As some maids cleaned the opaque rainbow-coloured liquid off the floor, Lola stood atop Yokuza's head with her arms spread out and a tail wrapped around Yokuza's shoulder to keep balance.

"Honestly, why does he have to be interested in just old technology it's always a hassle to clean the mess they break," a maid whined as she looked at a faint rainbow-shaded splat-shaped groove in the ground.

"At this point, it would be better to just replace the tile," Dr Sera Serpentinite remarked as she looked at the groove.

"If you believe so, Doctor," a maid stated, "I'll inform a member from the Workshop Division right away.". The maids placed a wet floor-esque sign with magnets on its legs over the groove before they packed up and left. Sera rubbed her baggy eyes and took her phone out of her lab coat's pocket as it began ringing before answering it.

"Yeah? Alright, I'll let them know since they're right here," Sera said to her phone before ending the call. Sera put her phone away before she turned to Lola and Yokuza.

"Lady Calloukus said you two and your siblings Yokuza need to head to the training sports hall thing," Sera stated with a mumble.

"Did she say why?".

"I wonder. Whatever could they want you in the sports hall for?" Sera asked rhetorically with a snarky tone. Yokuza rolled his eyes at Sera's remark as Lola led down on Yokuza's head, wrapped her tails around herself and Yokuza's head, and turned herself into a helmet.

"Yozu, why do we ask dumb questions?" Lola asked.

"We?" Yokuza asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"Well, I thought the same question as you, only I didn't say it.". Yokuza sighed with a slightly relieved expression.

"It just happens I guess, but at least we can be dumb together, now can't we?" Yokuza remarked cheekily.

"Yeah...," Lola whispered as she retreated into her tails before she quietly giggled to herself.

Yokuza, with his siblings behind him, entered the sports hall and saw Zalroth, with Chronia sleeping on Zalroth's tails, talking to a tall male teenager with a vague resemblance to Zalroth.

(The teen is a light tan-skinned humanoid with two white alkorian horns on his forehead and six fluffy kitsune tails with different coloured ends [three of them are blond with a dark royal blue, a rouge red and a pale green tail ends respectively, and three of them are lime-coloured with a purple/magenta, a black and a white tail ends respectively]; he has curly knee-low mostly blond hair with some lime parts and a single night sky ahoge, and blond with lime iris')

(The teen is wearing a pale blue headless full-body suit with a snake scale texture, a knee-low pale yellow trench coat with a wide hood detailed with two large eye-shaped ovals and two holes (the hood looks like the head of a king cobra and he can see through the fake eyes), black fur trousers, and pale yellow metal hiking boots)

"Come now, Solus; how was I supposed to know they'd isekai you and send you to a world like that dating sim game with the funny animal-themed clothing Lumina plays all the time?" Zalroth asked playfully. Solus grumbled as he pulled his hood over his head while Alex and Mikou had a one-way conversation.

"You know that's not the issue I had," Solus uttered. Zalroth shrugged while sighing.

"Well, we are at the whims of the beings above us. So, we should be grateful all they did was change your gender... I would know," Zalroth stated while a distorted pouty huff emanated nearby which only Zalroth could register. Solus raised a hand but only sighed as he moved his hand to his horn before itching it.

"Whatever...," Solus uttered as Yokuza and co approached. Zalroth glanced over at them before smirking.

"Hey, Fluffkins, check out who's here to train with you lot," Zalroth remarked. A half-asleep Lola muttered to herself and gradually peeked open one of her eyes. Lola lazily blinked her half-open eye before she locked onto Solus. Lola's eyes shot open before she sprung to her feet, causing Yokuza to stumble a bit as Lola balanced on his head.

"Nephue Solus~," Lola exclaimed excitedly while waving. Yokuza itched the back of his head, and his siblings perplexedly glanced at each other.

"Yeah, I know it's confusing, but it's best not to dwell on it," Luna mumbled as she walked around from behind Yokuza and his siblings. Solus's kitsune ears briefly popped out from his head at seeing Luna before he made his ears retract back into his head.

"Fancy running into you here, Luna," Solus said cheerfully.

"Ditto, Mr No Show," Luna uttered as she crossed her arms.

"No Show?" Lola asked. Luna nodded her head angrily.

"Yeah, me and the gals invited this chump to our New Year's party, and then he just disappeared for like six months," Luna stated disappointedly. Solus itched one of his alkorian horns and sighed.

"You have this guy to blame for that," Solus stated as he pointed at Zalroth. Zalroth amusedly rolled his eyes as he raised his hand and made The Crescent Moon Staff appear above his raised hand. Zalroth clenched his raised hand but a puzzled expression appeared on Zalroth's face as he didn't feel anything in his grasp. Zalroth sighed as he glanced up and stared at the floating Deva as she clung to The Crescent Moon Staff.

"What's with you and your sticky fingers?" Zalroth asked cheekily.

"Zip it would you. Unit just wants to look at it," Deva uttered as she held the top of The Crescent Moon Staff like a cat. Zalroth sighed pessimistically as a section of Solus' kitsune tail rustled before a teenaged girl poked her head out. The girl slowly hovers out of Solus' tails and floats beside him while carrying a female toddler holding The Heart Of Wonders.

(The girl is a pale-skinned humanoid with a yellow and lime ring with a katana surrounded by a galaxy inside it on the back of her right hand; she has long hair that resembles a nebula in the night sky, nebula-sky-coloured eyes, big booba [double the size of her head] wide hips and chubby thighs)

(She is wearing a white snake onesie with a grey belly section and a short snake-like tail on the back of the onesie)

(The toddler is a light tan-skinned female humanoid with golden kitsune ear-shaped alkorian horns on the top of the sides of her head, and two transparent golden mana kitsune tails floating behind her; she has super long curly blonde hair with the nebula-coloured-sky end and the nebula-coloured part is bundled together into the shape of a large hand the size of her, and pupilless nebula-coloured-sky eyes)

(The toddler is wearing a grey onesie covered in different coloured squares with the phrase Master Gamer in large bold comic sans letters)

"I never thought I'd see anyone other than grandmother be able to push grandfather around," the teen girl remarked. Zalroth amusedly exhaled from his nose as he rubbed the back of one of his kitsune ears.

"I wouldn't say Deva's pushing me around, Nebula. It's more of giving in to a child so they won't wi- ow.". Zalroth was interrupted mid-sentence as The Crescent Moon Staff bonked him on the head before falling into his hand. Deva poutfully scoffed before she dived into Zalroth's kitsune tails.

"Grey gran papa, did that hurt?" the toddler asked as they clung to The Heart of Wonders.

"Only to pride, Sylvie," Zalroth remarked half-amusedly and half-defeatedly.

"I didn't think you had any pride left to lose," Providence remarked as he appeared out of literally nowhere while Kimmi-Ka jumped from Providence's shoulders to Lumina.

"At least we're all here... before we go are you certain you're okay with coming along, Luna?" Zalroth asked concernedly. Luna silently stared at Nebula before she was knocked out of her trance from being addressed.

"Huh? I- um yeah of course, It's not every day someone gets to experience something so novel," Luna mumbled, "Although.".

"Although?" Lumina asked.

"I'm just surprised the prince, of all people, isn't here.". Lumina pessimistically sighed as she rubbed her face.

"I know right, when I asked him he was all like: no thanks. I mean sure he probably had his fill of being stuck in a timeless zone after the whole ordeal in Aioniotita a year back," Lumina mumbled to herself, her voice becoming almost incoherent halfway through as she realised what she was saying.

"You mean during the mini-war where you-," Solus asked. Lumina groaned as she covered her eyeless eye socket.

"Yes, Solus, I'm talking about the time when I lost my eye you dolt," Lumina said snarkily. Solus lightly smirked, and Lumina elbowed him in the side, sending him flying across the sports hall.