It was 10:30 at night, everyone was enjoying themselves. People were outside having fun, some were playing with fireworks, some other set of people were in restaurants, laughing along side one another while other people like teenagers and young adults were playing video games and just catching up as friends. Meanwhile, Reggie was at home, he sat on his desk with his tablet facing him. Lord Fugaku was at the other side of the line, he asked Reggie "Okay, so aside from the fact that weapons have been farely distributed for all soliders In the city, which is a good thing, you also think that there are people selling the weapons to enemy countries?", Reggie replied "That's right. Dan and Ariyo explained to me that one of my nano tech weapons were seen with someone from the hornet web cult.". Fugaku kept a straight face "Go on...", he said to Reggie. Reggie continued to explain "The *Hornet's Web Cult* is a name that people of the Knight kingdom give to traitors who have turned their back on the country. The reason why those set of Knights from the Knight Kingdom betrayed their country was the fact that some of them didn't like the style of dominating other countries who haven't wronged them at all.". Fugaku then added "Yeah, I know that much. Which is why the Knight Kingdom themselves asked for the help of other countries to go kill those that have betrayed them. This was so that those other countries who sent their soliders for the missions, wouldnt be under the domination of the Knight Kingdom, through force at least.". Reggie then took a sigh "Not just that, but I heared from one of the young soliders that some of those cult members were wearing masks and had a specific dress code.", Fugaku then said "Yeah, it was obviously to make it known that those are members of the cult. But still, some of them having the weapons that we haven't fully serialised is a problem.". Reggie took another sigh and explained "It's probably due to an illegal business going among some specific group of soliders in our city. Either that, or the higher ups are involved.". Fugaku didn't respond immediately, he closed his eyes for a moment and responded "...The higher ups, huh? That's a good point, but I can't imagine why they'd do that. Reggie, be careful. Okay?", Reggie replied "I will.". Fugaku then explained as he rested his back on his seat "I'll send you some specific intel about another case that a person from the science team had shared with me. Once you've seen it, give me your feedback.", Reggie replied "Sure, i will.", Fugaku them tells him before cutting the call "Oh, and one more thing...." he smiled at Reggie "Enjoy the festival, okay?". Reggie just smirked "I'll take that as a mission.", Fugaku hung up the call. Reggie took a deep sigh "UUUUH! Man, that sure was a call. Lord Fugaku and I first chatted for an hour before switching to the main topic for our call.", Reggie stood up and went to Sughi's small bed, he saw his 3 years old son was fast asleep. Reggie smiled at him "Happy fireworks festival, Sughi.". Reggie then walked out of the room but left the door open, he went into the living room and saw Laria had finished preparing the food. Reggie looked at the dinner table "Looks like you've done some work. The food smells good.", he said to Laria with a straight face, Laria responded while slowly untying her apron "Yeah, I did work up some sweat while cooking our meals.", Reggie teased her with a silly but curious look on his face "Hope you didn't sweat in the food.", Laria responded with annoyance "OFFCOURSE NOT!". A few moments later, after they had eaten their meals and washed the dishes, Laria and Reggie were at their roof top. Laria was holding Sughi as she and Reggie looked at the starry skies with fireworks shooting at the sky one after another. Laria and Reggie didn't say a word, they were just looking at the sky with warm smiles on their faces "This is nice, isn't it?", Laria asked softly, Reggie replied "Yeah, it is. Its not every day you get to enjoy yourself like this. Moments like these make me wanna forget how cruel the world can be.". Laria chuckled a bit, Reggie then asked "What's the matter?", Laria responded "It's nothing....", her face turned into a soft smile as she looked at the sky "You see, I'm just surprised and relieved at the same time. We've been through hellish missions as kids, we survived an entire war at age 13 and still went on to have more wars and crazier missions as time went on. And yet, we're still alive.". Reggie scoffed with a smile "It's funny when you think about it, but it's true. You see, not everyone is going to always survive some certain events. And at the same time, not everyone who survives truly heals from those events. Although now that I think of it, non of us in our team died.", Laria replied "Yeah, that's actually surprising.". Sughi started to laugh as he slowly woke up, both Laria and Reggie looked at their son with soft smiles "Honestly, this boy. He's going to end up being something crazy when he grows up. I can't wait to see how his ability looks like once it activates.", Laria pouted "Its probably going to be similar to yours since he practically took all your traits. I mean, look at him. He's basically you in a small package.", Reggie just laughed. Laria asked "What is it now?" Reggie replied while laughing "No, it's what you said that made me laugh.", Laria replied "It's the truth. But whatever, when next I get pregnant, I'm going to be the one naming the kid.", Reggie replied "That's if you win the bet of what gender it would be.", Larai lazily groaned "AAAAH!". Reggie softly chuckled while looking at Laria and Sughi "I'm so glad. I'm so, so glad that I'm with you all. Laria, Sughi and myself. I'm glad we can celebrate together as a family.".
END OF CHAPTER.