"Kanade, Don't forget your jacket."
Mafuyu reminded the slightly smaller girl.
Kanade went to grab a jacket to keep herself from getting sick so she can continue composing for Mafuyu.
"I'm just going to go visit my dad. Are you sure you want to come with me?"
Mafuyu only nodded. Kanade decided to let her come, it'd be nice to have someone to walk with on the way to the hospital.
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"Mafuyu? Is everything okay" Kanade stopped to turn and face Mafuyu.
A familiar song was heard playing, it was a song that Mafuyu made as OWN.
"That music.."
The girl then walked to where it was coming from Kanade quickly followed her running to catch up with her whatever energy she has left in her.
"Mafuyu! Wait-" kanade called out to Mafuyu.
Mafuyu was joining the crowd as they all watched a street performance.
It someone in a mask under the shade, they sang and dance slowly with.. Miku?
Mafuyu watched the performance.
Her songs were cold, dark, and sent shivers to the people who heard it but.. This time, this mysterious singer made it sound warm, some voice that was lost found, a call for help that was soon heard.
Kanade stood beside Mafuyu noticing the subtle change in her.
She then looked back at the dancer, they took off their mask as they bowes to the crowd receiving some cash from some people.
'what is Mafuyu thinking?.. Hm. What can I get from this singer. I need to know to save Mafuyu' Kanade thought as she walked over to them.
It was the stranger from the store a few days ago?
"Can I help you with something?"
They put their mask back on, The Hologram of Miku stand by their side, only keeping her eyes down.
"Was that a song by OWN?"
"Yes. Is there a problem with that?"
They looked down at Kanade. She could feel how intense their gaze was, Kanade took a small step back.
Miku eyes went on Kanade. A glimpse of hope caught her attention? There wasn't any projector nearby.
"HEY! YOU CAN'T BE OUT HERE!" A nearby police officer was running towards them but the mysterious singer sprinted behind a building and disappeared.
Kanade sighed walking back to Mafuyu.
"Was there anything you felt about them Mafuyu?"
The purple hair as girl didn't know what to say. She just had a hand on her chest "I don't know.. It just felt warm.."
Kanade took that small piece of information. She could use that style of singing for the next song
"Okay.. Thank you. Let's start walking, I don't want us to get a cold."
Dollhouse?.. SEKAI.
Kaiya was relived they managed to escape from the officer. She told out the money from their pocket and counted it
"How much did you make this time?"
Miku looked over Kaiya's shoulder curious. Kaiya sighed and smiled
"Just enough for some battery packs... Have you seen MEKIO?"
Miku shook her head no. MEKIO was probably somewhere outside of the sekai. Kaiya walked outside of the abandoned discarded house, they stepped out into the cool marvel like flooring to see MEKIO out in the distance.
She was standing there with her some strands of brown hair blowing in the breeze.
"Maybe I should visit K... If Kaiya doesn't hurry. I'm afraid C is going to be the next one to join Neo.. We can't let another sekai be destroyed" the virtual singer mumbled. She crossed her arms thinking about the others and the possibility of each one leaving one by one.
"Shit... I can't let her go. C hasn't been given a chance, neither has Neo. Nobody will be left alone, ignored again."
Kaiya thought as she overheard MEKIO, they decided to walk off to head back inside into her room.
"I need to save them. Whoever is supposed to be their 'hero' obviously isn't good enough."
Kaiya closed the door and went to close her window, they then locked the door and went to take out some equipment from the closet.
"If I can't reach they can't reach them. Then I'll do it."
They took out some headphones and a microphone, connecting it and turning on their computer.
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"There.. Maybe this song may help-.. K?"
Kaiya looked at the comments after publishing a new song. They already know Hoko has been found, unlike the others they still gave been reached or found.
"𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘, 𝚖𝚢 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝙺. 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚊𝚢, 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚙. 𝙸𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍"
Kaiya eyed the DM, they went to open it and clicked on the profile. It was a mysterious music group that produced and published songs, it was professional.
She began to type back to K, not trusting them or seeing the need to collaborate.
"𝙽𝚘."
Kaiya sent, wanting to be straightforward with it. Otherwise, they might give K an idea of a collaboration in the near future.
Meanwhile...
Kanade's room.
The girl sighed at the straightforward response. She then went to unmute herself with Mafuyu next to her as they talked with the other two members of the group.
"That was rude. Who even is this person?" Ena groaned, she was creating a few different sketches for their next song while Mizuki was sewing fabrics of different tops together to make it cuter.
"Mafuyu seems to like them? They have powerful voice! Not to mention the avatar is quite cute just wish it was a little more colorful"
Mizuki commented while Mafuyu sighed, she was curious about this person. After seeing them perform a song of hers, she was able to deliver warmer message rather then the cold one everyone heard.
"They have a strong voice, when Mafuyu and I went to visit my father. I noticed a slight change in Mafuyu, I was hoping they would like to work on a song with us. Their voice is powerful and could help reach more people.."
Kanade was looking into Kaiya's profile, they received more views and likes compared to N25 but she felt like the singer wasn't doing it for clout and had a purpose similar to hers.
While the group was working, a high pitched buzz sounded while the screen was glitching and kicked everyone out of nightcord. The pitch only grew louder causing them all to remove their headphones before it went silent.
"Try again."
A robotic voice played, it sounded familiar to the group but it too glitchy for it to be unidentified.
Kanade started the call again while the others joined back in.
"Whoa! Did anyone else hear that?.. My ears-" Mizuki whined as they went to check on their headphones again before putting it back on.
"Whoever that was made me spill my paint all over my desktop!"
Kanade went to check on Mafuyu who was slightly irritated by the sudden noise. The two girls went to put on their headsets and went back to working until they all were invited into a group chat?
"𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚜. 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛, 𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝙺."
It was Kaiya, she suddenly changed her mind and was able to find everyone's personal accounts.
"I don't think we should do it, they're sketchy. How did they manage to find our account's?"
Ena stared at the message with the others in the call.
"I agree with Ena, after hearing that voice earlier and this message-.."
Mizuki sided with the artist while Mafuyu and Kanade were deciding.
"𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝?"
Kanade typed back and had a fast response back from the suspicious singer.
"𝙼𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞"
"𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚎, 𝚗𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘. 𝙴𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝙴𝚗𝚊, 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕."
"𝙼𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚔𝚊𝚒."
"HOW DO THEY KNOW!?" Ena panicked reading the text messages.
Mafuyu connected the dots while she stayed quiet, it was another sekai creator.
"I think they have a sekai. Do you want us to go with you, Kanade?"
Kanade nodded and went to her files to find the link to the sekai.
She found a 'untitled(2)' link but it was quickly deleted by someone.
"𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝙺𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚎."
"𝙳𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚎."
"𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚎, 𝙼𝚊𝚏𝚞𝚢𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚐𝚘 𝚋𝚢𝚎 𝚋𝚢𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜! 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞."