Preparation [7]

"Yo!"

Juno immediately ran over and slung his arm over August's shoulders.

"You really thought you could get rid of me? You must be crazy."

"Yeah, I think I'm going crazy. I keep imagining this psycho clown who can't sleep unless he annoys me to death."

"Oh, and who might that be?"

"Who do you think?"

August looked over with a deadpan face just in time to see the fist flying at him.

He ducked down and returned the attack.

Bang!

Juno easily blocked it, but he didn't pursue the fight further.

"So it's real…" August muttered.

"It's real," Juno echoed with a grin.

"But…how?"

August was more confused than he'd ever been in his life.

He had been treating that world as an illusion. When he told everyone about having to return to his own world, he'd done it mainly to satisfy his own desires.