章節 11: Time to settle down

"Hey, what do you think Aiko?" Reeva asked with an uncertain face as she kept on trying to adjust to her new bed. Reeva slept on the upper deck of the bed, while Erina was on the lower, with Aiko on the lower deck of another bed.

"I actually want to say yes. I have to go back home, for my family. I can't leave my little brother and mother alone. I have to go back, I have to." Aiko's tone seemed decently normal but anyone could tell how desperate she was if they had glanced at her face at that time.

"Hmm, I see. What about Erina? Did you ask her what she wanted to do?" Erina was already sleeping soundly below Reeva, without much care about the future.

"She said she would go with whatever we both choose. We don't have much time to chose, what Leo said was true, we have to choose a path and that too as fast as possible. And I would like us to stick together Reeva." Aiko was honest in her opinion and Reeva knew it.

"Well, I want to go home as well anyways. We will be sticking together for a long time then." Reeva rolled on her bed as she looked at Aiko from the edge of her bed, who in turn smiled at Reeva.

"Then that decides our next step then, huh?" Reeva sighed as she rolled back to the middle of the bed and stared at the ceiling.

"But we still don't know if we have powerful Qi and if we can even use it. We don't know if we are qualified to become an elementor." Aiko's words were filled with doubt and worry, as she hoped internally that her doubts would be proved wrong.

"I love Sushi too, hehe." Erina blurted out loud as she hugged on to another pillow which she had grabbed from the empty upper deck of Aiko's bed before sleeping.

"..."

"Hahaha..." The other two girls laughed out loud, but also tried to keep the voice down so that Erina won't get up.

Inside the boy's room, the atmosphere wasn't as tense as it was in the girl's room. Leo slept on the lower deck of the bed which was on the right side of the window, with Sai on the upper deck. Clint was on the lower deck of the bed on the other side of the window, with Ian on the upper deck.

"I am not going to think much about this Leo. Frankly, I am excited to learn new ways of fighting. So, I am going to become an elementor with you." Clint who was on his bed stared at the upper deck as he slowly said those words, which were immediately followed by 'Hmm' and a nod by Leo.

"I don't need to say that I am in, you should have already guessed it anyway, right?" Sai had a broad smile on his face as he called out to Leo.

"Yeah, your answer was pretty obvious. But aren't you worried about your family?" Leo asked with hints of disbelief, at the fact that Sai wasn't worried at all about his family.

"Worry about my family?"

"I have a big brother and I believe in him. I know I'm pushing all my responsibilities on him, after all, it was supposed to be shared by us, but if there's anything I know, it's the fact that I don't need to worry about my parents." Sai's words were confident and his words made that clear.

"Good for you Sai. Then, what about you Ian?" Clint heaved a sigh remembering his own family before diverting their attention towards Ian.

"Oh no, don't worry about me. I am just a nerd who usually goes with what the masses follow. You guys have decided to become an Elementor, so I guess I will tag along." Ian's words were pretty much on spot and that concluded what the boys were going to do.

"So, I guess we have to test ourselves if we can become an elementor or not first. And how do we do that, Leo?" Sai directed the attention back on the person who was leading the group.

"Don't worry, I already found out how we do that. As soon as I get the decision of the girls, I will set the plan to motion." Leo sounded pretty confident in his next step which reassured the rest of the boys.

Even though the world didn't have electricity in this world, they still had devices which ran on a different type of batteries, charged with Qi.

The group was woken up by little Lily as early as 6:30 in the morning to work on their first day. Leo and the other boys came out, only be met with the girls who declared that they had decided to follow Leo's plan.

"I guess we are going to stick together for a long while." Clint grinned looking at the girls which confirmed that all the boys had decided to become elementors as well.

"I found out that any person can check if he or she is an elementor or not, in the local Elementor's office. But I heard it's pretty crowded and they hand out tokens because of that." Leo said nonchalantly, as the seven made their way down to the open bath.

"..."

"I didn't expect that. I guess either the people come in to check their Qi very often, or the time it takes to check is very long." Sai commented after deep thought to which the others replied with a nod.

"Let's go to the office in the afternoon. I will ask Matt for some time. I am sure he will agree if we tell him it's for checking Qi." Leo looked at the others who raised their thumb showing their approval.

"Well then, for now, let's take a bath and do our best at work. After all, our pay is going to be decided according to the quality of our work. Let's do our best people!" Leo shouted out loud as he pumped his fist in the air, trying to motivate the rest of the gang who replied with the same action while shouting "Oh yeah!".