- The Crocodile is back! -

|Night|

Charlotte walked and looked at the night sky.

If at the time she didn't listen to Bam and turned around, letting him knocked her out, right now, she must be together with Bam. It wasn't easy for them to meet again with each other but now, they were separated again. The Workshop Battle that she had waited for finally came.

"Hey, Nox!" Wangnan called her. Even though she had said her real name, the others were used already calling her like that. "What are you doing there alone? Come here!"

Charlotte smiled a little and then followed them.

|Khun's Room|

Dan and Wangnan brought Charlotte inside Khun's room to cheer for Endorsi and they were being quite loud. When Charlotte looked at Khun, he didn't look like interested. In fact, he looked serious like usual.

"Didn't you say that we should get some rest?" Charlotte asked him with her same playful smile. "Then why don't you relax for a bit? Is there something bothering you?"

"What is bothering me.... Can't you see it by yourself?" He asked back.

Charlotte knew what bothered Khun. Wangnan invited Dan and her to watch in his room and used his money to do whatever they want. She smiled even wider when she figured it out as it wasn't something bad.

Endorsi and her team were having an interview. When Charlotte saw Altaira and Celeste were also there with Shibisu's team, she cheered for them happily. But when she saw them carefully, Charlotte could see that there seemed to be some new members on their team.

"Why didn't you tell me that my brother climbed the tower with Shibisu and the others?" Charlotte asked Khun.

"What? Altaira is your brother?" Wangnan asked her in disbelief. "Isn't Viole your only brother?"

"Hm...Brother Altaira is also my brother" Charlotte said. "The two of them are my brothers!"

"Altaira probably bumped into them on their way here" Khun answered. "He climbed the tower with Celeste and formed another team for himself."

"Oh...." Charlotte nodded her head and hummed in understanding.

Endorsi said to her fans that she was going to defeat Jue Viole Grace for them while Shibisu, he said that he didn't care at all. He said that Viole was just another regular there.

Charlotte didn't really believe in it. Her old friends seemed to be eager to hunt down Viole and the only reason she could think of for it was because Khun Aguero Agnes who was said to die in the Hand of Arlene because of the slayer candidate. But even if she assumed it right, they won't admit it and Khun won't believe it either. But their actions prove that their relationships were close even though they hadn't meet for seven years.

Charlotte can't wait to bring Bam back to them. If they knew that they weren't dead yet, she wondered about their reactions and expressions. She was sure that their reactions will be worth it.

The screen then suddenly blurred and alerted them. To their surprise- except for Charlotte- the screen changed into something else.

"Hello, E- regulars at the Workshop Battle.

I'm IO, one of the hosts of this Workshop Battle. Are you enjoying the beautiful night views of Sephia Island? The beach here is one of the most beautiful places in the thirty floor middle area, so don't miss it.

But no matter how beautiful night views are, you must be looking forward to your departure. I know this time must be a bit boring for you. So, for your entertainment, we've prepared a game."

"What......?" Khun started to feel suspicious.

Charlotte pressed her mouth together. Damn, she had read about this before and wanted to tell Khun and the others about it. But it will only make her look suspicious. She should calm herself down.

"And the prize of this game is......two hundred forty eights tickets for a ride on the Archimedes that will depart in two days!"

"What?!"

The tickets were provided for regulars who will be participating in the Workshop Battle and there were only around two hundreds regulars who would be able to be participate in it because of the number of tickets.

Guns suddenly appeared before them. Charlotte held one of it.

One Shot One Opportunity was the game that the Workshop prepared for them. The guns will be used by the regulars to shot the others and then the person will win the ticket and board to Archimedes immediately. But one person only had one bullet and they could steal others' gun and bullet. The regulars who lost their guns will immediately fail.

The gun could only hold up to six bullets. The control of the handle can be set to dark mode or the light mode. If one put the control in light mode, then the regulars who the person shot will immediately be sent to the Archimedes. But they can't shot themselves.

While the Dark Mode will make others fail and if they missed their shots, then they will fail right away.

After the game begins, the first one to shoot gets the item [Blood Tamara].

And the one who shoots most of the regulars to send them to the Archimedes gets the item [White Heavenly Mirror].

And if you are lucky, then you will encounter [Bong Bong], the fairy of luck that wanders around the island and shot it with the light bullet, one will win the ticket to Archimedes and that very special item.

If the regulars shot the people who aren't regulars, then they will lose. In one minute, the safety of the guns will be removed and the game will start.

"My luck always hates me" Charlotte said and looked at the gun on her hand carefully. "I don't think I will meet Bong Bong."

"Well, we still have more items to hunt" Khun calmly said and then glanced at his lighthouse.

"Let's hurry, Khun" Wangnan said as he had already stood up before the door. "We should secure a good spot before the safety is removed."

"Close your ears" Khun whispered to her and then stood up and looked at Wangnan, "We don't have to, Wangnan."

Charlotte listened to his words for she knew what he was planning and closed both of her ears. Khun, on the other hand, he pointed the gun to Wangnan who looked stupefied.

"You.... Are you......?"

"All I want is....the [Blood Tamara]'" Khun said with a smirk. "Bye- bye, Wangnan."

When Wangnan noticed that Khun was going to pull the trigger and when the safety has been removed, he couldn't help but to scream as loud as he can.

And he attracted two regulars who were then caught and tied around the chairs.

"Nice, two bullets" Khun said and looked at the bullets in his hand. "Nice job screaming."

Wangnan huffed in fear and Charlotte offered him a glass of water.

Thanks to Wangnan's desperate and realistic screaming, Khun could overpower two regulars who came to get the bullets. The sound of screaming makes people act with haste and lose, Khun explained to them.

"If this was your plan, you should have told me from the start!" Wangnan complained. "I really thought you were going to shoot me!"

"I couldn't. It had to be realistic" Khun said. Looking at Dan, he said, "He's not used to me yet."

"Damn it! I'll die of heart attack!"

From Khun's lighthouse, Goseng and the others who were in the observatory when the game started said that Prince and Miseng were lost. This made Wangnan panicked and wondered how the two of them were lost. Khun seemed to have an idea as he said to Wangnan, "Wangnan, let's do something crazy."

•••

The long white haired girl with a pair of silver eyes, dressed in simple, plain and white robes asked a blue haired man with blue eyes who was with her.

"Are you sure that this is a good idea?" the long white haired girl or Celeste asked. "Are you sure that our friends will be there?"

"That scout told me that they were going to the observatory" the blue haired man or Altaira answered. "Didn't you say that you want to meet Charlotte? I will take you to her."

"I still can't believe that the slayer candidate Nox turns out to be her" Celeste said again with frown on her expression. "All these years she must be lonely being trapped in FUG."

"And if we want to bring the two of them back, we should win this Workshop" Altaira said to her.

|Observatory|

Khun sent both Chang Blarode, a man with scar on one of his eyes and his little friend, Quaetro from Blitz family both to Archimedes.

Apparently both Chang and Khun seemed to know each other and their relationships weren't that good.

After shooting Akraptor and the others up to the Archimedes, Charlotte decided to offer herself.

"Just immediately send me to the Archimedes" Charlotte said.

"Huh?" Khun didn't expect her saying those words.

"After all, I might not be useful in this kind of thing" Charlotte said. "And the regulars here are quite fast, the tickets keep decreasing."

Khun was pondering about it first. After all, Charlotte was the slayer candidate on their team and might be their 'ace' of the team. Therefore, he didn't really agree letting Charlotte go.

He was busy thinking until someone from the shadow spoke: "Why are you being hurry, sister? Aren't you going to see me?"

Charlotte immediately turned her head around. Her golden eyes widened when she saw both Celeste and Altaira showing themselves as they climbed the stairs to reach there.

Celeste also looked at her in disbelief. For so many years, she had believed that this girl died and now, she found her again, breathing like her.

Therefore, when she knew that Charlotte was indeed alive like what Altaira told to her, she pulled the brown haired young lass to a hug. Charlotte was too surprised that her mind went empty.

Altaira chuckled, "See? I told you that she is alive, safe and sound!"

"You...." Khun frowned at him. Why did he sound like he knew that Charlotte alive from the beginning?

"Ah, look at me, I forgot to greet my own brother" Altaira said and calmly looked at Khun. But his gaze didn't look that friendly for Khun. "It has been awhile, Khun."

"How did you know that we are here?" Khun asked. "And why do you sound like you know that Charlotte is still alive?"

"Well, it's because I know that she and Bam won't die easily" Altaira said. "Scourges always lived long for a thousand years, that's what people said."

For all these years, when Bam and Charlotte were said to die in the Test Floor, their friends were still mourning for them and can't forget them. Celeste was one of them. Whenever Altaira assured that Celeste was safe and sound, Celeste didn't believe it and it kind of gives him headache when no one believed in him saying that the twins were still alive. At the end, he didn't bother telling it to them anymore and let them mourn for people who hasn't died yet.

Khun couldn't believe it.

"I have said it to you right? They're still alive but none of you believe in me" Altaira said. "So, I just let all of you mourn for people who aren't dead yet."

Charlotte knew that they were still in the middle of the game. She didn't spend the seven years in FUG for nothing and she knew her priorities. She broke the hug and said, "It has been while, Celeste."

"Why didn't you tell me that you are planning to do that?" Celeste asked her.

Charlotte assumed that Altaira must have told Celeste that she was the one who jumped from the shinsu bubble. After all, before the final exam Submerged Fish Hunt, after she knew that she was going to be the fish, she had told Altaira that she was going to jump rather than being pushed by Rachel.

Altaira looked away when Charlotte looked at him. One day, in anger, Charlotte might just sew his mouth so that he won't talk too much.

"Let's save our reunion later" Charlotte said. "My good brother will explain everything to you later."

She looked at Khun again and asked, "So, are you going to shoot me or not? Time keeps ticking here."

Khun sighed and then pointed the gun to Charlotte, sending her straight to the Archimedes.

"Send the two of us as well" Altaira said. "You want to get that White Heavenly Mirror right? We'll help."

"I never asked for your help" Khun coldly responded. But still, he shot the two of them to the Archimedes.

Wangnan was still left confused with questions that were still unanswered.

|Morning, In the first floor of the Archimedes, Restaurant|

A girl with pink hair and purple eyes was devouring the foods before her while the other pink haired girl was currently enjoying her drink.

A red haired man with a pair of red eyes looked at Altaira, "So what you mean is that you met your sister yesterday?"

His name was Raisin.

"If you are planning to meet your sister, you should have brought us as well" The pink haired girl with red eyes said as she put her drink on her table. Her name was Estelle.

"This is supposed to be a secret" Altaira said. "So don't tell anyone else about this, understand?"

"Don't worry, we aren't that stupid like a certain foodie who devours everything that she saw" Raisin said, referring to the pink haired girl with purple eyes, Estrella.

Estrella was offended, "What did you say?!"

Raisin snorted, "Do you even hear what we just say?!"

Estelle sighed as the two of them bicker again while Altaira chuckled happily and cheered for them when they were fighting.

Celeste was looking at her drink and she was thinking about something else. Altaira asked her what she was thinking until she appeared to be so serious and Celeste replied to him.

Celeste still found it hard to believe that FUG would do this far and snatch their friends just to achieve their dreams. And she had no idea about anything until yesterday after Altaira explained everything that she should have known.

Altaira smiled and tapped her shoulder, "You don't have to feel bad. This isn't your fault."

"But I kind of wish that the two of you will tell me about it beforehand" Celeste said.

"Alright" Altaira promised to her.

"Seeing the two of you flirting before me makes me lose my appetite" Estelle said and closed the menu book and stood up. "I'm going to go to the game room. Good bye."

"Hey, I also want to come!" Estrella raised her hand. "Wait for me, sister!"

"Finish your food first!"

|Sweet and Sour Team|

Charlotte had expected to see Rak again. Rak Wraithraiser, the mini-alligator was currently paying a visit to his old teammate Khun Aguero Agnes.

"Wangnan, Charlotte, get out for awhile" Khun said to the two of them. "I have something that I want to say to this alligator."

"I said that I am not alligator!"

"But I am also the alligator's friend" Charlotte said. "Can't I be here?"

"No, get out."

He just said that three words and then the two of them were forced to leave the room and joined the others.

Charlotte didn't understand why Chang and his bestie Quaetro were having lunch together with them. She never felt comfortable around these two.

"I had no choice, I was assigned in this room" Chang said to Charlotte. Charlotte raised one of her eyebrows at him. "Don't be like that, Nox. After all, I won't hurt any of you."

Charlotte didn't really believe in Chang. But she can't do anything about it either. If his room was assigned near to them then she could only let it be. She pulled the chair and then sat down, enjoying the blue jelly.

At first, she wanted to leave the room and then run around to explore the Archimedes. But remembering their wager with FUG, she didn't want to be the one who ruin the wager before the timing was right. And besides, Khun had warned her that if she ended up lost later on, she could only dream participating in the Workshop Battle.

Last night they actually had broke their promise to not see their old friends. Charlotte wondered why Altaira would do that and after she pondered about it, last night Bam must have disappeared the FUG's Team and Shibisu's Team sent Anaak to watch the FUG before making her movement. The FUGs must have been distracted by them that they didn't pay attention for this one. It was a good thing actually. It seemed like Altaira read the book taht she gave him in the Test Floor.

But then, there was a loud noise and everyone turned their heads around to see what happened.

Turned out, Khun Aguero Agnes and Rak Wraithraiser were fighting and Rak hit Khun quite hard, but it didn't seem to have any serious damage or injury on Khun.

"You snuck out that night, leaving me behind....only to show me how pathetic you are?" Rak walked through the broken door. "Let's go now to get the Black Turtle back! Why are you insisting we don't?"

"It's not as easy as you think, idiot!" Khun shouted back. "FUG won't let go of their slayer nominees that easily. And if Zahard finds out that Bam's and Charlotte's alive-"

Before Khun could finish his sentence, Rak already hit him and the Sweet and Sour seemed to be happy to see Khun to get hit for once.

"You can't do anything" Rak shouted. "What is it that you want to do? You always over think things and end up losing everything. You haven't changed a bit since you left."

Rak's words would always find a way to hurt Khun's feeling. Therefore, he gritted his teeth and then muttered, "Piss off......"

"WHAT? PISS OFF? DO YOU THINK I'M EASY BECAUSE I'M SMALL?"

In irritation, Khun left to find some peace and quiet. Wangnan sensed something wrong and decided to look for Khun to talk with him.

"You guys seem really close" Wangnan said. "It's the first time I've seen you get this angry."

"Yeah, sure. Close..... I just met him on the test floor" Khun sarcastically said.

"You're lying" Wangnan said. "You're different from me, Khun."

"What?"

"When I friend a good friend, I do whatever I can to go up with them" Wangnan said. "But you're different. You could share the load, but you always try to carry all the weight."

"It's been a habit since I was young. When I found a jewel that I liked.... I hid it somewhere so I wouldn't lose it" Khun said and then looked at his own hands. "So I've never tried it on."

|Night|

"Blue turtle" Rak decided to look for Khun.

Before he had talked with Dan about it and he decided to approach Khun.

"What, Rak? If you're here to make up or something, get lost" Khun said and turned his gaze again at the night sky.

Rak decided to rest his jaw on the fence and then looked at the night sky. The two of them were quiet for a moment before Rak began to speak, "I was....happy. When I found out that the two black turtles were alive and when I heard I could meet you here again. I was happy that the three of us and the female black turtle....can go up the tower....together, again." He then turned around, "But turtle, you weren't. You just kept on worrying before being happy. What a timid, egoistic, fussy and mean turtle you are."

"Are you here to fight?"

"I.....just want to be happy together....with you and black turtle with his sister...." Rak sincerely admitted.

Khun, he pondered about Rak's words. He thought about his genuine and sincere words that didn't come often. When he had thought about it enough, he said, "Don't be happy.....yet. I won't be happy before I knock out those FUG members at the battle tomorrow and retrieve Bam, Charlotte along with the winning prize. So you too....don't rejoice yet, crocodile."