"Hey Silvia, was the past her the same?" Hiro asked after they left her unit and as he walked her to the nearby forest in order for her to return.
The light coming from returning is too eye catching when done within the city or near houses.
Hiro couldn't help but ask this for he was still young when the Astra's predecessor were alive after all, that he barely has any memories of that person.
She and that person were quite special after all, so he was wondering about them a lot.
What he could remember from their predecessors were their backs as they walk out to the garden but not even once did he ever remember them got near the pool, their access to the land.
"Hmmm," Silvia thought while touching her chin looking up in the sky.
"No, it was the other who was like that and it was her predecessor who pestered the other over and over again. The two of them couldn't be separated as well, when someone goes to the land, the other would follow," she replied with a fond smile on her face.
It was fun back then, when the two predecessors were there.
She couldn't help but chuckle, "The stories I have heard of them was what made me decide to check out the land."
Her smile was genuine and it was obvious she was really fond of those memories.
"But why did I have no memories of them ever coming down to the land?" he then asked, this question had been bugging him for a long while now.
The smile on Silvia's face turned into a solemn one before she looked up in the sky, "They haven't gone down on your time."
"Why? Did they got mad or disappointed to the land?" he asked in confusion.
"No," Silvia sighed as she said this.
That memory was the saddest for all of them who remembered these two.
As the light engulfed her, indicating that she was about to return, she looked back at Hiro with pure sadness in her face, "They loved the land so much, that is why."
And she was gone.
Her answer made Hiro even more confused but at the same time, he felt sadness filling his heart.
But what was this sadness? What did those older than them knew about what happened back then?
Why is it that every time they raise the topic about those two predecessors, they would be filled with sadness?
Why didn't they push Astra in coming down?
All of them, young ones, always come down because of the stories they have heard from the others. And they would even push them to check it out, but when it comes to Astra they didn't try to coax her in coming down.
This mission was given to her because of how strong her connection is to that person.
That is the only reason the elder ones pushed her to come down.
"Is there something you need, brother?"
He was in deep thought that he just kept pushing the door bell.
Upon arriving at the top floor, he just pressed the doorbell of the first door he faced.
Now that he returned to his senses, he realized that he was opposite Astra's unit and was pushing the doorbell of her neighbor. He looked down at the young man and assessed that he must be of the same age as Astra.
"Oh, I'm sorry about. Got the wrong door."
He then turned around and walked to Astra's unit. He pushed the doorbell and waited, yet after a few minutes there was nothing.
"A- Astra!! Hey are you telling me to sleep out here?" he then asked.
But there was no reply.
"Come on, isn't this a bit too much? You have hit me a lot already, can't we have that as equal now?"
He kept pushing the doorbell and even knocks on the door.
"You know Astra, brother?"
Just then, from behind came a voice, he just heard moments ago.
He looked back and saw the young man behind him.
"Uhmmm, yeah I am a companion of hers," he replied while scratching the back of his head.
"Hmmm, could she be not opening?" Kaito asked again tilting his head to the side.
"Well, I suppose. She was a stubborn one," Hiro looked back at the closed door and said.
"I think I understand that part, the first time I met her she was adamant on not riding the train ever again but she was also adamant on not using the cab for it was too expensive. She was really considering walking from the city center to here which would take her six hours or so."
That day, he had to use everything he had to dissuade her from walking and getting her to ride the train, he was not fond of walking that long but he was not so bad as to let a lady walk back by herself.
Hiro was first stunned before he started laughing, "That's just so like her."
She'd rather not play with them for it was crowded and would rather read alone for it was more peaceful.
"I see, that you have met her already," he then said.
"yup, I pulled her to attend the academy. I am Kaito by the way," Kaito extended his hand.
"So it was you who was able to pull her to enter the academy, I am Hiro," he then accepted Kaito's hand and shook it.
"Yup, she said she'd give it a try and then the very next day she no longer want to because her sleep was interrupted," Kaito then said.
Hiro once again laughed, "She was never woken up in the mansion after all. That must have been quite early."
"Not exactly, I guess it was just seven or so," Kaito answered as he rubbed his chin even looking up trying hard to remember if he came even earlier than that.
"Nah, that's already early for that girl," Hiro then answered.
Kaito looked at him in shock, "How will she enter the academy then? AH, that's right I am here, I can just wake her up every morning."
Hiro looked at him in shock before he laughed, "You will really do that?"
Kaito shrugged, "I dragged her to enter anyway. I have to be responsible in order for her to graduate in three years."
Hiro's smile disappeared as he opened his mouth, ready to say that she might never get the chance the graduate. But decided to just smile again, "Then we will thank you for that."
If she was able to find their fourteenth companion then she no longer had to stay, plus most of them really didn't like connections with anyone from the land. They are a different existence from these people after all.
Kaito grinned and nodded his head, "I will do just that."