chapter 8. Welcome to the group pt. 2

As Greylin stopped her death gripped on me and quickly realized how much pain she did to me, she quickly supported me to the sofa while my two good friends only laughed at how weak I was to be crushed by a simple hug.

"Wow you've fallen far from your previous self Grey," hearing somebody teasing me, "But I think that's you had plenty of relaxation since you arrived here Grey." now looking at somebody touching my shoulder, "But we should have a team meeting to discuss what we'll do next, but more importantly to speak in private," as Nix only looked around the bunk for anyone suspicious here, "so nobody would eavesdrop on us when speaking something 'touchy'." he only nodded to me while he quickly gotten up without doing or saying anything else once he was done.

As he gotten up fast; it's like he never had a panic attack to begin with as he quickly moved out of the area with a look of determination or something. And as Greylin only looked at me with a confused look in weather or not if she should follow the three of us in this private meeting, and knowing we should keep this 'project hero' a secret from the public; even if it meant we needed to leave one of our teammate left in the dark.

"You should-"

"I finally found you, you Shé!"

About to tell Greylin to stick back a bit for me and the others to speak once again about illegal stuff that we shouldn't be even talking about or even knowing anything in the first place. But was quickly shut down as somebody I don't even recognize at all came up on both me and Greylin with venom in her tone.

"First you started a rumour that me and that barbarian was in this made up relationship that you made everyone thing we were in. Second, after the explosion went off, my entire followers all died because of you!"

Now that she explained how she knows me and how I ruined her life or to say, as she only looked pissed.

"The only one whose at fault here was you and that 'idiot's' pride that gotten you and his followers died," scoffing at her, "All I tried to do was keep the peace in our classroom by shutting the both of you up by using mob mentality on the both of you, but like how you're acting now," as she only stands still in the same spot where she pointed me out, I only walked passed her while leaning in as we were about to pass, "nothing changed when you've lost everything because of yourself, huh?"

Now about to leave her once again with a crowd surrounding her while she only looked like a fool for challenging me in the duel of wit. But as I was about to leave, something held me back.

"..how?"

Was the only thing she asked of me,

"To instantly been cut down in a instant by your words, how?"

Seeing how badly I ruined her and now getting to see the aftermath of how I probably ruined her life?

"Do you want the smart answer or the simple answer?"

Only humoring her for being pathetic now as I gave her two options on understanding my answer to her question.

"Do I look like a simpleton to you?" she only fired back with venom in her voice, "So the smart answer I see." nodding at her choice.

"By taking the environmental feeling that everyone had at that moment in time while you and that so called 'barbarian' were exchanging words at a agnostic point where everyone's attention span were deteriorating by a fraction when listening to you both, I've seen a prime opportunity to take advantage of their glaring oversights of taking factual information by their intense boredom, that I slipped some misleading information on the status of you two which in terms should be a huge leap of conscious by the mere fact that both of you were arguing about something was simple actually," faking having glass so I could pretend to pick them up, "By manipulating their cognitive thoughts on this one ideal about the both of you, I've managed to give them this image of some topical couple arguing about something which in terms since it's was the end of the day before everything ended, so their cerebral cortex only thought about the both of you're bickering as nothing more than a couple arguments and at their's limits on listening to either of you, they're patient only grown thin and implode a vicious mod mentality on both of you."

Saying a lot in things in a short amount of time while using big words made me felt powerful as my poor opponent only look confused at my sudden expectations on how I masterfully planned out this seemingly complex plan for nowhere only made her back a bit from me as I was finished explaining on 'how' I did it.

"And I'm pretty busy with something more important then explaining my previous works to my victims," now moving forward to get pass her and get to my friends that mattered more, "So try not to get in my way again or annoy me." was all I said to her as we slip between her to meet with them.

"Ruthless as ever...huh?.." was all I heard from liz as she only looked disgusted at how I handled that inconvenience, "You've seen how it's basically her fault on why her followers are all dead," moving with them to somewhere safer from the public view as walked away from my victim, "I only gave her the facts while giving her the 'how' I did it when I stopped both of them." just giving her a shrug at how I'm being ruthless to her.

Nevertheless, we continue to find a place that the three of us could speak in peace.

"Didn't want to let Greylin in on this?" was all Nix said after what I've done, "Will you've heard what our leader wanted us to do when she told us her plan." shooting him a glare to make sure he got the hint, "..." he didn't answer as I shot him with that glare as he only looked in front of him, "Yeah." his face was only clouded by guilty as he only looked down now.

Seeing we didn't have anything to say to each other as we taken the hint at how they basically used me without knowing and how Nix only made it worse as he couldn't even look me eye to eye when walking together. And through this awkward walk the three of us had when we've came to the conclusion to have our meeting in the one place where nobody would listen as no ordinary students was allowed to enter or be near by in this school.

"Hal-"

As the person who was guarding the entrance to the principal office was cut off by Nix stepping in front me to only glare at this poor guard for intervening us in this moment. As he gave out this glare to this poor person whose only trying to do her duty, both me and Liz were surprised by Nix actions as this was so out of character of him to threaten somebody to this extent by only getting in front of us only shown how serious this most be to have this meeting.

Once the guard taken this as a sign to not stand in his way, she only opened the door to the principal's office without wasting a second to question him or say anything after she finished opening the door. As we continued moving to the secret room, I only felt kinda screwed as I've made him this mad to the point where he's using his power for speeding up this meeting for us so he could probably use words or actions to explain how idiotic I'm for going up against thugs on my own without any help or weapons whatsoever. But as we're about to move to the room, curious took over to see how much progress they made since I was last here, looking at the speaking system that they been working on since I first gotten here; it was coming together amazingly as most of the students that been working were now gone because of unneeded amounts of students because it's looks to be almost done at this point.

"All of you take a break." Nix only said to all of them with a different look to his normal one, "And get the others to finish up with this," he only nodded at them, "We're supposed to get this system up and running by now." he only gave them his 'comrade' face to them as to tell them all to pick up some more speed in their work. After seeing a familiar face on him then rather than that other unordinary face he was wearing throughout our walk, a semblance of me felt at peace to see him back to his former self once again.

Wasting no time at prolonging this meeting for us, he only swung opened the door to only be met with our other sister's team in fighting position at the sudden entrance we made here. But soon after they realize we weren't any threat to them they simply eased up at their mistake while only one member kept her weapon out to intimidate me as she glared at me.

"Grey," Nicole only sounded surprised at our entrance, "I thought you'd be resting in the bunk with the others injured." she only looked at me with confusion at how I'm standing up right now, "I was," now coming closer to her and the rest of the team, "But my good friend Phoenix thought it'll be a good time for the three of us to have a team meeting since he woken me up." explaining why I'm here, "And I'm putting a lot of emphasis on the three of us here, meaning I'll like you and you're team to move so we could have our meeting. Please?" giving her a smile so we could have this room for ourselves while they could leave somewhere else unimportant.

"Grey," she only shot me a look, "we're in the middle of making tactical plans on where our students will be defending our injured and the school, while calculating every students here who'll be able to fight in our last stand against our enemies." she only looked surprised at my outlandish need for this room while she kinda need it but not really if you think about it.

"But you're timing is impeccable-" she was about get up from her seat and probably take this moment to have our team finally met each other properly, "You know," but cutting her off quickly so she wouldn't finish, "Maybe we'll have our meeting here, but we'll be quiet as to not to distract you guys." hoping Nicole got my hint as I didn't think it was a good time for our team to officially meet while we're still in the middle of a war, but luckily she only looked at me with amusement, "Have it you're way Grey, for now..." she made sure I heard that last part as she only seat back down in her chair to continue her work while leaving us the other half of the room.

"Alrighty," moving back to the others, "Once again using my masterful negotiation skill to seal the deal." trying to play off being used once again by Nicole later on.

"Wow," they both looked at me with disappointment in their eyes, "I never thought another person would be able to use you twice in a row." Liz only sounded impressive by Nicole ability to counter anything I could do to her, "You forgot another one!" she yelled out to Liz to correct her on the actually amount of time she used me while raising her hand up, that surprised everyone in the room at her out of character move there.

As she did that, only hearing snickering coming from both of my so call 'friends' who only found it amusing of me being control like a puppet, "I didn't think there were another person who could fool you more than once," Liz was loving this moment right now, "Not since Grace-"

Hearing the name we won't ever say again among us ever again, I only shot her a hard glare to not finish her sentence about the one who shouldn't be named.

"Fine," she only recoiled back from her joke, "But just trying to take a page out of your book, so we could lighting up our past." she shrugged at her own reason, "Yeah, if we're being honest. I've tried copying your flirtatious personalities when trying to bright up a person who was having a panic attack, but it didn't work out on my end as well." remembering at how pathetic I was for trying to be slick with my words, "Same bro..." hearing Nix cut into the conversation while trying to avoid Nicole out of embarrassment.

While I let that awful memory I had with Cristina about her panic attack, the room only went silent afterwards when hearing that, while Nix probably didn't care about the second part of my expectations as he nodded at using Liz's tactics, but Liz only looked horrified at my story.

"Yeah, but at least I didn't instantly gotten shot down when flirting." overlooking my past experiences, now laughing at knowing why Nix couldn't stand looking at Nicole for a long distance of time while, "So you know as well?" Liz looked over to me, "Aww, I was about to embarrass him by telling you and Greylin around it.." she only sounded sad at me knowing his failed attempt with Nicole, "Yeah," now patting my hand own Nix's shoulder out of pity, "Better try somebody in you're league pal."

As we've had our laughs and giggles about how terrible Nix's was at picking up a girl on his own, it's felt like actually months since we've had a genuine laugh together without feeling forced to do so to keep ourselves sane with everything that happened. While slightly amused that its took the end of our society to find some small amount of amusement till now.

"I've miss this," slipping out my feelings to them, "How long has it been since we've just hanged without us escalating our past and trauma to ruin our moment?" now ruining this moment to get us back to reality, "Too long...way longer than its should have been." Nix only replied sadly at this fact about us, with Liz nodding in agreement with what both of us were saying, "Anyways," shaking my head for being a bummer once again, "So you called this team meeting for us to only make fun of you or actually something important?" now curious at why this was called.

"I..I'm.." trying to spite it out as he looked down in shame, he tried to find the words or how to place his words together, "Look all I'm saying!-"

"It's alright Nix." cutting him off, "Honestly I've been hearing 'Ohh Grey-sama! I'm so sorry what I done to you!' to the point where it's sounds like a broken record now." waving off his apologies, "Is this all we came-"

"No!"

Now cutting me off, "I may sound like a broken record to you at this point! But I want you to know I felt awfu-" he stopped midway for some reason, "No, I felt like I'd betrayed you once I learned it was you who we sent out..." he only had his head down as he said that, "If I'd known, I would have...I would have...I'd...." losing his strength in his legs as they gave out, "..I.." not continuing his tries to communicate his feelings out as he only shriveled up while lost in his thoughts with a lot of grim to it.

Tired of the same reaction he had like Christa, but more importantly was more terrified to see him actually breaking down like this, "Come on Phoenix." was all I said as put my hand on top of his head, "Even if you'd known it was me, it wouldn't have changed the outcome any other way."

As I've said that, hearing snickering coming from a unexpected person whose character contradict her actions as she only let out a small one.

Shaking off this unpredictable moment she did, "I'd still hold my ground while protecting those people Phoenix." giving him a thumb up to wash off that despair he had, "Willing? Or was it because you're hand were tied?" hearing a snob tone coming from Nicole's side of the room.

After those words left the person who wanted to shove a knife in my neck in our first introduction, everyone including me felt those words hitting hard now thinking about it as I fought for them at the beginning when it happened, but as it continued, fighting them all on; it felt more like me just fighting for survival instead of caring for the ones who didn't escape yet, and my actions at the end of it showed that my hand were actually tied up as I abandoned them and their equipment to finally put an end to them.

"Like I thought," she only came closer to us, "Stop painting yourself as a hero if-"

"Enough Aina!"

Nicole only slammed her hand on the table to get everyone's attention, but mostly to get the attention of her teammates who had strong feelings for me. But thanks to this unexpected loud burst of sound in this quiet room, which in term stunned everyone in the room that she went out of her way to defend me against one of her teammate.

"Mr. Grey did all he could in that time with limited options and help, we should actually praise him for having no fatality on his hand when guarding them." she only clapped for me in praise, "But Chika-sama!" she only looked back to her team while pained by her tendency to protect me or match me with them, "If you'd chosen any of us instead of him we would have done it more swiftly while keeping both of our workers and their equipment safe without them set a blaze in flame like he did so!" she only continued to lose her temper as she list the things I've done wrong when the time came.

"Yes, I've no doubt all of you would have been better then Mr. Grey here," she only smiled at her team, "But you knew why I didn't chose any of you to begin with." she only answered vaguely to probably keep our alliance a secret.

"But he'll ruined our team if he joins!"

With one simple quote from her, my whole team only flared up with questions as they forgot everything that was happening to them.

"Grey you can't be serious!?"

"We just made our team official! And you're already deciding to join another!?"

As both Nix and Liz left behind their previous feelings to now gang up on me with questions and hate for me two timing them with Nicole's group. The only thing I could do at the time was raise my hand to make sure they won't start fighting me for my decision and probably try to calmed them down.

"y-Yes I did agree to join her," now tapping my fingers tip together at being caught, "But I was basically forced after she told me about a hidden or-"

About to shed light on this situation with information about why'd I did it and how she force me to join them, instead instantly stopped once hearing a simple snap of somebody finger to get my attention, but once looking back at that somebody who craved our attention didn't get my as the person who probably hated me was now standing in front of me with her knife shoved up to my face.

"Remember Grey," as she was saying that, "I'll have to kill anyone who knows about 'them'." she only tipped on the table while her whole team only looked ready for her order to attack, "It'll be much better if less people knew about them, and it'll help me from having less paranoia with people I'm going be working with if they have ties with them." she only continued looking at her laptop without looking at any of us.

"What does she mean Grey? By 'working with'?" instead of being terrified by them literally threatening us with our lives, Liz only continued to asking me questions then being scared of them.

"Grey, Grey, Grey," Nicole only sounded tired, "We wouldn't be here if you've just told them sooner than letting them find out on their own." she been only spitting facts since she joined our conversation at this point, "My only question here in this mess you gotten yourself in is, why?" she finally stood up to look me eye to eye, "Why continued to keep you're guard up from us?" she only pointed to herself, but ultimately 'referencing' to her team, "Have I not given you my complete trust since we've formed our alliance? Have I not been patient about you're idiom choice on prolonging our meeting? Do tell us Grey," so absorbed by her cutting me down at each question she given me to notice she was now standing beside her member with the knife pointed at me.

"I...I just wanted to protect my friends.." was the only answered I could think of when she laid out the information she gave me. Now feeling like I'm the bad guy here in this situation, even though they literally threatened our lives not a minute ago.

"Admirable Grey," she only clapped at my answer, "But it's looks like it was the wrong answer..." she only looked amused.

As she said those words, the only sound that came next was the door being slammed shut while Liz was only standing behind me with her face held low.

Reaching my hand towards her to calm her down and give her a better answer, "Liz it's-"

But she instantly swatted my hand away; to only give me a hurtful look at me instead of one wthat looked mad.

"Are we just a burden to you?"

Was all she said as she didn't think I wasn't worth the effort anymore as she only walked away from me to follow Nix.

Hearing the door slammed once again from Liz; about to try and see if I could fix this with my wits or something I could do with my mind, but was stopped by Nicole as she only shaked her head while grabbing my arm. About to yank my hand from her grip and run after them so I could see what I did wrong to them, but ultimately stopped as Nicole forced me to stay here with them as she tighten up her grip on my arm to tell me I won't be leaving without a fight from her again. Knowing I couldn't beat her, much less land a hit on her even if I was fully prepared to meet her in kombat when I was still injured, it's be suicidal to actually try and fight her with my injured body; while her team might backed her up if I gotten a miracle hit on her, so angrily I only comply with her as I took a seat at the table but not without slamming my fist at the table's top to quell my anger a bit.

"'Hmpt'." Was all the knife lady said to me and my pathetic attempt at standing up to our leader, "You'll thank me later." Nicole only followed up to her teammate's action.

And like that, they all went back to their work while they did tried to attempt me to join in with them and see our next big plan, but still upset with Nicole; I've only huffed at them while continuing my important task at sitting at the table. As the time went on for us, they eventually stopped trying to invite me into their work as even Nicole couldn't stand my attics anymore, because everytime she'd offered or subjected me to help them; I'll quickly follow up with a huff and bring my head down. And even I was beginning to grow tired of doing this for hours with them, "So when can I leave?"

"Finally stopped acting like a brat?" was all the lady who I was beginning to hate as well as she only continued badmouthing me since we've met, "Mmm, maybe another hour or so should do the trick for you huh?" amused at how pathetic her tolerance to me compare to Liz is, "You've been chosen by Chika-sama herself and she vouch for you to join!" hearing her now getting more angrier throughout her sentence, "And this is how you act towards her generosity and patience?!"

"Could the both of you-"

"Shut up!"

In perfect synergies with each others, we manage stun our leader with our outlandish approach to her comment for us.

"..."

As she only continued to give the both of us the silence treatment with this look of no emotions on her face as the both of us now turned terrified of her; as I brought my arm around the person I was arguing with in the hopes of some sort of comfort for what to happen next with each others.

After being assaulted by our leader for our misplaced words against her for our mistakes when we were too absorbed into our argument, she made the both of us seat quietly while she and her others teammates who didn't snap back at her work.

"So why I'm actually here?" while saying that, everyone in the room was surprised that I could still talk after causing trouble. And to my surprise as well, Nicole only humored me as she only glare at me, "The reason why you're here is because I couldn't foretell how fast you'd recovered from your injuries." taking this explanation to take a break as she only stretch her back out, "Honestly, once seeing you come to our meeting, I've taken a good look at you. I could tell you were on the brink of collapsing from exhaustion once the effects of those drugs wore off, and seeing that this was a perfect timing for you to rest up while counseling your identity from the public as they are probably still looking out for our hero in the mist of all those students who are alive." she only sighed at the end part, "Honestly thought, they are quite persistent at finding out the identity of our fable hero to the point where it's giving me a headache." she only rubbed her temples.

"So please comply with us for keeping you here till they calm down on figuring your identity." she only gave me a smile to hopefully keep me here, and seeing how we basically went through a lot of things and sacrifice peoples on this; only giving a simple nod at sacrificing some of my time here in this prison wasn't that bad to say, "Great," she only clapped her hand together, "I think this is a perfect time for introductions."

"Actually you know I'm kinda tired and...-" about to give another excuse at avoiding meeting with my other team, but was quickly smacked.

"Nonsense Greyson," came the proud person in team, "I'm Damien Vasiliev," he bowed his head down while grabbing my left hand, "It's a pleasure to be working with you." as he finished his introduction, he finished it off by kissing my hand while giving this look to me.

"I don't think I swing-"

Once again stopped in my track as somebody else smacking my head unexpected, hearing that somebody clear their throat to get my attention as it was their turn, "I'm Hanzo Aina," instead of bowing like Damien, she only looked down at me, "And if you think of slowing or holding back Chika-sama achieving her goal," she only came closer to my ear, "I won't hesitate to strike you down."

Thinking the smacking was over, but was instantly smacked once again but much harder than the others, "And this small person name is Amalia Aurora," Damien introduced the smol person who pulled a gun on me before; while she waved to me, "She a muted whose use signing to speak," she did some fancy stuff with her hand to me, "She said, Pleasure to meet you Greyson," letting her continued what she signing out, "And, Hopefully we'll work together in the future if you survive this. Is what she said." as Damien voiced out what she said, I was more surprised at his ability to know signing in the first place.

After finally getting to meet my second team and getting to know they're all weird to some degree while all sharing this murderous feeling to them when speaking about Nicole.

"I'm Grey-"

And now expected as well to make a introduced, I was about to stand and give them the best introduction to myself. But was cut off by the same smacked to the head to stop me.

"We're not done with our introduction for us Grey," Nicole smiled at me, "it's my turn for introduction." about to stop her from stealing my spot light; but again stopped by the three of them with their glare at me, "I'm no longer Nicole Chika," as she stated this bold statement of her, everyone except me were stunned by this, "Till this day forward; I'm reborn with my new name to prove so. Chika Asuga."

With her new name given to us, everyone in the room except me again went full ballast with this news.

"Well Nicole," clapping out of sarcastic, "I'll try to top that but I really don't think I'll be able to do so." As I used her previous name to call her out, nobody except for Nicole only found that amusing, "Like before, I'm Grey," waving my hand to them, "A nobody who managed to impress your leader by something that even I don't even know; but nobody cares for that," giving them a smile, "Can't say it's a pleasure because I was forced to do this, but you guys are okay for what you're trying to accomplish." As for people who are trying to take over the world, they seem somewhat okay by my standards.

"Grey?"

"Yup."

"And?"

"And what?"

"Like your last na-"

As Aina tries to finish what she was saying, surprisingly Nicole only shoved her back into her seat.

"You're both still in time out." she looked at me to sit down as well, "So behave like good children and leave the grownups to plan our war." she laughed a bit at making this comparison to us.

"Nonsense Chika-sama! I'll happily work on!" Aina ran to them, "Come on Aina," stopping her from pushing herself, "There trying to give you a break idiot." giving her the actually reason why they didn't want her working anymore. Taken aback by this as she finally realizes why they were treating her like me the whole time and why she was forced to interact with me the entire time as well, "I'm..sorry for my incapable of seeing my mistakes with working too hard Chika-sama." crushed she couldn't work anymore was surprising to me, she only slumped down back into her chair at this predicam.

"And don't call me Aian," thinking she was too depressed to do anything; but proven wrong as she once again held a knife to my face, "Only my friends are allowed to speak my first name, and I've never gave you permission." she only give out this death glare to me, "But I did!" raising my hands up, "Isn't Hanzo your first name?" confused by her outburst, "It's!..." as she was about to go off about something, she only stopped while lowering her weapon, "I forget you're new and probably don't know much about my culture huh?"

"I've watched a few anime in my time, I think I'm a bit culture when knowing your culture." answering her questions about how culture I'm, "That's racist-" "Yeah I thought so once I said that out loud."

Cutting her off to speak how I'm basically racist when speaking about her culture and now lowering my head down in shame at this fact, "I guess it would make me look childish if I held it against you since you didn't know," pricking my head up to see she was shyly scratching her hair, "Plus I'm your senpai now since you joined us.." she only offered her hand to me, "Do I really need to call you senpai? I mean everyone gonna get the impression that I'm a hardcore weeb.." wasn't that tempted to just throw away my social life too quickly, "Yes, that's a order from your senpai." she only looked amused by this, "can see I'm not the only sadistic one here..." mumbling that last part.

"Okay, 'senpai'," really on the fence about this name, "I guess the both of us just got off at the wrong step when meeting each other, so I hope both of us can start over and make a new introduction." taking the hand she offered, "Likewise 'Grey-kun', just don't slow us down." she winked at me, while still being able to inflic this small amount of spite when giving this harmless gesture, "Wouldn't think about it senpai." giving her a smile in return.

"Grey," feeling a hand place on me, "I know we're not you're first team, and I know you value your other team very so, but don't think of us trying to replace them at all, know you'll always have a place in our team if things don't work out is all I'm trying to say." after hearing choice that sounded more like a threat than anything else, but pushing back my realistic view about her kindness as taking it as a welcoming invite instead as I brought my hand to hers to accept this act of kindness she giving.

"Oi! Oi! Oi!" hearing senpai running towards us, "Your getting too friendly with Chika-sama!" she only forcefully took my hand off of hers, to then use a technique on my hand to then slam me down on the floor with ease as I wasn't ready for a fight, "Maybe I should make another rule about you getting friendly with Chika-sama."

"My, my, my." now hearing somebody coming towards us, "Surely my dear Rosebud your going a bit too far with just a simple gesture of camaraderie between our two teammates." only complete silence washed over the room as the both of them only glared at each other with hidden attention behind it. But as it went on, she only comply as she slowly started easing on her hold; surprised that she complying with him so easily with just a simple glare, she only sighed as she completely let go of me, "If I'd had my blade..." was all she murmured about.

Finally as she let me go, she only walked away frustrated about the whole thing while puffing and kicking a chair in the process, "Sorry for her actions," seeing him lean down and offering a hand to me to get up; taking it out of kindness, "She very protective about Chika so I ask you don't take her actions very serious." he said, but it was strange for his way of speaking changed from 'seduction' to a very serious way of speaking, "Why the sudden one-hundred eighties degree change right?" he only sounded amused by my shock, "I see you didn't like my flirtatious attitude and were probably uncomfortable with it," he only laughed at me, "I get that a lot, just say no to me when you're uncomfortable if I act like that next time." he only continued to laugh.

"I'm actually confused now?" confused by his sudden shaft in personality, "Don't be Greyson, it just the way I'm." he started hugging me with tremendous amounts of force behind it, "j..just call me Grey." patting his shoulder to show me mercy against his terrifying strength, "You mind letting go?" trying to break free from him, "Just showing my warmest welcome." he only grinned at me, "Again Seryy. Welcome aboard!"

"Okay that wasn't even close to my name whatsoever." now actually pissed that people were taking my name as their language word for 'Grey', "Clam down Seryy, never gotten a nickname before?" now bringing up a great point when thinking about it now, "Fine I guess I'm Seryy for you." accepting my nickname from him, "How about each of you?" now asking if either of them were gonna start calling me their country's language of 'Grey" for my name, "I'll stick with lowlife," as senpai was almost done beating that poor chair up while she answered, "And Amalia said she'll just stick with Grey." senpai now only continued her assault on the chair as she voiced out our mute mate here, "I'll see how progress Grey." Nicole only gave out a vague answer while smiling about it.

But as everything was going great and finally meeting my team from Nicole's side, it only came crashing down as Damien hug started seriously hurting my back. But having no strength to speak or push him off; now only patting him as fast I could to tell him I give up like how Greylin made me when forming our team.

But like last time, my pain only amused them as they all started to laugh at my expense; with each of them giving this warm feeling to them as I finally gotten to see another side to them instead of all of them trying to kill me when we first met.

'I'm going be the joke for both of them huh?'

Was all I thought as I instead of fighting this moment, I only gave into it as I returned his hug with my own.

"See Seryy?" he looked at me, "We welcome you!"