with her fazed down.

  Myke heart drops. He disbelief it, runs in there and search every rooms. And as soon he stumble in his room, a letter left on the bed. "Dear Myke, I wanna help your brother for a while. I'll be back soon. From your Blossom, Mya,"

  As Ming enter his room, she can feel his presence, his anger, his sadness. "This...is not my Mya's handwriting is..." he restraint, as his tear drop on the fake letter from Mya.

  Soon, Ming gets closer to him, puts her shoulder on his. "You're not Mya...get...off...me..." he said. Ming stunned, then she pull her hands off him then she left him for space.

  "Hey, Hennah," Ying asked as she noticed Myke stare at her.

  "What?" Hennah said with her mouth full of Ghar.

  "Why he stare at me like that?"

  "Oh," she swallowed a whole. "He just thinking,"

  "Thinking about me?"

  "I don't know!? You asked me like I knew Myke for a thousand years ago,"

  Then Jug smack her head. "HEY, WHAT'S THAT FOR!? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG!?"

  Jug sighed and said, "He has someone he have before his heart dried out,"

  "Who?"

  "Well....someone that has the same spear like you hold. Someone who is learning really fast like you,"

  "Nahhh, she's just too stupid to be like her," Hennah interrupt.

  "Oh yeah? Why don't you come with me to find some groceries tomorrow?"

  "WHAT?! OH HELL NAH!"