Vivo stood before a bedroom door and knocked on it.

"Master Lola, we've arrived at the flight limits for large aircraft around Delaureus and Master Zalroth sent me to make sure you're awake," Vivo stated as he stood by the door.

Inside the room, Lola mumbled as Vivo continued to knock on the door. She sat up on Yokuza's messy bed and yawned. Lola kicked the bed sheet off herself before standing up on the bed. While rubbing her eyes, Lola moved towards the sound of the knocking; however, after a single step, she went tumbling off the side of the bed.

Vivo heard a loud crash accompanied by Lola and Yokuza painfully grunting from the room. Vivo nodded before turning and walking away from the room. Lola rubbed her forehead as she rolled off Yokuza's indented face and flopped onto the floor.

"Are you not used to using beds or something?" Yokuza uttered. Yokuza held his breath and puffed up his cheeks until his face popped back to its normal shape. Lola quietly muttered as she took her ring off and transformed it into its large sack/bag mode.

After they got dressed, Yokuza exited the room while Lola sat on his shoulders. Yokuza yawned and clicked his neck while Lola fiddled with her ring as she decided which finger to put it on. Yokuza repeatedly tapped his finger against his arm with the frequency increasing as Lola continued to fiddle with her ring.

"Good grief.". Yokuza took the ring from Lola, making her gasp from surprise before he put it on her ring finger, "It's called the ring finger for a reason".

"Why's that?". Yokuza shrugged.

"Something about hearts and veins," Kara stated as she, Destiny, Snow, and Kusana road past on six-pointed star-shaped Roombas.

"Kuraikall, Kuraikall, Kuraikall," Kusana and Snow chanted in perfect sync.

"We get it you two, you're excited for the festival...," Minia grumbled tiredly as Kyubi slept on Minia's shoulders while resting her chin on Minia's head. Nola smirked as she floated beside Minia.

"Don't be like that, sis, Solus and Nebula even agreed to take your position of looking after the toddlers so you could have a break," Nola said cheekily as she waved the family V.I.P. concert ticket in front of Minia's face. Minia sighed as Vivo returned, pulling a lime-coloured pull-along cart, carrying Kai, behind him.

"There you two are," Kai said as she hopped off the cart before it bursted apart into feathers which flew into Vivo's wing cloak. Minia carefully lifted Kyubi off her head and handed her to Vivo without waking Kyubi up.

"Make sure the young ones wear the appropriate ear protection," Vivo stated as he held the sleeping Kyubi in his arm while she had a frown on her face.

"We're not dummies, Uncle. We don't need to be reminded," Lola mumbled.

"Can't be too careful when your mother was insistent, I remind you," Vivo stated before walking off. Lola sighed as she pressed her chin against the top of Yokuza's head.

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"Why does Mama have to baby me?" Lola muttered.

"Aren't you like three?" Yokuza asked quietly.

"Aren't you only like two months old, and your mama doesn't baby you," Lola complained. Yokuza shrugged as he lifted Lola off his back using his wings before placing Lola on the floor.

"Speaking of my mother, she asked me to go into town and collect some things she ordered," Yokuza remarked. Lola frowned and pouted.

"Does that mean you won't be coming to the concert?" Lola asked with puppy dog eyes.

"If I have time, I'll try-.". Lola sighed before her ears perked up.

"Wait, I can just show you the concert with my Memory Screen-.". Lola looked around but couldn't spot Yokuza. She glanced down and spotted Nola's Dimensional Portals portal on the floor. Lola looked back and glared at Nola as Nola smugly flicked her blue scarf, causing it to spew even more particles than normal.

"Ahem," Lola uttered. Nola glanced over at Lola before spotting the portal flat on the floor.

"Whoops... meant to open that next to him," Nola remarked with a hint of shock in her voice.

Yokuza popped out from the D.P. portal in the middle of a city. The portal closed before Yokuza fell flat on the ground. Yokuza rubbed his face as he rolled to his feet. After brushing the dust off his clothes and wings, Yokuza glanced around and realised he was in the middle of Delaureus: an elegant Egyptian/Roman-themed city, the majority of buildings being made from light grey with a hint of pale yellow stone.

"Couldn't she have at least dropped me in front of Hinovien Smithy?" Yokuza muttered as he looked around. He continued to look around before stopping on the tanned fae fluttering around him.

"Did you say you were looking for Hinovein Smithy?" the female shadow fae asked.

(the tanned fae is a hand-size humanoid; she has fluffy elbow-low purple hair, completely black eyes with bold purple lines around her eyes, a large glowing pink ring floating behind her, and two black branches on the side of her head)

(She's wearing a black short dress with the appearance of tree bark)

"Yeah?".

"Well, for the low... low price of five Valts... I'd be happy to show you the way," the fae stated with heavy breaths while wiping the sweat off her forehead. Yokuza scratched the back of his head at the sweating fae.

"Is sweating that much good for you?" Yokuza asked rhetorically. The fae hung her head low and rubbed her forehead again.

"I'm fine. I'm just used to a colder climate.". Youkuza placed a hand on his chin before he plucked a feather from his wings.

"Would you accept this as payment?" Yokuza asked while the fae gave him a puzzled look.

"I mean... the Hero Spirit at Elarious' Oasis said faes should accept money because-.". The fae paused as she felt the cool breeze emanating from Yokuza's plucked feather. The fae swiftly took the feather from Yokuza and gleefully wrapped it around her neck like a scarf.

"I will graciously accept your offer, good sir, and to show my gratitude, I'll gladly be your assistant. Oh, and my name's Winter Lily," Winter Lily stated. Yokuza went silent before he rubbed his forehead.

"I feel like I should've let you finish talking," Yokuza uttered.

"Come now, Boss, let me show you the way," Winter Lily said giddily while pointing in a direction behind Yokuza before she flew in that direction. Yokuza scratched his forehead and groaned in frustration.

"At this rate, my horns are going to grow in prematurely," Yokuza uttered as he turned and walked after Winter Lily while continuing to itch his forehead.